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chibifukurou made chibi fanart for Old Soldiers Die Hard! They're so tiny and cute and old!
Mt. Redoubt erupted. Check out the gray snow in the photo! (I remember that from my childhood!) I should point out that the volcano is something like 400 miles south of me; we won't see any ash here. Anchorage is getting lightly dusted, though. I have a friend who runs a mail-order business and had a shipment rerouted back to Portland because flights were being diverted from the Anchorage airport. (The corrosive ash gets into airplane engines and fouls them with potentially lethal results; the last time Redoubt erupted in 1989, a KLM jet flew into the ash plume, had its engines flame out and plummeted a couple thousand feet before the pilot got the engines restarted and limped to a landing.)
Ironically, I read Francis Hardinge's Gullstruck Island today, which involves -- among many, many other things -- a volcanic eruption! And if you're into YA, I highly recommend this book, like all her other books; I knew after I read her very first novel that I was going to be buying everything she writes, and I've snapped up her next two (this and Verdigris Deep/Well Witched) as they've come out and have not regretted it. So far, all of her books take place in different universes, but I love her characters so much that I'm still holding out hope that future books will revisit some of the worlds she's already created. Though new ones would be awesome too. I'm not picky and after three awesome books, I trust her to create worlds and plots that I'll enjoy.
On a more serious note,a couple of a few Racefail Links Worth Reading:
Link roundup at Biology in Science Fiction blog with links and excerpts from some of the key posts in the discussion. There are getting to be a ton of roundups, I know; this one is focused on the sci-fi fandom/writing side, and, to me, seems like a useful starting point if you have a little bit of background on the thing but aren't sure which posts to read, with links primarily (though not exclusively) to PoC bloggers and racism-101 posts.
Also, buried in the comments to an off-LJ blog post, I ran across this fantastic link/quote roundup bysparkymonster after she was asked by another commenter how PoC are made to feel excluded or marginalized by mainstream sci-fi fandom. (The entire comment thread is probably not worth reading unless you are a completist, however; definitely not a starting point, as there is a lot of back-and-forth and a lot of, well, Shetterly.)
rosefox on real world racefail (or: two reasons why racism in America is not dead).
Edited to add: A detailed roundup (with context!) at Logophilos's blog (a little older; I'm just now reading it)
*revives*
chibifukurou made chibi fanart for Old Soldiers Die Hard! They're so tiny and cute and old!Mt. Redoubt erupted. Check out the gray snow in the photo! (I remember that from my childhood!) I should point out that the volcano is something like 400 miles south of me; we won't see any ash here. Anchorage is getting lightly dusted, though. I have a friend who runs a mail-order business and had a shipment rerouted back to Portland because flights were being diverted from the Anchorage airport. (The corrosive ash gets into airplane engines and fouls them with potentially lethal results; the last time Redoubt erupted in 1989, a KLM jet flew into the ash plume, had its engines flame out and plummeted a couple thousand feet before the pilot got the engines restarted and limped to a landing.)
Ironically, I read Francis Hardinge's Gullstruck Island today, which involves -- among many, many other things -- a volcanic eruption! And if you're into YA, I highly recommend this book, like all her other books; I knew after I read her very first novel that I was going to be buying everything she writes, and I've snapped up her next two (this and Verdigris Deep/Well Witched) as they've come out and have not regretted it. So far, all of her books take place in different universes, but I love her characters so much that I'm still holding out hope that future books will revisit some of the worlds she's already created. Though new ones would be awesome too. I'm not picky and after three awesome books, I trust her to create worlds and plots that I'll enjoy.
On a more serious note,
Link roundup at Biology in Science Fiction blog with links and excerpts from some of the key posts in the discussion. There are getting to be a ton of roundups, I know; this one is focused on the sci-fi fandom/writing side, and, to me, seems like a useful starting point if you have a little bit of background on the thing but aren't sure which posts to read, with links primarily (though not exclusively) to PoC bloggers and racism-101 posts.
Also, buried in the comments to an off-LJ blog post, I ran across this fantastic link/quote roundup by
sparkymonster after she was asked by another commenter how PoC are made to feel excluded or marginalized by mainstream sci-fi fandom. (The entire comment thread is probably not worth reading unless you are a completist, however; definitely not a starting point, as there is a lot of back-and-forth and a lot of, well, Shetterly.)rosefox on real world racefail (or: two reasons why racism in America is not dead).Edited to add: A detailed roundup (with context!) at Logophilos's blog (a little older; I'm just now reading it)