There was supposed to be a real post today
Instead, linkspam:
Fandom
On Tumblr,
copperbadge posted "Hydrocodone Midnight Theatre: Strictly for the birds", a short fic in which Tony Stark adopts an owl.
"Margaret Atwood Is Drawing Cartoons About Being A Geeky Girl: The author of The Handmaid’s Tale is contributing a series of cartoons to the Kickstarter-funded anthology The Secret Loves of Geek Girls."
At Fantasy Cafe, Karina Sumner-Smith posted "What Happened to Hope and Wonder in Science Fiction?" "“No one has walked on the moon in my lifetime,” I told them. “Yet you try to tell me that it’s my generation who has lost their wonder? That it’s the young people of today who have let everything slip and fall into ruin? You don’t understand. You had the dream and the potential and the opportunities, and you messed it all up. You got hope and moon landings and that bright, glorious future. I got only the disasters.”" (From November 2014.)
Via
nwshino, two Tumblr posts of Fury Road meta: "Mad Max: Fury Road is a story about sexists, told by non-sexists" and "A War Rig Of One’s Own: A Very Long Post On Fury Road’s Feminism".
Social Justice
Via Tumblr: "Five transgender people discuss how to change off-key representations of trans culture in media". (From October 2014.)
"Combating Fat Phobia in YA Lit".
"I, Racist" is an essay by John Metta "I don’t talk about race with White people. To illustrate why, I’ll tell a story:
It was probably about 15 years ago when a conversation took place between my aunt, who is White and lives in New York State, and my sister, who is Black and lives in North Carolina. This conversation can be distilled to a single sentence, said by my Black sister: “The only difference between people in The North and people in The South is that down here, at least people are honest about being racist.” / There was a lot more to that conversation, obviously, but I suggest that it can be distilled into that one sentence because it has been, by my White aunt. Over a decade later, this sentence is still what she talks about. It has become the single most important aspect of my aunt’s relationship with my Black family. She is still hurt by the suggestion that people in New York, that she, a northerner, a liberal, a good person who has Black family members, is a racist."
"New Study Finds That Sexually Abused Girls Get Prison, Not Help". [Jezebel]
Unsorted
"Have you seen anyone with a semicolon tattoo? Here's what it's about". This is wonderful, even if it makes me vaguely sad in a selfish way, because I'd been pondering a semicolon tattoo for the simple love of it as a punctuation mark.
"The Bizarre History of Our Obsession With Unicorns".
"What I Learned From Spending My Entire Twenties In Debt".
anne_theriault recently live-tweeted a terrible coffee date in Toronto as it unfolded near her.
Via Facebook:
--"Amy Poehler: ‘I see life as being attacked by a bear'".
--"What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?".
--A profile on the BBC: "Nadia Bolz Weber: A pastor for America's outsiders: At the House for All Sinners and Saints in the US city of Denver, a foul-mouthed tattoo-loving Lutheran pastor who was once a Pagan, an alcoholic and a stand-up comedian, is reinventing church."
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/609906.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW:
Fandom
On Tumblr,
copperbadge posted "Hydrocodone Midnight Theatre: Strictly for the birds", a short fic in which Tony Stark adopts an owl.
"Margaret Atwood Is Drawing Cartoons About Being A Geeky Girl: The author of The Handmaid’s Tale is contributing a series of cartoons to the Kickstarter-funded anthology The Secret Loves of Geek Girls."
At Fantasy Cafe, Karina Sumner-Smith posted "What Happened to Hope and Wonder in Science Fiction?" "“No one has walked on the moon in my lifetime,” I told them. “Yet you try to tell me that it’s my generation who has lost their wonder? That it’s the young people of today who have let everything slip and fall into ruin? You don’t understand. You had the dream and the potential and the opportunities, and you messed it all up. You got hope and moon landings and that bright, glorious future. I got only the disasters.”" (From November 2014.)
Via
nwshino, two Tumblr posts of Fury Road meta: "Mad Max: Fury Road is a story about sexists, told by non-sexists" and "A War Rig Of One’s Own: A Very Long Post On Fury Road’s Feminism".
Social Justice
Via Tumblr: "Five transgender people discuss how to change off-key representations of trans culture in media". (From October 2014.)
"Combating Fat Phobia in YA Lit".
"I, Racist" is an essay by John Metta "I don’t talk about race with White people. To illustrate why, I’ll tell a story:
It was probably about 15 years ago when a conversation took place between my aunt, who is White and lives in New York State, and my sister, who is Black and lives in North Carolina. This conversation can be distilled to a single sentence, said by my Black sister: “The only difference between people in The North and people in The South is that down here, at least people are honest about being racist.” / There was a lot more to that conversation, obviously, but I suggest that it can be distilled into that one sentence because it has been, by my White aunt. Over a decade later, this sentence is still what she talks about. It has become the single most important aspect of my aunt’s relationship with my Black family. She is still hurt by the suggestion that people in New York, that she, a northerner, a liberal, a good person who has Black family members, is a racist."
"New Study Finds That Sexually Abused Girls Get Prison, Not Help". [Jezebel]
Unsorted
"Have you seen anyone with a semicolon tattoo? Here's what it's about". This is wonderful, even if it makes me vaguely sad in a selfish way, because I'd been pondering a semicolon tattoo for the simple love of it as a punctuation mark.
"The Bizarre History of Our Obsession With Unicorns".
"What I Learned From Spending My Entire Twenties In Debt".
anne_theriault recently live-tweeted a terrible coffee date in Toronto as it unfolded near her.
Via Facebook:
--"Amy Poehler: ‘I see life as being attacked by a bear'".
--"What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?".
--A profile on the BBC: "Nadia Bolz Weber: A pastor for America's outsiders: At the House for All Sinners and Saints in the US city of Denver, a foul-mouthed tattoo-loving Lutheran pastor who was once a Pagan, an alcoholic and a stand-up comedian, is reinventing church."
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/609906.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW: