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Mar. 26th, 2011 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greygirlbeastDiana Wynne Jones has died. She was born on August 16th, 1934.
"Pretending was like that. Things seemed to make themselves up, once you got going."
Fire and Hemlock (1985)
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Just read an article online about the increase in the US Hispanic population, now the second largest ethnic group in the nation (50+ million, accounting for 16.3 percent of the U.S. population of 308,745,538). And then I made the mistake of glancing at the readers' comments, which, in the main, consisted of racial slurs and cries of alarm about impending white extinction. My favorite, some idiot blaming abortion and gay rights for the "fall of the white man." What do you say to shit like that?
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Spooky and I thank everyone who helped to make our first Kickstarter project an enormous success. When the donation period ended last night, we had 212% of our funding. So, The Tale of the Ravens will happen, and Goat Girl Press is born. Thank you all.
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Yesterday, I wrote 1,125 words on "Random Thoughts Before a Fatal Crash." It's a strange start to a strange story. It may not even be a story, precisely. But then, the title says that.
There was also a lot of non-writing writing busyness. And I signed contracts. And stuff.
I'm loving Markus Zusak's The Book Thief.
And I'm tired and dreamsick, and just want warm weather and the sea.
"Pretending was like that. Things seemed to make themselves up, once you got going."
Fire and Hemlock (1985)
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Just read an article online about the increase in the US Hispanic population, now the second largest ethnic group in the nation (50+ million, accounting for 16.3 percent of the U.S. population of 308,745,538). And then I made the mistake of glancing at the readers' comments, which, in the main, consisted of racial slurs and cries of alarm about impending white extinction. My favorite, some idiot blaming abortion and gay rights for the "fall of the white man." What do you say to shit like that?
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Spooky and I thank everyone who helped to make our first Kickstarter project an enormous success. When the donation period ended last night, we had 212% of our funding. So, The Tale of the Ravens will happen, and Goat Girl Press is born. Thank you all.
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Yesterday, I wrote 1,125 words on "Random Thoughts Before a Fatal Crash." It's a strange start to a strange story. It may not even be a story, precisely. But then, the title says that.
There was also a lot of non-writing writing busyness. And I signed contracts. And stuff.
I'm loving Markus Zusak's The Book Thief.
And I'm tired and dreamsick, and just want warm weather and the sea.
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Date: 2011-03-26 05:13 pm (UTC)Makes me wonder what was the warmth of the seas where the mosasaurs you've studied used to live.
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Date: 2011-03-26 05:17 pm (UTC)"Sediment cores show that [Late Cretaceous] tropical sea surface temperatures may have briefly been as warm as 42 °C (107 °F), 17 °C (31 °F) warmer than at present, and that they averaged around 37 °C (99 °F). Meanwhile deep ocean temperatures were as much as 15 to 20 °C (27 to 36 °F) higher than today's."
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Date: 2011-03-26 05:22 pm (UTC)Thank you for the info, by the way. I'm hoping for warmth and the sea, too.
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Date: 2011-03-26 06:03 pm (UTC)what did get you interested in mosasaurs?)
Happenstance.
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Date: 2011-03-27 12:12 am (UTC)Markus Zusak's The Messenger (2002) has also been recommended, by the same friend who suggested The Book Thief to me.
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Date: 2011-03-26 06:10 pm (UTC)Fuck. I wasn't supposed to say that.
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Date: 2011-03-26 06:12 pm (UTC)Fuck. I wasn't supposed to say that.
Likely not.
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Date: 2011-03-26 06:14 pm (UTC)Simple. "Hey bigots, we've found you the country you always wanted." But not tell them it was subject to natural disasters.
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Date: 2011-03-26 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-26 08:16 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2011-03-26 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-26 08:13 pm (UTC)Yes. Yes, indeed.
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Date: 2011-03-26 07:48 pm (UTC)http://jessicaverday.blogspot.com/2011/03/wicked-pretty-things-running-press-and.html
Is there really a notion in YA literature that being gay is wrong? I surely hope this is an isolated case.
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Date: 2011-03-26 08:16 pm (UTC)s there really a notion in YA literature that being gay is wrong?
Queer YA is a point of contention, yes. And those who say otherwise do not know the market. It's out there, but a risky and uphill battle. We live in a society that still, in general, condemns queer people; literature that teaches young people must, per force, be seen as a threat.
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Date: 2011-03-26 08:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-26 08:54 pm (UTC)Reading that felt like being punched. Ow.
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Date: 2011-03-26 09:47 pm (UTC)Sorry. I woke to the news.
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Date: 2011-03-27 08:09 am (UTC)