: Thursday, Jan 22, 2009
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cupidsbow: Torchwood Meta: For Different Values of Love by cupidsbow - The conversation I want to have is all about how people negotiate a relationship, once you get rid of the expectation of monogamy, and once love isn't about ownership. Or maybe I want to talk about how you do negotiate your way to monogamy if your starting point is anything goes. Or maybe I want to talk about how Ianto has ended up so okay with polyamory, when on the surface he's kind of conservative (okay, yeah, I really want to talk about that a lot). -- ithiliana: Responsibility: I do not think that word means what you think it means! - I can agree with the statement that we are responsible only for our own actions only with the following corollary: we are morally responsible for how our actions (including language) or inactions influence other people -
- rahirah: In which I stay up too late thinking about stuff - Its struck me recently that one of the big differences in people's approach to canon is that to some people, canon is what did happen, while to others, it's what had to happen -
- cimness: Behind the Lines: Cookie Distribution - I really appreciated Elizabeth Bear's second-to-last two posts in the current discussion of racism. I'm sure they're not entirely problem-free, but they are thoughtful, sensitive, apropos, and well-intentioned. So I don't mean
anything negative about Bearto refer specifically to Bear when I say, // Isn't it funny how both her posts received far more quick laudatory comments - cookies, I will go so far as to say - than the meaty, brave, and potentially inflammatory posts from fans of color involved in the same discussion? - - chopchica: until this moment, i hadn't even realized i *had* a last nerve - I feel sorry for all of you. I feel sorry for myself for ever having a second of respect or liking for any of you. But most of all, I feel sorriest for the people that you tried to victimize, demoralize and silence - the people that you have never apolgized to; the people that you never *will* apologize to. Every single one of them is a million times better than the lot of you put together. I'll read their words any day, and I will never read any of yours again. -
- cimness: The Spectre of the Artist's Ass & the Haunted Artwork - In future, I'd like to decree mandatory participation in Consciousness Raisings for all writers whom I might someday like to check out, and who have any future plans to appear on the internet and possibly display their asses. -
- morgan_dhu: On throwing books at the wall and standing on people's feet - Does it really need to be said that one valid response to reading something that you find profoundly angering in exactly the same way as the last fifty, or a hundred, or a thousand times you read it somewhere else, is throwing the book against the wall and writing about why that thing you read, in the book you threw against the wall, and in all the other books that you didn't throw against the wall because you hadn't reached your limit yet, made you so profoundly angry? -
- judd_sonofbert: Thinking about Race and RPG's - RPG's are built on the fictions of Tolkien and Howard. These are works that are really messy, at best, in their depictions of race. The House of Gaming is built on shaky, shaky foundations. To make matters worse, our own country's media has its own issues with depictions of people of color in film. This isn't a pass for gaming, though and it isn't an excuse for intellectual laziness. -