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.
- 2013-12-02 18:00 - Fuck Off, Feist - link Oh, yeah, I didn't mean to suggest "#1 theme" reflects any sort of hierarchy of importance, just that that is the number of the (pretty distinctive) theme which this article introduced. (It also reflects how far back in the site's history this series stret...
- 2013-11-30 22:39 - Fuck Off, Feist - link I meant the theme which is presently labeled #1 in the site's numbering system, like so, whereas "books" is theme #7, (not to mention a lot more generic).
- 2013-11-30 15:15 - Fuck Off, Feist - link Huh, what a disappointingly (but, by your accounts of Magician's End) fittingly anticlimactic conclusion to the FerretWar saga. Not that I blame you for pulling out when you had to, Arthur. Still, six years, seven reviews, the introduction ...
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2013-11-30 15:06 - Babylon 3 1/2 -
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Abigail: it strikes me as a story that plays into reactionary fears about feminism - if women's lib goes on, men will be locked up in harems, etc.
Oh, huh. It's been a couple years since I've seen it, but the commentary I have ... - 2013-11-18 18:06 - Great Social And Political Import - link I watched the first two episodes of Lost Girl on Viorica's recommendation, but didn't watch any further because I found those two, well, mediocre and kind of dull. Certainly not bad, and I appreciate all the feminist/queer-friendly stuff, it just di...
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2013-11-16 15:06 - Babylon 3 1/2 -
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Dan: Trek writers are on record as observing that they *couldn't* have any openly gay characters on the show, because the only way to have a gay character in a TV show in the 1990s was to have Very Special Episodes About Gayness, which wouldn't...
- 2013-10-30 20:00 - 9^3.96 words about Nine Worlds - link Gender and Sexuality in SFF panel, Robinson's recap (with apologies for the triple-post): The panelists were Roz Kaveney, Tricia Sullivan, David Tallerman, and Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, with Kari Sperring moderating. Roz and Rochita were mentioned in t...
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2013-10-30 18:30 - 9^3.96 words about Nine Worlds -
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Oops, I meant to include this in the previous comment, but it fell through the cracks. Sorry 'bout that.
Robinson: I think it's worthwhile to re-post <a href="http://piratemoggy.tumblr.com/post/58148406717/case-lore-nine-worlds-has-set...
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2013-10-30 18:06 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Halloween Special Girl Books for Girls: Episode/Phase/Part Five -
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Jamie: can there really be more than one person who would think that's a good place for a comma?
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When I said "A week or so" I of course meant 2+ months. Better late than never? From the article:
I'm Bryn, a fourth-year physics student at Cambridge (this may make me officially the Enemy of about half the site).</blockquote...
- 2013-08-24 20:30 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Halloween Special Girl Books for Girls: Episode/Phase/Part Five - link Yeah, I'm kinda psyched Morganville Vampires is getting a webshow. That trailer for Vampire Academy also looks like it might be good, (although whose bright idea was it to draw in new viewers by leaving them in suspense as to which character ...
- 2013-08-24 20:00 - 9^3.96 words about Nine Worlds - link Hi. Haven't got nearly enough time to type out everything I've got to say, because I have deadline looming on the Big One. I'll come back in a week or so when I have a bit more time to write out my thoughts. For now, I'll just say that I spent pra...
- 2013-08-19 18:15 - Kickstopper: The Three Stigmata of Ada Lovecraft - link @Bryn: Ah, okay. I just got a little confused because calling something A Game of Thrones meets Final Fantasy Tactics struck me as redundant. On the one hand, you've got a grimdark epic fantasy story heavily based upon the wars of the roses, complete with ...
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2013-08-19 11:15 - Kickstopper: The Three Stigmata of Ada Lovecraft -
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Ronanwills: Even Massive Chalice, which sounds great and quite original, sold itself mostly as a conglomeration of things that nerds already like ("Game of Thrones meets Final Fantasy Tactics!")
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2013-08-16 18:30 - Michael Bay Is America -
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there's a film scholar out there named Steve Shaviro who's argued that directors like Michael Bay and Neveldine/Taylor are operating in a style he calls post-continuity cinema, a type of filmmaking inspired by the emergence of digital technolo...
- 2013-08-16 15:06 - Always There Are Two: A Retrospective on the Ninth Season of the Apprentice - link I hardly ever watch reality TV, not because I'm above that sort of thing, but because it tends to bore me. Not that ignorance of the subject matter has ever stopped me from liking an article on this site before, and this one was no exception. From...
