Establishing a LGBTQ+ lit award specifically for LGBTQ+ writers: not actually the same as racism!

Since this seems to be a difficult concept for some people.

Ahoy there, Internets! Check me out, taking a break from my tightly-packed schedule of work, school, cartoons, panic, and way too much sleep to actually come say hi to you. Did you miss me :D?

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Currently I'm trying to decide whether to write for polybigbang; luckily I found out about it reasonably soon and have till next weekend to sort this out. I had an OT3 fic I was thinking of writing anyway; the problem is that it would be set in a historical era that wasn't exactly known for coping well with diversity of any sort. Doing the fic right would involve an insane amount of difficulty-- in terms both of having to do a ton of research (I have eleven library books out just to help me decide whether to write it) and of having to write at least ten thousand words about how incredibly shitty people can be to other people. The fic would probably get written sooner or later, and I think I could pull it off; the question is whether I'm able and willing to get a draft of it finished in the next two and a half months.

So yeah! That's fun. Kind of. In a really depressing but oddly exciting way.

In the meantime, I'm still creaking away at a fic split between the 1970s and the 19mumbles, researching this potential polybigbang set in the 1950s, working on classical Greek costuming for a final for school, probably apping to butwhatwemake which is set in 2018, pondering returning to a couple of original things which are set in (entirely separate) far futures, and rereading Cryptonomicon, which is split between the 1940s and 1990s and has a trilogy of prequels set around the turn of the 18th century. I don't actually know how many separate time periods I can deal with intelligently at one time, but I guess I'm going to find out. Halp.

In conclusion: DO WANT.

So apparently Transformers 2 fails horribly. In every conceivable way.

This upsets me because I enjoyed the first one a lot, and was ecstatic that there was going to be a sequel. It upsets me because in my experience Orci and Kurtzmann are generally a little less faily than the average, not miles more, and because I was really rather fond of Bob Orci in particular for the way he interacted with Star Trek fandom before that movie came out. It upsets me because part of this movie was filmed in my hometown, which is generally known as That Place With The Failed Steel Plant and doesn't generally get this kind of visibility and really doesn't need its reputation tainted with even more fail.

It upsets me even more because fucking nobody who is writing any movie set anywhere at all should think this is acceptable or funny or anything but disgusting. I feel so sick about this. What the hell.

In other depressing news: warning!wank. Lots of people in fandom are faily victim-blaming idiots; the rest of us are unsurprised. And I continue to be the youngest and only female employee in my department, and someone grabbed my ass on the train home from work yesterday, and I think I've been pretty good (by my standards) at being upbeat and rolling with it lately but god it is so tiring being a woman, sometimes.

In better news! That project that the lurkers keep pestering me about in email was supposed to be done today, and was; however the professor wasn't around to grade things, so instead we got a friendly helpful subsitute professor and an extension to Thursday. So that will get finished (again) tomorrow, and there will be photographs, and you will all be impressed or else.

In the meantime, please enjoy ( my so-called notes from yesterday's staff meeting. )

Yesterday was payday, so I'm going to go out and get some dinner now. People had better stop sucking by the time I get back or I will-- idk, I will find something to turn around, okay.