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I make with the tl;dr
I'm going to be posting a whole ton of the background to The White City story I've been working on, mostly to have a backup of it accessible wherever I happen to be, and as a diary of the creative process because I like that sort of thing. Feedback is not required unless you're really moved, because this journal will be deluged.
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Icky sticky can of worms
Topic: race in fantasy. Or: I pretend I know what the hell I am talking about.
One of the protagonists is white. One of them is black. The rest of the cast mostly comes in various shades of darker-than-a-latte, because sweet bejebus am I tired of bland Eurocentric fantasy.
But. But, BUT…I’m afraid of appropriating and exoticizing, having been ( Read more... ) -
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Me: It's lookin' a little slow at work this week. Maybe I can start those character sheets I've been meaning to ( Read more... ) -
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(Art)I have to get my license soon. I am not looking forward to this. Cars, frankly, terrify me. They are expensive to maintain, annoying to store, bad for the planet, and easy to kill people with. I recognize their necessity in certain situations, such as when you are transporting heavy furniture, but other than that I don't want to touch them ( Read more... ) -
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I have moved out of my parent's metaphorical basement and now live in Edgewater, which is cause for a celebration that I don't have the energy to put on because I spent ALL FUCKING YESTERDAY IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO OR ON AIRPLANES. Maybe later. The place has a deck with a killer view. I have a cat now--Morrigan, Goddess of Death, whom I did not ( Read more... ) -
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Chicago Transit Authority: Perfect Hell
1. Wait half an hour on platform in freezing rain ( Read more... ) -
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In other news, Mexican zombies.
Somebody got the BRILLIANT idea to lock the kitchen door around 11 this morning, which meant I was stuck outside the main floor in my pajamas and couldn't get to class. I tried! Not my fault ( Read more... )
