One Year

Jul. 12th, 2009 09:18 pm
theotherlex: (TARDIS)
Today it is a year since I left Australia. Still alive! Woohoo! :-)

This Weekend )

This week coming )

Previous stuff )

I think that is pretty much everything for the moment. England still good.

Does anyone to read any of my fanfic? because I've worked out a way to post some of it for people who aren't a part of fandom.
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Sorry for lack of glee posts. I have four day weekends, so it does all kind of blur together. I had fish and chips for my main meal on Friday (I like to refer to it as dinner and eat it at about 1pm). That was after chatting to P and L over Skype, which happened after the room viewing. I got a text from my landlord yesterday thanking me for the house being tidy, because it so hasn't been the previous two viewing. Another viewing tomorrow afternoon - I'll probably be at or on my way to Pilates.

Saturday I bought food. It was fun. Pesto, yum. Even yummier: Pesto and cheese and tomato on a tortilla and microwaved!

Today was a brilliant Spring day. The kind of day that makes you think, oh, yeah, it's coming up on the end of the yeah, hey, Christmas is in the future now, instead of in the past. Sadly, this is not actually the case at the moment. However, Easter-y things are making much sense than they ever have before.

I have been spending too much and not enough time reading about is being referred to as RaceFail 09. I'm still having a bit of trouble getting my head around the extent of the Fail, so I thought that I could summarise it briefly for anyone interested in the dynamics of online fandom, or race and racism in Science Fiction and Fantasy works, or (political) Privilege in general.

Read more )

Today I cleaned the kitchen. Tomorrow I look forward to sleeping in and going to pilates and resuming regular glee posts.
theotherlex: (We are all made of carbon)
The second week of August was International Blog Against Racism week.
I was going to do it this year, I was even going to delay the still unwritten "Gender Normativity and Trans-phobia in Torchwood" meta to do it.
But then I didn't.

Thankfully (that's the wrong word, if one think about it) IBARW is an opportunity to post, not a limit on posting. So I'm starting now, because I was at work until 7 yesterday waiting for emails to be scanned by Nortons, and the best thing to read at time like that is posts from the [livejournal.com profile] ibarw link round ups.

How quickly can I dig this hole )

To sum up: I, by my personal preference, am more interested in discussing what sort of world Firefly portrays where the main characters encounter so few Asian people, despite the assmiliation of Western (American) and Asian (Chinese) cultures. I am more interested in discussing how what does or does not happen to Martha and the Doctor is illustrative of what should or should not happen in cross-cultural and mixed race relationships generally. I, by my personal preference, am less interested in talking about what Joss Whedon and Russel T Davies were or were not thinking of when they did or did not do the things they've done in their shows.

Stay turned for the tangential issue of why race is always an issue, and how the New Who fandom and discussion of Martha's characterisation/role/storyarc is illustrative of this.

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