... Chicago attack.

"Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?"

I feel like assuming that people in any creative job are well-off financially is evidence that someone does not know anyone who works in those fields personally.

I don't know actors (I do know Hollywood digital special effects folks) but I know musicians, authors... most everyone's skint.

"Murder She Wrote" would give actors guest appearances so they could maintain their union-won health coverage by having sufficient work.

(Because dear gods the States are fucked that way but also. That's a fucking thing.)

But also: when I was at Worldcon this summer I was at a trans meetup where we helped one person debug her estradiol decay curve so she could smooth her dosing - and I also did the same thing for Hashimoto's.

Trans debugging our biology is a cultural norm I value. Disability community, the same.

And "queer culture" (or "trans culture") encompasses both these effects but is shaped heavily by the way some people had to build a home for themselves and their people because they were previously denied one.

Someone who has a background in which their queerness has a role and place - even if it's one they don't care for - has a wildly different position than someone whose queerness excludes them from participation in their home culture.

I feel "community" works better than "culture" as a word, but at the same time hrr, language hard.

Queerness is transcultural by nature: we're everywhere regardless of our origin within subpopulation. Our ability to integrate within our origin cultures is also *wildly* variable.

I was suspecting he annoyed me back then because a name I recognized from usenet *and* not someone I am either still in touch with (like you!) or someone I'm like "OH HEY IT'S YOU!" about, but I had no functional memories of him, just "That's a name! I know that name!"

But his feed. One (1) yike.

I do wonder if we're getting a feedback loop because unfed children learn poorly so feeding the children makes the school system look better and thus more appealing to The Rich<tm>, not *all* of whom go private.

(Despite living here and having school-age children I have not checked testing trends.)

I remember that guy probably from usenet.

I can't remember if I killfiled him on usenet though.

Just "Oh, that guy" no emotional valence ping, heh.

I feel this indicates that the grudge *exists*, just the grudge *targeting* system does not.

That's one of the things that really struck me back when I was arguing with *ERFs on the regular. Their ontology of womanhood was so miserable.

(I was extremely eggy in the "trying to find an ontology of gender so I can understand myself" way at the time.)

(But I'm currently dabbling in a Frankenstein reread for this specific reason.)

... given I have a transmasc interpretation available to my brain on *both* of those stories my head now hurts. (I mean, Pinnochio is obvious for transmasc reading.)

This is just to say

I have seen
the aurora
that was in
the heavens

And which
Does not really
Look
Like plums

Forgive me
Typing is complex
And the lights
Mattered more

Runners up because I find it irresistible:

I feel that a skilled writer could do something interesting with this notion but for almost anyone other than that it produces a horrible mimesis crash.

Oh wow, that is...

... I mean it's advice from a different genre than I tend to write, for one, but also, _wow_.

The number of people I've seen who take "kill your darlings" to mean "if you really liked that bit of writing you have to take it out" is ... yeah.