I was retweeted by cae_vye and linked to by the Leftist Elite , and now I got more than three hundred hits to my most recent post to my German blog.

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Again an entry for my German Blog Ich gebe zu: ich bin dominant

(1) My German blog at wordpress is now featured by featurette.de, a project that seeks to give female bloggers more publicity.
(2) I have now more than 200 favlistings for my story "the Blessed Realm. ( Here's the proof: )
Actually by now it's 201 favlistings, this morning I found a new one.

I have again written an entry for my other blog, this time about paradox messages to children: "Don't listen! Don't do what people tell you!" (In German, sorry.)

I have commented on a couple of German blogposts on the occasion of International Women's Day: Comments on international Women's Day. (Sorry, in German again. I commented to German blogposts.)

I spent the weekend writing a long entry to my German blog which is more about politics. I was again reflecting the metafandom-discussions, though in a rather abstract way: Moral und Moralin Maybe some of you who still remember those discussions (my impression is that metafandom is dead at the moment) will be interested in what I wrote.

I just listen to an interview with Karl Pilny in Deutschlandfunk who wrote a novel that is set in Japan and that includes the Japanese crimes during WWII.

"I only told facts, so I hope I did not offend anyone."

I am not an expert on Japanese culture, but my impression is that in Japan naming facts when it comes to WWII is considered at least as offending as it is in Germany.

A meme for those of my readers who read German: Chancellor meme. I got Gerhard Schröder, by the way. (At some point just chose the option that sounded funniest. I mean, all the options for spending your vacations were equally boring.

I wrote another article in my other German, political blog: ADHS/ADS als “Jungskrankheit” – aus der Reihe Maskulinismus in der Pädagogik where I again explore the connection between masculinism and the idealization of violence.

Yesterday I attended the demonstration in Hanover against the ACTA-treaty.

( with video of demonstration, report of demonstration, and a lot of links with more information )

I just found an article about a puppet demonstration in Russia: demonstrations by people are forbidden, so people put small figures on trays, give them demonstration signs, and put them out into the snow: Gegen Puppen sind sie machtlos

The article is in German, but maybe you can have a look at the picture, and maybe you can have a look at the picture's source: Livejournal. Further down in the article Livejournal is mentioned as a place for political bloggers.

I don't speak Russian, and I have only one Russian person on my f-list, and her English articles are not about politics, so I only occasionally get a glance into what LJ also is: a political website. My activities at LJ are centered around fandom, and when I write about politics I now use my journal at wordpress. Maybe even in the English-speaking part of LJ there's more political blogging than I know.

Then I think: Maybe if they are accepted as a blogging platform by political activists in Russia they are doing something right. Maybe this is more important than fandom. Maybe all the changes should be just by what they might mean to activists in Russia, not to people here.

It's always a surprise to see what happens to me when I have time after a long period of work overload. This time I am busy writing blogposts...

Again in German. This journal at DW will be reserved for personal entries.

This time I wrote about Bullying, and about a tendency in certain "theories" of pedagogics to blame the victims: self-confidence as a way to protect yourself against bullying?"

I found something that's problably more effective than writing Avaaz-petitions: Write to your representative at the European Parliament. I had to google mine and was astonished to find out how many formerly well-known politicians are now members of the European Parliament which has not much to say. But apparently now is an opportunity to become important: refusing to agree to ACTA.

Today I found an article that explains about ACTA and why it's evil. It's in German - sorry at a certain point of the metafandom debates I decided to drop out and to find some more intelligent people to discuss politics with, and I found them among some German feminists, e.g. at the blog and twitter-timeline of Antje Schrupp. I know it's arrogant, but that's what I really felt like. I feel a bit sorry about no longer discussing politics in an international community any more, but I think that reducing politics to "anti-oppression" is a bit superficial.

So here's a link to the article about ACTA, and maybe someone has the time to find an English or Dutch or whatever article that's just as good:

mspro über ACTA

Another rant about masculinism in pedagogics at my other journal

Fensterscheiben zerbrechen

I've just posted an entry to my other blog at wordpress.com where I write in German. The Blog there is explicitely not personal, but only about theoretical subjects I am interested in. (And, well, I must admit that I fled from the discussions at metafandom...)

So if anyone wants to read that article, here's the link: http://susanna14.wordpress.com/

(Yes, I am again using my DW account. If anyone needs an invitation, just tell.)

I managed to spam my own friends-page with my own entries to various communities.

(And now I try whether it works on LJ again.)

tanrien nudged me, so here's some sign that I am still alive.

What I have been doing these last two weeks: I followed the COP 17 on clima change in Durban - no, not on twitter, nor on youtube, but I followed their own webcast: http://unfccc4.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/cop17/templ/ovw_onDemand.php?id_kongressmain=201

It was more interesting than I would have guessed. I listened to press briefings and also to some sessions of the "subsidiary bodies", e.g. SBSTA (people are actually able to pronounce that!) and also plenary sessions, but most interesting were the press briefings both of the parties and of the Climate Action Network. On Saturday I followed the last session life, but at 3am I decided to go to bed.

What I think about the outcome:

At first my feelings were mixed. "Agreement with legal force" - is that a success, or again a (bad) compromise? I was glad that Connie Heedegard (who's really cool) remained firm, and that a lot of non-EU countries said that along with the EU they would not agree to the outcome of the conference. I was not certain about the compromise she achieved with the Indian minister. Now thinking about it I think the worst problem of the compromise is that besides the Indian and the EU delegate there were delegates from the US and China present, but not from the African group, AOSIS, or the LDCs. It was again the strong countries finding a compromise among each other.

I think the most important outcome of the conference is the alliance between the EU and a lot of LDCs, AOSIS, or African group countries. I think that this alliance needs to be strengthened, and that then the blockade-alliances will crack.

Greenpeace and other organizations complain that no concrete agreements have been achieved. It's just an agreement to come to an agreement, and about being principally ready to agree to a legally binding agreement - there's still a lot of difficulties ahead when it comes to the content of the agreement.

I guess that in principle Greenpeace is correct, but that with such a lot of veto-countries not much more could be done.

Yesterday I heard an interview with Cornelia Funke on the radio (in German, sorry). She also mentions fanfiction in a positive way. The really funny person is the interviewer, who has never before heard about fanfiction.

Best wishes to everyone who does Nano this year!