PSA: If you are filming as you walk through a convention.

This really applies to everyone you pass by when doing this, but really.  Filming my artwork or taking pictures up close as you browse or walk by WITHOUT ASKING FIRST is a really shitty thing to do and it happened repeatedly over the weekend.  I started speaking up after like the second person. Ask permission before you film or take pictures of things on an artist’s table. (And respect their wishes if they say no or tell you to stop.) We work really fucking hard and it’s incredibly rude.

Reading List: 21 Outstanding Stories from Women’s Magazines and Websites

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Are women’s magazines avoiding “serious journalism”? Guess it all depends on who’s deciding what’s serious.

The New Republic asks that question in a new article, and our biggest problem with this debate (and, to be honest, the term “longform journalism”) is that it can often run everything through a male-skewed filter of what counts as “serious journalism.” We’ve seen serious storytelling in both. 

The other problem is that we’re still relying on National Magazine Awards and print-only publishers to reflect the zeitgeist. I’ve mentioned that 65% of all #longreads started out in print, but we also should spotlight the work of online publishers who are pursuing in-depth storytelling.

So, here’s a start: 21 stories from women’s magazines and sites that we’ve featured on Longreads. On Twitter, Rebecca Traister is curating some of her favorite serious work. And we’d love for you to add your favorite women’s magazine stories in the comments.

Allure

• The F Word, Jennifer Weiner

Marie Claire

• The Big Business of Breast Cancer, Lea Goldman

Tiger Beatdown

• The Percentages: A Biography of Class, Sady Doyle

O, The Oprah Magazine

• ‘I Will Never Know Why’, Susan Klebold

• ‘We Thought the Sun Would Always Shine on Our Lives’, Paige Williams

• Promises of an Unwed Father, Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Is Ecstasy a Viable Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?, Jessica Winter

Rookie

• Higher Learning, Staff

XO Jane

• How A Gun-loving West Texas Girl Learned to Fear Assault Weapons, Haley B. Elkins

• It Happened To Me: My Parents Adopted a Murderer, Amity Bitzel

More

• How I Lost $500,000 for Love, Aryn Kyle

Vogue

• Notes on a Scandal: Jenny Sanford Vogue Interview, Rebecca Johnson

• Sheryl Sandberg: What She Saw at the Revolution, Kevin Conley

• Susan Rice: She’s Got Game, Jonathan Van Meter

Elle

• I’m For Sale, Genevieve Smith

The Hairpin

• My Brother, My Mother, and a Call Girl, Mara Cohen Marks

• He’s So Unusual, Jane Marie

• A Goodbye to Ambien in Dubai, Amy Schumer

• The Evolution of Ape-Face Johnson, Carolita Johnson

Glamour

• Relationship Violence: The Secret That Kills 4 Women a Day, Liz Brody

Jezebel

• What Can a Civilian Possibly Say to a Wounded Soldier?, Chloe Angyal

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Share your picks in the comments

[Image: A vintage Marie Claire cover.]

Them ladies, they write serious stuff? Who knew?!

I’m a little affronted that the IHTM about the mom who ran an underground railroad for battered women isn’t on this list! That’s one of my favorite xoJane pieces of all time.

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Some pictures of Madame Le Flour!  We went to two stores looking for party hats at 8:30 AM this morning so the look would be complete.  Chris wore the costume for awhile this morning, but it was kind of hard to breathe on account of his costume being a pillowcase.  So we had the brilliant idea to put the costume on the Big Ear of Corn instead!  The Corn’s first cosplay was pretty brilliant.

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We’re back from TrotCon!  Thanks to everyone who came by the table over the weekend. :)  More photos and artwork will be coming up later, but for now I’m decompressing a bit!

I’ll be putting some of the unsold sketchcards on Etsy in the next few days, so follow me if you want to know when they go up.

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Some photos of my TrotCon table!  We’ve rearranged since these were taken, since both our neighbors decided to leave early, so we’re going to expand into the empty space a bit for the last day tomorrow. XD

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Some pony sketch cards I did today at TrotCon.  These are a lot of fun to draw!  The first five were commissioned, and the last three were drawn during my downtime today. :)

Not pictured: Fluttershy as an octopus, human Vinyl Scratch, Fluttershy hugging Angel Bunny, and Peanut Bucker, mascot of the Ohio Bronies group.

If I’ve got unsold cards tomorrow, I might put them on Etsy if there’s any interested parties.

ONE MORE DAY TO GO. 8D