if it's not right in front of you, it's easy to overlook
I called out sick to work today, and now some unspecified number of hours later it occurs to me that I could use this time to check in on a few things that I've been "meaning to" do and haven't had on the actual charted-time version of a calendar that currently structures my life.
Such as posting to this journal. I look back over the last few entries and am suddenly struck by the randomness of them. Which in a sense is fine, of course -- it's certainly no worse than filling this little corner of the internet with memes -- but at the same time I do like to remark about what's going on a little more often than that.
Therefore, LJ-posting just got its own at-least-weekly reminder entry in my little calendar. Let's see how this works out.
In other news, and still on the topic roughly outlined in the post subject, one corner of HP fandom shows us all once again that no matter how far humanity has come, there's still further left to go. Here's liviapenn's collection of links, and here's a post from metafandom that includes a number of others. If you're not sure what all the fuss is about or why the term 'miscegenation' is problematic, jennem does a nice job laying out the history and context.
And if you're saying "well, it's just fandom, it's just fic, it's not really that important" -- yes, it is. It's important because it's about what (and how) people think, and it's what and how people think that defines what they believe, and what they believe that affects how they act, individually and as a community. Take the situation of the Jena Six, for example. It matters. It matters today, not in the nebulous past.
Let's see if we can learn something from all this, why don't we?
Such as posting to this journal. I look back over the last few entries and am suddenly struck by the randomness of them. Which in a sense is fine, of course -- it's certainly no worse than filling this little corner of the internet with memes -- but at the same time I do like to remark about what's going on a little more often than that.
Therefore, LJ-posting just got its own at-least-weekly reminder entry in my little calendar. Let's see how this works out.
In other news, and still on the topic roughly outlined in the post subject, one corner of HP fandom shows us all once again that no matter how far humanity has come, there's still further left to go. Here's liviapenn's collection of links, and here's a post from metafandom that includes a number of others. If you're not sure what all the fuss is about or why the term 'miscegenation' is problematic, jennem does a nice job laying out the history and context.
And if you're saying "well, it's just fandom, it's just fic, it's not really that important" -- yes, it is. It's important because it's about what (and how) people think, and it's what and how people think that defines what they believe, and what they believe that affects how they act, individually and as a community. Take the situation of the Jena Six, for example. It matters. It matters today, not in the nebulous past.
Let's see if we can learn something from all this, why don't we?