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| 09:59pm 25/05/2008 | ||||
(The below also on my IJ) It's funny -- I used to be a great reader. The dining room table would be stacked with books I had been reading and hadn't gotten around to putting away because I wasn't tired yet of picking them up and rereading my favorite scenes. I would read during meals, as a result of which multiple Redwall books and some Tamora Pierce ones were significantly stained as well as being worn out. I devoured the books without, metaphorically speaking, chewing, then went over them again and again to absorb the details I had missed in my first greedy skimming. I think the internet, combined perhaps with adolescence (does it seem to anyone else that time starts going faster sometime during puberty?) changed reading for me. I look at a book as a commitment now, more time than I am now accustomed to reading any one thing, and as I read in a way that is not conducive to putting the book down and picking it up again later, I can't break them into manageable chunks. I hardly read new books now. I feel guilty about it, but it's hard to get back into just picking them up and letting myself go when I'm so out of the habit. Today I read Frederik Pohl's Gateway. It was interesting to my eyes, now attuned to pick out diversity and lack thereof in a way they never used to be: the universe Pohl created is a future in which the major powers are the US, Russia, China, Venus (?), and Brazil. I liked that, especially since the Brazilians actually did appear in prominent roles. Then there were a bunch of gay/bi guys (and a brief mention of polygamous gay women) in it, which I wasn't expecting, and it took a pretty sex-positive view with both gay and straight relations, not just for men either, though the male main character has most of the sex in the story. It was also well-written, with a cool premise/setting I won't give the details on, so overall I liked it. Major cons were that it was a downer, that it was a bit dull at points (the formula "Bob sees woman, description of the particular ways she's attractive, then they probably have sex offstage at least once" gets old by the end,) and that one of the guys-who-liked-guys was "explained" by some Freud-based thing about his relationship with his mother -- though I think that was the official view in 1977, when the book was written, and to Pohl's credit there was no indication that being gay/bi was a problem despite the alleged cause. Overall: good book; not as cool as the computer game; I fully intend to read the sequels. This icon has nothing to do with anything; I just didn't want to wait for an excuse to use it. |
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I don't think homeschooling wank is funny. Maybe I'm taking it too personally, because whenever people start debating education choices I hear echoing through my head, with all the attached implications that my parents deprived me of something vital by giving me what I honestly believe was the perfect upbringing for me. Or the assumptions that my parents are fundies. When people are actually talking to me, they tend not to say things about the intelligence or social skills of homeschooled children, but online I expect that too. My education's a part of who I am and the culture I'm from. It was also a major undertaking of my parents, especially my mother, and I love them and don't like to see their beliefs and choices and work swept into a little generalized heap. And it's easy for public school graduates to complain about homeschoolers' attitudes, but when there are so few of us and so many of you, it gets really old and unpleasant and formulaic from our side. For me -- this is my whole life. YES, I'M WANKING. But at least I'm not doing it on F_W, right? (Speaking of which, isn't homeschooling OTF even if it's in Fanficrants? It's not exactly fannish....) |
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| 09:58pm 15/04/2008 | ||||
-Written to StumbleUpon complaining about implicit discrimination in their categorization system. -Checked up on the status of all the social networking sites I joined at some point and decided I didn't like the blinginess of. -Visited Claudia Christian's official forum about a million times, even though I know it doesn't get that much traffic, to see if anyone's responded to my suggestion that she make a time-traveling sci-fi thing in which she has a fistfight with Tracy Scoggins. (Hey, she asked for ideas.) -Hunted down many hot pictures of Celia Freijeiro. Hey, people with boobie icons: is it worth having NSFW ones? 'Cause I've only got ten icon slots, but there's a picture.... -Played dress-up. Well, that wasn't because of IJ, it's something I've been doing lately.... Stupid internet and its stupid addictive sites. |
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| 03:58pm 10/03/2008 | ||||
I think I've figured it out -- c/p'd from my IJ: Real-life Serious Bad Things that people are likely to have strong feelings about are not likely to be funny. People comparing, say, negative fic reviews to one of those Really Bad Things is usually fine -- as long as we're not told that we should agree with them. What do you think? Does it need more explication, or might people actually get it if I put it like that? |
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| 01:56pm 23/02/2008 | ||||
I find the recent lack of funny distinctly distressing. As a serious individual, I rely upon internet stupidity to provide me with rest from the difficult life a serious person lives; that Israeli politicians are filling this need instead is tragic. Please cease and desist from failing at humor immediately. On another topic, I  |
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| 03:29pm 17/02/2008 | ||||
-Roddenberry's Law of Infinite Diversity: For every one representative of an ethnic minority, there must be at least two white characters. -Lucas's Law of This Is Totally Feminist U Guyz: For every one strong female character, there must be at least two male ones. -Really Just About Anyone's Law of Gender-Race Relations: Characters of African descent are usually male, while characters of Asian descent are usually female. -Straczynski's Law of Ultimate Fail: Representation of sexual minorities shall be occasionally attempted, but somehow prevented from being made explicit by circumstances beyond the Creators' control. Yet To Be Determined: How does gender relate to place on the Kinsey scale where applicable? How about race? Should Straczynski's Law be named Kring's Law instead? Who should the third law be named for? Am I wrong? |
