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silveradept) wrote2020-01-20 01:24 pm
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Links of the new year: January 02020 (and times previous)
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.
Congratulations to works that may find themselves with a renaissance, now that they have officially entered the public domain as of 1 January 2020.
A very long Twitter thread about the realities of elder care, and what the children can do before emergencies happen to plan for that elder care, especially for children of abusers. [CN about the difficulties and boundaries that may need to be set around elder care and the common attempts to get those children to accept responsibility for those elders instead.]
That would go against calls for reunification and communication in 2020, but boundaries and lack of contact is more than well-warranted.
Hold delivery people accountable and make sure they do the delivery that was promised, because otherwise, some of them will think it's okay to give disabled people sub-par service as well. There's also significant infantilization of disabled people, some of it unconscious, because as a society, we haven't made it past the point of thinking of disabled people as deserving of pity instead of deserving of help.
muccamukk is seeking input for building a guide on how to moderate exchanges.
There's this, a story about why someone got breast reduction, and how it helped them come to understand their own gender identity. And also this, older photographs of women, presumably lesbians, kissing and expressing a great deal of affection for each other. And this, the fact that in lots of very long distance and grueling races, on foot or in the water, women really excel at them. When they're present, anyway.
There's also this, people who do not know anything insisting they know better than children about what their identities are and what processes they can access. Which sounds destructively familiar to the ways that the issue is handled here in the States.
Still-useful advice about surviving gatherings where you're queer and there will be people there that won't acknowledge reality.
Queer films of 2020 that are likely to turn heads.
And reasons why someone might refer to themselves as queer, including a solidarity-with-disability component I was not aware of, and reasons why reclaiming queer is a worthwhile endeavour, because it specifically has connotations of not trying to hide the whole of oneself while demanding that bigotry be sent off. (We call people what they wish to be called. If they do not want that label, they do not have to have it.) Queer needs reclaiming so Anne Shirley and Diana Barry can be comfortably queer, whether that means they're an odd pair or whether they're a couple destined for each other in a society that would never let them be together in a romantic relationship.
melannen talks about important concepts of Good Omens the Book to keep in mind when comparing it to the television series.
The television adaptation did their very best not to assume any of the angels and demons as a particular gendered presentation, and didn't do anything that would have resulted in jokes about gender presentation and roles. And, by treating gender as unimportant and by showing that sometimes the rules are remarkably wrong, sometimes a person who couldn't find their place in the world ends up sticking the landing perfectly.
It's really rather nice that we've started thinking of friendship-romance-sexuality as three axes, and that everyone has their own points on the space that defines, and that sometimes, the point moves, or the intersection of people's lines is in different spaces, and that way we don't have to try and be reductionist about it and insist that all relationships have to primarily be one of the three (maybe two if you're at the right intersections of romance and sexuality.)
For those that are willing, trying to strike up conversations can have good results. Sometimes it helps to have the structure of an organization that is moving with the times so that it can appeal to younger people. That caveat about the willing applies forever, however, because trying to force the issue usualy exposes how little the person trying to force it understands. (Aptly demonstrated by that same chain's chief closing a newly opened associated pub because he heard a customer say "fuck".)
Listen to T.S. Eliot complain bitterly about his life and that some woman might have had the temerity to have her letters to him read by people while they were both alive. At which point, the entire letter is meant to distance and say how much T.S. Eliot was not in love with Emily Hale and didn't think of her as anything at all. Not that his marriage was any better.
Ballet is not a static art form, and racist portrayals in dance and costuming can and should be pushed back against.
The striking advertisements of the Queen City Ink Company, including the ink beast parade, the creation of one Augustus L Jansson. Clutches and purses that are more monster than material, needle-felted animals made of wool felt, a yearly series of photographs involving people and cats on vacation, cataloging the skin tone diversity of the world according to PANTONE classifications, a documentary on the first woman film director, the aesthetic style (and several neat examples of) art nouveau, a project of creating one hundred unique designs from the same general clay bottle, one each day, beautiful etchings (and their prints) from the artist that taught Edward Hopper about the craft, and art of animal-headed passengers on various subways.
