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Let's begin, then, with the top-line results from the Fansplaining Shipping Survey, with also data management and tools used to produce certain results. For more information and commentary, Fansplaining, episode nine-nine. Which contains a transcript as well.
snickfic suggested that Thursday be the day that a person does recommendations, in the same way that Fridays are for follows (or sometimes femslash), Wednesday is for Reading, and so forth. kore thinks the idea is a good one, and things spread from there. While there's no requirement that there be personal notes attached to the recommendations, a lot of people seem to be doing that as a way of adding an additional touch. All the same, ware the tags and the spoilers if you choose to go in on that idea. They will rarely steer you wrong. Although, at least in one notable instance I have encountered before, they will mislead you in the same way that The Good Place plays on the expectations of a television show to mislead you.
Long-form serial storytelling in television not soap operas may have Chris Claremont's run on X-Men to thank, on the logic that Joss Whedon's success at Buffy/Angel has a lot to thank Chris Claremont for, and so many people being inspired by Whedon to do their own thing also have Claremont to thank. I do want to point out that describing Claremont's run on X-Men as the "soapiest" comic book run suggests that things like radio serials and soap operas had already figured out arc-based storylines and character progression over the course of those episodes. The point I think it wants to make, and that it might not have done as clearly as it wanted to, is that Claremont makes those character developments permanent, rather than finding a way to get to the reset button or otherwise bring the arc back to the place from where it started, as was common practice in comics at the time. There's still some argument to be made about whether soaps and other forms like that still had that down, but there's no denying that the X-Men run brought that idea to a much greater audience, and then from there, entities like Joss went on and popularized that form, now that home recording technology and distribution made it possible for someone to watch television the same way they were reading comics.
The suggestion that a deeper, underlying reason why many Game of Thrones fans are so pissed off about the final season is because the mode of storytelling shifted from sociological (institutions affecting people) to psychological (people affecting institutions), and by forcing us into a lane where we're supposed to care about and root for individuals, we lost the ability to see how people are making their decisions and what outside forces are guiding them. I'm not a Game of Thrones person, haven't seen an episode, but I do like the way that the authors extrapolate that people like psychological stories that hinge on individuals and their mental states, rather than being able to understand sociological stories that don't depend on individuals. We're a people, after all, and one of our biases is that we understand people stories better. (This makes it harder for us to recognize and defeat structural and institutional oppressions, unless we're in a posoition where thos oppressions are woven into our lives on a daily basis.)
Alabama, Georgia, and Missouri all just passed abortion bans with the explicit intent of trying to overturn the court precedent that has maintained that abortion is legal in the United States. Overturning that precedent would be a godsend to those people, as it would be the culmination of their obvious and out-in-the-open plan to strip agency from women and put them firmly under the control of men. Those same men that would decry practices like burqas (because it's the "wrong" religion of mostly brown people) are more than happy to try and make Handmaids instead.
There are organizations that time and money can be shuttled to for fighting these extreme positions.
In addition, an older post from Cherie Priest, offering a solution that works well enough if you have someone who will continue to respect your no - stop having sex with men who won't respect you. (Thus, the caveat - it will probably only work on people who will respect your no enough in the first place.) And unlike a radio commentator that I heard talking about how there's no reason to believe it would work, sex-strike campaigns with a focused goal are pretty effective at getting that stated goal.
The apocalypse has already arrived, and what is left to do is plan and fight for the people who will be affected the most the soonest. Despair is not an option worth pursuing.
A woman who wasn't afraid to ask questions of the religion that so often appeared to hold her in contempt, Rachel Held Evans, leaves us after only 37 years of life, but the legacy of questions, of difficult conversations, and of yelling very loudly at the white men who believe their authority comes from God and their interpretation is perfectly Biblical endures, and we hope it spreads, so that more people learn to interrogate their belief systems and test them, even if they ultimately find that they want to keep those beliefs, albeit in a form that makes sense to them.
Many things feminism has Charlotte Perkins Gilman to thank for, and a few that they're going to say "hard pass" on. I knew the name was familiar, but it finally get into my head that I'd read Herland in college (part of the utopian literature class).
Maisie Williams learned and performed her weapon choreaography for Game of Thrones left-handed to match Arya Stark's characterization in the books, which is no small feat, given that Maisie is dextrous, not sinistrous.
