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soc_puppet) wrote2010-01-27 10:10 pm
soc_puppet) wrote2010-01-27 10:10 pm
Weather complaint and linkdropping
Dear weather website and actual weather,
Those weren't flurries. You think I don't know stellar dendrites when I see 'em? 'Cuz those were textbook stellar dendrites. And it doesn't tend to flurr stellar dendrites.
Not pleased,
Me
Also, I seem to have dropped threads on the previous post; sorry 'bout that -_-a I kinda ran out of spoons.
Which reminds me - I've a rant about my bus route and how someone in the system decided to try fixing something that wasn't broken, but I'll save that for later.
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PC (and less PC) linkity-links:
It's been about a year since RaceFail '09 reared its ugly head, and it turns out that it may not have been so awful after all. Or, well, the outcome, at least. I know I'm not happy that SFF as a whole needed (and still needs, in many cases) to learn this, and I feel bad for the people who spent so much time and energy trying to explain their own wounds, for example. But I am a better person because of it, and I like to think that many other people are as well, and I am also hopeful for the future. Because that is truly a value which speculative fiction has imbued in me ♥
Also, go check out the sample chapters for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms while you're in the area. It's coming out soon, and I was positively blown away by the first two, so.
Also also: Watch Your Mouth: Part 1, on Shakesville. Because words and their usage have come up lately. And. Yeah. I, for one, am greatly anticipating future installments.
Also also also: Via Shakesville's Question of the Day yesterday:
Steeple: Vampires really are/were popular, even with me a bit. Of course, while all the kids were reading Twilight, I was squeeing over Dracula. I still need to finish Carmilla; or, as I describe it, 19TH CENTURY LESBIAN VAMPIRES. It did predate Dracula by a quarter of a century, and it's cool to see the influence it had, even if the writing's a bit subpar.
Me: You have officially sold me on Carmilla, sub-par writing or not. I'm going to go nab it from The Gutenberg Project now.
Steeple: It's subpar in that you can tell this is a guy trying to write a young woman: she comes off as kinda soppy and melodramatic at times. Other than that, it's a fun read. Especially since you can describe it as 19TH CENTURY LESBIAN VAMPIRES.
I'm fairly certain this will ping the interests of several people on my circle/f'list ;)
Gutenberg links: Text | Audio
I listened to the first couple of chapters today, and so far I am quite charmed :Db It's not crime boss lady and her loyal lady ninja butler, but it gets points in my book for beating Dracula to the punch (or puncture, as it were).
Those weren't flurries. You think I don't know stellar dendrites when I see 'em? 'Cuz those were textbook stellar dendrites. And it doesn't tend to flurr stellar dendrites.
Not pleased,
Me
Also, I seem to have dropped threads on the previous post; sorry 'bout that -_-a I kinda ran out of spoons.
Which reminds me - I've a rant about my bus route and how someone in the system decided to try fixing something that wasn't broken, but I'll save that for later.
----
PC (and less PC) linkity-links:
It's been about a year since RaceFail '09 reared its ugly head, and it turns out that it may not have been so awful after all. Or, well, the outcome, at least. I know I'm not happy that SFF as a whole needed (and still needs, in many cases) to learn this, and I feel bad for the people who spent so much time and energy trying to explain their own wounds, for example. But I am a better person because of it, and I like to think that many other people are as well, and I am also hopeful for the future. Because that is truly a value which speculative fiction has imbued in me ♥
Also, go check out the sample chapters for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms while you're in the area. It's coming out soon, and I was positively blown away by the first two, so.
Also also: Watch Your Mouth: Part 1, on Shakesville. Because words and their usage have come up lately. And. Yeah. I, for one, am greatly anticipating future installments.
Also also also: Via Shakesville's Question of the Day yesterday:
Steeple: Vampires really are/were popular, even with me a bit. Of course, while all the kids were reading Twilight, I was squeeing over Dracula. I still need to finish Carmilla; or, as I describe it, 19TH CENTURY LESBIAN VAMPIRES. It did predate Dracula by a quarter of a century, and it's cool to see the influence it had, even if the writing's a bit subpar.
Me: You have officially sold me on Carmilla, sub-par writing or not. I'm going to go nab it from The Gutenberg Project now.
Steeple: It's subpar in that you can tell this is a guy trying to write a young woman: she comes off as kinda soppy and melodramatic at times. Other than that, it's a fun read. Especially since you can describe it as 19TH CENTURY LESBIAN VAMPIRES.
I'm fairly certain this will ping the interests of several people on my circle/f'list ;)
Gutenberg links: Text | Audio
I listened to the first couple of chapters today, and so far I am quite charmed :Db It's not crime boss lady and her loyal lady ninja butler, but it gets points in my book for beating Dracula to the punch (or puncture, as it were).