The Blogaround
sarah writes: I've posted poetry in the past couple of weeks to wrap up National Poetry month: "The Symbolic Poem", "Directive", "Ascension", and "On Turning Ten". I also posted a short reflection stemming from listening to Alison Krauss's "Gravity".
This week Ana Mardoll posted:
Twilight Themes: Venn Allies Behave Badly
I want this author, and others like him, to be my ally. Really. But I can't consider them that until they stop talking about misogyny in others and start addressing it in their own selves.
Twilight Themes: Venn Allies Behave Badly
I want this author, and others like him, to be my ally. Really. But I can't consider them that until they stop talking about misogyny in others and start addressing it in their own selves.
This week Ana Mardoll posted:
Twilight: Disney: The Little Mermaid
For me, The Little Mermaid is the story of an Otherkin girl living in a world that is hostile to Otherkin. For me, The Little Mermaid is the story of a feminist girl living in a world that is hostile to feminist ideals. For me, The Little Mermaid is the story of a culture-conscious girl living in a world that mandates insularity. And now I'll walk through the film and explain why I feel these things.
Twilight: Disney: The Little Mermaid
For me, The Little Mermaid is the story of an Otherkin girl living in a world that is hostile to Otherkin. For me, The Little Mermaid is the story of a feminist girl living in a world that is hostile to feminist ideals. For me, The Little Mermaid is the story of a culture-conscious girl living in a world that mandates insularity. And now I'll walk through the film and explain why I feel these things.
This week Ana Mardoll posted:
Narnia: Susan, Problems of
The Pevensies were “good rulers” who made no plans for the future, lived each day as if they had thousands more to come, and despite coming into their kingdom through the climax of a civil war that had raged a hundred years, saw no need to live as if Narnia was anything other than a peaceful utopia.
Narnia: Susan, Problems of
The Pevensies were “good rulers” who made no plans for the future, lived each day as if they had thousands more to come, and despite coming into their kingdom through the climax of a civil war that had raged a hundred years, saw no need to live as if Narnia was anything other than a peaceful utopia.
chris the cynic writes: In the past week I returned to talking about Deus Ex with a post on Ana Navarre and the stealth section of the training mission in which she first appears.
My university held a no confidence vote against the university's president, Selma Botma. I initially responded credulously to her claim that, though the vote was against her with a 68.8% percent majority, she nonetheless won. Then I passed on a press release by people who had actually read the rules and come to a different conclusion as a result. Finally, after reading the rules myself, in my post Botman, Chess and Context, I compared the university president's interpretation to taking one of the rules of chess out of context and using it to argue that the pieces move in ways they don't actually move.
With bad administration on my mind, I wrote about an idea for a magic school that has administrative problems in addition to the evil-of-the-book that such schools tend to attract.
I carried on with taking a zombie apocalypse team thing from facebook more seriously than merited, by writing a conversation with Snarky Bella in the New York underground of Deus Ex's 2052.
My university held a no confidence vote against the university's president, Selma Botma. I initially responded credulously to her claim that, though the vote was against her with a 68.8% percent majority, she nonetheless won. Then I passed on a press release by people who had actually read the rules and come to a different conclusion as a result. Finally, after reading the rules myself, in my post Botman, Chess and Context, I compared the university president's interpretation to taking one of the rules of chess out of context and using it to argue that the pieces move in ways they don't actually move.
With bad administration on my mind, I wrote about an idea for a magic school that has administrative problems in addition to the evil-of-the-book that such schools tend to attract.
I carried on with taking a zombie apocalypse team thing from facebook more seriously than merited, by writing a conversation with Snarky Bella in the New York underground of Deus Ex's 2052.
Kit Whitfield continues her analyses of famous first sentences. This week:
Frost in May by Antonia White.
yamikuronue writes: Monday was my birthday! I also made a con report for the Steampunk Empire Symposium. I also came out with the usual TPD deconstruction: this week we're meeting the Strachens. Meanwhile, in Easily Amused land, pretty much everyone hates Lola.
Michael Mock writes: Things are still busy at Mock Ramblings, so the Ramblings are all over the place. First up, an amusing story to illustrate why time-based powers are problematic: One Way Ticket To Midnight. Then a really lovely marriage equality video: It's Time. I added a bit of parental bragging (with pictures) in My Son, The Architect on Wednesday. Thursday got the science-based filler videos: Giant Vortex Cannon and Large Hadron Collider Vs. Your Hand. I noted some disturbing Patterns In SPAM on Friday morning, and then cheered for the return of
The Darkened Heart, a blog with a rather Lovecraftian storyline.
Coleslaw writes: I've only written two blog posts this week, although I've started a few others and been too disheartened to go on (see below). Mad Libs is my cryptic and irreverent reaction to a bit of churchly wisdom that was tweeted and re-tweeted in advance of the United Methodist Church's vote on removing major anti- QUILTBAG language from the Book of Discipline. A Vignette Involving My Husband is just that, an anecdote about my husband.
Storiteller this week celebrated the fact that she crammed in a bike ride every day in April and fulfilled a promise to herself in 30 Days of Biking - Feat Completed!. She's hoping she can level up with the experience points she earned. In the context of the ongoing conversation about Hugo Schwyzer and a film festival/discussion she attended on Friday, she considers who should be qualified to represent the environmental movement in Who Speaks for the Trees?. She doesn't have any answers, but she hopes that it sparks some thoughts and welcomes any comments.
