then there are blackbirds

+ Glorious, ouchy racebending of Iron Man: horns of a deer, feet of a tiger
+ effex posted an adorable picspam of PUPPIES!!
+ lgbtq_recs kicks off today & I believe is also still looking for volunteers to rec things?
+ boundbooks's Harry Potter Fandom, We Need to Talk is... depressing, to say the least. Not surprising, though. *is crankypants*
+ Was fwded Their Islam and Ours just now; sparkly hearts! *____*

... man, now this lady is late for the BELATED meeting time she set. I may have to put up some cheery fuck-you music spam later! Happy thoughts, self, happy thoughts.

» random links;
+ Via musesfool: Mark Watches Avatar!
+ oyceter: Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven
+ Bruce Lee made from metrocards
+ Poem for the day: On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City, by Sherman Alexie
+ The Female Character Trope Fest now has a prompts masterlist and a fanworks post!

» 3w4dw!
+ torachan: Transfic Mini Fest Round 2
+ littlebutfierce is hosting the fantastically awesome 3W4DW anime/manga/manhwa/manhua drabblefest!
+ The FONSFAQ project is really taking off! Also, fonsfaq has been created for those who don't wish to host in their own journals.
+ ephemere has posted glorious cupcake porn!
+ azuire is hosting a non-fannish subscribe-a-thon!
+ inkstone is once again hosting the Small Fandoms Subscription Meme!
+ vi posted a recipe for doughnut muffins. *____*!!

... why am I awake this early on a Saturday? ;;;; Brief linkdump before I attempt to go back to sleep (or, you know, run errands. or work on REMIX. sd;fkjsd;lj):

+ starlurker: Itanong Mo at Sasagutin Ko (Kung Alam Ko)
+ Tokyopop shutting down USian operations
+ such_heights is talking about a femslash fanwork trope fest!
+ Via angry asian man, A YO-YO MA/LIL BUCK COLLAB. YEAH. ( YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT: )

Poem for today:

Dinner with the Metrophobe

I could tell from our onion blossom
this was all a mistake. There was no
"flower" of fried petals, but a soggy mess
in a napkin-lined wicker basket instead,

a bad corsage at the end of prom night.
But at work he was kind—always had
an extra envelope, a red pen, offered
to get me coffee from the machine

downstairs. He was the only one
who didn't gasp when I cut eight inches
off my hair. There was no competition
over publications (he never even read

The New Yorker), and sometimes, he'd hold
my elbow as we climbed staircases.
So when he asked me out for dinner over
e-mail, I thought it was just his way.

I had to lower my silly poet-standards
of expecting roses with each question,
a clever note snuck in my coat pocket
about my eyelashes breaking his heart

or how he must see me right now. I never
expected this guy's hands to shake all over
our appetizer of clams casino—shook so hard
his shell spilled its stewy contents on his tie.

The clatter of his teeth on his sweaty
water glass as he dribbled. The hives.
All I said was Don't be too nice to me.
One day I might write this all down.

-- Aimee Nezhukumatathil
[audio file from Slate]

Clearing out some tabs again;

+ @ deadbro: The Hunger Games: Racially Ambiguous? Perhaps Not.
+ Interesting links from la_vie_noire!
+ glvalentine's review of Red Riding Hood (via I think marina? or possibly inkstone) = DEATH BY LULZ.
+ 起狮, 行礼 (Rising Lion—The Lion Bows) by Zen Cho! GHOSTBUSTING LION-DANCERS FTW *\o/*

In other news, I have been watching some (more) Devil May Cry recently, and now the intro song has been stuck in my head for two weeks. Apparently I really do need to rethink my genre preferences, if horror and/or Things with Demons and Other Monsters of Interest* are going to be a continuing theme with me!

*Qualifier because... I really don't know what the appropriate category for "Dante fights demons and also eats pizza and strawberry sundaes and is generally grumpy and ridiculous" is, but it's not horror to me! xD

Still not really here, but since I came into work and saw the tsunami and earthquake in Japan on my newsfeed... is everybody okay??

(Also, if anybody knows/has seen newsbits on how things are going in Taiwan right now, I'd really appreciate some links; today is going to be pretty swamped & I won't be able to check in with the family until I get home.)

