adventures in tab-closing

[glass_icarus]

In no particular order, a spam of things I have been reading/encountered on the internets:

sam_storyteller: My Home and Native Land, a Ronon story which made me have thinky thoughts on diaspora. And cultural imperialism. (Possibly I will actually write them out sometime when I am not feeling lazy!)

Zinn: A People's History (via I think the_future_modernes?)

sheafrotherdon: Rescue [warning: discussion of depression & mention of sexual assault]

deepad: वैष्णव जन तो...

troisroyaumes's review of Kenji Yoshino's Covering

Kelly Tsai: culture or crazy?

Kelly Tsai on publishing: indelible part 3

allchildren: those anarcho-nerds are mysterious

imaginarybeasts Book #25: Erase/Rewind

APIA love letter that maybe possibly kind of made me cry. A little.

via leupagus, DDK AND GRACE PARK ARE AMAZEBALLS, an epic photographic proof!

donebykorra! &hearts I did not know this rewatch was occurring, though admittedly, I need no excuse to rewatch. Er. >.>

ardhra brings a link to the REAL White Lotus Society! *____*

Some things from halfamoon that I enjoyed:
- The Unpopular Woman Love Post
- such_heights: Tightrope
- innervoice_chan: Picspam: The Women of Mongol
- timeasmymeasure: Miranda Bailey (Grey's Anatomy)
- fly_to_dawn: advance

Remember Surveyfail? WELL. >:E Looks like it's time for Internet vs. Ogas & Gaddam, Round Two, eh?

Chinese Puzzles exhibit at MOCA! Anybody in the city want to come with me? ;)

MOCA's Lunar New Year programs, which are admittedly mostly over. Oops.

Comments

[magnetic_pole]

Love the Kelly Tsai piece on Amy Chua--thanks for the link! M.

[glass_icarus]

You're welcome! :)

[kate_nepveu]

Belatedly--

My Home and Native Land makes me squirm, because on one hand, Ronon-centric gen fic with him being smart and happy! On the other, though I'm not sure when that was written in terms of canon, my feeling at the end of S5, which I cannot at the moment support with anything specific, is that if Ronon were going to give allegiance to anything it would be Atlantis rather than an Earth nation. And he seems to be more concerned with loyalties on a much more personal level. And on the third, my wanting to say "no! stick with Sateda!" feels like, oh, wringing my hands over the loss of small-population languages in the abstract just because more languages = cool, rather than recognizing the pluses and minuses of the economic realities leading to the loss of many languages--I've never had to leave a culture behind, who'm I to say what he should do?

In conclusion: conflicted!

[glass_icarus]

YES, all of this! /o\ SGA is a lurker-fandom for me (I have never actually made it beyond half a random ep of the show itself), but that fic hit allllll kinds of buttons for me re: "immigration", assimilation, cultural imperialism, etc. :x

(Also, why should Ronon want to involve himself with an imperialist nation-state on the level of the state itself? It seems to me that he's in need of a family, not a country to which he can swear allegiance; and in any event I don't believe one's homeland is so easily replaceable.)

[kate_nepveu]

I can't recommend it, even though I watched 99% of it. =>