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[glass_icarus]

Things what I saw at work today:
- one (1) mouse spleen, the size of a finger
- one (1) mouse liver, the size of two fingers, from the same mouse (which was somehow not of completely abnormal size, and also, a control animal as opposed to an experimental one. UM.)

I am fascinated, in a sick and horrified sort of way. Also, I need to think about something else, so have some links!

+ In case anybody hasn't already seen this: Five+ Ways Being Transgender in Fandom Really Sucks, and Why I Stick With It Anyway, by iambickilometer. Also re-linking to Khaos Komix here, because trans characters need more love.

+ Via stephiepenguin, The do's and don'ts of defending Muslim women (and linked from that post, Western feminists don't understand Muslim Women).

+ yeloson's Let me be honest for you (on The Last Airbender) is made of win.

+ A MATH POEM posted to forkedtongues today (BINA AND AVE, I am looking at you two! ;D): Nieśmiały cybernetyk potężne ekstrema/Love and Tensor Algebra, by Stanislaw Lem.

+ ciderpress has an intriguing list of BBC audioshows up!

+ The lovely sheafrotherdon is kindly hosting a FLAIL PARTY for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, so if you have read it and want to squee in company, hop over! I know what I'll be doing in, oh, ten minutes. :D

+ And finally, a question: has anybody ever read Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel?? A paperback copy has mysteriously appeared (no, really, none of us know whose it is) in my house, and I would like to get opinions before I read it as my to-read list is far too long.

Comments

[musesfool]

I got bored with "Beyond Black" about halfway in - I found it kind of relentlessly depressing for no point that I could see. I mean, the prose is pretty fantastic, but I just didn't really enjoy spending time with the characters.

[lyras]

I read Beyond Black a couple of years ago, and had mixed feelings about it. I loved the beginning and the end, but got extremely frustrated in the middle - it just seemed to meander around in its own misery.

I was left feeling that I needed to read it again in order to really get it.

[miss_haitch]

I had trouble getting into The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, but your link to the Flail Party has made me give it another go, and so far I'm enjoying it more than I did when I first started reading. Yay!

[faynia]

I just realized you had audioshows on here. ♥ I listened to the one about the Russian women bomber pilots, which was very good.

[eumelkeks]

Thanks for those links. The meta/essays on transgender (which not even exists in my FF dictionary, how sad) and on Muslim women were really interesting reads.