This week’s linkspam is mostly about Stephanie, just FYI
Author: Liz Barr
Words written. Opinions expressed.
It’s always #cephalopodweek somewhere
According to the internet, #cephalopodweek takes place either in June, or right now. Or maybe it’s both! Can we properly appreciate cephalopods in just a single week? DEFINITELY NOT.
I have a lot of feelings about cephalopods, to the point where I can no longer eat delicious calamari. So it is my great honour and privilege to share with the world my Top 5 Best Cephalopods Ever.
Museum shops of the world: the Koorie Heritage Trust — plus the Moving Tongues exhibit
Yesterday was shockingly windy, but I had to leave the house for a Continuum programming meeting (aka eating a steak sandwich with a friend while we made plans and took notes and scribbled things like “THIS PANEL CANNOT RUN WITHOUT MAJORITY ASIAN PANELISTS” in our spreadsheets).
And since I was in the city anyway, I managed to knock some places off my to-do-one-day list: the Koorie Heritage Trust, and the Moving Tongues exhibit at the City Library.
Liveblog: Star Trek: The Next Generation – “Death in Winter” by Michael Jan Friedman
Not the usual sort of thing we blog about, not the usual sort of thing I read. But this is special. This, my friends, is the tie-in novel where Captain Picard and Doctor Crusher finally hook up.
And since one of my great regrets in life is that I didn’t liveblog the Voyager novel where Janeway is brought back to life (after being fridged in a TNG novel because Picard didn’t have enough Borg-related angst) and then makes out with Chakotay on the battle bridge, I persuaded Stephanie to let me liveblog it.
(It went like this:
Me: Hey, can I do this?
Her: Sure, why not?
Tricky negotiations required, Picard would be proud.)
[Steph really needs to know more about Janeway and Chakotay making out tbh]
Beyond the cut: a bullet point recounting of the plot, with stream of consciousness digressions and also some gifs.
NA’s AFL GF Post
It’s Grand Final week! We also posted about this last year, so I guess this is tradition now.
This year, Stephanie’s team, the Sydney Swans, are playing Liz’s team, the Western Bulldogs. OH WHAT AWKWARDNESS, WHAT POTENTIAL FOR SCHADENFREUDE AND ALSO CATS DRESSED UP IN TEAM GEAR!
Liz reads: 4 Australian novels
How amazing is fiction? People just MAKE UP STORIES, which I then buy and read and insert these ideas from other people’s heads into my brain!
Er, yes, I’ve read some Oz fiction lately — two crime novels, two YA. Let’s have a look.
The invisible women
Last week, The Conversation published an essay titled “Science fiction’s women problem“, by Bronwyn Lovell. It examines women’s past and present place in SF, and looks at issues such as bias against female writers in both publishing and reviewing, and movements like the Sad and Rabid Puppies.
It’s one of those frustrating reads because Liz went in wanting to agree with everything it said, and wound up picking it all apart. Three over-long Facebook comments later, Liz remembered we have a blog.
Terrible things we have threatened to buy for each other
We are good, kind people, and that is why we enjoy sending each other photos of truly awful things and threatening to give them as gifts.
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On money and failure: a budget emergency, but not that kind of budget emergency
Some things I have:
- a full-time job with a good income
- just over $20,000 in personal debt
- great credit nonetheless
- some counterproductive neuroses about money
In other words, while on paper my income should slightly exceed my expenditure, in reality, I usually spend at least the last few days of my pay cycles living off my credit card. Of late, that period has been extending itself, which is doing me a concern.
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