Sometimes I Look At A Picture And Think...Why Havent I Written A Fic Where Someone Has To Jump Into A

Sometimes I look at a picture and think...Why haven’t I written a fic where someone has to jump into a pool to perform a brave rescue and then afterwards drinks a beer while sitting with wet clothes clinging to every curve of his body while the rescued person is recovering? Because, of course, he’s trying to look nonchalant about it, even though he’s deeply unsettled by how close he came to losing this person. Why hasn’t that even occurred to me? 

Tom Ellis for "Man's Health"

She’s gone.

Annie Carr (AKA Trislindsay, RL name Nancy Arena) just died peacefully in her sleep. Her wife, Nansi (Emrin) Alexander was at her side. She was sixty-nine.

<a href=“https://fanlore.org/wiki/Nancy_Arena”>You can read about her fannish pursuits here</a>. She’s been in fandom forever and has been a contributor to many fandoms and has supported many a fan over the years. She will be deeply missed.

I’ve set up a GoFundMe to help Nansi out, as she’s been living on Annie’s disability which will now stop. If you have the means, please help her out. https://gf.me/u/yqrkpb

be on the lookout...

tumblr got sneaky and switched my dash to “best stuff first” without telling me. Having been woken up stupid early this morning, it took entirely too long for me to notice.

but if you notice that your dash url stays ‘tumblr.com/dashboard’ and doesn’t become ‘dashboard/max_post_id=‘, go check your dashboard settings.

unless you want tumblr to decide what stuff is best. and not look at things in reverse chronological order. which, if you did, you’d be somewhere else, I’d imagine.

PLEASE VOTE. VOTE A STRAIGHT BLUE TICKET. VOTE BIDEN/HARRIS.

You need to vote Democratic in 2020 if you ever want your vote to count in the U.S. again. The Supreme Court’s latest ruling shows GOP intent to steal the 2020 elections and establish ongoing minority rule.

In Sept. 2016, I warned that Trump could win. I wasn’t overreacting then. I’m not overreacting now. We are in real trouble in the U.S.

Short version: the Republican party is openly preparing to steal the 2020 U.S. presidential election through the Supreme Court if it is even remotely close. If their cheating works this year, the United States may never have fair elections again.

The ONLY WAY to stop this now is to vote for Biden in such overwhelming numbers that the election can’t possibly be awarded to Trump. PLEASE vote if you haven’t yet. This isn’t even about who wins anymore: this is about whether you want to continue to live in a democracy or not.

If you can possibly vote in person, do so.

If you can vote safely on Election Day, Nov. 3rd, do so.

If you have to mail in your ballot, mail it NOW, or better yet, drop it off at an official ballot drop box or polling place rather than relying on the overburdened, sabotaged USPS.

If Trump loses, he will sue to throw out mail-in votes, absentee votes, and early votes, because those votes lean Democratic. So if you can vote in person, do– especially if you’re in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Arizona, or Texas.

Longer explanation: The Supreme Court is now packed with 3 judges who, as lawyers, worked on Bush v. Gore in 2000. These 3 judges were on the legal team that used underhanded tricks to throw out Democratic votes and keep the vote count going until Bush was ahead, then they used more tricks to stop the count at that point. The Supreme Court, then conservative-dominated, ruled to give Bush the presidency.

If all the ballots had been counted and held to the same standards, Gore would have won.

Trump has openly stated that he wants Amy Coney Barrett on the Court in time for the election: if he doesn’t win the election, he intends to sue to have votes thrown out until he wins.

Republicans have (receipts in links):

Deliberately sabotaged the US Postal Service to make voting by mail unreliable during the pandemic.

Limited ballot drop boxes to 1 per county in Texas, so that in some counties, millions of voters only had 1 drop box to take their ballots.

Put out fake ballot drop boxes to collect ballots illegally.

Sued to prevent election officials from counting mail-in or absentee votes that arrive after November 3rd.

Fought to allow untrained election officials to throw out mail-in ballots if they don’t think the signatures match the voters’ official signature, which might have been recorded decades before.

On the Supreme Court, the conservatives wrote that state courts don’t have jurisdiction over their elections, in a clear signal that if the election is close, SCOTUS intends to intervene and overrule the states to the benefit of the GOP.

The only way to secure the right to fair elections in the future is to vote Democratic in overwhelming numbers now so that 2020 can’t be stolen. Then we’ll have to keep pushing Democrats to balance the courts and fix the electoral systems to reclaim democracy in the U.S. But first, we have to get the GOP out of power, or they will institutionalize permanent minority rule.

VOTE.

Not only that, we had to pay good money for the zine based on the description of all the stories, a description that was usually a single page with a graphic of the show and a big heading, and only a few very short paragraphs actually describing the stories. 

And then we walked uphill both ways in the snow to the mailbox to pick up the zine and cherished every second of reading it, because it was so freaking amazing that editors and authors spent their free time to entertain us. And we were always impatient to buy MORE.

I still remember the rush of dropping $200 in maybe two hours at the zine tables at a convention’s dealers’ room. Such a thrill. Good times!  😃

how the hell did we manage before ao3’s careful warnings for every fic? we really just went raw into fanfictions with no warnings or descriptions? just said, “this could have cannibalism in it for all i know, let me read it and find out.”

I love vampires! Really hope Adam plays one some day. Wonderful art.