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October 14, 1977, Anita Bryant is pied for her antigay bigotry at a press conference in Des Moines, IA by Thom Higgins.
He then followed up with, "Thank you for coming to Des Moines, God bless you, have a nice day." Also known for Tinker vs Des Moines, Des Moines really was lit back in the day.
Does anyone have recommendations for books about disability/with disabled characters in?
The Vorkosigan Saga series by Lois McMaster Bujold (any of the books with Miles as a protagonist are disabled lead/hero and most others include background disability) The Sharing Knife series by Louis McMaster Bujold (mc is an amputee) Harrow the Ninth by Tamsin Muir (second in a series, mc has psychosis/schizophrenia) Murder in Williamstown by Kerry Greenwood (22 in a series but probably readable as a standalone, features a school for the blind in the late 1920s with several speaking roles for blind characters) Machine by Elizabeth Bear (second in a series but readable as a standalone, mc has chronic pain and uses mobility aids) The Dreamer Trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater (YA/NA, mc has depression/magical chronic illness, own voices) Unwell Women: Misdiagnoses and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn (non-fiction, author has lupus) Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (YA/NA, mc has anxiety, sc is alcoholic, sc has bipolar) Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan (middle grade/YA, mc and sc have ADHD) All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks (non-fiction/memoir, characters with AIDS) Brotherband Chronicles seres by John Flannagan (middle grade/YA, sc is an amputee)
Oo thank you these are wonderful! A couple of these are already on the list but most of them are new, so thank you!
Blue jacket, episode 12. Lupin is shot by M16 and Zenigata tracks him down (worried about him the entire way). Zenigata demands that M16 gives Lupin to him because he knows about Nyx. M16 is the same group that kidnapped Rebecca and was going to kill her so Zenigata is in real danger of being killed in cold blood and M16 getting away with it. M16 makes a deal with Zenigata for his silence and the inspector says that he only cares about Lupin and getting him out of danger. Once our heroes are safely driving away they talk about love. Lupin says that Zenigata wouldn’t understand and Zenigata replies, softly: “Without me, who knows where you’d be now.”
Translation: Dead, he’d be dead.
Zenigata saved Lupin out of love! X3
(Contains five photo parts)
I loved this scene SO MUCH!!! <3 <3 <3
Literally the best scene in the whole of Blue Jacket.
Fun fact: When Zenigata asks him what he stole, Lupin actually replies with “I wasn’t working.” To which Zenigata scoffs, in complete disbelief that he’d get into this much trouble for no reason, “‘Not working,’ you say.” “I know it’s stupid,” Lupin admits, “But I procured a worthwhile ‘little something’ out of it anyway.” “And what’s that?” “Isn’t it obvious?” “Hm?” “Love.” And that’s why they look at his eyes, draw him so carefully here. Because it’s said that you can see love on a person’s face, in their soul. They just come alive. (This is also an example of why a light touch on translation is usually best with anime and film. In really good titles, they chose *those exact verbs* for a reason. Properly translated, Lupin himself, and Blupin in general, is really, really romantic in its dialog, which is so rare to get in English media. The above subs are still better than the official ones I had, though.)
Update: here is the fic I wrote revolving around this episode, based on the translation I did here in this post and the thoughts I derived from the OP.
I just want to repost this to the top because it's still my favorite translation I've ever done.
writing prompt: whatever is going here
When I think of New York City, this is the both the life and the people I imagine living there.
Indiginerds collects work from over a dozen Indigenous artists and writers! From gaming to social media, pirateradio to garagebands, Star Tr
An excellent project to back, and it won't break the bank, either! You can get the previous anthology, Woman in the Woods, as an add-on, too!
Y'know, Our Flag was somewhere on my list of shows to watch and then this post informed me that there's big "Peter Pan on a Ship, possibly Rufio" genderqueer vibes, and it's blasted to the top of my list like a canon ball aiming for a mast. Just look at that cutlass! Those rope pauldrons!! The literal fishnet sleeves. The extra belts on one's thighs?? The leather gauntlets ALSO with extra belts, just for folks who like that sort of thing?! Bae please, you've gotten all the punctuation out of me and a new haircut too. hhhhff I have a need
All of these books are queer, but they all have back blurbs that don’t say they’re queer. While this can be a pain if I’m scouting for queer SFF, it can come in handy for people in a situation where they don’t want to be reading queer books openly.
