[Snowflake] Recs

[karanguni]

In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create.

Truth be told, I am having a downright awful day, so I'm going to phone this one in with my Yuletide recs and a request that people just... leave a comment and talk about something. Anything.

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[rosefox]

Woo, awful day twins! *weak fistbump*

Dr. James Barry was a Scottish military physician in the early 19th century who was trans and was rumored to be having a romantic relationship with his black "manservant". He got into fistfights with people he disagreed with, and was at the forefront of medical advances that saved a lot of lives. He rose to a very high rank and was buried under his chosen name with full military honors even after rumors spread about him being trans. The doctor who signed his death certificate said that he didn't bother checking the sex of the body because it was clearly the body of his friend James and that was all anyone ought to care about. He is probably my all-time favorite historical trans person.

[karanguni]

That is pretty bad ass!

[yhlee]

*support support*

I paged through Timothy Godbold's Military Style Invades Fashion yesterday and it is full of eye candy and fashion design ideas--it also has actual text content but I was too brain-dead to read it, although the bits I skimmed looked intriguing and I will read it properly after I finish the book I'm reading currently.

That being said, I have always found non-hunting non-military civilian uses of camo wear to be either silly or sort of presumptuous. I have an in-law who dressed a baby in camo wear and I remember thinking, You WANT some random hunter shooting your kid by accident?!

[karanguni]

Oooh yes military style good. You should share some of the neat ones! and then dress Aral in them

[yhlee]

So tempting to try watercoloring Aral...XD I adore drawing fancy uniforms. I am so sad that the phone fashion game Love Nikki Dress Up Queen doesn't have a guy character version for ALL the fancy menswear (although there are outfits that are basically fancy femme version of menswear...).

I read the actual text (there wasn't much of it, it's really mostly photos) while waiting for the Dragon's doctor's appointment this morning. I had never thought before about how pervasive military-influenced styles are in modern fashion! It's so omnipresent that I just take it for granted. I'll definitely try to scan a couple of the more interesting juxtapositions to share when I write up the book. :)

[chagrined]

Did you know that the book Fox in Socks contains no gendered pronouns between its two covers? There is one gendered pronoun on the cover ("he") but that is it! Thus I decided that the front cover is probably editorial anyway and therefore all the characters inside can be whatever gender anyone wants them to be or nongendered etc. It increased my ALREADY RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF LOVE for this, my favorite book.

[sarasa_cat]

This is seriously cool.

[karanguni]

I do not know this book! Tell me about this book!

[chagrined]

omg!!! So, Fox in Socks is my favorite book in the whole world! It is a children's tongue twister book by Dr. Seuss. The premise is there's this Fox (in socks) who's basically tormenting poor Mr. Knox by trying to get him to say all these tongue twisters and Knox is like MY POOR MOUTH CAN'T SAY THAT, NO SIR. MY POOR MOUTH IS MUCH TOO SLOW, SIR. And so on through more and more tongue twisters until the end when THE TABLES ARE TURNED. Anyway the intention of the book is for readers to try to read it aloud, especially kids who are still beginners at reading, because it's both fun and also good practice haha.

I, being long obsessed with this book, may have also OVER-ANALYZED IT in various other ways. Like the not containing any gendered pronouns aside from that one on the cover, which I LOVE. Or also, the content is really rather kinky hahaha. Fox/Knox have this whole unnegotiated D/s dynamic and there is lots of calling each other "sir" and all the forcibly subjecting Knox to tongue twisters and there's other stuff in there like... Spanking and bondage and whatnot haha.

Someone has actually typed up all the text here but as with other Dr. Seuss books it's not really the same without his illustrations! But there you can see how the rhymes go heh.

Also I may have made like. A bunch of fanworks for it over the years lmao. (I used to have several icons for it too but I guess they're deleted at the moment or I would have used them, heh.)

[schneefink]

Feel better!

From the "random thoughts" table: Russia recently "lost" a satellite in orbit because of a programming error, and now I'm thinking about space debris again and how long it'll take until Earth looks like that one planet from Jupiter Ascending. Maybe before that space salvaging becomes cost-effective, and now I want stories about space debris salvaging, I bet there are some. And hey, what if you add magic to that? Urban fantasy except in orbit and without cities. (Except who knows how many space stations we have by then.) Maybe it's not even space salvage so much as someone has to fly to all the old satellites because back then they didn't have the proper space recycling spells yet and they all need to be updated.

[karanguni]

This sounds eerily like a yuletide fic I wrote this year... Yeah it always amazes me how "just leave it there" is ever considered a good idea. And yet it is!