I Admit It. I’m A Human Supremacist

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

(For a slightly saner (?) view on this whole thing, Kate Paulk (my fellow worst person in the world) over at Mad Genius Club takes on the daily dot article which claims all the signers of that anti-censorship petition are male  (Since C. J. Cherryh, Mercedes Lackey and my friend Amy Sterling Cassil signed it, I have to assume we are WAY post binary.) and want to keep women from writing science fiction (that is the most bizarre claim, ever.)  However, this being Kate, what she’s really worried about is that one of the stupid critters claimed Kate was afraid to use dirty words.  — I mean, you can perform bad journalism, insult an entire profession, slant the issue out of all recognition — but if you have some self-preservation left, don’t, I beg of you, tell Kate she’s a prude. So go on over for a primer on Aussie swear words.)

I’m not changing this blog format to all GIF posts.  But I’m running a very high fever, and have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow, and reading more than three sentences or so hurts.  Writing it… don’t even.  So…

This is not a post about SFWA!

Though it might be sort of kind of marginally related.  You see the charming creature who wrote about how I was one of the world’s worst people, also called me a Nazi.  (Because national socialist, totally equals small-government libertarian, right?)

That was like:

But THEN it got better.  Apparently on Twitter someone accused me and Larry (Why Larry?  I don’t know) of being white supremacists.

As you can imagine, I was deeply offended and … yeah, I was like:

Because if these little precious flowers who are mostly college professors knew how to research their way out of a paper bag,

they’d know I come from Portugal.

Genetically speaking Portugal is…

When I was a kid we were made to memorize all the invaders to the peninsula, and it was like — let me see if I can remember:

Celts, Phoenicians,Carthaginians, Greek, Romans, Alans, Swabians, Vandals (so we got some glitteries in there too!), Arabs, Berbers, French, German, Spanish…  then there was the massive import of African slaves who, unlike the US had disappeared into the population a century later.  In fact, genetically, Portugal is like:

Hey, Bob, tell everyone else to come in too!

So the idea of my being a White Supremacist is

They would have to think I was so altruistic as to think I — myself — was inferior to anyone on the basis of skin color alone.

If anyone needs me clarify, I don’t believe that skin color is relevant for much of anything, but hey — Tan people uber Alles!

Why would you want to be pasty pale, anyway?

So, I was thinking about it, as well as about the fact that most of my books totally don’t have people who change genders (or shapes) or people who are attracted to the same gender or–  Okay.  Okay.  I’ll stop because I’m like:But it’s not like either my racial origins or my characters who might be… uh… a little off the norm are a credit to me.  I was born this way (Ah!) and I get characters like other people get colds.  Writing them interestingly, that takes effort.
And it’s not like these people know what they’re saying because they can’t possibly ever have read something by or about me and think that, so they’re like:

And to do other than this

Would be credit them with SOME thought.
However, I’m a charitable person.  Also I have a fever.  So I’ve decided to give them something to hate on.

and prepare yourself:

Maestro, some music:

I’m a human supremacist!

No matter how many times you tell meI don’t think that humans are like viruses upon the world.I don’t think

or

or even:

Or even:

okay, okay, maybe these. But they need someone to open the tuna can!

are better than:

or:

I think that humans are pretty d*mn extraordinary.  All the best people I know are human.  Also, it’s what I am, and I don’t hate myself.

Sorry!

Frankly I think we need to be making with this:

Only bigger and better, so more worlds get to know the awesomeness that are humans!Which I suppose is an inferior purpose to making sure that everyone who was born a different color and orientation from me, but what can I say?  We can’t all have everything.  Where would we put it.  Who would dust it?So I can’t

be making with this:

When I have to do this:

Which will happen as soon as the fever passes.

It’s the purpose I have, and it suits my humble ambitions.  And if you don’t like it, then:

228 thoughts on “I Admit It. I’m A Human Supremacist”

  2. Fever meds interfere with the return key….

    I’m actually seriously thinking of how to do the design idea I had for the Human Wave logo over on MGC. I can picture it perfectly in my head, but I am not an artist. But I don’t want to steal TOO much clip art.

    (Astronaut in a classic NASA spacesuit on a surfboard, the crescent of the Earth forming the curl of a wave over and behind him.)

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      1. OT, kinda, Phojalainen, but has Finland sobered up (for certain values of sober) after your team beat the Russians in hockey the other day? :)

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        1. We did? Okay, that explains the yelling from next door neighbors. I was about to call the emergency number, at times it sounded as if somebody was getting killed. In several apartments.

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          1. Ah, after my own heart.

            There’s an electronic billboard on the way to work that flashes the current medal total, but that’s the extent of my knowledge of the Olympics, now.

