A beautiful Japanese word for the acquiring and piling up of books without reading them. Constructed from 2 words loosely meaning piling up and reading.
The sketch is loosely based on my parents’ bedroom while I grew up, both of whom are experienced and talented tsundoku-ers/tsundokists.
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Oh so suddenly I'm an expert on whatever I think?
Back in October, the Editorial Policy Committee approved my first exhibit (EPC 141-S30.2 LGBT and transgender identity) but pointed out that the resources I had consulted were too U.S.-centric and that I should investigate whether there was literary warrant for additional concepts in gender and sexuality. My research resulted in a new exhibit, EPC 141A-S30.1 Two-Spirit people and SOGI, which was recently approved by the members of EPC.
The phrase Sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) isn't as widely used in the United States as in Canada, Australia, and the U.K. As a relatively new phrase (emerging primarily within the past decade), there is still some ambiguity in the way SOGI is used. I found many resources that used SOGI essentially interchangeably with "LGBT" and its variations, to refer to sexual and gender minorities, but I found other sources that specifically contradicted that, saying that SOGI refers to everyone's orientation/identity, including heterosexual and cisgender people. For the time being, we've added SOGI (Sexual orientation and gender identity) to the class-here note at 306.76 Sexual orientation, transgender identity, intersexuality.
I also found literary warrant to add a provision for works about Two-Spirit people. The term Two-Spirit is relatively new, having been adopted as a pan-Indian term in 1990 during a gathering of American and Canadian LGBTQ people. I consulted many sources, prioritizing those representing definitions by Indigenous peoples themselves (find a selected list of resources on pages 6-7 of the exhibit). They emphasized that the adoption of the term was an attempt to distance users of the term from what they saw as colonizer conceptions of berdache, gay, lesbian, or transgender, and that the core of the identity is people's Indigenous identity. With the addition of a new class number 306.7608997 North American native peoples featuring a note to "Class here Two-Spirit people," it is clear to classifiers that they can start at that number to allow for further subdivision based on the nations provided for in Table 5. For example, a book about Two-Spirit people from the Siksiká Nation could be classed in 306.7608997352.
As with so many terms relating to gender identity or sexuality, these phrases are likely to shift meaning in the future. When that happens, we'll make revisions—the work of updating Dewey is never done!
I'll share other recent developments in this area with another blog post later this week.
I think if aliens really did show up, most countries would freak the fuck out, but then the one country who was all “Come on down” and the aliens are like “Thanks, here’s the technology for optical circuitry that’s ten orders of magnitude faster than anything else on your world,” all the xenophobic countries would be all “Oh… shit.”
Ah, alien idioms. To watch just about every show and read every book ever, one might get the impression that English is the only language with idiomatic expressions, because aliens are always stumbling over them, no matter how intelligent they’re supposed to be, and no matter how obvious the meaning is from context. Well, except for those “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” aliens who are the cartoonish counter example. Seriously, how did that race invent integrated circuitry or crack warp travel talking like that?
“Jablus and Forbgyte… used silicon to channel electrons into this XOR gate? Guys, can we lay off the metaphors for like, one hour so we can get some work done?”
“Dornius, at noon, knows only hunger.”
“Yes, Phil, I ate your sandwich, because you never label anything.”
God, imagine just trying to order a ham on rye on that world. “No, no, I don’t want yellow mustard, I want the dijon… gah, I mean, Fligbus, his senses filled with spice! No! Not the red pepper flakes! Who puts red pepper flakes on a ham sandwich!?”
It always bugged me when Spock or Data’s IQ would suddenly drop to 70 when someone said something like “Hit the sack” “Beat around the bush” and they’re all, “Why would you attack the area around foliage?” Based on context, those things should be pretty easy to figure out. If you’re dealing with a language that replaces every third word with “smurf” or “squanch” then it can get a little more challenging, but those aren’t really idioms.
Aren’t all news excerpts in movies/TV/comics/etc really just exposition vehicles? I think they’re better than two informed characters saying to each other “As you know…” then going on to explain something they both know for the audience’s benefit, and both options beat the hell out of a boring preamble. At least Star Wars had John William’s music blaring overtop of it.
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The paradox of how groups of people are able to take actions that no one in the group actually thinks is a good idea. Though individually we each may think that an idea is a bad one, we may go along with the group decision thinking that it’s just us that disagree when, in fact, no one thinks it’s a good idea.
Coined by Jerry Harvey, a management professor, who illustrated the phenomenon with a fictional story of a family who end up on a rubbish day out to Abilene that no one wanted to do.
On a hot afternoon visiting in Coleman, Texas, the family is comfortably playing dominoes on a porch, until the father-in-law suggests that they take a trip to Abilene (53 miles north) for dinner. The wife says, “Sounds like a great idea.” The husband, despite having reservations because the drive is long and hot, thinks that his preferences must be out-of-step with the group and says, “Sounds good to me. I just hope your mother wants to go.” The mother-in-law then says, “Of course I want to go. I haven’t been to Abilene in a long time.”
