Linkblogging
Another attempt at tab-closing, in preparation for 
scruloose hopefully trading out my old hardware for the new and doing my new system installs. The desktop setup is going to be more new than old, and will have a new name. The older pieces will get traded into the media server, so Garcia is replacing Gaz. (We've had Gaz for a long time--IIRC she's the system
scruloose bought while we lived in Toronto, so she's about ten years old other than any upgraded components.)
This list of links is all over the map. o_o
Via several people on Facebook, "12 Mistakes Nearly Everyone Who Writes About Grammar Mistakes Makes".
seperis's recent post about The Vampire Diaries (based on watching up to somewhere in season 3) amused me a lot. From the middle: "[spoiler character name] has managed--and I don't believe this actually happened--to make evil not only boring, but also depressing. Evil is supposed to be tempting in its funness and lack of internal moral fallout; fun is pretty much the only thing it has going for it. I mean, if you're going to be cutting people into pieces while they scream for mercy for no particular reason--including just for fun--and you're also depressed while doing it, this should really make you question your life and choices, and for that matter, why the writers thought this would work.
I forget who linked this Tumblr post: "'Privilege' doesn't mean 'easy'".
The other day
sabotabby posted a small but excellent list of links about Mayor Laughable Bumblefuck, AKA Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto.
So...when a new word pops into existence, or an old word's usage gets changed, my reaction varies wildly depending on my own personal biases. I'm actively trying to be more of a descriptive than prescriptive, what with English being...English...but I still have really strong responses sometimes. Frex, probably no one will ever convince me that "impactful" has any place in the world, for lo, it is an abomination unto my ears. But then you get things like, which fill me with delight: "English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet". I use "because" in the 'net style rather a lot (probably too much, particularly when followed by the word that usually leaps to my mind next, which is "Georgia").
synecdochic posted a rec post for a webcomic called Shades of A, and I'm going to shamelessly C&P from the bulk of the (short) post. (Note: I haven't read it myself yet, but it's gone into the queue.) So: "today i read, and really enjoyed, an ongoing webcomic called shades of a in which the artist takes major events of fifty shades of grey and adapts them to a story about an asexual muslim college student super-romantic-and-cuddle-fiend guy and an older divorced straight crossdressing kinky guy. the art is awesome, the characters are fabulous, and thus far is a perfect balm for every time you've screamed "CONSENT, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT" at whatsisface of fifty shades. it's really fascinating how the artist can take a framework that's so awful and so abusive and turn it into something that (while the characters are by no means perfect!) at least approaches a healthy model!"
I'm really enjoying the stills from the Haganai live-action movie that's coming up.
silly_cleo has the master post for a vid album of Vienna Teng's new album, Aims: a fanvid for each song, from different fandoms and by different creators. Only a couple vids are up now, but the list will be kept updated.
trascendenza compiled a linkblogging post: "POC writers, POC protagonists in fiction + meta" that I haven't had a chance to go through yet, but it looks great.
Via Twitter, "We Need to Change How We Talk About Rape" is a long read, and difficult in a couple of senses. It's excellent and unflinching. It's also in all caps, being a "Hulk" thing. (I should poke around and see if anyone's converted it into sentence case anywhere, but now is not that time.)
...so many tabs are still open, but at least this is a small dent.
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/475578.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW:
scruloose hopefully trading out my old hardware for the new and doing my new system installs. The desktop setup is going to be more new than old, and will have a new name. The older pieces will get traded into the media server, so Garcia is replacing Gaz. (We've had Gaz for a long time--IIRC she's the system
scruloose bought while we lived in Toronto, so she's about ten years old other than any upgraded components.)
This list of links is all over the map. o_o
Via several people on Facebook, "12 Mistakes Nearly Everyone Who Writes About Grammar Mistakes Makes".
seperis's recent post about The Vampire Diaries (based on watching up to somewhere in season 3) amused me a lot. From the middle: "[spoiler character name] has managed--and I don't believe this actually happened--to make evil not only boring, but also depressing. Evil is supposed to be tempting in its funness and lack of internal moral fallout; fun is pretty much the only thing it has going for it. I mean, if you're going to be cutting people into pieces while they scream for mercy for no particular reason--including just for fun--and you're also depressed while doing it, this should really make you question your life and choices, and for that matter, why the writers thought this would work.
I forget who linked this Tumblr post: "'Privilege' doesn't mean 'easy'".
The other day
sabotabby posted a small but excellent list of links about Mayor Laughable Bumblefuck, AKA Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto.
So...when a new word pops into existence, or an old word's usage gets changed, my reaction varies wildly depending on my own personal biases. I'm actively trying to be more of a descriptive than prescriptive, what with English being...English...but I still have really strong responses sometimes. Frex, probably no one will ever convince me that "impactful" has any place in the world, for lo, it is an abomination unto my ears. But then you get things like, which fill me with delight: "English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet". I use "because" in the 'net style rather a lot (probably too much, particularly when followed by the word that usually leaps to my mind next, which is "Georgia").
synecdochic posted a rec post for a webcomic called Shades of A, and I'm going to shamelessly C&P from the bulk of the (short) post. (Note: I haven't read it myself yet, but it's gone into the queue.) So: "today i read, and really enjoyed, an ongoing webcomic called shades of a in which the artist takes major events of fifty shades of grey and adapts them to a story about an asexual muslim college student super-romantic-and-cuddle-fiend guy and an older divorced straight crossdressing kinky guy. the art is awesome, the characters are fabulous, and thus far is a perfect balm for every time you've screamed "CONSENT, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT" at whatsisface of fifty shades. it's really fascinating how the artist can take a framework that's so awful and so abusive and turn it into something that (while the characters are by no means perfect!) at least approaches a healthy model!"
I'm really enjoying the stills from the Haganai live-action movie that's coming up.
silly_cleo has the master post for a vid album of Vienna Teng's new album, Aims: a fanvid for each song, from different fandoms and by different creators. Only a couple vids are up now, but the list will be kept updated.
trascendenza compiled a linkblogging post: "POC writers, POC protagonists in fiction + meta" that I haven't had a chance to go through yet, but it looks great.
Via Twitter, "We Need to Change How We Talk About Rape" is a long read, and difficult in a couple of senses. It's excellent and unflinching. It's also in all caps, being a "Hulk" thing. (I should poke around and see if anyone's converted it into sentence case anywhere, but now is not that time.)
...so many tabs are still open, but at least this is a small dent.
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/475578.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW: