Politics and things and such.

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The United Kingdom intends to revoke the citizenship of a teenager who joined ISIL and has now left the organization. Their reasoning is that the teenager could become a citizen of another nation, and therefore they do not have to keep her citizenship. It's not entirely clear that the route is available to her, and it is a serious violation of human rights to make a person stateless. But, of course, we live in times where things that would otherwise be unheard of in liberal democracy keep happening and getting suggested. And, for an extra dose of hypocrisy, if you change the gender of the person wanting to return to male, suddenly he gets a lot more sympathetic treatment about his want to return. In case you wondered who is actually important in these stories. Since the original decision to revoke her citizenship, her baby has died in a refugee camp. So now there's been the death of a citizen in regard to this entire fiasco, one that could have easily been prevented had someone decided that reality was a better place to live than their woman-hating fantasy.

( Brexit, the States, and More )

More things to peruse - February-March 02019

Cheers. Let's begin with melannen providing ways to make your Archive of Our Own searching more productive and less scrolling through terrible things.

Additionally, you can make visible how many comments any given post has through a quick trip to the modules section of your Dreamwidth theme settings. It's one tickybox getting un-tickied. Thank runpunkrun for being able to see your comment counts displayed instead of as a hover. Plus, it gives you a direct link to the comments themselves.

Also, ways of getting useful data out of Goodreads, as well.

Suzuki Ichiro is retiring from baseballl, having left behind a legacy that introduced us to the idea that Nippon baseball is just as big and produces just as good of players as anywhere else. And who was, at least for me, a refreshing alternative to the game that seemed to be heading more and more in the direction of the big swing. We may not have anyone quite as good as Ichiro at proving that slap-hitters can find a place in the major leagues, but Ichiro's name will likely live on for quite a while as the record holder for most base hits in a single season. It's the sort of statistic that the Non-Statistical Division enjoys greatly, and we tip our caps to Ichiro and his dedication to the craft of small ball. We hope his example of how to play the game is inspiring to others in all leagues to do the same.

When men write fanfic, it's "unauthorized novels" and "pastiche", and a shame they can't get it published, so clearly copyright laws have gone too far. When others do it, it's that icky fanfic. So, rather than let them tell us all about how second-class we are, take part in a challenge to write yourself the artist profile you deserve as a great creator of transformative works.

And if you're looking for Narnia recs, have a Twitter thread with lots of good Narnia fic.

( Going forward from here )

Last for tonight, SFF with trans and nonbinary representation recommendations and an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream that makes it a coffee shop AU induced by a burrito haze.

The reasons why cover art doesn't necessarily match up with the story contained within (contains uncovered breasts, which is not a thing that happened all that often in the source story that it's supposed to be illustrating.)

And also, a very long Twitter thread about the secrets of various industries and professions that are normal to those inside and potentially horrifying to those outside.