Now I can be in my own space and ignore everyone else
Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Physically, I continue to feel like last year's soda bread, but it is beautifully sunny outside and a cat slept against the small of my back most of the night. Have some links.
1. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
newredshoes: "Becoming the King in the North: identification with fictional characters is associated with greater self–other neural overlap." I am fascinated by the conclusions of this study, would love to see them replicated with a larger and more diverse sample set than nineteen fans of Game of Thrones, and feel obscurely vindicated by its discussion of "identification" more in terms of empathy than self-projection. "According to Mitchell and colleagues, the self is drawn on to understand others only if the self is deemed an appropriate proxy as tends to occur when we perceive others to be similar to ourselves. Moreover, behavioral work on identification with fictional characters has also focused on perceived similarity to self as a predictor of the ease with which one is able to inhabit the role of a given character. The current findings, however, provide initial evidence for perceived closeness and liking rather than perceived similarity as potentially important factors in the association between trait identification and self–other neural overlap with fictional characters."
2. Courtesy ofhandful_ofdust: "The Baddest Man in Town: On the trail of a historical figure immortalized in African-American folklore." In light of the author's observation that "It's no coincidence that Stagolee faded from African-American folklore just as a new wave of well-dressed 'bad muthafuckas' arrived on the scene, also rolling Cadillacs," it feels like closing the loop that Samuel L. Jackson performs such a satisfyingly profane version of "Stackolee" in the underrated Black Snake Moan (2007).
3. Courtesy ofselkie: Vesalius in Yiddish!
4. Courtesy of half my friendlist: "Elliot Page Is Ready for This Moment." My immediate and thoroughly shallow reaction to the banner photograph is that he and Burn Gorman should do some kind of family drama; their cheekbone-to-jawline game would be unstoppable.
5. I found this one on my own time: "Primal Scream: An Oral History of The Howling. Joe Dante, John Sayles, Dee Wallace, Robert Picardo, Mike Finnell, Mark Goldblatt, and Robert Rehme reflect on the film's legacy 40 years later." I'm still on the fence about watching this movie, but I very much enjoyed reading about it. I love working-actor anecdotes like "So I was singing and dancing six days a week, and on the seventh day, I was tearing women's throats out in my part-time job as a werewolf."
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newredshoes: "Becoming the King in the North: identification with fictional characters is associated with greater self–other neural overlap." I am fascinated by the conclusions of this study, would love to see them replicated with a larger and more diverse sample set than nineteen fans of Game of Thrones, and feel obscurely vindicated by its discussion of "identification" more in terms of empathy than self-projection. "According to Mitchell and colleagues, the self is drawn on to understand others only if the self is deemed an appropriate proxy as tends to occur when we perceive others to be similar to ourselves. Moreover, behavioral work on identification with fictional characters has also focused on perceived similarity to self as a predictor of the ease with which one is able to inhabit the role of a given character. The current findings, however, provide initial evidence for perceived closeness and liking rather than perceived similarity as potentially important factors in the association between trait identification and self–other neural overlap with fictional characters." 2. Courtesy of
handful_ofdust: "The Baddest Man in Town: On the trail of a historical figure immortalized in African-American folklore." In light of the author's observation that "It's no coincidence that Stagolee faded from African-American folklore just as a new wave of well-dressed 'bad muthafuckas' arrived on the scene, also rolling Cadillacs," it feels like closing the loop that Samuel L. Jackson performs such a satisfyingly profane version of "Stackolee" in the underrated Black Snake Moan (2007).3. Courtesy of
selkie: Vesalius in Yiddish!4. Courtesy of half my friendlist: "Elliot Page Is Ready for This Moment." My immediate and thoroughly shallow reaction to the banner photograph is that he and Burn Gorman should do some kind of family drama; their cheekbone-to-jawline game would be unstoppable.
5. I found this one on my own time: "Primal Scream: An Oral History of The Howling. Joe Dante, John Sayles, Dee Wallace, Robert Picardo, Mike Finnell, Mark Goldblatt, and Robert Rehme reflect on the film's legacy 40 years later." I'm still on the fence about watching this movie, but I very much enjoyed reading about it. I love working-actor anecdotes like "So I was singing and dancing six days a week, and on the seventh day, I was tearing women's throats out in my part-time job as a werewolf."
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A JUNK DEALER.
That article is incredible. It's like the Easter Island statues who walked to their places on the cliffsides, or the spoon-dug tunnel under Ponar: see, we damn well told you.
Yes! For all the forking paths of the folk tradition, the real events were right there in the song all along. I love that.
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Thanks for linking this; I'd seen the pictures but not read the article! Actually, I still haven't read the article, because I got as far as the first paragraph and felt like I'd just been punched in the throat by my entire childhood and had to stop, but I will read it at some point. I'm very happy for him!!!
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You're welcome! I found it painful to read that his chosen profession had interacted so cruelly with his dysphoria, so I am really looking forward to whatever work he does now.
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It totally is.
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I'm so glad it's not just me! Like, they can play siblings or cousins or whatever in the genre of their choice, but I want to see it.
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That is exactly who he reminded me of!
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I haven't read My Heart Struck Sorrow! Recommended?
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You're welcome! It makes me pretty happy, too.
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And Elliot Page is looking simply awesome. All the love.
It's a day late, but here's a funny video on St. Patrick's bad analogies.
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It's so good! I didn't know most of the information in it!
And Elliot Page is looking simply awesome. All the love.
I really like seeing people be not just comfortable, but joyous in themselves.
It's a day late, but here's a funny video on St. Patrick's bad analogies.
"That's Arianism, Patrick!"
That's brilliant.