A Mastodon of Conflict

Tags passing peer review, gonna share.

Who do you think makes professional quality fanart and fanfic? People who've been practicing it for ten, fifteen, twenty years!

Or even people who've been practicing it for thirty, forty or fifty!!!!!

example: Diane Duane. Currently in her seventies. Star Trek fangirl since the original run. Goddess-level Ascended Fan who has created official tie-in works in more forms of media than pretty much anyone else alive, possibly even Rodenberry himself because they didn't have audiobooks or video games when he was with us. Writer of Spock's World, The Wounded Sky, Doctor's Orders in TOS. Co-writer of TNG script Where no one has gone before, and writer of the tie-in novel Dark Mirror among others. Writer of a half-dozen Star Trek Comics. She has adapted her own work for audio, has written for the Star Trek manga series, has written short Trek fiction for anthologies, and plotted and wrote the video game Star Trek: the Kobayashi Alternative.

In other fandoms, she was a personal friend of Terry Pratchett himself. As a scriptwriter, she's also worked in fandoms like Scooby-Doo, Transformers, My Little Pony, Gargoyles, Batman: The Animated Series, Spiderman: Unlimited (and a trilogy of tie-in novels still in print) and Barbie: Fairytopia. ...And that's just cherry-picking her imdb page.

While she can't give out specific details due to Obvious Reasons, she's still active in the Sherlock BBC fandom - and there's a specific subset of her fans who love guessing which of the legendary fanfics might be her work (I am not one of them, BTW, as it is None Of My Business. I'm old-school that way).

Fandom is not for teenagers. Fandom is for everyone of good heart and enthusiasm for a good (or even bad! No judgement!) story.

ty for the name @androbutchninja , but here it is! I was going through it through the majority of spring, so this spring cleaning sale is now a pride month sale!

Once a year, I rotate out a bunch of prints that are older (not representative of current designs), unpopular, or just kinda stale. I update the inventory numbers to reflect what I got on hand and when they're gone they're gone!

Everything on this list is 20% off, here's what's leaving the shop:

Keep writing (8 remaining)

Friends, Mutuals, Countrymen (4 remaining)

I have love in me (9 remaining)

everyone wants to build... (11 remaining)

The Cephalopod's Prayer (5 remaining)

Fanfiction Moment: oh/OH (28 remaining)

Yikes: 3 variations. (10 book of hours style, 7 book of kells style, 3 woodcut style remaining)

Turbo Illegal (4 remaining)

Own a Musket for Self Defense (12 remaining)

prints left:

oh/Oh: 11

meeting at the pride parade

Megalodon fossil lost for decades confirms the monster’s terrifying size

A long-lost fossil once thought destroyed has resurfaced, confirming just how enormous megalodon may have been — and offering fresh clues about the giant shark’s life.

For all those of you who kindly were part of assisting me in pulling together the cash to get the Eye Problem handled (in the short term, anyway): I'm heading up to town to see the Eye Lady tomorrow. Sooner than I thought: but very welcome.

"Bring all your old glasses," her assistant said, ever so casually. (snorting) I'd need to bring an overnight bag. Never mind: I've got enough of them easily-packable to get by with. My Eye Lady and I have been working together for pushing thirty years now, and all my most recent info's in her firm's computer. The only thing I need to do is measure my current sitting-down-to-big screen distance to match up to what she'll be doing for my "reading glasses".

The part of this discussion I'm least eager to have with her? The part where I have to explain to her that @petermorwood will not be coming in to renew his (also always belatedly renewed: he hated that his vision was no longer perfect) prescription. ...And when she asks me why I was so late coming to her for new glasses, all I'll be able to do is shrug and say: "I wasn't thinking about my own vision so much. The only thing I really wanted to see last year was the one thing it would never again be able to show me."

usb: universal serial bus

usc: university of southern california

usd: united states dollar

One of the guys having a complete panic attack, drops his mug, sobbing, gasping, after getting chewed out by management

And everyone's sort of sympathetic but mostly annoyed bc this kid is a fairly new hire and he's a bit slow and a bit literal and too emotional

And. Uh oh. It's mr H&S

Has appeared in the main bullpen from his freezing cold office next to the server room, and one of the admin secs is like, sorry, sorry, we're trying to calm him down, he--

And he's just. There. Hands on this overworked intern's shoulders. Holding him gently in place as he gasps for breath

Just standing there, frighteningly still, and the intern slowly stands still with him, breathing in time with his breathing, so upset he forgets to be scared

And the other staff staring in fascination and horror as he's gently led aside, made to drink his tea and eat a biscuit

As this terrifying supervisor quietly clears up his spilt coffee, puts his desk back in order, and then takes the intern aside and has a talk with him, whereafter he comes back to work so much calmer

And he's not suddenly faster, but over the next few weeks, he's much less emotional

Has his quiet chats with the supervisor once or twice a day, and they're honestly pleased, bc this lad is nice and earnest but awkward and fumbling and A Bit Much, and he's eased back a lot on that as well

But the first time the same manager as before snaps at him, and the intern just stares

And the room abruptly feels as if it's gone a bit frosty

The manager blinks, flinches back, apologises for his tone, rephrases