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A small hitching post for the Pillowfort Anniversary Fest:

~ I suggested a color in the Pillowfort Anniversary Fest Friendship Bracelet from ~LetoLeGaosaure. My contribution can be seen in this update photo (second page of comments).

~rah has a Pillowfortunes post. (I don't have a fortune to share, in part, because I didn't want to stay on the animated gif long enough to get a screenshot.)

~dirchanksy created a commemorative stamp badge.

~enchantedsleeper made a Pillowfort Anniversary Fest Blanket Box.

~ I obviously did not keep up with all the happenings, but ~PineAura has a compilation post.

~bookscorpion is offering some neat looking yarn to anyone willing to donate to Pillowfort and pay for the yarn's postage (probably around 15 euros).

Posted: 26 April 2026.

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A hitching post for 2025:

~ Archival costs for Broadway productions (and some info on archiving theatrical productions generally): [post covering what I mentioned in the linked Dreamwidth comment].

~yourlibrarian shared a survey on eating lunch at work: [PF post].

~ The Fancy Rats mood theme for Dreamwidth went live: [comment touches on learning about rats for fanfic and the actor playing Siegfried Farnon having rat experience]. (It seems a little silly, but this is not about only having Serious Topics.)

Click to read a copy of the comment.

I don't consider myself a rat person; I've never owned a pet rat, I've never met one in person, and I don't have any plans to own a rat in the future. However, I went through a small phase of research and following some Ratblr (that is, rat Tumblr) accounts when I wanted to touch on rats and rat ownership in some fanfic a while back. I'm pretty sure it's mostly in drafts, but I think I would say that I appreciate rats more than I used to.

Seeing the 'rat dad' tags for the actor who plays Siegfried Farnon, who has rat owning experience himself, is nice, though. (I think there's some other interview people have been linking to, but I turned up this one after season one: "I kept mice when I was small, and then rats. We are, sadly, without a cat at the moment, and my older daughter was saying only just now that she thought she wanted a rat.")

~ghostprism carved a nice jack-o-lantern: [post is view-locked to logged-in PF users].

~ In January 2025, the reality of a second Trump presidency was sinking in. I have a private post where I started to answer the points in How You Can Protect Democracy, but I was so focused on filling in my own answers and getting specific about where I live that I didn't think to do a public post.

~akesi-monsuta shared a link to 'Detransition Is Gender Liberation, Too'.

~ I usually don't bother with sharing anything I've put into the Fandom Calendar community (due to trying to post there so often), but I re-found the event where there was a jokey illegal bit just due to the memorability: [post and comments where I explain the joke].

You can read a copy of the explanation here.

This event is based on a prior one and has inherited some jokey illegal and/or crime phrasing. For example, one can participate in organized crime by working with other participants to bid as a team on auctions or wordcount laundering schemes means winning an auction to retroactively legitimize an illegal treat.

A part of me feels like a killjoy for pointing out the jokey illegal and crime phrasing, but running into something like 'posting a treat for someone when you didn't win the bid is illegal' doesn't come across as a fun inside joke when you don't know there's a bit being committed to.

~Lagging_Ghost asked about places to post writing: [comment where I mention Royal Road and Ream].

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Considering Wattpad or something else probably depends on what you want to post. If you want to post more fanworks than original fiction, I'm more aware of AO3 being recommended. (Some fandoms still have an active presence on FanFiction.net, but I'm not really in those fandoms so I can't speak to how FF.net is these days.) I have mostly heard of original fiction going on Wattpad, but I haven't heard about that site in a few years. I never tried it myself, in part, because I was mostly given the impression it was popular with fandoms I wasn't in.

If you want a place where you can share original writing and fanfiction, I've heard of Royal Road. If you want to focus on original writing, I've heard of Ream. I haven't tried either out myself, but I think Ream is the one that I've heard can allow for having more than one writing persona linked to your account (so if you want to write X under a certain pen name and Y under a different pen name, it's easier to do that).

[...] (I know some people choose multiple of these to compare reader engagement or post different genres, so it's not like you must choose one and only one site to use.)

Also, ~jackbird has talked about his experiences with Ream here, if you want an idea of what using it is like. It has the ability to have monthly donations and tiers like Patreon, if that's of interest. As far as I know, Royal Road allows you to link to Ko-Fi/PayPal/etc. offsite places for donations but doesn't handle payments onsite.

~Jak shared a link to an interactive art exhibition based on the game Telephone: [PF post and direct art info link].

~Bunns made a Small Web Hitching Post, and I remembered FenRecs and Geminispace.

~PC shared snake artwork for the Year of the Snake from ~Toradh and ~elemei.

~dulcis liked some fannish events that promote commenting: [comment that lists events].

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Suggestions:

comment_bingo (sign-ups for the current round are open until April), Just Leave A Comment Fest does themed prompts to encourage commenting throughout the year (*), @/feedthefandomfest has different comment bingo boards (Original Board, Beginner Commenter Board, and others can be found in the pinned post), and you may find previous rounds of events for commenting that you might want to check out in the [PF] Fandom Calendar's comments tag.

