(posted and compiled by chris the cynic, written by members of The Slacktiverse)
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The Blogaround
As her garden progresses through the spring, Storiteller considers one of the garden’s major enemies – the weed. But rather than cursing it out, she describes how weeds are perfectly adapted to their ecological circumstances and gardeners can avoid creating that environment in A Weed By Any Other Name.
Ana Mardoll wrote:
Elementary: Becoming the Oppressor
Season 1 | Episode 3 “Child Predator”
Joan mentions that she “read all the articles over the years”, and provides information which reveals that she has followed the case closely (as opposed to just being briefly aware of it while it was a media sensation). And I think this is so important, because while many characters on the show (and a few of the viewers) assume that Joan is passively changing her career on a whim or to suit Sherlock, conversations like this reveal that she has had an interest in detective work and criminology long before she met Sherlock.
Twilight: Existence and Empathy
Yet a side-effect of stripping Edward and Bella and Jacob of the choice of leaving in order to create Perfect Security is the fact that their pairings seem motivated by persons and powers they have no control over. Imprinting may be for the imprinter’s “own good”, but that fact in no way diminishes the fact that it was imposed on them without their consent and they have no free will to refuse it. That’s kind of fucked up.
Fringe: Having Anti-Choice Cake (And Eating It Too)
I’m genre-savvy enough to understand that this plot was largely created in order to speed up the pregnancy so that New Baby can be used for plot points in a way that 8-Week Long Pregnancy couldn’t. I’m sure there will be a scene wherein Peter has to gaze lovingly at his infant son and make a tough decision or whatever heart-string-tugging bullshit the writers decide to wad up and throw at us. Whatever, I don’t care. My larger issue is with how this episode was a huge bundle of anti-choice cake being crammed down our gullets.
Narnia: Moving To Calormen
The thought occurs that if a god really is willing to work this damn hard to get us in position to sin, then we’re pretty much all screwed because I honestly can’t point to a place in the narrative where Eustace was given any semblance of choice or free will.
chris the cynic wrote:
It is by now well known that Star Wars movies are produced without a thought as to the previously established facts, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to be gained by looking at the stuff that was retconned into nonexistence. With that in mind I collected all of the things that the original trilogy says about the story that came before it and did my best to put it in order. The result was The prequels as they were described in the original Star Wars trilogy.
I told a spammer I have a donate button, described (with pictures) converting ordinary sunglasses to work with my corrective glasses via the cunning use of a paperclip and pliers, and made mention of those times the cops called on my professors to translate Latin for them.
I also finished off chapter 13 in Snarky Twilight (which is not to say that the chapter is done because I don’t think I ever did the start.) That installment has Bella getting continuity on Edward’s angst, Edward almost becoming a sympathetic character but then messing it all up, Bella sticking to the script for as long as she can bear to, a discussion of the connection between quick reflexes and controlling a truck more than half a century old, and stuff. Lots of stuff.
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