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One of the most annoying genres of people on the internet are people who act like they believe science is one single monolithic thing. Like, you'll see an article saying something like "scientists studying the movement of tectonic plates", and then in the comments there'll be several smug people saying "smh why are scientists doing this instead of finding a cure for cancer", like. Why would a geologist be doing that.
*hefts my cartoonishly large shovel* It’s gotta be buried down there SOMEWHERE
World Wide Slash Con (formerly DC-Slash Con) is just around the corner!
Join us July 17–19 for a weekend of fandom, creativity, and community. With programming and activities scheduled across multiple time zones, there will be something happening for everyone, wherever you are in the world. Our convention committee spans Europe, the U.S. East Coast, the U.S. Midwest, and Hawaii, helping ensure a truly global experience.
Registration is still open, and the deadline for Vidshow submissions is June 17.
Register today at www.wwscon.com/world-wide-slash-con/register or contact us at [email protected] for more information.
I'm so looking forward to the con. Going through my drafts of vids to find what I'm going to manage to get completed in time.
CRUCIAL NEWS FOR THOSE IN MASSACHUSETTS.
Even if you don’t live there, if you still live somewhere in the states, please, listen up.
“The MA legislature and governor just proposed dangerous social media surveillance legislation that would require everyone in the state, including adults, to upload a government ID or submit to a face scan to create a social media account. If something like this passes here, it will spread to other states faster than activists can fight back.
I have an op-ed out in today's Boston Globe explaining why this legislation would hurt kids and help Trump attack LGBTQ youth and undocumented folks. You can read it here (no paywall) https://archive.ph/rAK4P
If you're in MA, please send this to your state senators and the governor! They need to read it! You can also use this tool to easily call the key lawmakers who will be making decisions about this: https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org/ma “
- Fight For the Future Signal chat
I encourage reading EFF’s article linked below as it goes into the greater details of the legislation aside from this, but key notes:
• Forces everyone (not just kids) to upload a government ID or submit to a facial recognition scan to create a social media account or post online, even on educational sites like Wikipedia
• Force parents to send even more sensitive information to Big Tech companies to “verify” custody in order for a minor to create an account (think: sending a birth certificate to Mark Zuckerberg to let your teen create an account)
• Allow unsupportive parents to lock queer and trans youth off the Internet, restricting access to life-saving community and information with zero recourse
• Expand the Trump admin’s surveillance capabilities, making it easier for them to persecute people organizing protests, monitoring ICE, and criticizing the administration
• Cost Massachusetts tax payers enormously, as the legislation is clearly unconstitutional and would face legal challenges.
• Specifically harm undocumented folks who use social media to warn communities about ICE activity and raise money for family members
• Fine smaller and non-profit tech platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky out of business, further expanding the monopolies of Big Tech platforms
It is one of many of the worst pieces of digital surveillance legislation right now in the states.
If you’re in MA, please call and write to your state senators and governor through EFF’s article below, and if you’re not, either spread the word or call them too, but, don’t give them your ZIP code so they don’t know where you are.
Stop Online ID Checks in Massachusetts
Tips on developing a magic school for adults? (Most magic schools I read about are for children, so I wanted to make a magic university)
While arguably some of the most famous fictional magic schools are written for children, there are actually a lot of magic schools for adults in fiction, and I bet you already know loads of them! The Magicians by Lev Grossman is probably the most well-known, but there’s also some other amazing books like The Will of the Many by James Islington and A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik to name just a few.
Magic schools for adults differ a lot from magic schools for children, just like real-life education practices change based on the age of those attending. That means that writing a school for older students isn’t just about aging them up. You need to think about the institution itself, from its purpose, its culture and its history, along with the adult conflicts and personalities of those who attend.
An adult school means adult themes
Children’s magic schools are often about discovery and coming-of-age, and the story themes will almost always reflect that. Students learn they have powers, form their identities, and navigate the social hierarchies of adolescence. By contrast, a magic university opens up entirely different narrative possibilities and themes.
Adult students bring baggage. They have long-established identities, past failures, relationships, and maybe even careers they’ve left behind. They’re not blank slates waiting to be shaped by the school they attend. They come into the narrative as fully fleshed-out people with opinions, obligations, ex-partners, and regrets.
