The Weekend post should be up later today or early tomorrow, submissions open until then

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Ana Mardoll: Ana Mardoll’s Ramblings

Multiple Deconstructions:

• The Chronicles of Narnia: First Post
  • Swearing Friendship with Invaders
• Twilight: First Post
  • Abuse and Attention
• Other:
  • Film Corner: An Observation About Whitewashing
  • Feminism: I am Texan, and I am Angry
  • Fat Acceptance: Regency Romance
  • Feminism: The Cycle of Fauxgress
  • Fat Acceptance: Drawing Anime

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Erika M. and Will Wildman: Something Short and Snappy

• 50 Shades of Grey: First Post
  • 50 Shades chapter 19 in which Erika is grateful for it being short
• Enders’ Game: First Post
  • Ender’s Game, chapter six, part one, in which ZERO GRAVITY RACISM saves the day

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Fred Clark: Slacktivist

• The Left Behind Series: First Post
  • NRA: A lesson for the ladies

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Froborr: My Little Po-Mo

• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: First Post
  • You don’t have any cutie marks *either*? I thought I was the only one! (The Cutie Pox)
  • Not so much. The word “fierce” comes to mind. (May the Best Pet Win)

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RubyTea: Heathen Critique

Multiple Deconstructions:

• Apocalypse: Caught in the Eye of the Storm, Part 1
• Apocalypse: Caught in the Eye of the Storm, Part 2

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Justice_Turtle: ReadAllTheNewberys

• Newbery winners / Honor Book: First post (back from Hiatus)
  • Coulda Been a Contender: The 1922 Newberys Summary Post
  • The 1923-1925 Newberys Summary Post
  • The 1926-1928 Newberys Summary Post

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Mouse: Mouse’s Musings

• Left Behind: The Kids: First Post
  • There’s a Light

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Philip Sandifer: Philip Sandifer: Writer

• Doctor Who: First Post
  • I Become Part of Events (The Christmas Invasion)
  • Outside the Government 11 (Attack of the Graske)
  • Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 63 (Life on Mars)

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Yamikuronue: Raven Wings

Multiple Deconstructions:

• Bitten: First Post
  • Bitten: Meet (Chapter 5)

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Please comment or e-mail us if we’ve forgotten anybody or you have anyone to add. Or if any links are broken, or if you’re linked to and don’t want to be, or if you’ve found a way to have more time in the face of a sister with a baby running a farm and constantly calling on you for help, or for more or less any reason really.

- chris the cynic

Irregular Business

I’m late, I know, sorry.

Regular Business

Submission deadline for the weekend post is 20:00 EST Saturday. (Article submissions can be sent in any time.)

Anyone who has submissions for the weekend post should send them in.  Some people wonder if they really deserve to be in the post.  The answer to that is always the same: You do.  So try not to be afraid and do try to send in submissions if you have them.

The sections of the post are as follows:

Any denizen of the Slacktiverse who has posted an article to their own website since they last submitted to a weekend post is invited, enticed, and cajoled to send a short summary of that article along with its permalink to the group email. That summary and link will be included in the next weekend blogaround. This will help to keep members of our community aware of the many excellent websites hosted by other members.

Remember, this is since you last submitted to a weekend post, not since the last weekend post. For example, if the last time you submitted was a month ago, everything you wrote since then is fair game.

Readers of The Slacktiverse can send short summaries of, and permalinks to, articles that they feel might be of interest to other readers.  These should be sent, as you might expect, to the group email.

Anyone who knows of a worthy cause or important petition should send a short description of the petition/cause along with its url to the group email.

Those of you who also frequent Ana Mardoll’s Ramblings will find this somewhat familiar.  Here, as there, it was requested that there be a regular post to talk about writing projects (and other artwork-creation). Thus this post exists.

Pencil by Elisa Xyz

What are you working on? How are you feeling about it? What thoughts and/or snippets would you like to share? How does your activism work into your art? What tropes are you hoping to employ and/or avoid? Are there any questions you’d like to ask or frustrations you’d like to vent?  Writing workshop below!

(And we’ll see if once a week is too frequent.)

Do your favorite books / music / movies / television shows / plays / other media line up with what you believe are the best books, etc?

Why or why not?

Random confession: if mine is the only submission I give much less of a damn about getting the weekend post done on time.

The Blogaround

In Case You Missed This

Things You Can Do

–Co-authored by the Slacktiverse Community

In the mean time:

Ode
By Arthur O’Shaughnessy

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world’s great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire’s glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song’s measure
Can trample a kingdom down.

