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silveradeptGreetings. Let us begin with how a single person convinced Major League Baseball they wanted to rename the list of injured players to the "injured list" rather than the previous name, the "disabled list." As Elias Abarbanel-Wolff pointed out, through his own experience, and the experience of many other disabled athletes, disabled people can play sport perfectly fine. And so, with some letters written to MLB, Eli was able to get the change made, and our baseball language has become better for it.
For something that is much less serious, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg at least jokingly agreed they should have a cage match to settle differences between them. The general consensus among the viewing populace seems to be "yes, let them fight it out, but regardless of who wins, make sure neither of them can leave the cage once they've entered." With the hope that it would make the world a better place.
The Supreme Court of the United States chose not to invalidate the power of state courts with regard to elections matters and give state legislatures unlimited power to arrange elections in the manner of their choosing.
The celebration of Juneteenth, the day in which General Order 3 was issued in Galveston, Texas, and brought about full enforcement of the end of slavery through the use of Union troops in places that refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation, is a perfectly good story all by itself, and needs none of the myths and embellishments that have sprung up around it to be a compelling and useful story.
The public library is increasingly becoming an intake point and provider of social services to their populations. And while many libraries will try to spin that as a positive, because they have to or face getting their budgets slashed even more, the library as a social service point is an indication that the social safety net is even more frayed than it was before. Narcan training, social services workers setting up shop in a library (or employed by a library), the library as literally the last place someone can go that doesn't charge for entry, all of these things are reactions to the reality that social infrastructure is being starved and the library is doing what it can to address the needs of the people who are there, including the needs of the people who want to use the library, but are having mental health issues, or are unhoused, or can't spare a full day to go to an office on the bus. Library staff aren't allowed to say that these things are crushing them and they're not supposed to be doing this, because their funders will punish them for not being cheerful happy drones who are always grateful for whatever scraps are thrown their way, and no strings attached to those scraps are ever too onerous. (That might be considered unacceptably political speech, after all.)
So we have to rely on other people to advocate for us. Like setting up a lemonade stand in your neighborhood and talking about all the reasons why the public library needs more support, either to try and handle these additional burdens, or to be able to do what they've been trained for and for other entities to handle the issues of the social safety net. Or advocating for your legislators to encourage readers more by having the books they're interested in available and purchasable, rather than forcing libraries to have to jump through hoops and worry about whether their purchases will be the subject of nonsensical challenges.
If you have stories of working with the Organization for Transformative Works and some of the dysfunctions that have been present in volunteer handling or other aspects of being a volunteer for the organization, please speak up. If you can, of course, and you feel comfortable doing so, even semi-anonymously. Because the issues involved are long-standing, and while they are more intense at this specific moment, part of holding an organization accountable is talking about the things that they do and the responses they give and how they can do better.
There is time to submit questions and become a voting member of the OTW if you want to cast your ballot in the upcoming Board elections. Because of so many seats being available,endotwracism is calling for fans to become OTW members so they can then vote in Board members that align with their goals, in addition to continuing with other actions and being involved in the OTW as Board meeting observers and communicators. Regardless of whether your goals are aligned or against the EndOTWRacism campaign, there are several offers of USD $10 so that someone can afford the voting membership price without drawing upon their own funds.
The reliance on specific persons for the justifications and underlying linkages of the campaign, whichsynecdochic's mentioned in statements about "good goals, potentially bad foundations" for the EndOTWRacism campaign caused some uproar with demands of the receipts, dismissal of the criticism as "lurkers support me in e-mail," or accusations of misrepresentation of the goals or an assumed position that citation implies endorsement, along with stating that there are very few people doing studies of racism in fandom. The dispute seems to hang itself on the understanding that there have been very public campaigns of harassment against Stitch, the person most often cited in the underlying justifications for EndOTWRacism, but fewer people are willing to state publicly about experiences they may have had with Stitch waging harassment campaigns against them for doing fandom wrong. niqaeli indicates the invocation of Stitch by the EndOTWRacism campaign was inevitably going to produce this result, because of Stitch's fandom history, along with a statement that the work of antiracism in fandom is greater and going on longer than just the pricipals in this specific instance. I think the specific point about inevitability, in the sense of either "Stitch did do these things, and therefore the criticism is warranted because of the extensive citation" or "Stitch did not do these things, and the extensive citation would invite trolls and harassment from those who are looking to further besmirch Stitch" is a salient one. Citation does not imply endorsement, as, after all, to make your points about what someone did or didn't say, you have to reference what they have put out, but extensive citation tends to move the point of the post toward endorsement or in-depth critique.
