Linkblogging

[brigdh]

1. Not with a Bang - Alec, Swordspoint, PG-13. By me! I posted this story last night, but you know, time zones. Anyway, I wrote something! This is deeply and terribly exciting to me, in sad way. So you should comment.

I was rereading my old Swordpoint stories the other day, because clearly that is a productive use of time, and I noticed that I'm often quite vague about when any particular story is set. This despite the fact that, of course, I have quite specific times in mind when I'm writing. It's because I think I'm 'subtle'. Anyway, to correct that, I actually gave a clear setting this time, in the notes and all! Go me. These are the things I'm working on this week, because otherwise I have to try and understand quantum physics (I AM NOT EVEN EXAGGERATING I AM LITERALLY READING A 400 PAGE BOOK ON HOW X-RAYS ARE FORMED AT A SUBATOMIC LEVEL AND ELECTRON SPIN AND OH GOD KILL ME NOW). So they're probably going to kick me out. And then I have to move to the inner city and live with a swordsman? I think that is my life already. My point here*, though, is that the prompt was from 'Heart of Darkness', which is a book that I hate, partly because I've had to read it four or five time- Heart of Darkness being one of those books that every literature class ever has to assign- and partly because I just hate it. However, those multiple readings did mean I now get what it's doing, at least, and I do not hate it quite as much as I did the first time I read it. I still think it's racist, though, which lead to a disagreement with a professor in my undergrad and then he gave me a C on the paper because he said I clearly wasn't reading deeply enough. Not that I'm holding a grudge.

Anyway, none of that has absolutely anything to do with my story. On to the next link!

2. A bunch of art that the Nazis described as 'degenerate' and dumped in a cellar has been uncovered in an archaeological dig, and is back on display: photos here. Really neat.

3. The 50s Housewife Experiment - this is a very cool blog. She decides to try actually living like a 50s housewife- including cooking from 50s cookbooks, taking 50s beauty tips, cleaning based on 50s household advice books, and so on- to see what it's like, and then blogging about it. Also funny!

4. FCKh8: Straight Talk about Gay Marriage (NSFW) I love this video so much.



*Okay, clearly I have no point and am rambling, but bear with me.

Comments

[eac.livejournal.com]

There are Swordspoint stories? I was just re-reading those. Yay. :)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

There are lots of Swordspoint stories! I will first be selfish and just link to my own, which can be found here: Brigdh's fic (http://wordsofastory.livejournal.com/176436.html) (scroll down a bit for Swordspoint).

However, because I'm obsessive, I also maintain a list of all Swordspoint fanfiction that has ever been written- well, and posted to the internet. It's a bit out of date at the moment, but I'm planning of fixing that tonight and tomorrow. Swordspoint fandom (http://community.livejournal.com/_riverside/13177.html).

The books are lovely to reread, so I hope you find some stories you enjoy!

[rm.livejournal.com]

There are! Writing Swordspoint stories is how wordsofastory and I met and hooked up (hence, her life already... Several of my swords live in our bedroom)

[eac.livejournal.com]

I should really have understood there would be... :)

[usullusa.livejournal.com]

"And then I have to move to the inner city and live with a swordsman? I think that is my life already."

I don't think you're nearly batshit enough to be Alec.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I am most definitely not, nor is Racheline a border-line psychopathic killer, but you know. I still think it's funny.

[rm.livejournal.com]

This is true, but the first time we met in person, a strange, STRANGE man get getting into our space in a bar, and eventually I offered to show wordsofastory how to kill him with a steak knife and then he asked if he'd be real if we stabbed him, JUST LIKE IN THE BOOK, which croggled us beyond all.

[usullusa.livejournal.com]

That is the weirdest yet coolest shit ever. Except for the part where a weird guy was bugging you.

Life is often so bafflingly circular.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I think wordsofastory posted about the evening in here somewhere, or I did -- I can't remember. It was super bizarre and is worth us telling the story sometime when my Internet is less fucking Swiss.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Here is the post of that night (http://wordsofastory.livejournal.com/267211.html), if you're interested, but it's pretty long. It was also the first time rm and I met in person, which feel really adds to the story.

[shes-unreal.livejournal.com]

I have never read Heart of Darkness! I guess I haven't taken much Lit though.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ugh, do not. That and 'Things Fall Apart' are the ones I've been assigned the most often, and while I don't really like 'Things Fall Apart' either, at least it is just boring and not offensive.

[shes-unreal.livejournal.com]

I had to read "Things Fall Apart" for an African & African American Literature class, so I guess that was my lit. I took one English course, a Classics class, and a couple of history classes, and I think that's as close as I came to having to study literature.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I know I had them both in high school and college classes, but I can't remember specifics. Because I have a really bad memory! I think I was only required to take two English classes in college, but I took several others (or ones that were close enough, like comp lit or folklore), that I kept having to deal with these same books.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I actually like it, but only had to read it once. And it's definitely a portrait of a time and mindset rather than a history lesson, lolz.

[shes-unreal.livejournal.com]

Kind of like reading Rudyard Kipling, eh?

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeees. I am sort of boggled that people say 'no, it's not a racist book!' Um. It is soaking in it. Conrad does cool things with English and tries to blame the Europeans for a lot of the problems but omg man of his time.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I love how thrilled the kids in the FCKh8 video are to be saying 'fuck,' lolz. And the "I'm straight! ...okay, I'm not."

And #2 is amazing.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, isn't it great?

Glad you enjoyed!