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What I'm Reading?
Jun. 14th, 2023 08:20 pm1. What I'm reading...
Burn it Down: Power Complicity and a Call to Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan
Slowly making it through the audio book. It's dense. And informative. She goes into depth on the meritocracy in Hollywood - and how opportunities are slanted towards those with inside contacts or parents in the business. And are often, or overwhelmingly "white" and "male". HBO - she states has few if any female show-runners. And the acquisition of Discovery furthers the predominant stance of not pissing off Middle-America.
Having made it through the Lost chapter, and the chapter on demographics (largely white), I'm on the Sleepy Hollow chapter - right now all is well, in the world. It's the first season of Sleepy Hollow. When for the first time - a black female was leading a network horror series (its usually white men). But of course that went to hell rather quickly, didn't it?
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The Witch King by Martha Wells
It's interesting. I'm not that far into it. But far enough to have figured out the protagonist is a demon in mortal form, and this is a fantasy novel that takes place in another world. There's a lot of world-building but we get fed it slowly, not all at once. Kind of similar to how she did the world building in "The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red. Except this is a novel (400 pages) as opposed to a series of novellas.
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2. Good news, I now have proof that Squidgeworld unlike Ao3 is thrilled to be getting movie reviews and meta. And has no issues with it. Their administrator (squidgie) thanked me for posting a review of the Film Stranger than Fiction, while Ao3 told me to delete film reviews or face the consequences.
I'm beginning to respect SquidgeWorld more - it's rules make sense. It is against AI, anything racist or exploitative of children or bigoted, and don't be a dick. A03 on the other hand appears to be fine with AI, racist, exploitative of kids, bigoted content, and dickish behavior. It just doesn't want film reviews, episode recaps, and meta it doesn't think is transformative? Basically it appears to be more worried about copyright law than common decency? IDK.
So...there you have it?
At any rate I'm currently on https://www.squidgeworld.org/ as shadowkat, and wordpress blog is outriderchronicles, link is in my profile page, I think. That's where I'm posting all this content that I'm removing from A03 per A03's request. (I'm afraid they will delete my account on me.)
Burn it Down: Power Complicity and a Call to Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan
Slowly making it through the audio book. It's dense. And informative. She goes into depth on the meritocracy in Hollywood - and how opportunities are slanted towards those with inside contacts or parents in the business. And are often, or overwhelmingly "white" and "male". HBO - she states has few if any female show-runners. And the acquisition of Discovery furthers the predominant stance of not pissing off Middle-America.
Having made it through the Lost chapter, and the chapter on demographics (largely white), I'm on the Sleepy Hollow chapter - right now all is well, in the world. It's the first season of Sleepy Hollow. When for the first time - a black female was leading a network horror series (its usually white men). But of course that went to hell rather quickly, didn't it?
( Read more... )
The Witch King by Martha Wells
It's interesting. I'm not that far into it. But far enough to have figured out the protagonist is a demon in mortal form, and this is a fantasy novel that takes place in another world. There's a lot of world-building but we get fed it slowly, not all at once. Kind of similar to how she did the world building in "The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red. Except this is a novel (400 pages) as opposed to a series of novellas.
( Read more... )
2. Good news, I now have proof that Squidgeworld unlike Ao3 is thrilled to be getting movie reviews and meta. And has no issues with it. Their administrator (squidgie) thanked me for posting a review of the Film Stranger than Fiction, while Ao3 told me to delete film reviews or face the consequences.
I'm beginning to respect SquidgeWorld more - it's rules make sense. It is against AI, anything racist or exploitative of children or bigoted, and don't be a dick. A03 on the other hand appears to be fine with AI, racist, exploitative of kids, bigoted content, and dickish behavior. It just doesn't want film reviews, episode recaps, and meta it doesn't think is transformative? Basically it appears to be more worried about copyright law than common decency? IDK.
So...there you have it?
At any rate I'm currently on https://www.squidgeworld.org/ as shadowkat, and wordpress blog is outriderchronicles, link is in my profile page, I think. That's where I'm posting all this content that I'm removing from A03 per A03's request. (I'm afraid they will delete my account on me.)