February 2012
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Intolerance
Recently, I experienced something new.
It’s funny - for such a vocal defender of people, I haven’t really been on the receiving end of bad feeling because of a simple attribute before. I was bullied in high school because I was in a heterosexual relationship (yeah - work that one out), but anything different lies underneath the surface - on the outside, I’m white, male,...
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Thinspo
OK, this one’s going to be quick, because I feel like this has been said before, but let’s just make it clear: regardless of how you feel about Tumblr’s proposed new policy regarding pro-self-harm blogs, they aren’t violating your right to free speech.
Your tumblelog exists because an investor paid for it. They, and the other shareholders on Tumblr, own the collection of...
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Forgetting to Remix
I love a lot of stuff. Right now, I love the video game Dragon Age: Origins, which I just completed after 56 fun (and occasionally frustrating) hours. I love Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective on my iPhone. I love the soundtrack to Machinarium, the third series of the rebooted Doctor Who, the wonderful polyamory 101 book The Ethical Slut, and a mountain of other stuff that makes me humbled to be...
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“The way multiple oppressions interact is called intersectionality. For instance,...”
– I have a new favourite blog.
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Just had a browse through the ol’ follower list.
Twelve of the thirty I clicked on had something positive about Chris Brown within the first ten posts.
I miss LiveJournal.
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Created
Tonight, although it passed as something fairly inconsequential, marked something pretty important for me. It was the point at which I finally dusted my hands off after releasing Tales From The End into the wild, with the release of a series of digital editions. And yes, there’s tidying up and reformatting and stuff that’s yet to be done, but that’s it - I gave up the idea of an...
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Profiling
Following on from Arden’s excellent post about the Arkh project, I think I’m starting to realise what it is exactly that grates so much about this whole scheme. And it’s this:
We have no idea - no idea who’s behind it.
I want to expand this to a more general point, and it’s about Tumblr - this is the first platform I’ve been on where there’s no active...
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ardeb:
Okay I’ve been wanting to make this post for a while but I was afraid of the backlash - but at this point, fuck that. I need to say something.
The Arkh Project is not going to go anywhere and I feel really fucking bad for anyone who has donated money because they’re not going to see any results. It’s a really noble cause - games today lack queer characters and persons of color and the...
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The Book of Tumblr Returns: Click here to download... →
fortuneandglory:
theonlybook:
It may have seemed like a long hiatus (because it was), but this project is far from complete. Read the first 30 pages of Tumblr’s very first user-created novel - written by ten different Tumblr users, who each had no idea where the others would be taking the story - by clicking on the link above. Right here is also a story overview of each character in the story...
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Things I Learned Tonight
There are things I’ve written recently that I’m actually rather proud of.
My boyfriend is alarmingly good at expressing his opinions.
The person you follow as a celebratory OK-I’ve-hit-1,700-I-may-as-well-trawl-through-you-all treat will not be who you expect.
Sometimes, wonderful things happen.
Replaying the first four hours of a game for the third time doesn’t have...
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BWDR: Clerks (1994) →
brightwalldarkroom:
I’M NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TODAY
by Christopher F.
Clerks is a film about my best friend Joe.
When I first saw Kevin Smith’s debut feature, to say it didn’t grab me would be an understatement. Calling me a kid of the nineties is a bit like saying that people born in the sixties…
I wrote this!
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January 2012
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There’s this kid - he’s my age, but I can’t call him anything else - in my Life and Death lectures who has a habit of ruining things the second he gets a word in edgeways. Today, I learned he’s a Taoist, and his contributions (to our lecture, not a seminar, but the sort of thing where the tutor might welcome minor remarks from the floor rather than lengthy diatribes)...
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In my lecture yesterday for the philosophy module Life and Death (I say this for context’s sake), our tutor stood at the front of the room and asked us: if no-one cared about your death, and it was sudden, and painless, would it be objectively bad? (It’s a good question, although those circumstances are pretty rare - painless death is difficult, and you’re almost always going to...
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Assange is getting a TV show →
From WIRED:
The show will be broadcast exclusively on Russian network RT, which is run by the state-owned RIA Novost news agency. Formerly known as Russia Today, the channel is available around the world. In the UK it’s available on channel 512 on Sky, and Freeview channel 85.
I’m uncomfortable about this. Despite the fact that I’m not one of those deplorable assholes who...
I used to be a tired old cliché like you, until I took a metatextual reference to the sentence structure
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Here's something fascinating
I’m reading about death (because I have to, not because it’s fun) and ran across a little essay about the how the introduction of respirators - as in, life support machines - roughly coincided with the introduction of organ transplants. Prior to 1981, when the US government accepted the work of the Harvard Brain Death Committee that suggested that (guess what) effective brain death was...