As someone without the relevant background to know the history, I appreciate the summaries and the points that others are providing. I also feel like this situation is in great danger of viewpoint collapse, where one person has to be wholly virtuous and another has to be wholly villainous, and that this collapse will be driven mostly by a desire to make a moral point, instead of being able to allow multiple things to exist together. AO3 can be better than places with periodic content purges and rules meant to satisfy advertisers instead of fans and the OTW can still be terrible about harassment and about protecting their volunteers from harassment. The EndOTWRacism campaign can be laudable in trying to get change to happen in the OTW and receive criticism for not considering the implications of who they wanted to foreground as the intellectual backing of their campaign. We are vast, we contain multitudes.
With the amount of revelation and lack of swift action on the part of the OTW, there's a push toward creating small, personal fic archives once again and maintaining simple websites with them. Eschewing static site generators for these projects is a good idea, as the overhead and the rest is usually overkill for what's being asked. And, y'know, learning and utilizing HTML and CSS is a useful skill for both knowing what's going on and for making simple pages on your own.melannen offers a quick way to create your own fanfic archive, using Neocities, either for having your work in more places or if you are now opposed to using AO3. And the community ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
dwfanfic is collecting an index of people who post and archive their fic on Dreamwidth, for those who are looking for more people to follow.
Some lesser-known signs that a relationship is not as healthy as it might appear, several of which applied to my own situation when I was in a bad relationship. Which I also pair with Issendai's article on "Sick Systems," and the ways that they keep people trapped in bad relationships as well, often by preventing the person stuck in the system from having a moment to think and eventually try and get a pathway out. Much of which also applied to my relationship with my evil ex. Which thenbeatrice_otter extends to add the idea that sick systems are not always created intentionally, and that places that are prone to justifying themselves with vocational awe are very vulnerable to creating sick systems, before a suggestion to also benefit the OTW and any other spot where sick systems exist - let some of it fail. Which is, of course, the hardest thing in the world when you have vocational awe propping things up, but it is actually useful to do. When you are trying to work in a world of reduced capacity, you have to let some things fail. If you have a system that's actively rejecting people who could be helping, then you have to let parts of that system fail and be rebuilt.
marthawells gave a WisCon GoH speech about progress, and the ways that we have to continue fighting for it, because the people who keep wanting to erase history and progress are still there and still at their work. Which seems entirely apt with regard to the march of reactionaries and those who still only want cishet white evangelical Christian men to hold and wield any power in the world. Even though earlier on in the month, the Supreme Court told Alabama it couldn't be that racist in its Congressional district boundary lines and said that those who were claiming the Indian Child Welfare Act improperly used race to keep Native children with Native families in adoption proceedings lacked standing to pursue this as a federal matter, they also made decisions that are against progress and that overturn established precedents or allow for legal discrimination on flimsy grounds. They ruled that a web designer could cite religious objections and not do web design for couples whose marriages she did not personally believe were valid, rather than being required to serve the entire public she was supposedly wanting to be open to the business of. (Even though those couples were members of a protected class in state law.) They also used a constitutional amendment and a federal law specifically meant to prevent discrimination to enforce discrimination by ruling against the use of race in university admissions processes. The majority opinion says they're not specifically overturning precedents sets by cases, except when one of the justices says it absolutely does in their own concurrence, but it's pretty clear that the majority of the Court believes they can get away pointing at one minoritized group and saying "they're being discriminated against" while saying to another group "you'll just have to be better than everyone else and if you don't get in, it was clearly your fault and had nothing to do with the systemic racism you've faced up to this point in your life." Because now, they believe it's fair, or at least fairer. Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson produced a blistering dissent covering all the ways in which the majority's decision is flawed and warps the laws it purports to enforce.
