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On Resistance: The Chosen One at Strange Horizons, on the whitewashed, exceptionalized narrative of the Chosen One and its contrast to the hard, community-based work of a real resistance.
The myth of 'We don't build houses like we used to' by McMansion Hell is a nice down to earth look at the history of how everyday houses are built and why they're built that way.
Are These Bad habits Creeping Into Your Writing? I don't agree with all of this, but it's an interesting read nonetheless. I get the impression the author works with mainly literary fiction. It's rather fascinating to see an active reccomendation to use more epithets, coming from a fanfic context where the prevailing mode of thought is an absolute horror of them as unquestionably bad writing. (I think epithets have their place, for the record. My main problem with them is when people use OOC ones in work with a clear narrator--like, Harry Potter is not going to think of himself as 'the green-eyed teen' or 'the ravenette' (gods save us all from 'the [color]ette') or, I dunno, Daphne Greengrass as 'the statuesque blonde'. If you're going to use an epithet, make it a description your POV character would plausibly think about the character in question in the context in question.)
Why We Need The Serial Comma: 10 Hilarious Real-World Examples has, as it says, some amusing examples of sentences that desperately need clarifying commas in their lists. It has well known classics like 'my parents, Ayn Rand and God' and 'Nelson Mandela, an 800-year old demigod and a dildo collector' and some fun ones I hadn't seen before.
I listened to a few episodes of the Farm to Taber podcast and learned a lot about the state of modern agriculture and how incredibly bad America is at growing food on a fundamental level. Very interesting, and made my decision to make new FFN and AO3 accounts to subscribe to all 1000+ WIPs I have downloaded much less unbearably tedious. (It took nearly two hours. I listened to episodes 1, 2, 3, 10, and half of 7. I can't tell whether I listened to 9 and accidentally restarted it, or if I started it and then changed my mind and switched to a different one.)
Wobbly Poets: Joe Hill, Signe Aurell, and Scandinavian-American Laborlore - #FolkloreThursday is an interesting piece about 'laborlore', and I couldn't go through it reading about the late great Joe Hill without listening to something by or about him, which ended up being Leslie Fish's fantastic recording of his song The Preacher and the Slave from her great album It's Sister Jenny's Turn to Throw the Bomb, which includes such other Wobbly classics as We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years. Also Trinity, which is on a similar theme to The Preacher and the Slave, and I also adore.
Femslash February prompt list
Security Isn't Enough. Silicon Valley Needs 'Abusability' Testing sounds like a pipe dream in today's climate, but it would be wonderful if the omnipresent corporate giants that invade every aspect of our lives did decide to give a damn about what people do with their products.
How to Find Your Netflix Freeloaders—and Kick Them Out doesn't really apply to me, because I only share streaming accounts with Alex and my mother, but may be of interest to someone else. (Ninety devices registered to a hulu account?!)
The myth of 'We don't build houses like we used to' by McMansion Hell is a nice down to earth look at the history of how everyday houses are built and why they're built that way.
Are These Bad habits Creeping Into Your Writing? I don't agree with all of this, but it's an interesting read nonetheless. I get the impression the author works with mainly literary fiction. It's rather fascinating to see an active reccomendation to use more epithets, coming from a fanfic context where the prevailing mode of thought is an absolute horror of them as unquestionably bad writing. (I think epithets have their place, for the record. My main problem with them is when people use OOC ones in work with a clear narrator--like, Harry Potter is not going to think of himself as 'the green-eyed teen' or 'the ravenette' (gods save us all from 'the [color]ette') or, I dunno, Daphne Greengrass as 'the statuesque blonde'. If you're going to use an epithet, make it a description your POV character would plausibly think about the character in question in the context in question.)
Why We Need The Serial Comma: 10 Hilarious Real-World Examples has, as it says, some amusing examples of sentences that desperately need clarifying commas in their lists. It has well known classics like 'my parents, Ayn Rand and God' and 'Nelson Mandela, an 800-year old demigod and a dildo collector' and some fun ones I hadn't seen before.
I listened to a few episodes of the Farm to Taber podcast and learned a lot about the state of modern agriculture and how incredibly bad America is at growing food on a fundamental level. Very interesting, and made my decision to make new FFN and AO3 accounts to subscribe to all 1000+ WIPs I have downloaded much less unbearably tedious. (It took nearly two hours. I listened to episodes 1, 2, 3, 10, and half of 7. I can't tell whether I listened to 9 and accidentally restarted it, or if I started it and then changed my mind and switched to a different one.)
Wobbly Poets: Joe Hill, Signe Aurell, and Scandinavian-American Laborlore - #FolkloreThursday is an interesting piece about 'laborlore', and I couldn't go through it reading about the late great Joe Hill without listening to something by or about him, which ended up being Leslie Fish's fantastic recording of his song The Preacher and the Slave from her great album It's Sister Jenny's Turn to Throw the Bomb, which includes such other Wobbly classics as We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years. Also Trinity, which is on a similar theme to The Preacher and the Slave, and I also adore.
Femslash February prompt list
Security Isn't Enough. Silicon Valley Needs 'Abusability' Testing sounds like a pipe dream in today's climate, but it would be wonderful if the omnipresent corporate giants that invade every aspect of our lives did decide to give a damn about what people do with their products.
How to Find Your Netflix Freeloaders—and Kick Them Out doesn't really apply to me, because I only share streaming accounts with Alex and my mother, but may be of interest to someone else. (Ninety devices registered to a hulu account?!)
