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silveradeptGreetings, once again, and welcome to a spread of links for your feasting. This is probably the last linkspam for the year, and so I hope to have been informative and to have exposed you to interesting things this year.
The Dead Pool is saddened to report that Dorothy Catherine Fontana has been transported to the place where we cannot follow, and the Star Trek (and other) families are lessened by her passing. Because D.C. Fontana did a lot of stuff with regard to the success of Star Trek.
In that same space, we must also bid farewell to René Auberjonois, known for roles on M*A*S*H and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, among many other roles that he appeared on. (Including Warehouse 13, for a little bit.)
Let's start with some advice on the writing of a doctoral thesis, which, while updated last in 2006, still appears to have good advice on how to structure the paper. Those who have written a doctoral thesis can say aye or nay to it, but it would probably have been helpful to me in writing my undergraduate thesis as well.
Comic conventions featuring indigenous creators and their works! I'm glad this event exists and continues to be popular enough to continue to exist. Related, a journalist examines how they became a fan of BTS, even though they weren't initially trying to, and how having a bias for K-pop often means being both connected (with fans) and disconnected (from people who scoff at the idea of K-pop, much less its popularity) at the same time.
If Disney wants to make X-Men relevant and appealing, it has to lean into the reality that X-Men has always been in conversation with the world around it, rather than being simply a story of schools and superheroes.
Podfics are awesome and need to be more widely known, and also more widely appreciated, as the craft of narration, or cast acting, and then editing and putting them together is hard and tedious and takes time. (And then also takes time to be listened to.)
Celebratory dress for solstices and other winter celebrations.
sholio suggests that many readers want to read a lot about the premise of a book, such that if the story promises to be about something, there should be a significant amount of it! If the book is about the carnival, then the carnival should be there, rich and vivid, even if the character is figuring it out as they go along. It's in conversation with rachelmanija, who takes a look through various book reviews and thinks about whether they engage with their premises or not, and also continues the same conversation about engagement with a premise.
If you are trying to find a line where to divide the genres of fantasy and science fiction, your line will inevitably look more like the International Date Line than the line of zero degrees latitude or zero degrees longitude. Because there are a lot of things that are in science fiction's history that are perhaps a fig leaf's distance from fantasy, and plenty of fantasies that involve a significant amount of science in their work. This is something I keep running into when dealing with the Giving of Grief. This essay posits what might be the most useful and complete solution to the question: "Fuck it, it doesn't matter." Except, of a sort, when it does, which is usually in reaction to people who want to push Pern away from the science fiction category because it has dragons and vassalage feudalism. I find myself becoming more and more annoyed by its science claims because I keep running into situations where it seems like the scientific method itself has been abandoned and the society itself runs on superstition and dogmas, and yet the creators explicitly disavow that things like religious beliefs survived or exist at any point at all, leaving me without a framework that I could easily hang many of the things I notice on, because they're not supposed to be there. And, as described, Pern's earlier works read more like they run on the conventions of a fantasy than the conventions of science fiction, but that supposes dragons and swords and the magic supporting them to be "fantasy" and rockets and rayguns and scientific-sounding explanations for things (and possibly psychic powers) to be science fiction and the two not to be put together, even though they're gleefully smashed together without worry in the later installments that more explicitly foreground the technology and fragments of lost knowledge along with the dragons and the belt knives and the Lords and Guilds and, yeah, Pern only gets more difficult to classify on one side of any proposed boundary as it goes on.
Having failed to learn their lesson from the previous fracas about the Hugo Award, The World Science Fiction Society posted a clarification as to whom actually won the 2019 Hugo. But, of course, if you say something like "no natural person" can claim any part of the win for AO3 at the 2019 Hugos, you will find fandom is perfectly happy calling themselves unnatural. You cannot give an award to an Archive divorced from the works that are in it and the people who contribute to it, as the works and the people demonstrate the power of the Archive to make it worthy of the award. A summary post with relevant links and useful discussion in the comments, courtesyelf.
