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alias_sqbr) wrote2012-12-22 08:25 am
alias_sqbr) wrote2012-12-22 08:25 am
Fictional bliss
I finished "The Birthday of the World", it was overall really good!I particularly liked "Paradises Lost", unlike the others it isn't about gender or sex but about the kind of culture that would develop on a generation ship. Reading Ursula K le Guin always makes other sf writer's cultural worldbuilding seem really shallow. Though the same limitations I mentioned before continued through the remaining stories and there was some really terrible ableism.
For anyone else left wanting more: The End and the Way by Luzula is a great fanfic about a single sexed Gethenian which features OMG a happy well adjusted platonic friendship between two unrelated people of different genders!
Last night I went to the local video store for the first time in ages. They are obviously trying to compete with the internet by offering exotic US confectionary (we tried a Twinkie. It was foul) and tshirts and stuff.
I watched The Sapphires and it was exactly what it appears to be: a light, feel good, music-filled film about a group of Koori (Aboriginal Australian) women forming a successful music group in the 60s. It touches on a bunch of heavy political issues very lightly and glosses over the issues around the Vietnam War completely, the Vietnamese characters are a faceless voiceless other. It reminds me a lot of Dreamgirls, but fluffier. Despite it's flaws it's still the only feel good movie about Indigenous Australians (by an Aboriginal Australian, even! Pretty obviously a guy but never mind) I have ever seen so I am incredibly glad that it exists and that I watched it. Kind of a pity they had to introduce a white guy to the story but Chris O'Dowd is quite charming and despite the apparently universal tendency for journalists to focus on his character the movie doesn't too much. Anyway. I came out feeling good and humming to myself which is the real sign of success :)
Am partway through watching season 1 of the New Girl and am quite enjoying it. Cam keeps saying "BUT IT'S SO BADLY WRITTEN AND MYSOGYNISTIC" but I am ignoring him because I like it. It's just a silly sitcom but I like the characters and the humour.
For anyone else left wanting more: The End and the Way by Luzula is a great fanfic about a single sexed Gethenian which features OMG a happy well adjusted platonic friendship between two unrelated people of different genders!
Last night I went to the local video store for the first time in ages. They are obviously trying to compete with the internet by offering exotic US confectionary (we tried a Twinkie. It was foul) and tshirts and stuff.
I watched The Sapphires and it was exactly what it appears to be: a light, feel good, music-filled film about a group of Koori (Aboriginal Australian) women forming a successful music group in the 60s. It touches on a bunch of heavy political issues very lightly and glosses over the issues around the Vietnam War completely, the Vietnamese characters are a faceless voiceless other. It reminds me a lot of Dreamgirls, but fluffier. Despite it's flaws it's still the only feel good movie about Indigenous Australians (by an Aboriginal Australian, even! Pretty obviously a guy but never mind) I have ever seen so I am incredibly glad that it exists and that I watched it. Kind of a pity they had to introduce a white guy to the story but Chris O'Dowd is quite charming and despite the apparently universal tendency for journalists to focus on his character the movie doesn't too much. Anyway. I came out feeling good and humming to myself which is the real sign of success :)
Am partway through watching season 1 of the New Girl and am quite enjoying it. Cam keeps saying "BUT IT'S SO BADLY WRITTEN AND MYSOGYNISTIC" but I am ignoring him because I like it. It's just a silly sitcom but I like the characters and the humour.