October 2010
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Tumblr vacation, everyone!
Taking a break for the sake of my remarkably unstable mental health. If you’re the praying type and so inclined, prayers would be nice.* Good thoughts will do too.
* Still an atheist. Just a really desperate one. What?
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Jhameia has two new posts up today! Both on steampunk!
Steampunk Abstractions: On Commodification | Tor.com—which is about both the consumerist aspect of steampunk, and commodification as picking-and-choosing the past, with reclamation on one hand and cultural appropriation on the other.
And in Silver Goggles: Semantics, she muses about the uneasy relationship between postcolonialism and...
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Steampunk name generator →
nowakiren:
ohhellsfuckyes
My stream-of-consciousness upon clicking through:
This is pretty awesome.
Pick binary gender, character class, ok, ok…
*clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick* NAMES…FOREVER…
Man, I know steampunk is all about Victorian England and all that, but still, what’s with all these WASP names?
What happened to the the whole damn East End of London?
No...
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Reblog with something silly you thought as a...
ouyangdan:
frustratedbiwoman:
ensou:
tranzient:
Because I’m curious.
For example, I used to think USSR means the United States of Soviet Russia.
I used to think that only boys had penises. Literally, only boys. I figured they sort of shrivelled up and vanished over time.
I also believed pregnancy happened randomly if two married people shared a bed for long enough, but that can be...
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Me, over at FYT. →
I’m really sad, guys. The next four years are going to SUCK.
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fyeahquestions replied to your post:
Just to vote for Nee! micropoll.com/a/mpvie…
Done. I’ve voted twice today. How about that?
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“While I wouldn’t say that Amanda Marcotte is unsympathetic to the plight of...”
– A very diplomatic commenter on aforesaid Feministe thread. Me, aloud: “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I WOULD!” But I’m a bitch like that.
May wade in again considering other folks (narduar, Dorian, Chally, La Lubu and others) are busting their asses educating on food inequality and...
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“Cowering behind thick black spectacles and quavering in his extraordinarily...”
– I’m so serious. Either this dude and I are sideways-reincarnated from each other and he got to be the cool one, or we’re probably going to become BFF 4 Lyfe at some point down the road. And I don’t know which one it is! (via sadydoyle)
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Things I have done in the past 24 hours
Got some Craigslist-new furniture for my living room
Threw down in that classist food-wank Feministe thread
Caught up on a metric fuckton of TV now that I have something to sit on
Voted in municipal election
Talked to the co-op management to get my rent adjusted
Went to Walmart for cat food and a throw for loveseat
Phoned telco to get Internet package downgraded, because online you can only...
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yamino:
Exotic, Perilous and Inscrutable: A History of East Asian Portrayals in Comic Covers « The Hooded Utilitarian alliterate:
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wildunicornherd:
Via Jhameia’s Sunday linkfest, a collection of comics covers featuring Asian people from the 30’s to today. Go, marvel at how far we’ve come.
“Why are there so many more Asian...
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Ay-Leen the Peacemaker of Beyond Victoriana wins... →
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Aristocrat's anger at Versailles Murakami 'manga'... →
stachiomaniasis:
healingsakina:
thedancingflame:
A French aristocrat descended from Louis XIV is seeking a court order to stop a Japanese artist exhibiting his work at the Palace of Versailles.
Work by Takashi Murakami, who blends Japanese classical art with manga-style modernity, is on show until December.
But Prince Sixte-Henri de Bourbon-Parme believes Murakami’s brightly coloured work...
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Exotic, Perilous and Inscrutable: A History of... →
Via Jhameia’s Sunday linkfest, a collection of comics covers featuring Asian people from the 30’s to today. Go, marvel at how far we’ve come.
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jhameia | Sunday linkfest! →
This week’s truly epic linkfest includes but is by no means limited to: a handy timeline of the past week’s Moonfail posts, some of which have been linked here, most of which have not; a small collection of the commentary on whatever the fuck happened over at Apex; and several calls for submissions/job postings/contests/rec requests.
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A very happy first birthday
to the fabulous multicultural steampunk blog Beyond Victoriana!
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“Because we still live in a racist society, the only way to combat it in any...”
– Samuel R. Delany, “Racism and Science Fiction” (1998).
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coffeeandink: Portable Wiscons →
On feminism, intersectionality, and sf conventions:
For a while now, I have been meaning to write up my responses to The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol. 3: Carnival of Feminist SF (ed. Liz Henry) (2009) and Helen Merrick’s The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms (2010). For me, they are like pocket versions of Wiscon. This doesn’t mean that I agree with...
