My foot is fine, sore but fine. I was a little worried for a bit, but yeah.
Tangled Up In Blue
So the phone rings. I stand up to get it, but my foots asleep. And of course I step on something the kid left on the floor. And there’s an audible pop when my ankle turns, but I still can’t feel my foot. And of course the asshole calling me is a political robo.
Bunnicula!
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Lucy Liu at the 2012 NYWIFT Muse Awards (x)
(Proper) Representation matters.
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Popular text posts are like the lead baddie of a horror franchise. You think they’re dead, but then suddenly there they are back for another round, drowning you in notes and repetitive comparisons to Fall Out Boy songs.
SHADOW AND ACT: Al Jazeera Profiles ‘The New African Photography’ In 6-Episode Series
Al Jazeera English will premiere a new 6-episode series on Artscape, titled The New African Photography, which will document changes across the continent through the eyes of its photographers, in an effort to “take back control” of images of Africa with more nuanced, varied depictions of the continent, instead of the extremes we often get. Expect nods to pioneers like Malick Sidibé and autodidact Seydou Keïta.The six episodes (one of which was executive produced by Viva Riva director Djo Munga) will premiere on April 22.They are:1. Invisible Borders (22 April 2013) Nigerian Emeka Okereke is the founder of Invisible Borders, an annual photographic project that takes African artists on a road trip across the continent. Invisible Borders follows Emeka and fellow Nigerian photographer Lilian Novo on the most recent journey, from Nigeria through Cameroon and Gabon. Emeka says, “Everywhere we go in Africa, we see our generation talking about doing things for themselves. This is the time to actually go in and experiment.”2. The Red Dress (29 April 2013) Barbara Minishi is a leading fashion photographer in Kenya. For her latest project, Barbara swapped skinny models for normal people, photographing a wide range of women all wearing the same red dress, as a symbol of unity and national identity in the aftermath of the 2007 post-election violence in which more than 1 000 Kenyans were killed.MORE
From the Black Canary/Green Arrow Wedding special
So when are you and Grace getting married?
Daaaad!
Green Arrow/Black Canary: Wedding Special
The ending of this was unnecessarily gimmicky and led into a terrible plotline, but I actually loved the rest of it.
Every time I see this, I both can’t believe she got married in that and want to cosplay it.
Exactly what “blocking” someone on tumblr does…
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PSA: Your Default Narrative Settings Are Not Apolitical
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Recently, SFF author Tansy Rayner Roberts wrote an excellent post debunking the idea that women did nothing interesting or useful throughout history, and that trying to write fictional stories based on this premise of feminine insignificance is therefore both inaccurate and offensive. To quote:
“History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
History is actually a long series of centuries of men writing down what they thought was important and interesting, and FORGETTING TO WRITE ABOUT WOMEN. It’s also a long series of centuries of women’s work and women’s writing being actively denigrated by men. Writings were destroyed, contributions were downplayed, and women were actively oppressed against, absolutely.
But the forgetting part is vitally important. Most historians and other writers of what we now consider “primary sources” simply didn’t think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
This does not in any way mean that the female contribution to society was in fact less interesting or important, or complicated, simply that history—the process of writing down and preserving of the facts, not the facts/events themselves—was looking the other way.”
The relevance of this statement to the creation of SFF stories cannot be understated. Time and again, we see fans and creators alike defending the primacy of homogeneous – which is to say, overwhelmingly white, straight and male – stories on the grounds that anything else would be intrinsically unrealistic.
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Another awesome article, full of good references for people who are fighting the Black People Existed In Medieval Europe TYVM fight or similar.
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Amazon's Kindle Worlds: Instant Thoughts
I’m with Scalzi on this.
Nichelle Nichols talks about meeting the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his expression of how vitally important her character on Star Trek was to the civil rights movement as the first non-stereotypical African-American on network TV.
If anyone ever asks you why you care so much it’s just a (Movie/TV show/Comic/Book/etc.) Point them to this. Star Trek may have just been a TV show, but it changed peoples lives.
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So here it is. the red is left over from a previous coloring effort, previously I’d been parting my hair behind my ears and dyeing the front half. This time I parted my hair in front of my ears, and I think it turned out to be a good choice. I was going to cover the red with my natural color, but I like the rainbow effect it gives I’m very pleased with how the green came out I bought the color, Enchanted Forest, expecting a forest green, it was more of a joker green, but mixed with the blue before putting it on, it’s a very nice Aqua now.