In the current backlash against queerness, acknowledging the existence of despair is looking at reality. And, sometimes, makes it easier to be who you are, because those who have little left to lose don't have to pretend any more. Which means making art and promulgating good stories and celebrating victories in the midst of despair. And it also means being aware of all the ways in which surveillance technology is being used to enforce discriminatory laws and bans, in public and through the use of school surveillance. And the chilling effect from the concerted efforts to criminalize being something other than what the most Christofascist person in the state believes is appropriate.
Rishi Sunak proves that he's transmisic in private as well as in public, according to a leaked video, renewing the perception that at least the Tories are more than happy to have the reputation of "TERF Island."
The strain of radfem that was all about parthenogenesis and reproduction without men had a lot of eugenics and trans-exclusionary material in it, looking to create perfect women without any kind of issues that might have come from the Y chromosome.
The Wagner Group's armed rebellion against the military of the Russian Federation had significant consequences on the air power of the Russian Federation, in addition to the PR and other disasters for the Russian Federation that the entire rebellion has been for them.
Rail workers finally have paid sick days, something they had not been entitled to in previous contracts with railway companies.
The Supreme Court of the United States also, in announcing their decisions, determined that the Executive Branch does not have the authority to cancel student loan debt because they believed Congress had not spoken sufficiently explicitly to allow it. Which makes me wonder, then, how much authority the Executive Branch then has over the program in its entirety, since most borrowers have federal student debt, and presumably the appropriate agency has wide latitude in how they choose to lend, recoup those lent funds, or forgive them in their entirety, rather than shackling a borrower to a specific and limited set of methods of repayment or forgiveness.
Beautiful pictures of insects, some very close-up.
Sumana Harihareswara posts a detailed breakdown of her current COVID precautions, which is helpful for those still looking to protect themselves in an era where the official belief is that there's no need to take specific special precautions any more. On the Dreamwidth post linking to this, the comments also provide additional information that works its way into the main post.
In technology, a craft meant to dive to the wreckage of the Titanic and explore it suffered catastrophic failure and killed all of the passengers. After the loss of communication early on in the voyage, there were some potential good signs of sound from an area, but wreckage was soon sighted after that. The people who were on board signed the appropriate waivers theoretically saying they knew what they were getting into, but this still seems like a situation where someone did not learn the lesson that "regulations are written in blood" in their attempts to do something like this on the cheap.
There were signs that the craft was unlikely to be able to do the job it had been created to do, including steering controls using an off-the-shelf gamepad, a design that prevented anyone on the inside from getting out themselves, and questions about the carbon fibre used in the vessel's construction, since that's the likeliest point of failure for the immense pressures of the deep of the ocean.
Elon Musk continues to think of Twitter as his personal playground, which means we get to see his personal preferences broadcast widely. Like Elon Musk's anti-Semitism. Or his insistence that the accepted terminology of "cisgender" and its shortened form "cis" are slurs rather than descriptive terms, because people who like to think of themselves as "normal" do not like having other, accurate words applied to them. These particular content elements are in addition to Elon's serial nonpayment of expenses and bills, including office space rent and bonuses promised to employees so they would stay with the company.
A school sent out an e-mail indicating that all student accounts had their passwords reset to the same thing…and eventually realized the mistake they'd made and set up a better password reset, but still, that should not have been something that happened in the first place.
A couple of things from the newly createdfancoded community, where people can post about their projects and ask questions about code projects they're interested in getting additional help for. Kudoscript is an embeddable kudos link and counter that can be deployed on a webserver with PHP, Imagemagick (and the Imagick extension for PHP), and SQLite. Installations and deploy instructions on the project's GitHub page.
Additionally, someone is looking for advice on how to embed custom tags and metadata into audio files, without interfering with already-present ID3 tags and/or elements like ReplayGain.
Last for tonight, The god of Arepo, a story in which small acts for small gods produce wonderful things. Which itself was illustrated into a graphic novel form of the God of Arepo. There's rhythm to the language of the prose form, and beauty in the illustrated form, so enjoy both, if you like.
And the significance of the 25th of May, both for Towel Day, the memorial of Douglas Adams' death, and the Glorious 25th of May, which may have changed some in observance since the death of Sir Pterry, and how both of them might eventually return to being silly fandom things that have serious significance behind them. (And, perhaps, hopefully, reasonably-priced love and a hard-boiled egg that you may need the towel for.)