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself in our mirth;
And o’erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world’s worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

A breath of our inspiration
Is the life of each generation;
A wondrous thing of our dreaming
Unearthly, impossible seeming—
The soldier, the king, and the peasant
Are working together in one,
Till our dream shall become their present,
And their work in the world be done.

They had no vision amazing
Of the goodly house they are raising;
They had no divine foreshowing
Of the land to which they are going:
But on one man’s soul it hath broken,
A light that doth not depart;
And his look, or a word he hath spoken,
Wrought flame in another man’s heart.

And therefore to-day is thrilling
With a past day’s late fulfilling;
And the multitudes are enlisted
In the faith that their fathers resisted,
And, scorning the dream of to-morrow,
Are bringing to pass, as they may,
In the world, for its joy or its sorrow,
The dream that was scorned yesterday.

But we, with our dreaming and singing,
Ceaseless and sorrowless we!
The glory about us clinging
Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing:
O men! it must ever be
That we dwell, in our dreaming and singing,
A little apart from ye.

For we are afar with the dawning
And the suns that are not yet high,
And out of the infinite morning
Intrepid you hear us cry—
How, spite of your human scorning,
Once more God’s future draws nigh,
And already goes forth the warning
That ye of the past must die.

Great hail! we cry to the comers
From the dazzling unknown shore;
Bring us hither your sun and your summers;
And renew our world as of yore;
You shall teach us your song’s new numbers,
And things that we dreamed not before:
Yea, in spite of a dreamer who slumbers,
And a singer who sings no more.

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Now you know where Wonka got it from, if you didn’t already.

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Ana Mardoll: Ana Mardoll’s Ramblings

Multiple Deconstructions:

• The Chronicles of Narnia: First Post
  • Privilege and Passive Voice
• Twilight: First Post
  • My Touchstone
• Tropes and Characterization:
  • Tropes vs. Women

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Erika M. and Will Wildman: Something Short and Snappy

• 50 Shades of Grey: First Post
  • 50 Shades chapter 18 in which the book pretends to have a plot again

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Froborr: My Little Po-Mo

• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: First Post
  • This isn’t at all what I imagined. (Sisterhooves Social)

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RubyTea: Heathen Critique

Multiple Deconstructions:

• THE SECRET ON ARARAT
  
  • TSoA: Chapter 52: The. End.

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Mouse: Mouse’s Musings

• Left Behind: The Kids: First Post
  • We’re Gonna Rock Rock Rock with the Rock

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Philip Sandifer: Philip Sandifer: Writer

• Doctor Who: First Post
  • I Wasn’t The One Holding a Gun (Bad Wolf)/A Fighting Hand (Parting of the Ways)
  • This is Not a Review Blog
  • Outside the Government 10 (Doctor Who Confidential)
  • Blogrolling: Pushing Ahead of the Dame
  • Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 62 (Battlestar Galactica)

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Yamikuronue: Raven Wings

Multiple Deconstructions:

• Bitten: First Post
  • Bitten: Prodigal (Chapter 4)

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Please comment or e-mail us if we’ve forgotten anybody or you have anyone to add. Or if any links are broken, or if you’re linked to and don’t want to be, or if you have a magic way to fix all problems, or for more or less any reason really.

Irregular Business

First writer’s workshop thread was earlier today, first writing prompt thread was earlier this week.

Regular Business

Submission deadline for the weekend post is 20:00 EST Saturday. (Article submissions can be sent in any time.)

Anyone who has submissions for the weekend post should send them in.  Some people wonder if they really deserve to be in the post.  The answer to that is always the same: You do.  So try not to be afraid and do try to send in submissions if you have them.

The sections of the post are as follows:

Any denizen of the Slacktiverse who has posted an article to their own website since they last submitted to a weekend post is invited, enticed, and cajoled to send a short summary of that article along with its permalink to the group email. That summary and link will be included in the next weekend blogaround. This will help to keep members of our community aware of the many excellent websites hosted by other members.

Remember, this is since you last submitted to a weekend post, not since the last weekend post. For example, if the last time you submitted was a month ago, everything you wrote since then is fair game.

Readers of The Slacktiverse can send short summaries of, and permalinks to, articles that they feel might be of interest to other readers.  These should be sent, as you might expect, to the group email.

Anyone who knows of a worthy cause or important petition should send a short description of the petition/cause along with its url to the group email.