(*) There's not an exact schedule. Like there was a week of prompts around Halloween and the last weekend of December had a few prompts for 2024, but in the past, there were a week of prompts in December and nothing around Halloween. It offers less prompts than a bingo board usually does, though, so that might not seem as daunting if you're not sure about a bingo.

~osteophage gathered some perspectives on not having a personal website: [my specific comment on the post].

Click to read a copy of my comment.

I'm definitely feeling the quote Pablo links to from How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner by Annie:

Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with Shoobababoo and occasionally kleptomitrons. I've gotten to work for Company1 doing Shoobaboo-ing code things and that's what led me to the Snarfus. So, let's dive in!

- [The below quotes from Coy's PF post.]

If you don't have a personal site, what would it take to make the prospect more approachable for you?

I don't have a burning desire to recreate the wheel. Why do I need to host a Wafrn when I have more than one Tumblr account? I don't mind not dealing with bots. I'm fine with not trying to self-host a Fediverse instance and wade through legal stuff on my own.

Putting aside that aspect (conflating having a personal website with self-hosting), I'm also not quite sure what I'd use a personal site for. (This may sound familiar from when I stumbled across Geminispace.) What am I going to put on a personal website that I couldn't put on any Tumblr, on WordPress, on Pillowfort, or on Dreamwidth?

Replying to Coy's response.

You definitely have a point that I should ideally not be in the same position as the developer of Bearblog. Some of that section was a reaction to the vibe that doing all sorts of this stuff, including hosting on my own device, is actually easy if I would just try it. I wouldn't say there's a direct statement along those lines in anything you or I linked, but it feels like an impression I've picked up from other places in the past few years.

(Some of it may be that self-hosting does solve certain privacy concerns for some people. Some of it may be that self-hosting is held up as an answer for any complaint about a program or Big Tech site. Like, why do you care that Google Drive has X feature now when you could just self-host Notebook Thingy?)

While there are some things on my personal site that I wouldn't be able to equally replicate here, I also don't think you necessarily need that differentiation. Crossposting and making backups can be a good idea just generally.

You're not wrong. It's more of a feeling that's self-imposed than anything else. Some very specific topics get cross-posted, but then I hit a wall of 'haven't I cross-posted enough?' after a certain number of sites.

~bookscorpion shared a photo of a plant I've never seen before: [PF post of fall-blooming anemone]. It's gone to seed after blooming, so it looks (a bit) like a cotton ball that's been stretched out and sprinkled with black pepper flakes (but in an intriguing way).

~ I returned to a discussion on Yesterweb: [comment well over a year later].

Click to read a copy of the comment.

After a separate mention of Yesterweb organizers/moderators documenting what they think their errors were [under Summary, specifically Significant Errors], I can't help but feel like there wasn't enough agreement on what Yesterweb was going to try to do before starting. Was this a movement that was supposed to sway people to a particular ideology relating to building and maintaining the 'peripheral web' instead of staying in the 'core web'? Was there supposed to be class consciousness, multiple languages, and focusing on international web access/issues as a main feature or a 'hey, people didn't spontaneously do this' reaction? Hobbyists were supposedly a minority of the movement, and yet, advertising business (particularly digital artists and game developers) seemed to be some sort of surprise that went against part of the movement's ideas.

Some of the phrasing also sounds... I'm not sure how to describe the off vibes. Like, is there a phenomena of The Serial Moderator, or is someone holding back from naming names for a specific mod that's haunting this post-mortem? What is going on in that section on lower-class mentality and how selfless and collaborative it is? I feel like there's a chance someone's getting vagued about. "From our time with the Discord refusers it became clear that the vast majority were more concerned about the technology (and, ultimately, themselves) and less concerned about its social implications." Hm.

~ I passed along the news of Sunset Femslash Archive. (This was only shared about five months ago, but that does not mean it's the most up-to-date about Sunset.)

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Current Music: MyNoise - Irish Coast (Default Audio)

It turns out that I didn't have nearly as many saved links as I thought I might for the end of 2023 and 2024.

~osteophage brought up a movie trailer, and I stumbled into a little MMA fighting history: [comment on how old wrestling and boxing are].

Click to read a copy of the comment.

Huh.

According to this:

The vehicle for the story is Oren's quest as a professional mixed martial artist. The sport's origins pre-date the seventh century B.C., and a subculture of this style of fighting—and the wagering that accompanied—was not uncommon in the region during that time.

There's other stuff about the writer/director duo wanting to explore a bit of Jesus' life before he officially started ministering or whatever, but going back to MMA. The actual named sport of MMA isn't that old, but MMA includes elements of wrestling and boxing which are both old enough that something kinda like MMA could have happened in whatever year this story is set.

