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Greetings and welcome to 02021. It has already been terrible, and it continues to be terrible. Mira Furlan, known to an entire generation of Babylon 5 fans as Delenn, died from complications of the West Nile virus at sixty-five years of age. Having been chased from what is now Croatia by nationalists determined to make her a traitor, she was able to make it to the United States with herself and her history of feminist work intact.
Henry Louis Aaron, the man who busted Babe Ruth's home run record, among many other records that he shattered, has passed away at 86.
( And we start with the insurrection )
Last for tonight, a platformer game about the year that was, in all the...fun that happened in 2020. And a conscious decision made by an immigrant to adopt as much as possible about the place he moved to, including the accented English, so much so that he's made a YouTube channel specifically for similar immigrants on how to improve their English by adopting the Southern accent.
Additionally, read the replies and quote tweets to this tweet, made in reaction to yet another bad take about the supposed vices of fanfiction. (The Mary Sue explains what the bad take was and has some more examples of authors dunking on it.) You'll probably spot some very famous voices among all the others. It's really rather nice that published authors are able to admit that theey make fic, or that fic helped them become better authors and sharpen their abilities. Or that fic is good for them because it allows them to just write fun stuff.
And a very short poem about how people can go forward after something, but that doesn't mean they have forgiven.
Henry Louis Aaron, the man who busted Babe Ruth's home run record, among many other records that he shattered, has passed away at 86.
( And we start with the insurrection )
Last for tonight, a platformer game about the year that was, in all the...fun that happened in 2020. And a conscious decision made by an immigrant to adopt as much as possible about the place he moved to, including the accented English, so much so that he's made a YouTube channel specifically for similar immigrants on how to improve their English by adopting the Southern accent.
Additionally, read the replies and quote tweets to this tweet, made in reaction to yet another bad take about the supposed vices of fanfiction. (The Mary Sue explains what the bad take was and has some more examples of authors dunking on it.) You'll probably spot some very famous voices among all the others. It's really rather nice that published authors are able to admit that theey make fic, or that fic helped them become better authors and sharpen their abilities. Or that fic is good for them because it allows them to just write fun stuff.
And a very short poem about how people can go forward after something, but that doesn't mean they have forgiven.
