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silveradept) wrote2019-01-30 07:01 am
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A much more normal post - January 02019
An interesting thing to start - an examination of what people actually say as their last words of life.
And also, The history of the previous generation trying to dunk on the new generation for their wild and reckless behavior. (Although there's even older stuff than what's on that list.)
Lindsay Ellis talks about Death of the Author and The Fault In Our Stars, which will set you back about a half-hour to watch, but it's almost worth it for the 1980s instructional video style before it gets into the meat of how The Fault In Our Stars turns out to be a lot more self-referential, even about author intent, than desired.
I'm going to go and make a blanket recommendation for the new community![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
thisweekmeta, because it has a lot of what I like about fandom and talking about fandom in regular packages, and if I don't endorse the community, I'm going to end up linking to just about everything they post, like why critical examination might mean you end up liking something more, rather than less, because you find the thing you liked in the first place, and it's still there, even if you are now more aware of the things that aren't so great about it. Or asking for marginalized voices to talk about their experiences with fandom. Or a certain amount of Fandom Olds being grumpy about the new kids coming in and not learning from those who have gone before and experienced what they are experiencing now. And also reminding people that what they think is new is not as new as they think, in this case, that Star Wars, for the Prequel Trilogy, was mostly women doing the bulk of fan-anything, and so people thinking that the sequel trilogy is bringing in all the new fans are...misguided on their history. Also, commentary that the idea of shipping being Problematic is an outcropping of the idea that individuals can successfully solve systematic problems on their own.
A Fanlore article linked about the "Three Laws" of Fandom, which is a set of suggestions that form a bedrock of common courtesy between fen. Basically, Don't Like, Don't Read, Your Kink Is Not My Kink, and Ship and Let Ship. Which are the sort of thing that you can sometimes be dismayed to learn that other people don't think of as so fundamental to fandom that they shouldn't have to be explicitly spelled out. And yet.
greywash talked about how Tumblr's tags stood in for the space that allowed someone to distinguish between what was said with the creator's voice and what was said without that voice.
sylvaine asked about whether meta should have a specific class of permissions for being pointed at, because popular meta has the potential to bring a lot of people to your doorway that you may or may not have wanted there. And muccamukk provided contextualization and an example in thisweekmeta, and made some suggestions about being aware when you want to talk about someone being Wrong On The Internet, because talking about someone being Wrong On The Internet has a high combustability factor, and depending on where you post it, there's a nonzero chance The Hounds will be summoned.
That's BAD, because The Hounds don't care who they hurt, even if some of them don't recognize that's what they're doing.
Seanan McGuire (who else, really?) gives us a listing of ten incidences where zombies and musicals have successfully fused.
Seanan also laments the implosion of tumblr, because of what it was to the people that used it, including the graphics and the centering of people who aren't white straight cis men.
McSweeney's offers the solution to all the unpaid emotional labor going around - Matreon. (I'll note one of the levels offered in the piece is about sexual assault topics, because that's important to note.) In this particular case, I think that the piece qualifies under the original definition of what emotional labor is, as does the work I do for The Organization (and that many other people who engage in customer service positions end up doing emotional labor as part of their jobs as well.)
Speaking of emotions,staranise posted about how big emotions that are overwhelming to share with other people sometimes can be broken down into smaller, more manageable clusters, and then, when attached to what someone is doing or wants to do to deal with that emotion, gives other people avenues where they can help someone with their big emotion. If what we can say is that we're having loneliness and we're trying to meet new people to get around that, people can work with that and either be a person that gets met or introduces someone to other people. I'll have to keep this idea in mind, and it sounds like the people behind You Feel Like Shit are also in on this idea of trying to make a big unmanageable thing into small pieces with concrete actions associated with them.
A heart-moving account of a minister who kept being punted from place to place by parishoners that could not accept him for his bisexuality and a church hierarchy that insisted he could not be where we was. And then he finally landed in a place that understood and began the long work of finally accepting the calling of the minister and putting him in a place where he could be himself and be supported from his church in his ministry.
Did we mention that according to the CDC, of the nearly 2 percent of high school students who are trans in the United States, more than one third of them are recorded as having attempted to kill themselves.
If someone is being prescriptivist about dictionary definitions at you, after you get done putting them in the rubbish bin, you can remind them that dictionaries are descriptive, and that soon enough, even their precious dictionary will soon talk about how women are women, whether cis or trans.
