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giving myself lots of kudos for writing a lot this week!
writing ramble )

please feel free to join in my continuing angst journey about my big queer breakup of this past six months, but also no pressure, this is just cathartic for me.
relationship-implosion ramble )
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vis a vis my auto-generated document outline (title redacted, ofc)
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Personal Friday update is that I am doing graduate school apps, and if I have to write one more sentence that starts "my approach" or "my tactics" or "my project" or "my grounding", I am going to lose my mind.
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"Good robots are trans, bad ones are cis."


This is a ongoing not/joke between a close friend of mine who shares some of my cryptid gender feelings, without really isolating what we might actually be saying. We said it, originally, to reference the way some robot stories reach into unnameable and incomprehensible body/gender feelings for us, and re-create that experience. So it is about, specifically, transness. But it also feels like a broader queer statement, the whole experience of moving not in opposition, but orthogonally; in invisible dimensions. I think it illustrates for me what it means to queer an idea. So: why I love some robot stories, and viscerally overwhelmingly loathe others, a non-comprehensive list.

unsolicited robot ramblings )
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I watched 5x05 of Orphan Black yesterday, had a libido-driven panic attack about Cosima in a suit talking about genetics, went to AO3, and discovered this gem. God bless tag wranglers. God bless tagging. God bless whisperspaces. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that Orphan Black has the extremely specific-to-this-fandom tag, which I absolutely adore, of.... AO3 screenshot of a tag reading Alternate Universe - Non-Clones (Orphan Black)


Whisperspace )
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Romanian gravestone with the names Emil Muller - 1916 and Xaver Suñer - 1917updated version, post proper research: it was just very beautiful fiction :( but the gravestone is real, and I will take this as an instructional lesson in story telling tactics (statement via google translate)


I came across a delightful & tragic WWI gays thread on Twitter, one of those "I found a cool thing, and then I dug for the story behind it." My absolute favorite genre! I haven't fact checked it properly (honestly, I'm not even sure how I would), but regardless I wept.

The twitter thread (in English) is here:
a gay love story of the 1st world war
There is also a collated version, if you despise long twitter threads:
  threader version

The reason you should read it is because it is the (a?) story behind this Romanian gravestone, and features letters, mysterious paintings, and a quest through a small Romanian town.



whisperspace )

felinejumper: Cosima Niehaus smiling in lab coat (science)
spitballing some pseudocode solutions to a purely personal stats issue, mostly for my own later reference.

problem: Goodreads has no record of the astounding amount of fanfiction I’ve read this year -->  my book count is impossibly and inaccurately low (31!! for shame!). But like...at least two fics I can think of are about the length of Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire, longer than anything from LOTR, etc etc, and I’ve read them all at least twice in the past year, and I know I've read the Paradox series + Best and Brightest at least four times, and in the heady winter 2018 days I just chewed through fanfiction every moment of my life. And I love end of the year lists and stats!
solution: code that hikes through one's AO3 history + spits out some stats of one's choosing in an organized & beautiful fashion
pseudo-code layout )
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hello, hi;

on ao3 here (current fic population: 3).

updated 21.02.13 to say my Big Things right now are the untamed and the magnus archives so that's...that's me.

some other things i like:

  • virginia woolf
  • science fiction of all sorts (with a heavy bent towards Butler/LeGuin style, and the newer era of 'fuck empire we're gay')
  • vegetable gardens
  • libraries & librarians & archival science
  • fantasy of all sorts (with an even heavier bend towards, you guessed it, 'fuck empire we're gay')
  • ....pirates ('fuck empire we're gay' yes ok you get the theme) *fandom
  • history of science, especially the history of life sciences, especially the role of science in identity formation (like!! let's talk! about lesbians in the 20s in america!! and the creation of lesbian as a category that people could inhabit?)
  • Fraught Fucking
  • dubious mentorship
  • trans robots vs cis robots (I hate Westworld, and i LOVE to hate Westworld, I'm sorry, I cannot stop reveling in my hate. edit: v1 of an attempt to tackle this here)
  • storytelling (did I mention fan of fandom)
  • bread production tactics & fancy icing tactics
  • f/f emotions

say hi, i am usually slow to get back but that's just me, not you, I promise.

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(cross posted from tumblr)

hymnsofheresy:

I can’t believe that the sacredness of shared meals is not well known???

Mealtime is an extremely important cultural and social ritual. There are psychological benefits for cooking for other people, and serving a meal stabilizes the emotions between the provider and the receiver. Cooking with your partner, like accomplishing any task together, strengthens relationships. Eating together strengthens communal bonds and helps with mental health. Sharing the same food with someone else builds trust, cooperation, and a sense of connectivity. It’s a shame how in our fast paced society we don’t value the importance of regularly breaking bread with one another

I got angsty about food culture and thought about That Break Up & food connections & prioritizing community building tactics that work for me, personally.

what it says on the tin )

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[cross-posting from Tumblr]

hello! hi! wow! wow.

I'm so excited to be doing Yuletide this year, it is my very first time so we’ll see how it goes. But in general, I am SO hyped that you're writing for me and so excited for Dec. 25th.
My three fandoms that I am requesting are: The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf, Emelan/Circle of Magic by Tamora Pierce, Traitor Baru Cormorant by the mysterious Seth Dickinson!

Things I like and like less )
The Voyage Out )
Emelan - Tamora Pierce )
Traitor Baru Cormorant )

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