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I do exist outside of Mondays, I promise!

[personal profile] geraineon made a post with some links about diaspora writing: Write More “Indianly,” or Else: Asha Thanki on the Trap of “Authentic” Writing and Jaroslav Kalfar’s Spaceman of Bohemia, A Review- On Visible/Invisible Places, The Czech Republic, And Mo Yan’s Diseased Language, which I found really interesting, and which have stirred some interesting discussion in geraineon's journal.

A potentially habitable exoplanet: LHS-1140b is an eyeball earth that potentially has liquid water! Very cool and an interesting setting for science fiction stories.

Apparently one adaptation of The Message (some sort of spy drama? I think? set during the Japanese occupation of China/Taiwan?) is very femslashy and available on Vimeo: episodes 1-20, episodes 21-38. (Needs login.) Shall try to watch after [community profile] battleshipex is over. Possibly even vid.

Speaking of vidding, a vidding zine is getting started and is currently in submissions.

*slinks back to Battleship*

ETA: I can't believe I forgot these two anthropological/archaeological essays I found!
The Isolation of the Andaman Islanders – if you've heard of the North Sentinel Islanders, this is the island chain. Turns out there are two layers of indigenous population here! Includes notes on genetic and linguistic evidence + why they now flee for the hills/pull out weapons at the first sign of strangers.
The Marajóara Culture – estimating the minimum population for a culture in the Amazon delta using archaeological evidence.

Date: 2024-07-15 17:31 (UTC)
colls: (SW Ahsoka LA with hood)
From: [personal profile] colls
Ooooo... eyeball planet. The Webb telescope has been such a GIFT!

Date: 2024-07-15 22:04 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] flowersforgraves
thank you so much for the diaspora writing links! I'm as always in a Fucking Weird Place about my own relationship with my cultural heritage and whether I can or should use the term diaspora to describe myself, and I found those essays super, super thought provoking.

Date: 2024-07-16 01:38 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] china_shop
Thanks for the diaspora writing links! I've copied them all onto my kindle. :-)

Date: 2024-07-16 03:53 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] geraineon
Thank you for the link back!

Those anthropological/archaeological essays sound really interesting. Bookmarked to read <3

Date: 2024-07-16 11:56 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] nnozomi
Thank you for the neat links! (Sometimes I think it would be nice to be able to not exist selectively on Mondays only...)

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