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lb_lee) wrote2025-11-16 04:44 pm
lb_lee) wrote2025-11-16 04:44 pm
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Hack103: ddNd
Mori: so, I’m playing Hack, a weakass lady Knight, and I have accidentally become Queen of the Puppies.
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lb_lee (lb_lee) wrote2025-11-15 07:13 am
lb_lee) wrote2025-11-15 07:13 amEntry tags:
RESEARCH!
(This post brought to you by chatting with Orion and Noel)
We know a bunch of people digging around in plural history stuff, which is awesome! Some people ask us where we find some of our data and stuff, so here’s a word of advice:
( Stay curious! )
We know a bunch of people digging around in plural history stuff, which is awesome! Some people ask us where we find some of our data and stuff, so here’s a word of advice:
( Stay curious! )
lb_lee (lb_lee) wrote2025-11-14 08:54 am
lb_lee) wrote2025-11-14 08:54 am
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Dog Training
Biff (who loves dogs) has a thing about dog training. When you have a dog that you’re training, you want to make sure you don’t teach it the wrong things. Dogs don’t speak English; they have to guess what you want, based on how you respond, and their reasoning isn’t the same as a human’s. Sometimes, you end up teaching the dog the wrong things, and y’all end up in a mutually self-defeating cycle.
As with dogs, so with ourselves.
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As with dogs, so with ourselves.
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lb_lee (lb_lee) wrote2025-11-12 06:48 pm
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Spock in Manacles: the Rock Opera!
Rogan: While shelf-checking the nonfiction section of the sci-fi library (I had to stop; I kept getting distracted by things I wanted to read), I found a humble pamphlet, awkwardly typed, from 1985 with the innocuous title THE BECCON PLAYS. Curious, I flipped through it and discovered it includes "Spock in Manacles - The Rock Opera," by Kate Davies.
Of course, I had to open it up to investigate.
Some things never change!
(Yes I'm checking it out right now.)
Of course, I had to open it up to investigate.
VOICEOVER.
Jim's gold-flecked orbs moved feverishly beneath their troubled lids. The cave was getting colder all the time.... It was nine hours since that ill-fated rockslide had fallen on Spock, fracturing one of his hard-muscled jade thighs, and shattering both their communicators... The ship would surely never find them here, int hisdesolate forest, and his friend would surely freeze to death in the meantime...
Poor Spock! Rivulets of remorse flowed from his hazel orbs as...
Some things never change!
(Yes I'm checking it out right now.)
lb_lee (lb_lee) wrote2025-11-08 08:12 pm
lb_lee) wrote2025-11-08 08:12 pmEntry tags:
Tape Notes: "Psychobiology of Trauma," by Bessel A. van der Kolk
This tape (05-834-93) comes from the 5th east regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality: Training and Treatment June 3-8, 1993 at the Radisson Hotel in Alexandria, VA. It was mercifully normal and boring! It is also not really my wheelhouse, so once I digitize it, I'm happy to give it to someone who'd appreciate it more; I know there are some van der Kolk fans on this blog. Let me know!
Also keep in mind I'm inking comics when I'm listening to these tapes, so my notes tend to be haphazard. When in doubt, assume the problem was me, not the speaker!
Also keep in mind I'm inking comics when I'm listening to these tapes, so my notes tend to be haphazard. When in doubt, assume the problem was me, not the speaker!
lb_lee (lb_lee) wrote2025-11-08 07:59 pm
lb_lee) wrote2025-11-08 07:59 pmEntry tags:
Leslie Feinberg and 'Safe Space'
Rogan: We found a copy of Leslie Feinberg's 1996 book, Transgender Warriors: making history from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, in a free box. (It's still in print, miraculously!) If you desperately need a book where all sorts of genderful people are exhorted to unite in joyful coalition, then this is the book for you! But that's not what this post is about. This post is specifically about what Feinberg says about safe space, which I want to make required reading for everyone these days.
( There are no safe identities, only safe behavior. )
( There are no safe identities, only safe behavior. )
lb_lee (lb_lee) wrote2025-11-05 03:46 pm
lb_lee) wrote2025-11-05 03:46 pm
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Gay Genders
Mori: Okay, so, when we came of age, queerwise, there was this idea that trans people and gay people were two very different groups of people. Sure, maybe in those ignorant old days, the two were conflated, but that was wrong and now we are enlightened and know these are two totally different things (and also maybe we should not trust each other or affiliate with each other because trannies will make the gays look bad and cisgays are all privileged dipshits or whatever). This blog shows that history; "queerness" and "trans" are totally different tags because when we started using them, they were TREATED as completely different things.
But as we've been reading our older queer books, we're realizing that this plain isn't true! Gay people were gendering ALL OVER THE PLACE, and homogenizing them into "cis gay" ranges from misleading to outright insulting.
We are still fucking sick, so we're sticking with posting notes from the stuff we've read. Even we can't mess that up too bad!
But as we've been reading our older queer books, we're realizing that this plain isn't true! Gay people were gendering ALL OVER THE PLACE, and homogenizing them into "cis gay" ranges from misleading to outright insulting.
We are still fucking sick, so we're sticking with posting notes from the stuff we've read. Even we can't mess that up too bad!