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* There has been a serious terrorist attack on a popular shrine in Bangkok, Thailand. 22 are dead and more than 120 injured in the bombing.
* "Amnesty calls for decriminalizing sex work:" http://on.msnbc.com/1K0dR1C
* "Allegations From Amazon Workers Show Why Tech Is a Hostile Industry for Women:" http://mic.com/articles/123970/new-york-times-amazon-expose-reveals-sexism-in-tech?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social
* Donald Trump and Scott Walker have come out strongly for the repeal of the 14th Amendment to rob citizenship from natural born Latino citizens so that that people like Marco Rubio can be deported as undesirable despite being born here. Carly Fiorina is siding with them, though not as strongly.
* Some of you may have noticed that while I've linked to discussions of the Black Lives Matter/Bernie sanders stuff, I haven't commented directly. There's a reason for that.
Way back when there was the big Makah whaling debate, I was in the Middle of my second Master's degree at a very left college, where this was an issue causing great distress. In one of my classes we were asked to pick a side and explain briefly why. I was one of the few who took the Makah side and I spoke last. I no longer remember my exact words, but it was something along the lines of "Given the horrific quality of decisions white people have insisted on making for Native people against their will, I feel it is my job as a white person to listen when Native people need something for their spiritual well being and cultural preservation and get out of their way."
Yes, I support Bernie Sanders candidacy and feel that his policies would be better for America than anyone else currently in the race, but I also think that given how many people are being murdered by police thugs in this country, it is my job as a white person to shut the hell up and listen when black people speak about their anger and pain and what needs to change in this country. I hate tone arguments generally. They are so often used against my people too. I particularly hate when people use the angry black person stereotype to try to silence voices that absolutely need to be heard. The Black Lives Matter and Say her Name messages need to be heard and I honestly think that as a white person it is my job to listen and get out of the way. Am I happy to see more candidates being challenged? Yes. But I also absolutely get why people so often silenced will take any platform they can find in hopes of being listened to, and honestly Bernie Sanders is way more likely to actually listen and adapt than the candidates on the right, particularly the openly Nativist ones. This is why I've mostly just been signal boosting, because I feel like signal boosting is the best thing i can possible contribute to the conversation.
* "Cop Probably Kills Two Men - Then Warrants Are Issued For Their Arrest Because They Missed Court!:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/127067568657/4mysquad-cop-probably-kills-two-men-then
* "14-year-old shot seven times by police:" http://on.msnbc.com/1K0daoP
* "Case surrounding Freddie Gray's death heats up:" http://on.msnbc.com/1K0bX0W
* Imagine how self-righteously evil you would have to be to do this. "Is a NYC labor union for police officers 'homeless shaming'?" http://on.msnbc.com/1LfhulK
* "What a book about British wizards taught me about American blackness:" http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/5/9089505/what-a-book-about-british-wizards-taught-me-about-american
* "Hillary Clinton breaks from Obama on Shell Oil Arctic drilling:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/clinton-breaks-from-obama-on-arctic-drilling-508148803750
* California, Oregon, Montana, Idaho are all literally burning. Most of our West Coast is in drought. huge portions of BC burned earlier in the Summer. It barely snows anymore which means not enough snow pack melt in the rivers to keep the salmon cool enough to spawn. The earth is burning. Can we please, please do something about it now?
* "Emma Didlake, Woman Believed to Be Nation's Oldest Veteran, Dies at 110:" http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-believed-be-nations-oldest-veteran-emma-didlake-dies-110-n411741
* "Julian Bond 1940-2015:"
* I have lost track of how long I've had this infection. I'm thinking April? I can't go back to my lung guy until I pay my back copay, but my lungs have just moved from lacy to thick. This has been the Summer of endless fever. Still no word from the government. Either I'm fucked or I will be able to finally catch up on basic things I can't afford like medical copays. They said June or July, which I took to mean August, but as August burns past.... I need this settled.
