Three links that have been passed around lately.

[conuly]

PSA: Your Default Narrative Settings Are Not Apolitical

http://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/psa-your-default-narrative-settings-are-not-apolitical/


An Asperger's Guide to Neurotypicals

http://feng-shui-house.dreamwidth.org/722472.html


And a DW friending meme. I've been making a concerted effort to read my reading page there lately, that's an improvement. You know how slow I can be about change.

http://kouredios.dreamwidth.org/226094.html


As a bonus, I also have this Cracked.com link, 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About The Founding Of This Country.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19864_6-ridiculous-lies-you-believe-about-founding-america.html

Comments

[steorra]

I read the Cracked.com link, and under point #3 I came across the claim that "Two Native Americans landed in Holland in 60 B.C. and were promptly not given a national holiday by anyone."

I was sceptical about this and wanted to track down the basis for the claim, and came across this which takes it apart fairly well.

[conuly]

Will link to that shortly. Nieces home sick, so... Won't be fast.

[mc776]

For some reason a Round Table full of black and brown dudes I find really, really inspiring (or at least inspiration-feeling-invoking as I haven't actually written anything yet).

[conuly]

I think Lee and Low publishing might have an Arthurian rewrite that has largely non-white characters.