Greetings! Let's start with the ways that transformative works of the 20th and 21st centuries CE are close cousins to the style of writing practiced by Byzantium that made heavy use of quotes, tropes, and references to produce both authority of writer and to give the audience things to recognize and enjoy in the words themselves.
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elf explains the nomination of the Archive Of Our Own for a Hugo award is both about the underlying code/infrastructure and the content that makes that underlying infrastructure deliver exactly what sort of transformative work someone is looking for when they search the Archive. If so desired, the full list of the 2019 Hugo finalists and the 1944 Retroactive Hugos is now published for your perusal.
( And you can see even more inside... )
Last for tonight, Millions of Cats, the oldest picture book created in the United States that's still in print. Also, Nathan W. Pyle's Starnge Planet, a comic series about aliens looking at and doing common human practices with delight and curiosity. (ETA: We are informed that the creator of the comic is not a fan of bodily autonomy for women. Further information about the preferences of the creator and how much their belief is private versus public.)
And you know how difficult it is to find trans and enby rep in stock photography? (Exceedingly.) So the folks in a Vice Department created the Gender Spectrum Collection, a series of stock photographs of trans and enby people (and not just all white people, too) available to the public for use.)
Finally, A Twitter thread about things that are common knowledge in all sorts of industries but would otherwise be completely shocking to anyone outside of that industry. Some of which are very familiar. And many that involve the House of Mouse.
elf explains the nomination of the Archive Of Our Own for a Hugo award is both about the underlying code/infrastructure and the content that makes that underlying infrastructure deliver exactly what sort of transformative work someone is looking for when they search the Archive. If so desired, the full list of the 2019 Hugo finalists and the 1944 Retroactive Hugos is now published for your perusal.( And you can see even more inside... )
Last for tonight, Millions of Cats, the oldest picture book created in the United States that's still in print. Also, Nathan W. Pyle's Starnge Planet, a comic series about aliens looking at and doing common human practices with delight and curiosity. (ETA: We are informed that the creator of the comic is not a fan of bodily autonomy for women. Further information about the preferences of the creator and how much their belief is private versus public.)
And you know how difficult it is to find trans and enby rep in stock photography? (Exceedingly.) So the folks in a Vice Department created the Gender Spectrum Collection, a series of stock photographs of trans and enby people (and not just all white people, too) available to the public for use.)
Finally, A Twitter thread about things that are common knowledge in all sorts of industries but would otherwise be completely shocking to anyone outside of that industry. Some of which are very familiar. And many that involve the House of Mouse.