I am sick enough now that between that and the heat I am in random sleep pattern where I get no say in when and how long I sleep. Hence the random availability and posting times.
* I often do this thing I call "slow film festivals." This is where I pick a central actor/director/theme and order films from the library at a rate of two or three at a time, mostly working through the county catalog, but also ordering important items as necessary via ILL. I generally have two or three slow film festivals going at once, and depending on the number of items and availability, an individual slow film festival can take as little as a month or in one case as long as two years. (I have been doing personal non-fiction research projects of a similar type pretty much since I learned how to read, whether or not I am in academia. Sometimes these coincide as with my 17th-18th, mostly Restoration era drama/Poc in England project, but sprawling across two centuries on tangents that occur to me thing. Look, I'm a geek and I never claimed to be otherwise, for all my wild personal life when I was still well enough to have one.)
Anyway, as I had to quit Hannibal in season two because it got too triggery and I really liked A Royal affair, and people were saying interesting things about Valhalla, I have been doing a Mads Mikkelsen slow film festival. The more I watch, the more impressed I am. his rage is stunning and he is so precise and often deadpan playful. He does this interesting thing with his eyes, where one moment they are warm and inviting and the next flat and dead. I still do not know how I feel about some of the films of his I watched (movie about a delusional and relentlessly optimistic preacher and wildly problematic art film about Vikings in the New world, I am looking at you), but his performances utterly fascinate me. I think he's now on my short list of best actors in my rough age rage, possibly the top of the list. So far my favorite is Flame and Citron: twisty and complicated and often ambiguous movie about the Danish resistance in which it is hard to tell who to trust. Seriously, this film is fascinating and I expect to be still poking at it quietly in my head days from now.
* Alarming RP insight: In my character Ser Malcolm Storm's last conversation with Tellur Snow on GoB he sounded remarkably like hannibal Lector talking to the Red Dragon.... Mal is NOT my serial killer character over there. O.o
* Leverage is still the show I most wish was real since I became an adult. Someone SHOULD be out writing the wrongs of capitalism. I DO wish those characters were real and doing what they did in the show.
* Ebays, One Day More, 2 No Bid:
Bewildered in a Dream 2014 (LE, Ligeia): (Company says: A disorienting eddy of French lavender, black tea, orange blossom, sharp green tea leaf, pink flowering thorn, and a blot of inky resins). At shoulder.
The Traveller 2010 (LE, Bards of Ireland): (Company says: A wanderer, poised at the point where three great countries meet, ruminating on government, nationalism, religion, and personal character: boot leather, pipe tobacco, and the dust of soft resins, herbs, and soil-flecked gravel picked on long, solitary travels). 1/2 Full. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709355383?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Lindworm 2012 (LE, DragonCon, Event Exclusive): (Company says: Smoky green leather smeared with crushed grasses and wild herbs). 3/4 Full. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709360613?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Halloween In The Miskatonic University Library 2012 (LE, Halloweenie): (Company says: The silence was soothing, though, and the scent of the yellowed books and polished oak tables reminded me strongly of my childhood home. I found myself a table, and set to work.... His breath smelled like pumpkin lattes, and there was a faint trace of cologne swirling around him. He quoted Byron, I told terrible jokes, and in the end I nearly failed my paper, but I fell in love. Top of Label. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709362964?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
(Not So) Penitent (Mini) Magdalene 2014 (LE, Lilith): (Company says: Candle wax, smoke, red sandalwood, a dusting of kitchen spices, and a dribble of vanilla ice cream). Just below Shoulder. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709364680?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Gingerbread Poppet 2010 (LE, Lilith): (Company says: Warm, cozy gingerbread spiced with nutmeg, clove and cinnamon). Below shoulder. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709365994?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
* A list of LGBTQA Charities to donate money to instead of seeing the racist Stonewall Movie that decided to portray a black trans woman activist as a cis white man. http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* Trying to stay afloat until September: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com
This entry was originally posted at http://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/551756.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
* "Amnesty calls for decriminalizing sex work:" http://on.msnbc.com/1K0dR1C
* "Allegations From Amazon Workers Show Why Tech Is a Hostile Industry for Women:" http://mic.com/articles/123970/new-york-times-amazon-expose-reveals-sexism-in-tech?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social
* Donald Trump and Scott Walker have come out strongly for the repeal of the 14th Amendment to rob citizenship from natural born Latino citizens so that that people like Marco Rubio can be deported as undesirable despite being born here. Carly Fiorina is siding with them, though not as strongly.