Please do note that I don’t have hard copies of the books on hand so it’s possible that an author quote or something mentions one being queer (I feel like this isn’t super likely, but I don’t want to rule it out). Some might also have author biographies mentioning that the author is queer. Also, some may be shelved as LGBT on Goodreads or categorized as queer on Amazon. So if you’re planning on asking for any of these as holiday gifts, I would suggest going to the Amazon page or where ever your relative is likely to buy it from and double check that it’s something you’d be comfortable with sharing openly.
I wish I had more pansexual books, but the ones I know of tend to mention queerness in the back description.
With the exception of The Spy with the Red Balloon, these are all books I have read or are currently reading. If you want to recommend others, feel free to do so in the replies!
You can find my other queer book recommendations here.
Links to the queer books database (or Goodreads if the book hasn’t been added yet) are available below the cut. You can find information on content warnings there.
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Rec list the third! Seriously, that blog is gold.
I did another post on this topic last year, but I thought it could use an update with some more books! And yes, the last post had people repeatedly adding on queer books by white people, so I’m a bit salty about it.
Other queer SFF PowerPoints:
Massive queer SFF rec post
Trans SFF
F/F SFF
Bi and Pan SFF
Ace SFF
I’m not transcribing all the text, but you can find the titles, authors, information on TW, etc beneath the cut.
When possible, I’m linking to my database of queer books. The page for each book includes the synopsis, content warnings under spoiler tags, and links to reviews from queer readers. If it’s not in the queer database at the time of posting (8/24/19), I’ll link to Goodreads instead.
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You've combined my two favorite things, fantasy books and flow charts. Sexy.
queer books that didn’t disappoint me the way everything else has. please enjoy.
The Song of Achilles is my actual favorite book, has won impressive awards, the author is a great speaker, and it completely destroys the notion that you have to stay away from passive voice. The entire book is passive voice, in a way that makes invisible people feel so seen--and it's something nobody talks about. Check it out for yourself!
I'm reading your Squadcars fic and thank you so so much for how you write Zenigata. I'm brand new to the franchise and he's my favourite character and you do such a good job of making him a balance of competent and caring. All of the kudos to you, all of them.
I have no idea how long ago this was from, but here I am, better late than never! (I hope) I do adore competent and caring Zenigata. Looking back I'm a little concerned about how many Anger Issues he has, but I'm glad the fandom has accepted him anyway. <3 Writing this in 2023, If you like Zenigata as I write him, you might also consider reading Reset by Vandereer. Absolutely best version of Zenigata I've ever seen, and which I've been waiting for all these years. Bless late-stage fandom fics, they tend to be the most marvelous creations of all.
Your fic "On girls guys and squad cars" is giving me such angst, feels, questions and brain teasers. This is the level of a "wait, this isn't canon, don't searrch for this on official Lupin Wiki" quality of the written fanwork.
Thank you so much, you are a Grade-A peach. I know I've been away from A03 for a long while, but it's not because I've abandoned my stories nor the people reading them. I do hope to continue writing and posting them just as soon as I'm mentally well enough again. You all have made writing so fun and fulfilling through engagement like this, and that is something I miss the most about not being able to write these last few years. The world has gotten darker in many corners, and I'm in a bit of a dark place myself right now. But I hope you all are doing your best to understand, learn, and connect to others in healthy ways, just as Lupin, Zenigata, and Marti are. If, for some reason, my fics never get finished, please feel free to write your own ending. That is, after all, what life's all about.
So I misread a website today as “geologenie” and I think that needs to be a thing kthxbai
Together, the Mountain Star Ruby Collection weighs in at a staggering 342.46 ct! By comparison, the Smithsonian Museum has on display a star ruby described as one of the world’s largest. That ruby weighs 138 ct., about a carat less than the Appalachian Star.
The names of these things are on point.
