![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Dept. of February's End
A Quick Listsicle
1) Still watching Ukraine, and glad to see and hear world leaders standing together (or at least as close to standing together as nations can stand to be, says the pessimistic optimist/optimistic pessimist.)
2) Getting fucking exhausted with many of those I know on the far left end of the progressive spectrum indulging in "whataboutism" as they approach the Russian invasion:
3) I'm still working on the novel, and I'm getting oh, so very close to the end. Really.
4) Still dealing with my ongoing love of "Arcane". I mean that. I had a dream the other night about one of the characters who died within the 1st three episodes, in which that character survives. I'm also finding myself fighting Arcane fic plot bunnies. No thank you, brain - I'm dealing with enough writing tasks. On the other hand, I plan to watch the whole 9 episode 1st season again; it's absolutely brilliant.
Because my brain has been ping-ponging between Ukraine and Arcane and music, and since I've already banged on about Ukraine in this post, I think I'll leave you with a couple of music vids based on, or directly from, Arcane. Yes, one of them features an Imagine Dragons song written for the series, and yes, I love it, especially since it also features the young rapper J.I.D. Deal with it. I also love "Misfit Toys" by Mako and Pusha T.
NOTE: if you haven't watched Arcane past Episode 3 and plan to do so, don't watch the vids. I'll put them under a cut.
1) Still watching Ukraine, and glad to see and hear world leaders standing together (or at least as close to standing together as nations can stand to be, says the pessimistic optimist/optimistic pessimist.)
2) Getting fucking exhausted with many of those I know on the far left end of the progressive spectrum indulging in "whataboutism" as they approach the Russian invasion:
We get it. The U.S. has fucked over black and brown nations with monotonous, nauseating, up and up racist regularity. We must address these wrongs honestly, in a way that Americans and those of us living in the U.S., of all political stripes, will find tremendously painful.
We get it. The U.S. is horrifyingly imperialist and colonialist. We have a responsibility to the world, to our own country, to ourselves, to begin the process of dismantling that, and it's going to be the absolute opposite of easy.
We get it. We shouldn't have done what we did in Afghanistan and Iraq, and what we didn't do there and other places. We don't have any excuses.
We get it; we need to be careful about slipping into jingoism about this invasion and war; we need to double check news coming to us, even if it's from our favored news sources.
We get it. The U.S. is horrifyingly imperialist and colonialist. We have a responsibility to the world, to our own country, to ourselves, to begin the process of dismantling that, and it's going to be the absolute opposite of easy.
We get it. We shouldn't have done what we did in Afghanistan and Iraq, and what we didn't do there and other places. We don't have any excuses.
We get it; we need to be careful about slipping into jingoism about this invasion and war; we need to double check news coming to us, even if it's from our favored news sources.
None of that erases what's going on in Ukraine; none of that excuses what's going on. And to snidely refer to these things as if people other than your particular flavor of progressive don't get those realities - if you decide to politisplain patronizingly to the rest of us how we're either with you, or with OMG SECULAR CAPITALIST SATAN J'ACCUSE!!1! - you know what? You're assholes. Even if I like you, even if I love you.
3) I'm still working on the novel, and I'm getting oh, so very close to the end. Really.
4) Still dealing with my ongoing love of "Arcane". I mean that. I had a dream the other night about one of the characters who died within the 1st three episodes, in which that character survives. I'm also finding myself fighting Arcane fic plot bunnies. No thank you, brain - I'm dealing with enough writing tasks. On the other hand, I plan to watch the whole 9 episode 1st season again; it's absolutely brilliant.
Because my brain has been ping-ponging between Ukraine and Arcane and music, and since I've already banged on about Ukraine in this post, I think I'll leave you with a couple of music vids based on, or directly from, Arcane. Yes, one of them features an Imagine Dragons song written for the series, and yes, I love it, especially since it also features the young rapper J.I.D. Deal with it. I also love "Misfit Toys" by Mako and Pusha T.
NOTE: if you haven't watched Arcane past Episode 3 and plan to do so, don't watch the vids. I'll put them under a cut.
no subject
It's astonished me. After 2014 and the Crimea, I expected the global community to sit around checking their fingernails as Russia rolled right over Ukraine. If asked last week, I would probably have bet against Turkey closing the straits. I am fine with being proven wrong.
3) I'm still working on the novel, and I'm getting oh, so very close to the end. Really.
Preemptive mazel tov!
no subject
Thanks for the preemptive mazel tov; I'm in the process of some very shootey stuff, and I have to get the ramp up and ramp down smoothly integrated. Then, yeah, true climax and, quite difficult, the denouement. Tricky thing, denouements. Not least, the spelling thereof ....