Freaking internet registrations.

And, as usual, the people manning the language institute's help desks are giving off the idea that, actually, they kind of hate students.

Fuckers.

( Ye olden spoilars )

Think fic might exist with Miss Parker as a hunter?

So this is quick and not necessarily meant to take part in the discussion, because I haven’t been doing that. Because, honestly, this seems to be why do women slash + is slash othering and turns out I hate them even more when their powers combine! (Uh, I also don’t because I am known to not be very good at debate, particularly of the calm and rational variety.)

Because most of the discussion centered, again, on m/m slash to the complete exclusion of f/f (who even reads or writes femmeslash, right?), and on straight women because only straight women write slash (and only m/m slash because femmeslash is this nonexistent thing which is completely unrelated to discussions centering on m/m), and on slash as completely distinct from het because no one ships m/f and m/m and f/f because they’re primarily shippers and the configuration doesn’t matter because there’s people of all sorts of sexual identities in the real world and we read the people in our media in various ways—regardless of how they’re presented; some characters I’d defend the way I read their sexual identities against word of god—and we put that in fic.

I mean, hi, I’m a bisexual woman who reads (and occasionally writes) m/m and m/f and f/f (and also gen) because she ships these particular characters because, well, she thinks they’ve got chemistry or whatever. And, honestly, I don’t think I fit in any of these discussions and I can see all sides but jumping up and down, arms flailing and going “uh, and us here?” is at best unhelpful and at worst probably derailing and aargh did I mention I very strongly dislike the terms which the entire debate is based on and gah.

Possibly I will try to write something more coherent to add to the discussion. *flaaaail*

Where'd Simionato come from all of a sudden?

I thought she'd, y'know, quit. :?

Okay, look, I honestly want to get all analytical and stuff, but I seriously feel the need to shout "FOUR TIMES BITCHES!", so let me just get that out of the way. Ahem. (SVEN 4x EK!! lol) So anyway, Sven and Martina then eloped to a recapping soundtrack, another title for Sven.

And, honestly, however happy I am for him (lots), I do certainly wish that he'd at least have a serious challenge to overcome, just to up the tension. More than that, a part of me wishes he'd lose just a few times--and not because I'm a fan of other skaters, because I do love Sven and my heart is big enough for several favourites as are my pants--but just to see what crazy shit Sven'll come up with the next time there's a match on (and, yes, to see what the people who seem to think the world would end if he didn't PWN ALL HIS COMPETITORS WITH LAZORS would do, though that admittedly has fuck all to do with Sven himself). It's in the interest of science~, okay?

As for Fabris (and apparently his new best friends lol), yay! He did well, he's back in good shape and still pretty; thanks cameradude for the lingering shot of him on the training bike /shallow STFU doubters. >:( I do wish he'd tried a bit harder on the 10k but obviously I understand why he didn't, 'cause why risk silver for a teeny tiny shot at entertaining the audience more gold (see: the notorious 0.07 seconds).

Skobrev finally made it to a podium, which yay, and a Frenchman is fourth. Yay, internalisation (for which, apparently, see: Marchetto XD). Shame about Bøkko though. :/

As for teh ladies, Ireen's on her way back with a nice silver and Sablikova is better than you. And... yeah, dude, er... ILIreen lots but yeah.

( Skip this unless you're interested in my thoughts on our commentators )

stephiepenguin

AWC5: Who I Am When I'm (not) With You

The performativity of being an Asian woman changes according to context and situation. It changes from person to person - how I live my life as an Asian woman is different from how my sister lives her life as an Asian woman, to how you live your life as an Asian woman. It changes at work, at home, on the bus, when I'm in Australia and when I'm back in Malaysia and when I'm elsewhere. It is impacted by class, disability, sexuality, cultural expectations, and geographic location, amongst other things.

There are so many reasons for performativity, and the performativity is so different, and coming from different perspectives, and this Carnival seeks to explore that.

As you may or may not know, getting my OV-card is usually about as smooth as my university registrations (aka that's a disaster too) but am I correct in understanding that the not-chip-card is gone or am I more fucked than usual?

D:

Happy 2010 and stuffs. :3