Did I wake up in 1953 by mistake?

[perennialanna]

I've just had an email from the local Children's Centre with their summer programme. There are two themed weeks.

One is Pirates and Princesses, the other Fairies/Wizards.

Oh goodness will I be feeding back my thoughts on that, once I've taken the swearing out because the only contact I have is some poor bloody admin who doesn't deserve to get my full and frank opinion on the subject.

And they ask me why I don't go to mother-and-child groups much...

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[nineveh_uk]

As would actual pirates!

[perennialanna]

Indeed! Which is an excellent opportunity to shoehorn in a link to Scott Lynch winning the internets, which is why I am currently reading The Lies of Locke Lamora (and wondering why no-one else seems to have spotted the Bujold nods - "Request and require you" indeed, and an Isla Durona).

http://fuckyeahscifiwomenofcolour.tumblr.com/post/37413846476/author-scott-lynch-responds-to-a-critic-of-the

[coughingbear]

That is brilliant!

I was stumped, in the London Aquarium shop last weekend, to see that they had two stands of pirate-y things (hats, cutlasses, etc); one lot in black/grey, and one lot all in pink. All over.

[perennialanna]

Because pink looks so much better when it's running with gore?

So far, Locke Lamora is stuffed with women doing things, running businesses, having jobs, without any comment at all. It really makes me realise how this is missing in so much fantasy.

[coughingbear]

I've always thought so.

I like Locke Lamora very much, but haven't got round to the sequel yet.