these are a few of my favorite things (recently)

1. I got a Google Reader account and my Shared Items are here. GReader is like an RSS feed except you can add blogs that aren't RSS-able and also publicly share interesting posts. So, I've been on the lookout for interesting blogs. I particularly like Missives from Marx, which is written by a theology professor who writes about all sorts of things and not just Marx and theology. I also like M.S. Corley, who is an illustrator/designer who has recently been reimagining a lot of book covers and characters. Do you guys have cool blogs you'd recommend me? Preferably one with short entries or pretty pictures?

2. movementmvt, or Movement Movement, is the brainchild of zempasuchil. The premise of the comm is 'fandom/academia OTP!!1' "This comm was created as a forum to bring academic things together with literary/fannish things, share the geekitude, and rejoice. Please post your Merlin fanfic that deals with the class differences, your speculations on imperialism in fantasy, what Max Weber has to say about Narnia, how anthropology-fail Temperance Brennan is sometimes, questions on worldbuilding, examinations of the nature of myth, neat quotes that should totally be fic prompts, links to these things if they already are out there, etcetera, etcetera." Also, anthrolology is my new favorite word. Join! Geek out! Embrace your inner pretentious nerrrrd!

3. Who cares about an Australian show from the 90s about scientists living in an underwater facility and a foundling who can talk to whales? I do! Oh 'Ocean Girl'! Oh man, these kids! I love their loyalty to each other. I love tech wiz Froggy and clever Zoe and prickly Vanessa. I don't necessarily like how Jason has appointed himself official protector of everyone (which is the primary reason why I can't get behind Jason/Neri), but I find it interesting at least. And NERI, oh how the actress can play open-hearted and kind and otherworldly without being ingratiatingly beatific and holier-than-thou <3. And the show is also like, "Save our oceans!!" Come watch this show with me, guys.

4. Also rewatching 'The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest', unsurprisingly, THANKS YULETIDE NOMINATED FANDOMS LIST. Hey, remember when they said they were making a live-action Jonny Quest movie with Zac Efron in the titular role and then no one said anything about it ever again? Well. Also, did anyone else frequent this site to read JQ fanfic, back in the day? 'Jonny Quest' is so going on my would-write-for list for Yuletide. There is only one Jonny Quest fic on Yuletide and this needs to be rectified.

5. In the interest of full disclosure, I posted the Durkheim quotes from Forms & Foundations in a post here. If I missed any, please do tell. I'm not trying to claim anything of Durkheim's as my own!

i never wanna shame the blood in my veins

I reckon I should be organizing my data sets, but then I listened to Chimamanda Adichie talk about the dangers of a single story (via heather11483 and deepad) and my heart just swelled. I was originally going to flock this post because it has a lot of personal information in it, but then I realized that would be kind of defeating the point. So, here it is.

( thoughts on my own stories: the ones I couldn't own, the ones I didn't want to own, the ones I had to fight for, the ones I still have to fight for )

So in the spirit of this, I'm gonna do new twist on an old meme. I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. And I will answer in autobiographical narrative form.