Thursday Links

Posted on | January 7, 2010 | No Comments

Section: Transformative Works

Mari Kasurinen is an artist who has, among other things, reached the pinnacle of My Little Pony modification. You can also find her work here on DeviantArt.

In 2010: The Year Fandom Becomes Serious Business, The Learned Fangirl presumes to predict.

EMI vs Vimeo re: fanvids. ArsTechnica.com reports.  

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Section: Religion

Non-Fluffy Pagans is a Livejournal community for discussion and snark on all things Pagan without being bothered by “fluffbunnies“. Membership is moderated. Pagan readers familiar with LJ, I advice you approach is as something to read rather than something to dive into and start commenting on.  

An example of a thought-provoking post on NFP: Finding Your True Path –  Elfwreck points out that if a path is true for a given person, it shouldn’t be possible to turn her away from it through snark. I don’t entirely agree, though I think it’s a great point to make that mollycoddling newbies (to anything!) can be tantamount to – yikes! – conversion tactics. 

In a mass Solstice fail, Pagans show up on Stonehenge to celebrate on the wrong day. To be fair, you can hardly blame them if they did so anticipating that the Stonehenge event organizers would be the ones to get it wrong too. But then why didn’t they check the website? Oh well! Report by Daily Mail.

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Section: Our Bodies and Minds Are Everyone’s Business

In Yes, your brain counts too, meowser talks about thin- and diet-expectations and how they don’t really jive with certain working lives – and points out that mental health is health too. All sorts of interesting and eye-opening tidbits here.

Anne C. of ExistenceIsWonderful.com conceptualizes autism.

Should Disabled Workers Be Paid Less Than Minimum Wage? Change.org asks.

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Section: Tarot

Using the Tarot as a writing tool by Marelisa Fabréga on WriteToDone.com.

Tarot reader files suit against the county – Chesterfield Observer reports. Turns out that in Chesterfield you pay more taxes if your business deals in “the occult arts”. Because apparently something you can buy in any book store counts as occult now -also, discriminatory much?

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Section: Didn’t Fit In Any Of The Other Sections

Whedon’s Brunettes – Meloukhia talks about the Whedonesque image of the disturbed brunette in need of male protection.

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