several entirely unrelated things make a post

[raven]

If another American academic tells me that Britain doesn't have a constitution, I am going to KILL THINGS. Hi, I woke up cranky.

Anyway.

thingswithwings did a signal-boosting post (thank you!) for dark_agenda's people-who-aren't-white in Yuletide project. Here it is - it's pretty interesting.

So of course I was thinking about my Yuletide nominations, from the other day. There aren't non-white people in many of them, actually; there are in Deep Space Nine, of course (Julian Bashir, Sisko and Jake, Kassidy Yates, Worf), and while the characters in "Recessional" could feasibly of any ethnicity or origin, Vienna Teng herself is not white, so.

Then I started thinking about the Chronicles of Chrestomanci. Millie. Is Millie (and, thus, Roger and Julia, I s'pose) a brown person? I can't remember an explicit reference in the books, but her origin story isn't suggestive of her being white. I'd love a story that actually explored this in some way - I mean, I think every single one of the other characters is white except Nirupam Singh, who never interacts with her anyway, so there would be lots to explore - but somehow I do end up writing these things myself.

In other news, Shim sent me a box of Jammie Dodgers. I love him.

(I mean, I did love him before. But.)

In other other news, the sudden grey weather and my inability to do any work today and yesterday may be related. FIE UPON YOU TOO, UNIVERSE.

Comments

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Telling the Americans that three hundred years ago most Westminster politicians who gave the matter some thought and understood the concept of constitution would probably have believed that Britain (if as an extension of the liberties of England to post-Union Scotland) did have a written constitution, and it was called Magna Carta, would probably not help your cause.

I remain in awe of all you successfully get through.

ETA: IKWYM, though - my line is usually that the unwritten constitution is a myth and the British constitution is a combination of statute and unwritten conventions ranging from the firm pronouncement to the hypothesis arrived at through historical and legal and parliamentary triangulation.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Hey, I agree with you! Entirely. A constitution isn't "a document"; it's "a set of secondary principles setting out the functioning of a polity". But yeah, preaching to the converted there. :)

(And, thank you. :P)