So when writing a magic school for adults, you need to think about what draws someone to magical higher education. Are they just out of school, and this is the logical university-style progression? Are they looking for specialisation of their skills? Changing careers? Researching esoteric or forbidden knowledge? The motivations of your students will shape as much of the narrative as the institution itself, allowing you to explore an almost infinite range of themes.
Building the institution
Purpose and structure
What is your magic school here to do? Children’s schools teach fundamentals, like how to control your power, basic spells, and magical history. A university suggests something beyond the basics. Some things to consider might be:
Students pursuing mastery in specific magical disciplines (healing magic, temporal studies, elemental manipulation).
Faculty and graduate students pushing the boundaries of magical knowledge through research.
Preparing students for specific magical careers (magical law, curse-breaking, enchantment engineering) through practical job training.
The institution might grant qualifications that open doors in the magical world.
The magical curriculum might run alongside regular education as either a hidden curriculum or as complementary study.
Think about how real universities operate. They often have departments with competing interests, tenure politics, funding pressures, and academic rivalries. Do students live on campus or commute? Are there part-time options for those balancing work and family?
Academic culture
University students don’t need supervision the way children do. This completely changes the power dynamic between students and faculty. Professors might be mentors, rivals, or even colleagues, and graduate students might teach undergraduates. Academic hierarchies create their own conflicts.
Think about the culture of your magical academy:
Is it collaborative or cutthroat?
How competitive is admission?
What’s the relationship between theoretical and practical magic?
Are there academic conferences, peer-reviewed journals, thesis defences?
How do magical researchers handle failed experiments or dangerous discoveries?
What goals do students pursue after graduation?
Are there departmental rivalries or rivalries with other institutions?
Real-world pressures
Adults face pressures that children don’t. As your characters already come ready-baked when they enter education, you need to think about what issues they might face outside of their time in education. Your students might deal with:
Tuition costs and student debt.
Balancing studies with jobs, partners, or children.
Career anxiety and job market realities.
Age gaps between traditional students and mature learners.
Imposter syndrome, especially if they came to magic late.
Judgement about their formative education (or lack thereof).
Even mundane concerns, when translated into a magical setting, ground your world and create relatable conflict. And adults, even in education, need to have lives, conflicts, and goals outside of it.
The students themselves
A magic university attracts a more diverse population than a children’s school. This gives you a functionally infinite pool of characters from which to draw from allowing you to tell all kinds of stories within your setting. Think about who attends:
Traditional students who’ve progressed through magical primary and secondary education?
Late bloomers whose powers manifested only in adulthood?
People looking to change their careers from other magical on non-magical professions?
People from non-magical backgrounds seeking magical training?
International students from different countries and magical traditions?
Returning students who dropped out years ago?
Professionals pursuing continuing education as mature-age students?
Each character type brings different perspectives, skills, and conflicts. A forty-year-old former magical law enforcement officer studying alongside a nineteen-year-old prodigy with no formal training, for instance, allows for a lot of interesting storytelling and character dynamics.
Sources of conflict
Adult settings allow for more complex conflicts than those in children’s literature. In a magic school for adults, you have the opportunity to explore:
Academic politics, like thesis advisors who sabotage students, departments fighting for funding, plagiarism scandals, and controversial research.
Ethical dilemmas, like how far should magical research go? Who owns magical discoveries? What responsibilities do powerful mages have?
Professional stakes where failing doesn’t just mean disappointment but can have legitimate career consequences, wasted years, and financial ruin.
Personal entanglements, from romantic relationships with classmates or faculty, old grudges, family expectations, friendships, and rivalries.
Institutional critique. Just because your school is your setting, doesn’t mean that always has to be a positive. Is the university gatekeeping knowledge? Perpetuating inequality? Serving shadowy interests?
Worldbuilding
Your magic university exists within a larger magical society, whether that is a new fantasy world or one that places magic as something existing alongside our own world. With that in mind, you need to consider how your magic school for adults fits into the world by considering:
What’s the job market like for graduates?
Are there rival institutions? Rankings? Prestige hierarchies?
How does magical academia interact with magical or non-magical government, commerce, or religion?
What’s the history of the institution? Was it founded for noble purposes or questionable ones?