Understanding the musical version of Cats will not assist you with the movie version. Example number one, courtseyskygiants, and example number two, courtesy rachelmanija. Apparently, not even seeing the film while in an altered state can transform it into something wothwhile. We do look forward to this movie becoming something much more Rocky Horror than serious production. (And also that any accompanying live stage show is likely to have better costuming than the actors on the screen, especially if they all have good fursuits.)
There's terrible fires going on in Australia. Canadian fire crews are assisting, United States crews are assisting. There are specifically all-Indigenous fire-fighting crews in New South Wales protecting sacred and remote spaces.
Insects that have evolved mechanical gears to assist with synchronized jumping, trying to keep burrowing owls from having their habitats destroyed by humans' continuing desire for space that works for them, chronophotographs of ospreys in flight, a time-lapse set of photographs about a volcano and its attendant storm, an octopus and a cuttlefish playing hide-and-seek with each other, parrots engaging in sharing behaviors even when currency exchange is involved, how hobbiyist-ish collectors of fruit are often providing backups for when tax-supported orchards have their expenditures zeroed out, deploying moss sheets as part of trying to keep a city's air cleaner, and using the AR features of Pokémon Go to illustrate what a veterinary practice might look like if it were taking care of pocket monsters.
In technology, a lazy (as in least effort) fix for the year 2000 bug is coming back to strike in 2020, as the issue of two-year date codesss continues to be a problem. Once that gets fixed, there's the Unix Epoch in 2038, but one wouldd hope that kernels will have patched time to be a 64-bit integer or otherwise figured out how to avoid isues when the current time container rolls over.
Items to check with your local recycling program to see if they will accept them or not.
The Olympic athletes village for the Tokyo 2020 games will feature bed frames made of sturdy cardboard, which drew some skepticism from the part of sport followers that know full well there are a lot of condoms given out (and used) in the athletes village whenever there is a Games. (Not that we blame them. Getting to see other people who are at the very height of their physical form and ability? That's got to be drool-worthy.)
The long-standing historical debate about whether soft toilet paper would ever be acceptable to use in the United Kingdom.
The use of vault lights to illuminate what is under the street without giving someone on the street something to trip over.
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.
Congratulations to works that may find themselves with a renaissance, now that they have officially entered the public domain as of 1 January 2020.
A very long Twitter thread about the realities of elder care, and what the children can do before emergencies happen to plan for that elder care, especially for children of abusers. [CN about the difficulties and boundaries that may need to be set around elder care and the common attempts to get those children to accept responsibility for those elders instead.]
That would go against calls for reunification and communication in 2020, but boundaries and lack of contact is more than well-warranted.
Hold delivery people accountable and make sure they do the delivery that was promised, because otherwise, some of them will think it's okay to give disabled people sub-par service as well. There's also significant infantilization of disabled people, some of it unconscious, because as a society, we haven't made it past the point of thinking of disabled people as deserving of pity instead of deserving of help.
muccamukk is seeking input for building a guide on how to moderate exchanges.There's this, a story about why someone got breast reduction, and how it helped them come to understand their own gender identity. And also this, older photographs of women, presumably lesbians, kissing and expressing a great deal of affection for each other. And this, the fact that in lots of very long distance and grueling races, on foot or in the water, women really excel at them. When they're present, anyway.
There's also this, people who do not know anything insisting they know better than children about what their identities are and what processes they can access. Which sounds destructively familiar to the ways that the issue is handled here in the States.
Still-useful advice about surviving gatherings where you're queer and there will be people there that won't acknowledge reality.
Queer films of 2020 that are likely to turn heads.
And reasons why someone might refer to themselves as queer, including a solidarity-with-disability component I was not aware of, and reasons why reclaiming queer is a worthwhile endeavour, because it specifically has connotations of not trying to hide the whole of oneself while demanding that bigotry be sent off. (We call people what they wish to be called. If they do not want that label, they do not have to have it.) Queer needs reclaiming so Anne Shirley and Diana Barry can be comfortably queer, whether that means they're an odd pair or whether they're a couple destined for each other in a society that would never let them be together in a romantic relationship.
melannen talks about important concepts of Good Omens the Book to keep in mind when comparing it to the television series.The television adaptation did their very best not to assume any of the angels and demons as a particular gendered presentation, and didn't do anything that would have resulted in jokes about gender presentation and roles. And, by treating gender as unimportant and by showing that sometimes the rules are remarkably wrong, sometimes a person who couldn't find their place in the world ends up sticking the landing perfectly.