What causes you discomfort may not also cause you harm. There is a difference, and a lot of discomfort being mistaken as harm is in the category of "this is different and outside my conception of the world". Something outside your conception means your conception is too small and could stand expanding, rather than it being something that has to be destroyed so that your conception doesn't have to include what you now have evidence of.
"Authenticity" in regard to a restaurant is very much tied up in racist expectations of that restaurant, because what white people think of as an authentic experience is almost always laced through and through with racist stereotypes about that audience. It's the sort of thing that even being in Hamilton, on Broadway, making bank and doing an awesome show, can't fix, becuase the desk guy will still only see you as a black man and assume you're here for service tasks.
The Original Series Star Trek as a way of doing television that's anti-toxic masculinity, which is always a useful reminder to me that the popular conception I have of Kirk is not who Kirk actually is. Laurie Halse Anderson, who might know a thing or two, says that twenty years of talking to boys about sexual assault means that, for the most part, the depressing reality that they still don't know nearly enough.
Strategies for neurotypical persons to feel at least an approximation of what autism and sensory overload might be and how reactions to it might work.
I would very much be interested in a show called "Kevin Can F*** Himself.elf has a few possible seasons mapped out.
Sometimes, a mistake becomes a meme, because its very nature means people are interested in it and will want to recontextualize it. And, in a similar amount of weird, although on a different topic, trying to analyze Nicholas Cage for a type of movie he's in is difficult at best, because he does a little bit of everything, and they all seem to be a little varied in their commercial and critical successes.
Captain Mesoamerica, asking the question of what a superhero might be like if the indigineous people of the continent weren't invaded and colonized. The oldest hot springs hotel in Japan, which looks lovely and hopefully is as wonderful as it looks. A restaurant whose oven fire has been burning continuously for two hundred and thirty nine years. Complaints about building houses that are more modern don't always point our that our lives are also more modern and need our houses to accomodate this.
Animal wrangling on the set of Captain Marvel - four cats all playing one cat on screen. As it turns out, cats are like any other animal on screen - they get trained to do certain things, and if you need a different thing, you often need a different cat that looks exactly like the first one. And the cats are well cared-for and get played with regularly when they're not working. Additionally, vidos of cats on hikes, dogs emerging from clouds of colored powder, which gives them a look like they're forming into existence from the magic powder, turtle genitalia, especially that they're relatively large compared to the total size of a turtle, and a red panda cub got out of a zoo and then safely got back after rescue.
In tech, an archive of secrets going live includes a significant amount of material from the Russian Federation, a space that Wikileaks was less gung-ho about publishing.
a factory uses a billion cockroaches to process a significant amount of trash and waste. Unsurprisingly, the cockroaches are pretty good at it.
The Internet as you experience it changes radically depending on what part of the world you live in.
The benevolent dictator for life style of governance for Mastodon seems pretty consistent about privileging the privileged and not the marginalized perople who helped sustain it in the early times. There's also a significant violation of the rule of "if you haven't figured out how this feature can be used to hurt and harass the user base, you shouldn't implement the feature."
If you plan on asking women to undergo a potentially painful procedure, screening for cancer may not be a good enough reason. Because, again, painful procedure, even when the person doing it is skilled (and there are a lot of stories of persons who aren't doing it.)
Trying to track down what we actually know about toxic shock syndrome and how practices around not wanting to bleed during menstruation might contribute more or less to contracting the problem is really difficult, mostly because there's not much actaully confirmed to be known.
Sunscreen may not be as helpful as previously thought, if it turns out that sun exposure has a significant number of health benefits that the relatively low risk of skin cancers doesn't outweigh.
BuzzFeed and several other corporations laid off a significant amount of their news staff. Other than the travesty that is that leeches useful people out of our understanding of the world, competition is supposed to have been the thing that makes news so good. The trickiest part about news layoffs is that the people who want news very desperately want news, but they don't get the...satisfaction? of being able to get them, because hedge funds and other capitalists insist that news and its associated advertising be more profitable than it has any right to be, and since it worked for a small moment once, it clearly has to work that way all the time for them.
More people have been charged in connection with a fatal calling of SWAT officers based on a game taunt.
A history of Livejournal, with quotes from the founders of Dreamwidth, and a lot more context on why "Brad in his dorm room" is a valid phrase to use either as a curse or an explanation.
Last for tonight, the unreality of the coffee shop AU, the ways in which ballet instruction has changed over time, and the idea of having designers create secular rituals for people to do, so as to avoid religious connotations they might not want to experience or don't believe in, without losing the sense of the sacred that ritual brings. (I think it's an idea, and if it's well-designed, why not? We have lots of rituals that are secular that we engage in and accord a certain amount of power to them about it all.)
