Birthday wishes
Jan. 17th, 2011 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magnetic_poleJumping online very briefly to wish a happy birthday to three wonderful flisters:
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secretsolitaire (today!), reader, reccer, fan, beta, and an invaluable and untiring source of support and online fannish camaraderie. If S has ever offered you some feedback, stop by her journal today and tell her how much you've appreciated it. I've just left a comment there myself. Happy birthday, S!
busaikko (Saturday), whose fic continually shows me how very powerful fannish writing can be. When I first discovered fandom, I had an initial period of fannish excitement, as we all do. (I think I must have read several hundred fics in those first couple weeks.) But when my enthusiasm was waning and I was ready to close the books on Harry Potter, I discovered busaikko's fic, which made me think more deeply about fannish writing and what it can accomplish. busaikko, I admire the emotional honesty and depth of your writing so much! May this next year bring you joy (and time to write)!
aunty_marion (Sunday), who's introduced me to filk, and archery, and knitting, and whose journal entries about everyday life I always love reading. May this next year be a good one for you, M!
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Randomly: I've just finished watching Inception, and all I have to say is this: all that CGI, and that's the best architecture you were able to come up with?
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Finally, for anyone thinking about Martin Luther King, Jr, and the unfinished civil rights movement today, a rec: Mary Dudziak's Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Dudziak shows how Cold War pressures (rather than the good intentions of white liberals) helped facilitate many of the reforms that black Americans pushed for in the 50s and 60s, including desegregation.
secretsolitaire (today!), reader, reccer, fan, beta, and an invaluable and untiring source of support and online fannish camaraderie. If S has ever offered you some feedback, stop by her journal today and tell her how much you've appreciated it. I've just left a comment there myself. Happy birthday, S!busaikko (Saturday), whose fic continually shows me how very powerful fannish writing can be. When I first discovered fandom, I had an initial period of fannish excitement, as we all do. (I think I must have read several hundred fics in those first couple weeks.) But when my enthusiasm was waning and I was ready to close the books on Harry Potter, I discovered busaikko's fic, which made me think more deeply about fannish writing and what it can accomplish. busaikko, I admire the emotional honesty and depth of your writing so much! May this next year bring you joy (and time to write)!aunty_marion (Sunday), who's introduced me to filk, and archery, and knitting, and whose journal entries about everyday life I always love reading. May this next year be a good one for you, M!*
Randomly: I've just finished watching Inception, and all I have to say is this: all that CGI, and that's the best architecture you were able to come up with?
*
Finally, for anyone thinking about Martin Luther King, Jr, and the unfinished civil rights movement today, a rec: Mary Dudziak's Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Dudziak shows how Cold War pressures (rather than the good intentions of white liberals) helped facilitate many of the reforms that black Americans pushed for in the 50s and 60s, including desegregation.
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