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Friday at Wiscon
The panel on "Rethinking Disabling Metaphor," on the ways that casual use of terms like "lame" or "crazy" as all-purpose dismissals of people and ideas can both be painful to some people who hear them, and create or reinforce prejudices, was good. The moderators had to remind a few people of the focus of _this_ panel, that similar uses of, say, "that's gay," were beyond the scope of what they were trying to do in 75 minutes. But some good ideas were shared; one useful thing the moderators did was point out that you can't just tell people not to use idioms or metaphors, you need to provide and use different ones. So they collected a few from other categories: for example, that an idea is half-baked or doesn't hold water.
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elisem summed a lot of this up as "before you insult someone, think of the collateral damage."
The panel I moderated, on Tyrannosaurs and F-14s, went pretty well, I think, despite one person in the front row who kept jumping in without waiting to be called, to the point that I cut him off in turn, saying "we've heard from you a lot, $name. Anyone else?" (I have already forgotten his name, not having noted it in time to save for "people I do not want to be on panels with.") One of my panelists noted afterward that the audience kept laughing, which was a good sign. We threw in lots of "I liked this even though it was bad," and Cabell suggested that one reason we were all coming up with movies and TV shows rather than books is that there are several people involved in creating those, and more ways that some parts of it can be good: the script stinks, but the cinematography is gorgeous or one of the actors really appeals to you. Someone in the audience added that a movie, for him, is a two-hour time investment, and a novel is eight or ten, so he's going to have higher standards before sticking with a novel. Also, stuff that you hit at the right time: for different people, Lost in Space, and Highlander. So does context: part of what Cabell had enjoyed about Highlander was watching it with her roommate annd mocking it together. That's less likely/common with written fiction.
After that, I went to the Haiku Earring party, leterik serve me herb tea, had some nice round brownies, and eventually picked out a pair of earrings that I figured I could write something from, though I didn't want to keep them. So:
Patchwork Magic
Magic holds the world
together, after children
tear summer's thread.
I'm not 100% happy with it, but will probably just let it sit. (I took a photo with my cell phone before putting the earrings back; once home, I may see about getting that from there to Flickr.)
And so to bed, and a decent night's sleep this time.
[Lunch withoursin, dinner with Matt, Janet, their daughter, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pennski and her husband Chris. I've been in and out of Michelangelo's for tea often enough, close enough together, to have gotten into smiles and "hello again" with at least one of the counter staff.]
ETA: Elise has posted photos of the earrings; I'm fairly sure these are the ones I was working with.
elisem summed a lot of this up as "before you insult someone, think of the collateral damage."The panel I moderated, on Tyrannosaurs and F-14s, went pretty well, I think, despite one person in the front row who kept jumping in without waiting to be called, to the point that I cut him off in turn, saying "we've heard from you a lot, $name. Anyone else?" (I have already forgotten his name, not having noted it in time to save for "people I do not want to be on panels with.") One of my panelists noted afterward that the audience kept laughing, which was a good sign. We threw in lots of "I liked this even though it was bad," and Cabell suggested that one reason we were all coming up with movies and TV shows rather than books is that there are several people involved in creating those, and more ways that some parts of it can be good: the script stinks, but the cinematography is gorgeous or one of the actors really appeals to you. Someone in the audience added that a movie, for him, is a two-hour time investment, and a novel is eight or ten, so he's going to have higher standards before sticking with a novel. Also, stuff that you hit at the right time: for different people, Lost in Space, and Highlander. So does context: part of what Cabell had enjoyed about Highlander was watching it with her roommate annd mocking it together. That's less likely/common with written fiction.
After that, I went to the Haiku Earring party, let
erik serve me herb tea, had some nice round brownies, and eventually picked out a pair of earrings that I figured I could write something from, though I didn't want to keep them. So:Patchwork Magic
Magic holds the world
together, after children
tear summer's thread.
I'm not 100% happy with it, but will probably just let it sit. (I took a photo with my cell phone before putting the earrings back; once home, I may see about getting that from there to Flickr.)
And so to bed, and a decent night's sleep this time.
[Lunch with
oursin, dinner with Matt, Janet, their daughter, and pennski and her husband Chris. I've been in and out of Michelangelo's for tea often enough, close enough together, to have gotten into smiles and "hello again" with at least one of the counter staff.]ETA: Elise has posted photos of the earrings; I'm fairly sure these are the ones I was working with.
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Well, OK, I'll still open with one:
I note that you are using a seasonal reference; are you also open to or interested in playing with the pivot at the end of one of the lines (the cut, some people call it, I think) that is found in more traditional haiku along with the seasonal reference?
If so (and here's where I depart into example-and-suggestion, so please promise me that you'll ignore anything that's not useful, OK?), maybe fitting the "magic holds the world together" concept on a single line could provide a nice pivot. Something that works like:
or
or even moving it around:
* or binds, or mends, or joins, or....
I really like what you've got in this one that plays with the patchwork imagery, by the way.
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