I slept a sleep of rain-washed alleys and golden-lit bars
Yesterday was primarily characterized by grocery shopping while having slept forty-five minutes the previous night. Today I have a glass bottle of goat's milk in my refrigerator and my bootlace that isn't already knotted just broke. Both of these circumstances have perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century explanations and yet. Have some recently accumulated links.
1. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
umadoshi: I was glad to see this follow-up article of differing perspectives—millennial and otherwise—on burnout.
2. I like how this article on "Why We Need to Keep Searching for Lost Silent Films" answers its own question with its subtitle: "Early motion pictures give us an important window into our collective past." I'd heard of Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898). I'd never heard of Diplomatic Henry (1915).
3. Courtesy ofhandful_ofdust: I love this appreciation of medieval bog body fashion, but I have to say the reconstruction of Bockstensmannen looks a bit done with the whole thing.
(While we're talking about things under water and earth, I was reminded by a recent exchange withstrange_complex that I've never understood why I don't see Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard (1974) included in more discussions of folk horror. It was published in the '70's and revolves around the fire sacrifice of a year-king to the old gods of the land. I thought of it the first time I saw The Wicker Man (1973). Maybe the Child ballad confuses people.)
4.moon_custafer has been making text posts from The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
5. Over the weekend I was having one of those moments of wondering what I have ever done worthwhile with my life whenspatch showed me this tweet. About the only time I want the capacity to interact with Twitter is to say thank you for something like that.
I will be at Arisia this weekend, because some of the people who stepped up to put out the fires are people I trust. I'll post my schedule soon.
1. Courtesy of
umadoshi: I was glad to see this follow-up article of differing perspectives—millennial and otherwise—on burnout.2. I like how this article on "Why We Need to Keep Searching for Lost Silent Films" answers its own question with its subtitle: "Early motion pictures give us an important window into our collective past." I'd heard of Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898). I'd never heard of Diplomatic Henry (1915).
3. Courtesy of
handful_ofdust: I love this appreciation of medieval bog body fashion, but I have to say the reconstruction of Bockstensmannen looks a bit done with the whole thing.(While we're talking about things under water and earth, I was reminded by a recent exchange with
strange_complex that I've never understood why I don't see Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard (1974) included in more discussions of folk horror. It was published in the '70's and revolves around the fire sacrifice of a year-king to the old gods of the land. I thought of it the first time I saw The Wicker Man (1973). Maybe the Child ballad confuses people.)4.
moon_custafer has been making text posts from The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.5. Over the weekend I was having one of those moments of wondering what I have ever done worthwhile with my life when
spatch showed me this tweet. About the only time I want the capacity to interact with Twitter is to say thank you for something like that.I will be at Arisia this weekend, because some of the people who stepped up to put out the fires are people I trust. I'll post my schedule soon.
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It arrived at a good time and is still making me happy. (And I really want to read whatever she's writing about the story!)
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All of us: Hey Bockstensmannen, you've got such comfy cozy clothes--why the long face?
Him: I am about. To die. In a bog.
... Okay, fair enough.
He does have great hair.
That's an awesome tweet. Thanks for sharing--I retweeted!
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He really does. He's rocking a sort of combination glam monk and disappointed Romantic poet.
That's an awesome tweet. Thanks for sharing--I retweeted!
Thank you so much!
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WHAT but also that's amazing
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That set is my favorite, but her text post from Don Quixote is also pretty great.
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Definitely.
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https://66.media.tumblr.com/1bceb7151f2f9004eb36b50223054883/tumblr_pldxnyUUZ71s1qizwo1_1280.jpg
https://66.media.tumblr.com/6e3e29dfa2a8adb5e869f29d9c74bfc3/tumblr_pldxnyUUZ71s1qizwo2_1280.jpg
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I like that. I'm also very fond of "apparently not uncomfortable enough for you to stop."
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DID YOU WANT THAT LIST ALPHABETICALLY OR BY COLOR.
*grouses* I recognize my weekend tendency to disappear into my child's schedule and its unplumbed depths of madness, but ring the bell. I am at home.
*hugs*
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You did invite me to Newfoundland.
*hugs*
Arisia
I also decided to attend, based on the actions taken by the corporate membership (Which is vastly expanded. And easy to join.) and new eboard to support the people who are stepping up.
Re: Arisia
I was not at all sure about successful accountability based on the initial responses, but it got better.
Re: Arisia
Technically, there were two meetings on the 11th, so that new members (there were many of us who wanted to see if the con could be salvaged or should be written off) could attend one meeting, gaining the rights to vote in the second. To give you a sense of scale, 172 people showed up on the 11th, compared to 19 people in attendance at the earlier meeting where Rosenberg was re-elected two hours after Crystal Huff was told that no action would be taken against him.
I had hoped that the new e-board would have apologized more quickly, the earnest public apology didn't happen until the 23rd. But they wanted to reach out to the people harmed directly first. And there were newly reported incidents coming in, and it seems likely that getting out of the Westin contract and into the Park Plaza in support of the hotel workers strike was a little distracting. And people were working on recommended policy changes to bring to the December meeting.
Obviously there will an ongoing work needed to make sure that the con keeps getting safer, and doesn't slide backwards. And that Arisia improves in other ways--it would be better if attendance was more reflective of the diversity of Greater Boston, for example. If anyone wants to support good governance, corporate membership is a nominal prorated cost (that can be waived) and there is corporate meeting taking place at the con on Sunday morning, so it is very easy to begin getting involved by showing up and briefly signing an attendance list. And one can give a voting proxy to a trusted person, so it's not like attending a monthly corporate meeting has to be a burden.
We seem to live in time where we are called to engage more--in civic life most importantly, but also to do stuff like warding off "sad puppies" from the Hugos, and to make local communities safer and more welcoming. It's certainly understandable if people can't spend their limited attention on a convention. And of course, the topics necessarily involved in making spaces safer are a substantial emotional burden for some people. But if anyone can engage, it would be helpful.
Also, there is a town hall, and feedback sessions at the con on different days, so if anyway wants to share concerns there that's an option. And there are people I like and respect who have just written the convention off, which is totally understandable.
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Tell me more!
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It's probably my favorite retelling of the ballad of "Tam Lin"; it's set in England in the sixteenth century and casts the Queen of Fairy and it interprets fairy lore in light of the survival of an ancient pagan cult, quarter-seasons and sacrifices and the king of the land at his death-time. Even within this framework, it's weird and numinous as well as spiky and pragmatic and it's not simplistic about any of its characters, several of whom are convincingly nonhuman despite being technically mortal (and at least one of whom, unexplainedly, isn't at all). I suspect most people don't think of it as folk horror because it's a retelling and because it has a historical rather than modern setting, but I think that's no bar! And it's beautifully done.
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Now I need to find that!
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It has always been readily available in libraries of my acquaintance. I hope it's there for you!
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