Greetings!
In relation to the U.S. election upcoming, if you haven't already cast your ballot, do so, preferably now, rather than later. And ask your relations, whether friendly or familial, whether they have voted, and what their plans are to vote, because you are more effective at getting your people to the polls than just about anyone else.
If you are looking for some last-minute places to put your money and time, there's a handy decision matrix for anyone who wants to support Democratic candidates which acknowledges the reality that down-ballot races are often just as critical as the Federal ones.
Expect that if you are voting in person and in a place where Republicans want you to wait forever to vote that you will need assistance, for both body and mind. There's a good amount of dancing in the line that's entirely possibly and organizable, but the hopeful eventual goal is to have voting sufficiently available and swift that someone doesn't have to plan their entire day or night standing at the polls waiting to vote. (Go early. Go now, if you can. Especially if you live in places where they deliberately want you to have to travel far distances to find the single ballot drop box allocated for your entire county.) If there is some spare cash, a donation to Pizza to the Polls would help those in line stay fed, hydrated, and able to keep their place while they have to wait.
It is a thing of sufficient importance this year for TIME Magazine's cover to be one done by Shepard Fairey, but also that they have allowed the space that would normally be the Magazine Title to be changed to another word - VOTE.
Get it done now, because at least one side is planning on declaring victory before all of the ballots are counted and then using their lawyers to try and stop all the ballots from being counted. Such that it may take mass direct action and protest by the population to make sure that the actual vote is counted. If that happens, correct or opponents, whether they are wearing a uniform or not, to be armed and willing to use whatever tactics they think will intimidate or harm you.
Romancelandia is remarkably short on the use of lubricant in their stories, if the stories are about cis-het pairings, and that should change. Especially because we're still nowhere near something actually comprehensive and correct when it comes to sex ed and the things that need to be used for it. So if people learn about sex from romance novels (which, depending on the novel, can either be good or terrifying), then it behooves people to write good sex into their romances (for as much as one can if describing, say, a demi-human with different equipment than a human-standard phallus or other such.) I'm going to stash this next to a profile on a doctor that wants us to all know more, study more, and acknowledge the importance of the clitoris in sexuality.
Also and additionally,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sovay offers a suggestion that the experience currently most commonly described by "demisexual" might instead be re-classed "philosexual", so as to be both more accurate and not to give the impression that a person who requires emotional attachment before sexual attachment is not seen as "half" or lesser in any way. I also think there might be some useful counterpoint with eros and that they might end up as a spectrum axis all of their own, measuring the relative amounts of how much a person has to know or form emotional attachments to a person before being willing to sleep with them. (I am told, in the original, that philos doesn't exclude eros, so that out means we need better words to describe this axis. If anyone wants to take an etymological or classical swing at describing the endpoints of the axis, feel free.)
Based on the inscriptions on headstones for pets, more people believe that the afterlife, should it exist, has them. Which makes an entire amount of sense if your conception of heaven is shaped as the place where there will be no more sadness, no more tears, only eternal and everlasting joy, and if your pets caused joy in the temporal existence, then it stands to reason they would be there for the eternal one. Also in pet-related things, a paper on various methods used to try and stop cats from purring, useful for specific kinds of examinations.
Last for this entry, Satirist Tom Lehrer released all of his lyrics and music into the public domain, so that everyone can mix and remix and re-set those lyrics to new beats and decisions. A gift to those making fun of those who need to be made fun of.
In relation to the U.S. election upcoming, if you haven't already cast your ballot, do so, preferably now, rather than later. And ask your relations, whether friendly or familial, whether they have voted, and what their plans are to vote, because you are more effective at getting your people to the polls than just about anyone else.
If you are looking for some last-minute places to put your money and time, there's a handy decision matrix for anyone who wants to support Democratic candidates which acknowledges the reality that down-ballot races are often just as critical as the Federal ones.
Expect that if you are voting in person and in a place where Republicans want you to wait forever to vote that you will need assistance, for both body and mind. There's a good amount of dancing in the line that's entirely possibly and organizable, but the hopeful eventual goal is to have voting sufficiently available and swift that someone doesn't have to plan their entire day or night standing at the polls waiting to vote. (Go early. Go now, if you can. Especially if you live in places where they deliberately want you to have to travel far distances to find the single ballot drop box allocated for your entire county.) If there is some spare cash, a donation to Pizza to the Polls would help those in line stay fed, hydrated, and able to keep their place while they have to wait.
It is a thing of sufficient importance this year for TIME Magazine's cover to be one done by Shepard Fairey, but also that they have allowed the space that would normally be the Magazine Title to be changed to another word - VOTE.
Get it done now, because at least one side is planning on declaring victory before all of the ballots are counted and then using their lawyers to try and stop all the ballots from being counted. Such that it may take mass direct action and protest by the population to make sure that the actual vote is counted. If that happens, correct or opponents, whether they are wearing a uniform or not, to be armed and willing to use whatever tactics they think will intimidate or harm you.
Romancelandia is remarkably short on the use of lubricant in their stories, if the stories are about cis-het pairings, and that should change. Especially because we're still nowhere near something actually comprehensive and correct when it comes to sex ed and the things that need to be used for it. So if people learn about sex from romance novels (which, depending on the novel, can either be good or terrifying), then it behooves people to write good sex into their romances (for as much as one can if describing, say, a demi-human with different equipment than a human-standard phallus or other such.) I'm going to stash this next to a profile on a doctor that wants us to all know more, study more, and acknowledge the importance of the clitoris in sexuality.
Also and additionally,
sovay offers a suggestion that the experience currently most commonly described by "demisexual" might instead be re-classed "philosexual", so as to be both more accurate and not to give the impression that a person who requires emotional attachment before sexual attachment is not seen as "half" or lesser in any way. I also think there might be some useful counterpoint with eros and that they might end up as a spectrum axis all of their own, measuring the relative amounts of how much a person has to know or form emotional attachments to a person before being willing to sleep with them. (I am told, in the original, that philos doesn't exclude eros, so that out means we need better words to describe this axis. If anyone wants to take an etymological or classical swing at describing the endpoints of the axis, feel free.)Based on the inscriptions on headstones for pets, more people believe that the afterlife, should it exist, has them. Which makes an entire amount of sense if your conception of heaven is shaped as the place where there will be no more sadness, no more tears, only eternal and everlasting joy, and if your pets caused joy in the temporal existence, then it stands to reason they would be there for the eternal one. Also in pet-related things, a paper on various methods used to try and stop cats from purring, useful for specific kinds of examinations.
Last for this entry, Satirist Tom Lehrer released all of his lyrics and music into the public domain, so that everyone can mix and remix and re-set those lyrics to new beats and decisions. A gift to those making fun of those who need to be made fun of.
