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"Known Associates" by thingswithwings is a nearly 300,000-word fan fiction novel about Steve Rogers (Captain America), gender, activism, self-discovery, queer life in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s, sex, disability, solidarity, and the joys of making friends on the Internet. It was longlisted for the 2017 Otherwise Award.
posted by brainwane at 4:58 PM PST - 15 comments

28 minutes of raw, behind-the-scenes footage from the production of STAR TREK: THE EXPERIENCE in Las Vegas – including a lights-on view of the transporter mechanism (via @davecobb)
posted by adrianhon at 3:45 PM PST - 20 comments

Reluctant as I am to slapping a label on a subset of women making music with some stylistic similarity, let's talk about Death Gospel. This article in Metal Hammer talks about Chelsea Wolfe, Louise Lemón, AA Williams and Emma Ruth Rundle, saying "an influx of singer-songwriters has been infiltrating… and reinventing the idea of what constitutes heavy music… embracing darkness in a raw, visceral way, pushing boundaries of genre and style". (Don't be put off by the repeated use of the term 'metal', this is strong, powerful music, but not really metal.) [more inside]
posted by signal at 3:07 PM PST - 15 comments

Anthony Burgess was supposed to submit an article for Rolling Stone in 1973. But he didn't make the deadline and begged off. So editor Hunter S. Thompson wrote him a letter.
posted by storybored at 2:26 PM PST - 40 comments

After a leadership campaign which nearly doubled the party's membership, not long after an election in which it broke the million-vote barrier, the Green Party of Canada is set to choose a new leader after fourteen years under Elizabeth May. CBC's coverage will start tonight at 5:45pm EDT, with results of the ranked-choice ballot expected starting at 7pm. The race boasts nine eight candidates with a diverse, if small, party base hotly debating which direction will best suit the party’s electoral prospects and the chance to reshape Canadian party politics. [more inside]
posted by clawsoon at 11:44 AM PST - 35 comments

Bobby from England walks across South India, from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal. His daily vlogs are about the mental struggle, against heat and exhaustion. But also a travelogue of back roads, small villages, temples and tea shops. He finds plenty of hospitality, but also the isolation of being an object of intense curiosity whatever he goes. Episode 5 is a good example, but his editing keeps improving as he goes on. [more inside]
posted by serathen at 7:19 AM PST - 6 comments