The last great recession crushed every generation after the Boomers, and for those who were already facing structural barriers to gaining wealth, it hit them even harder. This, combined with the reality that the poorest have barely more than they did fifty years ago, while the richest have had their wealth septuple, suggests that the best way to fix the problem is to soak the rich, then eat the rich, and then redistribute their income and assets as progressively as possible. To do so by law would require actual lawmakers willing to cut into even their own incomes to lift everyone else out. That's also difficult when a successful campaign can often cost many millions of dollars more than the person who needs to be in government will ever make. At this point, it seems like the best way to pick legislators would be to do so by lottery. Census lottery, not jury service lottery, to make sure that you can get people who would otherwise be invisible. There is, of course, the risk that the average person would not be a sensible legislator, but it also seems like there's a lot of things that could get done by average people behaving sensibly and without monied interests or other wealth interfering. (I'd say to weight the representation in the legislature based on the racial makeup of the people in the United States, based on the last Census count, as a way of counteracting the racism written into the Constitution, but I know that would result in hue and cry about "quotas" and other such things. I still think it's a good idea.)
It is extraordinarily helpful for people who don't adapt well to surprises to have the opportunity to plan out and understand what is happening in advance. The article is the story about an adoption of a cat and being caught unguarded by arbitrary, unexpressed, unposted rules and how the shelter in question responded to that. But also it's about a useful concept, called "previewing," that can be good for people who need to prepare what is going to happen before they experience something. I have learned a thing.
Dating across political allegiances is generally not a brave thing, but a thing that doesn't happen, because for a lot of people, knowing whether someone thinks of you as human is very important to whether or not you want to spend time together, clothed or naked. And when you do see supposed couples across the divide, it's usually centrists dating centrists who have some differences, but aren't fighting for their existences. It would be like dating someone who is all about Lizzo, but then turns around and fat-shames everyone else in their lives. Because the thing that's even more exhausting than being the person who's hated is the person who is supposedly the exception to all the other people being hated.
TERF gets turfed for being a TERF, in the form of not having a contract renewed based on public statements in favor of old, scientifically-disproven, viewpoints about gender and gender expression. Jo Rowling, a prominent childrens' author, tweeted in support of the TERF's view, which is consistent with their public statements, but also has sparked a renewed insistence that the creation can be divorced from the author and made into what it could have been, if not for the author. Fandom is best when intersectional, bullshit otherwise, and this means thinking and discussing the ethics of how to consume (or not consume) media created by problematic authors is prominently useful again. With an extra dimension or two when you realize that fanworks can be a way of divorcing content from author, making a place that was important for someone into the place they want to be. And a lot of that comes from the volume of possibility that comes when you turn everyone loose in the sandbox with a pail and a bucket. (It is entirely possible for the original author/creator to fall into the 90% of Sturgeon's Law. We're thankful to them for building the box, but that's sometimes exactly as far as it goes.)
Men brag more in their scientific paper, and get rewarded for their braggadocio with more citations, which can redound to higher positions and better salary. Which, y'know, the old statement about the confidence of a mediocre white man still applies here, but also there's probably some magnified effects that someone could study first about how women are socialized not to take credit for themselves or describe themselves in bragging terms, and secondly, how the halls of Science are often hostile to the presence of women, and it may be a survival trait for women in science and engineering to downplay their work so that their colleagues don't decide to make heir working environment extremely unpleasant because they dared to be a woman who was good at something. There's still a lot of free-floating toxic masculinity being directed at boys, trying to set them up into a Man Box, even if their caregivers are trying to avoid this outcome.
The way The Joy of Cooking talks about cooking and its recipes is the appeal, rather than the content itself, but also, it's gone through a number of revisions as it passes through the family that started it and continues its legacy.
The Mellon Foundation pulled a grant it would have given to the University of North Carolina after the University paid white supremacists to take a Confederate monument away, restore it, and preserve it somewhere other than where the University has campuses. As opposed to going "No, that's a racist monument, and if you want to preserve it yourselves, go right ahead. We're sorry that it took students pulling it down before we were willing to do anything, but that's our bad."
People who study military history and battles take a look at the Siege of Gondor, primarily focusing on the Peter Jackson movie version, but talking about the book when it diverges significantly from the presentation in the movie. There's a lot that gets done right, even when the movie has to do things that compress the narrative or run them in parallel.
A library in a small community in Australia is letting people have access to it and its collections at all hours of the day. It's not necessarily staffed all the time, but those who have been trained on how to do it can check out and return things on their own, even if the staffed hours are closed for the evening. I think it's a great idea, and I could already hear all the objections coming from the communities around all of my work locations as to why they would never allow such a thing themselves.
