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More Dramas That I Have Somehow Finished

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:50:26 GMT

A follow-up to this post.

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On J.K. Rowling's TERF-dom

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:04:21 GMT

When I learned that J.K. Rowling was a TERF it didn't have a big impact on my life. The only fact I've ever particularly liked about J.K. Rowling is that she apparently pays her taxes, which is, really, such a low bar for someone to meet. Her media persona and the narrative of her writing the books that was put out didn't grab me. I wasn't a fan of hers.

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2024/2025 Goals

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 04:35:04 GMT

Today's snowflake challenge is goal-setting.

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Road to Avonlea

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:54:58 GMT

In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

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(mildly sleep-deprived)

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:23:38 GMT

4ever by jarrow
D.E.B.S. | 3:04 | G | Amy/Lucy
Summary: We ain't gonna live forever...
Music: 4ever by The Veronicas
+jarrow's got a note just over their vid embed that reads, in part: "happy lesbian hijinks." That's this vid. They are so gay and the movie is so camp and it is glorious pop-driven wallow in Amy and Lucy's love story in all of its camp gay glory.

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Fanwork Trailers

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:49:14 GMT

When rageprufrock published Drastically Redefining Protocol in 2008-2009 I gleefully read it, and when zoetrope posted their Drastically Redefining Protocol Trailer (2009, February 2) I made everyone I knew who had seen at least the first episode of Merlin and had some idea what fanfiction was watch it.

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Five Things (Snowflake Challenge #10)

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 02:46:13 GMT

Five Things! The five things are totally up to you. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

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This is a campaign. I am campaigning.

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 04:35:31 GMT

(ETA: The poll has closed with "Trans & Non-Binary Characters" in the lead.)

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Montréal at Ottawa - January 2, 2024 (Snowflake Challenge #6)

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 01:45:13 GMT

In your own space, share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

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2023/2024 Goals

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:54:52 GMT

The second snowflake_challenge of this year is to set yourself some goals for the coming year.

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(This is me venting.)

Sat, 16 Dec 2023 03:32:17 GMT

When Donald Trump was elected in 2016 I stayed up into the early hours of the morning, drinking wine and Skyping with a friend of a similar level of investment and an increasing amount of despair as the evening wound down. Next day's morning transit felt isolating, funereal, but as that day and all of the days progressed there was this thing that kept happening: people would make asides and vent.

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On Palestine

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 05:16:23 GMT

Some recommended reads, many of them via Ed Yong's newsletter:

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Things sure are happening.

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 20:43:00 GMT

The Saskatchewan government invoked the notwithstanding clause to pass their Parents' Bill of Rights a week ago. There were nation-wide anti-LGBTQ2SIA+ rallies that Saturday, and also No Space For Hate rallies. OPSEU (Ontario Public Service Employees Union) put out a pretty good events round-up during the organisational period, so they may be a space to watch if you're in Ontario and not linked up to your local group yet. The way things are going I'm sure we'll be out again with our rainbow kit before long.

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Fake WIP meme

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 14:26:20 GMT

Soph (sophia_sol) posted this meme a few days ago and I was delighted? It is a delightful meme, so I have decided to play.

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37:27 Vid Playlist for Pride

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 02:55:51 GMT

I went to a parade this summer where I ended up pretty close to some noisy anti-gay come-to-Jesus types - which really shifted that parade experience into attempting to build a protective wall of sound for the other attendees rather than just being at the parade - and then I came home and realised that I wanted a vid playlist for Pride that I didn't have. This is it.

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it has been a time

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 02:18:54 GMT

dates for iftar by eruthros
Breaking Fast | 2:37 | G | Mo/Kal, Mo & Sam
Summary: Food and love and friendship during Ramadan.
Music: Leila by Clarissa Bitar feat Abby Abdel-Khalek
+ So one of the things that this vid has gifted me is the knowledge that this film exists: it's a film about a queer Muslim man, set during Ramadan, who brings a boy home, and there's a HEA. There are some great shots of food, and people enjoying food. There's also a wonderful tension in this vid: there's music and feelings and mistakes and ridiculous gestures and the best *chinhands*-inducing ending scene.

