Thinky Friday

I don't know why it came up on my Spotify playlist, but the song 'Great Spirit In The Sky' is the most awful pablum I've ever heard.

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How To Suppress Female Characters by fozmeadows

I've just heard the "well, the female characters are fine, but I just happen to prefer the male ones" entirely too much in my 16 years of online fandom.

And so few of the "I like female characters" club actually do anything with that like. So. Few.

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As A Matter Of Fact, You Do Live In A Society Shaped By Christian Values: No, Christianity isn't doing so great a job of it these days; but it did give us ideas about the human condition that were utterly revolutionary in the old Classical times, and which we hold to these days without even thinking where they came from.

Does that mean you live in a Christian society? No. No, it definitely doesn't.

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How Trump Might Win: Terrifying reading. All the more because the kind of American Exceptionalism that American liberals like to believe they are free of is precisely and excruiciatingly defined in "I will not vote for someone I dislike because it goes against my conscience, even if the alternative means other people suffer".

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( for fuck's sake Friday: the plain speaking politics version; no, I'm not nice about it )

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It's a long weekend. I think I need it. I'm on the verge of exhaustion right now. Unfortunately, I have an assignment to finish before 5pm tomorrow afternoon. Better go do some of that now.

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Finally, an interesting quotation from a 15 min podcast I heard from the Centre for Public Christianity, Sydney: "Part of the human condition is to always be uncomfortable in our skin." I guess I think of that as 'eternity set in our hearts'.

hold me under till I choke

Went out and did a little gardening, then found I could barely keep my hands from shaking. Eating dinner with shaking hands: a new experience.

Whatever's going on, I think it's getting worse. We'll try for a really good night's sleep (or a sequence of naps) and see what tomorrow brings.

Upside: I finished my crossovering assignment.

Downside: the sequel to Between Destiny And Love wants to be written, now that I've managed to work it into Cap 3: Civil War. And Part 3, which will be called Paved With Good Intentions may very well tie in with Dr. Strange (even if I don't go see it in the cinemas).

In the meantime, I still have:
- To The End of Love
- Marvel Bang fic
- Marvel POC fic
- the Winter Falcon fic