I know discourse is the word of choice in fandom nowadays but I kind of wish we would have stuck with “fandom wank” because it carries the implication that the anger involved culminated into effectively nothing and that the act was wholeheartedly masturbatory in nature rather than for any greater cause.
I saw this post about an hour after I saw a post that said, essentially, “There should be a word for that thing where [exactly describes ‘squeeing’].”
I feel like the time has come to produce something like this:
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Squee: The noise you make when something is so good that all you can really do is squeak or squeal. A high pitched sound of delight, often accomanied by hugging yourself or others.
Squick: A fic/art/concept/topic that is repellent to you, so you reject association with it and instead retreat to your personal comfortable spaces- all the while remembering that someone else’s comfort is not your own.
YKINMKATO: Also called “kink tomato.” Abbreviation meaning “your kink is not my kink, and that’s okay.” Used to explain why you are rejecting art or fic brought to you by someone else. A solid mantra to recall instead of sending flames in people’s comments
Flames: The comment equivalent of anon hate.
AMV: “animated music video” or “anime music video.” Often, this is stylized to fit a specific fandom, such as a “PMV” (pony music video) in my little pony. May also be referred to as a lyricstuck.
Filk: Combination of the words “film” and “folk,” this is a music genre, to which “fan songs” and “fan parody covers” belong. If you don’t really understand what this means, take a quick listen to American Pie, then compare Weird Al Yankovic’s Saga Begins
BNF: Big name fan. You know that one person who is just so fuckign popular in your fandom? Their art is always on your dash, everyone knows their fics? Being spoken to directly by them is basically being noticed by everyone ever’s senpai? That’s what these people are called.
DL:DR; Not unliked the teal deer (tl;dr, or “too long, didn’t read”), DLDR means “don’t like? Don’t read!” It’s a reminder that you are under no obligation, ever, to expose yourself to uncomfortable (or, squicky), or potentially harmful (or, triggering), material. Not ever. If you don’t actively like something? It’s not worth your time. Skip it.
Gen: or “genfic” “genart” etc. Fan works which contain no or very little romantic content. Often these are styled after the canon material, and may be called “episodic” ro “slice of life” in addition.
Lemon: Work containing strong pornographic elements
Lime, or Citrus: Work containing mild or implicit pornographic elements
Sockpuppeting: The surprisingly common scenario of someone making a bunch of fake accounts/sideblogs to send themselves reviews or hate, to try to increase views or drama surrounding a work. The accounts they make are called Sockpuppets.
WAFF: Warm and fluffy feelings. A genre of fic that exists just to be therapeutically sweet. Nowadays, usually just called “fluffy.”
Schmoop: Take WAFF and somehow make it even more syrupy. You’ll know it when you see it.
Whump: Imagine if you will, a hurt-comfort fic. The comfort might be considered WAFF. The hurt? That’s the whump.
Wapanese: When white autors pepper their anime fanfic with random, tonally inappropriate japanese words.
Anthropomorfic: Nowadays we just call these “humanstuck” or “humanized AU.”
Wank: Wildly disproportionate drama that crops up because someone wrote/drew/did something that someone else didn’t like. Seriously, I cannot begin to express the fiascos that have come about from all this. Just… Just go look at this.
Plot bunny: Story ideas that you probably won’t ever actually deal with, but that multiply entirely out of control, creating huge worlds in your head that you’re probably not going to write. But hey! You might! And until then they make great sideblogs/askblogs/tumblr posts.
Casefic: Fanfics that try to create an episode-like feel for procedural and crime dramas, moster of the week shows, etc.
Jossed: When popular fan theories and fanon are addressed in the canon of a series, and whoops, turns out we were all very, very wrong.
Kripked: When popular fan theories and fanon are addressed in the canon of a show and, hot damn, we fucking called it.
Secret Masters: The people who run the websites/ communities/etc that we all do our fanning on. Less relevant now that we have things like tumblr, but when everyone had to run their own archival and social sites for each fandom, it was more important to pay our respects to the strange and powerful beings that brought us all together and gave us our fannish homes. Think the staff of AO3, for example.