A man posted on Twitter that he would send a dick pic to anyone who was legally of age to see a dick and directly asked for it. The responses show off a lot about how we see nudes and the culture around them. For the most part, though, it was a polite and friendly interaction, with the picture transmitted to anyone who directly asked by a direct message. The article is a great read, and points out that straight dudes are generally the only group that doesn't trade nudes between friends on the regular.
This same person has written about the quest to see whether herbal teas that claim to give a person erections actually work (and what the side effects of them are).
On the opposite side of that coin, politicians' private conversations reveal their attitudes about their colleagues and co-workers is extremely out-of-sync with their public personas, especially when it comes to women. The defense usually offered is that they were private conversations, not expected to become public, but that defense betrays the fact that people want their elected representatives to actually have the values they profess to have in their private lives as well as their public ones. Hypocrisy is a betrayal of trust, and good government requires trust to function correctly. (Weirdly, this may have been a reason for the current administrator's popularity in the last election, as for all intents and purposes, he appeared to be exactly the person he said he was. Which says a lot about the people that elected him.)
How do you have meaningful conversations abouut body size when people don't even have a set of nonjudgemental terms to use?
When thinking about environmental consequences and banning things, recognize that there may also be ablism in the mix, even if unintentionally.
A student who refused vaccination and was subsequently banned from sport and school for being unvaccinated has contracted a disease that could have been prevented by vaccination. The religious objection is not one that the Catholic Church officially endorses (although if they're St. Pius X, they don't think much of the Bishop of Rome). We can be glad that it was "merely" chickenpox.
Mental Floss facts about Anne Lister, known as "The Gentleman Jack" and also generally out and living the lifestyle of being a lesbian. Also, Yoshiya Nobuko, a very clear influence on many a genre that includes the stories of women and girls having intensely emotional relationships with each other, some of which will (eventually) bloom into romance. But it takes a while to get there, and many of the works before then are "sisters" relationships or someone's gay gets buried. The era of the potluck as increased visibility for lesbians had yet to arrive. (And, as is noted in the article, it's mostly white lesbians getting the visibility in the early parts.)
Lots of clothing stores, styles, and designs that you can but on the Internet, because Pride is coming up soon and people should be bedecked in the things that make them happy.
Difficulties with disabilities are not solely limited to the Staets, as Australians are also dealing with barriers to their voting.
The city of Denver may have passed a measure to make psylocybin mushrooms and their use lowest priority for police enforcement. Effective decriminalization for the city, but there's always the possibility that some other entity further up the food chain decides their rules apply more and will dispatch their own resources.
What was supposed to be a box of LEGO at a secondhand store turned out to instead contain a box of methamphetamine with significant street value. Once they realized what they had likely bought, the adults turned over the drugs to their local law enforcement officers.
Typographical errors happen to the best of us, but Australia's redesigned $50 note contained three misspellings of the word "responsibility" in mircrotext. About 46 million examples of the typoed bill currently exist.
Curry, as a word, a spice blend, and an indication of empire and colonial mindsets.
Productivity hacks generally assume neurotypicality. If that's not you, it's not doom, but it does suggest that you'll need alternative strategies, many of which boil down to "acknowledge that you don't have a typical mental state and manage youself accordingly." Which is easier said than done, especially in a lot of knowledge work.
People with disabilities still want relationships and touch and intimacy, but often find that they are excluded and transformed into asexual beings by the society around them because of their disability. Twin assumptions reinforce this idea, that person with a disability is not capable of any of those acts, or that they are somehow too dangerous to engage in any of those acts with.
A house designed and then decorated in the style of the Flintstones (at least initially) has the town it is situated in suing the owner about creating a "public eye sore", rather than recognizing the character the house brings to the space. The suit is framed as non-obedience of building codes and constructing without a permit, but there's a good chance that the city itself did all that it could to not approve of any of the permits applied for, given how much they've hated the house since its construction.
As our lives change, things we thought were indispensable no longer become so. Getting rid of things, though, sometimes feels like getting rid of your previous self.
On the trickiness of idols and heroes turning out to be all too human and curbing the impulse to cancel them for that. Or going forward with it, if what turns up is something where a person should be cut out and left to history. It feels like the "canceling" sentiment expressed there is the primary driving force of the group most commonly referred to as the "antis". To want a space that is pure is admirable but mostly impossible, unless you have the powers of a deity. Which is not to say they can't try, just that the insistence on building an ideologically pure space is going to deprive someone of the tools that will help them reconcile and be able to defend and understand their favorites. Because there's a lot of stuff out there that's really good at one thing and complete fail at others, and knowing that can help you take the good and discard the bad and make meaningful commentary about what can be made better the next go-around. And, it also helps someone understand where their line is regarding what's too terrible to keep having an art or artist in their life.