Are there ongoing debates in the magical academic community that affect your characters?
Do magic practitioners need to hide among the non-magical folk? Or is magic out in the open?
CALL-IN AGAINST AGE VERIFICATION!
In internet censorship news, the US House of Representatives is doing a markup on a package of bills relating to mandatory age verification online this week (As of 3/1/2026), these bills including the infamous KOSA and the App Store Accountability Act.
To make a very long story short, these bills would force everyone to use their IDs on huge swathes of the net and basically be the end of online privacy and, due to potential prohibitive costs of age verification, likely the end of the indieweb too; even after it's trying to pull itself up from the hole it's been stuck in.
It's not going for a full vote until after markup, but if we can stop it there, we should.
Here is a list of the members of the committee marking this bill up, each of their pages has contact info on it, it's worth calling them all if you can, but especially if they're in your district (Or you can convincingly lie that they are) because this affects us all.
Here's a call script provided by the Stop Internet Censorship Discord, if you need it, but either way light up those phones over the week, because holy fuck, do we need to kill these bills if we want to save the open web.
Because. what they were planning on doing to Discord, they want to do to everywhere, where we cannot escape it.
We cannot let that happen...
Seeking escape
Those of you who notice such things will know that in a little less than two weeks, it's going to be a year since @petermorwood departed this plane of existence.
As the date's been getting closer, I'm becoming increasingly clear (due to mood swings and sleep disturbances and other such stuff) that it would be a really good thing for me if I don't have to live through this first anniversary of his loss anywhere near the house where he breathed his last.
For that day, and ideally a couple/few days on either side of it, I really need to get away from here.
So that's my plan, if I can get all this to come together (with everybody's help). ...It's not like any brief escape will get the pain to stop, you know? That's years away... if ever. But at least this move will prevent a short-term crisis, and allow me (after the really painful day has passed) to start getting back to what around here now passes for "standard operating procedure"—meaning writing, and doing other work, and getting on with the rest of the current form of life—as quickly as possible.
What I have in mind is to spend the days on either side of May 9th—and the day itself—as far away from the cottage as physical issues will allow me to travel. Let's think of it as a long weekend, an hour or two's flight away. To manage that, though, I need to boost sales at the Ebooks Direct store over the days to come. If the necessary funds manifest themselves over the course of this week, I'll have time to make the necessary arrangements.
So can I get those of you who see this post to reblog it, and bring the Ebooks Direct store to people's notice as widely as possible? ...As numerous ebook bundles are available at discount prices. (There are more than show in the slide below: that's just a snapshot of how the front-page carousel looks.)
...And if none of these appeal (or if you've got them already and want to give them to somebody else): hey, there are gift cards! (I finally managed to get these things organized correctly...) 😅 They come in per-bundle versions, or in a number of cash values to suit your preference.
Finally: if you've already got too many ebooks, or otherwise just prefer to drop a little something into the kitty to help me escape for a few-ish days, here's my Ko-Fi.
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...So let's see if this can be pulled off. And for all your past help, and assistance to come: thanks, friends. I appreciate you so much... as your voices, heard daily, are pretty much all that makes the local silence bearable.
Thanks again.
The test for allyship isn't how you treat an oppressed person who is your friend, family, spouse. It's how you treat an oppressed person you absolutely can't stand who is vile and loathsome in every way.
Do you gender trans people correctly even when they're being absolutely terrible people? Do you refuse to use the r-slur against someone who suicide baited you but is neurodivergent? Do you refuse to snark at a mentally ill person who is being genuinely unpleasant, "go take your meds!"
Do you allow members of marginalized groups to be terrible people without judging their entire demographic for it? One of the most invisible yet vital forms of privilege is the right to be terrible people as an individual rather than as a group. Do you acknowledge that there are bad people in every group, that it doesn't make their group less worth fighting for? Or do you shake your head if you happen to get mistreated by some who belong to a group and insist the entire group is awful and not worth your allyship?
Oppressed people can see how you treat those of us you like, but do you still treat the worst of us with the basic dignity you treat the worst of other groups with?
next time you get frustrated with yourself while trying to clean or do some other adulting activity, ask yourself, "was I ever actually taught how to do this or was I just told to do it and yelled at when I inevitably didn't do it right?"
then go look up how to actually do that shit before you keep trying
it might take more time today, but it will save you so much time and frustration in the long run not trying to struggle through something you don't actually know how to do.
Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated:
Hey everyone, it looks like there's some hinky stuff going on with LiveJournal in a way where it might be shutting down relatively soon -- and if not, who knows what will happen to it?
Obviously most of us aren't active users there right now, but a lot of us were active users there at some point, so... if you want to save your blog, this thread includes a few ways on how to do it, as well as a lot more detail on exactly what's going on.
(We also suggest screengrabbing or saving the page of any fics that you care about that are based there, as well as anything else you might have bookmarked.)
Just in general, as a reminder, despite what the old adage is: the internet is not forever. So back up anything you care about!
Note: edited to add screengrabs below the cut in case anyone doesn't want to click on the link.
My resolution last year was to do one thing before bed that would make my morning feel easier, and that’s become a daily habit that I’m carrying into this new year.
Some nights even filling up the kettle and setting an empty mug out for my morning tea felt hard. But I was always thankful for it in the morning.
Other nights, one thing would lead to another, and I’d wake up in a clean house with everything ready to go.
And, on a rare few nights, the one thing that I could do to make my morning easier was going straight to bed and allowing myself to rest.
What stayed the same each day is that I would take a moment to think of what I could do for my future self and do it, even after a hard day. And I would wake up knowing that I had done my best and any effort—no matter how small—was a kindness to myself.
I’ve been doing a lot of “a treat for future me” moments lately.
That’s a great way to look at it, and I love this artist! (Anna-Laura: instagram / website)
We're tired of Webtoon. So we made something better.
They keep trying to make trek for modern sensibilities but they’re just making tos look excessively slutty
Exhibit A
I liked these tags but I had something to say about it
I already assumed that the dresses were a choice made by the female crew, mostly for my own sanity. They do show (very infrequently) women in tos wearing pants
And they show men wearing dresses in tng, but only ever in the background (unless you count the dress uniforms)
And obviously I like that these were included, but they were clearly a cop out decision.
“Yeah see men can wear dresses, women can wear pants. They just don’t choose to” reads as “of course I’m not sexist, women just like wearing tiny little dresses in the future”
And thinking about it from a late sixties perspective, many women did see more revealing clothes as an empowering choice to make. Men wanted women covered and modest, understated makeup, only exposed or done up for male enjoyment. Some women took that in the opposite direction and chose to wear more extravagant makeup, revealing clothing, and brighter colors. It was a progressive time, and some of the choices made in an attempt to highlight that in the show did not age well.
But at the same time, you can clearly see that some of these “progressive” points were only added in as a write off.
And thinking about it from a late sixties perspective, many women did see more revealing clothes as an empowering choice to make. Men wanted women covered and modest, understated makeup, only exposed or done up for male enjoyment. Some women took that in the opposite direction and chose to wear more extravagant makeup, revealing clothing, and brighter colors.
I think it's worth emphasizing that this very genuinely is the main reason for the "sexist" miniskirts. IRL, women were often not choosing between sexy miniskirts and non-objectifying pants, but long skirts (respectable) and short skirts (rebellious). Deliberately wearing short skirts as rebellion against patriarchal control that mandated long skirts or maaaaybe loose slacks on a good day is still hardly unknown among girls/women leaving conservative communities in the USA, and was only more commonly coded that way at the time.
Sally Kellerman, the actress for Elizabeth Dehner, found the close fit of the supposedly more feminist pants uncomfortable and is often given something to hold in front of her because she was so intensely self-conscious about them. Grace Lee Whitney (Janice Rand) loathed the more "proper" initial look and worked with the (gay) costume designer, William Ware Theiss, to design a different, more daring and cool-looking aesthetic for women of the future that appealed to her personally. That was what resulted in the miniskirt uniform design. No doubt it served the objectifying tastes of various straight men involved, but literally zero of them were responsible for the design of Whitney's and Nichols's uniforms.
