The Blogaround
This week chris the cynic posted:
.hack//Sign: Rumors, Truth, and Digital Ducks
Episode 4 begins with Mimiru encountering the beginnings of the rumor mill soon to surround Tsukasa, and me quoting a couple of movies. Then Subaru meets Bear and we see her reaction to learning some of the facts of Tsukasa's case and Bear continue in his belief that the investigation needs to be taken offline and into the real world.
.hack//Sign: Rumors, Truth, and Digital Ducks
Episode 4 begins with Mimiru encountering the beginnings of the rumor mill soon to surround Tsukasa, and me quoting a couple of movies. Then Subaru meets Bear and we see her reaction to learning some of the facts of Tsukasa's case and Bear continue in his belief that the investigation needs to be taken offline and into the real world.
Nick Kiddle reports: I wrote a Storify post about an argument I had on twitter and some matters arising. (Content Note: contains swears, victim-blaming, vague descriptions of emotional abuse, house fire, the frightening side of love)
Storiteller finished off her travel narrative with the excitement of seeing the "city in the clouds" of Machu Picchu in The Peru Chronicles: Day 14. At the end, she asks, "What’s the best vacation you’ve ever been on? The biggest adventure you’ve ever had outdoors?" In the Unexpected Consequences of Travel: Gardening Edition, she deals with the effects of her trip on her vegetable patch.
This week Ana Mardoll posted:
Twilight: Nothing Further To Ask
(Content Note: Abusive Relationships, Ableist Language)
It strikes me as interesting that these sessions are not conversations in the classical give-and-take sense, with both persons contributing and each learning about the other. Instead, they're almost one-sided info-dumps; Bella provides insight into her mind, while Edward shares bits and pieces of what it's like to be a vampire.
Twilight: Nothing Further To Ask
(Content Note: Abusive Relationships, Ableist Language)
It strikes me as interesting that these sessions are not conversations in the classical give-and-take sense, with both persons contributing and each learning about the other. Instead, they're almost one-sided info-dumps; Bella provides insight into her mind, while Edward shares bits and pieces of what it's like to be a vampire.
This week Ana Mardoll posted:
Deconstruction: Being Dana Scully
(Content Note: Conservative Christian Upbringing, Rape, Sexual Violence, Death, Hate Crimes, Child Molestation, Swearing)
When you're Dana Scully, you have moments when you can keep things together and moments when you can't. You don't get a vacation from being a survivor. You don't get forewarning before you're triggered or even just before you remember something about your experience in a moment when you don't want to remember something about that experience.
Deconstruction: Being Dana Scully
(Content Note: Conservative Christian Upbringing, Rape, Sexual Violence, Death, Hate Crimes, Child Molestation, Swearing)
When you're Dana Scully, you have moments when you can keep things together and moments when you can't. You don't get a vacation from being a survivor. You don't get forewarning before you're triggered or even just before you remember something about your experience in a moment when you don't want to remember something about that experience.
This week Ana Mardoll posted:
Narnia: Wild Gods
(Content Note: Physical Abuse, Religious Abuse, Hazing, Swearing, Gender Policing)
Trumpkin is an atheist or an aLionist or whatever you wish to call him -- him, not it -- because he's never seen one. It's as simple as that. Not because he's evil or because he knows he's wrong and doesn't care or any ridiculousness like that. No, he simply doesn't believe in that which he doesn't see. As philosophies go, it's a cautious one, but not -- in my opinion -- a bad or unreasonable position.
Narnia: Wild Gods
(Content Note: Physical Abuse, Religious Abuse, Hazing, Swearing, Gender Policing)
Trumpkin is an atheist or an aLionist or whatever you wish to call him -- him, not it -- because he's never seen one. It's as simple as that. Not because he's evil or because he knows he's wrong and doesn't care or any ridiculousness like that. No, he simply doesn't believe in that which he doesn't see. As philosophies go, it's a cautious one, but not -- in my opinion -- a bad or unreasonable position.
Coleslaw sent the following report in advance of Tropical Storm/Hurricane Isaac arriving: We are probably going to lose electricity sometime tomorrow, so I decided to go ahead and send the links to the two posts I've written this week while I still can. They are both about the approaching storm: A Storm Is Brewing and Hurry Up and Wait. I also edited Let Them Eat Cake to include Anett's yoghurt cake recipe.
Michael Mock writes: Over at Mock Ramblings, we started the week with The First Day of First Grade, which was naturally followed by the Second Day of First Grade. In between, I noted that communication involves more than language. There was a purgatorial time when I found myself On Hold, after which I made some Recommendations for Lovecraft fans.
chris the cynic reports: This week I wrote a metapost getting into some of the reasons I've not gotten a lot of posting done and some of the things I'd like to post in the future, I tried to help spammers by explaining a typographical mistake they'd been making, and I wrote a post about how the answer to, 'When did it start?" being, "It's more complicated than that," is a recurring theme in Deus Ex.