The idea of accountability, not as something to be feared or avoided, but as a way of starting and continuing a conversation and doing the work of love.
Creating detailed sculpture of animals out of farm equipment scrap, Organisms that exist to defy what we think organisms should look and act like, a cat that made itself into a galaxy by rolling in some edible glitter, a review of a nature documentary that makes it clear that we now have the technology to show people the destruction they are already wreaking, snakes that can push bites through the side of their mouths, the general fluffiness and small size of baby T. rex, figuring out how to get an echidna to come out of a fruit shop, a different echidna that sought help swimming by going to a boat, one of the more interesting branches of the crab family, discarded in much earlier times, the beauty of seeing a bee up close and personal, at the level of zoom where you can pick out individual wing scales, that is, the cats that made it more difficult to film the third John Wick movie, humans engaging in successful imitations of horse movement and jumping, the story of the Kentucky Derby, as told by the horses who were there, new baby ravens in the Tower of London, and wooden eggs painted with amazing landscapes, amd illustrations of giant gentle animals and the humans that interact with them.
Scalzi reviews Endgame, finds it great in moments, but that the whole is less than the parts.
In technology. A reminder that alt-text is an important and necessary part of making the World Wide Web Accessible, with tips from someone who uses magnifiers and screen readers to navigate.
IKEA in Israel has partnered with organizations to see how accessible their products are to people with disabilities, and are showing (and have the plans available to download) various 3D-printed modifications to their furniture that make them much more accessible.
Older versions of
Adobe Creative Cloud applications are being turned off, possibly based on a dispute between Dolby and Adobe about the use of Solby technology. So, either you can afford to upgrade to the latest two versions, or you're hosed. There are downsides to having software that's cloud-based, and this is one of the big ones - subject to change, with notice, if you are lucky.
The United Kingdom spent 8 days without having power generated by coal plants, which made a lot of people very happy. About half of the power generated came from natural gas, so it's not zero carbon, but a lot of people are very happy to take coal out for its large environmental impact. On the same subject, since most of us fall short of a perfectly green lifestyle, the best thing for us to do is address the plank in our own eyes rather than trying to convince our neighbor to remove the plank from theirs. If we all embrace that we're not going to be perfect, then we can keep the conversation focused on where it needs to be - the people who are most interested in profiting off cheap and dirty methods and sandbagging, sabotaging, or otherwise discouraging rapid adopion of things that would systematifcally reduce carbon emissions and eat their profits for lunch.
187 countries signed on to a UN proposal about plastic waste and disposal. Not the United States, of course, but a lot of other countries.
An app designed to take decibel readings in restaurants and share the data of how loud they are, to encourage quieter dining spaces and give people an idea of where the quiet restaurants might be.
e-cig cartridges and containers of juice may have contaminating bacteria and fungi that aren't particulalry good to inhale, in addition to the other issues that come from nicotine inhalation.
The rise and fall of gelatin as a thing that was first fancy, then convenience, and that may be moving back in the direction of fancy again.
The creator of Pinboard talks about the need to insist and enforce the idea of privacy (in a technological and social sense) on technology corporations and startups so as to move away from the current behavioral surveillance model that drives advertising in the States and government control in other places.
Last for tonight, Sigourney Weaver appeared as an audience member for the high school play that did Alien. For those of us not lucky enough to see the production live when it was performed, there is at least video of the entire production, even if it's essentially a hand-camera shot with ishy audio.
(Don't read the comments. There's someone raining on the parade by talking about how nobody has decided to punish or sue the kids for copyright infringement because they adapted a work, used other works, and never got licensing permission or paid royalties for the thing.
If someone did do that (which isn't likely), I think this would be one of those places where "transformative work!" would have the possibility of succeeding as a partial or full defense. Plus, how much harm was done would definitely have to be proven.)
The Mechanical Turk can thank Barbara Erni's design of hiding a person in a valuable chest to steal other valuables.
Just a few of the APA code of ethics violations that Hannibal Lecter routinely engages in.
And finally, Genevieve Valentine and the difficulties of determining whether something is camp because camp is what was asked for for a red-carpet affair. With pictures, because that's the best part of a red-carpet rundown. (Also, if fashion isn't your thing, perhaps various thrift store finds that set off the WTF will be to your liking?)