* Some of you may have noticed that while I've linked to discussions of the Black Lives Matter/Bernie sanders stuff, I haven't commented directly. There's a reason for that.
Way back when there was the big Makah whaling debate, I was in the Middle of my second Master's degree at a very left college, where this was an issue causing great distress. In one of my classes we were asked to pick a side and explain briefly why. I was one of the few who took the Makah side and I spoke last. I no longer remember my exact words, but it was something along the lines of "Given the horrific quality of decisions white people have insisted on making for Native people against their will, I feel it is my job as a white person to listen when Native people need something for their spiritual well being and cultural preservation and get out of their way."
Yes, I support Bernie Sanders candidacy and feel that his policies would be better for America than anyone else currently in the race, but I also think that given how many people are being murdered by police thugs in this country, it is my job as a white person to shut the hell up and listen when black people speak about their anger and pain and what needs to change in this country. I hate tone arguments generally. They are so often used against my people too. I particularly hate when people use the angry black person stereotype to try to silence voices that absolutely need to be heard. The Black Lives Matter and Say her Name messages need to be heard and I honestly think that as a white person it is my job to listen and get out of the way. Am I happy to see more candidates being challenged? Yes. But I also absolutely get why people so often silenced will take any platform they can find in hopes of being listened to, and honestly Bernie Sanders is way more likely to actually listen and adapt than the candidates on the right, particularly the openly Nativist ones. This is why I've mostly just been signal boosting, because I feel like signal boosting is the best thing i can possible contribute to the conversation.
* "Cop Probably Kills Two Men - Then Warrants Are Issued For Their Arrest Because They Missed Court!:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/127067568657/4mysquad-cop-probably-kills-two-men-then
* "14-year-old shot seven times by police:" http://on.msnbc.com/1K0daoP
* "Case surrounding Freddie Gray's death heats up:" http://on.msnbc.com/1K0bX0W
* Imagine how self-righteously evil you would have to be to do this. "Is a NYC labor union for police officers 'homeless shaming'?" http://on.msnbc.com/1LfhulK
* "What a book about British wizards taught me about American blackness:" http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/5/9089505/what-a-book-about-british-wizards-taught-me-about-american
* "Hillary Clinton breaks from Obama on Shell Oil Arctic drilling:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/clinton-breaks-from-obama-on-arctic-drilling-508148803750
* California, Oregon, Montana, Idaho are all literally burning. Most of our West Coast is in drought. huge portions of BC burned earlier in the Summer. It barely snows anymore which means not enough snow pack melt in the rivers to keep the salmon cool enough to spawn. The earth is burning. Can we please, please do something about it now?
* "Emma Didlake, Woman Believed to Be Nation's Oldest Veteran, Dies at 110:" http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-believed-be-nations-oldest-veteran-emma-didlake-dies-110-n411741
* "Julian Bond 1940-2015:"
* I have lost track of how long I've had this infection. I'm thinking April? I can't go back to my lung guy until I pay my back copay, but my lungs have just moved from lacy to thick. This has been the Summer of endless fever. Still no word from the government. Either I'm fucked or I will be able to finally catch up on basic things I can't afford like medical copays. They said June or July, which I took to mean August, but as August burns past.... I need this settled.
I am sick enough now that between that and the heat I am in random sleep pattern where I get no say in when and how long I sleep. Hence the random availability and posting times.
