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Aaaaaaaah I am done with comments on The Dead Isle. Imma go collapse now.

If I didn't reply, rest assured I still read them all; some that had crit that maybe didn't get a reply, I just went through and changed stuff and was like "Welp, okay, moving on" without thinking about it. Some changes haven't been made yet but they're in notes, because they're Big Sweeping Things that I can't focus on with both the document window open and a comments-reply window open, beckoning me to respond.

Thanks to all of you who left comments, and if you still have comments you want to leave, I'm still reading and integrating them at this point. Once these Big Edits get done, I'll start typesetting, and it isn't until then that I won't be able to integrate any more criticism. Extribulum rocks. :)

That's as much intelligence as I have left tonight. I'm spending the rest of the evening on the couch watching Secrets Of War: Spy Games Of WWII.

And posting an RFM item I deemed urgent enough not to wait on: A now-defunct tumblr called "Studying-lgbtq-people" has been asking for personal information from people and then outing them to their communities. Apparently the woman's name is Sophie Herold. As always, use your good judgment when deciding how much personal information to share with others. (Thanks Lorena!)

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My MA thesis was about women spies of WWII. Interesting stuff :)

How long do you think before you have a copy for me to pass on to Chris to read?

Hmm, I need to fix one thing with regards to Indigenous art, and then it'll be ready -- next week, I think.

Okay, awesome. :)

I just spent entirely too long reading about Sophie Herold and lmfaoing. Bwahahaha.

What's so funny about it?

I spend too much time on the internet and consequently laugh at most trolls. The stuff she says is ludicrous--or, I'll grant you, genuinely sad in its closeted self-hatred. But mostly ludicrous.

I'd say she's significantly more than a "troll" when she's outing people in real life. I've laughed at words on the internet before too, but this is far and beyond. This is very real, very harmful action. It's not funny.

Funny doesn't mean harmless, or trivial. Something can involve life-and-death and still be hysterical. She's engaging in this terrible destructive behaviour because someone once, long ago, got her to believe that she had to deny herself to fulfill her gender role. She's unhappy, and she'd like everyone to feel it, because why should only she make that sacrifice? Which demonstrates, to my mind, a black cynical truth about humanity (everyone should suffer if I suffer) and a tremendous irony (this sucks but you should all undergo it). It's utterly fucking ridiculous, and I find that funny. But then my sense of humour is rather black.

Jut saw this: so moving!

http://bluemilk.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/when-black-australians-apologise-to-aboriginal-australia/

That is wonderful, thank you!