(Materials viaadrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, and anyone else 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.)
For something that is much less serious, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg at least jokingly agreed they should have a cage match to settle differences between them. The general consensus among the viewing populace seems to be "yes, let them fight it out, but regardless of who wins, make sure neither of them can leave the cage once they've entered." With the hope that it would make the world a better place.
The Supreme Court of the United States chose not to invalidate the power of state courts with regard to elections matters and give state legislatures unlimited power to arrange elections in the manner of their choosing.
The celebration of Juneteenth, the day in which General Order 3 was issued in Galveston, Texas, and brought about full enforcement of the end of slavery through the use of Union troops in places that refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation, is a perfectly good story all by itself, and needs none of the myths and embellishments that have sprung up around it to be a compelling and useful story.
The public library is increasingly becoming an intake point and provider of social services to their populations. And while many libraries will try to spin that as a positive, because they have to or face getting their budgets slashed even more, the library as a social service point is an indication that the social safety net is even more frayed than it was before. Narcan training, social services workers setting up shop in a library (or employed by a library), the library as literally the last place someone can go that doesn't charge for entry, all of these things are reactions to the reality that social infrastructure is being starved and the library is doing what it can to address the needs of the people who are there, including the needs of the people who want to use the library, but are having mental health issues, or are unhoused, or can't spare a full day to go to an office on the bus. Library staff aren't allowed to say that these things are crushing them and they're not supposed to be doing this, because their funders will punish them for not being cheerful happy drones who are always grateful for whatever scraps are thrown their way, and no strings attached to those scraps are ever too onerous. (That might be considered unacceptably political speech, after all.)
So we have to rely on other people to advocate for us. Like setting up a lemonade stand in your neighborhood and talking about all the reasons why the public library needs more support, either to try and handle these additional burdens, or to be able to do what they've been trained for and for other entities to handle the issues of the social safety net. Or advocating for your legislators to encourage readers more by having the books they're interested in available and purchasable, rather than forcing libraries to have to jump through hoops and worry about whether their purchases will be the subject of nonsensical challenges.
If you have stories of working with the Organization for Transformative Works and some of the dysfunctions that have been present in volunteer handling or other aspects of being a volunteer for the organization, please speak up. If you can, of course, and you feel comfortable doing so, even semi-anonymously. Because the issues involved are long-standing, and while they are more intense at this specific moment, part of holding an organization accountable is talking about the things that they do and the responses they give and how they can do better.
There is time to submit questions and become a voting member of the OTW if you want to cast your ballot in the upcoming Board elections. Because of so many seats being available,
endotwracism is calling for fans to become OTW members so they can then vote in Board members that align with their goals, in addition to continuing with other actions and being involved in the OTW as Board meeting observers and communicators. Regardless of whether your goals are aligned or against the EndOTWRacism campaign, there are several offers of USD $10 so that someone can afford the voting membership price without drawing upon their own funds.The reliance on specific persons for the justifications and underlying linkages of the campaign, which
synecdochic's mentioned in statements about "good goals, potentially bad foundations" for the EndOTWRacism campaign caused some uproar with demands of the receipts, dismissal of the criticism as "lurkers support me in e-mail," or accusations of misrepresentation of the goals or an assumed position that citation implies endorsement, along with stating that there are very few people doing studies of racism in fandom. The dispute seems to hang itself on the understanding that there have been very public campaigns of harassment against Stitch, the person most often cited in the underlying justifications for EndOTWRacism, but fewer people are willing to state publicly about experiences they may have had with Stitch waging harassment campaigns against them for doing fandom wrong. niqaeli indicates the invocation of Stitch by the EndOTWRacism campaign was inevitably going to produce this result, because of Stitch's fandom history, along with a statement that the work of antiracism in fandom is greater and going on longer than just the pricipals in this specific instance. I think the specific point about inevitability, in the sense of either "Stitch did do these things, and therefore the criticism is warranted because of the extensive citation" or "Stitch did not do these things, and the extensive citation would invite trolls and harassment from those who are looking to further besmirch Stitch" is a salient one. Citation does not imply endorsement, as, after all, to make your points about what someone did or didn't say, you have to reference what they have put out, but extensive citation tends to move the point of the post toward endorsement or in-depth critique. As someone without the relevant background to know the history, I appreciate the summaries and the points that others are providing. I also feel like this situation is in great danger of viewpoint collapse, where one person has to be wholly virtuous and another has to be wholly villainous, and that this collapse will be driven mostly by a desire to make a moral point, instead of being able to allow multiple things to exist together. AO3 can be better than places with periodic content purges and rules meant to satisfy advertisers instead of fans and the OTW can still be terrible about harassment and about protecting their volunteers from harassment. The EndOTWRacism campaign can be laudable in trying to get change to happen in the OTW and receive criticism for not considering the implications of who they wanted to foreground as the intellectual backing of their campaign. We are vast, we contain multitudes.
