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gwydion* I am horrified but not surprised at the horrible things Netanyahu said to court the ultra right. Let's all hope the left can pull together a good coalition.
* "Ebola deaths surpass 10,000 in West Africa:" http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/13/ebola-death-toll-surpasses-10000-in-west-africa.html?utm_content=nobylines&utm_campaign=ajam&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow
* "Haunting Photos Powerfully Capture the Terror Facing Canada's Indigenous Women Today:" http://mic.com/articles/98606/haunting-photos-powerfully-capture-the-terror-facing-canada-s-indigenous-women-today?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social
* "The return of firing squads:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-return-firing-squads
* "Leading House Republican blames Obama for murders:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/leading-house-republican-blames-obama-murders
* "Texas Bill Would Make Recording Police Illegal:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/13/bill-recording-police-illegal_n_6861444.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
* "Felony charges for man who spoke too long at township meeting:" http://boingboing.net/2014/03/24/felony-charges-for-man-who-spo.html
* "Anita Sarkeesian: 'What I Couldn't Say':"
* "La. Transit CEO ‘Would Love’ Fewer Black Bus Drivers to Put White Passengers at Ease:" http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/03/la_transit_ceo_would_love_fewer_black_bus_drivers_to_put_white_passengers.html?utm_content=buffer3fa19&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
* "#Wejustneedtopee: why lawmakers shouldn't choose which restrooms transgender people use:" http://www.vox.com/2015/3/13/8208425/wejustneedtopee-transgender-bathroom
* "5 Colonial-Era Drinks You Should Know:" http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2014/04/colonial-era-drinks-cocktails-rum-flip-stonefence-syllabub-rattleskull.html
* Black Sails Thoughts mostly from a conversation elsewhere:
1. I think fucking over Vane is going to lead to scary, scary things, but letting John silver know his power was so much worse. Silver is by far the most dangerous person in the show. Silver cares only about himself, and has the sociopath's gift of convincing everyone he is their friend. It is actually Billy who cares most for the men of all of them. With Silver the potential and the knowledge of what he can do is enough to make him the most dangerous man on the island. I am alarmed what will happen when he acts on it.
2. I suspect Max made sure Anne was gone when Jack got back on purpose. I think Max is like my Dhrae in that she is generally doing things for multiple reasons at the same time, some of the personal/affectional and some political/commerce related. She finds the move that manages to further 2-4 goals at the same time. I think the answer to why she does things is often both/and instead of either/or., This makes her interesting.
3. I think Vane is wrong politically. I think he is dangerous as fuck. I also _get_ him, if that makes sense. He's a man who escaped slavery to remake himself into a shark. He adores Eleanor with the kind of passion apt to get them both killed. Vane is beautiful the way Richard Sharpe of Sharpe's Rifles is beautiful. Vane is a butcher, but he's a better class of butcher than the guy who took the Ashe girl first. He's got loyalties: to his crew, to Eleanor. He's also got ideals. He cares about freedom and the Pirating lifestyle represents that for him. He's actually not that many degrees off from Flint, who is also an anti-hero. Flint does terrible things. He puts the big picture first. Vane does terrible things for his small set of loyalties and to keep the freedom captaincy represents.
4. I do not think Vane has loved anyone deeply before Eleanor, not really. He couldn't make himself vulnerable enough, not with what he's been through. She keeps twisting the knife, and he keeps letting her because the feeling is to big to know what to do with. I am waiting to see if she hurt him so bad he will bite back hard this time. Yes killing her father is biting back, It is not nearly a big enough bite. Oh, they patched it up and Mr. Guthrie was theoretically helping his daughter now, but could that really be trusted and does a wound that big heal fast enough? I'm not saying it's not sad for her, but I am not convinced Vane would see it as big enough, if that makes sense. His perspective vs. hers vs ours. I think Vane will try to overthrow her, but I'm not convinced he's ready to go all the way yet. Vane and Eleanor are a slow motion car crash. They can't stop hurting each other and they can't leave each other alone. Trust me, I know that relationship when I see it.
5. Eleanor is very like Flint. She will betray anyone and anything for the big picture. I rather love that she is given the same sort of antitreatement most media only allows white male characters. She is allowed to be flawed in all the ways male characters are allowed to be flawed. She is allowed the same ambitions and passions and the same ugly decisions that come with those.
6. I would love for Thomas Hamilton to be hiding in that town. It would make a good end of season cliff hanger, but I an not holding my breath.
