Weekly update
Apr. 26th, 2013 07:22 pmIn recent news (mostly minutiae):
* Enjoying HP_Beholder, a fest the God of Fandom created specifically to satiate my interests in marginal characters every spring. I love Beholder. I'm missed the first ten days or so due to travel and I *will* make a proper recs post soon, but in the meantime, please, please, please check out the free-spirited, pot-smoking, trust-fund-baby Arabella, who opens her door to an on-the-run Sirius: Days of Cats and Cabbages, Arabella Figg/Sirius Black, 4300 words, NC17. So far every fic at Beholder has been fun. I'm so glad this fest is still going on.
* Speaking of excellent fic, check out![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
schemingreader's An Example for Lovers, Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, 2100 words, NC17. I don't want to spoil the experience, but this warm, humorous fic plays with gender and sexuality issues in ways that will get you thinking. Even if you don't know the fandom--and I don't at all--it's worth a read.
* Speaking of human frailty, someone told Sherlock to get over himself in this week's Elementary. In a very kind way. "I know it's hard," I believe the phrase was. I'm liking this show more and more.
* I found a giant cork board with a wooden frame in the trash and recycling area behind my apartment building. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it, but I took it upstairs immediately. Now I need to think of something things I need to pin up.
* There were no postcard stamps at the post office today. How could that be? The person who helped me tried to blunt the full impact of this news by reassuring me that there were postcard stamps at the next post office, in the next neighborhood, but really--none? At all? What's really going on here? I'm convinced Congress wants to kill the post office (I know I sound paranoid, but it's not out of the realm of possibility, sadly) and we will be paying $9.99 to mails postcards via FedEx in a few years, all the while praising ourselves for eliminating more waste from the federal budget.
* Small but important: two architecture students are campaigning to have the Pritzker folks (the ones who award the profession's highest prize every year) retroactively include Denise Scott Brown alongside her husband and long-time creative partner Robert Venturi in his 1991 Pritzker citation. Architecture is an incredibly sexist profession, but even by architecture's low standards, this is an egregious erasure. (And indeed the Pritzer folks did it again two years ago, singling out half of the husband-and-wife team Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu.) Want to sign the petition? The petition is here and the Times gives a decent summary of the situation here.
* And finally: it's still beautiful here!
Cherry blossoms
Redbuds
* Enjoying HP_Beholder, a fest the God of Fandom created specifically to satiate my interests in marginal characters every spring. I love Beholder. I'm missed the first ten days or so due to travel and I *will* make a proper recs post soon, but in the meantime, please, please, please check out the free-spirited, pot-smoking, trust-fund-baby Arabella, who opens her door to an on-the-run Sirius: Days of Cats and Cabbages, Arabella Figg/Sirius Black, 4300 words, NC17. So far every fic at Beholder has been fun. I'm so glad this fest is still going on.
* Speaking of excellent fic, check out
schemingreader's An Example for Lovers, Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, 2100 words, NC17. I don't want to spoil the experience, but this warm, humorous fic plays with gender and sexuality issues in ways that will get you thinking. Even if you don't know the fandom--and I don't at all--it's worth a read.* Speaking of human frailty, someone told Sherlock to get over himself in this week's Elementary. In a very kind way. "I know it's hard," I believe the phrase was. I'm liking this show more and more.
* I found a giant cork board with a wooden frame in the trash and recycling area behind my apartment building. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it, but I took it upstairs immediately. Now I need to think of something things I need to pin up.
* There were no postcard stamps at the post office today. How could that be? The person who helped me tried to blunt the full impact of this news by reassuring me that there were postcard stamps at the next post office, in the next neighborhood, but really--none? At all? What's really going on here? I'm convinced Congress wants to kill the post office (I know I sound paranoid, but it's not out of the realm of possibility, sadly) and we will be paying $9.99 to mails postcards via FedEx in a few years, all the while praising ourselves for eliminating more waste from the federal budget.
* Small but important: two architecture students are campaigning to have the Pritzker folks (the ones who award the profession's highest prize every year) retroactively include Denise Scott Brown alongside her husband and long-time creative partner Robert Venturi in his 1991 Pritzker citation. Architecture is an incredibly sexist profession, but even by architecture's low standards, this is an egregious erasure. (And indeed the Pritzer folks did it again two years ago, singling out half of the husband-and-wife team Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu.) Want to sign the petition? The petition is here and the Times gives a decent summary of the situation here.
* And finally: it's still beautiful here!
Cherry blossoms
Redbuds