            And I’m not sure I remember this morning’s totals.

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            1. I like certain of the sports, and have either not been able to find them when on, or after a few minutes of NBC got annoyed and turned them off.
              Between pairing them with the crap, they are NBC. The worst was trying to watch stuff shuffled over to CNBC and the MSNBC commercials.

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                1. Uh, no, I think it’s a very funny TV serial comedy set in a collapsed communist state that’s trying to run a huge athletic event. Many laughs about the inability to build functional indoor plumming.

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                    4. I have the misfortune to be watching NBC right now while the dealership is working on my car. They just covered that, and said that it was a prank by some comedian, Kimmel was the name, I think. Isn’t he on that network at night?

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                2. *Shrug* It’s mean, and petty, and small of me, but I still root for whoever is playing Russia in hockey. A relative puts the Olympics-thing on at night, mostly for the wrecks/crashes. And ice dancing music. That is, when there’s not NCAA SEC basketball on. (March can get very long around Festung TXRed.)

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        1. Sure. I am uneven, some things I can do fast, other times a subject may take several efforts and the end result is still not very good. I’m also cheap, I need the practice. So if you like the end result you could, for example, buy me some ebook from Amazon – I don’t have kindle, but I’m comfortable enough with the cloud reader and my desktop computer (I presume they do have the gift option). And no need to pay anything if I can’t produce something you’d like. As said, I need the practice.

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      3. I have trained NASA astronauts and they are too that difficult.
        Oh, you meant painting pictures of them.
        Never mind,

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          1. Pohjalainen: You stated to Dougirvin that you could possibly do book cover art. I have a series of aprox. five novels and have just downloaded gimp, therefore need art. My concept is of ‘man from 1500 CE/female 2000 CE Earth.’ Stargate concept to show level of difficulty. I can get into more detail later by email if you think you would like to attempt a project like that.

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      1. Yah, I likes it too. But I am thinking the astronaut ought be a wearing a pair of baggy swim trunks over the p-suit.

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        1. You do know that a fatwa was just issued against going to Mars, don’t you? No, I didn’t follow up to see what hadith and suras were used to explain why humans should not go to Mars.

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            1. Ah, but you see, we wouldn’t want to offend Muslims by acting against their religion . . .

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          3. I read about that — apparently they declared it would be essentially suicide, and suicide is forbidden (if you’re not killing lots of women and children when you do it, of course).

            Still, if they stick to the judgement, it might make Mars quite a hospitable place. Be a bear relocating all the good stuff up there, but…

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      2. Oooooh, or you could do different shades for different things – like if it was a little more horror, you use the red planet, but if it’s a little more ecological, you use green… grey for mil sf… and now I’m just complicating it.

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        1. That was pretty much the idea, (Kind of a Dark Star surfing into the atmosphere thing, only with less re-entry burning to death.), Ideally, I’d like it to look substantially the same in a black and white line-art version as well.

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  3. LOL!!! You’re cheating, but it’s fun so you can get away with it. And don’t forget that our Lords and Masters also need someone to clean the litter boxes in addition to opening tuna cans, so we have job security until they develop a superior breed of servants.

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  6. Looking at the sheer, self-justifying distain on the SFWA side of things… gaaah. Gaah. Bletch…

    To me, success as an author is measured by one thing – sales. Not by the acclaim of one’s peer group for how well you’re hitting the current trope checklist – but by how much the reader is willing to spend. If you’re selling, that means people like your work. If you’re not – then it doesn’t matter how insistently politically correct you are in your thoughts and writing, you’re not connecting with the customer. And in the end, it’s the customer that guarantees your success.

    (By that light, I’m a very UNsuccessful writer – though I am VERY tempted to frame the 1099 I got from Amazon this year with my royalties on it! I’m doing it for the fun of writing, and the annual McDonald’s lunch from my royalties. Maybe next year – Zaxby’s?! Oh, the anticipation! Lol.)

    But the SWFA discussion? I see no added value in membership. The people seem to be nasty as all hell, tearing down those they don’t like in a vain attempt to increase their own stature. Perhaps if they put as much effort into writing ideas that sold instead of backstabbing those they don’t agree with, they’d be doing better.

    As it is, they remind me of a high school clique. They’ll allow in people they like, and talk mean about the rest, and they’ll do anything they can to make sure the people they don’t like will fail. They think they’re powerful – but they’re really dependent on the power and influence others allow them to have… and they know it and can’t stand it.