Although contemporary MMA is only as old as the world's first website and phenomenally proliferated with the growth of the internet, its roots can be traced as far back as Pankration in the ancient Olympic Games. - International MMA Federation

From Mixed Martial Arts: A History from Ancient Fighting Sports to the UFC, chapter one touches on ancient fighting sports (including wrestling and boxing) and, like, these are practically older than dirt. Sumerians in Mesopotamia wrestled. There's artwork from 2000 BCE showing the sequence of an Egyptian wrestling match. "Northern Iran's traditional wrestling style, koshti gil mardi, was a precursor to modern-day MMA" (regarding the Persian empire). "The Greeks practice one of the earliest forms of MMA with pankration"; they separated out boxing, wrestling, and pankration as separate sports, which were added to the Olympics (possibly where the seventh century BCE statement above comes from). "Rome [...] assimilated the fighting sports of Greece and Etruria, to name a few, to produce a hyper-violent rendition of boxing, wrestling, and pankration."

There's a part of me that just was not expecting yet another Jesus' Life Movie to actually have something like this that might have happened. Sure, whatever boxing/wrestling/pankration thing of the time probably didn't look exactly like modern MMA, but without a lot of experience in these sports, I wouldn't be able to pick up on specifics.

~ A golem is not some evil, earth spirit thing that can feed on ghosts: [comment on how That Is Not Correct At All].

Click to read a copy of the comment.

Mercy senses the entrance of the golem, and the golem asks her to help him destroy the vampires. The golem's magic reminds her of Guayota, the volcano spirit, which leads Mercy to conclude that the golem is a manitou—an earth/nature spirit. From this she concludes that what the Rabbi Loew did to bind the golem amounted to enslaving a living being, which is an act of evil.

I may not know much about golems myself, but I don't trust this as an authorial choice here.

Insert that Ben Affleck Smoking meme.

The golem isn't an enslaved nature spirit, Patricia Briggs. Rabbi Loew was a philosopher and Talmudic scholar who was also known as Prague's chief rabbi. This doesn't mean he was the absolute most important rabbi ever (and no one should write anything negative about him), but c'mon, making a legend about him being able to protect his Jewish community from a pogrom via creating a golem into an evil act of enslavement isn't a good look. The golem shouldn't even be doing magic or be some sort of ghost.

So then the golem suggests something else. He wants to attack the seethe himself, and he doesn't have enough power for that, so he asks Mercy to feed him with ghosts, which means the ghosts would be destroyed.

[...] When the golem descends the stairs, he's intent on killing everybody, vampire and human alike. His newfound power, though, comes from the dead, and the dead are subject to Mercy's commands—so with a word, she sunders him to pieces.

Is the golem a ghost of a golem or a separate golem? Part one mentioned a ghost, which means that Mercy should have been able to control it from the beginning.

Going on a rampage. Killing everyone. At this point, Briggs should have just created a separate supernatural entity instead of calling this thing a golem.

~venatrixlunaris shared a post on a specific microlibrary preservation project and some thoughts on doing that outside of that project: [PF post].

~sennkestra shared some mushrooms and fungi: [PF post that's nice to look at].

~sgaren does woodworking, including: [post showing a box for a game being built].

~PC shared a piece of art I thought was nice from ~Lady_Viridis: [post with a starry snake idea going on].

~trivialknot and ~belowdesire brought up 'character is actually dangerous' affecting an oppression allegory: [PF post about Nimona].

I actually commented on that post as well, and you can click this section to read a copy of it.

Netflix currently has Nimona available for free on Youtube, supposedly for a week, so I finally watched it. [Note: This was dated to 21 February 2024.]

The way that the scene [about 49 or 50 minutes in] cuts from Nimona's dragon tail stopping the car up to her face, I'm not entirely sure that Nimona went out of her way to actually save the child. It seemed a bit more like the impact of accidentally stopping the car got her attention, she tried to use her Gloreth Friend child form to reassure this child, and she wasn't expecting the child to still hold out the sword at Gloreth Friend form.

On the one hand, I can see the parallel to Gloreth's rejection at trying to use a human form to try to reassure, but on the other hand, I feel like the use of the Kwispy dragon [mascot from the cereal commercial seen on the train earlier] is trying to soften the actual threat level of a larger-than-humans dragon suddenly appearing in the city. I think ~belowdesire had a point that introducing a plausible reason to fear Nimona brought in some dissonance on how 'we aren't supposed to fear her' lands.

Was the Institute's building so damaged and that many knights incapacitated without harming anyone? What if Ambrosius hadn't saved that random citizen from Nimona's Trauma-Black form stepping on her? Yeah, in the end there was damage from Todd panicking and flying the hover craft thing into a billboard and the Director wanted to use a canon on her own city, but it wasn't like there was a concrete rule that Nimona wasn't actually dangerous when shape-shifting outside of human forms.

While I didn't mind the movie and have no idea what the comic did differently, I kind of thought there might be a little more about shape-shifting in this movie's world. I thought there might be another shape-shifter outside the wall, or another one who's actually not kept out by the wall at all, or there might be some sort of 'can only turn into one relatively non-threatening animal' type of shape-shifter that still gets called a monster.

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There are some shows where I simply mentioned in passing that I'd watched the weekly episode, so I don't have a lot to save from different tv_talk Speak Up Saturday posts.

Back for S1 of Tracker, I think I just have a reply to someone asking about whether E2 was better than E1.

