I already thought Teal Sherer was pretty cool before we met in person at GeekGirlCon last year. Most know her best from her role as Venom in The Guild but Sherer had ideas for her own web series and it was something a bit more personal. My Gimpy Life is a comedy based around her real experiences working in Hollywood as a performer with a disability. Season 1 was fantastic, had guest-stars like Felicia Day talking about sci-fi erotica, and won a bunch of awards and accolades. (Check out the entire first season of My Gimpy Life here.) The last we heard from Sherer was an adorable Charlie Brown-inspired holiday greeting but now she’s looking to fund Season 2 of My Gimpy Life and needs your help! Take a look at her plea video then head on over to Kickstarter to pledge!

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Jaime Moore wanted to do something special for her daughter’s fifth birthday photo, but when she looked online, all she could find were princess tutorials.

“Now don’t get me wrong,” she says on her site, “I LOVE Disney Princesses… But it got me thinking, they’re just characters, a writers tale of a princess (most before 1998)…an unrealistic fantasy for most girls,” except, she admits, for Kate Middleton. “My daughter wasn’t born into royalty, but she was born into a country where she can now vote, become a doctor, a pilot, an astronaut, or even President if she wants and that’s what REALLY matters.” So she and her daughter decided to do a series of photos with five historical women who fought to get Jamie, Emma, and a lot of other women the rights and opportunities they enjoy today. And those pictures? They’re great.

When I heard the description of what this video would be, it sounded cool. “Thought you might be interested in a project I made for my husband for his birthday, a collection of re-created television show intros based on his life, friends, and interests,” Leigh Lahav wrote to us. And then I actually watched. I’m now giving Leigh a standing ovation and I hope her husband Oren gave her a big kiss. Watch as Leigh injects herself, her husband, and his entire life into the television openings of Adventure Time, The Office, and tons more.

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Diary of a Teenage Girl is a coming of age graphic novel written and illustrated by Phoebe Gloeckner. It was adapted for the stage by Marielle Heller a few years ago but it now seems it’s been made into a film. Ladies Making Comics writes, “The story revolves around 15-year-old Minnie Goetze, who lives in San Francisco in the 1970s, emerging from a neglectful homelife into an out-of-control haze of adolescent confusion and self-discovery, involving sex, drugs, street life, and suicidal feelings.” It’s an interesting trailer which actually includes some comic animations. As far as when we can expect to see it, the Vimeo page only has this detail, “It is supported by the Sundance Institute writers and directors labs, and is slated to go into production in the fall of 2013.” [Warning: A brief shot of nudity in a magazine appears in the trailer as well as a possibly triggery sex scene.]

(via Ladies Making Comics)

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Our friend Ashley Eckstein of HerUniverse.com has dubbed 2013 the Year of the Fangirl! To celebrate, they’ll be highlighting a different fangirl every day and she’s looking for your help finding them. Take a look at the introductory video above, there’s a few rules but you can find out more and nominate someone at HerUniverse.com.

(via The Bird and the Bat)

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Correction. Several scary dolls. E.V. Svetova aka Katyok on DeviantArt, has created amazingly life-like dolls based on the many looks of David Bowie. (Remember those other realistic dolls?) They are absolutely not for sale with one exception. She writes, “Unless you are David Bowie, I cannot make a custom Bowie doll for you. Please, accept my apologies.” And in case you were wondering, yes, there is a Jareth version…

(via Badass Digest)

Behold! This is the first poster for Steven Universe, created by Rebecca Sugar, who’s done a lot of songwriting and storyboarding for Adventure Time and has become, with Steven Universe, Cartoon Network’s first female showrunner.

As we reported before, this new show is about the youngest member of a group of magical Guardians of the Universe. He’s the one flexing in the middle surrounded by fierce-looking ladies, I assume.

Will you be watching?

(via: Cartoon Brew)

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With Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner sequel happening, many are wondering what the plot of the new, female-led film will be. Including the original actresses, it seems. Just this past week Sean Young discussed whether or not Rachel would make an appearance but it’s Joanna Cassidy’s (Zhora) action that have me wondering whether she’s making a play for the sequel. A video surfaced last week of the actress that, while making some uncomfortable, made me want to shout, “I’m right on top of that, Rose!” See, apparently there was supposed to be a scene in Blade Runner with Cassidy doing an exotic reptile dance with a giant snake but it was never filmed. So Cassidy filmed it 30 years after the fact. And it’s fabulous.

(via Kotaku)

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Have you ever been reading a story, supposedly set in a past time period, and spotted words you just know don’t belong? Hugo-award winning author Mary Robinette Kowal has, and she’s determined to not let it happen in her books. So she did something ingenius. She compiled a huge list of words from the collected works of Jane Austen and hopes to apply them to her spellcheck dictionary in order to weed out inappropriate usage in her novels. She just needs a little help. 

The National Endowment for the Arts is funding a new interactive game from filmmaker and digital media artist Ayoka Chenzira, Ph.D. It’s called HERadventure, a science fiction-based, multimedia platform project intended to target women 18-25 with the aim of bringing awareness to social issues affecting women like depression, discrimination, or pollution. The star of the project is HER, a black female superhero from another planet.