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Greetings. It appears the supply of consumer fireworks was shrinking rapidly as imports from China were not necessarily getting in particularly swiftly. Cue chorus of angels from those of us who do not like boomies going off on several days before and after the "official" day where the boomies go off.
Tor Books is looking for an intern, and there's no need to physically be present in the Tor offices for it.
If you are not enjoying a book, stop reading it. There is no virtue prize for finishing a terrible book. (I much like the Nancy Pearl method of deciding whether a book is worth your time - subtract your age from 100, and that is the minimum of pages to read a book before making a decision about whether to continue.)
The presence of women and BIPOC authors in the halls of publishing is still seen as killing, rather than life-giving, it seems, at least according to a person who longs for a Past That Never Was and those days where one could be comforted in the knowledge that nothing published would change the dominant worldview, or even challenge it seriously.
A retrospective on the part of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom called Bronies, from their origins in irony to their adoption of sincereity, the show reacting to their memetic mimicry, and eventually, the last of the Bronycons, a fitting send-off, to the point around and after the end, the people who might still be around are likely the people who would have been there from the start, the furries. [Video, Youtube, contains a lot of editing cuts, which may or may not detract from your experience.] I don't think I've seen a fandom space become quite as warped as the Friendship Is Magic space did when the Bronies were the most visible and popular parts of the fandom. They made it remarkably difficult for someone who looks like a dude to talk about what they enjoyed about the show, and even now, there's a significant amount of "well, I would like to talk about it, but I don't necessarily want to go through the hassle of being mis-identified and excoriated for it," that surrounds the show, because of that particular phenomenon.
Although I'm generally clueless enough that in a panel about anti-racism in fandom, when talking with someone about an organization that I was part of where there really wasn't any prominent Black women leading, I was thinking about work, and it took me some significant time afterward, and recognizing that I had my commissioned pony artwork "Sibling Rivalry" visible in the Bag of Holding, to realize that I had been mistaken for a brony when I was talking about that organization. I got apologized to by the person I was conversing with, which seemed odd at the ime but now makes a certain amount of sense. "Whoops, I thought you were a brony and talking about that fandom (which absolutely fit what I was describing), but you were talking about something else. Perhaps you are not a brony, and I am sorry for lumping you in with them." was the thought behind the apology, but that says a lot about the collective opinion of bronies that an apology felt necessary.
I kind of wonder how badly out of joint the FNDM is pulling RWBY, but I also don't want to go looking for it, either. I know there are a lot of strong opinions and that various platforms are built not to care about what kind of engagement happens, so long as engagement happens, and I got enough of a taste of that kind of place with the ship wars in Harry Potter, so I mostly curate my space of interaction by hiding my fandom and what I'm watching and writing and interacting with in my own space and shunting all of it to other people's spaces. Not because I don't think you're all happy to interact and to talk about things, but because I've mostly decided that as someone who has relatively few Strong Opinions on Right and Wrong in shipping and a lot more of them about tropes, settings, and storytelling decisions, that (1) I'm going to have to do work to find spaces that have the vibe that I want, and (2) it's mostly easier just not to say what I am or aren't watching (and wow, that's weird phrasing there). Unless whatever it is gives me the idea for a fully-formed "AIGH!". Which reminds me that I should go be cranky, because some of the conclusions being drawn about the manner that people use tags on works makes me want to yell in Librarian.
( As you all well know, there's always a lot more underneath the cut )
Last for tonight, the science is in, and bisexual men exist, because SCIENCE. Or, y'know, because they said so, but some people wouldn't be convinced of it unless the appropriate deity of choice came down and personally told them to change their minds.
The experiences of coming to the understanding of being non-binary, from some of the younger generation.Additionally, good kaiju parenting when a small kaiju comes out.
And designing trousers that will look fashionable in an office context and that have pockets of sufficient size to hold the things one would put in such trousers. They're not cargo pants, because the size and function of the pockets are different on cargo pants, but the placement of the pockets is where the side pockets on a pair of cargo pants would be, internally rather than externally.
