Links, links everywhere

[dolorosa_12]

Well, I'm nearly finished my registration work, but it's killing me (oh, Lebor Gabála, ours is an abusive relationship), so I've been taking lots of time off and reading interesting stuff online. You know the drill, it's a linkpost.

The wonderful stefeny has started up a blog about her experiences rereading Enid Blyton books. It's very funny. I was one of those people who grew up with Blyton, missed all the racism and sexism and classism and plain bad writing, and then reread the books years later in horror. (I was reading them aloud to a girl I was babysitting, and found myself changing the writing whenever Blyton said something appallingly awful.) Anyway, I highly recommend this blog.

I really appreciated this post by highandrandom about moral ambiguity, for I, too, am a fan of morally ambiguous characters.

I love this post on True/Slant about the whole kerfuffle with the Downfall parody videos being taken off Youtube.

thelxiepia pointed me in the direction of this wonderful recap of Supernatural episode 5.19 by tahirire and blacklid. A must-read for all SPN fans.

If everyone on Twitter were to read the same book over summer, it would be...American Gods. *flails*

sarahtales wrote a very interesting post about romance tropes. westerfeld_blog proves yet again why I love him so.

Here's a great article from The Sydney Morning Herald about tampon ads. I found myself nodding along with pretty much everything the writer said.

Comments

[angelofboox.livejournal.com]

I wrote a comment but accidentally closed the window...oops. Anyway, it was about the BlytonBlog - remind me in chat and I'll talk to you about it.

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. I assume you grew up reading Blyton. I'm always curious as to how people think about her books once they've grown older and more able to recognise all the dodgy stuff going on in them.

[angelofboox.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did - and I've reread them a lot (even in recent years, my sister always pulls them out of the bookshelf and they end up in the bathroom...) but I take issue with a lot of the things she says.

[pink-dragon22.livejournal.com]

That has got to be the best recap of spn ever!

*giggles*

Thanks for the link :D

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

Yeah, isn't it funny. They've written one for every episode, and when I have more time, I'm going to read them all.

Links, links everywhere

[cereswunderkind.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the (fairly) recent BBC4 film in which Helena Bonham Carter played EB?

Re: Links, links everywhere

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

No, but it sounds pretty good.

[(Anonymous)]

Re: SMH article- that was totally my reaction too. A lot of agreement.

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the way those kinds of ads have developed is incredibly depressing (and depressingly understandable).