I know I mentioned that LJ's new comment page is ugly as hell, but I hadn't realised exactly how bad it was until I started reading this three page discussion of whether CFUD should move ( Read more... )

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Okay, I need help; I remember reading this story in Chinese about how the prawn took its beautiful eyes from some other animal and never returned it. I need to know what this animal is ( Read more... )

These are the books that I like much more than any others. They may not necessarily be the best books, and I am not here to debate that. I am here to say, 'gosh, yes, these books make make my life better for my having read them, and I would read them many times over again'.

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I wish I'd thought of this yesterday, but I didn't. I only digested it in class, so here I am, typing it up now.

I can't link to all the specific things because the LJ posts are flocked and I have half an hour before class starts. Apologies.

Cultural Appropriation, presented by Sheroes

And just for funsies, here's a Racefail bingo card! And a ( Read more... )

If you participate in fandom, please take a look here and here. (Link grabbed of halcyonjazz's twitter ( Read more... )

I'm going to start off with Star Trek because the comment that got my thoughts rolling around to kind of coalesce is this one.

John Cho on Star Trek made me happy because OMG AN ASIAN GUY IS ON TV! But his extremely awesome swordfight action scene was tempered a little by 'Fencing? What?'. Because when I think of fencing, I think of a rapier. ( Read more... )

1) I'm not Singaporean. I was born in Malaysia to a Malaysian Chinese mother and an Indonesian Chinese father. I have, however, lived in Singapore since I was six; when I lived in Hong Kong, I attended a Singaporean primary school. Until I was twelve, I was schooled in the local system, in one of the better public schools. (This was due at last in ( Read more... )

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

TELL ME HOW YOU REALLY FEEL, ANON.

Edit: Lately, all I ever seem to be doing is join comms and comms and comms (curse you RaceFail and thingies and hetalia shipping comms).

That said, sea_sff!!!! It's a comm just for us!! (YES, I know the saying about the multiple exclamation marks and the insanity and blah blah blah...) I' ( Read more... )

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