The drive is hot, dusty, and long. When they arrive at the cafeteria, the food is as bad as the drive. They arrive back home four hours later, exhausted.
One of them dishonestly says, “It was a great trip, wasn’t it?” The mother-in-law says that, actually, she would rather have stayed home, but went along since the other three were so enthusiastic. The husband says, “I wasn’t delighted to be doing what we were doing. I only went to satisfy the rest of you.” The wife says, “I just went along to keep you happy. I would have had to be crazy to want to go out in the heat like that.” The father-in-law then says that he only suggested it because he thought the others might be bored.
The group sits back, perplexed that they together decided to take a trip which none of them wanted. They each would have preferred to sit comfortably, but did not admit to it when they still had time to enjoy the afternoon.
More paradoxes: The coastline paradox, Jevon’s paradox
Harvey, J. B. (1974). “The Abilene paradox: the management of agreement”. Organizational Dynamics. 3: 63–80. Excerpt as quoted from Wikipedia :)
This is not to diss Abilene. I’m sure it’s a neat place.
NOTHING SPECAL by Katie Cook is very special. trust me.
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morrigan by phantasmalblue
As found at:
http://phantasmalblue.deviantart.com/art/morrigan-651341509
My favourite Morrigan art of the month… I just really like this look, but more it’s the style that’s captivating…
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Succubus by Nexy-Naya
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http://nexy-naya.deviantart.com/art/Succubus-592488449
Interesting horns this succubus has… her tail is a bit odd but does suit her look…
So Sydney now has a passport to the galaxy. Sort of. She can’t really go zipping off to just anywhere… Well, she can, she just kind of has no idea where she’s going at the moment, unless she has a pathfinder. Fortunately, the orb’s “history tab” seems to remember some of the locations it’s been to, so she can probably explore and always have Earth marked as a recent travel location.
Unless that so called history tab is actually a bookmarks tab, in which case, Earth won’t appear on it unless she can figure out how to add it.
To Sydney’s point about the Nth leaving out useful features from the orbs, I think a lot of super advanced alien tech would be that way, even if it wasn’t god tier tech. If you were smart enough to do 11th dimensional math in your head, and you were the only person using the gadgets you created, it’s likely that your user interface would be an absolute nightmare to anyone but you. Quite frankly, it’s amazing the orbs are as user friendly as they are. Imagine if before firing the PPO, Sydney had to calculate the power used, the frequency of the wavelength, whether or not it was pure EM radiation or a particle beam what sort of particles to use, density, interval, aperture, distance to target, half-life of particle decay, etc, etc.
Obviously the orb would be less useful as a weapon if it took 5 minutes of fidgeting with it to get it to do anything, which is probably why there’s just a (mental) button to push to get it to work. But underneath the one button interface is probably a host of options that Sydney would never be able to muddle her way through, and if she did ever start playing with the settings, the PPO might wind up firing area effect gamma burst death fields instead of the neato cutting beam.
I’ve updated the vote incentive, but before you click on it, let me say something about it as it’s not my usual fare. I painted over a picture of a fitness gal helpfully showing her physique. The point of the picture wasn’t to impress with my knowledge of anatomy, I was using it to practice drawing shiny Maxima, so I thought I’d save some time and work from an existing picture. Turns out that didn’t actually save me a whole bunch of time, as I wound up repainting almost every part of the woman cause it had that jpeggy dithering all over it and it bugged me and I’m OCD that way.
So, after all that, I’m not too pleased with the results for a few reasons. One, it took forever, which means it’s impractical to do in the comic. Two, honestly it doesn’t look as good as I’d like. Of course, I was comparing myself to paintings like Alex Ross’s pictures of Silver Surfer and Iron Man, and that’s admittedly a high bar. My piece isn’t bad, but it could be a lot better. Whether or not it could be better and be done at a reasonable speed is another question. Three, there’s another problem with making Max shiny in the manner that I did, is that it relies heavily on sort of… subdividing Max by muscle groups and using those edges to cordon off the edges of the reflections. While that’s more or less how it works if you look at a polished chrome or gold statue, it makes make Max look like she’s cut to the bone. She is, like all supers, in very good shape, but she’s not 0% body fat, and I don’t want to draw her looking like that. She has some feminine softness to her, perhaps unless she’s really flexing and making her muscles pop, but the point is that this method of making her look shiny isn’t what I want it to ultimately look like.
But I learned a bit from doing it, plus now we have a kind of cheaty picture of Max to look at, so it’s all good.
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Sultry Linai by emptycicada1
As found at:
http://emptycicada1.deviantart.com/art/Sultry-Linai-591034941
Lovely horny succubus… the tongue lick is delightful…
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The trick is to only fall in love with perishable food, then keep it in your fridge until someone in your home is mad at you. Then, you can part from it with a clear conscience.
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The plan was set, the players were all in position and it was finally time to get this party started. Some of our more martially inclined members of the party had been waiting for this for a very long time so it was like Christmas come early for Halvnor who hadn’t been able to get on the better end of a fight for a while now.