Let's begin, then, with the top-line results from the Fansplaining Shipping Survey, with also data management and tools used to produce certain results. For more information and commentary, Fansplaining, episode nine-nine. Which contains a transcript as well.
snickfic suggested that Thursday be the day that a person does recommendations, in the same way that Fridays are for follows (or sometimes femslash), Wednesday is for Reading, and so forth. kore thinks the idea is a good one, and things spread from there. While there's no requirement that there be personal notes attached to the recommendations, a lot of people seem to be doing that as a way of adding an additional touch. All the same, ware the tags and the spoilers if you choose to go in on that idea. They will rarely steer you wrong. Although, at least in one notable instance I have encountered before, they will mislead you in the same way that The Good Place plays on the expectations of a television show to mislead you.Long-form serial storytelling in television not soap operas may have Chris Claremont's run on X-Men to thank, on the logic that Joss Whedon's success at Buffy/Angel has a lot to thank Chris Claremont for, and so many people being inspired by Whedon to do their own thing also have Claremont to thank. I do want to point out that describing Claremont's run on X-Men as the "soapiest" comic book run suggests that things like radio serials and soap operas had already figured out arc-based storylines and character progression over the course of those episodes. The point I think it wants to make, and that it might not have done as clearly as it wanted to, is that Claremont makes those character developments permanent, rather than finding a way to get to the reset button or otherwise bring the arc back to the place from where it started, as was common practice in comics at the time. There's still some argument to be made about whether soaps and other forms like that still had that down, but there's no denying that the X-Men run brought that idea to a much greater audience, and then from there, entities like Joss went on and popularized that form, now that home recording technology and distribution made it possible for someone to watch television the same way they were reading comics.
The suggestion that a deeper, underlying reason why many Game of Thrones fans are so pissed off about the final season is because the mode of storytelling shifted from sociological (institutions affecting people) to psychological (people affecting institutions), and by forcing us into a lane where we're supposed to care about and root for individuals, we lost the ability to see how people are making their decisions and what outside forces are guiding them. I'm not a Game of Thrones person, haven't seen an episode, but I do like the way that the authors extrapolate that people like psychological stories that hinge on individuals and their mental states, rather than being able to understand sociological stories that don't depend on individuals. We're a people, after all, and one of our biases is that we understand people stories better. (This makes it harder for us to recognize and defeat structural and institutional oppressions, unless we're in a posoition where thos oppressions are woven into our lives on a daily basis.)
Alabama, Georgia, and Missouri all just passed abortion bans with the explicit intent of trying to overturn the court precedent that has maintained that abortion is legal in the United States. Overturning that precedent would be a godsend to those people, as it would be the culmination of their obvious and out-in-the-open plan to strip agency from women and put them firmly under the control of men. Those same men that would decry practices like burqas (because it's the "wrong" religion of mostly brown people) are more than happy to try and make Handmaids instead.
There are organizations that time and money can be shuttled to for fighting these extreme positions.
In addition, an older post from Cherie Priest, offering a solution that works well enough if you have someone who will continue to respect your no - stop having sex with men who won't respect you. (Thus, the caveat - it will probably only work on people who will respect your no enough in the first place.) And unlike a radio commentator that I heard talking about how there's no reason to believe it would work, sex-strike campaigns with a focused goal are pretty effective at getting that stated goal.
The apocalypse has already arrived, and what is left to do is plan and fight for the people who will be affected the most the soonest. Despair is not an option worth pursuing.
A woman who wasn't afraid to ask questions of the religion that so often appeared to hold her in contempt, Rachel Held Evans, leaves us after only 37 years of life, but the legacy of questions, of difficult conversations, and of yelling very loudly at the white men who believe their authority comes from God and their interpretation is perfectly Biblical endures, and we hope it spreads, so that more people learn to interrogate their belief systems and test them, even if they ultimately find that they want to keep those beliefs, albeit in a form that makes sense to them.
Many things feminism has Charlotte Perkins Gilman to thank for, and a few that they're going to say "hard pass" on. I knew the name was familiar, but it finally get into my head that I'd read Herland in college (part of the utopian literature class).
Maisie Williams learned and performed her weapon choreaography for Game of Thrones left-handed to match Arya Stark's characterization in the books, which is no small feat, given that Maisie is dextrous, not sinistrous.
