As a cis het, I experience Pride Month as a more concentrated than usual opportunity to celebrate friends*; identification feels like appropriation. Still, I've enjoyed wearing my stealth gray-ace necklace, courtesy of
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Need to write the last part of the Star Trek con report (cast panels!) but not at the moment. Just wanted to say:

(1) Started N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season this week. Bit of initial... what's the term for when there's a hump to get over and then things are good? Anyway, I'm enjoying it now. I was trying to figure out who this one character, ( Read more... )

I had a great weekend at con_txt. It was so nice to see friends again, and to make some new acquaintances ( Read more... )

Life Things are Happening that I will talk about soon, and that has made things busy. As usual. What is the pathology for inability to chill out ( Read more... )

First post about the book
Second post about the bookThrough page 514/the "end ( Read more... )

Speaking of vividcon. Who among you is going? I know kassrachel is, and I'm assuming obsessive24 and anoel?
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Vividcon vid: Done and submitted! Only took about a day, in the end. A day and three years, OMG. I think that leaves just one more vid to clear out from the ancient WIP pile, post-computer meltdown & rebuilds etc ( Read more... )

Part one
Part two

Okay, we are going chronologically-ish through the rest. This doc is up to page 11 in Word; I don't have the energy to organize it in any more nuanced way!

( The Rule of Names )

(Part one is here)Okay, apparently I'm not done talking about names, because I neglected to mention down-from-NY hannahrorlove yesterday as well as some other locals I don't usually get to see, like sharkie/wolfshark, plus new and/or vaguely recalled faces or usernames who have now solidified into full-fledged people in my brain-tell me I'm not the ( Read more... )

This month's mini-challenge at
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