Reading: Theoretically, Kingdom of Gods by NK Jemisin, in practise I was at a library yesterday and I borrowed something like six books on random different things, like religions and protest songs and the Wathaurong, and changing the world and stuff. Nearly all my non-fic reading comes from the library. Not sure if it's a good thing, a bad thing, or just a thing.
Also, my house is so neat! I've been a-thinking that I should finish off the neat (the backyard is a mess, for starters, and there are big weed piles everywhere)
I've had a stupid cold thing for the last week and a bit, and it was rather not fun. Getting out of breath that quickly was a little bit disturbing (note: is asthmatic. I would probably find it more disturbing otherwise.)
Links: The many Mary Sues edition. A lot of these are from the discussion that was being had about last week on the lastest round of people calling female main characters Mary Sues, and why that's problematic.
Seanan McGuire on calling main characters Mary Sues
Holly Black on calling main characters Mary Sues
Sarah Rees Brennan on calling main characters Mary Sues
Zoe Marriott on why calling characters Mary Sues is kind of reflective of people holding female (main) characters to ridiculously high standards
Zoe Mariott cuts to the core of the Mary Sue, that it's often used as shorthand for 'female character that I don't like'
Zoe Mariott follows up the above post with what it implies in the real world
Andrea K Host - The Absence Sue This is an older post, but I still think it may be of some worth in the discussion: the appearence of female characters in fanfic who are awesome might be because there were no female characters of that level of awesome in the show/book/game to start off with.
I find the whole Mary Sue thing disturbing. People seem to be a lot more critical of female characters than male characters in general - people seem to be a lot more critical of most things a woman could do in life as well.
Capital coercion Or: how capitalism discourages transmission/creation of culture.
Maps that will help you make sense of the world I love maps. They give context. These maps give context. For things like which countries drive on which side of the road and how many countries measure things in metric units.
Transformation and transcendance: the power of female friendship
