I’m cleaning out my backlog of links this week–brace yourselves.
- The big-eyed children: the extraordinary story of an epic art fraud
- Some of Bach’s great masterpieces were composed by his wife Edit: it has been pointed out to me that this is generally considered to be a bogus theory, so read this with a giant grain of salt. I think it’s interesting to think about, though.
- On Kindness
- Can Chris Rock Make the Leap to Leading Man?
- Chris Rock on Ferguson, Cosby, and Obama
- Dear male feminist
- Recreating Adam, From Hundreds of Fragments, After the Fall
- “We all feel sad, Big Bird”: When Sesame Street confronted death
- The Circumference of Despair: On Depression and Language
- World Fantasy Awards: What Did I Say? This was such an amazing moment–I’m so glad I was able to be there in person.
- Some thoughts on the politics of trolling.
- The New Identity Media Manifesto
- All Dressed Up For Mars and Nowhere to Go
- The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare’s Histories in the Age of Netflix
- TERRAFORM, Erasure, and (how to break) Community Norms
- ‘Do I need to turn her in?’ — something has gone very, very wrong
- Three Tactics that Block Women from Getting Ahead
- Movements: Towards Change
- Dog Eat Dog Now this sounds like an interesting game. But one that I suspect I’d only want to play once.
- The Places in Between
- Making the Most of a 350-Square-Foot Studio in Detroit
- Jim Hines has a roundup post about harassment and the fallout at Context this year.
- Updating Centuries-Old Folklore With Puzzles And Power-Ups
- The Pain of the Watermelon Joke
- My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK
- Works By Karl Marx That Have Been Improved By The Addition Of Quotes From Dune It shouldn’t work and yet: it does.
- We finally know why these mysterious ‘Tjipetir blocks’ are washing up on European beaches
- This is why the middle class can’t get ahead
- I See a Book and Get Angry and Write a Thing
- The Importance of Being Kim Kardashian
- Jian Ghomeshi harassed me on the job. Why did our radio station look the other way?
- Tilda Swinton is a great and terrible goddess. We should tremble at her feet and despair. Also possibly a fairy queen.
- On File Formats, Very Briefly
- Does Sex Make Science Fiction “Soft?” C’mere, Tansy. I’ll recommend you some romance novels.
- Emic, Etic, and the depiction of Otherness in SFF
- Let’s Talk About Ethics In Games Journalism!
- When well-meaning people harm those they supposedly protect
- Why I don’t like hackathons, by Alex Bayley aged 39 1/2
- ‘Your Job Is To Make Money’: Coal Boss Laid Bare After Miner Deaths
- The Intellectual Condescension of White Liberals
- Broken Windows And Broken Lives
- Our Stories This is a deeply raw and personal essay by Roxane Gay. It contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault. I was in tears by the end.
Of course Tilda Swinton is a Faerie Queen. Unseelie to be precise.
I though Tilda was the Goblin King?
That first link, there are not enough emoticons of sadly unsurprised rage and sadness.
Ooh, romance recommendations! If anybody is so inclined, I’m always looking for some . 🙂
I keep looking up lists of “Science Fiction Romance” and “romantic science fiction”, and buying a couple of promising books. Along the way, I’ve learned a few things:
1. I’m a sucker for a really good romance novel, but I’m hopelessly bad at finding books that I’d enjoy.
2. I love all of Bujold’s romances, including the fantasy ones. I also enjoyed Rachel Bach’s Paradox series, and Ilona Andrews’ short SF romances, and a bunch of others. My favorite SF romances are the ones where the world-building and the relationship work together to make the story.
3. With heterosexual romances, I’m fairly picky about the male leads. I go by the “party host” rule: If I organized a party, and if I saw the male lead treating his partner like that, would I throw him out of my house for good?
There’s some pretty amazing stuff out there, but I haven’t figured out how to find reliably find things that I’d like. Sturgeon’s Law is always a big challenge when exploring unfamiliar genres.