September 2011
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Aliette de Bodard » On the prevalence of US tropes... →
In short, I’m tired of being invaded by US culture. I’m tired of US tropes being cited as the norm (even when it’s obvious that the rest of the world doesn’t follow such tropes), of bookshelves featuring translations from US writers and movies following standard Hollywood fare–of the one-way street which means the US sets the tune for the rest of the world, and that anything that looks remotely...
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jmarie3:
I need your help vruz:
sez nailtipflips:
Tumblr has amazed me with the amount of love and support we show for each other. So many of you chipped in to help get Mari a new wheelchair, and to help Friday’s mom with some financial troubles. I’m hoping that we can do it one more time for Rosa Sparks.
Irene blew through her neighborhood and left them with a mess of shit to deal...
August 2011
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#signal boost?
OK, so I’ve been wondering if there’s a centralized place for these requests for donations, like a comm on LJ or DW, and if there’s call for one on Tumblr? People could submit stuff or just tag posts with something unique.
There’s also a lot of fantastically talented people and I wonder if a dedicated blog plus online store or whatever could help connect people willing to...
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#good causes are never off topic
kiriamaya could use some help so she doesn’t have to choose between food, meds, and rent;
rosasparks’ neighbourhood got hit by Hurricane Irene, they don’t have power yet and she’s low on food. Chip in if you can!
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A couple things I noticed
One of the stories is Hagiwara Sakutoro’s “The Town of Cats,” 1935. I can’t help but wonder if there’s any connection to the story of the same name mentioned in the excerpt from Haruki Murakami’s upcoming book. In the excerpt it’s a German story, but… (Murakami’s story “The Ice Man” is also in the anthology.)
I remember Bruno...
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SF Signal » TOC: 'The Weird: A Compendium of Dark... →
Over one hundred years of weird fiction collected in a single volume of 750,000 words. Over 20 nationalities are represented and seven new translations were commissioned for the book, most notably definitive translations of Julio Cortazar’s “Axolotl” and Michel Bernanos’ short novel “The Other Side of the Mountain” (the first translations of these classics in...
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Epiphany 2.0 » A brief public service message →
[…] I’m getting a little tired of so many people in the SFF genre treating me as N. K. Jemisin, Professional Black Woman.
At most conventions I go to, I get asked to be on the “race panels” (I stopped saying yes last year, except at cons like Wiscon where there’s a reasonable chance that the moderator and audience will not be clueless). In almost every interview, I get asked how I feel about...
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“Can we just accept that fact that being poor, and being on public assistance,...”
– You can just… — Feministe (via lemdi)
It’s kind of sad that wanting people, regardless of their financial situation, to be able to enjoy life in some small way opens yourself up to being called a communist. Not that it is really an insult, it’s just sad that being decent is such an anomaly.
(via...
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Tumblr Blackout Day starts 12AM Saturday/Sep 3...
ihavechortles:
yourfandomsucks:
If you are planning on participating, make sure your last tumblr post the night beforehand is “BRB Blackout”, so people know why you are gone. Also, please reblog this post so that as many people as possible know when the blackout starts.
Whatever your respective time zones are is when to start. there is no specification.
What is the blackout?:
A day. A...
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kynodontas replied to your post: I blame you, Tumblr. would you like me to DELIVER YOU or perhaps show you how it looks THROUGH HEAVEN’S EYES
Sure, IF YOUUUUUU BELIEEEEEEEEEEEEVE
P. S. Regular, on-topic programming will resume tomorrow. When...
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I blame you, Tumblr.
I’m listening to the Prince of Egypt soundtrack on Youtube now with a HUGE GRIN on my face because I still totally know ALL THE WORDS.
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In future, if I ever "call you out"
…just shoot me.
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thinksquad:
1492 goes down as the year that the entire planet was hoodwinked by the Roman Catholic Church. During Alexander VI’s term the Christians were fighting the Holy Crusades against the so called infidels. The enemy that the church was fighting was the northward movement of Islam as far up into Europe as Germany. These Middle Eastern Islamics took control of Constantinople in Turkey and...
divergingkatake asked: Sorry, that moses/prince of egypt thing was me! i got caught up in memories of catholicism/christianity because of where and when I saw it, and I totally wasn't thinking. you're absolutely right and i took it out.
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The Lambda Literary Awards: now less inclusive!
In the wake of the controversial decision to limit Lambda nominations [which, re: topicality, include speculative fiction] to LGBT authors only, the Lambda Literary Foundation has attempted to remedy its policy:
LGBT authors will be recognized with three awards marking stages of a writer’s career: the Betty Berzon Debut Fiction Award (to one gay man and one lesbian), the Jim Duggins Outstanding...
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“Fandom is focus. Fandom is obsession. Fandom is insatiable consumption. Fandom...”
– This… is the truest thing I’ve read in a long, long time, and every single one of you can relate. (via animegoil)
source [x]
(via popkin16)
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Our Man Bashir
makeitworkstartrek:
Let’s make a quick list of people we know for sure find Julian Bashir attractive.
