January is a bad month. Have some links.

[elisi]

I have shared this before, but. For UK peeps:
Petition: Decriminalise Abortion
I am calling on the UK government to remove abortion from criminal law so that no pregnant person can be criminalised for procuring their own abortion.

The Surprising Afterlife of Used Hotel Soap
Hotel guests leave behind millions of half-used bars of soap every day. A nonprofit is on a mission to repurpose them.

Taking Leave (John Scalzi on the NG situation.)

Aljazeera: The man behind the graffiti that sparked the Syrian revolution
“I would write these phrases again and again.” The Syrian revolution was sparked by a few teens who wrote anti-government graffiti on the walls of their school in Daraa. Al Jazeera spoke to one of them, a month after the fall of the regime they dedicated their life to fight.

If you are interested in the trans allegories of the Matrix, then Tilly Bridges has written a whole book.

Huff Post: Liz Truss's Attempt To Stop People Saying She Crashed The Economy Has Quite The Opposite Effect
Was this a miscalculation almost as large as her £45bn of unfunded tax cuts?
(This just made me laugh. Because it's better to laugh than to try to think through the fact that this woman single-handedly crashed the economy.)

Movie rec:

Love In The Big City (Kmovie HD - link goes to facebook, sorry. But I don't think it's available anywhere else)

This is a rec I got from Kerk, and here is his summary:

It is about a friendship between a straight woman and a gay man, over the span of approx 13 years. There's so much love as they go through pain and tears and happiness together.

It's on my to-watch list, but I know that there are a lot of k-drama fans on my flist so thought I'd throw it out there sooner rather than later. (Also who knows what will happen to content like this now? It might be gone before we know it.)

ETA: Oh, it really is absolutely LOVELY. Highly recommended!

Comments

[kerk_hiraeth]

There is a dailymotion link for Love in the Big City, but the two links (with the English subs) on bilibili are gone.

Watched it again last night.

Discovered another couple of wonderful fanvids for Soulmate; Korean remake of a Chinese movie that gets me crying everytime I watch it, and them.

So much truly wonderful writing coming out that makes what our mainstream media here look so sterile in comparison; against the barriers of much more, so-called conservative, societies they are finding ways of challenging 'the way things have always been'.

kerk

[elisi]

There is a dailymotion link for Love in the Big City
Hmmm. Dailymotion is awful. :( I might go with the Evil Corporation on this occasion.

Discovered another couple of wonderful fanvids for Soulmate; Korean remake of a Chinese movie that gets me crying everytime I watch it, and them.
<3

So much truly wonderful writing coming out that makes what our mainstream media here look so sterile in comparison; against the barriers of much more, so-called conservative, societies they are finding ways of challenging 'the way things have always been'.
Yeah. And every time 'we' make something exciting and interesting it gets cancelled. :(

[kerk_hiraeth]

Found a whole bunch of stuff; particularly documentaries and queer shows & movies not available either on bilibili or youtube, but it is somewhere I look when other avenues are exhausted.

It was a good place for finding Who episodes; sometimes the very night they'd been broadcast.

One show had completely disappeared and I thought I'd lost my only copies, when I, on a whim, decided to check there and lo and behold :-)

Anyway, though I have the fb link as the one I watch, of Love in the Big City, regularly, I was grateful to find it on DM as well.

Hope it's still there, but I have six different copies of the movie in various places. Only copy I'd want, but will never likely own, is an actual physical copy.

Hope people check it out; it's a wonderful movie.

kerk

[elisi]

I have watched huge swaths of Classic Who on Daily Motion, hence flinching. It has almost everything, but the quality is... difficult to cope with.

But it's definitely good that there is place where things get preserved.

<3

[sea_thoughts]

Someone should have explained "the Streisand effect" to Truss. Not sure it would have done any GOOD but...

[elisi]

IKR? You wouldn't think she could make things worse, and yet...

[yourlibrarian]

I've gotten the gist of the whole Gaiman thing and have felt no need to know more (especially since I was never a Gaiman fan to begin with -- nothing against him but I just hadn't read his stuff). I similarly have never read Scalzi's stuff but have read occasional posts he makes when people have linked him. But I will say it's got to be rotten to have been the friend, even a minor one, of someone who hits a wall like this. And it's pretty awful that there are people actively wanting to take other people down if for no reason than to watch them burn.

[elisi]

But I will say it's got to be rotten to have been the friend, even a minor one, of someone who hits a wall like this.
This. I don't know how you'd begin to process that.

And it's pretty awful that there are people actively wanting to take other people down if for no reason than to watch them burn.
Social media makes it worse as well. :(

[kazzy_cee]

I must admit I bring home hotel soaps to use them up as I hate the idea that they would just throw them away, so I'm glad someone is doing something about it...

[elisi]

Same here! Although recently the soaps seem to have been exchanged for soap dispensers, which are obviously far less wasteful.

So either way, it's good. ^_^

[kerk_hiraeth]

Just did a random check and there are no working links (with English Subtitles) left online for Love in the Big City :-(

So glad I got the copies I have. Really wish I could hope for a physical copy, but that seems unlikely.

Think I will defintitely get the novel now.

And keep checking for working links.

Probably will watch it again this evening, or overnight sometime.

kerk

[elisi]

Just did a random check and there are no working links (with English Subtitles) left online for Love in the Big City :-(
That is CRAZY. I am sure the internet will provide again, sooner or later.

So glad I got the copies I have. Really wish I could hope for a physical copy, but that seems unlikely.
Who knows. (We bought a box set of Twin Peaks at a carboot sale for 50p and only later realised that it was a Spanish dub version... Most things exist. *g*) (We have only watched like 6 episodes so far, no spoilers please!)

Think I will defintitely get the novel now.
I would be really interested to see how it differs/the changes they made when they adapted it.

Probably will watch it again this evening, or overnight sometime.
Enjoy! <3

[kerk_hiraeth]

Amazing how much difference a tiny change between editions can make.

The original edition's menu screen music calm, but surreal and totally in tune with the opening fifteen minutes of the first episode.

Music for the special edition? Let's just say even though both copies I have of the original have issues; I have only ever checked the souped up one to make sure it works.

Loud and intrusive; totally spoils the mood for watching those first fifteen minutes.

kerk

ps. Totally forgot to mention i was referring to Twin Peaks.

[elisi]

ps. Totally forgot to mention i was referring to Twin Peaks.
I inferred from context! ^_^

I think ours is the original edition, although mostly we are just trying to figure out where to go in the menu to fix the language.