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[cofax7]

Yikes, several days worth of links here.

Awww, this animated short is just ridiculously wonderful. Dogs and their people, really.

Clay Shirky on the future of publishing.

The Big Picture focuses on growing tea in England.

This website has beautifully-photographed portraits of women with gray hair. Gorgeous and inspirational

Comments

[eve11]

thanks for the link to the crossplay blogger. That was pretty cool :) I've not seen to many FTM gender-bending outfits that reimagine the original that creatively.

(ETA: also I have been in and grew up near walmarts and grocery stores that have those Amish romance novels. Definitely an interesting niche)

[fourteenlines]

Literally JUST finished rereading The Disorderly Knights. :)

[sashajwolf]

I've read quite a number of Amish romance novels! I'm interested in Amish and Mennonite culture, and some of the novels are written by other Mennonites who know the Amish community well, or even by ex-Amish. Some of them are quite good, some (usually the ones by non-Mennonites) are crass Christian morality stories and/or evangelism.

[stlscape]

Thanks for all the links, but particularly the one about the women with grey hair. As one of them myself, it's really nice to see that celebrated and not be handed a bottle of hair dye.

[noelleleithe]

The Amish romance novels I've read are ones about gay men leaving the community in various ways. Not exactly the same market. :D