Around S1E2

From here:

The overarching matter of Colter's family and backstory gets some progress, but I'm not sure if it's really enough to hold anyone who can't tolerate the weekly case. (It might be something that won't be easy to judge until later.) Colter didn't meet any past one-night stands or hook up with anyone new and he avoided needing bailed out of jail, so that's not shaping up to be an every episode occurrence. I think in some ways S1E2 was better, but it might depend on how you tolerate fictional depictions of cults and getting someone out of one. For a one-off episode, I could tolerate it, but I'd rather not run into a repeat of this type of case in the show (the resolution is kinda simple, and extracting someone from a high-control group often isn't that easy).

After S2E9

From here:

Woven throughout the case-of-the-week plots, Colter has spent quite a bit of the first half of this season trying to solve an old case where he never found the person he was asked to find (the sister of his then-girlfriend). I haven't found that quite as compelling as I suspect TPTB wanted it to be. He engaged in anniversary-of-disappearance harassment, his gut instinct was sorta right (which seems to justify the harassment), he got a retired cop to help go over the case who physically tortured someone for info, and it was only satisfying that the case was finally finished so all this could stop. It probably wasn't supposed to come across like an escalation of lines being crossed, but I just didn't get this 'how nice that he'll stop at nothing to help someone' reaction.

I know this might seem like a nitpicky detail given how common of a trope it is, but I just don't like when torture is used as an accurate fact finding method. I followed a torture debunking Tumblr for too long to still think that's true; I'm unsure if they're still on Tumblr in 2025, so I haven't linked them (given the heavy topic, they took scheduled breaks in order to safely engage with torture research). I kind of liked that S2E10 had a local cop drive Colter out to the middle of nowhere in order to slow his search down. Just felt like a nice break from the torture happy retired cop.

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I'm going back and trying to re-find comments I made in the tv_talk community about some shows.

My family watched season one of Fire Country before I had a DW account. This picks up with talking about season two, which was the truncated one affected by the writer+actor strikes.

S2E1

Here:
I'm still not a fan of a twist in the S1 finale, but this episode does make it clear that this season won't be focused on slogging through the minutiae of undoing that twist since there are two time jumps. (Angst fuel for anyone who likes filling in time jumps via fanworks, I suppose.)

For anyone who wants less vague-to-avoid-spoilers details: The S1 finale was focused on Bode going before the parole board in an effort to be granted parole and released to his mother and father. Basically corrupt prosecutor stuff happened, and the only way that Freddie [Bode's friend in Camp Three Rock] would get his parole granted would be if Bode took the fall for introducing the drugs to the camp that someone else did. There was this whole thing with doctored urine results, and Bode was really set up to look like he'd relapsed and shot his whole season of any possible growth out of the water. So, S2E1 opened with him still plunged into this angsty, annoying 'I'm now evil incarnate' mindset where everyone would be better off without him.

Around S2E4

Here:
The narrative is really trying to get two characters back together, but I think I'm at a point of postshipping them. I'm not interested in another 'will A chose B or C' type of plot line; we spent part of season one doing that.

Also: I'm not sure exactly where, but I did comment somewhere before the end [below] that I was thrown off by Sharon basically having an 'everything is fine' depiction of life post-kidney transplant. I didn't want her to face serious complications, but like, she didn't even have a throwaway line about needing to take her anti-rejection meds or something.

S2E9

Here:
While Fire Country did bring up the sentence shortening credit [for lifesaving acts of heroism] early enough that it doesn't fully feel like some sort of deus ex machina tactic, I can't help but wonder if having this short season for S2 interfered with the writers wanting Bode to finish his sentence at Camp Three Rock a little slower. Him being nominated for this credit really feels like a way to have him suddenly out for the last episode instead of feeling like we really saw this coming. (No one else in camp has been nominated for this credit before, and it wasn't like Bode got nominated a few episodes ago and just found out his case made it through the paperwork and stuff. He found out he was nominated, passed all the way through, and will be released shortly in, like, one sentence.)

S2E10

Here:
Gabriela married Diego in the season finale, and I really hope the narrative will move on from Bode/Gabriela. It spent, like, nine out of the ten episodes in this short season with some amount of trying to at least nudge (if not push) them back together, and I've reached a point of post-shipping them. I don't care if someone new has to be introduced for Bode, but it feels like there's so much that we could be covering if the narrative would stop focusing on that ship.

While Three Rock turned out to say goodbye to Bode as he was officially released as a parolee, it kind of felt flat when Bode was only ever shown positively interacting with one other inmate there this season. Did he actually have any acquaintances or friends there? [Someone having a sorta friendly conversation in an episode where he gets a terminal diagnosis and panic-runs away from camp isn't what I mean.] I can understand why we're not seeing fully fleshed out stories for all 10-15 other men, but with this season including a brief arc to save Three Rock from being closed, it just seemed like we could've seen more about inmates other than Bode.

Sharon just magically is completely fine in a post-organ transplant life, and while I wouldn't want to see complications just to spice things up, it's like there's absolutely nothing about adjusting to having gotten a transplant. Considering that this season introduced a work injury to Vince [electrocution] that led to heart issues, there could've been something about Sharon understanding why he was clinging to being able to work so much. S1 showed her already being treated for kidney issues, so we didn't really find out if she had a phase of being in denial. I dunno, it just feels like we definitely had a short season that didn't actually address certain things.

