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Silver Adept ([personal profile] silveradept) wrote2025-09-17 09:47 pm

Sex and Violence, Tech and Violence, and some genuinely neat stuff - Early September 02025

Let's begin here with celebrating fifty years of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and fifty years of what might be the most unique theatrical experience someone goes to when they go to see Rocky. (And the fact that while the thing on the screen stays the same when you go to see Rocky, everything else changes depending on where you are and what time it is.)

Organizations that fail to consider intersectionality in their diversity, equity, and inclusion will create things like employee resource groups that only capture a part of someone's experience and that elide the places where the intersectionality is unique and important. Which should make you unsurprised, but also horrified, that the Institute for Museum and Library Services budget is being given directly to propagandists for a project that will present a white man-centric view of history and demand that we all believe it as the sole and only truthful narrative of the United States.

James Dobson, creator of such abominations unto his God as Focus on the Family and the Family Policy Alliance, has gone to receive judgment at 89 years of age. Our world is far better off without him, and the damage that he has done to the world would take generations to heal if he were the only one doing his kind of damage. But like so many others, he has disciples and followers, and they will continue to perpetuate his damage into the world for generations to come.

A man who believed that violence was an answer, and who aggressively sowed the wind wherever he went, has reaped the whirlwind, killed by the violence he promoted, by a gun that he believed should have more rights than the people killed by it. He is no longer able to use his organization to promote and encourage harm to others.

The fallout from such, and plenty of other things, inside )

Last out, Bohemian Rhapsody translated and performed in Zulu and with the visual and singing styles of several other African traditions. It's worth a watch and a listen, absolutely.

The concept of Queer Time, where the signifiers of "adulthood" like marriage, children, and houses are not achieved on any kind of regular time, if at all, and therefore queer adults have to find their own ways of demonstrating to the community that they are full grown-ass adults.

And the iconic Atari CX-10 joystick as a decanter for drinking, along with a couple of Atari-logo glasses.

(Materials via [personal profile] adrian_turtle, [personal profile] azurelunatic, [personal profile] boxofdelights, [personal profile] cmcmck, [personal profile] conuly, [personal profile] cosmolinguist, [personal profile] elf, [personal profile] finch, [personal profile] firecat, [personal profile] jadelennox, [personal profile] jenett, [personal profile] jjhunter, [personal profile] kaberett, [personal profile] lilysea, [personal profile] oursin, [personal profile] rydra_wong, [personal profile] snowynight, [personal profile] sonia, [personal profile] the_future_modernes, [personal profile] thewayne, [personal profile] umadoshi, [personal profile] vass, the [community profile] meta_warehouse community, [community profile] little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
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kalinara ([personal profile] kalinara) wrote in [community profile] i_read_what2025-09-17 06:10 pm

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Slight delay on the next Sylvan Shadows review. Sorry! My aim is to have it up Friday night.
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mara_dienne459 ([personal profile] mara_dienne459) wrote in [community profile] antishurtugal_reborn2025-09-16 07:51 am

The World of the Others Commentary

 In which Asia is Evil and does Evil and is Evil and have I mentioned she's Evil? The plot kind of gets some traction here, but not much. It's mostly just the author setting up what she really wants to do later by having her Evil character be the stupid kind of Evil.

Voltaire Would Be Ashamed )
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epistler ([personal profile] epistler) wrote in [community profile] antishurtugal_reborn2025-09-16 02:08 pm
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masterghandalf ([personal profile] masterghandalf) wrote in [community profile] antishurtugal_reborn2025-09-15 06:37 am

The Scrolls of the Ancients: Chapters Fifty-Five to Fifty-Eight

Warning: These chapters contain discussion of poorly-handled trauma, some violence, and some rather unpleasant deaths.

In which Newcomb takes a machete to various loose ends as we move towards the story's final act. )
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kalinara ([personal profile] kalinara) wrote in [community profile] i_read_what2025-09-13 07:26 pm

Yendi - Chapter Seven

So last chapter ended with a cliffhanger. Vlad and his group were attacked by two assassins - one of whom was, shockingly, an Easterner woman.

And if you paid attention to Jhereg, you might have figured out what's going on... )
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epistler ([personal profile] epistler) wrote in [community profile] antishurtugal_reborn2025-09-13 08:12 pm
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How Murtagh And Thorn and Vanora and Verja Kicked Morontagh’s ASS

Happy Birthday, [personal profile] snarkbotanya ! In honour of the occasion, here is the spitefic I wrote for her which you guys can now read as well! 
Suck it, Morontagh )
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epistler ([personal profile] epistler) wrote in [community profile] antishurtugal_reborn2025-09-13 11:48 am

Uh-oh

 Paolini just twitted a picture of himself with his editor at Knopf and says he also met with his agent. What are they up to? Whatever it is it can't be good... 
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epistler ([personal profile] epistler) wrote in [community profile] antishurtugal_reborn2025-09-11 07:05 pm
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kalinara ([personal profile] kalinara) wrote in [community profile] i_read_what2025-09-09 11:19 pm

A Cast of Corbies - Chapter Thirteen

So last time, Magpie and Raven kind of resolved things, introduced a romantic plotline (ugh), but hey, maybe we'll get to see if Magpie has any character traits besides being generally awful.

We can always hope... )
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mara_dienne459 ([personal profile] mara_dienne459) wrote in [community profile] antishurtugal_reborn2025-09-08 01:12 pm

The World of the Others Commentary

 In which the plot continues to spin its wheels, some drama is forced to happen that means absolutely nothing in the end, and Simon is even more of a creep than usual. Oh, and did you know Asia's evil? Because Asia is evil.

Orange Cats Have More Braincells Than These Guys )