That time Jenna Marble said it’s OK to not have a plan and to just do you. 2014.
Category: Social Medea
GABBLER RECOMMENDS: Where Nothing Can Possibly Go “Worng” By Joanna Radin
‘Instead of fantasizing about ideal technologies, we must learn to recognize what Menkman calls “the inherent fingerprints of imperfections” in those technologies. Rather than seeking to avoid or suppress glitches, we should learn how to conjure them so we can better understand how to break or bend the rules. Whether its entertainment or politics–and there may no longer be any difference–we need to be awake to how sexism, racism, and violence continues to be part of the design. It’s time to start taking our fiction seriously. It may be the best resource we have to create a world that won’t kill us, and avoid the ones that will. After all, The Apprentice was great reality TV until it became reality.’
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Year Roundup: 2016
So, despite the shitpile that was 2016, we’ll give you some of the highlights from the CIRCO blog.
We started our Epic Catalog tag in 2016, which contains all our lists and will be an ongoing thing.
The #BLAThoughtOfTheDay ranged from J.K. Rowling conspiracy theories to superhero reboots.
Our favorite BookTuber Tuesday posts this year was this one and this one.
Gabbler’s favorite GABBLER RECOMMENDS was this piece by Che Gossett and this one by Elizabeth King.
Also notable events of 2016:
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child came out and BLA had feelings about it.
Maria Bamford’s TV show Lady Dynamite came out and it was good.
Elena Ferrante’s true identity was exposed by an asshole.
BLA wrote an essay on the representation of gods in stories and has some things to say about the American Gods adaptation being made.
Gabbler wrote an essay in response to Hugh Howey’s “Like Unto Children.”
But besides all that, fuck you 2016.
