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May 20, 2016

Links Roundup: 5/20/16

Pretty Terrible Links Roundup

This painting pretty much sums up how I feel about this week.

"Raftsmen Playing Cards: Everything Is Hilarious And Nothing Is Real" links

Shawn Huckins, “Raftsmen Playing Cards: Everything Is Hilarious And Nothing Is Real”

  • Real Talk: On Fatness, Desirability, And Why Socialization Is a Beast
  • My Friends Would Rather Have Their Guts Cut Open Than Be Like Me
  • Sneering at America
  • Meet the Woman Who Invented Cosplay
  • Another Letter to Tiptree, by Gillian Polack
  • Azealia Banks’ Twitter Ban Reminds Us Freedom Of Speech Is For Whites Only
  • “Why do all old statues have such small penises?” (NSFW)
  • Behind the Accent The linguistic and social history behind the Great Lakes Vowel Shift. I am never going to be able to hear a Michigan accent in the same way ever again.
  • Olivia de Havilland and the Most Notorious Sibling Rivalry in Hollywood This was a RIVETING read.
  • The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies
  • Re-Examining Monica, Marcia, Tonya and Anita, The ‘Scandalous’ Women Of The ’90s
  • Is “Grit” the Key to Success or an Old Idea Dressed Up to Be the Latest Self-Help Sensation?
  • Ghost in the Shell and anime’s troubled history with representation
  • ‘Murder She Wore’ Sartorial Splendour as seen in Murder, She Wrote
  • Why This Famous Cartoonist Moved to a Secluded Canadian Island
  • Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women
  • From Lilysea: In a Perpetual Present: The Strange Case of the Woman Who Can’t Remember Her Past—Or Imagine Her Future as Lilysea says, “Interesting neurological condition in plain English”–and I agree. This is fascinating.
  • Friend of Pretty Terrible Dame B wrote about her issues with Sharon Carter in Civil War–which I haven’t seen yet. Maybe this weekend! (I also recommend this essay about grimdark and greyhounds and narratives.)
  • “Sappho and stars — what more do you need?” says Olivia Waite. Olivia is wise. Listen to Olivia.

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  1. Selki says

    May 20, 2016 at 9:13 am

    Lots of interesting stuff I didn’t know in that Olivia de Havilland article.

    The comments in the astronomy-poetry-translation article were as interesting to me as the article.

  2. Selki says

    May 20, 2016 at 9:23 am

    Also I wouldn’t have read that Re-examining article without your recommendation, thanks.

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