Okay, after a month where I basically gafiated, I am back, and the last Eight Crazy Nights ficlets are in beta, and will be spread over several nights because they got long. But I have earned the right to post again about other stuff!
Fandom related:
1. My Yuletide story, which is probably the most obvious ever, was Fringe: 13 Ways of Looking at a Betrayal. Thanks to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
giandujakiss for quick beta!
2. Rec: Cold Light, a spot-on Haven casefile with a side of threesome; I could hear the dialogue.
3. I seriously love the AO3 kudos feature. I accept as true that, at the margin, it converts some comments into kudos, but I personally am much more willing to hit that button than try to think of something more than "I really liked your story!" I try to comment if I have more to say than that, but kudos makes it easier to take affirmative action.
More general:
1. A very funny review of Brian Sanderson’s novel Elantris.
2. Foucault quote of the day: “I am not looking for an alternative … what I want to do is not the history of solutions, and that’s the reason why I don’t accept the word alternative. I would like to do the genealogy of problems, of problématiques. My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.” Quoted in Martin Jay, In the Empire of the Gaze: Foucault and the Denigration of Vision in 20th Century French Thought, in Postmodernism (ed. Lisa Appignanesi 1989).
3. The Bad Daddy Factor: This is overall a very good article in a good magazine, Miller-McCune. What fascinates me most, though, is that in the course of discussing fathers’ influence on children’s health and well-being, often even from behavior engaged in years before conception, the article says this:
4. Review: Borders eReader app for iPhone/PC: terrible, stay away. Functionality is worse than Kindle app across the board, including the preposterous fact that it does not sync across devices, meaning that I (1) would have to find my place again if I open a book on my PC after reading on my phone and (2) can’t make notes on my iPhone and then transcribe them on my computer without propping the phone up against the computer. Urgh.
Fandom related:
1. My Yuletide story, which is probably the most obvious ever, was Fringe: 13 Ways of Looking at a Betrayal. Thanks to
giandujakiss for quick beta!2. Rec: Cold Light, a spot-on Haven casefile with a side of threesome; I could hear the dialogue.
3. I seriously love the AO3 kudos feature. I accept as true that, at the margin, it converts some comments into kudos, but I personally am much more willing to hit that button than try to think of something more than "I really liked your story!" I try to comment if I have more to say than that, but kudos makes it easier to take affirmative action.
More general:
1. A very funny review of Brian Sanderson’s novel Elantris.
2. Foucault quote of the day: “I am not looking for an alternative … what I want to do is not the history of solutions, and that’s the reason why I don’t accept the word alternative. I would like to do the genealogy of problems, of problématiques. My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.” Quoted in Martin Jay, In the Empire of the Gaze: Foucault and the Denigration of Vision in 20th Century French Thought, in Postmodernism (ed. Lisa Appignanesi 1989).
3. The Bad Daddy Factor: This is overall a very good article in a good magazine, Miller-McCune. What fascinates me most, though, is that in the course of discussing fathers’ influence on children’s health and well-being, often even from behavior engaged in years before conception, the article says this:
To be fair, it’s harder to figure out what to do to protect men. With women, it’s obvious — keep them away from these chemicals during pregnancy. But what do you do with men who are constantly making sperm and could contribute to a pregnancy at any point?
Yes, “to be fair,” what could you possibly do to protect men in this situation? It’s not as if it’s ever an option to ban fertile men from an activity in which they wish to engage; that is literally beyond discussion. I just love how it’s “obvious” how to protect the potential children of women, but completely mysterious how to protect the potential children of men. 4. Review: Borders eReader app for iPhone/PC: terrible, stay away. Functionality is worse than Kindle app across the board, including the preposterous fact that it does not sync across devices, meaning that I (1) would have to find my place again if I open a book on my PC after reading on my phone and (2) can’t make notes on my iPhone and then transcribe them on my computer without propping the phone up against the computer. Urgh.
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I just finished reading that Haven story you linked and it's fantastic! Thank you for the rec.
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Yes, indeed. I blame the patriarchy.
I just wanted to say that I enjoyed 13 Ways of Looking at a Betrayal very much. I shamelessly admit that I have started watching Fringe so I can read your Fringe fic. I love Olivia's character, and in this story, her honesty with herself is as relentless as her compassion is generous. I loved it. The fact that the humour is as dry as August in Death Valley doesn't hurt either. Thanks for another great read.
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