Carved Goose Egg by Peregrin71

First up is Hugo reaction posts!  Luckily for me, Stefan’s been collecting and collating them (and doing a great job) over at his place so what follows are just ones that I thought were interesting for one reason or another.

• Daniel Libris on Hugo Nominations
• On “Opera Vita Aeterna”, the Vox Day work that got nominated for a Hugo Xiphias reads it so none of us have to! Not that I was going to. But in case you were. Options!
• On the Hugos: The Good, the Bad, and the Awful Trolls from Hell Susan Jane Bigelow has a few thoughts.
• On the pitfalls of “merit” Rose Lemberg says (as usual) a bunch of smart things.
• A thought on playing at the lowest possible difficulty level, and telling other people what’s easy
• Separating Writers and Their Work
• Kate Nepveu on the nominations. 
• A Cereal Metaphor for the SFF Community

And now on to other things!

• Josh Lueke Is A Rapist, You Say? Keep Saying It. No reason for me to put this right next to all the Hugo stuff. Nope.
• An apology: I’m done being “acceptable”
• A word about bronies. (Massive Content notice for threat of sexual assault, child sexual assault, attempted child abduction, and bullshit from later commentators.)
• “Letting the Jerks Get to You” Isn’t Really the Problem
• Contents Under Pressure Greg Rucka on misogyny in fandom.
• Tremendous rant from Suleikha Snyder here: Variety is the spice of love: Le Sheikh C’est Chic? Not So Much!
• Read the Rapey Emails of American University’s ‘Secret Fraternity’
• Virtual rape and slavery scandal rocks Minecraft community I saw this retweeted in the context of how awful this is for children: what, like having your toon taken over isn’t awful for adults, too?
• Dudesplaining, The April Edition
• “It would not be logical” Rose Fox on wanting writers to tell different stories. One where it’s not logical for the female characters to be raped or to be murdered, ones where they get to be happy.
• Genevieve Valentine on the rape scene from last week’s Game of Thrones. I don’t watch the show and am have no interest in the books, but this is powerfully written.
•  There is no such thing as a child prostitute. This is from February, but I thought it was important.
• Two great posts from Katherine Addison in two different places: Katherine Addison on The Goblin Emperor and Grimdark and “Of Better Worlds and Worlds Gone Wrong”. I really need to write my review of this book–it was, in so many ways, brilliant.
• Two Monks Invent Medieval Cartography
• Guy Fieri’s New Menu Is a Haunting, Beautiful Poem
• Does This 19th c. Dress Deserve a Place in a Museum?
• Dear SFWA, the Second
• The Young and Unmoored… Great piece on prison culture and young adults coming out of the prison-industrial complex.
• I Was Racially Profiled in My Own Driveway
• The Golden Arch Of The Universe Is Long Some really fascinating vintage McDonald’s ads targeting the black community.
• A fatal wait: Veterans languish and die on a VA hospital’s secret list
• Stop Being Terrified of Chemicals SERIOUSLY. It’s getting kinda ridiculous.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral History of a TV Masterpiece
• Grief Capacity — Bereavement and Mourning
• The Way Home: On Faith and Anxiety “If I think of anxiety as this entity separate from myself, a curse from a God who would test me, I become this divided person who is constantly trying to walk half of herself out the door.”
• Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985
• I Didn’t Know I Was a Boy
• Quirky new musical shakes up Shackleton legend
• What does sci fi tell us about feminism? Lol David Brin