A flood of materials - April-May 02020
May. 9th, 2020 10:43 pmLet us begin, then, with a story nominally about a food blog when a pandemic strikes. It is definitely about more than food, even though it doesn't stray that far from being about food. As one might guess however, it comes with content warnings about being a little too close to on the nose about the current pandemic. Beyond that, though, the author of the story, Naomi Kritzer, talks about having written the story and about what it's like to live in it now.
Difficulties arising from the adoption of the Campbellian monomyth, especially when used as a formulaic checklist rather than as an observation about how many stories take the same arc. Topes Are Not Good, Tropes Are Not Bad, Tropes Are Tools. It's what you do with them that makes for such interesting reading.
That said, if there are tropes, pairings, or other things that are going to make a bad day for you if you should come across them, it is worth going through![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
beatrice_otter's AO3 Savior tutorial so that you can calibrate your experience of the Archive, at least (I wonder whether it works for other places that use similar nomenclature for tags?) and not unintentionally encounter works that will be an issue for you. I support the Archive's stance on being a place for all works to exist. I also think that people should have the ability to customize their Archive experience, such that if they really don't want to see it (or it would be injurious or triggering to see it), they can avoid it, rather than insisting the Archive match their personal morality. (To most of my readership, of course, this is not news, but it's worth knowing that I'm one of those Fandom Olds that gets really touchy about "purity" and believes firmly in the principles of "don't like, don't read". Thus, this tool will help you do exactly that!)
( It's a big digest of lots of things, so take your time with it )
Last for tonight, some of the less well-known and very much more creepy or disturbing artifacts of various museums. Because someone will be interested in them and find them fascinating.
Additionally, IKEA released an official stay-at-home alternative to the meatballs and cream sauce available in their store cafeteria.
Take Me To The World, a celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 90th Birthday, containing a lot of people very famous for singing (Sondheim or otherwise) singing a lot of Sondheim (famous or otherwise).
The concept of inside clothes, and their applicability to a life being lived more inside. I had not been exposed to the idea of inside clothes in any sort of systematic way, and I think it's an interesting idea for not just these times, but all times.
And finally, a paper about what the correct ways are to refer to thousand-year periods, according to international standards, and several other possible epochs to measure time from, depending on your inclinations. (And, additionally, a lot of requests for clarification on whether or not the game of fuck, marry, kill allows for the possibility of fucking the person you're married with.)
Difficulties arising from the adoption of the Campbellian monomyth, especially when used as a formulaic checklist rather than as an observation about how many stories take the same arc. Topes Are Not Good, Tropes Are Not Bad, Tropes Are Tools. It's what you do with them that makes for such interesting reading.
That said, if there are tropes, pairings, or other things that are going to make a bad day for you if you should come across them, it is worth going through
beatrice_otter's AO3 Savior tutorial so that you can calibrate your experience of the Archive, at least (I wonder whether it works for other places that use similar nomenclature for tags?) and not unintentionally encounter works that will be an issue for you. I support the Archive's stance on being a place for all works to exist. I also think that people should have the ability to customize their Archive experience, such that if they really don't want to see it (or it would be injurious or triggering to see it), they can avoid it, rather than insisting the Archive match their personal morality. (To most of my readership, of course, this is not news, but it's worth knowing that I'm one of those Fandom Olds that gets really touchy about "purity" and believes firmly in the principles of "don't like, don't read". Thus, this tool will help you do exactly that!)( It's a big digest of lots of things, so take your time with it )
Last for tonight, some of the less well-known and very much more creepy or disturbing artifacts of various museums. Because someone will be interested in them and find them fascinating.
Additionally, IKEA released an official stay-at-home alternative to the meatballs and cream sauce available in their store cafeteria.
Take Me To The World, a celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 90th Birthday, containing a lot of people very famous for singing (Sondheim or otherwise) singing a lot of Sondheim (famous or otherwise).
The concept of inside clothes, and their applicability to a life being lived more inside. I had not been exposed to the idea of inside clothes in any sort of systematic way, and I think it's an interesting idea for not just these times, but all times.
And finally, a paper about what the correct ways are to refer to thousand-year periods, according to international standards, and several other possible epochs to measure time from, depending on your inclinations. (And, additionally, a lot of requests for clarification on whether or not the game of fuck, marry, kill allows for the possibility of fucking the person you're married with.)
