20 | they/them | Resident Clown |Gremlin_of_Space on AO3 Moderator for Pride & Politics: a Gallifrey audio series anniversary Zine Also the person that’s working on a massive crochet project
So exciting to see this fanzine as an actual book! Multiple books, in fact! (We ordered one proof copy but the manufacturer sent extras for no additional cost.)
Merch orders are in progress, and we’ll update you all as those orders (and the full print run of the zine) arrive!
Hey students, here’s a pro tip: do not write an email to your prof while you’re seriously sick.
Signed, a person who somehow came up with “dear hello, I am sick and not sure if I’ll be alive to come tomorrow and I’m sorry, best slutantions, [name]”.
As someone who has taught college, please send those emails because 1) We WILL believe that; no one would write that on purpose and 2) we need a laugh sometimes.
On the other side of this, once after getting taken to the ER by ambulance, I got an email from the professor whose class I’d passed out in, and the message had no text, just the subject line “you good?”
Claritin makes me weird, but I have allergies so there’s about a month and a half block of time where I’m taking Claritin and am just weird most of the time.
Anyway, my last year of college, I got the flu or something in late March and was also taking Mucinex. I told my professor I couldn’t come to class one day by email except I couldnt think of what to say, so my medicated ass decided to make a Fry meme. I think it said something like “Not sure if I can go to class with a head the size of Texas, bottom text.” I didn’t think until the next day that it probably wasn’t socially-acceptable to tell your philosophy professor you weren’t coming to class via Tumblr style memes. When i got back to class, i found that she’d printed it out and taped it to the classroom bulletin board.
Once emailed a professor from my hospital bed high on painkillers after a really bad car crash which my heart actually stopped the email “Dead cant class sory”
We ordered a few sample badges to test the look of certain effects—look how pretty they are! (Wynter & Pandora by @juliasfanart and Brax by @ouidasart)
Also ft. a nudge of approval from our head mod’s cat Romana! 😊
Please note that the lighting effects on these samples might be different from the badges you get—they’re not finalized! Feel free to let us know if you particularly like or dislike the shard (Pandora), holo (Brax), or pearlescent (Wynter) effects—we’d love your feedback.
Badges are included with our Citadel Bundle (one random badge set) and Presidential Bundle (both badge sets). Sales close at the end of the day March 31, so if you haven’t gotten the zine (& merch) yet, be sure not to miss the deadline!
I'd like to say thank you to the @galliversary team today: Emily (@magicofthepen), Scar (@presidentromana), Leela (@trailmixtime) and Alnair (@alnair-jpg)
Hi, I'm Fred and I do the social media graphics for Pride & Politics!
I just wanted to publicly thank all four of my fellow moderators and provide some detail into how amazing this group of people is.
I’m so sorry this doesn’t make complete sense I have a lot of emotions
TW: bushfires
I'm also Australian and...well...it's been a rough start to the fires season. My state had several incredibly awful fires and one of the longest burning one (that is still burning as I type) got too close to my home. For nearly 2 weeks, I have been prepping to evacuate, so much so that I actually spent the supposed "worst day" away from the area. During this time, my mind was not on Galliversary until deadlines starting getting too close.
When it got to the point that my family and I had go-backs packed and an evacuation route planned did I cave and create an announcement banner saying, in short, "Pride & Politics information will be momentarily stopped". I had no backup plans and I would have no time to even think about a bundle announcement whilst on the road. I have an anxiety disorder and it was raging out of control to the point I didn't know what to do.
It was at that point that Emily had decided to create an emergency plan. Scar and Alnair were brought on as back up editor and graphic designer respectively. Leela would keep the group updated if I couldn't and I started to upload everything I had on my laptop so that the team wouldn't be in the dark.
Having a backup plan was amazing. I could work on banners and bundles without the looming threat of "this is all for nothing if you evacuate". Obviously, I was behind schedule, I had about two weeks worth of work to do within an incredibly short time frame.
Well, I did it, we did it (and the fire has been safely reduced too!)
Emily, if it wasn't for your keen organisation skills, I don't know where we would be right now.
Scar, you taking up the job to edit the bundles was so amazing. I cannot express how much having something shift things about helps out.
Alnair, knowing your amazing work on layout and having you ready and waiting to jump into designing graphics was incredibly. Organising such a massive project like Gallizine and then ready to take up media graphics as well? Incredible.
Leela, the fact that you've always been there to check in with me. You're a true and dear friend of mine and I'm so grateful you're there to see how I'm going. You also there for when I go "hey, does this look okay?". A simple "yes" means a thousand words and has kept my faith in my skills.
It has been a rough time and I don't think I would have been able to continue on this project that I have come to love if it wasn't for my teammates.
I can't believe we are nearly done! And I am sadly, still not out of the woods until we hit autumn or winter but, I can truly rely on your support through to the end.
Post-divorce Crowley is living in the bookshop, he pretends he’s just visiting but Muriel finds ways to make him stay(because they don’t want him to be sad).
Crowley usually just sits in a chair and watches the street, Nina learned that he’s there and brings him coffee from time to time, Maggie visits and forces him to talk about music that he likes, Muriel tries to make him tea.
One of Nina’s workers pops up every once in awhile, and talks about stars. Crowley didn’t like it at first, he thought they were just messing with him, but then he realized how serious she was, how passionate they were talking about astronomy and stars. And he opened up, he told her all about the universe, stars, planets, the black holes, dark matter, everything.
It felt like taking an old friend he hadn’t talked to in ages. It felt like they knew him straight from the beginning, even before it, before the fall, before the universe, before he’d met anyone else. Like they understood him, his desire to run, his fear of heaven, his grief.
The voice was familiar, and many other things too: the way they sat, the way they spoke, the way they acted when Muriel tried to ask them something.
He realized only later why it was familiar, it was something he’d seen, heard before, it was Her voice, the Almighty’s voice.
Mine was two years of anaemia and no improvement so birth control it was for heavy periods. All my gastrointestinal issues was out down to “school bugs” and PMS
Switched to a female doctor once I hit university and I expressed concern that my anaemia has never improved even on birth control and having lighter periods. She flags it as an absorption issue and asks if I have any stomach issues. I said some and I got some blood test which just turned up as iron deficiency.
A few weeks later I was having regular and horrible reactions to food so I went back to her. Immediately for the ball rolling. Not celiac disease and not lactose intolerance but, because for the lactose test you have to go dairy free for three days prior to the test, I was feeling a lot better.
Through fucking testing and crossing out, she came to the conclusion that I had this thing called Cows Milk Protein Allergy (which also explained the weird eczema flare ups too!) and turns out the research is mainly done on children (though I have a friend who also has it so I’m not alone!)
The iron deficiency? Absorption issues due to damage to my gastrointestinal system.
Bearing in mind this was going on for two fucking years and none of my doctors thought to think beyond the period thing.