And also, The history of the previous generation trying to dunk on the new generation for their wild and reckless behavior. (Although there's even older stuff than what's on that list.)
Lindsay Ellis talks about Death of the Author and The Fault In Our Stars, which will set you back about a half-hour to watch, but it's almost worth it for the 1980s instructional video style before it gets into the meat of how The Fault In Our Stars turns out to be a lot more self-referential, even about author intent, than desired.
I'm going to go and make a blanket recommendation for the new community
thisweekmeta, because it has a lot of what I like about fandom and talking about fandom in regular packages, and if I don't endorse the community, I'm going to end up linking to just about everything they post, like why critical examination might mean you end up liking something more, rather than less, because you find the thing you liked in the first place, and it's still there, even if you are now more aware of the things that aren't so great about it. Or asking for marginalized voices to talk about their experiences with fandom. Or a certain amount of Fandom Olds being grumpy about the new kids coming in and not learning from those who have gone before and experienced what they are experiencing now. And also reminding people that what they think is new is not as new as they think, in this case, that Star Wars, for the Prequel Trilogy, was mostly women doing the bulk of fan-anything, and so people thinking that the sequel trilogy is bringing in all the new fans are...misguided on their history. Also, commentary that the idea of shipping being Problematic is an outcropping of the idea that individuals can successfully solve systematic problems on their own.A Fanlore article linked about the "Three Laws" of Fandom, which is a set of suggestions that form a bedrock of common courtesy between fen. Basically, Don't Like, Don't Read, Your Kink Is Not My Kink, and Ship and Let Ship. Which are the sort of thing that you can sometimes be dismayed to learn that other people don't think of as so fundamental to fandom that they shouldn't have to be explicitly spelled out. And yet.
greywash talked about how Tumblr's tags stood in for the space that allowed someone to distinguish between what was said with the creator's voice and what was said without that voice.sylvaine asked about whether meta should have a specific class of permissions for being pointed at, because popular meta has the potential to bring a lot of people to your doorway that you may or may not have wanted there. And muccamukk provided contextualization and an example in thisweekmeta, and made some suggestions about being aware when you want to talk about someone being Wrong On The Internet, because talking about someone being Wrong On The Internet has a high combustability factor, and depending on where you post it, there's a nonzero chance The Hounds will be summoned. That's BAD, because The Hounds don't care who they hurt, even if some of them don't recognize that's what they're doing.
Seanan McGuire (who else, really?) gives us a listing of ten incidences where zombies and musicals have successfully fused.
Seanan also laments the implosion of tumblr, because of what it was to the people that used it, including the graphics and the centering of people who aren't white straight cis men.
McSweeney's offers the solution to all the unpaid emotional labor going around - Matreon. (I'll note one of the levels offered in the piece is about sexual assault topics, because that's important to note.) In this particular case, I think that the piece qualifies under the original definition of what emotional labor is, as does the work I do for The Organization (and that many other people who engage in customer service positions end up doing emotional labor as part of their jobs as well.)
Speaking of emotions,
staranise posted about how big emotions that are overwhelming to share with other people sometimes can be broken down into smaller, more manageable clusters, and then, when attached to what someone is doing or wants to do to deal with that emotion, gives other people avenues where they can help someone with their big emotion. If what we can say is that we're having loneliness and we're trying to meet new people to get around that, people can work with that and either be a person that gets met or introduces someone to other people. I'll have to keep this idea in mind, and it sounds like the people behind You Feel Like Shit are also in on this idea of trying to make a big unmanageable thing into small pieces with concrete actions associated with them.A heart-moving account of a minister who kept being punted from place to place by parishoners that could not accept him for his bisexuality and a church hierarchy that insisted he could not be where we was. And then he finally landed in a place that understood and began the long work of finally accepting the calling of the minister and putting him in a place where he could be himself and be supported from his church in his ministry.
Did we mention that according to the CDC, of the nearly 2 percent of high school students who are trans in the United States, more than one third of them are recorded as having attempted to kill themselves.
If someone is being prescriptivist about dictionary definitions at you, after you get done putting them in the rubbish bin, you can remind them that dictionaries are descriptive, and that soon enough, even their precious dictionary will soon talk about how women are women, whether cis or trans.
What causes you discomfort may not also cause you harm. There is a difference, and a lot of discomfort being mistaken as harm is in the category of "this is different and outside my conception of the world". Something outside your conception means your conception is too small and could stand expanding, rather than it being something that has to be destroyed so that your conception doesn't have to include what you now have evidence of.
