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here, have a meme

ViaDelilah.

Yeah, it's cutesy. Insert a few of your favorite swear words and imagine it drawn in black and blood-red if that helps.

A call for kindness inspired by Requireshate and Racefail 09

Inspired by the comments atA Report on Damage Done by One Individual Under Several Names, I'm writing something that's very hard for me. I'm starting with a few general points for people who aren't familiar with my blogging. Then it gets personal.



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Don't mock anyone who claims to have been hurt by the antics of Requireshate and her supporters. If you've never been mobbed, you can't know

For #requireslove, two quotes by Malcolm X and Jesus

Jesus, from Luke 6:27-35:

But to you who are listening I say:

Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.

Movie rec: Whip It

I dunno how we missed this when it was released, but we watched it tonight and thought it fine. It's a sports movie for people who don't like sports (hey, roller derby!) and a coming of age movie for, well, people who like coming of age stories, I guess. IMDB gives it 6.9, but Rotten Tomatoes' tomatometer, which tends to be more in line with my taste, gives it 84%. Ellen Page gave a fine

The finances and organization of Shadow Unit and Liavek

Tl;dr:In seven years,Shadow Unithas made a little over $50,000 for itscreators and a little over a million words for its readers. A copy of theLiavekwriter's contract is at the end of this in case it might help writers who want to make their own shared world.




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The top three things polite Americans don't talk about with strangers are probably religion, politics, and money. Online,

About class, catcalling, and that viral video

One of my old posts,class and catcalling, got some love from the internet this week because of this video:



Anti-racists have been saying that video is racist because it's about a white woman walking through neighborhoods with lots of brown men. They don't see that it's about a middle-class woman walking through neighborhoods with lots of working class men. And more significantly, they don't

Always blame the writer before you blame the actor

I left this comment atWhich Episodes You Must Watch To Catch Up On Agents of SHIELD: "Actors can't be better than their material. Speaking as a writer, I assure you, the first person to blame for a lame character is the writer."

That said, the writers answer to the show runner, and the show runner answers to the producer, and the producer answers to the studio, and the studio answers to the

Frank Frazetta: Graveyard Dancing

viaThe Pictorial Arts: Graveyard Dancing:

Gawker makes The Sun look like a bastion of integrity

It's almost worth readingHow We Got Rolled by the Dishonest Fascists of Gamergateto watch the art of hypocrisy in action. I can't remember when I first noticed that Gawker was a tabloid rag with a social justice rationalization. Ken White is dead on inTen Short Rants About #GamerGate | Popehat:

There's also the feculent two-faced pack of scribblers at Gawker Media. Gawker Media, through

Dance video: Drake Ft. The Weekend "Trust Issues" remix/by: Mike Peele