Unsorted linkspam
Cleaning out my links file before properly knuckling down to work:
theladyragnell posted a bit of Leverage/Jupiter Ascending fusion/crossover fic.
Via
cereta,
odditycollector's 2010 poem "the value of daughters", on narratives featuring dead daughters, is beautiful and enraging and heartbreaking.
Via
alexseanchai, Buzzfeed is looking for personal essay pitches from QUILTBAG writers. "First and foremost, I am particularly looking for pitches from queer women of color, trans women / trans women of color, and queer women who live outside of major cities / outside the US. More broadly: I’m interested in disrupting what we all tend to think of when it comes to the traditional gay personal essay. We’ve all been inundated with coming out pieces, and the sorts of identity-driven essays that can get talky and preachy. What I’m interested in is big ideas and intimate, narrative-driven storytelling."
Buzzfeed rounds up 42 geeky kitchen items.
Via Twitter, "Special umbrella has black cats that come out in a storm to brighten your rainy days".
At Lifehacker, we have "Carefully Decide Where to Get a Tattoo with This Pain Chart".
Via
silveradept, "Creating Just Online Social Spaces".
Via
riverlight, "Nothing is Wrong With Your Sex Drive". (Focused on cisgender women.) But I can’t count the number of women I’ve talked with who assume that because their desire is responsive, rather than spontaneous, they have “low desire”; that their ability to enjoy sex with their partner is meaningless if they don’t also feel a persistent urge for it; in short, that they are broken, because their desire isn’t what it’s “supposed” to be.
On Buzzfeed: "This Is What Self Care Looks Like For Women Learning To Love Their Bodies".
Meep: "Field Cameras Catch Deer Eating Birds-Wait, Why Do Deer Eat Birds?"
Five links via Facebook:
--"10 Hotel Secrets from Behind the Front Desk".
--"The Velveteen Rabbit, Reimagined with Uncommon Tenderness by Beloved Japanese Illustrator Komako Sakai".
--"Vietnam Constructs World's Largest Dragon-Shaped Bridge - And It Breathes Fire!"
--"17 Times Fitspiration Was Wrong, So We Fixed It".
--"Scientists have figured out what makes Indian food so delicious". An interesting read! (Although it mainly compares and contrasts Indian food only with western cuisines.)
And finally, via
ghost_lingering, "Kitchen Rhythm: A Year in a Parisian Pâtisserie", on the full-sensory experience of baking. Interesting, the pâtisserie in question is run and mostly staffed by Japanese speakers; when I read the initial description of the post, I'd assumed the language barrier the author mentions between herself and her co-workers was French/English. "Add eggs to the butter and sugar mixture for the vanilla tart dough and listen to the mixer making the curious sound. I think I can hear it but I can’t define it in words. Such is the problem with a manual skill, so too with a new language: how to translate your sensations through a new filter." … "To talk about working with one’s hands as more fulfilling is to fall into the trap of looking for an imagined creativity from times past. I started pastry school because I was baking compulsively in my spare time anyway, mixing and folding and stirring, and because I loved the taste, the fireworks of sugar. Now, I appreciate the possibility of using all of my senses at once."
I'm so glad I read this.
(The writer also blogs here.)
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/583952.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW:
theladyragnell posted a bit of Leverage/Jupiter Ascending fusion/crossover fic.
Via
cereta,
odditycollector's 2010 poem "the value of daughters", on narratives featuring dead daughters, is beautiful and enraging and heartbreaking.
Via
alexseanchai, Buzzfeed is looking for personal essay pitches from QUILTBAG writers. "First and foremost, I am particularly looking for pitches from queer women of color, trans women / trans women of color, and queer women who live outside of major cities / outside the US. More broadly: I’m interested in disrupting what we all tend to think of when it comes to the traditional gay personal essay. We’ve all been inundated with coming out pieces, and the sorts of identity-driven essays that can get talky and preachy. What I’m interested in is big ideas and intimate, narrative-driven storytelling."
Buzzfeed rounds up 42 geeky kitchen items.
Via Twitter, "Special umbrella has black cats that come out in a storm to brighten your rainy days".
At Lifehacker, we have "Carefully Decide Where to Get a Tattoo with This Pain Chart".
Via
silveradept, "Creating Just Online Social Spaces".
Via
riverlight, "Nothing is Wrong With Your Sex Drive". (Focused on cisgender women.) But I can’t count the number of women I’ve talked with who assume that because their desire is responsive, rather than spontaneous, they have “low desire”; that their ability to enjoy sex with their partner is meaningless if they don’t also feel a persistent urge for it; in short, that they are broken, because their desire isn’t what it’s “supposed” to be.
On Buzzfeed: "This Is What Self Care Looks Like For Women Learning To Love Their Bodies".
Meep: "Field Cameras Catch Deer Eating Birds-Wait, Why Do Deer Eat Birds?"
Five links via Facebook:
--"10 Hotel Secrets from Behind the Front Desk".
--"The Velveteen Rabbit, Reimagined with Uncommon Tenderness by Beloved Japanese Illustrator Komako Sakai".
--"Vietnam Constructs World's Largest Dragon-Shaped Bridge - And It Breathes Fire!"
--"17 Times Fitspiration Was Wrong, So We Fixed It".
--"Scientists have figured out what makes Indian food so delicious". An interesting read! (Although it mainly compares and contrasts Indian food only with western cuisines.)
And finally, via
ghost_lingering, "Kitchen Rhythm: A Year in a Parisian Pâtisserie", on the full-sensory experience of baking. Interesting, the pâtisserie in question is run and mostly staffed by Japanese speakers; when I read the initial description of the post, I'd assumed the language barrier the author mentions between herself and her co-workers was French/English. "Add eggs to the butter and sugar mixture for the vanilla tart dough and listen to the mixer making the curious sound. I think I can hear it but I can’t define it in words. Such is the problem with a manual skill, so too with a new language: how to translate your sensations through a new filter." … "To talk about working with one’s hands as more fulfilling is to fall into the trap of looking for an imagined creativity from times past. I started pastry school because I was baking compulsively in my spare time anyway, mixing and folding and stirring, and because I loved the taste, the fireworks of sugar. Now, I appreciate the possibility of using all of my senses at once."
I'm so glad I read this.
(The writer also blogs here.)
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/583952.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW: