Never try to explain Scott Summer's love life.

Much creativity and many good posts from fans of color in the foc_u community.

So now, having seen Star Trek exactly once, my imagine of Zachary Quinto as Spock has completely consumed and overwritten my image of Zachary Quinto as Sylar.

Edit: And now my journal is overflowing with Star Trek ads. Go figure!

So, people keep talking about getting invite codes via Dreamwidth, something I haven't yet experienced (beyond my first).

Are those of you who get them subscribing with money at this point?

(asking because I wouldn't mind having a couple invite codes to hand out, and if I need to subscribe to get them, that's okay...just need to know).

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now (even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a completely made up, fictional memory of you and me.

It can be anything you want - good or bad - but it has to be fake.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with!

I don't mean the one at Alas, A Blog... but an actually comprehensive one that's at least as good as Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.

And now I can't find it to kill it.

( Not for the entemephobic or faint of heart. )

Update: It's dead now.

I'm not really afraid of most bugs, but one of the people here is allergic to stings, and a few are afraid of bugs themselves.

Plus, I have a grudge.

So my universal remote's switch that allows me to switch between controlling the satellite box and the television has broken, preventing me from playing games or watching DVDs. :(

I hadn't even touched the switch since the writer's strike. Which may, I admit, be part of the problem.

Edit: Replaced, yay.

"Blog about that and I will fulminate in your comments. I will bring the ghosts of HL Mencken and Hunter S Thompson, along with a briefcase full of illegal drugs and a bottle of tequila."

Apparently, some genius thought the world needed a videogame about killing all muslims.

( Read more... )

Edited: Genocide for entertainment is not entertainment.

Edit edit: That was a note to me 'cause I was flip before the edit.

Equality Maryland and Lambda Legal successfully challenged Citizens for a Responsible Government's petition to place the trans rights passed last year on the ballot. Lambda Legal:( Read more... )

I think I need to not post so much transphobia or trans misogyny on here. I have this whole other blog for that crap.

Stupid Heroes, not being on for two more weeks.

"Magnet for assholes who want to say stupid bullshit."




* Plus all the usual stuff about transitioning and gender not being considered valid by society

It's true.

itihasa :(

So I was thinking, earlier:

The X-Men comic book series started in 1963, featuring Professor Xavier and his five students, trying to show the world that mutants were just like everyone else by training them to be superheroes so they could fight other mutants. Specifically, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, led by Erik Magnus Lensherr, aka Magneto (although I don't think he got a real name until much later). When humans spotted mutants, as seen in the first issue, they'd almost immediately form a mob and start attacking the mutant with whatever came to hand. I can only imagine how many times Stan Lee imagined that scene playing out and ending with a dead mutant, since most mutants at the time weren't really all that powerful - and most only had one or two powers, otherwise being fairly normal people.

The X-Men debuted the same year that Martin Luther King led a peaceful protest against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, where he wrote the famous letter from a Birmingham Jail. The next year, three black civil rights workers were murdered by Klansmen in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

So this is the political environment that the X-Men are born in - the black civil rights movement and violence directed at it. As they mature, the gay rights movement and second wave feminism get started.

So: Why, during all this actual activism, do mutants spend so much of their time kicking each other's asses? Why does the militant, violent faction call itself the "Brotherhood of Evil Mutants?" Why does Professor Xavier feel that the best way to win acceptance for mutants is to train them to fight other mutants? Why don't mutants have a Stonewall?

This isn't really intended to be a criticism - comic books weren't really all that great at social relevance at the time. It's more, "what social forces would drive mutants in the midst of being massively persecuted to turn on each other and not take any cues from the civil rights struggles going on around them?"

Yes, I am a geek. I wear that label with pride.

Edit to clarify: I'm not criticizing the comic books or asserting they should have been written differently. I'm just asking: "Look at the history of civil rights. What would it look like to put the X-Men into that context on a political level?"

Also, read this page for an article highly relevant to this post.

Really long post about trans-exclusion from women-only spaces and no, it's not about MWMF - it's about domestic violence and rape shelters.

Also, q_transphobia, and thanks again to gender_euphoric for setting it up so long ago.