Statuary hopes for a woman who had pioneering work in fossil research and discovery, the reality that women read and recommend a lot of fiction, and so the novel and fiction has become lesser because of the association, even though if you look at it with cold statistics, women do a lot more for propping up the publishing industry as a whole than men do with their choices, and Louise Farrenc, oft-overlooked composer who did a lot to defeating the glass ceiling in her profession. A lot of which involves having someone who said her work was good and relentlessly promoted it, and her, rather than believing and insisting that women should stay in the kitchen and make babies, rather than symphonies. (Here's Symphony Number 3 in G, for reference.)
The concept of self-consent as something that fundamentally underlies everything that we do with regard to ourselves and others. Because the society around has some interesting ideas about what people should or shouldn't do with regard to others and their requests, and tends to restrict the agency of one perceived gender a lot more than others.
Celebrating scientific research and tools with decorated cakes. UV-flourescent art on bodies. A pair of themed costumes for smalls, one of which is an astronaut in their EVA suit, circa 1969, and the other is the lunar lander module that said astronaut would use for a successful trip to the moon.
Playing the sounds of healthy reefs can convince fish to come back to dead or damaged reefs, a very long tiger journey across India, finding wildlife when moving other parts of nature inside the house, using DNA storage inside a 3D-printed object so that even a small part of the original can be used to recreate the whole, although as the generations went on, the quality of the data degraded, the presence of a lot of fat innkeeper worms on a beach due to strong storms affecting their usual habitat (worth noting that innkeeper worms look a lot like human phalluses), the continual breeding of Brussels sprouts toward less bitter varieties, which is also complemented by the sprouts having more ways of being cooked than through methods like boiling and steaming, an alligator crossing a street in Montreal (which also has a lovely example of gender-inclusive French in the noted tweet, go look, go look!), and the dragon of Calais, who is massive and animatronic and takes 17 people to operate.
In technology, a walking stick with a light so that it can be visible in dark places, and can possibly provide some illumination of the space it's being used.
Continued research and testing on the possibility of injecting a reversible birth control method into testicles to prevent sperm from exiting during ejaculation. Presumably, the material still being manufactured will have other methods of being removed or reprocessed, given that people who do not regularly have ejaculations still are able to maintain good health.
Disposable sterile hijab have been introduced in a hospital, allowing practitioners who are medical professionals to be observant and able to do their jobs. Which is excellent, and I hope those become available for patients as well, if they have to wear hospital clothes, so they can also be observant and their environment can continue to be hospital-grade.
Untitled Goose Game took a public-domain track and turned Debussy into Degoosey, using small fragments of a single piece to indicate what state the goose was in and how the people were reacting to her.
The ways in which smartphone usage, or its lack, can be illuminating to therapists about their patients.
The Russian Federation has been banned from competing as a nation in the Olympics and several other international sport competitions, after the World Anti-Doping Agency discovered evidence that the Russian Sport Federation was deleting and fabricating data to help athletes evade doping detection and sanction. For the 2020 Olympics, any athlete that can prove their non-doped status will be an Independent Olympic Athlete and compete under the Olympic flag, rather than the national flag of the Russian Federation.
Ransomware attackers are now planning on releasing sensitive and stolen data from servers they infect as an incentive to get victims to pay them the money to unlock the servers, which could result in more significant fines from entities that are charged with making sure data breaches are handled properly, especially if personally identifying information or other sensitive records were stolen and then exposed.
On the question of changing perspective from trying to do things planet-wide for The Future to changing what is around you for a fixed period in time. Which is often how the planet-wide Future changes end up happening anyway. Like the idea of seeing if someone else would be interested in clothing that doesn't fit, whether it's a secondhand chop, a charity shop, or a friend who it does fit, because sending it back usually means its destruction, as that's what's most cost-efficient for the company that made it.
The live-action Cats movie is getting an update in the middle of the theatrical run, so replace and re-do certain special effects that weren't apparently fully up to standard. Not that it's going to help, as it appears the movie fails on so many levels that it's going to be a low point for a while, although one wonders whether it will get to the depths of Manos: The Hand of Fate.
Last for tonight, stained glass with very queer themes (and butts!). And fashion houses starting to design for queer folx and to have them as models.
Also, wish granted to a resident of a care home to get a fireman-themed stripper to perform for her. Yay for the care home deciding to go through with the plan!
