A little data twiddling

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Privileged white assholes

..., the readers who dared to criticize them (mostly PoC). The whole thing has made me feel like crying with frustration. I cannot see anything wrong with the criticisms made by LJers like Avalon's Willow and Deepad. I can see a hell of a lot wrong with an awful lot of the responses they got. What really gets to me is the astounding arrogance of a white person speaking as an authority on writing ...

I have shit write ups, and I fail at Stupid_free, but it's worth it to me.

.... And among the many , many people who have spoken up about RaceFail '09 are asim , bossymarmalade , ciderpress , coffeeandink , deepad , helsmeta , inalasahl , nojojojo , oyceter , Seeking Avalon's Willow , shewhohashope , spiralsheep , vito_excalibur , vom_marlowe , yeloson and...

links, because that is all i have the heart for

...already have seen this, but even if you have not, you should. fight_derailing , 50books_poc , racebending , verb_noire . I recommend, unreservedly, every post made by deepad , bossymarmalade , ciderpress , and as always, for just the facts, try rydra_wong . I am furious and sad and tired and god, so disappointed that this is still,...

A brief note

... direction. I see all the people who are fed up with SF/F, who won't submit, won't participate because it's clear they're not really wanted, and I think of all the stories we've lost. I think of deepad and her post: I didn't dream of dragons . I think of the story she couldn't tell, and the story that I now can't read. I think of a tale of "a cross-dressing princess on the run" and I...

Okay, I lied

... shoulder-devil reader in my head. I write what I write for the story, but I try not to buy into the awful sterotypes and tropes that I was practically breastfed on as a storyteller. deepad   made an amazing post during the Cultural Appropriation Imbroglio which I recommend everyone read, because it took the thing to an angle I'd never considered. How we are all fed these stories and ...

Miriam Heddy's "The Lonely Jew In Fandom"

I was going to post about the "how to write the Other" discussion going on (posts by matociquala and deepad among others) but I hadn't yet compiled an exhaustive list. Then lomedet sent me a link to miriam_heddy 's " The Lonely Jew in Fandom ", about the recent NUMB3RS episode "Arrow of Time" and about the depiction of the Eppes family as Jewish in general, and I...

An update and a recommended essay

... somewhat fresh eyes. Secondly, I have been following the cultural appropriation debate going on at the minute. The first post to read, if you only read one is I didn't dream of dragons by deepad which in part expresses just how heartbreaking it is to grow up not finding your people and your culture taken on its own terms expressed in the books you read. I imagine you will have seen ...

Some interesting and thought provoking stuff has been going around lately. Here is a post that fellow writers should, imo, read.

Yuletide guessing

..., though don't confirm or deny anything, of course! My guesses: vee_fic wrote Cinderella, Made of Steel etothey wrote the City of Diamond fic I haven't read yet because I don't remember who all the characters are magicnoire wrote The Work of Chemists deepad wrote One Thousand and One and Counting (and I'm guessing with shewhohashope as a beta)