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| 07:42pm 04/02/2008 | ||||
(No, not posting on an ongoing wank -- shit-stirring. Geez, what kind of monster do you think I am?) Buggeration. I am not having fun right now. |
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| 12:00pm 25/01/2008 | ||||
Hence this icon. Whee. |
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| 06:23pm 22/01/2008 | ||||
*** I think I can add to the list of people who've taken me for a pre-adolescent boy "the wife of a presidential candidate." What happened was I got an email sometime Sunday saying "oh, hey, Elizabeth Kucinich'll be in your town tomorrow at this bookstore" and so my dad and I hurriedly decided to go. Walked in, there wasn't a sign anything was happening. Browsed. They had a Lloyd Alexander book I'd never seen before, but I didn't get it. Started noticing more Kucinich pins, some people with yard signs. Yes, yard signs. Door opens, flood of people. Reporter asking questions for local TV. Dad and I wandered closer, got our first real-life glimpse of her. Me being the teenager that I am, the first thing I thought was "damn, she's gorgeous." She spoke well -- seemed perfectly happy preaching to a crowd of thirty or forty people who mostly seemed to already be firm supporters, actually answered people's questions, and covered her points efficiently and intelligently. I thought it was slightly strange that the loudest applause was in response to her offhand mention of getting rid of No Child Left Behind (which is where she took me for a younger, probably-male person when she looked at me, laughed and observed, "You like that. Tired of the tests, eh?") which nobody's bothering to campaign on. Go figure. Her most important point, in my opinion, was when she stressed that we shouldn't worry about winning the primary. That's not the point, for them, she said. She said that the primary is an opinion poll measured in votes, saying where the party stands. These're all people on the same side, it's not like the presidential itself, it's not a "we gotta win or they will" thing. She said in her view, the only way to waste a vote is to vote for someone who doesn't stand for you. Said if you don't vote for what you want, you can't complain later when you don't get it. Today I had to go in and submit my passport application, and it wasn't until we'd left that they discovered that the photos I'd submitted with Just Wouldn't Do, so I had to go back in. Got photographed; forgot to take off my Kucinich For President pin, may not be allowed to return to the US once I leave it. Then I went by the video store. The owner is a very friendly, helpful kind of guy, so after browsing helplessly for a bit (so much I want to see, so little time, so little chance it'll be suited for my brothers) I asked him what shows would appeal to children who liked Star Trek and Babylon 5. I don't think children's movies are really my brothers' thing. Came home with the first DVD of Stargate SG-1 (his recommendation) and Hexed for myself. Hexed is, apparently, an erotic thriller parody, but I'm more interested in the fact that Claudia Christian is a sex-crazed serial killer in it and it's tagged "Female nudity" on IMDB. And it looks funny. And I've been wanting to post this picture of myself to every possible website recently, because I've gotten good reactions. ( Shirt not included! Seriously, no shirt! ) |
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| 04:06pm 16/01/2008 | ||||
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| things you learn when sick people who've had too much caffeine start speculating about earrings.... | ||||
| 03:17pm 23/12/2007 | ||||
We're still working out what the deal with Talia Winters is, but more or less everyone else on the show has been revealed to be a gay man during the course of the argument. Talia, I think, may be a transwoman, but where in the transition process she is and how this relates to Ivanova's gay maleness is unclear. (And you probably don't want to hear the blasphemous part of the conversation.) |
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| 01:24pm 19/12/2007 | ||||
( Which spoils the end of season two, rather ) Thoughts? Speculation? Are waffles involved? |
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| 05:03pm 16/12/2007 | ||||
![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} pornandkittens: I can't do it all! I set up the asylum, I made two posts -- either you need to start posting or commenting or the place will be useless.*grumble, grumble, final season dammit need funny!* P. S. school sucks. |
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| 07:54pm 08/12/2007 | ||||
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| 02:45pm 01/12/2007 | ||||
Seriously, go through all the Asian characters on the show. There's the mention of someone with a Korean surname, the mention of someone with an Indian surname, a few Asians with European surnames, and a lot of Japanese names. Now, Japan's a little island. And right next door to that little island is the biggest country in the world: China. And yet both Babylon 5 ans Star Trek, both of which start from the assumption that the human race is united and all working together -- Trek has had a good few African characters who are supposed to actually be from Africa -- are more likely to show Japanese characters than Chinese ones, when they show Asians at all (and the European majority is a sticky issue for American TV where, as near as I can tell, the idea of white men not outnumbering everyone else is too terrifying to contemplate.) So I want to know: anyone know any good sci-fi books, TV shows, or films where China's represented decently? Or, better still, even one book where the whole world being united in space actually means that the whole world is represented in the cast? Nah, I don't expect you to come up with anything for that. I'm just looking for true diversity and not coming up with much. |
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| 06:03pm 17/11/2007 | ||||
(Though the song "Ted Haggard Is Completely Heterosexual" is rather funny. YouTube it, you'll see.) |
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| 04:33pm 01/10/2007 | ||||
system post, not totally a surprise -- and when I logged in, I encountered a page with a bunch of links that were just URLs (no pretty text.) I also seem to have fewer icon spaces suddenly. And this is just what I've noticed.(And why have I apparently got only three icon slots, but four options show up for posting and all ten are listed for commenting? Odd, that.) |
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