Tor Books is looking for an intern, and there's no need to physically be present in the Tor offices for it.
If you are not enjoying a book, stop reading it. There is no virtue prize for finishing a terrible book. (I much like the Nancy Pearl method of deciding whether a book is worth your time - subtract your age from 100, and that is the minimum of pages to read a book before making a decision about whether to continue.)
The presence of women and BIPOC authors in the halls of publishing is still seen as killing, rather than life-giving, it seems, at least according to a person who longs for a Past That Never Was and those days where one could be comforted in the knowledge that nothing published would change the dominant worldview, or even challenge it seriously.
A retrospective on the part of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom called Bronies, from their origins in irony to their adoption of sincereity, the show reacting to their memetic mimicry, and eventually, the last of the Bronycons, a fitting send-off, to the point around and after the end, the people who might still be around are likely the people who would have been there from the start, the furries. [Video, Youtube, contains a lot of editing cuts, which may or may not detract from your experience.] I don't think I've seen a fandom space become quite as warped as the Friendship Is Magic space did when the Bronies were the most visible and popular parts of the fandom. They made it remarkably difficult for someone who looks like a dude to talk about what they enjoyed about the show, and even now, there's a significant amount of "well, I would like to talk about it, but I don't necessarily want to go through the hassle of being mis-identified and excoriated for it," that surrounds the show, because of that particular phenomenon.
Although I'm generally clueless enough that in a panel about anti-racism in fandom, when talking with someone about an organization that I was part of where there really wasn't any prominent Black women leading, I was thinking about work, and it took me some significant time afterward, and recognizing that I had my commissioned pony artwork "Sibling Rivalry" visible in the Bag of Holding, to realize that I had been mistaken for a brony when I was talking about that organization. I got apologized to by the person I was conversing with, which seemed odd at the ime but now makes a certain amount of sense. "Whoops, I thought you were a brony and talking about that fandom (which absolutely fit what I was describing), but you were talking about something else. Perhaps you are not a brony, and I am sorry for lumping you in with them." was the thought behind the apology, but that says a lot about the collective opinion of bronies that an apology felt necessary.
I kind of wonder how badly out of joint the FNDM is pulling RWBY, but I also don't want to go looking for it, either. I know there are a lot of strong opinions and that various platforms are built not to care about what kind of engagement happens, so long as engagement happens, and I got enough of a taste of that kind of place with the ship wars in Harry Potter, so I mostly curate my space of interaction by hiding my fandom and what I'm watching and writing and interacting with in my own space and shunting all of it to other people's spaces. Not because I don't think you're all happy to interact and to talk about things, but because I've mostly decided that as someone who has relatively few Strong Opinions on Right and Wrong in shipping and a lot more of them about tropes, settings, and storytelling decisions, that (1) I'm going to have to do work to find spaces that have the vibe that I want, and (2) it's mostly easier just not to say what I am or aren't watching (and wow, that's weird phrasing there). Unless whatever it is gives me the idea for a fully-formed "AIGH!". Which reminds me that I should go be cranky, because some of the conclusions being drawn about the manner that people use tags on works makes me want to yell in Librarian.
( As you all well know, there's always a lot more underneath the cut )
Last for tonight, the science is in, and bisexual men exist, because SCIENCE. Or, y'know, because they said so, but some people wouldn't be convinced of it unless the appropriate deity of choice came down and personally told them to change their minds.
The experiences of coming to the understanding of being non-binary, from some of the younger generation.Additionally, good kaiju parenting when a small kaiju comes out.
And designing trousers that will look fashionable in an office context and that have pockets of sufficient size to hold the things one would put in such trousers. They're not cargo pants, because the size and function of the pockets are different on cargo pants, but the placement of the pockets is where the side pockets on a pair of cargo pants would be, internally rather than externally.
