Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-18-2008

• Scans see 'gay brain differences'
  More research needed (as ever).
  (tags: brain gay gender homosexuality neuroscience sexuality)
• Last Contact - by Stephen Baxter
  God, he's a depressing bastard. Fantastic short story though, which reminds me a lot of the movie "Last Night".
  (tags: scifi Stephen_Baxter short_story)
• 'Spore' Releases the Pixar in You
  How computer games are democratising 3D design. Fascinating little piece
  (tags: art design 3D technology games culture)
• Israel and Hamas agree ceasefire
  No, I don't have _much_ hope. But it's better than the alternative
  (tags: israel politics)

"I'm not"

One of the occasional things I bump into online that drives me into a fit of rage is confusion/amusement at the idea that subculture x wants to be 'different' and yet they all look the same, where 'subculture x' can be goths, metallers, emo kids, punks, etc.

There seems to be this perception that because members of these groups look different to 'normal people' they therefore are largely striving to be different - and thus that because they look like other members of the group they have therefore failed, in a completely oblivious and amusing way.

And this baffles the living fuck out of me. Because it seems blindingly obvious that they don't want to look 'different' - they want to look _like that_. They happen to think that the aesthetic looks good, and thus they have decided to wear it. For the majority of them, if everyone in the mainstream also wore these clothes they'd be _happier_, because then more people would look cool.

But no, if people look different then it must be because 'difference' is what's important to them, not because they happen to like different things to you.

Honestly - I just want to smack people around the head sometimes.

Tinged with sadness

Denver just left again - off with daisyflip and boyfriend to begin a new life.

daisyflip works from home, so Denver will have company much more of the time. And I am sure she will be happier there, once she settles in.

But I shall miss her. And I am sad.