sovay: (Sydney Carton)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2021-03-11 01:45 am

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

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 [personal profile] sholio has made a gifset of Bill Maxwell from The Greatest American Hero (1981–83): "FBI agent and absolute weirdo."

2. Courtesy of [personal profile] 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 [personal profile] 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."
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2021-03-12 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, shading into the whole problem of purity, which I started to go on about in the response to [personal profile] swan_tower but ehhh, it's a whole nother kettle of monkeys with typewriters (ETA: so I deleted those remarks)

On the one hand "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" should not be used as a reason to disregard the (sometimes extending to) horrific things people do. The fact that all people sin doesn't mean that all sins are equal. ON THE OTHER HAND, some people jump to condemnation as if there might be peerless, irreproachable people in the world.
Edited 2021-03-12 13:37 (UTC)