AO3 Output for January-July 02022

This output Is late, because some of the things that were going to go in this got delayed significantly from their original reveal dates. ("Everyone who participated and wrote a gift gets a gift" is a correct and proper rule, but it does sometimes cause delays.)

So, here we are again, six months' work of works and their commentaries.

( Let's begin again. )

And there we have it. Another six months of material in place. Have fun reading!

Blorp, have another package of links - late July 02022

Greetings. Having seen more clearly that the rat race is endless wheel-spinning, more than a few people are trying to tone down or remove ambition to be a better corporate cog and start living a life that they will be okay with. With the pandemic, we proved that we could do work in a different way, and there are always going to be people who remember that and think it was a far better deal than having to worry about commute times and all the additional stresses that come with having to go into the office or chasing a higher position and its accompanying extra pay and stressors. Wouldn't it be nice if our corporate overlords had looked at it and decided the health and well-being of the workforce would make them far more profitable than forcing everyone who didn't need to be at the office to be at the office.

In the liminal places are both the greatest possibility for chaos and the greatest possibility for forging or reforging a new story out of that chaos. And that sometimes, as has been said by many an activist, you have to step away from being constantly on the front lines, so that you can continue doing the work and living a life that will make the work doable. That you have to trust that someone else will hold up their end of the fight while you focus on yours. And, sometimes, that you have to retreat from being as visible as you otherwise would be, because you have other responsibilities. (And, sometimes, that you have to accept forward movement as reward, even if it's not the walls of Jericho falling down.)

( Plenty more weird and interesting things inside )

Last for this post, the slipperiness of fandom terminology, in this case on what "meta" actually means. And A Space For Meta, which laments that when LiveJournal became unsafe, a major place for the discussion of meta disappeared and the people who were interested migrated to platforms that are even less suitable for long-form discussion. (As with many things about the lamentable unsagfeness of Livejournal, there's always Dreamwidth, but Dreamwidth is the kind of place that works well as a small site with small groups instead of being a large site where everything collides into everything else.)

(Materials via adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, and anyone else that's I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)