I came back! And you know what? I spend my days in Camboriú studying P-Chem. But I went to the sea once! And saw
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bell! And traveling in car for 16 hours? Boy, that was the best part: there was rain, getting lost and persecutions with shooting.No, seriously.
See, there is something about coming back home, just crossing the frontier and finding oneself in the middle of a firing. Because this is Paraguay and we are extreme. And lawless apparently. You know the contrast with Brazil having actual laws and stuff.
We were passing Brazilian customs and my father was talking about how they don't ask for documentation because we were entering our country or something, he started talking about the two Brazilian cars behind us: a small Fiat, and the one behind it, a small white car which brad I didn't see. He noticed how a group of Brazilian cops immediately went after the small white car, he thought it was due to evading documentations or something, and well, this is La Triple Frontera, so that's routine. Then I saw the Fiat, whose driver probably didn't notice what was happening, giving space to the white car to let it go ahead. The white car did. Taking the Fiat's left rear-view mirror with it. Seriously. I just saw the mirror flying and hitting the floor and then the white car was behind us. Then we heard the shootings, and saw two armed Brazilian cops on a motorcycle following the white car. My father let them pass because he sure as hell didn't want our car end like the Fiat. And they passed some centimeter besides us (because this is "El Puente de la Amistad" and this is how you cross it) with the cops making shots to the air.
Next thing we saw were the Brazilian cops coming back without nothing, of course the guy went away (we theorize it was a robbed car, the guy driving wasn't armed and was alone), and of course there were our cops and militia in our customs looking very interested in all that was happening without moving a finger.
And yeah, when Brazilian people enter our country? They don't make any documentation, our customs are non existing. Paraguay, the paradise for... car robbers.
So yeah, pretty traditional welcome home.
(I will be talking about all the rest later because I have an exam on Monday, and I haven't studied for that one at all because it isn't P-Chem and I was vacationing. So yay me.)
It's pretty unfortunate that my first post of the year (decade? there is a lot of debate about that) comes, and surprise! Yet again ranting against humanity.
But let me tell you something internets. Truly, you may not believe it, but there are more important matters than your enjoyment of slash fiction. You are not trivializing important issues because you are darker and edgier, you are doing it because you are young and very privileged and cannot grasp the severity of the matter in question.
No love, me.
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ilye_aru: Michelle Bachelet contra el Apocalipsis Zombie. Michelle Bachelet contra el Apocalipsis Zombie. No gente, yo no podría inventar esta clase de cosas ni aunque quisiera. Uhm, have you been madly in love with a male character in a stereotypical Shonen Jump manga series? Just asking because I have heard it happens sometimes. Not that I know about it.
Who am I kidding? MY NEW MANGA BOYFRIEND AND CURRENT OBSESSION, YAMAMOTO TAKESHI. Just him though, his series gives me headaches more often than not.
What the hell LJ?
The IAAF handled this badly, and they acted like Semenya cheated. They may have a too stringent line for what is “female”. But a line, where everyone is competing against everyone else, female athletes by and large would fall off the map. It would be a shame, for instance, to have people like the Williams sisters languish in obscurity because they simply can’t break into the top ranks of players if they’re forced to compete against men.
None of this discredits the critiques you’re offering. I’m simply interested in your practical response. How do we accommodate the problems you outline without desegregating and ending women’s sports?
Guess who was that? Amanda Marcotte. Now the representative of white, cis feminism everywhere.
Wonder yourself woman why you "aren't seeing" that.
( Spoilers for latest chapters )
SOME IMPORTANT ETA HERE: People, we are adults. I don't have to tell you to put spoilers under cut and stuff when these last two chapters come out. A cut never killed someone before. Talk all you want UNDER them. No hints. Thank you so much por adelantado (yeah, I don't know how to say that in english, it kinda sounds cool like that).
Yeah, I have to study now. And, uhm, yeah, those exams. Let's not talk about those. Who does want to hear about exams? Certainly not me.
ETA: Dude. DW isn't crossposting and nobody tells me. Woe.
( Spoilers for latest chapters )
Yeah, I have to study now. And, uhm, yeah, those exams. Let's not talk about those. Who does want to hear about exams? Certainly not me.
