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beccaelizabethI'm not writing here much at the minute.
I am reading a book series very slowly, and I keep putting it down between chapters, wandering off, and thinking about Torchwood instead, but since there is a finite amount of Torchwood, I am trying to read Literally Anything Else, so.
I just ordered a bunch more books from Waterstones because a year between trying new things is too long.
Though actually I have a bunch more on my ebooks app on my phone.
... just realised I'd started reading one before I picked up this paper book.
This is why I don't get along with ebooks, they join the vast legions of opened tabs in assorted browsers on three devices, I just forget they exist. *sighs*
The real world continues to be full of Awful where the only opinion I feel remotely informed enough to have is People Should Just Stop Hurting Each Other and that isnt particularly helpful to say.
I can get really passionate about human rights for like vampires and magic users and aliens, because either the law protects everyone or it protects no one, but I dont know what to do after things get broken.
Fiction is just hiding under a blanket, but outside the blanket seems a bit beyond me, in practical terms.
I guess this is what has been depressing me since the Cultural Studies degree, study a culture and you can write ever so many essays on how the texts demonstrate sexism and racism and inequality and hate, and get in ever so many arguments about the extent to which they generate it, but seeing how to generate positives was not exactly emphasised.
One can use the Art in the service of Life
but it's difficult to see if its working.
Still. Doctor Who generates conversations about trans rights and gender and gay rights, and at least some of those conversations are positive. And in the middle of current UK politics, they've cast someone who arrived from Rwanda as a refugee as the next Doctor. That looks like engaging with some very live debates there. And doing good stories also.
Can hope it helps.
Oh for a size of problem one could fix with a screwdriver.
I am reading a book series very slowly, and I keep putting it down between chapters, wandering off, and thinking about Torchwood instead, but since there is a finite amount of Torchwood, I am trying to read Literally Anything Else, so.
I just ordered a bunch more books from Waterstones because a year between trying new things is too long.
Though actually I have a bunch more on my ebooks app on my phone.
... just realised I'd started reading one before I picked up this paper book.
This is why I don't get along with ebooks, they join the vast legions of opened tabs in assorted browsers on three devices, I just forget they exist. *sighs*
The real world continues to be full of Awful where the only opinion I feel remotely informed enough to have is People Should Just Stop Hurting Each Other and that isnt particularly helpful to say.
I can get really passionate about human rights for like vampires and magic users and aliens, because either the law protects everyone or it protects no one, but I dont know what to do after things get broken.
Fiction is just hiding under a blanket, but outside the blanket seems a bit beyond me, in practical terms.
I guess this is what has been depressing me since the Cultural Studies degree, study a culture and you can write ever so many essays on how the texts demonstrate sexism and racism and inequality and hate, and get in ever so many arguments about the extent to which they generate it, but seeing how to generate positives was not exactly emphasised.
One can use the Art in the service of Life
but it's difficult to see if its working.
Still. Doctor Who generates conversations about trans rights and gender and gay rights, and at least some of those conversations are positive. And in the middle of current UK politics, they've cast someone who arrived from Rwanda as a refugee as the next Doctor. That looks like engaging with some very live debates there. And doing good stories also.
Can hope it helps.
Oh for a size of problem one could fix with a screwdriver.
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