![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Greetings. Music fans and aficionados are saddened by the passing of Neil Peart, longtime drummer for the band Rush, at 67 years of age. Fans of comedy (and decidedly not-comedic things) mourn Buck Henry's death at 89 years of age. One of the brilliant minds behind Get Smart. And fans of elves, dwarves, and hobbits mourn the passing of Christopher Tolkien at 95 years of age.
If someone suggests that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have supported something that reinforces the status quo of capitalist society that places all the blame on the individual and absolves the corporation, the military, the government, and the society from fault, there are some other quotes from Dr. King that say otherwise. [video]
As well as a fairly significant amount of writings that suggest that Dr. King was never the hero that Standard White United States history wawnts to make him out to be.
(They're also pretty glib at how much Hellen Keller was an avowed socialist for most of her life, preferring to paint Anne Sullivan as a miracle-worker to the helpless deafblind girl rather than pointing out what Helen Keller did with her ability to communicate, once she had obtained it.)
If you are looking to make the Potterverse gloriously filled with not-cis identities and people, the HP Transfest for 2020 has prompts for claiming, should you so desire. The claim link from that post is a dud, however, and so use a direct link to the Google Forms for claiming, should you so desire. (Also, a direct link to all the possible prompts that can be claimed and have been claimed.
If you wish to turn your head to shorter forms of work, there's going to be a three sentence ficathon, with the process starting 1 February.
A statement I thought I would never have to say, but romance writers are doing more to implement a progressive democratic society than the International Olympic Committee, which has indicated they won't tolerate political statements while the athletes are competing or receiving their accolades and your local library system. (Seattle Public is only the most recent library system to stand on absolutist intellectual freedom principles over being an orgnization that listens to its community.)
There's more than a few scandalous things to go around, though, if you want to read about them.
( Continuing on. )
Last for tonight, what happens when you give a BMX bike trick enthusiast a full set of gymnastic appartus to work with? [Video]
If you are looking for a chess set and have plenty of money to spend, Skyline Chess will give you a chess set built of the famous architecture of a major metropolis or of your own bespoke design.
See if you can order your life so that you are not required to run a gauntlet of willpower tests daily, instead of thinking it virtuous to have succeeded at running those gauntlets on a daily basis.
Another Genevieve Valentine rundown of a red carpet rundown.
And, of course, Merry Shitscram.
If someone suggests that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have supported something that reinforces the status quo of capitalist society that places all the blame on the individual and absolves the corporation, the military, the government, and the society from fault, there are some other quotes from Dr. King that say otherwise. [video]
As well as a fairly significant amount of writings that suggest that Dr. King was never the hero that Standard White United States history wawnts to make him out to be.
(They're also pretty glib at how much Hellen Keller was an avowed socialist for most of her life, preferring to paint Anne Sullivan as a miracle-worker to the helpless deafblind girl rather than pointing out what Helen Keller did with her ability to communicate, once she had obtained it.)
If you are looking to make the Potterverse gloriously filled with not-cis identities and people, the HP Transfest for 2020 has prompts for claiming, should you so desire. The claim link from that post is a dud, however, and so use a direct link to the Google Forms for claiming, should you so desire. (Also, a direct link to all the possible prompts that can be claimed and have been claimed.
If you wish to turn your head to shorter forms of work, there's going to be a three sentence ficathon, with the process starting 1 February.
A statement I thought I would never have to say, but romance writers are doing more to implement a progressive democratic society than the International Olympic Committee, which has indicated they won't tolerate political statements while the athletes are competing or receiving their accolades and your local library system. (Seattle Public is only the most recent library system to stand on absolutist intellectual freedom principles over being an orgnization that listens to its community.)
There's more than a few scandalous things to go around, though, if you want to read about them.
( Continuing on. )
Last for tonight, what happens when you give a BMX bike trick enthusiast a full set of gymnastic appartus to work with? [Video]
If you are looking for a chess set and have plenty of money to spend, Skyline Chess will give you a chess set built of the famous architecture of a major metropolis or of your own bespoke design.
See if you can order your life so that you are not required to run a gauntlet of willpower tests daily, instead of thinking it virtuous to have succeeded at running those gauntlets on a daily basis.
Another Genevieve Valentine rundown of a red carpet rundown.
And, of course, Merry Shitscram.