With the amount of revelation and lack of swift action on the part of the OTW, there's a push toward creating small, personal fic archives once again and maintaining simple websites with them. Eschewing static site generators for these projects is a good idea, as the overhead and the rest is usually overkill for what's being asked. And, y'know, learning and utilizing HTML and CSS is a useful skill for both knowing what's going on and for making simple pages on your own.
melannen offers a quick way to create your own fanfic archive, using Neocities, either for having your work in more places or if you are now opposed to using AO3. And the community dwfanfic is collecting an index of people who post and archive their fic on Dreamwidth, for those who are looking for more people to follow.Some lesser-known signs that a relationship is not as healthy as it might appear, several of which applied to my own situation when I was in a bad relationship. Which I also pair with Issendai's article on "Sick Systems," and the ways that they keep people trapped in bad relationships as well, often by preventing the person stuck in the system from having a moment to think and eventually try and get a pathway out. Much of which also applied to my relationship with my evil ex. Which then
beatrice_otter extends to add the idea that sick systems are not always created intentionally, and that places that are prone to justifying themselves with vocational awe are very vulnerable to creating sick systems, before a suggestion to also benefit the OTW and any other spot where sick systems exist - let some of it fail. Which is, of course, the hardest thing in the world when you have vocational awe propping things up, but it is actually useful to do. When you are trying to work in a world of reduced capacity, you have to let some things fail. If you have a system that's actively rejecting people who could be helping, then you have to let parts of that system fail and be rebuilt.marthawells gave a WisCon GoH speech about progress, and the ways that we have to continue fighting for it, because the people who keep wanting to erase history and progress are still there and still at their work. Which seems entirely apt with regard to the march of reactionaries and those who still only want cishet white evangelical Christian men to hold and wield any power in the world. Even though earlier on in the month, the Supreme Court told Alabama it couldn't be that racist in its Congressional district boundary lines and said that those who were claiming the Indian Child Welfare Act improperly used race to keep Native children with Native families in adoption proceedings lacked standing to pursue this as a federal matter, they also made decisions that are against progress and that overturn established precedents or allow for legal discrimination on flimsy grounds. They ruled that a web designer could cite religious objections and not do web design for couples whose marriages she did not personally believe were valid, rather than being required to serve the entire public she was supposedly wanting to be open to the business of. (Even though those couples were members of a protected class in state law.) They also used a constitutional amendment and a federal law specifically meant to prevent discrimination to enforce discrimination by ruling against the use of race in university admissions processes. The majority opinion says they're not specifically overturning precedents sets by cases, except when one of the justices says it absolutely does in their own concurrence, but it's pretty clear that the majority of the Court believes they can get away pointing at one minoritized group and saying "they're being discriminated against" while saying to another group "you'll just have to be better than everyone else and if you don't get in, it was clearly your fault and had nothing to do with the systemic racism you've faced up to this point in your life." Because now, they believe it's fair, or at least fairer. Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson produced a blistering dissent covering all the ways in which the majority's decision is flawed and warps the laws it purports to enforce.In the current backlash against queerness, acknowledging the existence of despair is looking at reality. And, sometimes, makes it easier to be who you are, because those who have little left to lose don't have to pretend any more. Which means making art and promulgating good stories and celebrating victories in the midst of despair. And it also means being aware of all the ways in which surveillance technology is being used to enforce discriminatory laws and bans, in public and through the use of school surveillance. And the chilling effect from the concerted efforts to criminalize being something other than what the most Christofascist person in the state believes is appropriate.