A man posted on Twitter that he would send a dick pic to anyone who was legally of age to see a dick and directly asked for it. The responses show off a lot about how we see nudes and the culture around them. For the most part, though, it was a polite and friendly interaction, with the picture transmitted to anyone who directly asked by a direct message. The article is a great read, and points out that straight dudes are generally the only group that doesn't trade nudes between friends on the regular.
This same person has written about the quest to see whether herbal teas that claim to give a person erections actually work (and what the side effects of them are).
On the opposite side of that coin, politicians' private conversations reveal their attitudes about their colleagues and co-workers is extremely out-of-sync with their public personas, especially when it comes to women. The defense usually offered is that they were private conversations, not expected to become public, but that defense betrays the fact that people want their elected representatives to actually have the values they profess to have in their private lives as well as their public ones. Hypocrisy is a betrayal of trust, and good government requires trust to function correctly. (Weirdly, this may have been a reason for the current administrator's popularity in the last election, as for all intents and purposes, he appeared to be exactly the person he said he was. Which says a lot about the people that elected him.)
How do you have meaningful conversations abouut body size when people don't even have a set of nonjudgemental terms to use?
When thinking about environmental consequences and banning things, recognize that there may also be ablism in the mix, even if unintentionally.
A student who refused vaccination and was subsequently banned from sport and school for being unvaccinated has contracted a disease that could have been prevented by vaccination. The religious objection is not one that the Catholic Church officially endorses (although if they're St. Pius X, they don't think much of the Bishop of Rome). We can be glad that it was "merely" chickenpox.
Mental Floss facts about Anne Lister, known as "The Gentleman Jack" and also generally out and living the lifestyle of being a lesbian. Also, Yoshiya Nobuko, a very clear influence on many a genre that includes the stories of women and girls having intensely emotional relationships with each other, some of which will (eventually) bloom into romance. But it takes a while to get there, and many of the works before then are "sisters" relationships or someone's gay gets buried. The era of the potluck as increased visibility for lesbians had yet to arrive. (And, as is noted in the article, it's mostly white lesbians getting the visibility in the early parts.)
Lots of clothing stores, styles, and designs that you can but on the Internet, because Pride is coming up soon and people should be bedecked in the things that make them happy.
Difficulties with disabilities are not solely limited to the Staets, as Australians are also dealing with barriers to their voting.
The city of Denver may have passed a measure to make psylocybin mushrooms and their use lowest priority for police enforcement. Effective decriminalization for the city, but there's always the possibility that some other entity further up the food chain decides their rules apply more and will dispatch their own resources.
What was supposed to be a box of LEGO at a secondhand store turned out to instead contain a box of methamphetamine with significant street value. Once they realized what they had likely bought, the adults turned over the drugs to their local law enforcement officers.
Typographical errors happen to the best of us, but Australia's redesigned $50 note contained three misspellings of the word "responsibility" in mircrotext. About 46 million examples of the typoed bill currently exist.
Curry, as a word, a spice blend, and an indication of empire and colonial mindsets.
Productivity hacks generally assume neurotypicality. If that's not you, it's not doom, but it does suggest that you'll need alternative strategies, many of which boil down to "acknowledge that you don't have a typical mental state and manage youself accordingly." Which is easier said than done, especially in a lot of knowledge work.
People with disabilities still want relationships and touch and intimacy, but often find that they are excluded and transformed into asexual beings by the society around them because of their disability. Twin assumptions reinforce this idea, that person with a disability is not capable of any of those acts, or that they are somehow too dangerous to engage in any of those acts with.
A house designed and then decorated in the style of the Flintstones (at least initially) has the town it is situated in suing the owner about creating a "public eye sore", rather than recognizing the character the house brings to the space. The suit is framed as non-obedience of building codes and constructing without a permit, but there's a good chance that the city itself did all that it could to not approve of any of the permits applied for, given how much they've hated the house since its construction.
As our lives change, things we thought were indispensable no longer become so. Getting rid of things, though, sometimes feels like getting rid of your previous self.
On the trickiness of idols and heroes turning out to be all too human and curbing the impulse to cancel them for that. Or going forward with it, if what turns up is something where a person should be cut out and left to history. It feels like the "canceling" sentiment expressed there is the primary driving force of the group most commonly referred to as the "antis". To want a space that is pure is admirable but mostly impossible, unless you have the powers of a deity. Which is not to say they can't try, just that the insistence on building an ideologically pure space is going to deprive someone of the tools that will help them reconcile and be able to defend and understand their favorites. Because there's a lot of stuff out there that's really good at one thing and complete fail at others, and knowing that can help you take the good and discard the bad and make meaningful commentary about what can be made better the next go-around. And, it also helps someone understand where their line is regarding what's too terrible to keep having an art or artist in their life.
