When God hates you and mothers run away

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I meant to mention this earlier today, but the day happened: "After the Red Sea" has been highlighted by Bogi Takács as part of eir #diversepoems series. I'm honored.

Courtesy of handful_ofdust's Tumblr: color photographs of women in the ATS in 1942. Some of those shots could be stills from The Gentle Sex (1943), but they're history.

Have now finished Season Two of Hannibal. Quoting rushthatspeaks: "Rocks fall, everybody Schrödinger." The season finale was extraordinarily beautifully filmed. Have now watched two more episodes of Twin Peaks (1990). It's wonderful; I am watching it with delight. Have also watched the first two episodes of Agent Carter (2014) and should write about them soon, because at the moment my reactions are a mostly positive incoherence centering around pulp sci-fi tropes, role reversals, excellent use of color and costume design, and Peggy Carter punching a lot of people, sometimes while holding a stapler. [edit: see comments!] I wish the show had slightly more budget and more characters of color, but it still has six episodes in which to fix the latter. I believe derspatchel when he says that lobster would have been too expensive to waste on a foley effect in 1946, but if that is my greatest historical complaint about a show, is it ever ahead of the pack. This is probably the most varied amount of television I have watched in a span of two days since I lived somewhere with a TV.

I cannot afford to fall into Flight Rising, but I have now been shown (by Rush) a breeding clan and there are some beautiful dragons in that world.

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[yhlee]

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I have a partly Kel- and Shuos-themed lair on Flight Rising. Some of the dragon-characters might be familiar. ^_^

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

It's no guarantee that Agent Carter will get around to the characters-of-color thing, but I like the fact that they've got Sousa there with his disability: it helps sell the idea that the problems of the time period were broader than just sexism, and that the guys at SSR aren't jerks because they're dissing the protagonist, they're jerks because they're jerks.

I also like the fact that they're making an effort to get other women into the story, without undermining the sense that Carter really is one of those pioneers trying to make her way in what amounts to a man's world. She doesn't have a well-developed female social network, but she had a roommate who was feminine and not dissed for it, and she's got a waitress friend who isn't a badass -- I hope we get at least one plotline that involves the place Carter's living now, because that little glimpse into the life of an unmarried woman was excellent. Basically, no, there aren't any women at her workplace . . . but that doesn't mean there are no women in her world. All good.

I should give both Hannibal and Twin Peaks a shot. Right now, though, I'm finishing off The Bletchley Circle, which makes a good pairing with Agent Carter: former GC&CS codebreakers teaming up post-war to solve crimes WITH VECTOR ANALYSIS.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Wonderful photographs. They remind me of Laura Knight's war portraits, like this of Corporal J. D. M. Pearson, GC, WAAF:



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"After the Red Sea" has been highlighted by Bogi Takács

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