And finally, several stories from 2019 that suggest things are perhaps less of a trash fire worldwide than they are in very specific localities.
The Dead Pool is saddened to report that Dorothy Catherine Fontana has been transported to the place where we cannot follow, and the Star Trek (and other) families are lessened by her passing. Because D.C. Fontana did a lot of stuff with regard to the success of Star Trek.
In that same space, we must also bid farewell to René Auberjonois, known for roles on M*A*S*H and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, among many other roles that he appeared on. (Including Warehouse 13, for a little bit.)
Let's start with some advice on the writing of a doctoral thesis, which, while updated last in 2006, still appears to have good advice on how to structure the paper. Those who have written a doctoral thesis can say aye or nay to it, but it would probably have been helpful to me in writing my undergraduate thesis as well.
Comic conventions featuring indigenous creators and their works! I'm glad this event exists and continues to be popular enough to continue to exist. Related, a journalist examines how they became a fan of BTS, even though they weren't initially trying to, and how having a bias for K-pop often means being both connected (with fans) and disconnected (from people who scoff at the idea of K-pop, much less its popularity) at the same time.
If Disney wants to make X-Men relevant and appealing, it has to lean into the reality that X-Men has always been in conversation with the world around it, rather than being simply a story of schools and superheroes.
Podfics are awesome and need to be more widely known, and also more widely appreciated, as the craft of narration, or cast acting, and then editing and putting them together is hard and tedious and takes time. (And then also takes time to be listened to.)
Celebratory dress for solstices and other winter celebrations.
sholio suggests that many readers want to read a lot about the premise of a book, such that if the story promises to be about something, there should be a significant amount of it! If the book is about the carnival, then the carnival should be there, rich and vivid, even if the character is figuring it out as they go along. It's in conversation with rachelmanija, who takes a look through various book reviews and thinks about whether they engage with their premises or not, and also continues the same conversation about engagement with a premise.If you are trying to find a line where to divide the genres of fantasy and science fiction, your line will inevitably look more like the International Date Line than the line of zero degrees latitude or zero degrees longitude. Because there are a lot of things that are in science fiction's history that are perhaps a fig leaf's distance from fantasy, and plenty of fantasies that involve a significant amount of science in their work. This is something I keep running into when dealing with the Giving of Grief. This essay posits what might be the most useful and complete solution to the question: "Fuck it, it doesn't matter." Except, of a sort, when it does, which is usually in reaction to people who want to push Pern away from the science fiction category because it has dragons and vassalage feudalism. I find myself becoming more and more annoyed by its science claims because I keep running into situations where it seems like the scientific method itself has been abandoned and the society itself runs on superstition and dogmas, and yet the creators explicitly disavow that things like religious beliefs survived or exist at any point at all, leaving me without a framework that I could easily hang many of the things I notice on, because they're not supposed to be there. And, as described, Pern's earlier works read more like they run on the conventions of a fantasy than the conventions of science fiction, but that supposes dragons and swords and the magic supporting them to be "fantasy" and rockets and rayguns and scientific-sounding explanations for things (and possibly psychic powers) to be science fiction and the two not to be put together, even though they're gleefully smashed together without worry in the later installments that more explicitly foreground the technology and fragments of lost knowledge along with the dragons and the belt knives and the Lords and Guilds and, yeah, Pern only gets more difficult to classify on one side of any proposed boundary as it goes on.
Having failed to learn their lesson from the previous fracas about the Hugo Award, The World Science Fiction Society posted a clarification as to whom actually won the 2019 Hugo. But, of course, if you say something like "no natural person" can claim any part of the win for AO3 at the 2019 Hugos, you will find fandom is perfectly happy calling themselves unnatural. You cannot give an award to an Archive divorced from the works that are in it and the people who contribute to it, as the works and the people demonstrate the power of the Archive to make it worthy of the award. A summary post with relevant links and useful discussion in the comments, courtesy
elf.The last great recession crushed every generation after the Boomers, and for those who were already facing structural barriers to gaining wealth, it hit them even harder. This, combined with the reality that the poorest have barely more than they did fifty years ago, while the richest have had their wealth septuple, suggests that the best way to fix the problem is to soak the rich, then eat the rich, and then redistribute their income and assets as progressively as possible. To do so by law would require actual lawmakers willing to cut into even their own incomes to lift everyone else out. That's also difficult when a successful campaign can often cost many millions of dollars more than the person who needs to be in government will ever make. At this point, it seems like the best way to pick legislators would be to do so by lottery. Census lottery, not jury service lottery, to make sure that you can get people who would otherwise be invisible. There is, of course, the risk that the average person would not be a sensible legislator, but it also seems like there's a lot of things that could get done by average people behaving sensibly and without monied interests or other wealth interfering. (I'd say to weight the representation in the legislature based on the racial makeup of the people in the United States, based on the last Census count, as a way of counteracting the racism written into the Constitution, but I know that would result in hue and cry about "quotas" and other such things. I still think it's a good idea.)