Heard in Pathology lab yersterday:
CLASSMATE 1: *Talking to the teacher about some disease she heard about in a TV show* And that is how sometimes you learn something watching TV.
CLASSMATE 2 (who is also probably the best student in all the faculty): Like Dr. House!
CLASSMATE 1: Arg. I can't stand the guy. And that show is so much bullshit.
TEACHER (Dr in Medicine, Pathologist, also a woman in her fifties): AAAH! THAT SO MUCH BULLSHIT! Like my colleague was telling me the other day, WHAT A BIG LIE!* He never needs of someone else! He doesn't needs of a Phatologist, he doesn't need of the lab and lab-results that take weeks to come. He diagnostics everything! Some rare diseases in a instant when you need to do thousands of lab tests, and those don't do it yourself.
CLASSMATE 2: But. But. He has revelations while eating!
(*ETA: Because she was very passionate about that, textual: "Como mi compañera me dijo, QUE MENTIRA!")
En otro tema, nivel de idiotez de secretos_fandom = nivel de idiotez de F!Secrets. Claro, porque "todo es racista y sexista" es tan relevante cuando estás hablando del sexismo del fandom (y claro, otras formas de opresión no existen, y la mayoría de los programas/cosos no se ven afectados porque vivimos en el vacío). Amo a las mujeres blancas que viven en burbujas y piensan "eso no es racista, es normal!" pa que no le arruinen el squee. *defriends comm* (Y no, ya me venían jodiendo muchas cosas.)
Well, slash is kind of the female equivalent of the straight male interest in transsexuals. That is, the opposite of what culture would predict. So it probably reflects a more direct subcortical effect. Also, there's already data out there about romance novels we can use, which probably overlaps with relationships in fan fic, but we do have a few questions that aren't specific to slash. Maybe we'll have more in the next round.
..........
Not enough dots.
"Transsexuals" who of course are not people, but something that is created and exists solely for the sexual fantasy of straight cis-men. And you see, straight men "interest" in trans women is something.... "subcortical," and very weird. (Dude, I mean, if you wanted to compare it with cis dudes who fetishize trans women -which is kinda different from straight men who are attracted to trans women because the words "straight men" means... they are attracted to women- you are doing it wrong.)
And I love the "data about romance novel."
Get your "science" straight, or out of this Earth. Please.
ETA: I don't know, but it's really something that a lot of cis ladies are going there screaming, "HOW DARE YOU TO COMPARE IT TO MEN DIGGING TRANSSEXUALS. IT'S LESBIAN PORN THE RIGHT COMPARISON." I... uh.
POR QUÉ NADIE ME DIJO QUE EL MANGA DE UTENA LLEGABA A ESTOS NIVELES DE... HORROR. Yo así me lo leía porque cosas como estas no se ven todos los días.
ETA: Y es que el problema de Latinoamérica es que la gente no sigue el Sistema Judicial como se debe. Todo queremos hacerlo a los palos y a la "justicia por mano propia." No gente, cuándo veremos la luz, nos dejaremos de revoluciones, seguiremos Las Perfectas Leyes de la Civilización, y progresaremos.
Also. Nuestros líderes son bishonens rubios, y eso se debe a las ruinas mayas. El colonialismo no tiene nada que ver. Los morochos son todos violadores de mujeres Japonesas.
Primera semana y tengo 8000 tareas. Una de Toxicología que hay tiempo de entregar "hasta el Domingo a las 11:59 de la noche" según las palabras textuales de mi profesor (sí, hay que enviarla por mail).
unusualmusic.Fed contractor, cell phone maker sold spy system to Iran
Two European companies — a major contractor to the U.S. government and a top cell-phone equipment maker — last year installed an electronic surveillance system for Iran that human rights advocates and intelligence experts say can help Iran target dissidents.
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), a joint venture between the Finnish cell-phone giant Nokia and German powerhouse Siemens, delivered what is known as a monitoring center to Irantelecom, Iran's state-owned telephone company.