In case you missed this
Coleslaw writes: As anyone reading the Huffington Post and the New York Times already knows, The United Methodist voted down a proposal to remove the language that states that "homosexual acts" are "incompatible with Christian teaching" from the Book of Discipline. On the brighter side, they didn't vote in mandatory penalties for clergy who perform same sex marriages, as one petition would have required. Heaven only knows what "Bible-based" penalties those might have been.↩
Things you can do
Sixwing is having a charity auction to help out a couple of friends.
--Co-authored by the Slacktiverse Community
The Slacktiverse is a community blog. Content reflects the individual opinions of the contributors. We welcome disagreement in the comment threads, and invite anyone who wishes to present an alternative interpretation of a situation to write and submit a post.
Hey guys, I can haz interview! Think good thoughts!
Posted by: Lonespark | May 07, 2012 at 12:52 PM
Yay interview! *goodthoughtsgoodthoughtsgoodthoughts*
Posted by: MercuryBlue | May 07, 2012 at 01:19 PM
And I have an official admissions letter to Oregon State University! \o/ *dances*
Posted by: MercuryBlue | May 07, 2012 at 01:55 PM
Yahoo!!!!!!!!!!! congrats MercuryBlue
Posted by: Mmy | May 07, 2012 at 02:20 PM
Congratulations!
Posted by: Beroli | May 07, 2012 at 03:13 PM
Hooray for good news! :)
Posted by: sarah | May 07, 2012 at 03:29 PM
Thanks, everybody! It went well and I had a nice walk from and to the subway station...and I didn't get a parking ticket when I forced to park outside the subway lot. Yaaaay!
Posted by: Lonespark | May 07, 2012 at 04:43 PM
Congrats Lonespark and MercuryBlue!
Posted by: Froborr | May 07, 2012 at 05:12 PM
Congratulations Lonespark and MercuryBlue!
My good news is that later this week my girlfriend and I are going down to the States to see my parents! I haven't seen them (or the youngest two sibs) in three years. The other two brothers who don't live there have also been talked into coming, along with the younger brother's boyfriend, so it will be a regular ol' family reunion. I am excite, as they say. Girlfriend has never been to that part of the States (northeast TN) and I'm really looking forward to seeing the family & showing her around. :)
Posted by: Nenya | May 07, 2012 at 07:44 PM
Oh, and congrats Lonespark
Posted by: Mmy | May 07, 2012 at 07:52 PM
*high fives Lonespark and MercuryBlue*
Posted by: cjmr, who will probably figure out her typepad logon eventually | May 07, 2012 at 08:14 PM
{{{Lonespark}}}
{{{MercuryBlue}}}
Congratulations and Ka'plah!
Posted by: Raj | May 07, 2012 at 08:16 PM
*bounce* Thanks!
Now I just gotta figure out what the hell I'm taking over the summer. Half my wanna-takes and both options for let's-just-get-this-done-with (biological science: so not my thing) are full because registration's been open for weeks, but that still leaves Communication and Culture in Cyberspace, and Intro to Computer Science, and Deductive Logic, and State and Local Government and Politics, and Women: Self and Society, and Women: Personal and Social Change. Most of which fill core requirements. (Deductive Logic doesn't, but it's Deductive Logic, and SLGP doesn't, but I work for the state.) And I can afford to take a total of three courses, and one does have to be Intermediate Macroecon. And anything I don't take over the summer, who knows when I'll have the chance again, because the only reason I can afford more than one summer course is I'm using the 2011-2012 educational assistance money for the summer, and I want to spread out the 2012-2013 money, which means one course per term and the fall course has to be Intermediate Microecon.
I wonder how long it'll be before I find out who my advisor is.
Posted by: MercuryBlue | May 08, 2012 at 02:30 AM
Hey MB, are they online courses, or are you moving to Oregon? I thought you lived on the East Coast (but my memory's sometimes crappy).
Posted by: sarah | May 08, 2012 at 09:24 AM
Online courses, yes. Only way I'm getting an economics degree without spending every class day driving two hours north and two hours back.
Posted by: MercuryBlue | May 08, 2012 at 10:54 AM
(TW: Abortion, Obscene disregard for human life)
Grumble. In Kansas, doctor's religious beliefs are protected, while women's beliefs that they should not die are not. It's legal for a doctor to refuse to treat a woman for cancer if they reasonably believe that the chemo could cause a miscarriage.
So, like "I'm sorry, you have cancer. ANd SURPRISE! I refuse ot treat it. And I won't give you a referral. Enjoy your slow death."
Fuckers.
Posted by: Ross | May 09, 2012 at 07:52 AM
wtfff doesn't it occur to them that if mama dies of cancer baby's not gonna be doing so hot?
Posted by: MercuryBlue | May 09, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Presumably, it's that authoritarian thing again. It's more important to "send the message that fetuses are people" than to *actually keep the fetus from dying*.
Posted by: Ross | May 09, 2012 at 12:35 PM
*headdesk*
Well that's a giant step backwards from "We can't treat your cancer unless you have an abortion first."
Posted by: cjmr, who will probably figure out her typepad logon eventually | May 09, 2012 at 01:14 PM