{"id":3741,"date":"2012-05-11T14:58:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2012-05-11T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T20:11:10","slug":"your-happening-world-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/05\/11\/your-happening-world-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Your happening world (24)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nCartoonist Tracey Butler <a href=\"http:\/\/tracyjb.deviantart.com\/art\/Lackadaisy-Expressions-193978013\">provides a huge, insanely over-detailed quick reference guide on drawing facial expressions<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nArthur B thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/ferretbrain.com\/articles\/article-839\">we need to talk about Conan<\/a> and whether or not Robert E. Howard&#8217;s works are worth reading:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut when it comes to more or less any other motivation for reading fantasy fiction &#8211; whether you&#8217;re angling for improving literature or trashy fun (or trashy literature or improving fun, for that matter), and assuming you are not someone who deliberately reads badly written and offensive fiction for the lulz, there is really no reason to expend time on Howard when there&#8217;s a whole world of authors out there who don&#8217;t have his grotesque issues and are simply better writers than he is.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexdallymacfarlane.com\/2012\/04\/eastercon-it-was-fun-but\/\">In a discussion about Eastercon<\/a>, a side remark about the offensiveness of complimenting non-native speakers on their English:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEnglish isn\u2019t an optional extra for a lot of people around the world. They are required to learn English to get by in the international world, because English is the lingua franca. Congratulating them like they\u2019re great students, the way we are when we deign to learn other languages, is ignoring the part where we force them to be good at English by dominating the world with our language and treating people like lesser humans when they don\u2019t speak it (or don\u2019t speak it well, or don\u2019t speak it with the \u201cright\u201d accents).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoonist Tracey Butler provides a huge, insanely over-detailed quick reference guide on drawing facial expressions Arthur B thinks we need to talk about Conan and whether or not Robert E. Howard&#8217;s works are worth reading: But when it comes to more or less any other motivation for reading fantasy fiction &#8211; whether you&#8217;re angling for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,7,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comix","category-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3745,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions\/3745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}