So I've been hinting before at the vague possibility of there being a rant on the status of the conversation on security policy in Germany in the future of this blog, right? I've been kind of procrastinating on it because I knew it would be a long, rambling and possibly not really intelligible post because I'm just so fed up with the vast ( Read more... )

I watched The Last Jedi on Saturday.

So here be spoilers. You have been warned. Proceed at your own discretion.

( Spoilers. Like. For the entire movie. I warned you. )

One week until this year's het_bigbang submission deadline, and I now know that I have eight chapters to write to finish it. Eight chapters in seven days. I usually need three to four days for one chapter. I am thoroughly fucked. Theoretically, I could still make it but yeah, theoretically. I mean, I mapped out the path to the epilogue and I really just have ( Read more... )

I rarely post twice a day but Christiane Amanpour slaying media that normalizes Trump is worth of an exception to the rule.

( Let's resolve not to be turkeys, voting for Thanksgiving! )

I've recently started going through the millions of books (okay, 21, as my library account tells me) I took home from the library *mumbles weeks ago and the thing that's continually pissing me off is that one of the objects of interest for my thesis - Stargate and its women - seems to be invisible in academia. I know that there is quite a bit of ( Read more... )

So I had a meeting with my thesis advisor today and it went... eh, it went.

( I wrote this after midnight, so I can't be held accountable for any of it. Yes, I'm still binging The Good Wife. )

Yes, I know, it's been ages and I'm probably the only one who even remembers that at some point I started a challenge called "30 Days of Writing" but I recently permanently closed the Tumblr tab in my browser* and realized that I can't keep moaning that nothing ever happens on LJ anymore if I don't blog more than maybe once a month, either. So. ( Read more... )

The Last Ship has a black female openly lesbian officer serving on the bridge of a US Navy vessel, who, so far, has not appeared to be a "token" character and/or solely defined by being black, female or lesbian.

That is all.

I haven't seen the latest Game of Thrones ep yet, and by the way things are going, I probably won't for a couple more weeks at least, either. Nor will I probably watch any new GoT eps for quite a while. I'd originally planned to watch the ep last night and then write a bit of meta on it on tumblr but I've had two days to think about it and I ( Read more... )

Answer: you're not half as bothered about JKR mentioning that she found Hermione and Harry were better suited for each other than Ron and Hermione as you are bothered about the vitriol they're suddenly spewing at her on tumblr. Like, a week ago, you were still celebrating all the bits she added to canon via Pottermore (there's a huge ass list still ( Read more... )