this time tomorrow i'll be in a movie theater hopefully not expiring from all the feels
may the fourth be with you!
someone just added "and also with you", didn't they. hee.
What I just finished reading:
damnificados, which i totally bought on a whim and really enjoyed. it was utopian and dystopian and magical realism-ish to the end, with an uplifting ending.
What I am reading now:
i finished damnificados on the bus home, so i'm not reading anything right now.
What I'm going to read next:
tracks! since i finally took all the books out of the back of my car.
i should be packing. i really want to be snacking. i mean, i still have gefilte fishlets in my fridge. i love me some fishlets. they're the cocktail weenies of the passover world.
the 100 years of hair series goes to syria. i love that the models always look like they're having fun. also, you know, historical hair is right smack in my wheelhouse.
an interesting article about why fangirling is better in your 30s. i'd hazard a guess there are fangirls past their 20s who are policing other fangirls or starting drama, and there are adult fangirls who still care if non-fan friends or family find out about this part of their life. i mean, hitting thirty doesn't automatically make you more mature or self-possessed or self-aware. neither does hitting thirty-five. that said! there are real benefits to being a grown-up fangirl, one of them very definitely being the fact that you (theoretically) have more disposable income and aren't dependent on other people to take you places to get your fangirl on.
inuit women and traditional tattoos - christian missionaries forbid inuit women from getting traditional tattoos (big surprise there), but now they're coming back. i can't see north american facial tattoos without thinking of olive oatman, but this is a totally different thing. voluntary, for one. and it's kind of a revival of an old practice. it's not my culture but i think it's so cool.
so the "bathroom bill" that passed in north carolina that made trans folks use the bathroom corresponding to the gender on their birth certificate? it violates the federal civil rights act. hands up everyone who's surprised. :| if the state holds to it they'll lose a shit-ton of federal education money. (like, the state university system got $1.4 billion in federal funds last year. that's a lot to lose.) the repubs in the state house are bitching about "government overreach" - because the justice department told them their pet legislation is essentially void - which is rich coming from people who want to legislate where people can and can't pee.
someone just added "and also with you", didn't they. hee.
What I just finished reading:
damnificados, which i totally bought on a whim and really enjoyed. it was utopian and dystopian and magical realism-ish to the end, with an uplifting ending.
What I am reading now:
i finished damnificados on the bus home, so i'm not reading anything right now.
What I'm going to read next:
tracks! since i finally took all the books out of the back of my car.
i should be packing. i really want to be snacking. i mean, i still have gefilte fishlets in my fridge. i love me some fishlets. they're the cocktail weenies of the passover world.
the 100 years of hair series goes to syria. i love that the models always look like they're having fun. also, you know, historical hair is right smack in my wheelhouse.
an interesting article about why fangirling is better in your 30s. i'd hazard a guess there are fangirls past their 20s who are policing other fangirls or starting drama, and there are adult fangirls who still care if non-fan friends or family find out about this part of their life. i mean, hitting thirty doesn't automatically make you more mature or self-possessed or self-aware. neither does hitting thirty-five. that said! there are real benefits to being a grown-up fangirl, one of them very definitely being the fact that you (theoretically) have more disposable income and aren't dependent on other people to take you places to get your fangirl on.
inuit women and traditional tattoos - christian missionaries forbid inuit women from getting traditional tattoos (big surprise there), but now they're coming back. i can't see north american facial tattoos without thinking of olive oatman, but this is a totally different thing. voluntary, for one. and it's kind of a revival of an old practice. it's not my culture but i think it's so cool.
so the "bathroom bill" that passed in north carolina that made trans folks use the bathroom corresponding to the gender on their birth certificate? it violates the federal civil rights act. hands up everyone who's surprised. :| if the state holds to it they'll lose a shit-ton of federal education money. (like, the state university system got $1.4 billion in federal funds last year. that's a lot to lose.) the repubs in the state house are bitching about "government overreach" - because the justice department told them their pet legislation is essentially void - which is rich coming from people who want to legislate where people can and can't pee.