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[sorcyress]

Sundries, because I can't be arsed to write real words in here right now:

*Yo dawg, I heard you like cupcakes, so I put some cupcakes on your cupcakes so you can eat cupcakes while you eat cupcakes.¹

*According to xtricks, we should all be watching a show called Daybreak. I'm down with this, as soon as I have less homework.

*I like this Shakesville post, about why a woman might choose to take her husband's name.

*From back during the elections, badmagic speculates about how Superman and other superheroes would vote.

*So, apparently DeviantART is completely awful about non-binary gender options. As in, used to have an "undefined" option alongside male and female, and have since gotten rid of it. The whole elaborate drama is appalling, and I do intend to get rid of my account. Just have to snag all the art out of it, from the last billion years (seriously, I've been on dA since like 2003) and maybe find a new place to host my drawings, when I think they're neat enough to put online. Arg.

At any rate, if there were things you wanted to look at (there isn't, it's like ninety-five percent Assassins crack-fanart), you should go snag them from my account before I actually get around to deleting it. Which will be when I'm less busy.

*Methods of Rationality keeps updating, and keeps being rad (though my brain is busy screaming "HE'S EVIL YOU IDIOT" at Harry right now). Someone made this awesome fanart for a faux-sequel -- Bayeilisk!

*sunspiral writes about how his son uses modern technology in old games. I _really_ want to play some large-scale, cell phone organized Capture the Flag now. Or even some normal Capture the Flag, it's a hell of a game.

*This appears to be the blog post about the boy-who-dressed-as-Daphne-for-Halloween that's actually written by the mom. That mom is the single most awesome mother in the entire world after mine, and I wish her and her children all the best in the world.

(The post starts with My son is gay. Or he’s not. I don’t care. He is still my son. And he is 5. And I am his mother. And if you have a problem with anything mentioned above, I don’t want to know you. Right. Fucking. On!

Also worth reading for the great line If you think that me allowing my son to be a female character for Halloween is somehow going to ‘make’ him gay then you are an idiot. Firstly, what a ridiculous concept. Secondly, if my son is gay, OK. I will love him no less. Thirdly, I am not worried that your son will grow up to be an actual ninja so back off. Lawl, actual ninja.)

*So, there's this woman called the Blogess, and I found her randomly, and clicked around on old posts, and found myself laughing my ass off at the saga of James Garfield. Part One, Part Two. Warning, swearing.

~Sor
MOOP!

1: Sorry, I really love the "yo dawg I heard you like..." meme. It makes me giggle for some reason.

Comments

[harena.livejournal.com]

#1: Yar, i totally need to gank more stuff from your dA. i need to finish doing Rtizy's gallery too, inspite of him saying he's not deleting it.¹

#2: That is the bestest mother in the world! i loved the bit about her not being worried "that your son is going to grow up to be an actual ninja" ;D ;D

Twas particularly funny 'cause i was just talking moments ago with W about how my biggest imaginary play-acting i did when i was a kid was being a wild west hero... i ♥ Calamity Jane, (even went as a Mexican Bandito for Halloween one year), the whole nine yards. But i did not grow up to be a freaking vigilante. Funny how that works, eh? ;P


1: i already lost the chance to gank one of my favoritest pieces he did which he did not care for and deleted and this made me Sad. i still fret about it in my head sometimes.²

2: Andyar, i did ask him about it but i got me 'ead bit off so i daren't bring it up again. i am hoping it wasn't me, but i ain't gonna push it. i'll just stay in my wee corner and be sad about it.

[lex-of-green.livejournal.com]

Wow. I kinda wish DeviantART had a face so I could punch it.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

I know, right? It just makes _no sense_ to remove options. Like, I could slightly better understand if they've always had just male or female and aren't willing to add undeclared. But having male/female/undeclared and then taking that last one away? That's a TERRIBLE idea!

Especially because there are a lot of reasons to want to mask your gender online that have nothing to do with being genderqueer or whatever --I think it happens less often than it used to, but there's still the common trope of girls on the internet being a thing to fawn over, not to engage as an actual person.

~Sor

[werewulf.livejournal.com]

*According to xtricks, we should all be watching a show called Daybreak. I'm down with this, as soon as I have less homework.

Oddly, I picked this up in the Walmart 5 dollar bin several months ago and have been looking for someone to watch it with me. Perhaps we can watch it some during Thanksgiving/Xmas breaks.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

That would be awesome, and wonderful and stuff! It's apparently only 13 episodes, so we should totally be able to get this done.

Love you!
~Sor

[mekthehatter.livejournal.com]

If you missed it, deviantART added an 'other' option, changed 'gender' to 'sex' when you register (because apparently they need to know what you've got between your legs to run their site), and are planning on adding a customisable field for gender on your profile (I'm not holding my breath).
http://transfinite.dreamwidth.org/216787.html

At least they finally apologised for the appalling behaviour of their help desk people, but it's still too little too late for me, and just the most recent straw of dA screwing over its users.

[tolkienkookad.livejournal.com]

Wait. Hold on. Is there something bad about taking your husband's name when you marry? As a feminist, I mean? Like, I'm in a relationship where if we got married we would have a long discussion that would probably boil down to "Well, I'm taking your name" "Well, I'm taking YOUR name!" so I'm all about defying conventions, I just see something rather symbolic about taking a new name to begin a new life.

[tolkienkookad.livejournal.com]

Annnnd I just finished reading, but I have to say I have a little bit of confusion associated with the tenth reason... "10. Because despite knowing it comes from a weird, fucked-up patriarchal tradition, there's still some weird, fucked-up place inside her that likes the idea of taking her husband's name—and no feminist/womanist lives a life free of compliance, consciously or not, with weird, fucked-up patriarchal narratives and expectations. But unlike privately calling another woman a bitch or playing the role of Exceptional Feminist with a group of male coworkers or secretly doing all the housework in her own home, the name thing is there for everyone to see and question, every day of her life."

I consider myself both a masculist and a feminist. If both groups are fighting for equality it makes no sense for me to be "more" of one or the other. But am I wrong to want to take my husband-to-be's name? Would it be wrong of him to want to take mine? I don't exactly think that's "weird and fucked-up" and I'm sort of less keen on reading Shakesville if it's going to judge me right off the bat.

(Also, if I'm NOT doing the housework in my own home, who IS? What is my HUSBAND does all the housework? The rules of feminism are so confusing!)

Lastly, those cupcakes.

Those is some legit cupcakes. Those is so legit cupcakes that as soon as you come home we're going to go GET those cupcakes (within cupcakes).