Weekly update
May. 8th, 2013 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magnetic_poleThis week, the Armchair Sociologist edition:
* Do you ever look around and think, "Wow, this neighborhood's really changed?" I had a moment like that yesterday when I saw a baby in a fedora lounging on his hipster dad's chest in a baby carrier.*
* On a related note, I see babies with their daddies all the time now--do you, too? It used to be just the occasional Sensitive Guy (TM) in certain neighborhoods, but today I happened to pass by a twenty-something high-fiving his friends with one hand and pushing a toddler on a tricycle with the other. It's the kind of thing that gives you hope, you know?
* And last but not least, the better half and I are on the cover of the New Yorker! Well, okay, not us, exactly, but our demographic, at least--or perhaps an AU version of our demographic, in which we live in a single-family house and have three children and own a coffee maker. But still--I so rarely see families that look like mine in the mainstream media. I'll take this, for now. (Folks who've met us, back us up! It could be us, right?)
In fannish news:
* I'm continuing to enjoy Beholder to no end, not the least because of the predominance of thoughtful but not-very-long stories. I have so much respect for folks who write the longer fics--and in fact I think it's a sign of growing writing skills across fandom as a whole that the average fic length is getting longer--but I'm essentially a dabbler with a short attention span, and I love a good coffee-break fic. Recs to come.
ETA: My gift, Salazar's Curse (Snape/Yaxley) has been posted! Back soon with a comment.
* Thanks to Netflix's acquisition of the second season, I've finally finished the US version of "The Killing" after finding myself frustrated by the Season I cliffhanger almost a year ago. Surprisingly poor dialogue for a show with amazing acting and cinematography, I thought. For anyone who's watched both, should I try to get a hold of the Danish version?
* Linking you to an illustration, because I had to look up the word myself. Where would you even buy something like that, I wondered. But apparently tiny fedoras aren't hard to come by.
* Do you ever look around and think, "Wow, this neighborhood's really changed?" I had a moment like that yesterday when I saw a baby in a fedora lounging on his hipster dad's chest in a baby carrier.*
* On a related note, I see babies with their daddies all the time now--do you, too? It used to be just the occasional Sensitive Guy (TM) in certain neighborhoods, but today I happened to pass by a twenty-something high-fiving his friends with one hand and pushing a toddler on a tricycle with the other. It's the kind of thing that gives you hope, you know?
* And last but not least, the better half and I are on the cover of the New Yorker! Well, okay, not us, exactly, but our demographic, at least--or perhaps an AU version of our demographic, in which we live in a single-family house and have three children and own a coffee maker. But still--I so rarely see families that look like mine in the mainstream media. I'll take this, for now. (Folks who've met us, back us up! It could be us, right?)
In fannish news:
* I'm continuing to enjoy Beholder to no end, not the least because of the predominance of thoughtful but not-very-long stories. I have so much respect for folks who write the longer fics--and in fact I think it's a sign of growing writing skills across fandom as a whole that the average fic length is getting longer--but I'm essentially a dabbler with a short attention span, and I love a good coffee-break fic. Recs to come.
ETA: My gift, Salazar's Curse (Snape/Yaxley) has been posted! Back soon with a comment.
* Thanks to Netflix's acquisition of the second season, I've finally finished the US version of "The Killing" after finding myself frustrated by the Season I cliffhanger almost a year ago. Surprisingly poor dialogue for a show with amazing acting and cinematography, I thought. For anyone who's watched both, should I try to get a hold of the Danish version?
* Linking you to an illustration, because I had to look up the word myself. Where would you even buy something like that, I wondered. But apparently tiny fedoras aren't hard to come by.
