• rachelmanija has finished her excellent series of posts on PTSD: Parts I, II, and III
• She's also started reading Angel Sanctuary! My joy cannot be contained! Also, spoil her and have your brain taken over by Rosiel.
• rilina and yhlee continue to watch Gundam Wing. My joy is still not contained! OMG people watching and getting into my beloved first anime series despite its ( Read more... )

• The first PoC in SF/F carnival is up! willow_dot_com has some great links in there, along with really good commentary about POC in SF/F books, games, TV and movies. Also, she starts the post with a nice summation of why the carnival is necessary.


• Nominate books for the Carl Brandon Awards! Deadline is Tuesday, July 31. SF/F works by POC are eligible, as are any ( Read more... )

• shewhohashope posted on beauty standards and skin color in relation to a new school video made on the old Brown vs. Board "pick the doll that is the nicest (etc.)" experiment. There's a link to the video from her post as well. I have to say, I am getting more and more annoyed with romance novels waxing on and on about how fair and pale and luminous the heroine' ( Read more... )

I am having entirely too much fun spamming kate_nepveu in her post on European colonialism. Ok, there is a ton of discussion on Christian theology going on in the comments as well, which is very interesting, but it does not make me quite as "happy happy bouncy eeeeeee I miss my college major" as the talk about colonialism, seminal changes in modern history ( Read more... )

Eeeeeeee!!!!!!! ranith has a post on mahjong and SaiyukiI am so excited! Also, this means I don't have to fumble through my manga and try and figure out how Japanese mahjong differs from how I play ( Read more... )

chi_zu has interesting thoughts about global pop culture and genre in non-English-speaking countries; while I have some very shallow answers with regard to Taiwan and Japan, anyone who knows more should definitely join in! I am curious as well!

telophase is a wonderful person for linking to these leather lace front pants for guys. Guuuuuuuuuh. I felt like ( Read more... )

Wah. Woke up today and rushed to work for my 9:00 meeting, only to discover that... I had no 9:00 meeting.

*headdesk*

Need to check my calendar better.

Things that I've sort of been thinking about/reading online:

chi_zu complains about the Memoirs of a Geisha trailerMost of my complaints are in the comments. I liked the book when I read it, but that ( Read more... )

Wow, I'm glad my pants weren't on fire when the fire alarm went off on Wed ( Read more... )

!!! Thanks so much to the person who gave me more LJ time!

And since I'm collecting them already:

selenak writes on Powers and Principalities, a book on what a realistic world with superheroes may look like.

Probably linked elsewhere, but since I'm collecting them now: Christian Science Monitor on Ayn Rand, Nietzsche, and The Incredibles.

And scrollgirl thinks ( Read more... )

londonkds has much the same problems as I did with The Incredibles but expresses it ten times better ;). Here's the original post, with heavy spoilers, along with an interesting discussion in a later post that led me to the conclusion that many comics seem rather tech-phobic in nature, particularly if the human is willingly using technology to modify ( Read more... )