It's really rather nice that we've started thinking of friendship-romance-sexuality as three axes, and that everyone has their own points on the space that defines, and that sometimes, the point moves, or the intersection of people's lines is in different spaces, and that way we don't have to try and be reductionist about it and insist that all relationships have to primarily be one of the three (maybe two if you're at the right intersections of romance and sexuality.)
For those that are willing, trying to strike up conversations can have good results. Sometimes it helps to have the structure of an organization that is moving with the times so that it can appeal to younger people. That caveat about the willing applies forever, however, because trying to force the issue usualy exposes how little the person trying to force it understands. (Aptly demonstrated by that same chain's chief closing a newly opened associated pub because he heard a customer say "fuck".)
Listen to T.S. Eliot complain bitterly about his life and that some woman might have had the temerity to have her letters to him read by people while they were both alive. At which point, the entire letter is meant to distance and say how much T.S. Eliot was not in love with Emily Hale and didn't think of her as anything at all. Not that his marriage was any better.
Ballet is not a static art form, and racist portrayals in dance and costuming can and should be pushed back against.
The striking advertisements of the Queen City Ink Company, including the ink beast parade, the creation of one Augustus L Jansson. Clutches and purses that are more monster than material, needle-felted animals made of wool felt, a yearly series of photographs involving people and cats on vacation, cataloging the skin tone diversity of the world according to PANTONE classifications, a documentary on the first woman film director, the aesthetic style (and several neat examples of) art nouveau, a project of creating one hundred unique designs from the same general clay bottle, one each day, beautiful etchings (and their prints) from the artist that taught Edward Hopper about the craft, and art of animal-headed passengers on various subways.
Understanding the musical version of Cats will not assist you with the movie version. Example number one, courtsey
skygiants, and example number two, courtesy rachelmanija. Apparently, not even seeing the film while in an altered state can transform it into something wothwhile. We do look forward to this movie becoming something much more Rocky Horror than serious production. (And also that any accompanying live stage show is likely to have better costuming than the actors on the screen, especially if they all have good fursuits.)There's terrible fires going on in Australia. Canadian fire crews are assisting, United States crews are assisting. There are specifically all-Indigenous fire-fighting crews in New South Wales protecting sacred and remote spaces.
Insects that have evolved mechanical gears to assist with synchronized jumping, trying to keep burrowing owls from having their habitats destroyed by humans' continuing desire for space that works for them, chronophotographs of ospreys in flight, a time-lapse set of photographs about a volcano and its attendant storm, an octopus and a cuttlefish playing hide-and-seek with each other, parrots engaging in sharing behaviors even when currency exchange is involved, how hobbiyist-ish collectors of fruit are often providing backups for when tax-supported orchards have their expenditures zeroed out, deploying moss sheets as part of trying to keep a city's air cleaner, and using the AR features of Pokémon Go to illustrate what a veterinary practice might look like if it were taking care of pocket monsters.
In technology, a lazy (as in least effort) fix for the year 2000 bug is coming back to strike in 2020, as the issue of two-year date codesss continues to be a problem. Once that gets fixed, there's the Unix Epoch in 2038, but one wouldd hope that kernels will have patched time to be a 64-bit integer or otherwise figured out how to avoid isues when the current time container rolls over.
Items to check with your local recycling program to see if they will accept them or not.
The Olympic athletes village for the Tokyo 2020 games will feature bed frames made of sturdy cardboard, which drew some skepticism from the part of sport followers that know full well there are a lot of condoms given out (and used) in the athletes village whenever there is a Games. (Not that we blame them. Getting to see other people who are at the very height of their physical form and ability? That's got to be drool-worthy.)
The long-standing historical debate about whether soft toilet paper would ever be acceptable to use in the United Kingdom.
The use of vault lights to illuminate what is under the street without giving someone on the street something to trip over.
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.
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I know a few young trans women whose lives were saved by those books as kids.
It seems a dreadful betrayal. :o(
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