Sorry for lack of links to general context, but I think anyone who reads this will know what I'm talking about.

I'd like to reference two blog posts.

1. Imagine life here in the US - or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western world - is a massive role playing game, like World of Warcraft except appallingly mundane, where most quests involve the ( Read more... )

la_marquise_de_ has an excellent post, about the UK and WWII and why we shouldn't treat anybody's history as a theme park. It's a response to a particularly... unfortunate... comment by Connie Willis:

Then I read her short piece in the Bulletin. Here's the key excerpt. 'That era [Britain in WW2] is just so fascinating -- the blackout, the gas maks, the kids ( Read more... )

So, Star*Line published yet another majorly racefailtastic thing, this time with extra added homophobia, transphobia, and pick-your-bigotry. And that's the fourth in what, a year? (ETA: more like two years, my bad, the illness has screwed with my time sense. Still not good ( Read more... )

Last night was bad, and today is beyond imagining, so I'm not going make it a discussion ( Read more... )

So you guys

I thought this was obvious. People keep proving me overly optimistic. Check your privilege at the door, please

This does not mean "If you can't say nice don't say anything"; that is a sweet and gentle tool of oppression. Besides, I get stuff wrong all the time and appreciate being called on it once I've had a minute to get over ( Read more... )

If I say your comment is faily and it's not worth my spoons to pick that apart for your benefit? It's not, for whatever reason, worth my spoons ( Read more... )

We had a lovely day with kirizal  and voidmonster  yes'day, but I want to note one negative aspect for it just so the data's out there:

At dinner, I got stares and dirty looks from a number of the other patrons.  I believe it was because I was wearing a WarmThing on my head, and it may have looked like hijab to the incredibly ignorant and xenophobic.  (I was also ( Read more... )

1) I got my contributor copy of Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded, and somehow it's even more squee-inducing than the copies in the bookstore ( Read more... )

ETA the last I hope: WC apologized.

Since he's started screening/deleting my comments (at least) for real:

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Shot 8 <--- This is the one where he's deleting-or-screening my comments ( Read more... )

of the comments on the wc-roberts interview?

I knew I should have gotten them. I knew he'd delete comments. I'm an idiot for not doing screencaps.
Blah.
Anyone more on the ball than me?

Comments undeleted. (ETA: And Screencaps gotten this time.)