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Call for Submissions: The Monster Book for Girls →
Dear All While helping a friend clear out her parents’ effects, recently, I stumbled on a tatty old pre-war tome called “The Monster Book for Girls”. It was adorned with pictures of jolly school lasses wielding hockey sticks and was full of “thrilling adventure stories for girls”. I loved the title so much I’ve stolen it for a new Exaggerated Press anthology. First it is not a book for teenagers...
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On Professionalization and Loneliness: Apex Book... →
Jhameia blogs at Apex about professionalization and writing: that is, writing as marketing, money-making enterprise, respectable career, and the factors that push people away from writing simply for the love of it.
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Back from movie night! My favourites:
Description: A still of two young women sitting on a couch holding videogame controllers, in the middle of a conversation.
“Blue in the Face”: Pokes fun at James Cameron’s Avatar. A+, WOULD LOL AGAIN
Description: A still of a woman crouching by a body, with two more aghast-looking women behind her, out of focus.
“Jack”:...
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Off to imagineNATIVE
for their late-night short film program, The Witching Hour.
If you’re in Toronto, I strongly suggest heading over to Spadina and Bloor this weekend to catch a screening or two—it’s an awesome, chill, truly international film festival. During the festival they even have a media library on-site so you can watch any of the films whenever you feel like!
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WIP: reference list of Steampunk works with queer... →
justjasper:
Because we look for people we can identify with in the things we enjoy, I’ve started a page (from my Steampunking tumblr) that I intend to use to list Steampunk-esque works (books, movies, graphic novels) with LGBTQ themes.
I have nothing to add except that this is a lovely idea, and I actually did not have a general “queer” tag for this Tumblr because I sort of think...
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Bering in Mind: Baumeister's escape theory
Recent discussions centring around Spirit Day have revealed that many people really don’t understand the motives of suicidal people, nor the factors that contribute to suicidality. I realize that we all have different experiences, but the theory expounded in this article (and summarized below the fold) makes a lot of sense, and aligns with my own experience. Um. If you’re not feeling...
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“I’ve always wanted to diversify the DCU, but usually when I do it, James...”
– Grant Morrison, from a Comic Book Resources interview. He’s the best, you guys. (via graphicpunching)
Yay for more diversity in the DCU!
(via georgethecat)
It’s only an occasional thing for me to feel love for Grant Morrison, but there it is.
(via fyeahquestions)
I’d feel better about this...
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On that last link
(Almost posted this over there as a comment but it’s too rambly and tentative…)
Ever since I set out to keep this blog, the World SF Blog has been an invaluable resource. I think it’s extremely important to speak out against views like Moon’s, rather than assuming everyone thinks they are beyond the pale (because obviously a lot of people don’t). And certainly countering...
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A Teachable Moment « The World SF Blog →
Anyway. We really weren’t going to comment on this [Elizabeth Moon and Wiscon] beyond our initial post, but the sad reality is that that single post generated more hits on this site than anything else we’ve been posting for two years. When we posted about French author Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud recently, do you think anyone read it? When we posted on Islamic steampunk, or a new manifesto for...
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So now that I would unreservedly like to go to...
I am quite vexed that I really can’t afford it. I’m living on social assistance for the foreseeable future, and the airfare alone costs about what I receive for an entire month.
I don’t plan to bleg considering that (1) there are a gazillion more worthy causes out there, (2) including many more people far more deserving of attending Wiscon, and (3) I do not have vast hordes of...
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“I’ve always wanted to diversify the DCU, but usually when I do it, James...”
– Grant Morrison, from a Comic Book Resources interview. He’s the best, you guys. (via graphicpunching)
Yay for more diversity in the DCU!
(via georgethecat)
It’s only an occasional thing for me to feel love for Grant Morrison, but there it is. (via fyeahquestions)
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“It is now officially All About Me.”
– Nisi Shawl, on SF3’s announcement that Elizabeth Moon’s invite has been rescinded
FUCK YEAH NISI \m/ (via jhameia)
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“SF3 has withdrawn the invitation to Elizabeth Moon to attend WisCon 35 as guest...”
– SF3. Via karnythia on Twitter.
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Minecraft's still down
There goes my evening.
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imissedtumblr:
Of all of this, I’m kinda delighted that all day today the tumblr omgthatdress has been showcasing purple outfits.
I like that It’s Full of Stars has been posting images of purple nebulas and the like.
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The Ao Dai and I: A Personal Essay on Cultural... →
It’s Steampunk Fortnight at Tor.com, and Ay-leen of Beyond Victoriana has a beautiful and thoughtful essay up about the Vietnamese ao dai, family heirlooms, and steampunk.
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james_nicoll: What if instead of feudalism and... →
The standard model in F&SF for proving oneself worthy of power and status looked like this old time but very stable system?
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minecraft.net is down because of what I believe is...
notch:
I’m not sure exactly what’s going on, but minecraft.net appears to be suffering some kind of attack, and is down at the moment. I’m working on fixing it.
*cries*