It is extraordinarily helpful for people who don't adapt well to surprises to have the opportunity to plan out and understand what is happening in advance. The article is the story about an adoption of a cat and being caught unguarded by arbitrary, unexpressed, unposted rules and how the shelter in question responded to that. But also it's about a useful concept, called "previewing," that can be good for people who need to prepare what is going to happen before they experience something. I have learned a thing.
Dating across political allegiances is generally not a brave thing, but a thing that doesn't happen, because for a lot of people, knowing whether someone thinks of you as human is very important to whether or not you want to spend time together, clothed or naked. And when you do see supposed couples across the divide, it's usually centrists dating centrists who have some differences, but aren't fighting for their existences. It would be like dating someone who is all about Lizzo, but then turns around and fat-shames everyone else in their lives. Because the thing that's even more exhausting than being the person who's hated is the person who is supposedly the exception to all the other people being hated.
TERF gets turfed for being a TERF, in the form of not having a contract renewed based on public statements in favor of old, scientifically-disproven, viewpoints about gender and gender expression. Jo Rowling, a prominent childrens' author, tweeted in support of the TERF's view, which is consistent with their public statements, but also has sparked a renewed insistence that the creation can be divorced from the author and made into what it could have been, if not for the author. Fandom is best when intersectional, bullshit otherwise, and this means thinking and discussing the ethics of how to consume (or not consume) media created by problematic authors is prominently useful again. With an extra dimension or two when you realize that fanworks can be a way of divorcing content from author, making a place that was important for someone into the place they want to be. And a lot of that comes from the volume of possibility that comes when you turn everyone loose in the sandbox with a pail and a bucket. (It is entirely possible for the original author/creator to fall into the 90% of Sturgeon's Law. We're thankful to them for building the box, but that's sometimes exactly as far as it goes.)
Men brag more in their scientific paper, and get rewarded for their braggadocio with more citations, which can redound to higher positions and better salary. Which, y'know, the old statement about the confidence of a mediocre white man still applies here, but also there's probably some magnified effects that someone could study first about how women are socialized not to take credit for themselves or describe themselves in bragging terms, and secondly, how the halls of Science are often hostile to the presence of women, and it may be a survival trait for women in science and engineering to downplay their work so that their colleagues don't decide to make heir working environment extremely unpleasant because they dared to be a woman who was good at something. There's still a lot of free-floating toxic masculinity being directed at boys, trying to set them up into a Man Box, even if their caregivers are trying to avoid this outcome.
The way The Joy of Cooking talks about cooking and its recipes is the appeal, rather than the content itself, but also, it's gone through a number of revisions as it passes through the family that started it and continues its legacy.
The Mellon Foundation pulled a grant it would have given to the University of North Carolina after the University paid white supremacists to take a Confederate monument away, restore it, and preserve it somewhere other than where the University has campuses. As opposed to going "No, that's a racist monument, and if you want to preserve it yourselves, go right ahead. We're sorry that it took students pulling it down before we were willing to do anything, but that's our bad."
People who study military history and battles take a look at the Siege of Gondor, primarily focusing on the Peter Jackson movie version, but talking about the book when it diverges significantly from the presentation in the movie. There's a lot that gets done right, even when the movie has to do things that compress the narrative or run them in parallel.
A library in a small community in Australia is letting people have access to it and its collections at all hours of the day. It's not necessarily staffed all the time, but those who have been trained on how to do it can check out and return things on their own, even if the staffed hours are closed for the evening. I think it's a great idea, and I could already hear all the objections coming from the communities around all of my work locations as to why they would never allow such a thing themselves.
