In which there are cities, knitted skullcaps, romance for poor people, and "Huzzah! Suffragettes!"
- Birmingham, according to Fox News a no-go area for non-Muslims but in reality a successful multicultural British city. I wonder what less obvious lies the mainstream media is propagandising us with today....
- Knitting a heart + skull hat, because this is a thing of beauty (and a skullcap literally): Heartskull Hat pattern @ ravelry, and everything you need to know about the Heartskull Hat by it's creator @ Siouxsie Stitches (via my knitty flisters).
- The romance story I want to read is about contemporary unemployed people forced onto workfare (note, disabled people are more likely to be excluded from conventional employment and have the government use them as free forced labour for favoured businesses) including a relatively conventional het couple who fall in love while participating in a successful campaign to quietly and subtly sabotage businesses using forced labourers. Or a Chartist historical romance. (Hat tip to
unusualmusic for making me think about my ideal romance story with protags who're living in poverty, and the personal strength and relationship stress resulting from romance in those circumstances.)
- Reading, books 2015, 141.
139. The Suffragette Scandal, Brothers Sinister vol.4, by Courtney Milan: suffragettes! Feminist wish fulfilment! Amputee hero! Secondary heroine lesbians! Working/lower middle class people presented as normative! Hereditary aristocracy viewed askance! Oh, and some scandalous behaviour, and angst, and sex, but mostly suffragettes! "Huzzah! Suffragettes!" ← I'm quoting the novel here, obv. (4/5 Warning for torture - there are four situations, through multiple mentions, in which physical torture is a theme, although mostly implied rather than graphically described.)
P.S. Also mentions the (Prussian) Siege of (German-speaking but French nationality) Strasbourg, 1870, which was tough to read about unexpectedly on the 75th anniversary of the Coventry Blitz because of the similarities.
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- Knitting a heart + skull hat, because this is a thing of beauty (and a skullcap literally): Heartskull Hat pattern @ ravelry, and everything you need to know about the Heartskull Hat by it's creator @ Siouxsie Stitches (via my knitty flisters).
- The romance story I want to read is about contemporary unemployed people forced onto workfare (note, disabled people are more likely to be excluded from conventional employment and have the government use them as free forced labour for favoured businesses) including a relatively conventional het couple who fall in love while participating in a successful campaign to quietly and subtly sabotage businesses using forced labourers. Or a Chartist historical romance. (Hat tip to
unusualmusic for making me think about my ideal romance story with protags who're living in poverty, and the personal strength and relationship stress resulting from romance in those circumstances.)
- Reading, books 2015, 141.
139. The Suffragette Scandal, Brothers Sinister vol.4, by Courtney Milan: suffragettes! Feminist wish fulfilment! Amputee hero! Secondary heroine lesbians! Working/lower middle class people presented as normative! Hereditary aristocracy viewed askance! Oh, and some scandalous behaviour, and angst, and sex, but mostly suffragettes! "Huzzah! Suffragettes!" ← I'm quoting the novel here, obv. (4/5 Warning for torture - there are four situations, through multiple mentions, in which physical torture is a theme, although mostly implied rather than graphically described.)
P.S. Also mentions the (Prussian) Siege of (German-speaking but French nationality) Strasbourg, 1870, which was tough to read about unexpectedly on the 75th anniversary of the Coventry Blitz because of the similarities.
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