Current Mood: Eh

The week of November 20th to November 27th [2020]:

Revealed part of the #tech scribbling marathon posting: ‘What are federated sites?’ and ‘Switching from Facebook to the Fediverse: What’s stopping us?’ articles.

Snail Mail community - I reblogged the Black & Pink holiday card campaign post [here].

Aro & Ace community - I reposted AUREA’s call for submission about aromantic fears [here].

ASL - The Sound Off Ladies cover the basics of Deaf name signs [here]. They also touch on suggestions for Biden and (for the first time for a Vice President) Harris.

~

Coy - Trying to trace the use of “spec” in aro, ace, and A-spectrum usage [here].
Kaz - ‘Stand Still, Stay Silent’ [here]. This is a note to self to see if the webcomic friend might like this.
Kate - “Colonialism in Speculative Fiction: An Unexpected Case Study” [here].
Offsite [FoodStampsNow] - [US] State by state guide with posts about being able to buy online groceries with EBT (if able to do so).
Offsite [Sealaska Heritage Institute] - “Tlingit Artist Chosen To Create Stamp For U.S. Postal Service”. It’s called Raven Story and set to release in 2021 [USPS 2021 stamps].

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Playlist - Queer

A mini hitching post for US Thanksgiving [26 Nov 2020]:

"400 Years After First Thanksgiving, Native Americans Honor 'Day of Mourning' Instead" [here]
- Explains more of the backstory of the Day of Mourning
"Indigenous say ‘no thanks, no giving’ 400 years after Mayflower" [here]
- Focuses a little more on the Wampanoag Nation
"Educators And Native Leaders Recommend Bringing Anti-Racism To The Thanksgiving Table" [here]
United American Indians of New England homepage [here]
- Livestream of the Day of Mourning started at 12 pm EST
- "How you can still support the Day of Mourning even if you can't come to Plymouth" [pdf]
13th Annual No Thanks, No Giving! Benefit [here]
- Livestream: 4 pm - 7 pm MST
- Indigenous Mutual Aid [here]
"17 Organizations Providing Emergency Food Relief to Native Communities During COVID-19" [here]
- Site has a food relief focus, but these relief/mutual aid funds also provide gas, water, face masks, and other aid

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Playlist - Queer

The week of November 13th to November 20th [2020]:

Revealed part of the #tech scribbling marathon posting: switching.software and PrivacyTools.

Anarchism community - I shared some resources on squatting [here]; there’s a definite slant towards USA based and English language resources.

ASL - I shared the promo for Sound of Metal from The Daily Moth along with a quote from an interview with Riz Ahmed [PF post]. The first comment contains a few reviews.

Coy - Ideas for Writing Gray-Asexual Characters [here].
Siggy - Creators and their brands [here].
Em - CSS experimentation with a Zonelet theme [here].
~Runo - A post about identification with queerness (turned up some lithromanticism in the comments) [here].
Siggy - Thoughts on bullshit jobs (and self-reporting) [here].
Kate - A new Wolf 359 community has been created [announcement].
~belowdesire - Some criticisms with how ‘queer’ is used [here].

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: MyNoise - Irish Coast (Default Audio)

The week of November 6th to November 13th [2020]:

Revealed part of the #tech scribbling marathon posting: PRISM Break and De-google-ify Internet / Framasoft.

The Gray Zone - I shared the AUREA post "Quoi is what?" [post].

Goth - I shared a Tumblr link embed with a movie promo for My Summer As A Goth [post].

Comments

Sennkestra shared an article about platonic co-parenting [here].

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will keep their production of A Plant by Jarek Pastor available here until December 15th, 2020. (This post has several other productions in the comments, and the view-locking has been changed to "everyone".)

Offsite [The Daily Moth] - "Ethiopia government finally allows Deaf people to drive".

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: MyNoise - Medieval Library (Default Audio)

The week of October 30th to November 6th [2020]:

For tagging purposes, I'm still putting #hitching post on this, but this probably won't be satisfying for those accustomed to the usual list. This has pretty much been the week of not thinking about the 2020 election, which led to marathon posting that will be gradually revealed.

Podcasts community - In an effort to distract myself on Nov 3rd itself, I posted a promo for Khôra Podcast [here].

I shared "We can't vote in San Quentin prison. So we held a mock election" [here].

PC - From this comment thread, Matrix is a federated alternative to Discord [see matrix.org]. The most common way of accessing it is through Element, which has desktop and app options.

For those who may not be aware, Supernatural is in its last season (only two episodes left, for realsies this time), and this week there was a bit that has caused a stir. Jak's post has a link to the scene if you want more than the briefest spoiler in a Tumblr post.

The role of Grindelwald will be recast because Johnny Depp exits the Fantastic Beasts franchise.

Lots of state specific election news have been crossing my dashes (and some of my FB feed), but I definitely don't want anyone to think these are just the most important highlights. Heads up for brief talk of drugs:

"Oregon became the first state to decriminalize small amounts of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs. The Oregon measure would make possession of small amounts of what have long been considered harder drugs a violation, similar to a traffic ticket, and no longer punishable by jail time. The law would also fund drug addiction treatment from marijuana sales taxes." [New York Times; also explained in "Oregon leads the way in decriminalizing hard drugs"].