Statuary hopes for a woman who had pioneering work in fossil research and discovery, the reality that women read and recommend a lot of fiction, and so the novel and fiction has become lesser because of the association, even though if you look at it with cold statistics, women do a lot more for propping up the publishing industry as a whole than men do with their choices, and Louise Farrenc, oft-overlooked composer who did a lot to defeating the glass ceiling in her profession. A lot of which involves having someone who said her work was good and relentlessly promoted it, and her, rather than believing and insisting that women should stay in the kitchen and make babies, rather than symphonies. (Here's Symphony Number 3 in G, for reference.)
The concept of self-consent as something that fundamentally underlies everything that we do with regard to ourselves and others. Because the society around has some interesting ideas about what people should or shouldn't do with regard to others and their requests, and tends to restrict the agency of one perceived gender a lot more than others.
Celebrating scientific research and tools with decorated cakes. UV-flourescent art on bodies. A pair of themed costumes for smalls, one of which is an astronaut in their EVA suit, circa 1969, and the other is the lunar lander module that said astronaut would use for a successful trip to the moon.
Playing the sounds of healthy reefs can convince fish to come back to dead or damaged reefs, a very long tiger journey across India, finding wildlife when moving other parts of nature inside the house, using DNA storage inside a 3D-printed object so that even a small part of the original can be used to recreate the whole, although as the generations went on, the quality of the data degraded, the presence of a lot of fat innkeeper worms on a beach due to strong storms affecting their usual habitat (worth noting that innkeeper worms look a lot like human phalluses), the continual breeding of Brussels sprouts toward less bitter varieties, which is also complemented by the sprouts having more ways of being cooked than through methods like boiling and steaming, an alligator crossing a street in Montreal (which also has a lovely example of gender-inclusive French in the noted tweet, go look, go look!), and the dragon of Calais, who is massive and animatronic and takes 17 people to operate.
In technology, a walking stick with a light so that it can be visible in dark places, and can possibly provide some illumination of the space it's being used.
Continued research and testing on the possibility of injecting a reversible birth control method into testicles to prevent sperm from exiting during ejaculation. Presumably, the material still being manufactured will have other methods of being removed or reprocessed, given that people who do not regularly have ejaculations still are able to maintain good health.
Disposable sterile hijab have been introduced in a hospital, allowing practitioners who are medical professionals to be observant and able to do their jobs. Which is excellent, and I hope those become available for patients as well, if they have to wear hospital clothes, so they can also be observant and their environment can continue to be hospital-grade.
Untitled Goose Game took a public-domain track and turned Debussy into Degoosey, using small fragments of a single piece to indicate what state the goose was in and how the people were reacting to her.
The ways in which smartphone usage, or its lack, can be illuminating to therapists about their patients.
The Russian Federation has been banned from competing as a nation in the Olympics and several other international sport competitions, after the World Anti-Doping Agency discovered evidence that the Russian Sport Federation was deleting and fabricating data to help athletes evade doping detection and sanction. For the 2020 Olympics, any athlete that can prove their non-doped status will be an Independent Olympic Athlete and compete under the Olympic flag, rather than the national flag of the Russian Federation.
Ransomware attackers are now planning on releasing sensitive and stolen data from servers they infect as an incentive to get victims to pay them the money to unlock the servers, which could result in more significant fines from entities that are charged with making sure data breaches are handled properly, especially if personally identifying information or other sensitive records were stolen and then exposed.
On the question of changing perspective from trying to do things planet-wide for The Future to changing what is around you for a fixed period in time. Which is often how the planet-wide Future changes end up happening anyway. Like the idea of seeing if someone else would be interested in clothing that doesn't fit, whether it's a secondhand chop, a charity shop, or a friend who it does fit, because sending it back usually means its destruction, as that's what's most cost-efficient for the company that made it.
The live-action Cats movie is getting an update in the middle of the theatrical run, so replace and re-do certain special effects that weren't apparently fully up to standard. Not that it's going to help, as it appears the movie fails on so many levels that it's going to be a low point for a while, although one wonders whether it will get to the depths of Manos: The Hand of Fate.
Last for tonight, stained glass with very queer themes (and butts!). And fashion houses starting to design for queer folx and to have them as models.
Also, wish granted to a resident of a care home to get a fireman-themed stripper to perform for her. Yay for the care home deciding to go through with the plan!
And finally, several stories from 2019 that suggest things are perhaps less of a trash fire worldwide than they are in very specific localities.
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