"Authenticity" in regard to a restaurant is very much tied up in racist expectations of that restaurant, because what white people think of as an authentic experience is almost always laced through and through with racist stereotypes about that audience. It's the sort of thing that even being in Hamilton, on Broadway, making bank and doing an awesome show, can't fix, becuase the desk guy will still only see you as a black man and assume you're here for service tasks.
The Original Series Star Trek as a way of doing television that's anti-toxic masculinity, which is always a useful reminder to me that the popular conception I have of Kirk is not who Kirk actually is. Laurie Halse Anderson, who might know a thing or two, says that twenty years of talking to boys about sexual assault means that, for the most part, the depressing reality that they still don't know nearly enough.
Strategies for neurotypical persons to feel at least an approximation of what autism and sensory overload might be and how reactions to it might work.
I would very much be interested in a show called "Kevin Can F*** Himself.
elf has a few possible seasons mapped out.Sometimes, a mistake becomes a meme, because its very nature means people are interested in it and will want to recontextualize it. And, in a similar amount of weird, although on a different topic, trying to analyze Nicholas Cage for a type of movie he's in is difficult at best, because he does a little bit of everything, and they all seem to be a little varied in their commercial and critical successes.
Captain Mesoamerica, asking the question of what a superhero might be like if the indigineous people of the continent weren't invaded and colonized. The oldest hot springs hotel in Japan, which looks lovely and hopefully is as wonderful as it looks. A restaurant whose oven fire has been burning continuously for two hundred and thirty nine years. Complaints about building houses that are more modern don't always point our that our lives are also more modern and need our houses to accomodate this.
Animal wrangling on the set of Captain Marvel - four cats all playing one cat on screen. As it turns out, cats are like any other animal on screen - they get trained to do certain things, and if you need a different thing, you often need a different cat that looks exactly like the first one. And the cats are well cared-for and get played with regularly when they're not working. Additionally, vidos of cats on hikes, dogs emerging from clouds of colored powder, which gives them a look like they're forming into existence from the magic powder, turtle genitalia, especially that they're relatively large compared to the total size of a turtle, and a red panda cub got out of a zoo and then safely got back after rescue.
In tech, an archive of secrets going live includes a significant amount of material from the Russian Federation, a space that Wikileaks was less gung-ho about publishing.
a factory uses a billion cockroaches to process a significant amount of trash and waste. Unsurprisingly, the cockroaches are pretty good at it.
The Internet as you experience it changes radically depending on what part of the world you live in.
The benevolent dictator for life style of governance for Mastodon seems pretty consistent about privileging the privileged and not the marginalized perople who helped sustain it in the early times. There's also a significant violation of the rule of "if you haven't figured out how this feature can be used to hurt and harass the user base, you shouldn't implement the feature."
If you plan on asking women to undergo a potentially painful procedure, screening for cancer may not be a good enough reason. Because, again, painful procedure, even when the person doing it is skilled (and there are a lot of stories of persons who aren't doing it.)
Trying to track down what we actually know about toxic shock syndrome and how practices around not wanting to bleed during menstruation might contribute more or less to contracting the problem is really difficult, mostly because there's not much actaully confirmed to be known.
Sunscreen may not be as helpful as previously thought, if it turns out that sun exposure has a significant number of health benefits that the relatively low risk of skin cancers doesn't outweigh.
BuzzFeed and several other corporations laid off a significant amount of their news staff. Other than the travesty that is that leeches useful people out of our understanding of the world, competition is supposed to have been the thing that makes news so good. The trickiest part about news layoffs is that the people who want news very desperately want news, but they don't get the...satisfaction? of being able to get them, because hedge funds and other capitalists insist that news and its associated advertising be more profitable than it has any right to be, and since it worked for a small moment once, it clearly has to work that way all the time for them.
More people have been charged in connection with a fatal calling of SWAT officers based on a game taunt.
A history of Livejournal, with quotes from the founders of Dreamwidth, and a lot more context on why "Brad in his dorm room" is a valid phrase to use either as a curse or an explanation.
Last for tonight, the unreality of the coffee shop AU, the ways in which ballet instruction has changed over time, and the idea of having designers create secular rituals for people to do, so as to avoid religious connotations they might not want to experience or don't believe in, without losing the sense of the sacred that ritual brings. (I think it's an idea, and if it's well-designed, why not? We have lots of rituals that are secular that we engage in and accord a certain amount of power to them about it all.)