* I often do this thing I call "slow film festivals." This is where I pick a central actor/director/theme and order films from the library at a rate of two or three at a time, mostly working through the county catalog, but also ordering important items as necessary via ILL. I generally have two or three slow film festivals going at once, and depending on the number of items and availability, an individual slow film festival can take as little as a month or in one case as long as two years. (I have been doing personal non-fiction research projects of a similar type pretty much since I learned how to read, whether or not I am in academia. Sometimes these coincide as with my 17th-18th, mostly Restoration era drama/Poc in England project, but sprawling across two centuries on tangents that occur to me thing. Look, I'm a geek and I never claimed to be otherwise, for all my wild personal life when I was still well enough to have one.)
Anyway, as I had to quit Hannibal in season two because it got too triggery and I really liked A Royal affair, and people were saying interesting things about Valhalla, I have been doing a Mads Mikkelsen slow film festival. The more I watch, the more impressed I am. his rage is stunning and he is so precise and often deadpan playful. He does this interesting thing with his eyes, where one moment they are warm and inviting and the next flat and dead. I still do not know how I feel about some of the films of his I watched (movie about a delusional and relentlessly optimistic preacher and wildly problematic art film about Vikings in the New world, I am looking at you), but his performances utterly fascinate me. I think he's now on my short list of best actors in my rough age rage, possibly the top of the list. So far my favorite is Flame and Citron: twisty and complicated and often ambiguous movie about the Danish resistance in which it is hard to tell who to trust. Seriously, this film is fascinating and I expect to be still poking at it quietly in my head days from now.
* Alarming RP insight: In my character Ser Malcolm Storm's last conversation with Tellur Snow on GoB he sounded remarkably like hannibal Lector talking to the Red Dragon.... Mal is NOT my serial killer character over there. O.o
* Leverage is still the show I most wish was real since I became an adult. Someone SHOULD be out writing the wrongs of capitalism. I DO wish those characters were real and doing what they did in the show.
* Ebays, One Day More, 2 No Bid:
Bewildered in a Dream 2014 (LE, Ligeia): (Company says: A disorienting eddy of French lavender, black tea, orange blossom, sharp green tea leaf, pink flowering thorn, and a blot of inky resins). At shoulder.
The Traveller 2010 (LE, Bards of Ireland): (Company says: A wanderer, poised at the point where three great countries meet, ruminating on government, nationalism, religion, and personal character: boot leather, pipe tobacco, and the dust of soft resins, herbs, and soil-flecked gravel picked on long, solitary travels). 1/2 Full. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709355383?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Lindworm 2012 (LE, DragonCon, Event Exclusive): (Company says: Smoky green leather smeared with crushed grasses and wild herbs). 3/4 Full. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709360613?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Halloween In The Miskatonic University Library 2012 (LE, Halloweenie): (Company says: The silence was soothing, though, and the scent of the yellowed books and polished oak tables reminded me strongly of my childhood home. I found myself a table, and set to work.... His breath smelled like pumpkin lattes, and there was a faint trace of cologne swirling around him. He quoted Byron, I told terrible jokes, and in the end I nearly failed my paper, but I fell in love. Top of Label. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709362964?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
(Not So) Penitent (Mini) Magdalene 2014 (LE, Lilith): (Company says: Candle wax, smoke, red sandalwood, a dusting of kitchen spices, and a dribble of vanilla ice cream). Just below Shoulder. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709364680?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Gingerbread Poppet 2010 (LE, Lilith): (Company says: Warm, cozy gingerbread spiced with nutmeg, clove and cinnamon). Below shoulder. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709365994?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
* A list of LGBTQA Charities to donate money to instead of seeing the racist Stonewall Movie that decided to portray a black trans woman activist as a cis white man. http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* Trying to stay afloat until September: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com
This entry was originally posted at http://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/551756.html. Please comment there using OpenID.