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marvelfemslashevents posted: Inaugural Marvel Femslash Exchange 2019 Schedule
Nominations: March 17th-31st (OPEN - Close 11:59pm PST)
Signups: April 2-April 13 (Open 9am PST - Close 11:59pm PST)
Assignments Sent Out: April 14
Fanworks Due: May 31 by 11:59PM PST
Collection Opens: Friday, June 7th at 6pm PST
Creator Reveals: Friday, June 14th at 6pm PST
AO3 Collection
Kylo Ren/Ben Solo is often held up in fandom as an example of a mentally ill abuse survivor whose prospect redemption is said to be an inspiration and hope for fans who are mentally ill and/or have survived abuse. (I have talked before about fandoms' tendency to project marginalized identities on white guy characters.) His bouts of rage seem to be a major basis for this assertion, with the reasoning being that no one would be that irrationally angry if they were sane/neurotypical. His uncontrolled temper, these fans say, must be a sign of trauma, or borderline personality disorder, or some other neurodivergence.
Or maybe it's a sign of a deeply entitled and abusive person?
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lb_lee asked:
How did you meet your hubs?
By being a geek on the internet 😂 No seriously, I met Mark through tabletop roleplaying. We were friends for years online, both of us blogging about roleplaying, playing roleplaying games and boardgames together, and chatting a lot on MSN Messenger (yes, it existed back then).
Mark developed a crush on me at some point, despite not even having seen me other than a not-so-high-quality photograph shared online at one point. I guess I should have gotten the message when he said I looked pretty in a photo where I wasn't in very good focus and wasn't dressed up in any way! But yeah, he occasionally dropped hints about his feelings and I was starting to get my suspicions.
yuuago posted: NZ - Christchurch donations* The New Zealand Islamic Information Centre is running a campaign via Launchgood to raise funds for the victims of the Christchurch attack.
* There is also a different campaign run by NZ Council of Victim Support, via NZ-based crowdfunding site Givealittle. The site seems to be having issues right now, probably because of so many people accessing it.
Do you ever get sick of the DW Reading page? It's limited by pagination, you can't switch between title-only and full views, and in order to subscribe to offsite feeds for blogs such as Blogger or Tumblr you have to create feed accounts, which are essentially public offsite feed aggregators that don't require consent from the bloggers.(1)
With a feed reader and some initial setup you can get a seamless and customizable page of your subscriptions, navigable with shortcut keys, with alerts if you want them, in detailed or abbreviated view, and subscribe across sites without the moral rights and copyright pitfalls associated with creating an unauthorized public copy of other people's content. And yes, you still get access to your locked posts.
There are a lot of options when it comes to feed readers, from dedicated apps to online accounts, and everyone's needs are different. If you want a single page from which to follow social media accounts that don't support RSS/Atom feeds as well as blogs that do, something like FlowReader may be of interest to you.
In this post I will discuss setting up a browser extension, Brief for Firefox, which follows actual feeds and not all types of social media accounts. It doesn't have mobile synchronization, which I don't need because I don't like reading blogs from mobile. If you want more features than this extension offers I encourage you to look up the other options out there. If you're not sure where to start with feed readers, maybe this setup will be a way for you to get a better feel for their ins and outs and of your own needs.
Sneak of lb_lee asked:
How did you get into Avatar, originally? What did you love most about it?
I first watched the show in 2010, a couple of years after it ended.(1) My then-boyfriend Mark got me into it by telling me it was a cool show with Asian-style cultures and protagonists, and after I watched the show on any online source I could find I married Mark so I could get my hands on his DVDs.(2)
( DS9 parallels, moral clarity and complexity, mild Trek & LotR criticism )
second_evtales posted: The "Cowardice" of Grievous - a Historical PerspectiveClone Wars is one of my favourite cartoons ever.It is also a mess of unacknowledged but rampant colonialism, imperialism and both space- and IRL-racism: the fact that the Clones, who are slaves bred for war and scarificed in their millions are PoCs is only the most blatant.
The treatment of General Grievous (AKA Qymaen jai Shelaal, warleader of Kalee) is also a result of this distorting lens and of the chronic incapability of Lucas and Filoni to 1) reign in their white privilege and 2) write antagonists whithout making them stereotypical cackling, moustache-twirling villains.
In today's edition of "Maybe I should sit down and read the whole settings page," I discovered from the comment section of a journal I visited that there's an option to screen anonymous comments and I enabled it for my own journal. It's in Account Settings > Privacy > comment screening. You can select "anonymous comments" among the screening options.
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