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    2. I would have been able to eat out once, or maybe even twice if it was something cheaper, with what I got from Amazon last year. Or maybe two movies + popcorn. Or a meal and a movie. Oh, the choices… what to pick? :)

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      1. What I’ve noticed is that the folks who loudly proclaim how ‘tolerant’ they are will usually be extremely intolerant whenever someone dares to disagree with them.

        What I’ve also noticed is the folks who DON’T proclaim loudly how ‘tolerant’ they are will usually be the first ones to go “You know, you might have a point there… but have you thought about (fill in the blank) as it applies here?”

        You can tell who’s tolerant, and who isn’t.

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        1. Might that tolerance observation be distorted by who values “tolerance” as a virtue in and of itself? People don’t usually brag about something they think is ok with situations sometimes requiring it.

          …which I guess kind of goes and proves your point….

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        2. If the ones who boast about their tolerance are honest, they’ll tell you that certain groups don’t deserve tolerance. [Frown]

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        3. That’s because the classical notion of tolerating a difference is not remotely what they mean by “tolerance”. They actually expect you to act like a cheerleader. Only your enthusiastic approval of the opinion or behavior or lifestyle can satisfy them. Anything less is “intolerant”.

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    4. You got a 1099?

      That means they mailed out at least a few. Grrrr….. Where the hell is it?

      Seriously, would it be so hard for them to enter the 2000s and put downloadable pdfs on the website?

      *sigh*

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    5. “To me, success as an author is measured by one thing – sales. Not by the acclaim of one’s peer group for how well you’re hitting the current trope checklist …”

      If nobody but your peers buys and reads your book, it doesn’t matter how successfully you push the tropes — you have no influence outside the choir, and complaining that the public is too ignorant to grasp your genius is the defining characteristic of unsuccessful artists.

      The defining characteristic of successful artists is complaining about taxes and trading tips on deductions and loopholes.

      N.B., for those determined to write works of compelling significance, keep in mind the proper viking sequence: rape, pillage, then burn. First become a fabulously successful author with a following of millions, then write the important novel exploring the evils of our civilization. Done that way a sizable number of people will not only read more than ten pages into it but some may even buy into your message.

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  8. WOOOT! Yes! Get better soon, Sarah! *hugs* Thank you for your… service to humanity… ::thinks about the Shifter Series and falls over laughing:: I love your stuff!

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  9. Gee, I thought humans basically come in only one color – brown. Lots of differents shades of brown, from very, very dark brown, to very pale beige, with pinkish brown and yellowish brown and reddish brown thrown in for good measure. Will everybody please stop worrying about who is what shade of brown?

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          1. I’ve succeeded in outburning Scandinavian redheads. In spite of having fairly dark hair. I figure my melanocytes have decided my follicles are the happening places and that’s where they’ve congregated.

            About all that works for me is to begin taking regular walks at noon starting, oh, January or so. By the time summer rolls around, I’m as tan as I’m going to get, and a mild sunblock takes care of the rest. And by “mild” I mean SPF 50.

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            2. I don’t like using sunblock, so I have a tendency to dress a lot like an obedient Muslim woman when we have very sunny days. I even used to wear scarves, usually something like a thin pashmina loosely wrapped around my head, only now, when we are starting to have a largish Muslim immigrant population in the city I live in I have mostly given that up and started just wearing hats because the scarf on a native Finn tends to draw attention (is she a convert or not seems to be the question people think about, both the immigrants and natives, and I don’t like to draw attention to myself when it’s not on purpose).

              Or else I stay inside.

              Hence the vitamin D3 problems, even during sunny summers. But I do burn so easily that I don’t care to move outside without the coverings. I have tried to sunbathe for short periods on my balcony, except I can’t seem to manage a regular schedule with that.

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              1. Someone as pale as you are should expose herself to the sunlight maybe fifteen minutes a day to fix the vitamin D problem.

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                    2. I do. They have helped a lot with the SAD symptoms, it looks like a big part of the reason why I had it so bad earlier was vitamin deficiency. There were several years when I slept up to 16 hours per day during the winter, and was still constantly tired the 8 I was awake. Now, well, I still can’t concentrate much in the darker months, and I am tired, and crave carbs, but now I can at least manage with normal amount of sleep, and the tiredness is mild, not the bone deep version I used to have. And while I can’t write I can read, at least as long as it’s something easy, like a well written and entertaining novel. Back in the day I couldn’t even do that. Something like biology textbooks are still out of the picture during winters though (viruses… I think that last page said something about viruses… maybe…).

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            1. Wide brimmed hat, sunglasses, a scarf around the neck, a long overcoat and gloves? Okay, that sounds pretty much like ‘The Shadow’, only with sunglasses.

