CBrachyrhynchos @cbrachyrhynchos@lgbt.io

Love the art, but I'm getting a bit worn down by the pacing of spending an entire year on absolutely gorgeous battle scenes between character development moments.

#astronomy: Comet at the end of life is covered in talcum powder:

https://www.universetoday.com/151145/a-comet-seen-at-the-end-of-its-life-its-covered-in-talcum-powder/

Universal hired cis male actors to dub over Laverne Cox for international releases of Promising Young Woman.

https://www.themarysue.com/cisgender-male-actors-laverne-cox-promising-young-woman-dubs-wtf/

Read commentary about the gap between criminal and socially objectionable behavior in P&P. Although Wickham's behavior wasn't technically a crime, 15-year-old women of those classes were rarely "out to society" and therefore considered children. Georgiana was definitely not out, and Lydia's coming out was an act of parental neglect.

And the last page neatly skewers how the legal system still values civility over justice when it comes to sexual misconduct.

" In the decades during which human society discovered DNA, rela-tivity, antibiotics, the entirety of nuclear physics, birth control, smartphones,and biofluorescent bunnies. . . . Surely during that time period we must have spent some brain cycles thinking about victims. Surely we would have a blueprint for dealing with predators by now. Surely, at a minimum, we would recognize that predators may have “an openness and gentleness in . . . manner” (p. 202), and that strict adherence to the rules of civility can-not end abusive and predatory behavior—and in fact may enable it."

Courtney Milan's review of Pride and Prejudice focuses on Wickham as a sexual predator who is ineffetually dealt with via the Georgian whisper network.

http://michiganlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/119MichLRev1169_Bond.pdf

Not linking to the Daily News, but trans people put in prison in Cameron for homosexuality demonstrates how gender and sexuality are intersectional.

Transistor (one of a handful of games to give me an honest ugly cry, just about every time) has a "magic system" that just makes sense once you figure out that all of the action happens in a virtual world. So they've been looking at this for a while.

As always, the visual/music/voice aesthetics are wonderful. But one of the things that Supergiant excels at is combining narrative and mechanics in a way that makes sense.

Failure in Hades is a character-development opportunity. And setting the game in the afterlife gives the whole try/die/develop cycle meaning in a way that other games using the same cycle don't. And getting to talk with the other members of the House of Hades is one hell of a consolation prize (pun intended).

Frankly, perpetual reincarnation rarely makes sense from a narrative perspective. And it's not surprising to me that Supergiant would be the ones to finally get that right.

#music: Jayli Wolf, "Hush" https://youtu.be/5lJo9msEnjg

#music: Hapax, "Silvery Track"

https://youtu.be/AhS8jfAOevo