7. Billy has been way more interesting since he got back.
8. Hornigold has been betrayed at every turn. I think he is ready to bite too. He did everything they asked and they just repeatedly fucked him over. I think Hornigold is no where near as benevolent as he pretends and the pirate underneath is going to come out.
9. I stand by my Miranda theory from last week. You see her trying so hard with the Ashe girl, trying through the grime and baggage to be what she was. That moment really got me when her father turns to look at Flint and Mrs. Hamilton and they both lift their chins. Their pride and their knowledge of their guilt and shabbiness mingled. She's incredibly nuanced which makes her hard to latch on to for people, I think. Often what she is doing is subtle. It's not an easy bit of acting and it's deliberately harder to sympathize with then Eleanor in her primary colors of defiance and anger and purpose. Don't get me wrong, I am fond of Eleanor. All I am saying is she is easier for a modern audience to identify with.
* Some Things on Captain America, Tony Stark, Natasha Romanof, etc.:
Nec:"What I want to see is Natashia and Bucky having a scene about what it means to have your account in the red and go on living anyway."
Karrin:"Man, Nec. I would love to see that."
Karrin:"I am startled at how into Captain America I became. The All American Hero isn't a concept I'm like woo hoo. But the way he's reinvented is how he became in later years in the comics: not about upholding the American Way so much as being true to the values he was taught were supposed to be American. Even if that means telling the American Way to suck it."
Karrin:"I honestly love his conflict with Tony Stark. They represent two sides of a spectrum that aren't actually split along Republican/Democrat lines."
Karrin:"Captain is Truth, Justice, and Liberty. Stark is opportunity, enterprise, and freedom. Not quite the same as liberty."
Nec:, "What I loved about Winter Soldier was it was all these Soldier Relationships. I include Natasha in this. You get all this talking about aftermath and PTSD and trust and adjusting to life in and out, even though it isn't always labelled those things. I never thought I'd love Cap, but they sold me on him. I want a Falcon movie though."
Karrin:"Yeah I would watch the fuck out of a Falcon movie."
Nec:"The thing that made me get a hint I might like him was his picking the right side in the Comics Civil war and Tony stark picking the wrong one. It got my attention enough to get my ass in a chair for the first Cap movie."
Karrin:"And while Tony picked the wrong side, but you can understand why. Take away the suit, what is he?"
Nec:"You can understand why, but I still have trouble forgiving him for it."
Karrin:"But Red Skull, Loki, even his allies. Super soldiers, radiated scientists, /gods/. He knows the fear of being only human. And I think he believed, in his way, he was protecting them. Maybe part of that cavalier feeling that the powerful can take it. They've got power."
Nec:"I have read the Civil war graphic novels available at my library, which doesn't give me the whole story, but it actually made me care a little bit about fantastic Four. The thing they did there was surprisingly nuanced. I loved the big rock guy being: Fuck all y'all, civillians are getting killed over your bullshit!"
Nec:I really did like what they did with Tony Stark in the films for all the second Iron Man is nigh unwatchable for me. I like the fear and the PTSD and all the ways he is flawed and fucked up and keeps trying.
Karrin:"See, it's easy to side with Cap because he's a good boy with a pure heart. Tony's fundamentally flawed, and he still keeps trying, even after he's really fucked it up."
Karrin says, "Even when no one does forgive him, and when no one SHOULD forgive him. He keeps trying to crawl back up to stand."
Nec:"The PTSD moment in Iron Man III fits into the power differential in the Avengers and how scary that shit is... What gets me in the Avengers though is Hawkeye and Natasha. They have no power suit. They are two squishy humans with only human weapons and they still stand back to back and fight."
Karrin:"And are strong characters. I want to see more Hawkeye."
Nec:"I want to see him and falcon doing something together, possibly drinking a beer and talking. Also action things too, but I look at Natasha and Bucky and think that they can really help each other. I look at Falcon and Hawkeye and think, it would be good to have someone to talk to about getting the job done in a world of gods and monsters and super soldiers."
Karrin:"I love how he's really nice and all, and good and true, but also you can see him once in awhile look like: I am the only person in this room who isn't an idiot."
Nec:I am really happy the comics are making Falcon Captain America. I loved the young Avengers Captain Equivalent character and I think Falcon would be a good way to address some of those things on a bigger scale with modern soldier issues mixed in. I doon't know wehat they are doing with him, but it opens a deep vein of things to write about.