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          3. Ditto. I held the All Midwest Alabaster to Lobster speed record one year. To quote the LawDog, I’m the guy vampire parents point to when their kids complain about having to come home before sunrise. “Don’t complain, dear, it could be worse: you could be like [her].”

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            1. Aw, LawDog, now there’s another great human being with a finely tuned ear for a turn of phrase. Now my brain is conjuring up the evil, evil scene of introducing Sarah and LD. What do you bet the stories, they would be hilarious?

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              1. Oh lawdy, I’m not sure any of us are up to laughing that much. Especially when it got to the, “You think that’s strange/stupid/foreign? Back when I was . . .” stage.

                Let’s see she’s in Colorado, he’s near the Metroplex, I’m about half way between . . . Pinkey, are you thinking what I’m thinking?

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                1. “Let’s see she’s in Colorado, he’s near the Metroplex, I’m about half way between . . . Pinkey, are you thinking what I’m thinking?”
                  “I dunno, Brain. The elephant didn’t like the penguin costume the last time.”

                  (Scribbling notes / laying plans. I Know People who run concoms, or know a second tier of other people. Heck and such, I’ve *been* con chair — a number of years ago, and in another state, but still…)

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          4. “Day-star”? I’ve heard of this thing, but except for the presence of plants, have seen no evidence of it.

            And considering plants can grow under fluorescent lights, I’m frankly suspicious of ALL the evidence.

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      2. Noting what Emily already said, doing my boiled-lobster imitation HURTS. Badly.

        And even the best spray-on / “instant” tans clash with the freckles that are the other part of my birthright. Yeah, after a whole summer and very Very VERY careful measured exposure to sunlight I darken a tiny bit. Maybe two or three whole shades. Burn-and-peel Does Not Work here, I tell you three times. (Even as a 100% American Mutt** my provable-but-great-grandma-refused-to-be-enrolled Cherokee heritage didn’t save me from this fate…)

        Pasty-white I am not. Bi-racial/multi-racial, almost assuredly. I just missed out on receiving some of the more useful secondary genetically-linked characteristics I certainly could have used growing up in Oklahoma and living in Texas.

        ** “American Mutt”: definitely not in the normal PC category of descriptions, BUT the family ditty as I received it, edited lightly, goes
        “We are Scots, English, Irish, German and Dutch —
        And a little bit Injun, just not very much”

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          1. About half English (mostly Kent but a bit of Worcester, Nottingham, and Lincoln, if memory seves) and most of the rest southern Norwegian or northern Denmark. With just a wee bit o’ Scotch.

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            1. Irish.
              French
              Italian.
              German.
              And presuming that the woman who appeared out of nowhere on their wedding day — as far as the records are concerned — did so for the usual reason, and they were the locals:
              Míkmaq

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        2. Scots, Irish, Welsh, German, French and Cherokee (with the papers to prove it!). Probably some Norwegian but the records get a little fuzzy there (they married the Scots then hot-footed it to Ireland to avoid being brought up on charges of…something).

          I burn then turn a nice dark brown, which lasts for about 2 days. I get drunk and fight myself, surrender quickly then sing about it. I’m the happiest depressive you’ll ever meet and that’s just from the brawling Catholics in the tree.

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        4. American mutt? I knew about Irish, English, German and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage, but I recently got to know my birth father and found out about a mixture of native American ancestry from both sides of his family.

          Then I went and married a woman who brings more European groups, plus Turkish and another branch of Jewish to the mix.

          So how is it that our 3-year-old, whose red and blonde hair is getting long as his mother goes for the “surfer look”, uncannily resembles a miniature Steve Irwin? As in, I’m waiting for him to bust out with a hyperactive Australian accent if he comments on the local wildlife. Then again, the north Texas drawl he’s developing is awfully cute. He’ll fit in here, I’m sure.

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          1. Awright, that tears it. John D et al., I simply HAVE to get out to more DFW-area functions when the finances free up.

            The converging interests get to me eventually — look for me among the filkers or the SCA folk, or the gamers. (Where DID I stash my copy of PANZERBLITZ, anyway? I know where the dice bag / firkin is…)

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      3. Ever wonder why Obama had the ACA include a tax on Tanning Beds? Because white people are the only ones who use them. That was the one way he could justify a racially motivated tax.

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        1. That’s a form of desaturated orange. 0:)

          Me — when I was young I would turn a shade of dead-fish-belly white in winter, but nowadays pasty seems to cover it nicely.

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  10. But, but Sarah….

    What about the seals… or the whales? What if something humanity does CHANGES something? I mean… Someone might actually EAT an animal. What could we do then? Humans are clearly a blight on the planet and we should erad….

    OUCH!!!

    Dammit. How does one keep one’s tongue in their cheek without biting it?