Rishi Sunak proves that he's transmisic in private as well as in public, according to a leaked video, renewing the perception that at least the Tories are more than happy to have the reputation of "TERF Island."
The strain of radfem that was all about parthenogenesis and reproduction without men had a lot of eugenics and trans-exclusionary material in it, looking to create perfect women without any kind of issues that might have come from the Y chromosome.
The Wagner Group's armed rebellion against the military of the Russian Federation had significant consequences on the air power of the Russian Federation, in addition to the PR and other disasters for the Russian Federation that the entire rebellion has been for them.
Rail workers finally have paid sick days, something they had not been entitled to in previous contracts with railway companies.
The Supreme Court of the United States also, in announcing their decisions, determined that the Executive Branch does not have the authority to cancel student loan debt because they believed Congress had not spoken sufficiently explicitly to allow it. Which makes me wonder, then, how much authority the Executive Branch then has over the program in its entirety, since most borrowers have federal student debt, and presumably the appropriate agency has wide latitude in how they choose to lend, recoup those lent funds, or forgive them in their entirety, rather than shackling a borrower to a specific and limited set of methods of repayment or forgiveness.
Beautiful pictures of insects, some very close-up.
Sumana Harihareswara posts a detailed breakdown of her current COVID precautions, which is helpful for those still looking to protect themselves in an era where the official belief is that there's no need to take specific special precautions any more. On the Dreamwidth post linking to this, the comments also provide additional information that works its way into the main post.
In technology, a craft meant to dive to the wreckage of the Titanic and explore it suffered catastrophic failure and killed all of the passengers. After the loss of communication early on in the voyage, there were some potential good signs of sound from an area, but wreckage was soon sighted after that. The people who were on board signed the appropriate waivers theoretically saying they knew what they were getting into, but this still seems like a situation where someone did not learn the lesson that "regulations are written in blood" in their attempts to do something like this on the cheap.
There were signs that the craft was unlikely to be able to do the job it had been created to do, including steering controls using an off-the-shelf gamepad, a design that prevented anyone on the inside from getting out themselves, and questions about the carbon fibre used in the vessel's construction, since that's the likeliest point of failure for the immense pressures of the deep of the ocean.
Elon Musk continues to think of Twitter as his personal playground, which means we get to see his personal preferences broadcast widely. Like Elon Musk's anti-Semitism. Or his insistence that the accepted terminology of "cisgender" and its shortened form "cis" are slurs rather than descriptive terms, because people who like to think of themselves as "normal" do not like having other, accurate words applied to them. These particular content elements are in addition to Elon's serial nonpayment of expenses and bills, including office space rent and bonuses promised to employees so they would stay with the company.
A school sent out an e-mail indicating that all student accounts had their passwords reset to the same thing…and eventually realized the mistake they'd made and set up a better password reset, but still, that should not have been something that happened in the first place.
A couple of things from the newly created
fancoded community, where people can post about their projects and ask questions about code projects they're interested in getting additional help for. Kudoscript is an embeddable kudos link and counter that can be deployed on a webserver with PHP, Imagemagick (and the Imagick extension for PHP), and SQLite. Installations and deploy instructions on the project's GitHub page.Additionally, someone is looking for advice on how to embed custom tags and metadata into audio files, without interfering with already-present ID3 tags and/or elements like ReplayGain.
Last for tonight, The god of Arepo, a story in which small acts for small gods produce wonderful things. Which itself was illustrated into a graphic novel form of the God of Arepo. There's rhythm to the language of the prose form, and beauty in the illustrated form, so enjoy both, if you like.
And the significance of the 25th of May, both for Towel Day, the memorial of Douglas Adams' death, and the Glorious 25th of May, which may have changed some in observance since the death of Sir Pterry, and how both of them might eventually return to being silly fandom things that have serious significance behind them. (And, perhaps, hopefully, reasonably-priced love and a hard-boiled egg that you may need the towel for.)
(Materials via
adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, and anyone else 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.)
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Date: 2023-07-01 10:02 pm (UTC)