It is not, shall we say, cheering to be An Old in the present circumstance.
And, okay, I quite take the validity of arguments that, actually, we are not spent forces and we are still useful creatures in one way and another, and indeed it is encouraging to see signs, for example, that I am Still A Respected Historian, and so on -
- though this is ( Read more... )

Interview with Joanna Russ (from 2011): Russ reflects on her initial responses to slash fandom and considers its political and social meanings in the 1980s and today.
Leaflets falsely claim pupils taught masturbation in relationship classes: Flyers also accuse schools of promoting ‘transgenderism and homosexual lifestyles’ (Dept of, Description is ( Read more... )

My life in sex: the married man who goes cottaging.
Okay, I am not getting moralistic over the anonymous sex in public toilets aspect, diffr'nt strokes for diffr'nt folks, etc,
BUT [W]e married when I was 27 and she was 25. We had a vanilla sex life for the first 10 years, after which I decided we should stop. For 29 years we have had no sexual ( Read more... )

My reading page is currently, well, full would be exaggerating, but showing a significant number of posts which are saying welcome to Tumblr refugees -
- and indeed I welcome Tumblr refugees and I'm delighted to see more people turning up on Dreamwidth and people who haven't posted for yonks posting again and a general sense of things happening.
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I hope that, when I see people very wrought up about something that does not have the same resonance for me, I do not go around saying poo-poo and declaring that they should not be feeling what they are feeling.
In fact, this may be a good time to call attention once more to my posting of the amazing Dr Petra Boyton's piece about the intention of ( Read more... )

Dr Petra Boynton on how to cope when your favourite band breaks up:
Telegraph Wonder Women agony aunt Dr Petra Boynton offers advice and support to distraught fans of One Direction, who have announced they will be 'taking a break' from March 2016
It's actually about what being in a fandom does for the people who are in and why they might feel ( Read more... )

I have been noting latterly that there are mournful threnodies over DW/LJ (also various over the decline/death of fandom/s) hither and yon.
I'm here.
This may be my long-time tendency to find something that suits me - it may not be perfect, but I could do a lot worse - and carry on sticking with it, which is why I have been living in the same flat ( Read more... )

This comment was in a post linked via my lj flist: 'In terms of fandom, this is not a young group: The average member is about 35 years of age.'

That is, people who were born after I'd graduated and been in the work-force for over a decade, the dessicated crones.

I've been thinking lately - having recently entered my 7th decade, become eligible for ( Read more... )

Also 'I am a seagull... no, I am a hedgehog'.

Lots of juicy discussion going on hither and yon provoked by this post of
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That was great! Lots of swirly ideas intersecting like dodgem cars.

Fangirl squee moment: standing in the queue for the ladies' loo with Lois McMaster Bujold and Emma Bull.

Other lovely moments, for which squee is entirely inadequate:

Lunch with pameladean. This was wonderful (of course, like Julia in the Hilary Tamar mysteries, I am a sucker for people who ( Read more... )