Several other states had drug measures, as well. [See: "From Marijuana To Mushrooms, Voters Want Drug Laws Eased"]

"[...] Turner — a queer, Black Muslim who wears a hijab and identifies as nonbinary — won a seat Tuesday in the Oklahoma state legislature, becoming the first openly nonbinary state lawmaker in the country. Elliot Imse, the group's communications director, said that Turner's win was one of several on Tuesday to break the "rainbow ceiling." Voters in New York elected the first two gay Black men to Congress, while Sarah McBride in Delaware became the country's first transgender state senator." [The Washington Post; Sarah McBride also mentioned in "Transgender Candidates Make Election History".

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: MyNoise - Medieval Library (Default Audio)

The week of October 23rd to October 30th [2020]:

actually intersex - I shared an article about the Lurie children's hospital putting an end to so-called corrective surgeries on intersex children [post]. Technically not current news, but this week also contained Intersex Awareness Day, and this article touches on some of the drawbacks of awareness.

ASL - Reblogged some beginner ASL resources courtesy of ~vaxis' inquiry [post].

FutureIsGreen - The Langholm Moor community buyout made its goal [shared here].

Coy - An Aro & Ace Presentation and Style Survey is going on [post]. I wish surveys that gave the option of indicating genderfluidity actually kept genderfluid people in mind when coming up with the rest of the survey.

Em - Academia still doesn't handle name changes (whether for married women or trans folks) very well [post].

Coy - Preserving public memory / community memory [post]. (Specifically for Ace Week 2020, but the basics are not exclusive to any one particular community.)

Siggy - The 2020 Ace Community Survey is open [link].

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: MyNoise - Medieval Library (Default Audio)

The week of October 16th to October 23rd [2020]:

More collectively mourning Covid-19 content: Turns out some people have not been watching the weekly PBS In Memoriam segment since April 17th (and think No One's Airing Anything), and they don't seem to have thought of the social stigma around coronavirus and Covid-19 when coming up with a window decal to indicate households affected [post]. I mean, I get that it's old content by now, but it kept turning up in search results and I had thoughts.

Potentially of interest:

Coy shared that TTAP has added Dreamwidth as an option for the monthly Pride Chats.

Siggy shared an AUREA article looking at how the definition of platonic varies.

TJ - Crowdsourcing suggestions to 'try to live my life in a way that creates an environment so there's not pressure to reveal information about attraction or gender any more than other personal info' [post].

~Killer300 - The way therapy is (and is not) shown in fiction [post]. I don't have enough thoughts all together to make a comment, but one of my (not abandoned, just percolating on the backburner) fics features therapy, so it's more that I have a little mental flag saying that I should pay attention. Another therapy post. I feel horribly seen, in a "learn to bottle emotions for coping reasons for years and then walk away from therapy at the beginning of this year because it's so frustratingly focused on emotions" sort of way.

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: MyNoise - Medieval Library (Default Audio)

The week of October 9th to October 16th [2020]:

More collectively mourning Covid-19 content: The Covid-19 Week of Mourning ended this week, but there's a March For The Dead online memorial coming up on the 18th of October. (March For The Dead is based out of NYC and times are based on EDT in those event details.)

For some reason, I read some articles from the latest Transformative Works and Cultures Journal (#34). While I shared the gender identity exploration quote from a piece about expanding the idea of white, cis women as the Default Fan, I was a bit 'eh' about the gender breakdown used in the paper [comment]. I also managed to trigger some dysphoria around gendering voices and podfic [post].

Instead of the yearly 'it's okay if you can't Come Out' type of post on National Coming Out Day, I shared a pdf about Inviting In [post].

History Community - I reblogged this post into it (sharing news of the Indigenous Digital Archives Treaties Explorer) because I just momentarily forgot I could post directly into the community without posting to my fort first. (Sorry >.>)

Potentially of interest:

Kate - Brithawon, who made some shitty pottery back in the day, has had his non-functional kylix mistakes revealed [post]. Pour one out for my homie.gif.

~candlebark - Atheist meetups and group options [post].

Well, Broadway's probably not opening until June 2021 [(offsite) Playbill article].

Offsite [The Daily Moth] - Dutch Sign Language gets legal recognition.

Offsite [tumblr] - A not-practical architecture post - "I am talking about Architecture and you bring up spiderwebs" - with two links added in a reblog: 1) All of Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses had leaky roofs and were basically uninhabitable, and 2) Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture (I believe the referenced book by 'owners in an unlivable house' is Peter Eisenman's House VI: The Client's Response by Suzanne Frank).

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: MyNoise - Medieval Library (Default Audio)

The week of October 2nd to October 9th [2020]:

Part of that collectively mourning Covid-19 posting spree: My biggest complaint with this August article about a lack of national mourning is that it seems to ignore digital efforts, which includes #NamingTheLost and #WeGrieveTogether.

