We're back. We wound up much more off-line than intended due to a range of fascinating technical difficulties.
While I and the Internet were not working correctly, the International Transgender Day of Remembrance took place. Trans people and those perceived to be gender non-conforming can be at extremely elevated levels of risk for violence. We must remember as a step towards stopping the violence.
Vatican shifts position on condom use in some cases. Too little, too late is one very valid response to this. But what interests me is the implication that preventing something that's been viewed as a punishment for sin is acceptable. Doesn't that imply that even if one is to suffer in hell in the afterlife, that's no reason to encourage suffering in this one? That's interesting to me.
So Warner Bros is having someone write a script for a Whedon-free Buffy reboot. Y'all know how far "someone writing a script" is from "film actually getting made" is, right? Really frigging far. Even with noise about "2012 or even 2011." Believing it when I see it. Feeling really bad for folks for whom this feels personal, though. It's not for me, but I know what these things are like.
Have discovered my access point to old Doctor Who may be novelizations -- that way I don't have to face the crap effects.
Aside from being generally wonderful, our 24 hours at the St Davids was Super Fucking Weird for the first 90 seconds thanks to Bad Fanfiction I Have Read, also some Good Fanfiction I Have Read too. Just saying. It was lolariously awesome.
Possible best thing about Hay-on-Wye? Reciting horrible back cover copy to each other. Especially of porn thinly veiled as sci-fi from the late 60s.
Also, Patty and I have watched some Sherlock. I have (and have had for some time) many things to say, but for now I'll just say, Euros Lyn can direct anything. It's the pacing that makes it so good.
I have race and gender things to say, but I'm waiting until I have time. Highly complicated by issues of source material (race) and what Moffett may have been trying to do vs. what actually happened there (gender).
I'm not too knowledgeable when it comes to the source material (I've only read a couple of the stories) so I can't comment on that regard, but man if Moffat tried to do what I think he tried to do, he veered severely off the mark (though I think the female characters in the show are great, despite the complications - rather than complexities).
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I'm not too knowledgeable when it comes to the source material (I've only read a couple of the stories) so I can't comment on that regard, but man if Moffat tried to do what I think he tried to do, he veered severely off the mark (though I think the female characters in the show are great, despite the complications - rather than complexities).