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Made it to Ohio -- YAY. Flight was harrowing. We shall not be discussing it.

We saw Tangled and it was made of PURE AWESOME. I say this as someone who doesn't like animation and had two weird brain misfires during the film -- one, like Tron this has a major character named Flynn (crossover! crossover!); two, Flynn in this movie is a perfect animated rendering of.... a dude I used to fence with. It was kinda weird. BUT AWESOME. Will write about it on other blog later.

azn_jack_fiend highlights some of the Not Right happening in Torchwood fandom. Nothing new, but damn tiring and uncool.

Pakistani women start going to work. And it's not easy. I can't even IMAGINE the social pressures they are up against.

New York forgoes Civil War remembrance.

The UK is expunging the convictions of men who have had sex with another man over the age of 16 next year: "Consensual sex between two men over 21 was decriminalized in 1967, but it wasn't until 1994 that the homosexual age of consent was reduced to 18. In 2000 it was finally changed to 16, which is the same age of consent for heterosexuals."

Comments

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

glad your flight went (even if you won't talk about it) - I've been thinking about you

I've read anz_jack_fiend's entry and am grateful that I seem to be missing most of the controversy - that said, I'm writing in an AU at the moment and the most telling comment seems to me: you made me like Gwen - She's not actually behaving that differently, only seems to learn from it earlier and is not quite so after Jack due to the slightly differnt society they are in ... I'm not sure what to make of it as I've never hated her - just didn't quite get her (that changed in S3 when she suddenly made sense to me over all 3 seasons)

Love the article about the Pakistani women, totally agree that they face humungous pressures