so, in light of my post from earlier this week, this piece on Shakesville about the way women's reproductive choices (particularly women who do not choose to have children) are audited is a thing I saw today. I really like the way that it addresses both the "women are loving and nurturing INTRINSICALLY!" thing and the idea of "having it all," and ( Read more... )

I would like to have a useful post full of things, but today was a shitty day at work and DCP has drained my everything (I have a lot of things I want to say about running a LARP but lolsob I don't have brain for it right now so maybe Sunday after this is over), but in the meantime, I have been reading many interesting things around the Internet ( Read more... )

( minor adventures in dentistry, good outcome, no gross details )

TUG is a kickstarter project to create an MMO open-world sandbox-style RPG. It looks to combine elements of Minecraft, Skyrim, and Glitch (for a convenient shorthand), and I've been super excited by the development team's updates. The one today, for example, talked about how they don't want white male to be the default and some of the steps they ( Read more... )

Courtesy
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So since I see that there's an influx of people on Dreamwidth now, this seems like as good a time as any to share some communities and Other Places to Find Me, and also, it's time for Promptmas!

Comms I Mod Or Enjoy on Dreamwidth

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Day 3:

Wordcount: 6237
Writing Time: 3 hours? I was very distractable.
Victory du Jour: $Hero and $Heroine are talking to each other.
Argh du Jour: I am still terrible at writing porn, and worse at it on a deadline, and I can't even fade to black because it's actually plot- and character-relevant. ffffffff.

In non-NaNo news, I think this ( Read more... )

But it's a really good thing to read: Seanan McGuire on ebooks and print books, and how saying "everything is going to be ebooks" actually means (however unintentionally) "poor people don't deserve to read." It's a really good read. I recommend it ( Read more... )

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