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  11. “The people seem to be nasty as all hell, tearing down those they don’t like in a vain attempt to increase their own stature.”

    Exactly, it is posturing for stature by disliking those who are safe to dislike and approving of those who are officially sanctioned, all the while pretending to be virtuous because they believe the correct things.

    Except, how is it virtuous to hold a position that everyone in your peer group holds and that you have not, nor likely ever will, suffer any bad consequences from holding?

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    1. Of course it’s not. It’s easy. Adam Smith got this one right when he said that virtue is moral excellence. Lemme find the quote…

      Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

      It’s easy to go along with the crowd, to join the mob, to follow the “cool” kids. But it’s not the kind of thing that builds character, and it’s not the kind of thing that wins respect.

      It’s the wrong choice, but I do admit it’s probably the easier one.

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    3. Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a play or a novel which causes a flutter and exchange of compliments in Chelsea and Chiswick and a faint thrill in Streatham and Surbiton, is described as “daring,” though nobody on earth knows what danger it is that he dares. I speak, of course, of terrestrial dangers; or the only sort of dangers he believes in. To be extravagantly flattered by everybody he considers enlightened, and rather feebly rebuked by everybody he considers dated and dead, does not seem so appalling a peril that a man should be stared at as a heroic warrior and militant martyr because he has had the strength to endure it.

      G. K. Chesterton

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      1. My daughter found Super Junior over last summer and is a fan.

        Personally, I’ll stick with my crazy anime songs. (Like the scene in Macross Frontier where a shooting battle was stopped by the power of music!

        (Seriously, this is pretty much exactly where Battlehymn came from.) Do not underestimate the power of moe!

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        1. I’m a fan of J-pop/J-Rock myself, plus anime music (both the soundtracks and vocal stuff).

          Moe is a force to be reckoned with. Especially in K-On!

          That Macross clip was a blast from the past for me! Robotech was one of the things they used to show on the AFN, and I was introduced to Max and Miriya. I haven’t yet watched Macross Frontier, but I have quite a huge backlog of anime to watch.

          There’s a Yamato reboot that I’ve heard is really good made recently. Having only gotten occasional episodes of Leiji Matsumoto’s classics, this one is on my list of Things to Watch.

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          2. STARBLAZERS.

            Gateway anime or epic dubbing / (re-)cutting fail? Ready, set, debate!

            (OK, so it will always be MY gateway. Heh, it was the only anime-related material I had access to for a decade or so…)

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            1. Hahahaha! My gateway anime was Robotech! I enjoyed the Windaria butchering as well as the Warriors of the Wind cut-up, but when I saw the latter two uncut later on, it only increased my enjoyment of the stories. Also, Millennium Queen / Queen Millennia and Odysseus31 (Ulysses31) in German dub! (I CRIED when Promethium II did her Heroic Sacrifice!)

              Actually, now that I think about it, Voltes V and Mazinger Z were the first anime I watched. And as a kid I remember singing along to the Japanese opening and closing theme songs.

              But I guess the real gateway anime, because I wasn’t aware I was watching anime before this, were Sailor Moon, and Rurouni Kenshin, dubbed in English (Samurai X actually had decent voice acting!)

              Ahhhh memories!

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                1. There are two new OVAs released that re-tell the whole Kyoto arc, and the manga has omnibus releases.

                  I’m actually really glad for the omnibus releases – especially for Lone Wolf and Cub, because they made the pages BIGGER, and I can enjoy the lovely art even more. I just need to buy them before they stop releasing the things!

                  I wish they’d re-release Emma: Victorian Romance. I’m sad it’s out of print.

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            2. Warriors of the Wind has been mentioned elsewhere, but was my gateway also. Along with other Sunrise releases like Biobooster Armer Guyver.
              Lately, thanks to Crunchyroll, the daughter has watched pretty much all of Bleach, and is current on Hunter X Hunter (which is fun, but goes SUPER dark in places). And the family’s been watching Naruto since it started airing over ten years ago.

              For me, anything Miyazaki, and currently enjoying Log Horizon, Nisekoi, The World God Only Knows, and the worst-named anime ever: “Magical Warfare”. (Seriously, every time I see the title sequence, it induces involuntary facepalm.)

              I wish they’d make more Sword Art Online. And a second season of Kamisama Dolls.

              And subbed all the way.

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              1. More SWO would be good. Or something in the .hack universe. .hack Quantum was good anyway, but the earlier stuff…meh. Weird and very, very slow.

                I’m enjoying Fairy Tail on watchcartoononline.com, plus various other titles. Can’t usually get into the old, big-hair animes. Black Lagoon was good, though very dark.

