Greetings. If we haven't shared this before, In The House of the Seven Librarians is a lovely story about a child submitted as payment for a long-overdue book, and the seven librarians who teach her the ways of their specialties.
If you are looking for a gigantic list of book recommendations, Elizabeth Bird does one every year, split into 31 lists. The first list is board books (sturdy books meant for the youngest), but there are 30 other lists for other audiences of reader, so you'll probably find a list for the books that you very much want to read. And a few more.
And if you are looking for something that has tried to be relatively comprehensive about the "cruelties, collusions, and crimes" of the last administration, McSweeneys has compiled 1,056 of "the worst" of them, and their list only goes back to 02011, starting with the birtherism that began people paying attention to what was happening. The actual count is probably far, far, more, but we don't have the investigations or the people who were affected haven't come forth with their stories. Even if there is a conviction and subsequent exclusion, there still are likely enough actions taken by that administration and their supporters, including persons still currently sitting as members of the legislatures, that a full reckoning will take both time and will have to sweep very wide to catch all of the misdeeds done.
Corporations deciding to take a pause on their political action donations in light of elected officials being responsible or supportive of armed insurrectionists is causing all sorts of worry and promises of revenge or less influence against those places that are pausing their donations. Which, you know, I would more than happily enjoy having my government decide they don't want to be in the pockets of corporations and instead represent and pass legislation that helps people instead.
If police are using handcuffs and pepper spray on a nine year-old child, the police are wrong, regardless of what complaint was filed against the nine year-old. Unsurprisingly, the nine year-old child was black, so she was not seen as a child at all.
On fannish things,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mific posted a guide to uploading and getting the metadata right on podfic using the Internet Archive, which works pretty well as a hosting site, not going to lie. Probably works really well for fanvids, too.
Since it is February, that also means the Three Sentence Ficathon is currently running atrthstewart's.
Also, perhaps spend some amount of February talking about the things you love.
Check out an awesome set of Frozone cosplay pics, courtesy of the winter weather. Domr additional pictures at CosPlayNay's Twitter post.
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Last for tonight, Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land, which is one of those stories that doesn't do a lot of obvious worldbuilding and yet still tells a story of a place that is easily understood and found, and Come, Water, Be One Of Us which is about what happens when, having given corporations the ability to be people, we also gave bodies of water the same privilege.
Goths Up Trees, which is at least half tongue-in-cheek and three-quarters really well-shot pictures of people in goth dress up trees.
And The Merriam-Webster Time Traveler, showcasing the first known use years of words, such that you might find a particular word is older (or younger) than you believe it is.
If you are looking for a gigantic list of book recommendations, Elizabeth Bird does one every year, split into 31 lists. The first list is board books (sturdy books meant for the youngest), but there are 30 other lists for other audiences of reader, so you'll probably find a list for the books that you very much want to read. And a few more.
And if you are looking for something that has tried to be relatively comprehensive about the "cruelties, collusions, and crimes" of the last administration, McSweeneys has compiled 1,056 of "the worst" of them, and their list only goes back to 02011, starting with the birtherism that began people paying attention to what was happening. The actual count is probably far, far, more, but we don't have the investigations or the people who were affected haven't come forth with their stories. Even if there is a conviction and subsequent exclusion, there still are likely enough actions taken by that administration and their supporters, including persons still currently sitting as members of the legislatures, that a full reckoning will take both time and will have to sweep very wide to catch all of the misdeeds done.
Corporations deciding to take a pause on their political action donations in light of elected officials being responsible or supportive of armed insurrectionists is causing all sorts of worry and promises of revenge or less influence against those places that are pausing their donations. Which, you know, I would more than happily enjoy having my government decide they don't want to be in the pockets of corporations and instead represent and pass legislation that helps people instead.
If police are using handcuffs and pepper spray on a nine year-old child, the police are wrong, regardless of what complaint was filed against the nine year-old. Unsurprisingly, the nine year-old child was black, so she was not seen as a child at all.
On fannish things,
mific posted a guide to uploading and getting the metadata right on podfic using the Internet Archive, which works pretty well as a hosting site, not going to lie. Probably works really well for fanvids, too.Since it is February, that also means the Three Sentence Ficathon is currently running at
rthstewart's.Also, perhaps spend some amount of February talking about the things you love.
Check out an awesome set of Frozone cosplay pics, courtesy of the winter weather. Domr additional pictures at CosPlayNay's Twitter post.
( The rest of the entry )
Last for tonight, Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land, which is one of those stories that doesn't do a lot of obvious worldbuilding and yet still tells a story of a place that is easily understood and found, and Come, Water, Be One Of Us which is about what happens when, having given corporations the ability to be people, we also gave bodies of water the same privilege.
Goths Up Trees, which is at least half tongue-in-cheek and three-quarters really well-shot pictures of people in goth dress up trees.
And The Merriam-Webster Time Traveler, showcasing the first known use years of words, such that you might find a particular word is older (or younger) than you believe it is.
