reading A Game of Thrones, plus links and stuff

[destina]

For those of you wondering if you should change your passwords, Mashable has a list of major sites and whether or not they were compromised by Heartbleed.

For those of you who were wondering if last night's Hawaii Five-0 was as slashtastic as the previews made it appear, it was. It was like fanfic. Literally. It was like old-school Starsky and

Comments

[destina]

Yes, hm. As you know (I think?), that period of history is one of my major avocational interests, but. History is history; fantasy is something else. I get that there is a market for stories that cleave to this model, but I also like to believe, sometimes, that we can write things that sort of dump the parts of history that are skeevy instead of embracing it. I mean, this is a different world. Its summers are long and its winters are longer, so how is this the thing he keeps from that period of history on a different planet? I'm not even saying it doesn't make for a compelling story, but Dany would still be compelling if she was 19. It all sort of ties in to my issues with 'there are no people of color in those times in England so why would there be in fantasy' and 'well obviously women were raped a lot in those times in England so of course they get violated often in fantasy' arguments also, which I find incredibly annoying when applied to fiction. (Not saying you are annoying AT ALL - just that arguments which run along those lines are not compelling to me, in the long run, and it's hard for me not to wish writers would try a little harder.)

I agree with you on old-school S&H, but there are things I think are as or more slashtastic, and that episode of H50 was right up there. *g*

[nestra]

Along those same lines, I just saw this, in which the writer of Noah says that since it's a myth, race doesn't matter, so that's why everyone in the movie is white.

[destina]

...well, that is a new level of WTF, and I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but.