                I’ve heard of Crunchyroll…I’ll have to peruse it. Anime makes for good time-killing when I’m on the elliptical machine:-).

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                  1. The Last Airbender was, IIRC, a collaboration between U.S. and Korean animators. So I can see the point of saying it’s not *really* anime, given that it wasn’t Japanese except perhaps in inspiration. Good show though, for the most part.

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                    1. I keep hearing that, but I sincerely wish they’d picked a different voice actor for Aang. Hubby started watching it once and the voice ANNOYED ME. It actually made the show unwatchable for me. It got so bad that I would ask Rhys to let me know if he was planning to watch, so I could pop on a headset, prep up the playlist and turn the volume up loud.

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                    2. I watched it with my kids for a while. No, not bad.

                      But from there one of my kids progressed to Pokemon. I’m going to take back what I said earlier: There is one thing besides Japanese comics that is stupider than American comics.

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                    4. I meant The Last Airbender. The people I mentioned it to got all snooty about it. They said in essence not in so many words it wasn’t good enough to be anime. I guess the fact that it was a partial US production annoyed them. They don’t like American stuff.

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                    5. I meant The Last Airbender

                      I figured so, but given that “Avatar” was also the name of that Cameron “humans-is-teh-evul-biome-wreckars” movie, I figured I’d explicate:-). I should’ve put in the whole title: Avatar: the Last Airbender!

                      Ah, pedantry…where would I be without it?:-P

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              2. I bear good news: Another season of Sword Art Online is set to be released this year. Also, there’s an OVA already out, and available on Crunchyroll legally. Yen Press has licensed the light novels for release in English. Accel World is related to the same universe too, or so I hear. My hubby LOVES SWO. So this was one of the Christmas pressies I got him.

                Mahou Sensei Negima is another good fantasy-adventure manga, though I’m sad about the way it had to end due to executive meddling, there is a sequel manga already being released called UQ Holder.

                One of my favorite anime/manga/light novel series EVER is Slayers. I am hoping against hope that someone will finally get the abandoned translation license and finish translating those novels and pick up the rest of the manga series as well as translate Slayers Light Magic. For pure fantasy, Record of Lodoss War of course.

                Housemate is telling me I need to make watching Trigun a priority in my watchlist.

                A short but very interesting anime but with a very dark and interesting perspective on the ‘magical girl’ premise is Puella Magi Madoka Magica; it also has a trilogy of movies, Yen Press licensed manga in the US, a browser based game… as a fan of Card Captor Sakura, this was VERY good and well done deconstruction of the Magical Girl genre.

                If you’re a fan of Ghibli, may I suggest, if you have not heard of his work, the movies by Makoto Shinkai?

                What I’m somewhat sad about is the lack of doujinshi availability in English. Doujinshi is a huuuuuge thing over in Japan and, judging from the doujin section of a manga store I saw in Paris, rivals the originals in length. I remember seeing a shelf occupied entirely by a yaoi-bent Rurouni Kenshin doujinshi, and each volume was about the thickness of an encylopedia or phone book. While not to my taste, I was rather impressed by the quality of the art and the dedication of the doujin circle.

                And yes, SUBBED ALL THE WAY~

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                    1. The funny thing is, it’s all MacArthur’s fault. He tried to ban porn by defining it as anything that shows penises or pubic hair, so, get tentacles to stand in for penises, and pre-pubescent schoolgirls become the new sexual ideal since they have no hair down there. And thus, the “Good idea” of banning porn turns then into a nation of perverted pedophiles.

                      (Not exactly my analysis, but I ran across it doing a paper back in college).

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                    2. Oops — my comment below, regarding the origins of the tentacle porn meme, was intended as reply to Doc Mauser’s post, but the attempt to hack the “reply” code went awry.

                      This is a test to determine if I have worked out the system. Heh.

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                    2. Manga covers all genres of fiction in Japan.

                      Of course, IMO if you find a manga “to your tastes”, there will be some “weirdness” because of the differences between Japanese culture and American culture.

                      For an example, it is a common theme in manga for a couple to have been “engaged” at a very early age but have little contact until they are closer to an age to be married.

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    2. I know a couple itty-bitty SCA-ers who are adults.

      And I don’t have to be afraid they will hit me with sticks for this comment, because they don’t read this blog. :-)

      But I also know one guy who makes Larry C look short. It’s really funny to see this 7′ dude in Viking gear fighting a little 5’4″ woman, also in Viking gear.

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      1. The piper for my uncle’s Celtic group is in that “uuuh… RUN” category.