AroAce Comm - I shared the AUREA article 'Aplatonicism 101' [PF post].

Comments:

Coy - Shout out to MyNoise.net, but unfortunately, Autumn Walk does not jive with my tinnitus (or allow for using my Calibration), so I don't really have a strong like/dislike of that particular soundscape.

Sennkestra - Some US Supreme Court Justices just want to talk shit about undoing Obergefell (undoing nationwide same-sex marriage legalization) or some shit [post].

Ezran - So much shipping in fandom [comment].

Potentially of interest:

~kosame's been looking at some ace fic stats {part two, part one}. It seems rather timely given this ask sent into ao3commentoftheday's Tumblr, but I'm a bit confused by the use of "aro-ace spectrum" in the answer and replies. To me, it reads more like a spectrum from aro to ace when phrased like that??

~belowdesire shared a quote about stud and femme identities in Chicago.

The October Carnival of Aros theme has been announced (PF link | WordPress link).

Current Mood: blah

The week of September 25th to October 2nd [2020]:

I posted out of order: The We See You White American Theater post about land acknowledgement [post] should've gone first, and then the Indigenous Action podcast episode with thoughts on land acknowledgement (and how only doing/focusing on that falls short) [post].

The AUREA Feedback Form will be open until October 10th.

Comments:

Coy - How do you decide who to make friends with? I didn't leave a comment, but I did reply. (I disagree with the basic premise that I can look at someone's outfit and determine how much effort they put into it, but I also suspect this bumped up against personal baggage. As a fat person, I have to put what seems like 'more' effort into not looking like a 'lazy slob' to others, especially when you add in the unclean bit. Like, someone could see me walk out of a shower and put deodorant on, and they'll still comment that "some people need to learn what a shower and deodorant are" because fat.)

Sennkestra - Commentary on the book Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski (comment 1, 2 - this brake metaphor sucks (although, I am being reminded that parking brakes are a thing), and 3 - stop with upholding normalcy).

Coy - Masks should be free. Nothing important in my comment, but thanks to this comment thread, I did find out that the US Postal Service proposed a plan to deliver 5 face masks to everyone in the country back in March/April.

Siggy - I left a non-productive, fluff comment, but after reading this post, I did find out that David Jay is not some random ace guy who sometimes gets name dropped (nor is he just that tri-parenting dude).

Coy - A quote from Braiding Sweetgrass that reminded me of some posts about ki / kin pronouns shared a few years ago [comment].

Potentially of interest:

I've heard of six degrees of separation before, but I hadn't heard of the Erdős number until recently.

Offsite [The Daily Moth] - 'D.C. federal court orders White House to provide interpreters for Covid-19 briefings starting October 1' [ASL video and English transcript at link].

Offsite [Twitter] - TikTok users have been burning JKR's new book [tweet].

Current Mood: blah

The weeks from September 4th to September 25th [2020]:

Anarchism Community - I shared a link to a promo for Kolektiva.social [PF post].

Comments:

Sennkestra - Turns out some people planted those unsolicited seeds from China from earlier in the summer. Comment: Basically, people are people.

Ezran - Thoughts on transandrophobia [post]. I'm not necessarily opposed to it, but it currently makes more sense as a concise and easily tagged term instead of using a phrase on Tumblr. (Comment thread eventually got distracted by how people use transmasculine and transneutral.)

Sennkestra - Wug drama [post].

Potentially of interest:

Apparently, poison pen letters are a thing.

Ezran got a conversation going about childhood associations of gender, color, and/or personality with numbers (and some letters) [post]. I didn't feel like commenting would be worthwhile because I didn't do that as a kid.

Offsite [Tumblr] - A personal comic from the creator of Rejected Princesses, which includes mentions of depression, passive suicidal ideation, and internalized self-hate of men. It's not connected to the discussion of transandrophobia from above, but I couldn't not notice the internalized self-hate after going through Grey's transmasc tag. {ETA: Pillowfort crosspost.}

Sennkestra shared an article from The Atlantic about ace!tri-parenting [post].

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Movie Soundtrack - Encanto (2021)

The week of August 28th to September 4th [2020]:

Aro Ace Community - I shared AUREA's call for submissions about QPR experiences.

Comments:

~belowdesire - Only the poorest of the poor will hire a dragon to help with farm work? And they'll pay in gold in 1957? I have so many questions.

~redbeardace - August TAAAP Chat Notes: Activism. Planning a day trip like the example given of going to a parade with a group as something to do that "isn't very hard" takes all the stress of planning an out-of-state vacation, compacts it into a trip to a (potentially in-state) different city, and then acts like very little planning went into said trip.

Siggy - Shared the discussion notes of the Ace Journal Club [comment]. I have the distinct impression that I'm not in the same book and nowhere near on the same page as Przybylo about talking about the erotic.

Sennkestra - The 'Ammonite' trailer is reviving criticism of creating a romantic life for Mary Anning. If I'm going to watch historical fanfic via movie, I'd rather cry about Tray [comment].

