For anyone who is following this journal who does not already know: Dreamwidth is moving to open beta later tonight (tomorrow morning, my time) and I will be migrating this whole journal to it soon after. I'm not sure what I'll do with this journal. I may delete it, or I may leave a skeleton entry redirecting people to DW.

I don't think I ever mentioned Aviv Or. She's an Israeli comics artist whose work I've been intermittently aware of since we met on the CrossGen message boards years ago. Every now and then I'm moved to google her name and see what she's been up to lately. This webcomic is 4-5 years old, and I think I've seen it before. Webcomics about video games would be funnier to me if I didn't play The Sims 2 almost exclusively, so that's what the strip I linked to is about.

Edit: I found one that's hilarious even though I have no idea what game it's from.

The subject just keeps coming up, but this time it's a good thing: Megan Rose is one of the good ones. A+ Megan, that really made me feel better. Someone cares other than me!

Fuck you, Blake Lively, you do not get to use the word "tranny" like that, or at all. Stop being a hateful, transphobic, misogynistic bitch. Fuck you, Jezebel commenters, for not even bothering to call her on such a blatant slur instead of going on about "I am not a tranny!"

If there was ever a doubt: the word "tranny" is a hateful, transphobic slur and you must never, ever use it. If you use it, you are a hateful, bigoted transphobe. No exceptions.

I can't find my old Pesach icons anywhere! Never mind. I'll probably be moving to Dreamwidth, anyway, so I'll get a chance to reorder my icon preferences. I use more icons on comments, so I barely use them at all, anymore.

Happy Pesach to all who celebrate.

I opined.

Verb Noire, still totally skeletal and waiting to coalesce. Nonetheless, I want to link to it now and follow up and where it's heading.

There is also Transcriptase, which the bio-geek in me rejoices over the name, and the lit-geek wonders why I haven't read their entire archive yet. Last night I also made a book order from Amazon to try a bunch of new stuff. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is not yet out in paperback, so it will have to wait.

I also may be writing a script for a werewolf movie. This should help me develop my plotting and pacing skills.

OKAY, GUYS. I give up. Via this (very nice) image of a glass swan sculpture, I found out that Wikimedia Commons has a category for shapes resembling the number 2.

INTERNET. You WIN.

Spoilers for X-Factor via scans_daily.

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YES! Finally! Lost airs on Hot a mere three days after airing in the US, an improvement over last season's five days. I get the premiere this Saturday.

No news on BSG yet, but between YouTube webisode comments, IO9 tipoffs and a political blog (of all places), I've accumulated a spoiler and a half at least. They're rerunning at a rate of five chapters a week, being halfway through S2 at present, that's another ten weeks or about two and a half months before we get the final season.

OKAY. OKAY. I'm not reading spoilers. I don't want to know who the Final Cylon is. Just tell me Felix is okay.

...Someone?

The spoilers for BSG 4.5 are starting to pour in and OMG. I WANT TO READ THEM. I MUST NOT. But resisting temptation? Not my strong suit!

Meanwhile, in season 2, I am up to the Pegasus arc. It's kind of funny watching it and already knowing some of the stuff from later on, because I watched season 4. Overall, though, I'd say it's not terribly funny. Woo! They found someone I want to kick in the head more than Saul Tigh.

This appears to be it. That is, my great-grandfather's surname before it was Anglicized to Silver.

It's International Blog Against Racism Week, and I missed almost all of it. I had a hectic week, and am about to have another, so in case I don't get to post tomorrow, here's a quickie for thoughts:

The theme this year is intersectionality. So, let's talk about queer people of color, or rather, queer people of non-mainstream cultures. Racialicious has some good posts focusing on the experience of being black and gay, although I can't seem to find the one I'm thinking of right now.

I read Pride High online. This is a comic book about a gay-straight alliance at a superhero school, whose members struggle to learn how to use their powers while at the same time struggling against their less tolerant, less open-minded, or just less outspoken peers. I'm up to issue four or so, and am loving it so far.

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PS: I snagged the icon from sanguinity, whose post about atheism I commented on rather excessively.

Things that I found on the internet today:

these two pieces of manatee-mermaid art. I have surmised that they are adorable, and in all ways superior to fishy-type mermaids. More biologically sound, too.

This piece of Supergirl art by the guy who's supposed to be taking over regular penciling duties. Given the instability of Supergirl's storylines ever since I came on the title, I'm afraid to hope. It is very pretty, though.

Beaker (of the Muppets) does an awesome version of the Ode to Joy, from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.



He also does the Habanera from Carmen. Sexy beast.

Anyway, real life beckons. I did the shopping, and now I have a screwdriver with which to put together my new table. YES.

Facebook has a popular "likeness" application, where you rate various lists of ten things from favorite to least favorite, and the application calculates how similar your friends' results are. I just took a quiz and went into my results page, and one of my other quizzes has "matches" on it that aren't on my friends-list. In fact, most of them are young, attractive female celebrities. Now, I'm not necessarily saying it's implausible that Hayden Panettiere has a Facebook account, or even that she took this quiz. I'm asking... why is she showing up on my results page?

I mean, I'm sure many a young nerd or geek would get a thrill out of seeing hirself described as "two peas in a pod" with a blonde teen starlet who also happens to be a lead on a popular sci-fi show, but one would think that the account owner might feel differently. Is someone gathering information from interviews to construct these results? Are they randomly generated? Is it a hack? Least likely, if the celebrities in question actually did take this quiz, why should their results be public, unlike everyone else's? Besides, why only young actresses? Surely among the masses there are those who want to know if they match a male actor, or their favorite author, or director, or musician, or politician?

The whole thing is just weird and off-putting.

This is not a blog, and it's not sold on the Israel iTunes store. I signed up and everything. No horriblosity for me.

The Hathor Legacy is a feminist-themed blog that I usually quite enjoy. I've been reading it intermittently for quite sometime, commenting occasionally, and have linked it once or twice from both here and the old journal.

Today, they have pissed me off.

It's the usual hypocrisy one hears from certain contingents of self-declared feminists: when Madonna does it, it's subversive and empowering, because she's taking control of her sexuality and saying "fuck you!" to the patriarchy. Wow! On the other hand, when the Sugababes do it, they are shallow sluts who should get arrested for dressing that way.

Bonus points for both posts being written by the same contributor, and appearing one after the other in the "Music Videos" category. Extra-special bonus points for another THL contributor commenting on the Madonna post with the hilariously witty "Titney Spears" comment. You're a riot, BetaCandy. Slut shaming: it's totally awesome.

I will not even get into the beef I have with Madonna over the bisexual chic thing.

In case you're wondering why there is a fat acceptance movement, this is it. Don't quote statistics about obesity, or diets, or weight gain and heart disease. You're lying to yourselves. The real reason you hate fat people and want them to be thin has nothing to do with their health, or even with you're tax money. The only reason you hate fat people and want them to lose weight is because you don't like looking at them.

Stop figleafing. There is no moral high ground here. There is no concern for public welfare, no social issue, no fiscal issue. You just think you have the right not to look at people who you find physically unappealing. And I don't care how much of a majority you are, because it doesn't matter if most people think fat is ugly and skinny is pretty. Don't like what you're seeing? Look away.