Not only did Nichelle Nichols not consider herself suffering from the miniskirt, she admitted later to sometimes deliberately lifting the skirt even higher at Uhura's station to show off more of her legs because she hadn't worked so hard on her body to not show them off. Meanwhile, Jill Ireland, the actress for Leila Kalomi, was nervous that she might have to wear the kinds of revealing costumes so many other TOS actresses did, and Theiss instead designed her the comfortable overalls she wears as Leila in "This Side of Paradise."
The kneejerk backlash against short skirts (in decidedly more reactionary eras of both Star Trek and US culture) led to both the large-scale disappearance of the skirts and the snide commentary on them throughout later iterations of Trek, with zero consideration of the fact that they were designed by a gay man to suit the preferences of the leading actresses at a time when they commonly represented rebellion. The Berman-era Star Trek productions tut-tutting at the old costumes while actually putting actresses in uncomfortable, form-fitting uniforms they disliked is ... uh, something else.
Even while the female Starfleet costumes shifted towards pants (and militarism) in the movies, btw, Nichelle Nichols insisted on getting to wear skirts as Uhura—because she liked them and she had little patience for 80s respectability.
they put RFK jr in charge of the agency that most directly affects everything i've been doing in my real life career for a decade so if I start posting like i've clamped car batteries to my nipples it's because i have done exactly that
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I knew eventually I'd have to make this post but the events of this week have pretty much been the last straw. The CDC is no longer publishing scientifically accurate information about vaccines.
Please do not get health information from the CDC for the foreseeable future. If you are an American, depending on your state, the state health department may have more accurate information. States in the Governor's Public Health Alliance are relatively trustworthy.
I've personally been using Dr. Kaetlyn Jetelina's newsletter as a less-grim way to keep up with US public health news. It's on substack unfortunately, but the information is solid.
Yale School of Public Health's POPHIVE is also a good way to track population health trends in the US.
I know this is not at the top of the administration's crimes. But it is one of them, and it is going to hurt a lot of people. Not much I can say but that I'm heartbroken.
I only vaguely knew London had a fascism problem in the 70's. Here's a breakdown
#wait sentinel aus are based on an actual show???#I thought they were just one of those inexplicable Fandom Things - im WHEEZING, i love this so much
never Once have I ever seen a reference to an actual extant intellectual property, it’s always “what if we had this super complicated codependent pseudo-magic sci-fi thing going on” and then just running with it OTL
i do not have the spoons to FULLY get into it, as it demands, but the one with the military haircut (he’s a cop, a “protector”, c’est la vie) is Jim Ellison, former Army Ranger, repressed fool. curly haired bb is Blair Sandburg, an anthropology grad student who realizes Jim is a Sentinel of legend, latches onto him like a remora, and Jim basically leans on Blair like a crutch all the while pretending he doesn’t care for him in a very “I made you a friendship bracelet” “ugh gross” “well you don’t have to---” “shut up I’m gonna wear it” way
they were handsy
HANDSY I SAY
they STARTED handsy
they moved in together in like. ep one.
they become partners in the cop sense, they do a lot of gift of the magi shit for each other, every time I start to think of the stupid shit they do for another I remember More Weird Shit, codependent fucking weirdos
Okay, I absolutely MUST chime in For The Sentinel which NEVER gets the respect of its peers just because "the plots were a little convoluted" and the "central premise wore a little thin as the seasons went on." those men were in love. THOSE MEN WERE LOVERS!!!!!
What you need to know about The Sentinel is that the very first episode is about Jim Ellison acquiring mystical powers. YES I want to be clear, the way he acquires these powers is "problematical" and "not great, respecting indigenous cultures wise" but okay, so he's got these powers that make all of his senses amped up to dangeous levels. he can hear things no one else can hear, he can see things like he's fucking legolas, you get the deal.
so he goes to the doctor to be like "i feel weird" because of course, and Blair Sandberg, twink anthropologist to the stars, BREAKS SEVERAL LAWS to get in Jim's exam room and say—i know how to help you. i know what's wrong with you. i know how to make life better. and jim ellison looked at the little twink man and said yes....YES to love YES to life YES to living in a 1 bedroom LOFT apartment together. YES to being soulmates and life partners! YES I'LL MARRY YOU!!!!!!
