Well, I see you smiling, babe, the knife behind your back

[sovay]

This afternoon my knee was in good enough shape that I actually got out of the house and walked up to the library and back, taking the cane for the ice and general late-winter street sludge. As of tonight, I am not using the cane around the house, which the cats seem to feel is an improvement on the past four days of weird noises and tail endangerment. My father talked to me about Mary Seacole and I have decided that this tweet may be our generation's "I am a lighthouse; your call." I ate some coconut-milk ice cream. Otherwise, today has been terrible. Tomorrow, being full of science fiction film, had better be more fun.

Comments

[yhlee]

I'm glad your knee is better and I hope tomorrow is a better day.

[sovay]

I'm glad your knee is better and I hope tomorrow is a better day.

Thank you. It ended up slightly fraught, but absolutely worth the time.

But I am still getting educated but I have got to write it down

[kore]

getting really sick again but I thought you would like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z55DqqyYXU

Shearwater- "Fantastic Voyage" Live in Studio 1A last year

Re: But I am still getting educated but I have got to write it down

[sovay]

Shearwater- "Fantastic Voyage" Live in Studio 1A last year

Thank you! Feel better, too.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Hooray for walking unassisted. May you have a very good 'thon. It looks like a really fun lineup.

[sovay]

Hooray for walking unassisted. May you have a very good 'thon. It looks like a really fun lineup.

Thank you! We did, despite unexpected and ridiculous complications. What we saw was all worth it.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about Mary Seacole and I'm glad now that I do, though that is such a depressing article to read! :( Two impressive women, who even in their lifetimes or for a century of more after, as far as I can tell, were never either of them used to chip away at the respect the other was rightly given - why,for heaven's sake, now try to make a competition between them. And for what? There is literally no limit to the amount of respect and gratitude and admiration available in the world, and in real terms, the more great stories... but you know all this. Sorry for ranting. :(
Thank you for bringing her to our attention.

[sovay]

There is literally no limit to the amount of respect and gratitude and admiration available in the world, and in real terms, the more great stories... but you know all this. Sorry for ranting.

No apologies necessary. The way people treat the world like a zero-sum game is rant-making, especially when that's not how the people they're using a examples would have seen it.

Thank you for bringing her to our attention.

You're welcome. I had heard of her, but only in the vaguest way; I was glad to have more to go on than just "black British woman in the Crimea?"

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard the lighthouse story. Thanks.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

I had, but enjoyed the reminder (and the newer tweet).

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Ditto. And I hadn't known about the Sanditon community: https://www.wired.com/2013/09/welcome-to-sanditon-collaborative-web-series/

[sovay]

And I hadn't known about the Sanditon community

I hadn't followed the tweet back to its source; that's really cool! Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

[sovay]

I had, but enjoyed the reminder (and the newer tweet).

I'm glad!

[sovay]

I hadn't heard the lighthouse story. Thanks.

You're welcome! I grew up on it, so it became household slang: it was possible to ask a question and receive for answer "I am a lighthouse; your call," which said everything you needed to know about the responder's opinion of the advisability of your plan.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there is a contingent of the texting, tweeting public that would love to try fucking a coffeeshop (I would be curious about the Venn overlap with those who want a lighthouse to give way)

[sovay]

I'm sure there is a contingent of the texting, tweeting public that would love to try fucking a coffeeshop (I would be curious about the Venn overlap with those who want a lighthouse to give way)

Is true. There's probably fanart. But I think it would be complicated.