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kate_nepveuThe Hollywood Reporters, Inside Lucy Liu's Art Studio and Exploring “What We Choose Not to See". Images are mildly NSFW but in, like, an arty way.
Genevieve Valentine, Red Carpet Rundown: The 2019 Oscars. Astute and clever as always.
Speaking of the Oscars, Slate has loads of logistical details about Melissa McCarthy and Brian Tyree Henry's costumes for presenting the Best Costume Design award, which incorporated elements from all of the nominated movies. I did not watch the awards but I love logistics.
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books reviews Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne Long, which it doesn't love as a romance but really likes the bit where the wife and mistress of a dead guy decide to start a boarding house together and make a community, which seems relevant to some of your interests.
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musesfool, Atlas Obscura on why people sleep under blankets. As evidence for the "pure conditioning" aspect of it, it took years for the kids to sleep under blankets, because per the current recommendations (well, then-current, anyway, I don't know what they are now because I'm DONE WITH BABIES), they did not sleep under blankets as infants. (We put them in sleep sacks, which are onesies but with a big, well, sack instead of legs.)Over at the Book Smugglers, Lynn E. O’Connacht has an exhaustive post on Asexual Representation In Mainstream Speculative Fiction. I added Breq and Murderbot in the comments, and still feel like I'm missing something; was there someone in Machineries of Empire? My memory for recent-ish texts is so bad these days, honestly.
I listened to a podcast today about roads that don't exist—the non-personal stuff starts about seven minutes in—and it seems extremely Rivers of London-ish. The London Ringways were a whole series of roads that were planned, that were dropped in the face of community activism, but that left weird effects on London architecture: a six-story building that was designed to block traffic noise, so it only has tiny windows on the side that was supposed to face the motorway; a building that is at a 30-degree angle to everything around it, aligned with a road that wasn't built; and a miserable park that sits smack between two motorways because it was leftover land and they didn't know what else to do with it.
The whole time I could just imagine Peter discoursing about it at length upon visiting one of these sites, so if it amuses (or is useful to) you, please enjoy. (This bit cross-posted to
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the_folly.)Planned Parenthood has a period tracker app, which is good news because I trust them much more than the other companies out there—and when I installed it, it asked me if I wanted to know about fertility or not, instead of making assumptions. (See this Vox article.)
Via Twitter, a lengthy article from Men's Journal on male action heroes' bodies, changing standards and what the actors go through.
On the Leaving Neverland documentary, in which two men accuse Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them as children: Wesley Morris at the NYT; and a set of articles at Slate on multiple issues raised.
Finally, not a link, but: it is FEBRUARY 28 in upstate New York and a MOSQUITO just flew in front of my face. Indoors, obviously, which makes it worse: where did it hatch inside my house?!?!?
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