Goodness! It has been a week. I've been wrung out first by the writing retreat of the weekend and secondly by the head cold I got last week, so things might be a little thin on the ground this week. Or I might be exaggerating! Who knows!
In any case, I am declaring Link Amnesty for myself and bringing you all manner of things I meant to talk about and then didn't, so I can absolve myself of tabs. Yes.
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liv is concerned about being boring and finding writing intimidating. Relatedly, hellofriendsiminthedark expressed some worry and exhaustion about transitioning to DW as a previous lurker and quiet Tumblr user. I found these two posts really interesting to contrast against one another because both people (who I am very pleased to be following) come from really different backgrounds and familiarity levels with DW, and both of them are expressing the same kinds of "gotta-be-interesting-and-articulate-enough-here" stress that I experience, too.
Relatedly for those folks who haven't seen, this is theoretically Shitposting February! (Followup frommelannen.) Relatedly, kore has an example of the kind of riffing she thinks of as shitposting, involving arguments about Classical Greek flamewars about whether or not Achilles or Patroclus topped or bottomed. (I find the idea of seme!Patroclus to be rib-tickling hilarious, but that might just be my own weird-ass sense of humor.) If you'd rather, ruuger is doing Shipposting February instead, and corvidology is doing Stuff I Love February instead.
glorious_spoon had a really engaging discussion about romance in fic and what does and doesn't work for her (particularly in the realm of romantic gestures) which I was really dying to participate in but couldn't find the bandwidth to chime in on. It was total catnip for me, though. Maybe I will come back and comment later this week.
beehammer has entirely the correct reaction to palmetto bugs, which is a polite way of referring to giant flying cockroaches if you're not familiar. This is what we in the South refer to as a polite euphemism, by which we ofen mean "pleasant lie."
If you, too, are an evolution/ecology/behavior/integrative biology sort of nerd,felinejumper has a history of evo-devo as viewed through the lens of E. O. Wilson's career that I'm looking forward to reading. (One weird thing that recently happened to me was editing a lovely and interesting-looking history of female choice ebook so the format was nicer than the PDF I got it as, scrolling down through it, and being hit in the face with the author's description of the early contributions to the field of two of my committee members at the end.)
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tweetingmouse as I was writing up the introduction of my current manuscript, so I'm particularly appreciative of felinejumper doing the same thing--makes me feel less self-conscious!
access_fandom has a really neat article on disabled people being better adapted for space in some respects. There's good discussion in the comments, and I found out about mcu_cosmic which I immediately went and joined--all for fans of the portions of the MCU currently IN SPACE. Guardians friends--sholio and lazaefair, you both came to mind--this looks cool!
cesperanza posted an argument that patreons and ko-fis are like MLMs (you know, like that lady in your knitting group who will not quit trying to sell you essential oils). fairestcat disagreed quite strongly. On balance, I do believe I'm with fairestcat on this one.
cimorene posted a really neat discussion about the role of fan favorites in creating nigh-bulletproof ships, using Rivers of London fandom as a centrepiece. This is another one I need to comment on, and I'm using compiling my linkspam as an incentive to go out and talk to people when I next have a moment. (Incidentally, if you also enjoy Rivers of London, the_folly exists and would love some chatty attention.)
stellahibernis has some good opinions about Steve Rogers. I keep meaning to go and comment again and bounce off of how I vaguely feel like the trend they're talking about is related to the infantilization of tiny!Steve and the idea that out-of-place!old!Steve must therefore be less capable than more modern characters? but I keep forgetting. THERE ARE SO MANY CONVERSATIONS.
breathedout has been doing a rundown of the transition to criminalizing sodomy and homosexuality in colonial India. I liked this post discussing the deeply strange insecurities that colonial Englishmen had about what the Indian people they were occupying might think of them; the invasions, oh, that was fine, but sodomy was shameful.
lovepeaceohana linked a couple of stories from poly blogging contrasting two, ah, not-so-great poly experiences. I meant to link this last week and then forgot, but the discussion is interesting!
staranise has a long piece on emotions and learning how to handle them if you haven't had good role models that I also meant to link two weeks ago. And then followed it up with a really, really good take on Buttercup from the Princess Bride. They are both good things to read.
notasupervillain has been doing peer reviews on the work of mad scientists.
kaberett has some thoughts on the habit of explicitly thanking people for saying no to them. I try to do something similar--I almost always will go "oh, no, how dare you ask me to do $X!" and grin or laugh at someone who sets a boundary with me, in an effort to encourage that kind of thing and set them at ease--and I'm pleased to see someone else talking about that kind of explicitly honoring clear boundaries and praising people for having them.
Not on DW:
Do you have advantage blindness? Probably not, if you're reading this, but it's probably a helpful link to have in mind as ammunition.