        When his son was about four, they’d have him dress up like daddy, with his own little set of pipes. :D

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              2. There’s always the Spartan answer (“then we’ll fight in the shade”)…
                Actually, however, it is possible to fight in full armor in TX/OK in July and August. I’ve done it. Not recently, and whenever possible we do it indoors / under shade and with *serious* attention to participant hydration…

                (Yes, I am an SCA participant – for more than thirty years now. Hey, don’t look at me THAT funny, I was already doing calligraphy and heraldry and research for the fun of it. Plus my reading habits were definitely already warped enough to fill a loom or three – REHoward, RAHeinlein, Andrew Offut, L. Sprague DeCamp, Lin Carter, Poul Anderson, etc. AND I got to use my then-recently-acquired fencing skills, and ogle the ladies in all manner of “interesting” attire. WIN!)

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              3. There are places in the USA that do SCA with adjustments for hot weather. They are even in period. You think that Crusaders in the Holy Land or people in Southern Europe didn’t wear warm weather clothes?

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  13. …Can someone explain to me why, when I’ve barely commented on the SFWA kerfuffle, Chlamydia sees fit to mention me here?

    I’m not even involved in the SFWA. The fiction genre I’m thinking of writing sole work in isn’t sci-fi.

    If he’s blaming me for Housemate’s video response to something Chlamydia said TO him in an IRC channel, or this parody, I didn’t know about it until this evening. He might live in the same house as me, but I don’t necessarily have the same circles of online friends as he does.

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        1. He’s an obsessive-compulsive a$$. What’s to know? He probably can’t even help himself. He’s just got his mad (in at least two senses of the word) on, and he’s begging for attention from you. He needs attention from you. It’s like he’s begging for space in your head.

          And I don’t know your history with him. He sounds like a really f-ed up jerk-a-lerk. The King of wanna-be bad ex-boyfriends. It’s tempting to point you to a Pikachu “Haters Gonna Hate” gif. But I understand how people saying bad stuff about you on the internet messes with your head.

          That’s when it’s a good idea for me to turn off the PC, kiss my wife, hug my daughter, then go outside and practice with my rattan canes.

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        2. Ah, but you comment here. So, ergo, you are connected. Because he’s fixated on you, so at the center of his flowchart, he goes out to issues by what you tangentially touch. Whereas the saner people in the world go by the issues first, or the major players.

          You’re making the classic mistake – well, not starting a land war in Asia, or going against a Sicilian when death is on the line, but the trying to apply rational models of thinking to a person who has demonstrated that’s not how they prioritize, focus, or think. *shrugs*

          My best advice, given it’s unlikely he’ll cross the line and get himself committed (or it would already have happened), is to not let him rent free space in your brain and your life by trying to figure it out. The alternative is to spend enough time with folks who aren’t medicated and really ought to be that you develop a recognition and a thick skin… but that’s an awful lot of work and heartache. Mockery, derision, cynicism, and ignoring are all mental shields that will work much better for far less investment.

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          1. Well, that’s why I just hang out here. People here are wonderful folks. Here is a breath of fresh air and sanity. That might be why it attracts the loons like him. I came here because people are intelligent, funny and have common sense, which are rare to find in the same person, never mind in several folks at once!

            As for me, I’ve got work to do, and a nice mug of mint tea to enjoy.

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          1. I was just weirded out running across that while reading on my coffee break. I figured later if idiot’s that enraged about something then I must be doing whatever it is right, even though I don’t know what it is, and apparently am not involved in the SFWA. Then I carried on painting happy little trees…

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    3. Well, the simple fact is that while he can’t post here, he can still read, and he has discovered that with a simple, throw-away line he can still cause you major drama. The mention above about living rent-free in your mind holds true.

      On the other hand, notice how every one of his one-line replies is pretty much the end of a discussion tree. Even the people there don’t value his input.

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      1. He probably thinks that means he was just that good, so nobody had anything to add.

        Kind of like folks who have really bad breath who think that others are rude for how they can’t stand to hang around and talk for long.

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  14. “Tan people uber Alles” As a melanin-challenged individual to the point of listing race as “clearcasian” or “Chalkcasian”, I forgive you. When swimming, fish either gaze upon my belly with envy, or flee fearing Orca.

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  16. Remember the 70’s, when it was fashionable to be the opposite of a human supremacist? Why, even Isaac Asimov said in an interview that it would be a Good Thing if the human race were replaced by, say, robots, because obviously humans had wrecked the Earth so badly that it would be better if we went the way of the Dodo and were replaced by some wiser and more intelligent lifeform (something like R. Daneel, perhaps.)
    [interview found at Science Fiction Studies]

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  20. Incidentally, and completely off-topic, but my wife got me a laser pointer for Christmas for entertainment purposes.