Potentially of interest:

Offsite [Tumblr] - Plagiarization of Inktober work has led to some people wanting to support alternatives: "Drawtober (6 prompts for 31 days), OC tober (Original Characters), goretober, kinktober, witchtober, drawlloween (spooky), sketchtober (pencil sketches), Dungeons & Inkwells (dnd), whumptober".

Offsite [Tumblr] - Archiving and transcribing Anything That Moves.

Offsite - Someone shared info about the bread they buy, Dave's Killer Bread. "The Dave's Killer Bread Foundation was created to power Second Chance Employment. A lack of information or understanding about employing people with criminal backgrounds can make businesses hesitant to explore this option, and we're here to change that. [...] Find out more at dkbfoundation.org."

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Movie Soundtrack - Encanto (2021)

The week of August 21st to August 28th [2020]:

I shared the link to an AUREA article about singlism, and I tried something new by leaving a preview of the comments in the edited body of the post instead of just an initial reaction by me. I'm not sure I'll do that again, tbh.

If US theatre implements one of the demands of We See You White American Theater (WSYWAT) - eliminating 10 out of 12s - I'll probably experience another emotion in the comments section.

Anarchism Com - Spreading some social media stuff for Running Down The Walls 2020. (The date isn't fixed from one year to the next, and this year it's on September 6th.)

Comments:

Siggy shared an explanation of Roko's basilisk here. I still think that Roko's basilisk actually sounds like a better basilisk (or lizard) species name.

Coy - Has anyone heard of a new site called Sweet? Comment: Some of it sounds nice in theory, but I don't think I'm rushing there.

Lou has some thoughts on generational slang. Personally, I've found that site specific slang fits more than some hazy generational thing because there's usually some degree of intergenerational usage of a site.

Sennkestra shared a red rainbow, which is not something I'd heard of before.

Potentially of interest:

Siggy inquired into what exactly is meant by GNC/gender non-conforming.

Kate's submission for Open Questions for Aromantic Research.

{ETA: Pillowfort post about this. The rest of the links still go offsite.} The Scots Wiki controversy.

An American teen with no knowledge of Scots managed to edit (or write and mangle) approximately one third of the wiki articles in Scots. According to this article, the person began editing articles at the age of 12 (currently 19) and has poorly written 20,000 articles and made edits to 200,000. This article explicitly lists the user and explains a bit more on how this person managed to do so much damage.

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: MyNoise - Irish Coast (Default Audio)

The week of August 14th to August 21st [2020]:

Polyamory Com - Reblogged post about Polyamorous Awareness Week.

Anarchism Com - Reposted announcements and podcasts talking to Marquis Bey about "Anarcho-Blackness" from Freedom News and Autonomy News (republished It's Going Down).

Comments:

Coy - Advice for someone considering joining Pillowfort [comment].

While looking up something else in a Polyamory in the Media weekly roundup, I came across a mention of That Ship, which prompted a note to self comment on a draft bin post.

Coy - Talking about the Redemption Equals Death trope [comment]. I got on a roll, and it turned into a long comment.

Potentially of interest:

I finally saw that AO3 allows for turning off comments.

Siggy shared some thoughts on Effective Altruism and whatever was going on with that 'Loving someone without Sexual Desire' article [here].

~belowdesire shared a little historical humor - FABGLITTER.

~Genuflectx is running a fannish drift survey (to see if there are changes in recognizing and using certain terms). I've seen other fans speculate that the 1981 - 2020 'generation' used here might actually have some drift and contain separate fannish generations, but overall, I think it might be interesting to check back on the results.

Offsite [Tumblr] - A call for LGBTQ+ resources (past and present) around the 'Arabic world / MENA region'.

My addition to the call for LGBTQ+ resources:

I added on two Queer as Fact podcast episodes, Queer women in medieval Arab literature and Shah Hussayn in a reblog. See also: @arabicqueer. Later, I stumbled across "Islam and Queer Muslims: Identity and Sexuality in the Contemporary World" and put that in another reblog (specifically footnote 11 and a note to check the bibliography). Finally, I re-found that article about gamification keeping trolls out of a Middle Eastern LGBTQ+ forum, Ahwaa, which I believe has a history and literature tab (if I can trust Google Translate), and I sent that in a DM to @arabicqueer.

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: MyNoise - Irish Coast (Default Audio)

The week of August 7th to August 14th [2020]:

Anarchism - "Re-Introducing The Black Anarchism Reader".

Tarot - The Daily Moth did an interview with Dylan Panarra about [The ASL Tarot deck]. (Post shared after the Kickstarter ended, so it also links to the site for the deck separately from the campaign.)

Comments:

~Raven_Silversea - The seeming inactivity and/or lack of reblogs for creative writers on PF [post]. I don't think not running into as much creative writing compared to visual art is entirely due to a lack of reblogging.

Potentially of interest:

~sennkestra is looking to see who might be interested in contributing to ace healthcare resources.

~narrating-reality has been adding books on systemic racism to Project Liberation [here].

~ Wandered across my FB feed - Polysecure is available for pre-order. ("Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy.")

~ Offsite [Tumblr] - "Visible Mending Is An Act Of Rebellion Against The Fashion Industry".

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: MyNoise - Irish Coast (Default Audio)

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