Bashing: When a writer purposefully writes a specific character as a horrible, horrible person so that they can throw them out of the storyline, usually to allow their OTP to get together without trouble. Distinct from fridging in that it doesn’t require the character to die, but rather to be such a screaming harpy that they get rightfully removed from the main characters’ lives for being an abusive hell beast. Generally, a type of character hate. Be wary of people who bash women, queer people, and POC with consistency: they are not safe to be around.
‘Squick’ also has an alternate horrible meaning for Harry Potter fans who were in fandom a while back. Dear god.
Drabble: A fic that is EXACTLY 100 words. Often used as a creative exercise in telling a story in a very small constraint.
Ficlet: Fic that clocks in somewhere between 100 to 2.5K words.
Crossover: A piece of media in which two or more source materials are treated as the same universe. Characters from Fandom A can meet characters from Fandom B. (The Doctor Goes To Hogwarts And Meet Harry Potter!)
Fusion: A fusion takes the characters of one source material and *surplants* them into another universe entirely. Characters from Fandom A cannot meet characters from Fandom B. (Dave Strider is part of an Inception team!)
TPTB: The Powers That Be. Almost always redundantly referred to as “the TPTB.” A collective term for showrunners, actors, producers, writers, et al, anyone who is part of the team that creates the source material.
YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary. A shorthand way of saying “this is how I see it/have experienced it though I realize others might have a different perspective.”
Tinhatting: Often used in RPF fandoms, the situation where some fans are convinced two celebrities are in a relationship but its being kept a secret.
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Useful beyond all reason. I’ve learnt so much!!
Smarm: A subset of hurt-comfort fic, usually novelette-length or longer, in which two characters of the same perceived gender, one of whom is the whumpee and the other of whom is usually the comforter, experience (and usually, often in the final or penultimate scene, express) intense emotional attachment to each other that matches or exceeds the emotional intensity of romantic or sexual feelings in standard shipfic but is never explicitly stated to be anything other than platonic friendship.
Seme / Uke and THE SLASH - For a long time in western anime fandoms, a romantic pairing was described by putting the dominant character first and subordinate character second.after a forward slash mark. This was usually male-male homoerotic in nature and thus the precursor to gay lemons was referred to as “Slash” or “slash fiction.” Still in use by older fans.
Seme and uke mean “dominant” and “submissive” in Japanese, respectively, and were popularized in doujins. Doujin / Doujinshi - Fan comics. The term is Japanese and usually refers to Japanese fan comics (which tend to be homo-pornographic but not always). Doujin is the proper term whereas Doujinshi means the doujin artist/creator, though this was not widely known when the word was imported so in America the common term used for the books is, erroneously, “Doujinshi.”
A mask can be as revealing as concealing. “To masque the face” is “t'unmasque the mind,” English novelist Henry Field tells us. There are masks and costumes so powerful they obliterate the wearer’s personality and change him or her into another being entirely. The ceremonial mask, suggests Herbert M. Cole, professor emeritus of African art history at University of California, Santa Barbara, allows the wearer to truly say: “I am not myself.”
For more than 30 years, Phyllis Galembo has been fascinated by masks and costumes and photographed them in countries from Benin to Zambia. Most recently, she has turned her lens on Mexico. Her newly published book Mexico Masks/Rituals (Radius Books/D.A.P.) restores the mask — and the political, cultural, religious and social messages it can telegraph — from tourist commodity to its role as an artifact of ritual and celebration.
We spoke to Galembo by phone. The interview is edited for length and clarity.
A Photographer’s Vision Of The Magical Masks Of Mexico
Photos: Phyllis Galembo
anyone else ever daydream for 6 hours straight and then after ur just like nah let’s scrap that and do it all again but slightly to the left
my brain: *out of breath* Was that good?!
Me in a beret, taking a long draft from a cigarette and leaning back in my director’s chair: once again, from the top, this time with feeling
Proofreading my fic when it’s the start and mostly gen adventure and pining: wow, this is good, how did I ever write this?
Proofreading the parts where the characters have to acknowledge their feelings: wow, this is so bad, how did I ever write this?