* Our Financial Situation continues Scary: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com
* "Ebola deaths surpass 10,000 in West Africa:" http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/13/ebola-death-toll-surpasses-10000-in-west-africa.html?utm_content=nobylines&utm_campaign=ajam&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow
* "Haunting Photos Powerfully Capture the Terror Facing Canada's Indigenous Women Today:" http://mic.com/articles/98606/haunting-photos-powerfully-capture-the-terror-facing-canada-s-indigenous-women-today?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social
* "The return of firing squads:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-return-firing-squads
* "Leading House Republican blames Obama for murders:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/leading-house-republican-blames-obama-murders
* "Texas Bill Would Make Recording Police Illegal:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/13/bill-recording-police-illegal_n_6861444.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
* "Felony charges for man who spoke too long at township meeting:" http://boingboing.net/2014/03/24/felony-charges-for-man-who-spo.html
* "Anita Sarkeesian: 'What I Couldn't Say':"
* "La. Transit CEO ‘Would Love’ Fewer Black Bus Drivers to Put White Passengers at Ease:" http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/03/la_transit_ceo_would_love_fewer_black_bus_drivers_to_put_white_passengers.html?utm_content=buffer3fa19&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
* "#Wejustneedtopee: why lawmakers shouldn't choose which restrooms transgender people use:" http://www.vox.com/2015/3/13/8208425/wejustneedtopee-transgender-bathroom
* "5 Colonial-Era Drinks You Should Know:" http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2014/04/colonial-era-drinks-cocktails-rum-flip-stonefence-syllabub-rattleskull.html
* Black Sails Thoughts mostly from a conversation elsewhere:
1. I think fucking over Vane is going to lead to scary, scary things, but letting John silver know his power was so much worse. Silver is by far the most dangerous person in the show. Silver cares only about himself, and has the sociopath's gift of convincing everyone he is their friend. It is actually Billy who cares most for the men of all of them. With Silver the potential and the knowledge of what he can do is enough to make him the most dangerous man on the island. I am alarmed what will happen when he acts on it.
2. I suspect Max made sure Anne was gone when Jack got back on purpose. I think Max is like my Dhrae in that she is generally doing things for multiple reasons at the same time, some of the personal/affectional and some political/commerce related. She finds the move that manages to further 2-4 goals at the same time. I think the answer to why she does things is often both/and instead of either/or., This makes her interesting.
3. I think Vane is wrong politically. I think he is dangerous as fuck. I also _get_ him, if that makes sense. He's a man who escaped slavery to remake himself into a shark. He adores Eleanor with the kind of passion apt to get them both killed. Vane is beautiful the way Richard Sharpe of Sharpe's Rifles is beautiful. Vane is a butcher, but he's a better class of butcher than the guy who took the Ashe girl first. He's got loyalties: to his crew, to Eleanor. He's also got ideals. He cares about freedom and the Pirating lifestyle represents that for him. He's actually not that many degrees off from Flint, who is also an anti-hero. Flint does terrible things. He puts the big picture first. Vane does terrible things for his small set of loyalties and to keep the freedom captaincy represents.
4. I do not think Vane has loved anyone deeply before Eleanor, not really. He couldn't make himself vulnerable enough, not with what he's been through. She keeps twisting the knife, and he keeps letting her because the feeling is to big to know what to do with. I am waiting to see if she hurt him so bad he will bite back hard this time. Yes killing her father is biting back, It is not nearly a big enough bite. Oh, they patched it up and Mr. Guthrie was theoretically helping his daughter now, but could that really be trusted and does a wound that big heal fast enough? I'm not saying it's not sad for her, but I am not convinced Vane would see it as big enough, if that makes sense. His perspective vs. hers vs ours. I think Vane will try to overthrow her, but I'm not convinced he's ready to go all the way yet. Vane and Eleanor are a slow motion car crash. They can't stop hurting each other and they can't leave each other alone. Trust me, I know that relationship when I see it.
5. Eleanor is very like Flint. She will betray anyone and anything for the big picture. I rather love that she is given the same sort of antitreatement most media only allows white male characters. She is allowed to be flawed in all the ways male characters are allowed to be flawed. She is allowed the same ambitions and passions and the same ugly decisions that come with those.
6. I would love for Thomas Hamilton to be hiding in that town. It would make a good end of season cliff hanger, but I an not holding my breath.
