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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
N.K Jemisin has the first chapter of her novel series debut up . I found the chapter lovely, with a good storytelling voice. It leads me to believe I will see a new perspective in the plot trope of; long lost heir returns & must find their way. The Hundred Thousand Kindoms, will be out in Feb ...
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Tracking The OTHER Avatar
Ain't It Cool has news . ... On this planet is an element that is so rare it is worth incredible amounts of money on earth. The trouble is that the indigenous people and hostile nature of the planet make it nearly impossible to mine. The main threat are 10 foot tall intelligent blue aliens ...
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Something For Me To Think About
If a white person can assume that somewhere way down deep inside them is a; - First Nations North American - a Tibetan Zen Buddhist - Japanese Otaku Is that why they think, way down deep inside non white peoples, there's a white person just waiting to come out and embrace white ways ?
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To Everything There Is A Season
I've been reading a lot of books lately that discuss branding, as it pertains to teenagers, as it pertains to stereotypes being packaged to young boys and girls to mold them into accepting not just a gender binary but that the gender binary can only be expressed in particular ways; a constant ...
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I Decide When You Should Be Offended
A rare ism 101 lesson. How to tell if you're being a used ass wipe? See if you're saying anything along the lines of this individual ; one Brian Seiler. Empahsis mine. Spot The Fail; Teacher Edition. First off, I'd like to extend to you sympathies for what you had to go through in your youth ...
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Internal Archictecture
In attempting to add manhwa to my labels, I did something weird and I'm not sure I fixed it yet. So, just a heads up.
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Manhwa: Conversations I Want To Have
Instead I want you to think about who decides what to translate and why, how they market the translation, and what all that says both about the audience receiving the translation and the people making the decision. I think it's pretty obvious that publishers decided to license manhwa because ...
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A Muppet Music Video Production
Dear world, Today sucked, in a lot of ways. But then you sent me Muppets and I love you again. So, so, so very much. And there were so many dearly beloved characters I hadn't seen in OH so very long. (I also realized the long blonde haired guitarist? I've always thought of her as a transwoman ...
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Words Can Hurt: An Apology
  A friend pointed out to me that using the terms Chesty, and McHelium to describe the blonde, in my eyes, totally male gaze version of Elsa Bloodstone could come across as being an ass about big breasts or more specifically and correctly; being an ass about women with big breasts. That was ...
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Orc Horn To The Left. Speaker Of Truth To The Right
Bankeui has some remarks on media surprise to discover The First Nations Quileute Tribe is real . He gets his links from Newspaper Rock / BlueCornComics. BlueCornComics has a whole round-up of Twilight links as they relate to First Nations Peoples . If you go read and get curious about what it ...
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Remember The Dead
    Today is Nov 20th, The Transgender Day Of Remembrance.    
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If I Could Stab A Book And Make It Bleed
I mentioned in a comment how Eon: Dragon Eye (also called The Two Pearls Of Wisdom - and where I am now currently paused at pg 295) was reading as: [Mr. Movie Guy Voice: : In a land where women have no power, one courageous girl will find the strength to bear the hopes of a nation on her ...
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Fantasy Fiction That Holds Only One Note
Karnythia has a recent post linking to Zora Neale Hurston's essay; What White Publishers Won't Publish . I haven't read it yet, though I have read another essay of Hurston's. What prompted me to write now, however, was being on page 38 of EON: Dragoneye Reborn ; which I'd picked up despite my ...
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How To Be Pissy About Disability Activism
  Original Post By: Jumbled Words @LJ     With Xposting @ JumbledWords.Com Translation By: Avalon's Willow ---*--- OP : I want to preface this by saying that once I had written the first draft of this post I sat back, looked at it and said “wow, I sound just like one of ...
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You Never See The Sucker Punch Coming
seeking-avalon.blogspot.com — I stopped reading Marvel and DC a while ago. Today while looking for something else, I noticed... and clicked a link for BLOODSTONE. I thought I'd see something about the adventures of this Elsa Bloodstone; straight shooting, hard swearing monster ... (more) You Never See The Sucker Punch Coming
This Is What DC Refuses To Do
seeking-avalon.blogspot.com — Back in August I mentioned a project being done, one named: Everyone Survives To The 31st Century... I was hesitant then to promote it outside of emails and twitter dm's because it was so wonderful to me. I did not want to see some white jerkarse ... (more) This Is What DC Refuses To Do
Where I've Been
Over at Manga Before Flowers there's currently a Manga Recc Challenge going on. Danielle has said 'Tell me what you like, and I'll recc a Manga'. This is my submission over here . But as I realized I wanted to make it even longer, I figured I could just make the longer post here, because have I ...
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Not That Anyone Will Listen, But...
Iroh in the live action 'The Last Airbender' does not have dreadlocks !! What he does possibly have is Jata ; mostly likely to tie into the fact that LiveAction!Zuko is so obviously South Asian. I can't read any more threads at the racebending comm on livejournal because I'm twitching too much ...
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A Three Legged Wolf Can Lead The Pack
Though I can't find my original post, there is a mention here about when the school teacher in question got her job back . But here is an interview with the mother of the 5 year old who got voted out of his class back in 2008 . The family will be taking things to Federal Court. To which I say ...
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2009. Another Bumper Crop Of Fail
  2012 Movie. Talks Of 2013 Tv Series. Racist As A Mo@$%#$! Cause the premise will be, that the saved white folks show up in Africa in Cape Town all ' Oh Hai Black People. We Will Be Invading Ur Land & Stealin' Ur Resources. Just Like Old Times. Kbaithanx '. An American tv show set in ...
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