Scattershot
Oct. 7th, 2019 08:05 amI tried to put this under a cut but apparently DW doesn't let you paste a bullet list under a cut? IDK. LJ's cut tag function is the only thing I like better about that platform. le sigh Sorry this will take up a bit of real estate on your reading pages.
Found on Twitter:
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umadoshi <3 !). Yet another thing my job loss took--fun and simple access to people speaking loads of different language (a rarity here in the heartland of these fine united states).
Couple days ago I saw this headline about China breeding pigs "the size of polar bears" and then yesterday I saw this one about pigs using tools. Maybe this is the sign of the true end times. In this, the worst timeline, we're going to be taken over by my favorite animal for eating. I always suspected it might be the case, but it appears that yes, I probably am going to be one of the first against the wall in this age's revolution.
Before the revolution comes, though, I want to go back and comment to so many fics I've read lately. I have three that I want to leave oodles of glowing praise for, but my brain cells are currently occupied elsewhere. It's good consolation to know that it's always fun to get comments weeks after posting.
Everyone and their dog (including people I usually agree with) is raving about that damn Atlantic article so I feel like I need to go read it again. See what/how I read it wrong. That's absolutely taking second priority to the comment-leaving though, for reasons which can be (ironically?) inferred from the article itself. Hard to get motivated to do so, though, when this article by Laurie Penny (I love her so much y'all, she has yet to disappoint me with anything) is fucking brilliant and moving. I'm including it in this week's dump, but it pairs well as a companion piece to the Atlantic one, imo.
Waiting formckitterick to get up so I can start cooking. Probably the best way to do that is start working on Ghost Story...
Found on Twitter:
- Kyoshi Warriors cosplay at New York Comic Con.
- Me, a bridge member of Gen X and a survivor of Windows 95: *watches while rocking back and forth, measuring the progress bar religiously at intervals, saying incantations for a safe install
- Weilan fanart that puts into perfect visual that moment in Lollipop when ZYL tips backward into the bed. I know the artist didn't purposefully illustrate my fic, but other than them wearing the wrong clothes, that's 100% how I pictured it.
- Super cute Zhu Jiu fanart
- Gorgeous Weilan fanart promoting a library event (?)
- This short Twitter thread from naye makes me happy for people in non-shithole countries with reasonable employment laws. When I got sick(er), my department chair at the time fought me every step of the way, including telling me I couldn't work from home any more than I already had (even though I could absolutely do at least 75% of my job remotely). When a new chair took over the department, she was supportive of my cautious return-to-work schedule but her efforts couldn't save me from being laid off (a university decision based, I'm sure, largely on my long absences despite stellar annual reviews and a spotless 20-year employment history in the job).
- Fairy tale Weilan fanart. After loving FayJay's Guardian Gothic so much, I am here for more Guardian fairy AUs. I mean, I'm always up for fairy tales, especially ones with Actual Faerie Danger, so this isn't surprising. So who's up for writing them? It's not me! I have a Canadian Shack, a porny one-shot, and Garage Mechanic AU lined up. Get on it, folks!
- I love behind the scenes stuff (such a sucker for DVD extras) and this bts photo from Guardian cracks me up. That is exactly the Zhu Hong in Ghost Story's expression after Zhao Yunlan has made yet another spectacularly bad life choice. Poor thing looks So Done.
umadoshi <3 !). Yet another thing my job loss took--fun and simple access to people speaking loads of different language (a rarity here in the heartland of these fine united states). Couple days ago I saw this headline about China breeding pigs "the size of polar bears" and then yesterday I saw this one about pigs using tools. Maybe this is the sign of the true end times. In this, the worst timeline, we're going to be taken over by my favorite animal for eating. I always suspected it might be the case, but it appears that yes, I probably am going to be one of the first against the wall in this age's revolution.
Before the revolution comes, though, I want to go back and comment to so many fics I've read lately. I have three that I want to leave oodles of glowing praise for, but my brain cells are currently occupied elsewhere. It's good consolation to know that it's always fun to get comments weeks after posting.
Everyone and their dog (including people I usually agree with) is raving about that damn Atlantic article so I feel like I need to go read it again. See what/how I read it wrong. That's absolutely taking second priority to the comment-leaving though, for reasons which can be (ironically?) inferred from the article itself. Hard to get motivated to do so, though, when this article by Laurie Penny (I love her so much y'all, she has yet to disappoint me with anything) is fucking brilliant and moving. I'm including it in this week's dump, but it pairs well as a companion piece to the Atlantic one, imo.
Waiting for
mckitterick to get up so I can start cooking. Probably the best way to do that is start working on Ghost Story...