A spokesman for NSN said the servers were sold for "lawful intercept functionality," a technical term used by the cell-phone industry to refer to law enforcement's ability to tap phones, read e-mails and surveil electronic data on communications networks.
In Iran, a country that frequently jails dissidents and where regime opponents rely heavily on Web-based communication with the outside world, a monitoring center that can archive these intercepts could provide a valuable tool to intensify repression.
Just. Amazing.
Pero gente. EL PRIMER FIC SLASH DE EL CHAVO/QUICO!!!! No existen suficientes signos de exclamación. (Via
logovo.)So, anyway, I have internet? :D I'm still on hiatus though because I had an exam today, I have one tomorrow at 10:00 am and still can't bring myself to study seriously for it.
See those headlines?
The Washington Post:
Afghan Civilian Deaths Present U.S. With Strategist Problems
New York Times:
Civilian Deaths Imperil Support for Afghan War
Wall Street Journal:
Claim of Afghan Civilian Deaths Clouds U.S Talks
Red Cross Says "Dozens" Died in U.S Airstrikes, Eclipsing Start of Obama's Sesion with President Karzai and Zardari
Yes. This is The First World Power. Those Afghan civilians they are killing are getting in between their Public Relationships to support that war. What a bother.
Can I get angry now? Can I be completely outraged by those bastards?
Amazon is apparently stripping the sales ranks from GLBT books, thus preventing them from showing up in some bestseller lists and searches (and potentially directly damaging their sales), on the grounds that they are "adult" material.
(This is regardless of whether they contain any explicit sex. Meanwhile, books with explicit heterosexual sex scenes retain their sales rank, as long as they're not overtly marketed as "erotica".)
And:
The idea that people with disabilities might have sex, apparently:
http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-Sex-Disability-Disabilities/dp/1573443042
Incidentally, this is one of the many, many "disappeared" books where the Kindle edition still has a sales rank. Funny, that.
rydra_wong also noted that, in a clearly homophobic move, they pulled off the ranks from Heather Has Two Mommies, which, as you can see, is not "adult" at all.So people, tell me, where do I buy books? You know I have no money and international shipping is extremely expensive for my country. :/
"Racism is bad"? More porn? Just... arg. Why in the fucking hell do you think this discussion is dragging on and on? I wonder if it's because, I don't know, people go and say crap like that.
Things like that? Make me hate fandom. Go, sweety, enjoy your white pretty-boy on white pretty-boy action and pretend racism doesn't have anything to do with you.
I love how some privileged asshats can't, you know, just avoid reading about racism and focus on their damn porn. God knows fandom produces a lot more porn than discussions of racism.
In less headache inducing news, via Monica Roberts: I love this site with pictures of average women's breasts, not those media-produced things. NSFW, obviously, but very pretty.
AJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA. EL ORIENTALISMO: LAS ESCENAS A LO KILL BILL PORQUE OMG GENTE ASIÁTICA, AMBIENTACIÓN PINTORESCA Y EXÓTICA, Y ARTES MARCIALES. EL CHICO DE OJOS AZULES QUE VA A LA SECUNDARIA Y SE ENCUENTRA CON UN MAESTRO ORIENTAL QUE LE ENTRENARÁ. LAS ACTION GIRLS (mujer occidental caucásica con armas infaltable) CON GRANDES TETAS Y UNA MUJER JAPONESA QUE ESTÁ BUENA AL AZAR. LAS EXPLOSIONES. EL BESO.
Era fan de Dragon Ball de chica, ya no puedo decir que era EL manga, pero DIOS. Ver La Película Estadounidense con el nombre de "Dragon Ball" me hizo cuestionar ni niñez. (¿En ese viejo manga/anime Japón/Asia estaba representado como eso otro y exótico que está IN, y "Goku" era el sueño del fanboy norteamericano?)
O, como mi hermana, 1 año mayor que yo, lo dijo muy elocuentemente:
"¡GOKU ES HARRY POTTER!".
Exacto, hermana. Exacto.
(Sé que debería estar durmiendo, pero mi hermana me despertó.)
Just. One. Fucking. Week.
Oh the hypocrisy. "Ignore fandom." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You know, you would make all this so much easier to ignore for me if you just weren't SPAMMING EVERYTHING WITH WANK IN MY FACE EVERY FUCKING SECOND.
