a miscellany
Jan. 5th, 2024 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfish2023 wrapup coming tomorrow or Sunday. Meanwhile, have some artisanally-curated internet.
CW: emotional and mild physical abuse. The Protagonist Is Never in Control: "You don't like the horror series that are popular with your classmates, written in a second person much too visceral for comfort, where the protagonist is never in control. In those stories, the worst things always happen off the page, leaving you to fill in the most terrifying details."
WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Her Illegal Abortion in 1950, a four-minute video. First in a series of six short videos (I think that is the longest) by Arwen Curry, creator of the documentary Worlds Of Ursula K. Le Guin.
Notes Toward 'Liminal Christmas': "(It was a tough moment when I realized that I actually enjoy Christmas Eve more than Christmas Day. So like, Christmas gets here, and… the good part is already over. Maybe this is more an adult mood because Christmas Day as an adult is TIRING) (maybe I am just ultimately a liminal-loving person idk. THE IN-BETWEEN IS WHERE THE MAGIC LIVES)"
'Endemic' SARS-CoV-2 and the death of public health: "The unofficial alliance between big business and dangerous pathogens that was forged in early 2020 has emerged victorious and greatly strengthened from its battle against public health, and is poised to steamroll whatever meager opposition remains for the remainder of this, and future pandemics."
CW: emotional and mild physical abuse. The Protagonist Is Never in Control: "You don't like the horror series that are popular with your classmates, written in a second person much too visceral for comfort, where the protagonist is never in control. In those stories, the worst things always happen off the page, leaving you to fill in the most terrifying details."
WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Her Illegal Abortion in 1950, a four-minute video. First in a series of six short videos (I think that is the longest) by Arwen Curry, creator of the documentary Worlds Of Ursula K. Le Guin.
Notes Toward 'Liminal Christmas': "(It was a tough moment when I realized that I actually enjoy Christmas Eve more than Christmas Day. So like, Christmas gets here, and… the good part is already over. Maybe this is more an adult mood because Christmas Day as an adult is TIRING) (maybe I am just ultimately a liminal-loving person idk. THE IN-BETWEEN IS WHERE THE MAGIC LIVES)"
'Endemic' SARS-CoV-2 and the death of public health: "The unofficial alliance between big business and dangerous pathogens that was forged in early 2020 has emerged victorious and greatly strengthened from its battle against public health, and is poised to steamroll whatever meager opposition remains for the remainder of this, and future pandemics."