My old friend Siggy has written a postmortem of the New Atheism movement.
In any case, I am declaring Link Amnesty for myself and bringing you all manner of things I meant to talk about and then didn't, so I can absolve myself of tabs. Yes.
liv is concerned about being boring and finding writing intimidating. Relatedly, hellofriendsiminthedark expressed some worry and exhaustion about transitioning to DW as a previous lurker and quiet Tumblr user. I found these two posts really interesting to contrast against one another because both people (who I am very pleased to be following) come from really different backgrounds and familiarity levels with DW, and both of them are expressing the same kinds of "gotta-be-interesting-and-articulate-enough-here" stress that I experience, too. Relatedly for those folks who haven't seen, this is theoretically Shitposting February! (Followup from
melannen.) Relatedly, kore has an example of the kind of riffing she thinks of as shitposting, involving arguments about Classical Greek flamewars about whether or not Achilles or Patroclus topped or bottomed. (I find the idea of seme!Patroclus to be rib-tickling hilarious, but that might just be my own weird-ass sense of humor.) If you'd rather, ruuger is doing Shipposting February instead, and corvidology is doing Stuff I Love February instead.glorious_spoon had a really engaging discussion about romance in fic and what does and doesn't work for her (particularly in the realm of romantic gestures) which I was really dying to participate in but couldn't find the bandwidth to chime in on. It was total catnip for me, though. Maybe I will come back and comment later this week. beehammer has entirely the correct reaction to palmetto bugs, which is a polite way of referring to giant flying cockroaches if you're not familiar. This is what we in the South refer to as a polite euphemism, by which we ofen mean "pleasant lie."If you, too, are an evolution/ecology/behavior/integrative biology sort of nerd,
felinejumper has a history of evo-devo as viewed through the lens of E. O. Wilson's career that I'm looking forward to reading. (One weird thing that recently happened to me was editing a lovely and interesting-looking history of female choice ebook so the format was nicer than the PDF I got it as, scrolling down through it, and being hit in the face with the author's description of the early contributions to the field of two of my committee members at the end.)I did something similar over at
tweetingmouse as I was writing up the introduction of my current manuscript, so I'm particularly appreciative of felinejumper doing the same thing--makes me feel less self-conscious! access_fandom has a really neat article on disabled people being better adapted for space in some respects. There's good discussion in the comments, and I found out about mcu_cosmic which I immediately went and joined--all for fans of the portions of the MCU currently IN SPACE. Guardians friends--sholio and lazaefair, you both came to mind--this looks cool! cesperanza posted an argument that patreons and ko-fis are like MLMs (you know, like that lady in your knitting group who will not quit trying to sell you essential oils). fairestcat disagreed quite strongly. On balance, I do believe I'm with fairestcat on this one. cimorene posted a really neat discussion about the role of fan favorites in creating nigh-bulletproof ships, using Rivers of London fandom as a centrepiece. This is another one I need to comment on, and I'm using compiling my linkspam as an incentive to go out and talk to people when I next have a moment. (Incidentally, if you also enjoy Rivers of London, the_folly exists and would love some chatty attention.)stellahibernis has some good opinions about Steve Rogers. I keep meaning to go and comment again and bounce off of how I vaguely feel like the trend they're talking about is related to the infantilization of tiny!Steve and the idea that out-of-place!old!Steve must therefore be less capable than more modern characters? but I keep forgetting. THERE ARE SO MANY CONVERSATIONS.breathedout has been doing a rundown of the transition to criminalizing sodomy and homosexuality in colonial India. I liked this post discussing the deeply strange insecurities that colonial Englishmen had about what the Indian people they were occupying might think of them; the invasions, oh, that was fine, but sodomy was shameful. lovepeaceohana linked a couple of stories from poly blogging contrasting two, ah, not-so-great poly experiences. I meant to link this last week and then forgot, but the discussion is interesting! staranise has a long piece on emotions and learning how to handle them if you haven't had good role models that I also meant to link two weeks ago. And then followed it up with a really, really good take on Buttercup from the Princess Bride. They are both good things to read. notasupervillain has been doing peer reviews on the work of mad scientists. kaberett has some thoughts on the habit of explicitly thanking people for saying no to them. I try to do something similar--I almost always will go "oh, no, how dare you ask me to do $X!" and grin or laugh at someone who sets a boundary with me, in an effort to encourage that kind of thing and set them at ease--and I'm pleased to see someone else talking about that kind of explicitly honoring clear boundaries and praising people for having them. Not on DW:
Do you have advantage blindness? Probably not, if you're reading this, but it's probably a helpful link to have in mind as ammunition.
My old friend Siggy has written a postmortem of the New Atheism movement.