Melora Pazlar
Leeta
Sarina Douglas
Ezri Dax
Kira Nerys (S3 E10)
Me
Now, when you put Dr. Bashir in a suave, crisp black, form-fitting (but not tight) tuxedo, like so:
I believe that list grows exponentially.
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i am a mess right now
readnfight:
popca:
got wine and hair dye stains on my shirt, being tipsy, got honey on my face because i broke out, wearing an ugly ass cap so this sticky shit don’t fuck up my hair, called my friend a H8R and a shade thrower for not thinking the song otis is a MASTERPIECE (lemme not front i don’t think it’s a masterpiece i was just throwing bait),
and i was in the bathroom peeing
thinking...
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kynodontas asked: I heard that Bootie mashup of LMFAO and Blur on the radio just now! Was really surprised to hear a mashup let alone one I knew but apparently, that radio station which normally plays primarily pop songs by Latino artists, does a "mixing" hour twice a week so they have an actual DJ who comes and spins stuff. Long way of saying I came across something that made me think of you. *g*
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…did I just see a photo of an actress tagged “mulatto”?
Really?
And I thought “halfling” was bad…
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allies-person:
kavitiya:
combat-wombat:
I don’t think that someone can identify as a Person of Color simply for being Jewish. There are a fair number of Jews who are People of Color, but there are also a lot of Jews who are white. I am a white Jew – my great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from eastern Europe and I have white-skin privilege.
I believe that historically,...
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"Ooh, heaven is a place on earth": Looking back on...
Much belated post for leonineantiheroine, crossposted from my other blog. Apologies in advance for the rambling. For years I’ve tried to sum up why His Dark Materials was so influential on me and this is really just the first real try at it.
“…I set out in a lordly manner to offer you heaven and earth. I find that all I have to give you is Oxford—which was yours already. Look! Go...
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Fuck Yeah Warrior Women →
womenfighters:
A shout-out to another tumblr, check it out.
Slowly but surely Tumblr is meeting all my nutritional needs.
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quatremilliards:
redlanterns:
两个化学家进了一家餐厅，服务员问喝什么，一个说：H2O。另外一个说：H2O，too。后来第二个死掉了。。。
Two chemists walk into a restaurant. The waiter asks what they’d like to drink, one says: H2O. The other says: H2O, too. Later, the other one died…
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I love chem jokes! My personal favourite is still the “Ferrous Wheel”. SMBC’s latest is also pretty great. Anybody have more?
Q. What do they do with dead...
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anygoddamnedcolleen replied to your post: Soooo, how does knowing this historical background… I haven’t read Cryptonomicon, but I’m eternally sideeyeing Stephenson for The Diamond Age, which is about white people who live in China educating the blank...
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quixotess replied to your post: Soooo, how does knowing this historical background… man fuck cryptonomicon no seriously
I think it nevertheless serves a purpose as a distillation of white male geek culture in its purest form. It’s an...
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Soooo, how does knowing this historical background affect our perception of (say) geek classic Cryptonomicon (see its quotes page for a good idea of what it’s like), which portrays American G. I.s and dot-com entrepreneurs’ escapades in the Philippines while blithely skipping over why the US and Philippines have such close relations to begin with?
Maybe Neal Stephenson just...
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Watchspockandhiskillerbriefcase:
And this is why Julian will always go back to Garak. Miles may be pretty and folksy but Garak will actually challenge and stimulate him (intellectually and in other means).
I can’t even watch this because it pains me so much to think of Julian Bashir not being with Miles. Like, I love Garak/Bashir but that doesn’t mean there can’t be...
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Muslim converts, Brazil, and clones
Via Religion Dispatches, a story on the recent growth of Islam in Brazil notes that “it was a ‘telenovela’ or soap opera launched just three weeks after the 2001 attacks, ‘The Clone,’ that sparked some Brazilians’ infatuation with Islam”. If it sounds like a sci-fi thing, that’s because it is:
In Rio, Diogo has an accident with his helicopter and dies....
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zaiatzgeist reblogged your photo: theoryfatigue: prettybooks: Personal Library… I want this. Why can’t I have it? WHY NOT MEEEE?
Because there is no God.
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f-f-t-t started following you
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zuky:
“Tlön is surely a labyrinth, but it is a labyrinth devised by men, a labyrinth destined to be deciphered by men.” — Jorge Luis Borges, “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”. Dude was big on labyrinths. (via wildunicornherd)
Labyrinths of the mind, fractal labyrinths of recursive perception — that’s his gig, and it’s a good one.
Tough times, these.
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“In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel”
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Tiptree Award nomination time!
Via Facebook:
Read something gender-bending lately? The 2011 jury is reading for the next Tiptree Award: This year’s jurors are: Lynne Thomas (chair), Karen Meisner, James Nicoll, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Nisi Shawl. Please nominate anything you read that you think is an interesting exploration and expansion of gender by sending an email to nominate@tiptree.org.
