Missed Opportunities
1) This dog could get lost among plushies, while this dog expresses individuality, and another is nervous about meeting a very new little deer.
Meanwhile duckies bathe on lily pads and I posted about a recent fracas on our lake.
2) Comments to this post brought up some interesting points about how tightly written serialized stories may be eliminating the "filler episode" from most shows. For example, shows that had to write around an actor's availability or whose budget ran short leading to a bottle episode, means that some types of stories aren't getting told.
As I said there, short tightly plotted seasons means that most everything is written and filmed before it's released, so the show runners can't take audience response into account as a season moves forward -- it's done in isolation. If you're in production for 5 more months once the audience starts reacting to the season, there are things that can change for characters, for plotlines, etc. There are actors whose careers would be very different if they hadn't become regulars because the audience loved them.
This also means that side characters and minor characters might not get those moments in the sun the way they once did, and it also suggests to me that world building would likely suffer because there wouldn't be as much space for little details to be explored.
Speaking of conversations going on elsewhere, I thought that there was some interesting discussion at this post about fandom nostalgia and checking out
3) Someone at PF also linked this essay on how your age affects your writing. It focuses on fiction so not terribly applicable to me, but I did like this phrase: "If story itself remains an affectionately unruly beast, it is perhaps one we no longer view with the same frustrated suspicion we sometimes did in our earlier life."
Interesting to see that people from teens to seventies responded to it.
4) The scientific response to COVID-19 has been characterized by an extraordinary level of sexism and racism …the hard-won progress for women in science will be collateral damage of this crisis.”
A big reason?: "The emergency and chaos of the pandemic has triggered longstanding male networks, with a lot of ad hoc, quick linking of men to decision makers.”
Yet "women outnumber men in the health sciences" but men "tend to be more upfront and more willing to go in front of a camera and take credit.” Plus women are busier: "women take on teaching, mentoring, and academic service work more regularly than men, and are more likely to serve in operational roles - or as the Times Higher Education commentary put it: “getting shit done.” In the context of the current pandemic, that often means working at a breakneck pace to coordinate multiple investigations, at multiple sites, often in multiple countries, said Rasmussen. That leaves the men, who are nominally in charge, to talk to the press…On top of all that, stay-at-home orders have foisted absurd expectations onto working mothers."
5) This story seemed such a perfect example of why even when research on minorities is done it is difficult to get it released or rewarded. It also serves to demonstrate invisible barriers in professions.
View poll: Kudos Footer-197
Comments at Dreamwidth
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Meanwhile duckies bathe on lily pads and I posted about a recent fracas on our lake.
2) Comments to this post brought up some interesting points about how tightly written serialized stories may be eliminating the "filler episode" from most shows. For example, shows that had to write around an actor's availability or whose budget ran short leading to a bottle episode, means that some types of stories aren't getting told.
As I said there, short tightly plotted seasons means that most everything is written and filmed before it's released, so the show runners can't take audience response into account as a season moves forward -- it's done in isolation. If you're in production for 5 more months once the audience starts reacting to the season, there are things that can change for characters, for plotlines, etc. There are actors whose careers would be very different if they hadn't become regulars because the audience loved them.
This also means that side characters and minor characters might not get those moments in the sun the way they once did, and it also suggests to me that world building would likely suffer because there wouldn't be as much space for little details to be explored.
Speaking of conversations going on elsewhere, I thought that there was some interesting discussion at this post about fandom nostalgia and checking out
3) Someone at PF also linked this essay on how your age affects your writing. It focuses on fiction so not terribly applicable to me, but I did like this phrase: "If story itself remains an affectionately unruly beast, it is perhaps one we no longer view with the same frustrated suspicion we sometimes did in our earlier life."
Interesting to see that people from teens to seventies responded to it.
4) The scientific response to COVID-19 has been characterized by an extraordinary level of sexism and racism …the hard-won progress for women in science will be collateral damage of this crisis.”
A big reason?: "The emergency and chaos of the pandemic has triggered longstanding male networks, with a lot of ad hoc, quick linking of men to decision makers.”
Yet "women outnumber men in the health sciences" but men "tend to be more upfront and more willing to go in front of a camera and take credit.” Plus women are busier: "women take on teaching, mentoring, and academic service work more regularly than men, and are more likely to serve in operational roles - or as the Times Higher Education commentary put it: “getting shit done.” In the context of the current pandemic, that often means working at a breakneck pace to coordinate multiple investigations, at multiple sites, often in multiple countries, said Rasmussen. That leaves the men, who are nominally in charge, to talk to the press…On top of all that, stay-at-home orders have foisted absurd expectations onto working mothers."
5) This story seemed such a perfect example of why even when research on minorities is done it is difficult to get it released or rewarded. It also serves to demonstrate invisible barriers in professions.
View poll: Kudos Footer-197
Comments at Dreamwidth
.