Dejando el bitcherío (tengo que tener un tag para este fandom, eh?), Dan, sé que tengo que aplicar a Kurogane, ¿pero me creerías que mi haraganería llega al punto de que no soy capaz de instalar el amsn de mierda, incluso cuando tengo el programa bajado y todo? (Esto
Che, por cierto, Danly, ¿te acordás que te debía un fic de Clover?
aloneinkioto, ¿te acordás que te debía un fic de Death Note (Watari/L?)? Corazón de melón, ¿te acordás que te debía un fic de HoneySyn?Bueno, hoy estaba pasándome algunos archivos y cosas de mi vieja y corroída laptop, y ¡encontré algunos de los fics que me había puesto a escribir! Ninguno supera las 300 palabras (no sé, ¿capaz que el de Clover?), y realmente no sé a dónde iba con ellos, pero es... entretenido leerlos. El de Death Note es, uh, especialmente entretenido.
( Clover fic. Sin título. Gingetsu/Ran supongo que era. )
Angst, por lo visto. Ni idea que es lo que pensaba hacer Kazuhiko. :S
( Death Note. ¿Watari/L?. Hmmm. )
..... ¿Quién es Jonson? ¿Quién es el asesor de Jonson? ¿Cómo es que avanzamos en el tiempo sin saber quienes eran Jonson y su asesor? ¿Qué es lo que yo trataba de hacer?
( Quién sabe si spoilers de Death Note. )
Y bueno, la gramática y todo lo demás era horrible porque eran... WIPs? La corregí algo para ponerlas acá. De verdad que me hace falta una beta.
¿Corazón de melón? Sé que comencé hace algún tiempo atrás a escribir el de HS. El asunto es que no pude encontrar el fic. No sé si lo habré borrado o... que, ¡pero recuerdo que lo escribí!
También encontré unos cuantos fics de KuroFay pero esos ya daban mucha vergüenza para mostrarlos. XDDD
Entretenida mi tarde. Tengo mi último examen el jueves, ¿alguien lo adivinaría?
ETA: SPOILERS DE UTENA EN LOS COMENTARIOS. FINAL. TODO.
Miren lo que encontré en mi libro de Fisicoquímica (Fisicoquímica de Levine, 5ta Edición, capítulo 15, pág. 573, blabla); ni siquiera estaba es uno de esos apartados donde se cuenta las biografías, curiosidades, o que sé yo. En plena explicación de la teoría cinética de los gases nos ponen esto:
[...] Los atomistas (liderados por Boltzmann) mantenían que los átomos y las moléculas eran reales, mientras que los energéticos (Mach, Otswald, Duhem) negaban la existencia de átomos y moléculas y consideraban que la teoría cinética era un modelo mecánico que imitaba las propiedades de los gases pero que no correspondía a la verdadera estructura de la materia. [El sociólogo Lewis Feuer, discípulo de Freud, sugiere que la oposición de Mach al atomismo era una expresión inconsciente de rebelión contra su padre; la forma de los átomos recordaba a Mach, de manera inconsciente, a los testículos, y "una realidad desatomizada era una proyección, podríamos inferir, en la cual su propio padre estaba castrado" (L. Feuer, Einstein and the Generation of Science, Basic Books, 1974, pág 39).]
... Esa fue información muy útil. Yo de verdad necesitaba comprender que Mach (para empezar, ¿quién es ese? pobre hombre, nunca he escuchado nada de él y esto me va a hacer que no lo olvide) no creía en los átomos porque necesitaba tener a su padre castrado.
Todavía tengo que escribir mi post sobre After School Nightmare. ( Spoilerish, por si acaso )
People, sometimes? You just have to accept the gay. Sad, but true.
You know, Tsubasa's fandom always struck me as pretty intolerant towards Kurogane and Fay's het pairings. But now I see the fantards of forums in spanish going about 'how the gay will ruin their series', and 'HOW KuroganexTomoyo is SO canon'; and I just.... can't.
And I liked Kurogane and Tomoyo as a platonic pair. I truly did.
