Ancient Grains Archive
Things I Learned In Utah
Ancient Grains, Meta
Oct 18, 2013
Utah: a land of contrasts. Utah is the greatest place in the world. They have everything: Taco Time and baby mini-horses and pumpkin patches, and also other things as well, most likely. In my time there I learned wonderful things.
1. A great many fervent young Mormons post videos of themselves receiving their
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Femslash Friday: Little Ditty About Anne and Diana
Ancient Grains, LGBT
Oct 18, 2013
Previously: Mellie and Olivia on Scandal.
How does one even begin to write about Anne and Diana? Anne of Green Gables (the book and the film) is a sacred text for a certain type of bookish woman. There are rituals and invocations;
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Reasons To Shop For Fall Clothing
Ancient Grains, Artwork
Oct 18, 2013
The imagined reinvention of the self!
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Friday Link Roundup!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Oct 18, 2013
Growing up with the Alice books (Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, not Lewis Carroll.)
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There's a town in Alaska whose mayor has been a cat for the last sixteen years, so they'd love Twitter.
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Making A Terrible Sort of Sense: Male Victims of Sexual Violence
Ancient Grains, Health
Oct 17, 2013
A strange thing happened on October 8th. Commentary began to circulate about an interview with Chris Brown in the Guardian, propelled by the implications of an offhand reference he made to his own sexual history. Brown described his first sexual encounter at the age of eight with a teenage girl.
The reaction itself,
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Death Becomes Him
Ancient Grains, Fan Fiction
Oct 17, 2013
First: Required viewing.
Bruce Willis stood alone on a balcony inside the abandoned Los Angeles Planet Hollywood. Visions drifted like haunting melodies beneath the fierce protection of a taut, gleaming scalp. Bruce looked down towards the decrepit dining room and saw the grandeur that once was: a
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Heaven Is Missing An Angel…And They’ll Raise Hell To Get Her Back
Ancient Grains, Humor
Oct 17, 2013
A bar. Could be in any town, in any country in the world. Just a one-room bar with a dusty mirror, dusty bottles, and dusty smiles. A bar with too many heartaches and too few customers. Like every other bar.
Unlike every other bar.
When he ran -- flung himself, more like -- through
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Solve or Show: The Long Feminist Summer
Ancient Grains, Feminism
Oct 17, 2013
Feminism has been having problems online for a while. Which makes perfect sense, because feminism has been having problems offline for a couple centuries. Race, class, ability, gender essentialism, the debates on who counts, who gets heard, and whose issues get attention started the moment the movement named itself. From “borrowing” from
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