kaberett: A cartoon of wall art, featuring a banner reading "NO GLORY SAVE HONOR". (no glory save honour)
(or, Three Entities On The Bummel)

(Spoilers for all of Season 5 so far. This is a more detailed write-up of my realisation the other night, for cross-posting to tumblr and maybe even the AO3.)

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1. I have taken to posting my todo/tada lists as do-not-display-on-Reading-page, e.g. today's, largely out of fear of being tedious/clutter/etc. However every time I link to one comments end up being made on it, ergo:
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 30

Keep hiding t*d* lists from subscribers?

Yes
1 (3.3%)

No
26 (86.7%)

Something else, which I will explain in comments
3 (10.0%)



2. [tumblr.com profile] kaberabbits >:(

3. Spotted in the Evening Standard -- an article by a white dude about SW:TFA that kind of made me want to take him out to dinner when combined with the rest of his articles in that spread.
kaberett: Photo of a cassowary with head tilted to one side (cassowary)
It is an article entitled Rey is not a role model for little girls. By a man. (That turns out to contain oblivious cissexism too, hurrah.)

The first sentence is I hate to break it to you, but Rey is not a role model for little girls.

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kaberett: A cartoon of wall art, featuring a banner reading "NO GLORY SAVE HONOR". (no glory save honour)
Over in [community profile] access_fandom, [personal profile] jesse_the_k quotes from an article on prosthetics in Fury Road:
Again, the Punch & Judy department of Warner Brothers throws a faked disability, a faux handicap, at us, in their Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) movie, and again, we consider it, just as we considered the attempts in Kingsman, or, Home of the Brave (2006), or, maybe in the ill-fated attempt for cinema titled “Hancock”.

[...snip...]

So, here they go again; what do they do there? Is it good? And, before glorifying it just because (they even write “watch Furiosa punch Max in the face, with her nubbins” which she really doesn’t; she punches him with her hand while sticking the nubbins out in the air) – why not actually *use* our eyes, to look, to ogle, to view, and (in a more strict sense) “watch” it? It is so much a visual and so not much a verbal movie so we really have to switch on our eyesies. What is there to be actually seen, what do they really show? Is this empowering or what does it really say?


... and I went and read the article and then I had OPINIONS, mostly "I am interested in the mechanical details but I am absolutely seethingly furious about how he interprets the final sequence and the story arc", and then I expanded on that a bit more in comments, which I am reproducing here for my own archives.

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kaberett: Photo of a pile of old leather-bound books. (books)
Some of these are repeated from the last such list, but this one is a bit more organised/coherent... as ever, holler if there's anything you'd particularly like me to bump to the top of the list. :-)

Fic.
- Mai walks into a bar and meets June (gift, to be ~500 words)
- Kuei and Bosco meet Song (gift, to be ~500 words)
- the one about all the ladies set up schools (which I have started, and is more Mai and Zuko interaction)
- the Proceedings of Ba Sing Se university (seriously, I have about 5-6 papers outlined for this one, I just need to write them) ([personal profile] batrachian has requested this as a perk for fundraising, as have a couple of other people; so include a survey of swamp fauna)
- Katara & Suki gossip about Mai
- the misc drabbles
- the dreadful A:tLA/Molesworth crossover noldo & I have been threatening each other with for about a year now
- the Spike/Xander monstrosity
- the actual *backstory* to the elaborate Buffyverse AU in which lots of dreadful slash is set

Essays.
- tech competence vs tech confidence (to pitch to geekfeminism; the rest are for the LashBlog) drafted, sent to betas this is going to go up wooyeah :D
- disablity vs impairment: chronic pain is fundamentally shit/"mixed model"
- what's in a name? - chosen names, "IRL" as a busted concept when used in opposition to "online", etc live
- the machinery of grace is always simple/how Ani DiFranco helped me learn to love mobility aids
- buying your first wheelchair: a guide/retrospective
- what "queer" looks like taking into account non-binary gender (plus revisiting my previously-stated thoughts on "non-binary" as a term)
- something, not yet formulated, about being me & being a scientist - poss. collaborate with someone I know in the artsy side of academia (if you think I might be talking about you, I probably am, I just haven't asked you yet ;) [thank you, past self, for not putting down anything less cryptic! but having thought about it for all of thirty seconds, I think I've worked out what it was going to be, ergo I'm going to leave this just as cryptic for even-further-future-self. HI. WE LIKE YOU, HONEST. -april2013] aaaand in August 2013 this is finally scheduled to be posted on the LashBlog :-)
- talking dirty "versus" enthusiastic, informed consent
- medical advocacy reworked for VP
- social negotiation as informed by disability and care needs
- dinnertime geology started, which will do for me.
- what being genderqueer is like from the inside, for [personal profile] alexseanchai

Other.
- A5 flyer on kitchen ingredients repurposed for sex & sexual health
- 15-minute presentation on STIs for a workshop about women who have sex with women, for LGBT+ and welfare reps across the university
- ... my lit review [2300 words down, 2700 to go...]
- ... catch-up on the lectures I've missed so far this term [partially achieved!]
- leaflets for UCS on being queer & trans palmed off on my successor
- LashCookBook HOLY CRAP I FINISHED IT
- that one paper, maybe?

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