Robinson L maintains a livejournal account under the handle Arkan2, where he reviews and/or rants about books, movies, tv shows, his college, and politics. Reportedly crashed into an asteroid in late 2004 and died a fiery death. He got better. He aspires to be (in no particular order) a successful author, an activist, and a parent.
articles
- The Oracle Renamed Robinson L hops halfheartedly aboard the Catherine Fisher bandwagon.
- The Problem With "The Iron Ring" Robinson L encounters a critical lack of narrative inertia in Lloyd Alexander's 1997 children's fantasy.
- Race in Popular Culture Robinson L is valiantly undeterred by Racefail.
playpen posts
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at 20:30 on 28-07-2010
Spoiler, if stuff that happens in the first minute of an episode counts as a spoiler: Liz X is not a non-recurring character.
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at 15:00 on 28-07-2010
This is my impression. In general, Davies appears to a Tokenist, whereas Moffat seems mostly to occupy the “colorblind” camp. This means that Davies' idea of racial sensit...
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at 20:30 on 26-07-2010
Quick follow-up which hopefully will not result in conversational necromancy! I just yesterday got around to reading that <a href="http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/sin...
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at 20:30 on 22-07-2010
What have I done? What have I done?
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at 20:30 on 21-07-2010
Robinson L: I've also tried out the other options, including the “wh” and “bl,” but they just produce pronouns like “wher” and “ble,&...
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at 20:36 on 20-07-2010
I have to agree with Dan that the point is undermined by the propensity to change around gender-neutral terms such as Capital-A Art, and by missing a whole slew of gendered terms such as ̶...
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comments
- 13:36, 29-06-2010 on Ferretbrain Presents the teXt Factor Episode 1 - Monotheism:
Arthur: Oh, on the cast list thing: there's Dan, Kyra, Shimmin, Jamie, and me, who have all contributed articles, an...
permalink - 03:02, 29-06-2010 on Ferretbrain Presents the teXt Factor Episode 1 - Monotheism:
Yes, Dan, vaguely. I guess I just really like the mental image of flooding a room with <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
permalink - 20:30, 28-06-2010 on Ferretbrain Presents the Text Factor Episode Five – Red Bikini Pants:
Jamie: Shall we make it a new house rule that anyone who makes up the title and / or synopsis of a fake book to illu...
permalink - 20:02, 28-06-2010 on Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Episode 6 – In Your Face:
Thanks for the warning, Arthur. Unfortunately, your previous enthusiastic discussions (I'm referring to the collective “yo...
permalink - 20:00, 28-06-2010 on Ferretbrain Presents: the teXt Factor Episode 3 - Cannibalism:
Mostly, I think it's down to my knowing next to nothing about either series beyond blurbs in book catalogues and comments on the...
permalink - 15:02, 28-06-2010 on Ferretbrain Presents: the teXt Factor Episode 3 - Cannibalism:
Oh wow, I just realized in this podcast that you were reading the first Meredith Gentry book rather than the first...
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