Open Thread: Sciency Stuff

The request:

Can we have a slacktiverse open thread about science fairs/projects/experiments/Olympiad or something?

The answer: Yes

Board Business, February 26th, 2014

(posted by chris the cynic)

Irregular Business

Still not getting things right, as the lack of an open thread should indicate.

Regular Business

There is no submission deadline for articles and open thread suggestions.  Send them any time.

The Submission Deadline for the weekend post is 20:00 (8PM) US Eastern Time Saturday.

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:

The Blogaround

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.

In Case You Missed This

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.

Things You Can Do

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.

Deadlines

Again, none for articles and open thread suggestions, 20:00 (8 PM) US Eastern Time Saturday for the Weekend post.  Also, if there’s a deconstruction you feel should be in the roundup, you can suggest that at any time.

In case the links don’t work: the group email is SlacktiverseAuthors (at) gmail (dot) com.

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It is perfectly acceptable to use this as an open thread, should you so desire.

Writer Workshop

(Posted by chris the cynic)

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!

This week in the Slacktiverse, February 23rd, 2014

(posted and compiled by chris the cynic, written by members of The Slacktiverse)

The Blogaround

This week, Storiteller reflects on how lonely and beautiful putting her baby to bed at night is and how a special toy helps them out in He Holds the Whole World on His Back.

chris the cynic wrote:

Only two posts this week.  The more interesting is that, after making several posts talking seriously about things where I thought Long Live the Queen could be better or where I personally would do things differently, I wrote a story that is not to be taken seriously at all in which everything goes very, very sideways after looking on, “The rebels are all landlocked,” not as, “So our navy is useless in this fight,” but instead, “So anything we put to sea will be safe from the rebels.”  Elsewhere I’ve called it, “The Advent of a Tangential Narrative.”

The less interesting is called, “God I hate making posts about money” and in it I apparently took complete leave of my sense of when commas are needed.  As one might guess, it’s about money.

On the Slacktiverse itself:

• Open Thread: Things you love in Movies/Books/Whatever you dislike
• Feminism and Parenting: A Perfect Match
• Writer Workshop
• Board Business, February 21st, 2014
• Deconstruction Round Up, February 22nd, 2014

In Case You Missed This

No submissions this week; feel free to comment with things you think fit.

Things You Can Do

Froborr wrote:

I’ve launched a Kickstarter for the second volume of My Little Po-Mo here.

–Co-authored by the Slacktiverse Community

Deconstruction Round Up, February 22nd, 2014

(by the Slacktiverse and others; collected by chris the cynic)

The point of these posts is threefold:

1 To let people stay up to date on ongoing deconstructions.
(All ones on our list, including finished and stalled ones, here.)
2 To let people who can’t comment elsewhere have a place to comment.
3 To let people comment in a place where people who can’t read disqus can see what they have to say.

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Amarie: Amarie’s Dreamjournal

Racism: No Color, No Self: A Struggle With Dissociation

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Ana Mardoll: Ana Mardoll’s Ramblings

Multiple Deconstructions:

• The Chronicles of Narnia: First Post (Voyage of the Dawn Treader: First Post)
• Long Live the Queen:
  • Naval Battle

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Erika M. and Will Wildman: Something Short and Snappy

• Ender’s Game Saga: First Post (Speaker for the Dead: First Post)
  • Speaker for the Dead, chapter seven, in which Ender is a magical social worker

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Fred Clark: Slacktivist

• The Left Behind Series: First Post
  • Announcing the Left Behind cover and title contest

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Froborr: My Little Po-Mo

• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: First Post
  • You will never have the amazing, show-stopping ability (Magic Duel)
• The Very Soil (Puella Magi Madoka Magica): First Post
  • Even a Purely Moral Act (This Just Can’t Be Right)

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RubyTea: Heathen Critique

Multiple Deconstructions:

• UNDERGROUND ZEALOT SERIES: First Post (SILENCED: First Post)
  • Chapter 20, Part 2: (Silly) Spy Games

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Mouse: Mouse’s Musings

• Left Behind: The Kids: First Post
  • Those who would sacrifice Liberty…

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Philip Sandifer: Philip Sandifer: Writer

• Doctor Who: First Post
  • Outside the Government: Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day Five
  • Outside the Government: Prisoner of the Judoon
  • Outside the Government: The Mad Woman in the Attic
• Last War in Albion: First Post
  • Even Reverse the Flow of Time (The Last War in Albion Part 32: Alan Moore’s Future Shocks, Alan Moore’s Time Twisters)

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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 unicorns are interbreeding with Pegasuses creating flying spear headed horses, or for more or less any reason really.

Board Business, February 21st, 2014

(posted by chris the cynic)

Irregular Business

I sort of, screwed up.  I forgot there was an article meant to go up on Tuesday, so I put up an open thread, which sort of delayed everything a day, but today, when the decon round up goes up we should be back on schedule.

Regular Business

There is no submission deadline for articles and open thread suggestions.  Send them any time.

The Submission Deadline for the weekend post is 20:00 (8PM) US Eastern Time Saturday.

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:

The Blogaround

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.

In Case You Missed This

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.

Things You Can Do

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.

Deadlines

Again, none for articles and open thread suggestions, 20:00 (8 PM) US Eastern Time Saturday for the Weekend post.  Also, if there’s a deconstruction you feel should be in the roundup, you can suggest that at any time.

In case the links don’t work: the group email is SlacktiverseAuthors (at) gmail (dot) com.

–

It is perfectly acceptable to use this as an open thread, should you so desire.

Writer Workshop

(Posted by chris the cynic)

(A day late so the article Feminism and Parenting: A Perfect Match would have space to breathe)

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!