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It's happening

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:04:26 GMT

The PHF and the PWHPA are set to merge and launch a new professional women's hockey league in January. The PWHPA members need to approve it still, but it's looking pretty good.

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Conservation Webinars I watched in May

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:31:34 GMT

North American Firefly ID Course (May 1-3, 2023 | Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation)
I enjoyed this! I'm always down for people to tell me about their specialty and I learned a whole bunch about the fireflies in my area and also the world, a bit. Oliver Keller, who works with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, delivered the course and he's a systematics and taxonomy guy which was fun because it translated into having really up to date phylogenetic trees. He was a bit more oral-based than I generally like and could have done a better job in giving his audience a solid basis in insect fundamentals, but I know all of this stuff about fireflies now and have a folder full of journal papers. He's also one of those dudes that is like - hit me up for scientific journals - which is really generous and something that I really appreciate because scientific publishing is like a vampire's castle. He used a lot of his own photos for this, which meant that sometimes the visual aids skewed tropical, which was neat from a diversity perspective.
The talk was set up as a three day training course for people interested in getting involved in the Xerces Society's Firefly Atlas, which is a global project, but is just launching and so has a very USA-centric focus since that's where they're based - the third day of talks was just key American firefly species that are very cool and also don't occur in Canada at all. One of the neat things about the project that sets it apart from the existing citizen science projects is the ability to upload videos, which is really useful in firefly identification because of how specific their flash patterns are. I'm excited about it.

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Dramas that I have, somehow, finished

Wed, 24 May 2023 23:36:49 GMT

Thirteen! Thirteen dramas that I have finished since covid hit, and have remembered - full-stop, and also sufficiently well to have some grasp of the ending. (There is at least one drama that I definitely watched all of, but I can tell you nothing about the ending; I have emotionally bonded and remembered that part of it, not at all.) So: these are the dramas that I have watched recently(-ish) that I have found compelling. They are basically entirely(?) absurd romantic comedies because I have been leaning hard into the escapism these past few years, and also because: I like a romance, I like a comedy, and I like some crack treated seriously. Some of them are less comedic or absurd than others.

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Music for Victoria Day

Fri, 19 May 2023 20:50:51 GMT

It's Victoria Day weekend here - the official unofficial launch of summer. People put their plants in the ground, open up their cottages, fire up their barbeques, and crank up their radio equivalents. It's often a weekend of being awash in your neighbours' music and the smell of charcoal.

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A Call to Action

Thu, 18 May 2023 23:59:45 GMT

#EndOTWRacism's two-week action runs May 17 - 31. You can read more about it here on their tumblr.

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Gardening for Life on This Planet

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 14:54:05 GMT

While plants don't go into the ground where I live until the Victoria Day long weekend* it is garden-planning season and people are starting their seeds inside and ordering seeds and plants right now. So, it feels like a good time to post about how you can use plants to support diverse species, how to plan your garden, what kind of things you should be looking for at your local plant sellers and what kind of questions you should be asking them.

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Trees of Tomorrow

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 02:28:01 GMT

glitteryv prompted, "Something you're looking forward to (next week, month or year)" and that thing is a new field guide for the trees of Ontario.

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Three Fics

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 02:29:54 GMT

This entry was written for hollowhearts' prompt, "rec 3 of your all time favourite fics and talk about why you like them".

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A smattering of meta on the way to the meta

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 03:59:40 GMT

hollowhearts prompted, "share a piece of fandom meta you think everyone should read (either general or fandom-specific)" and I don't know if I believe that there's one piece of fandom meta that everyone should read. There's stuff that I've enjoyed immensely and that has enriched my life, but, I do don't know about this everyone should read business.

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