The idea of accountability, not as something to be feared or avoided, but as a way of starting and continuing a conversation and doing the work of love.
Creating detailed sculpture of animals out of farm equipment scrap, Organisms that exist to defy what we think organisms should look and act like, a cat that made itself into a galaxy by rolling in some edible glitter, a review of a nature documentary that makes it clear that we now have the technology to show people the destruction they are already wreaking, snakes that can push bites through the side of their mouths, the general fluffiness and small size of baby T. rex, figuring out how to get an echidna to come out of a fruit shop, a different echidna that sought help swimming by going to a boat, one of the more interesting branches of the crab family, discarded in much earlier times, the beauty of seeing a bee up close and personal, at the level of zoom where you can pick out individual wing scales, that is, the cats that made it more difficult to film the third John Wick movie, humans engaging in successful imitations of horse movement and jumping, the story of the Kentucky Derby, as told by the horses who were there, new baby ravens in the Tower of London, and wooden eggs painted with amazing landscapes, amd illustrations of giant gentle animals and the humans that interact with them.
Scalzi reviews Endgame, finds it great in moments, but that the whole is less than the parts.
In technology. A reminder that alt-text is an important and necessary part of making the World Wide Web Accessible, with tips from someone who uses magnifiers and screen readers to navigate.
IKEA in Israel has partnered with organizations to see how accessible their products are to people with disabilities, and are showing (and have the plans available to download) various 3D-printed modifications to their furniture that make them much more accessible.
Older versions of
Adobe Creative Cloud applications are being turned off, possibly based on a dispute between Dolby and Adobe about the use of Solby technology. So, either you can afford to upgrade to the latest two versions, or you're hosed. There are downsides to having software that's cloud-based, and this is one of the big ones - subject to change, with notice, if you are lucky.
The United Kingdom spent 8 days without having power generated by coal plants, which made a lot of people very happy. About half of the power generated came from natural gas, so it's not zero carbon, but a lot of people are very happy to take coal out for its large environmental impact. On the same subject, since most of us fall short of a perfectly green lifestyle, the best thing for us to do is address the plank in our own eyes rather than trying to convince our neighbor to remove the plank from theirs. If we all embrace that we're not going to be perfect, then we can keep the conversation focused on where it needs to be - the people who are most interested in profiting off cheap and dirty methods and sandbagging, sabotaging, or otherwise discouraging rapid adopion of things that would systematifcally reduce carbon emissions and eat their profits for lunch.
187 countries signed on to a UN proposal about plastic waste and disposal. Not the United States, of course, but a lot of other countries.
An app designed to take decibel readings in restaurants and share the data of how loud they are, to encourage quieter dining spaces and give people an idea of where the quiet restaurants might be.
e-cig cartridges and containers of juice may have contaminating bacteria and fungi that aren't particulalry good to inhale, in addition to the other issues that come from nicotine inhalation.
The rise and fall of gelatin as a thing that was first fancy, then convenience, and that may be moving back in the direction of fancy again.
The creator of Pinboard talks about the need to insist and enforce the idea of privacy (in a technological and social sense) on technology corporations and startups so as to move away from the current behavioral surveillance model that drives advertising in the States and government control in other places.
Last for tonight, Sigourney Weaver appeared as an audience member for the high school play that did Alien. For those of us not lucky enough to see the production live when it was performed, there is at least video of the entire production, even if it's essentially a hand-camera shot with ishy audio.
(Don't read the comments. There's someone raining on the parade by talking about how nobody has decided to punish or sue the kids for copyright infringement because they adapted a work, used other works, and never got licensing permission or paid royalties for the thing.
If someone did do that (which isn't likely), I think this would be one of those places where "transformative work!" would have the possibility of succeeding as a partial or full defense. Plus, how much harm was done would definitely have to be proven.)
The Mechanical Turk can thank Barbara Erni's design of hiding a person in a valuable chest to steal other valuables.
Just a few of the APA code of ethics violations that Hannibal Lecter routinely engages in.
And finally, Genevieve Valentine and the difficulties of determining whether something is camp because camp is what was asked for for a red-carpet affair. With pictures, because that's the best part of a red-carpet rundown. (Also, if fashion isn't your thing, perhaps various thrift store finds that set off the WTF will be to your liking?)