Last week Ana Mardoll posted:
Deconstruction: Legitimate Rapes
(Content Note: Rape, Personal Descriptions of Rape)
This week I am not writing about Twilight. Not because I don't want to write about Twilight, but because there is something more important that I need to address in this moment.
Deconstruction: Legitimate Rapes
(Content Note: Rape, Personal Descriptions of Rape)
This week I am not writing about Twilight. Not because I don't want to write about Twilight, but because there is something more important that I need to address in this moment.
Last week Ana Mardoll posted:
Deconstruction: The Many Faces of Appropriation
(Content Note: Liking Problematic Art, Cultural Appropriation, Discussion of Geekdom and Pagan/Wiccan Communities, Religious Discrimination Against Men and Trans People)
One issue I'm running into again and again is that labeling something individually as "cultural appropriation" (or not) is not nearly as simple or easy as we would perhaps like it to be. And I'm starting to wonder if, outside the really egregious examples, some cultural appropriation ends up being "in the eye of the beholder" in the same way that Problematic Art sometimes is.
Deconstruction: The Many Faces of Appropriation
(Content Note: Liking Problematic Art, Cultural Appropriation, Discussion of Geekdom and Pagan/Wiccan Communities, Religious Discrimination Against Men and Trans People)
One issue I'm running into again and again is that labeling something individually as "cultural appropriation" (or not) is not nearly as simple or easy as we would perhaps like it to be. And I'm starting to wonder if, outside the really egregious examples, some cultural appropriation ends up being "in the eye of the beholder" in the same way that Problematic Art sometimes is.
Last week Ana Mardoll posted:
Deconstruction: Depression Diaries and It's Okay To Be Sad
(Content Note: Depression)
One of the things I've noticed in my fight with medication-induced depression is how Knowing I'm Depressed isn't some kind of magic bullet for treatment. And in fact sometimes it makes it harder.
Deconstruction: Depression Diaries and It's Okay To Be Sad
(Content Note: Depression)
One of the things I've noticed in my fight with medication-induced depression is how Knowing I'm Depressed isn't some kind of magic bullet for treatment. And in fact sometimes it makes it harder.
In case you missed this
The Scroll reports that Shulamith Firestone has died. The first chapter of Firestone's most influential work The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution is available online as part of the Shulamith Firestone archive in the Women and Marxism library on the Marxist Internet Archive.
Things you can do
An urgent petition
In the ongoing story out of Pakistan of Rimsha Masih, a minor with mental disabilities who is often not in control of her actions, but has been charged with desecrating the Koran--the final determination of her case has been delayed until Monday at the earliest. She remains in a maximum security prison while the case is "further investigated." Her family has already been threatened with violence and murder by mobs, and is trying desperately to raise a global outcry to protect her and other vulnerable minorities in Pakistan. Please sign this petition and pass it on.
Sign the petition:
In the ongoing story out of Pakistan of Rimsha Masih, a minor with mental disabilities who is often not in control of her actions, but has been charged with desecrating the Koran--the final determination of her case has been delayed until Monday at the earliest. She remains in a maximum security prison while the case is "further investigated." Her family has already been threatened with violence and murder by mobs, and is trying desperately to raise a global outcry to protect her and other vulnerable minorities in Pakistan. Please sign this petition and pass it on.
Sign the petition:
To President Asif Ali Zardari:
We ask you to ensure the safety and freedom of Rimsha, a mentally disabled girl jailed in Islamabad who has been accused of blasphemy, which can carry the death penalty. Please use your power to save this young girl and take immediate action to protect minorities in Pakistan.
We ask you to ensure the safety and freedom of Rimsha, a mentally disabled girl jailed in Islamabad who has been accused of blasphemy, which can carry the death penalty. Please use your power to save this young girl and take immediate action to protect minorities in Pakistan.
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Can I ask for a link here? I wrote a Storify post about an argument I had on twitter and some matters arising. http://storify.com/ksej/the-polyamory-hashtag-is-apparently-an-arsehole-ma (contains swears, victim-blaming, vague descriptions of emotional abuse, house fire, the frightening side of love)
Posted by: Nick Kiddle | Sep 02, 2012 at 01:38 PM
I didn't get the chance to write what I had hoped to yesterday and send in my entry, so TBAT, can you please add this to the roundup?
Storiteller finished off her travel narrative with the excitement of seeing the "city in the clouds" of Machu Picchu in The Peru Chronicles: Day 14. At the end, she asks, "What’s the best vacation you’ve ever been on? The biggest adventure you’ve ever had outdoors?" In the Unexpected Consequences of Travel: Gardening Edition, she deals with the effects of her trip on her vegetable patch.
Posted by: storiteller | Sep 02, 2012 at 03:39 PM
I'll try to remember to submit this for next week's "In case you missed this", but in the meantime I'll put it here.
Dublin City Council has voted in favour of marriage equality (purely a symbolic gesture, I think, but still good to see).
TRiG.
Posted by: Timothy (TRiG) | Sep 03, 2012 at 07:03 PM