I lost my fake ID, but you lost the motel key

[sovay]

How today has gone: the noises I just made on discovering a not completely empty bag of cough drops in the farthest corner of the counters in the kitchen are more traditionally associated with the lottery. Have some links.

1. I am delighted that sholio has made a gifset of Bill Maxwell from The Greatest American Hero (1981–83): "FBI agent and absolute weirdo."

2. Courtesy of moon_custafer: cogent thoughts on having feelings about problematic art. "And so if Harry Potter or BA or Voltron or whatever other problematic thing was your lifeline it's okay to be upset that it was yanked away from you by bigoted creators and racist corporations and bad writing. It's okay to mourn that thing, to miss the joy it brought you, to think back on the good memories you had of it, to not want to jump on the hate bandwagon, to be upset when people mock the people like you who cared about it."

3. Courtesy of ashlyme: Judith Bingham's Salt in the Blood (1995), a maritime ghost story for chorus and orchestra, full of chanteys and fragments of ships' logs. I want a libretto.

P.S. Courtesy of my father: "Meet the Sea Slugs That Chop Off Their Heads and Grow New Bodies." It should maybe come with a content warning for video, but personally I cannot resist statements like "Self-amputation, known as autotomy, isn't uncommon in the animal kingdom. Having the ability to jettison a body part, such as a tail, helps many animals avoid predation. However, no animal had ever been observed ditching its entire body."

Comments

[sholio]

I didn't think it was assumed as a universal reaction: I thought the post was directed at people who were feeling severed from art that had been important to them and intended to support them against the tide of the alternative. The line "and cast it aside if it comes to that" suggested to me that OP did not presuppose that the casting aside was inevitable.

Ah, fair - I had read an implied "well, obviously you'll do THIS" in the post that is not necessarily actually there except in my head.

Winter's Tale is basically two and possibly three books with very different tones and styles jammed together. I have stronger feelings about some of its aspects than others, but it left an indelible stamp on my brain. He has a way of blending noirish elements with fairy tale elements that makes a particular kind of magic for me.

[sovay]

Ah, fair - I had read an implied "well, obviously you'll do THIS" in the post that is not necessarily actually there except in my head.

This stuff is tricky and nuance on the internet is hard. (Nuance in real life is also hard. It's unfair.)

He has a way of blending noirish elements with fairy tale elements that makes a particular kind of magic for me.

Well, I may still bounce off it, but that description has succeeded in making the book of interest to me. Thank you.

[sholio]

Well, I may still bounce off it, but that description has succeeded in making the book of interest to me. Thank you.

This conversation has made me want to reread, so I'll probably make a post about that! It's been a while since the last time.