I am feeling definite fatigue with Straight White Guy narratives in any medium at this point. Feeling like that ground is well and truly covered.
Aw, can't we have another "I'm an asshole, but I'm just so damn talented!"
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Dec 03, 2017 11:23:01 am PST #19509 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Jesse - Dec 03, 2017 11:33:24 am PST #19510 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Is it all the crime fiction and mysteries?
Yep. And I'm over it! I mean, I'm not over crime fiction, but give me Karin Fossum.
So I did a super half-assed job of vacuuming two rooms, but guess what it was? Better than nothing!
msbelle - Dec 03, 2017 12:09:17 pm PST #19511 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Jesse you've read Dana Stabenow and Laura Lippman, yes?
Y'all I have 2 boxes ready to ship to people, I got part of my brother's Christmas to my parents who are flying there next week, I have a small pile of things to get listed on ebay today, I vacuumed the back room, AND I just did a pretty thorough cleaning of the garage. Still not quite able to get both cars in comfortably but I only need to get rid of a few more things or clean out the final corner and somehow make space by consolidation. So excite.
Beverly - Dec 03, 2017 1:53:36 pm PST #19512 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
It was poetry that dragged me seduced me into reading writers of color, primarily women: Lucille Clifton, Edwidge Danticat, Rita Dove, Naomi Shihab Nye, etc., etc. Jane Kenyon and Mary Oliver, too, and others. But while YA and fantasy and scifi brought women--Piercy, McCaffrey, Norton, McKinley, LeGuin, Cherryh and others into my life it was poetry that opened me up to POC.
msbelle - Dec 03, 2017 2:02:44 pm PST #19513 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
3 eBay listings up. It's a little more challenging doing it on my phone, but I'm gonna get more done.
Dinner is going to be black bean, corn and green chile dump with queso on the side. No work.
Jesse - Dec 03, 2017 2:34:06 pm PST #19514 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse you've read Dana Stabenow and Laura Lippman, yes?
Oh yeah. I have stacks of Lippman. Stabenow I've mostly read from the library.
aurelia - Dec 03, 2017 3:21:27 pm PST #19515 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
It was a beautiful day here and I spent the afternoon in a laundromat because a cat decided to pee on the bed while I was cleaning the litter box.
I've kept my reading weighted toward women and POC for the last six years. Intentionally so for the last four.
Jesse - Dec 03, 2017 4:05:22 pm PST #19516 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So someone invited my mother to a grief workshop that is apparently about being a medium or whatever. I said it's in Florida in January, she should just go!
msbelle - Dec 03, 2017 4:20:47 pm PST #19517 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
8 listings up now and pics taken for 6 more.
If I can keep this up, I might get a chunk of mac's old toys up and a bunch of yarn or fabric. Thus far this is clearing out the last of my Lularoe over buying from last year.
As is always the case, I wish I had another day in this weekend.
msbelle - Dec 03, 2017 4:33:47 pm PST #19518 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Hahahaha that's hilarious Jesse.