Star Wars Episode IV: A Forlorn Hope is an outline for an alternate universe fix in which the main character is a trans girl called Shmi. It’s clever in how it explores the ramifications to the original plot of the change from ‘Luke Skywalker’ to ‘Shmi’ – she leaves home just a little earlier than […]
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Links for February 17, 2019: Metal confronts its Nazi problem, infodumping, plus new: non-linklogging
I skipped a few days of linklogging because I had other things going on and no energy. I may or may not try to track down some of the interesting links I’ve missed. Heavy Metal Confronts Its Nazi Problem by Colin Moynihan at the New Yorker is a good overview of the history of Nazis […]
Links for February 13, 2019: Fairy Play, Yorkshire cheese
Fairy Play is an interesting fantasy webcomic with focus on marginalized characters. It is also captioned in great detail and has content warnings. I’d seen it around before but hadn’t remembered the link. Now I have. John Bull on Twitter, writer of Brexit Adventures, also knows a thing or two about cheese. The UK National […]
Links for February 10, 2019: An Angry Gay’s Overdue Screed on Bohemian Rhapsody, Chivalry is not that, naked webcomics, Terry Pratchett’s Oblivion mod
Christine Kelley posted a belated, but powerful response to Bohemian Rhapsody, a Queen biopic I have personally refused to watch because shouting and throwing eggs at a movie screen is not my idea of a good time: An Angry Gay’s Overdue Screed on Bohemian Rhapsody. That’s Not What Chivalry Is by Dr Eleanor Janega is […]
Link for January 31, 2019: substituting Doctor Who, Season 11 stories with earlier, funnier ones.
I’m at a campsite in Southern Spain with poot Internet access, so I’m not going to try to post daily links, but this first part of a series in which Doctor Who episodes from the rather dire Season 11 are compared with similar episodes from earlier seasons was too good not to share: Adventures in […]
Links for January 24, 2018: Venezuela, “the most pro-Black President”
I’m supposed to be on vacation, semi-incommunicado at a campsite in southern Spain. But because of the snowfall, we could not travel so me, my spouse and the dogs are still in the Netherlands. I’ve been scheduling posts and drawing comics, and now here’s another batch of links. Verónica Bayetti Flores pleads for nuance and […]
Links for December 20: Sealioning, the far right on Tumblr
Epic Twitter thread by Secret Gamer Girl about how people claiming to be Just Asking Questions are almost never doing so in good faith, which is also noteworthy for its form, which breaks down paragraphs and sentences across multiple tweets to discourage Quote-Tweeting out of context. There should be a fancy acronym for that, like […]
Links for January 19: Crumbling pachyderms, Ugly Fruit
The Mastodon is Crumbling post. To be honest, I can’t give this my full attention right now, but it’s here in case I want to read what it actually says. The Ugly Fruit thread from Sarah Taber on Twitter, who understands agricultural supply chains better than most.
Links for January 18: Color-blindness considerations, Dreams of Orgonon
Color-blindness considerations for Designers and Content Managers by Sheri Byrne-Haber on Medium lays it down starkly: It is completely unclear to me why designers think that it is acceptable to use colors (or combinations of colors) that others can’t see. This is a wide-spread problem that is very easily avoidable. The designers, who generally have […]
Links for January 17: Medical transphobia, ad tech
Amanda Jette Knox on Twitter discusses a letter by a small group of doctors agains gender-affirming treatment for children. She’s not impressed by the science and less impressed by the history of homophobia and transphobia behind the signers. On a related topic, some of the studies that are used to argue against gender confirmation, or […]