This is the ORIGINAL big gruff german sheppard/lil yapping chihuahua pairing. And fandom looked at this show and said "this is good. i will build a kingdom upon this land. from now on, these are the two genders: big, angry, powerful, forced to their knees by circumstances beyond their control AND small, jokester, has skills INVALUABLE to Big, bad self worth. And then so the sentinel/guide aus RULED the pervert community, and everyone rejoiced.
And then SPN looked at this, and said "but what if the guides also had wet butts" and u kno what? innovation is CRUCIAL.
my friend had Sentinel VHS tapes acquired from someone on the internet and basically every episode featured tough military man Jim being driven to his knees in agony verging on madness bc of his mystical senses being overwhelmed and tiny commie academic Blair soothing him and healing his agonies by touching him (and communicating with him via psychic leopards????) so they could save lives and the show wasn’t GOOD but my god it was something
It's also the little black dress of AUs for other fandoms - Mulder/Scully, Clark/Lex, Derek/Stiles. It goes with everything! :)
So today I learned that The Sentinel was a show, and so what is the term for when you get un-Goncharoved?
I THOUGHT IT WAS A FANDOM TROPE LIKE OMEGAVERSE
God this was such an important fandom to me. My Sentinel friends are my family now, more than a quarter of a century later. Merryish, who first offered my fanfic a home* in —1997? 1998?—taught my kid to snorkel 20 years later. Flummery are my kid’s fairy godmothers. I basically married astolat 25 years ago. And every time I see one of you Sentinel people online (waves to a bunch of you who reblogged this) I feel like I’ve run into someone from the old country! That fandom literally changed my life.
But also, fannishly, so inventive! Some of the first vids I ever saw back before there were computers –VHS vids, wonderful ones. (Shout out to GloRo!) Great great fanfic and art. I still have gorgeous zines from this period. And the loft tape! Go to fanlore and look up the loft tape you guys!!
*before the AO3! When you needed someone to host your fic! This is part of why we built the AO3! So many (so many!!!) Sentinel people involved in building the AO3! Astolat built the Sentinel archive, 852 Prospect, a decade before the AO3, that was our first practice archive software. That software was adapted and used in other fandoms like due South. Seah and I were both DS archivists. This is all part of the story of how the AO3 came about. The sentinel/guide trope is the least of it. The Sentinel’s impact on fandom is totally outsized considering what a minor show it was. But it had a great concept that it did not fully exploit, which I think is in fact, what an amazing fandom needs.
Just for some clarity around The Sentinel television show, as opposed to the tropes
Jim mostly had his ability to focus or ignore his senses under his own control pretty quickly. (Exceptions for plot shenanigans, of course.)
The "Sentinel" and "Guide" were not mystical bond mates; sentinel and guide was the terminology Blair used for his anthro dissertation. Functionally, the guide was like a disability assistant: an intimate, ongoing helping relationship, but using a set of skills that could have been learned and used by someone else.
That being said, there was some sketchy mystical stuff with cat avatars running into each other, Quechua language use, and questionably Quechua symbolism
This show was actually developed as a cop&civilian consultant* procedural for men with film quality stunts happening on your weekly television show. In the late 90s, this was a cool and unique selling point. *(Think The Mentalist, Castle, Bones, Lucifer, High Potential, but with a car chase or explosion in every episode)
Jim and Blair were not canonically romantically involved at any point. They lived together but Jim slept in the loft and Blair slept in the former ¿sun room?. They were, however, Weird™ about each other.
Whatever rumor you heard about how weird fans got about Blair's hair getting cut is true.
Gif of Jim Ellison spreading his hands. Blair Sandburg is next to him, probably perched on a desk given the relative heights in the scene. Blair turns to look back at Jim. I tentatively place this in the police captain's office in third season, because Blair's hair is tied back but he doesn't look like a drowned rat. (The actor, Garett Maggart, really wanted to cut his hair, and fans/the production really didn't want him too, and it was literally A Thing.)
You should be starting a recipe book. I don't give a shit if you're only 20-years-old. The modern web is rotting away bit by bit before our very eyes. You have no idea when that indie mom blog is going down or when Pinterest will remove that recipe. Copy it down in a notebook, physically or digitally. Save it somewhere only you can remove it. Trust me, looking for a recipe only to find out it's been wiped off the internet is so fucking sad. I've learned my lesson one too many times.
