Awwwww snap there's wireless in my French classroom GUESS WHO'S NOT GOING TO BE LISTENING FOR THE NEXT HOUR oh dear. Although at least the homework this time was pretty fun because it involved translating bits of the original French "Beauty and the Beast." Damn, now I want to watch Jean Cocteau's film again ( Read more... )

Oh for fuck's sake I spent all day reading A Game of Thrones and guiltily remembering why I really shouldn't like Sandor Clegane as much as I do*, or the books themselves for that matter (HOLY SHIT ENOUGH WITH THE RAPE ALREADY, I GET IT, LIFE SUCKS AND THEN YOU GET RAPED BY TWENTY DOTHRAKI, ugh it is so gross and the fact that I am slogging through ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning still angry enough, maybe not to spit, but at least to sneeze waterfalls of allergy snot at truly stupid people ( Read more... )

Yes, dear friends! Now is the time for Racism 101, a long-delayed but highly necessary post.

And, just so you all know? I am fine with discussion, discussion is great and important and lovely, but this post is not a debate post. It's the post of things you ought to read before you debate. So any discussion you want to have with me personally ( Read more... )

A bit belated, but the Asian Women's Carnival is up and it's filled with excellent thought-provoking reading; go forth!

ETA: This is a good post to read too, while you're at it.Man it is utterly ridiculous how much I have been looking forward to Lost this week, it feels like I've been thinking of little else since Sunday (okay, so I was thinking ( Read more... )

So I was thinking a while ago that after Stellarcon I would do a follow-up post to the one about about Racefail '09, so I could post some specific links on how not to be made of fail like so many of the people involved. But those links got lost with Val, so I will save that one until I have gotten them again, and today we are having a Trans 101 ( Read more... )

So I was going to post a link to the roundup of links for Racefail '09 and then apologize, because I've posted the link a couple of times before ( Read more... )

Man, remember the days when if you wanted to read manga you had to hunt all over the net and beg your way into scanlators' forums, or gods forbid buy the original Japanese manga and look at text translations, or learn Japanese? And a good series getting an official English translation was a reason to party for days? And places like OneManga were ( Read more... )

I got a bit sidetracked by school and work and creepy dolls, but tonight is Official Catching Up on Cultural Appropriation Posts Night! YAY EDUMACATING.

P. S. FUCK YOU, FOURTH CRUSADE, YOU'RE WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE COPIES OF ALCMAN.

P. P. S. Hellspawn bastard of Roman cursive and Sanskrit, guys, I'm telling you.

Middle English is really quite fun, once you get the hang of pre-Great Vowel Shift vowels. It is, for example, most amusing to realize that the word "laxative," with a slightly altered and variable spelling of course, has been in use since the fourteenth century and probably long before ( Read more... )