    By which I mean that there is little in life more entertaining that getting a cat to race into a wall at full gallop.

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              2. GiganCat, after 14 years in the same house, never did remember that he had no traction on parquet. That eeevil red dot got him ever time. :D

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  22. I am happy to be in the company of disgruntled right wing writers. Well I can’t claim to be a writer quite yet.

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  24. I’m looking for ideas, and the idea of the Human Supremacist and the ideas of the Human Wave might be where I need to start.

    I’m taking an online Master’s Course, and it starts with an academic writing course. The final grade, pass/fail, is a 3-4 page academic paper on the topic: “Based on your experience, what is the greatest social problem that needs to be addressed?”

    Since the Human Wave is the solution, I am assuming that being anti-human might be the social problem that needs to be addressed. Anyone have ideas or suggestions how I can go about it, or what points I should emphasize.

    I could probably research the whole thing on “According to Hoyt,” but the professors might not like my citations as “scholarly enough.” LOL But I am certain I can use some material to make my point.

    From the assignment description: “Your job is to refine the topic, find authors speaking to that topic and synthesize that information into a short research paper.”

    All comments welcome, sane or crazy, serious or comical.

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    2. Given the themes that Human Wave writing is intended to address, two articles today might provide a basis for addressing the problem. Human Wave is embracing a common human identity and rejecting the tribalism that makes us cling each to his own’ tribe’s illusions and resentments. Tribalism requires fiction and requires all members pay. at a minimum, lip service to the tribe’s theology.

      Why Obama is Uneducated
      … there is a deeper reason why liberals eschew facts: they refute fiction. And since leftist agendas have no basis in reality, exposure to snippets of it is deadly; for, just as one small pin can pop a balloon, one little fact can shatter a rationalization.

      … liberals are raised on fiction. Fiction about America’s nature and Western influence; fiction about the races and sexes (not to mention “genders”), and fiction about sex; fiction about history and culture; fiction about economics; fiction about religion. Heck, with how liberals claim old fairy tales are destructive, they’re raised with fiction about fiction.

      … to fully grasp the nature of leftists’ ignorance, an understanding of their philosophical foundation is necessary. There is a certain experience many conservatives know very well: You debate a liberal, and he just seems immune to facts and reason. No matter how airtight your point, it rolls off him like water off a duck.

      … while most everyone exhibits to some degree this tendency to rationalize, leftists are defined by it. They are, to use a favored psycho-babble term, morally and philosophically “dysfunctional” people. They live lives of rationalization – which is when you lie to yourself, sell yourself on a fiction – and for this reason only intensify whatever dislocation from reality their upbringing, sometimes, might have wrought.

      Their greatest act of self-delusion – their ultimate denial of reality and the one that facilitates all others – is their embrace of moral relativism, the idea that there are no moral absolutes. The appeal of this fiction is that it allows one to justify any behavior imaginable. After all, my sins are not sins if there’s no vice, only viewpoint. Who is to judge? Who is to say? There’s no black and white, only gray.

      … with his denial of Truth, the leftist places his ideology where Truth should be: the center of his life. This ideology, which just reflects his emotions, anyway, then takes on the role of God.

      After the Great Disappointment
      In the latest Weekly Standard James Ceasar likened the Obama adherents to the members of a failed religious cult. How will they react to their Great Disappointment, he wondered? Would it be “acceptance, denial, [or] deflection?”

      But I think that it is misleading to think of the Obamis merely as religious cultists. The point of leftism is not merely to be a faith, but a fighting faith. …

      … Socialism, or Communism, or New Dealism, or today’s “progressivism:” it’s all tribalism.

      … Liberals are old school, because their identity politics turns the clock back to tribalism. We conservatives, we new school, and here’s why.

      The great story of the last two thousand years is the gradual and halting attempt to transcend the boundaries of tribalism with something new and amazing. That something new is individualism. It replaces the tribal or collective self with the responsible self. This responsible self simply says, in each one of us: “I am responsible for finding a way to contribute to society.”

      The day you say “I am responsible” you become free, free to decide how to contribute to society, free to learn, free to love, and free to make mistakes. Thus Heinlein: “I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

      … We conservatives, we libertarians, are the people of the responsible self and we are called to witness to the light and break the spell of the illusion. We are called to end the night of tribalism that the prophet of Hope and Change has brought upon us. We are called to testify to the truth of freedom and responsibility.

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      1. Dang. Two links. I ought know better. I pray the Great Moderator’s indulgence. I pray Be Swift, Be Precise be patient.

        I pray my response make sense to somebody not living inside my head and tripping over the stacks of books, magazines and clipped articles.

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