7. Billy has been way more interesting since he got back.
8. Hornigold has been betrayed at every turn. I think he is ready to bite too. He did everything they asked and they just repeatedly fucked him over. I think Hornigold is no where near as benevolent as he pretends and the pirate underneath is going to come out.
9. I stand by my Miranda theory from last week. You see her trying so hard with the Ashe girl, trying through the grime and baggage to be what she was. That moment really got me when her father turns to look at Flint and Mrs. Hamilton and they both lift their chins. Their pride and their knowledge of their guilt and shabbiness mingled. She's incredibly nuanced which makes her hard to latch on to for people, I think. Often what she is doing is subtle. It's not an easy bit of acting and it's deliberately harder to sympathize with then Eleanor in her primary colors of defiance and anger and purpose. Don't get me wrong, I am fond of Eleanor. All I am saying is she is easier for a modern audience to identify with.
* Some Things on Captain America, Tony Stark, Natasha Romanof, etc.:
Nec:"What I want to see is Natashia and Bucky having a scene about what it means to have your account in the red and go on living anyway."
Karrin:"Man, Nec. I would love to see that."
Karrin:"I am startled at how into Captain America I became. The All American Hero isn't a concept I'm like woo hoo. But the way he's reinvented is how he became in later years in the comics: not about upholding the American Way so much as being true to the values he was taught were supposed to be American. Even if that means telling the American Way to suck it."
Karrin:"I honestly love his conflict with Tony Stark. They represent two sides of a spectrum that aren't actually split along Republican/Democrat lines."
Karrin:"Captain is Truth, Justice, and Liberty. Stark is opportunity, enterprise, and freedom. Not quite the same as liberty."
Nec:, "What I loved about Winter Soldier was it was all these Soldier Relationships. I include Natasha in this. You get all this talking about aftermath and PTSD and trust and adjusting to life in and out, even though it isn't always labelled those things. I never thought I'd love Cap, but they sold me on him. I want a Falcon movie though."
Karrin:"Yeah I would watch the fuck out of a Falcon movie."
Nec:"The thing that made me get a hint I might like him was his picking the right side in the Comics Civil war and Tony stark picking the wrong one. It got my attention enough to get my ass in a chair for the first Cap movie."
Karrin:"And while Tony picked the wrong side, but you can understand why. Take away the suit, what is he?"
Nec:"You can understand why, but I still have trouble forgiving him for it."
Karrin:"But Red Skull, Loki, even his allies. Super soldiers, radiated scientists, /gods/. He knows the fear of being only human. And I think he believed, in his way, he was protecting them. Maybe part of that cavalier feeling that the powerful can take it. They've got power."
Nec:"I have read the Civil war graphic novels available at my library, which doesn't give me the whole story, but it actually made me care a little bit about fantastic Four. The thing they did there was surprisingly nuanced. I loved the big rock guy being: Fuck all y'all, civillians are getting killed over your bullshit!"
Nec:I really did like what they did with Tony Stark in the films for all the second Iron Man is nigh unwatchable for me. I like the fear and the PTSD and all the ways he is flawed and fucked up and keeps trying.
Karrin:"See, it's easy to side with Cap because he's a good boy with a pure heart. Tony's fundamentally flawed, and he still keeps trying, even after he's really fucked it up."
Karrin says, "Even when no one does forgive him, and when no one SHOULD forgive him. He keeps trying to crawl back up to stand."
Nec:"The PTSD moment in Iron Man III fits into the power differential in the Avengers and how scary that shit is... What gets me in the Avengers though is Hawkeye and Natasha. They have no power suit. They are two squishy humans with only human weapons and they still stand back to back and fight."
Karrin:"And are strong characters. I want to see more Hawkeye."
Nec:"I want to see him and falcon doing something together, possibly drinking a beer and talking. Also action things too, but I look at Natasha and Bucky and think that they can really help each other. I look at Falcon and Hawkeye and think, it would be good to have someone to talk to about getting the job done in a world of gods and monsters and super soldiers."
Karrin:"I love how he's really nice and all, and good and true, but also you can see him once in awhile look like: I am the only person in this room who isn't an idiot."
Nec:I am really happy the comics are making Falcon Captain America. I loved the young Avengers Captain Equivalent character and I think Falcon would be a good way to address some of those things on a bigger scale with modern soldier issues mixed in. I doon't know wehat they are doing with him, but it opens a deep vein of things to write about.
* Our Financial Situation continues Scary: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com