All the thoughts. &hearts

eta; some potentially useful things that scrolled by on twitter:
+ Live report, emergency numbers, list of public shelters, etc.
+ Google Person Finder: Japanese, English
+ a wiki

eta 2;
+ azuire: info on earthquake
+ help_japan
+ help_japan

eta 3; more via twitter:
+ An estimated 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit Niigata and Nagano. This is a new earthquake, not an aftershock.
+ Message & links from Yoko Ono at Imagine Peace

eta 4;
+ links from effex
+ George Takei's twitter
+ some other hopefully-useful tumblr reblogs:
- a note on the Red Cross's track record [though would appreciate corroboration]
- list of charities
- a very long list of liveblogs/livestreams, though many people have noted that Al-Jazeera is doing the best reporting out of the widely-cited non-Japanese news sources (*AHEM* CNN and your fucking Godzilla jokes, we are taking notes! >:E)
- somewhat-repetitive emergency messaging highlights from Timeout; includes useful information re: Suntory vending machines
+ TimeOutTokyo (twitter)

eta 5;
+ Miyavi (twitter)
+ roundup from branewurms

» Still more fanworks from the white_lotus exchange (and more capslock):

within the walls- TOPH COMIC. ASD:LSKJDF:LSHKD:LSDJF

Three Conversations- Mai learning about politics, eeeeeeee!

It's Yet Another Day (In Ba Sing Se), the PI!Jun FIC OF MY HEART.

No One Asks About the Scars- Aang/Tooooph, omg. &hearts

Next Generation- gorgeous artses! with Tenzin!!

托 夫- trans fic about Toph!

Somewhere in the Middle- MAI VID OMG *\o/*

The Good Life- the Katara/Toph I didn't know I wanted! :>

Ambition- URSAAAAA. &hearts

» -- and some random links of interest:

allchildren: casting memes and the uneven swap

torachan: Manga: Gunjo by Nakamura Ching (via I think la_vie_noire?)

It's qualifying Remix fandoms time!

Lisa Lee and Lynn Chen launch Thick Dumpling Skin! (via angry asian man)

Relevant to several things I've seen today: ACRJ Reproductive Justice paper, turned up via past google-surfing.

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.

So I was going to wait until I had more happy things to post, but that is taking me longer than usual! Sorry. ;;

» related to the Arizona shooting:
+ The Face of Terrorism: What (and Who) Gets Labeled and What Doesn't
+ some linkspam from vi (not all related)
+ more links from the_future_modernes (not all related)
+ radicallyhottoff @ tumblr: 1, 2

» a miscellany (of fail)
+ fuck you, Jezebel, I roll my eyes forever.
+ ursamajor on United Airlines fail
+ heathershaped: loving the bad things
+ rawles: on the evaluation of the merits of problematic fiction
+ various links from crossedwires, jha, & unusualmusic on Amy Chua. Frankly, I don't know if I'll ever be ready or willing to talk about this in public. Either way, deepad's post has some good things to keep in mind.

» happy things:
+ Water Tribe by rufftoon! aka that 400+ page fancomic about Zhao. AMAZING. &hearts
+ sulu pour homme! QUICK, SOMEBODY GIMME AN OLD SPICE TAGLINE. ;)
+ Eight-year-old children publish bee study in Royal Society journal- n'awwwwwwwww. :3
+ marina's a truly revolutionary adaptation made me laugh and laugh today, omg.
+ this gif (via my tumbleroll), which has gotten something of a workout & is a pretty accurate depiction of my mood this week:

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. )

+ DADT enforcement struck down by California federal judge
+ Wisconsin law challenges race-based school mascots
+ mercredigirl: ontd_f fail
+ such_heights: let's talk about awesome ladies* [brief linkspam]
+ musesfool: but they will never be what she was to me
+ kristina wong, asian american women, and depression
+ Jenna Ushkowitz & Harry Shum Jr.: "Sing!"
+ artists interested in a nanowrimo-type challenge may want to check out nanomango!
+ zephre: Blue Violet Study [Gwen, Gwaine, G]
+ Camelot Remix at the AO3
+ W. Va. senate candidate has a little trouble with names (LULZ FOREVER)
+ ZUKO ONNA BOAT!
+ ladies at centre stage
+ Sara Bareilles: All the Single Ladies
+ Disney-Mulan!Inception, ahahahahah!
+ Only Poems Can Translate Poems: On the Impossibility and Necessity of Translation
+ via yeloson, MJ/Fela Kuti mashup
+ South Korean kimchi crisis
+ sheafrotherdon: 1824, incoming
+ Katara Toph Loathing, a fanvid of shiny and hilarious!
+ the_future_modernes has some links on Wiscon
+ access_fandom is looking to start up a challenge similar to dark_agenda for disabled characters & creators! If you happen to have time or resources to spare and would like to offer a helping hand, please hop over to this post!
+ & speaking of dark_agenda, we now have a nominations spreadsheet & masterlist of promotion posts!

This is quite possibly the last linkspam I will do for a while, as life just got BUSY. I may not fall off the face of the internet exactly, but will probably revert to relative radio silence, so. &hearts!