and there was much rejoicing

[glass_icarus]

First Deadline has been made! *\o/* (Okay, am a bit nervous about PDF previewing failure but I did check the online form about 230947 times, so.) Time for a celebratory linkspam, haha.

» some overdue fanspam
+ Check out the Merlin lexicon, risingsunpub!
+ zahrawithaz wrote some Morgana meta!
+ I have spent shameful amounts of procrastination time devouring Guide Me Home, a gigantor Ursa/Hakoda fic. >.>
+ Also, Disclosure will never stop being hilarious. Mai/Zuko complementary failboats, ahahahahahah! &hearts
+ game on: Mai vs. Iroh in a pai sho showdown! Also Mai/Zuko cuteness, hahaha.
+ rs_small_gifts has begun posting, yay!

» foodspam (now I want a food carnival!)
+ deepad: Doodh se Dhuli
+ vi: gross, weird, inedible
+ Jha's Lunar Year's End! AWESOME. &hearts
+ troisroyaumes: Seven things

» +1: Via deadbro, Keeping Hobbits White since 1937 made me laugh and laugh, but also prodded me into some thoughts regarding racebending.

See, I never expected to have a place in Tolkien's world, or in any white European fantasy land (which isn't always quite the same as generic fantasy land). I'm not saying that chromatic people haven't been erased from these fantasies, just that many mythologies built up around worlds full of elves and dwarves and fairies and goblins and whatnot read to me as specifically white European, intentional or not. I grew up with them, but I grew up knowing that they didn't belong to me, that those worlds were ones in which I had no part.

Part of me wonders whether this is a failure of my imagination, or perhaps a side effect of growing up surrounded by white-dominated media; I've only just started asking "why not?", after all. Racebending something as coded-white as Arthurian legend would never have occurred to me without Angel Coulby as BBC Merlin's Guinevere! But in the end, I personally am less interested in carving out chromatic spaces in white European mythologies. I would rather re/claim the stories that aren't explicitly coded, the blank "universal" narratives (e.g. superheroes or space explorers or cops-and-robbers capers), than expand upon the ones that were never mine to begin with.

Comments

[yiduiqie]

i too want a food carnival!

[glass_icarus]

LET'S DO IT :D

[yiduiqie]

OKAY

what should the theme be? how shall we do it?

[glass_icarus]

\o/!

HMM. I dunno! Do we wanna get more specific than "food"? (Family-style? Holiday treats? Street food?)

[yiduiqie]

and also, obviously this has grown out of food shame specifically related to cultural imperialism/racism - are we limiting it to that? obviously there's a lot that can be said about food shame from a fat perspective, or an ablism/disability perspective, too. are we limiting it to food shame? or are we celebrating food? in which case it makes sense to specify things like family-style, holidays, etc.

if we wanted to make it ongoing, we could start (short notice, i know) with holidays, given today's close proximity to new year, lny/spring festival, christmas, hannukah, even recently passed holidays like eid al-adha.

[glass_icarus]

Ooh, good point. I think food shame is a topic that needs more discussion, but I would also want to include celebration because food! It's a happy thing!

I would support an ongoing carnival! I like the holidays idea, but maybe given the short notice we could make the first round themeless/general?

[yiduiqie]

i think an ongoing carnival is the way to go. hooray! is it going to be one of those passed around things, or something with a distinct round up area? (errr...great sentence! like, the awc had a separate blog for round ups; versus something that we announce on our blogs and gets passed around and rounded up on someone's personal blog)

i think the first one could still be celebrations! if we announced it this weekend, to go live on the first of jan, that's in the middle of celebrating! though actually on the first of january i will be in japan, at tokyo disney, so you would have to do all the collating on your own so maybe that's not a good idea.

if we had just a general/themeless first round, when would the date be, do you think?

[glass_icarus]

HMM. I do have an alternate DW account that I don't really use, but maybe we should make a new one for roundup purposes? (I have so many codes still!) Although then there's the question of what to name it, and I did like the AWC format of changing hosts.

I wouldn't mind collating, actually! It's just that I might also be away for a few days around 1/1, so perhaps not feasible this time. ;0 I guess a general round could go up sometime after that, though? Mid/late January perhaps?

[yiduiqie]

We could start with rotating hosts - you could be the first one, and I'd be the second host, and then if it grew, we could think about moving it to a separate home?

A mid/late January 'general' theme might work, but I think we'd still need to specify. My concern is that otherwise we're going to end up with 1000 posts about food.

[glass_icarus]

Sounds good to me! :)

Haha, good point. Do we want to stick with the holiday thing, or should we pick something else?

[yiduiqie]

Okay, we need to a) definitely pick a date, and b) definitely pick a theme. I think we go for a short notice holidays theme, and if it's small then it's small. I can guarantee at least five to ten people who will write about food + holidays when I prod them (from a chromatic perspective), so we should be ok.

Not many rules, but I think we should consider 'no posts that are only a recipe, but recipe + theory /thoughts is ok' ?

[glass_icarus]

How does a 1/21 deadline sound? It's a Friday so collating can happen over the weekend.

Agreed on the no recipes only rule. It's probably also a good idea to say something along the lines of "links to be included at the host's discretion", but I can't think of anything else that we need to specify.

[yiduiqie]

That sounds like a good date! It's good because it's before CNY/LNY, therefore technically still in the holiday period. :o)

Agreed on the discretion thing. Otherwise that's probably it. Except for the name. And the announcement. And fetching new icons.

[glass_icarus]

Heh, I can do icons at some point this week/weekend but-- ohshit, names. >.> I have just been thinking of it as Food Carnival, which is... not a great one, ahahahaha.

[yiduiqie]

well, we could be very The Food Carnival...? It makes it sound very official. or the Multicultural Food Blog Carnival? Or Thinky Thoughts About Food: An Ongoing Blog Event.

[glass_icarus]

Heee. Maybe we could call it Potluck?

[yiduiqie]

YES.