wednesday linkspam

Over on Tumblr, pluckyredhead mentioned having people ask her about potential Jewish headcanons for Daredevil's Foggy Nelson. She doesn't personally see it, and offered a number of reasons why that I thought were interesting. I personally think that Foggy reads strongly and specifically as Irish-Catholic American, which happens to be my primary background, and I added some commentary on why he seems coded that way to me.

sholio found the best three-sentence fic prompt I have ever seen:

DBZ, Vegeta, call center.

staranise would like to know where to find good-artist vibes with people writing interesting, imperfect, diverse ladies in F/F and LGBT+ relationships, as opposed to the traditional take of "perfect cis lesbians have a perfect frictionless relationship and never do anything wrong." I hope she finds a spot, because I want to know too.

breathedout has some cool discussion about "mannish" women in post-Revolutionary New England, and how gender presentation influenced how women's female-directed affections were perceived by observers.

wanderingnork would like us to take care of mental health, especially under holiday stress. (It's not remotely unusual for mental health to take sharp downturns around the holidays.)

halfeatenmoon has some additional thoughts about queerfic vs. slashfic, bouncing off some discussions I had with wellthisisnice back in September. (Here's the DW version of my post; here's the original pillowfort version; here's wellthisisnice's original post that kicked this all off.)

Speaking of,wellthisisnice has some thoughts about what asexual falling in love looks like.

jesse_the_k has another helpful guide for ex-tumblrites.

Via Deadspin, a guide to all the things America stuck inside itself and couldn't get out without medical assistance.

beatrice_otter ranted about a sweet little porcupine video that winds up being a lot less sweet than it sounds at first glance.

H/t Metafilter, Gritty's evolution from googly-eyed hocky mascot to meme to leftist avatar, explained. Better than it sounds at first glance.

prompt me for writing in January?

I'm way more likely to be around and possessed of enough focus to write about things in January than December, so I figured I'd steal that prompt and try for a one-post-per-day thing here, too. Plus there's an extra day in January! But I almost always write better if I think someone will actually be interested, so I thought I'd start a list of topics here in case folks have suggestions. Anonymous ones are fine, if that is what floats your boat.

(I will be at an integrative biology conference between the 3rd and the 7th, so I'll try and have a bit of a backlog I can copy-paste in at odd moments so that I keep hitting targets.)

Stuff vaguely knocking around in my head at the moment includes m/f dynamics in all the Brooklyn 99 Jake/Amy I've been reading and comparing gender dynamics between fic and canon and anthropomorphization of animals as a method of understanding them: how that aligns with ability to understand humans who are Different from ourselves, to give you an idea. Stuff I've been meaning to write down for a very long time includes... let's see, whether or not you can argue that animals have gender which doesn't necessarily align with biological sex, why "homosexuality/asexuality is Nature's response to overpopulation" is nonsense, and fleshing out why I side-eye the idea that both historically and currently queer people are less likely to have had children than straight people.

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