Setting My FanGirl Free

For an event.

Introduced: August 2018

Location: Cold Stone Creamery

To promote Channing Tatum-led animated yeti move Smallfoot, Cold Stone Creamery created a chilly series of desserts.

These included Yummy Yeti Confetti, an ice cream Creation made with the all new Blue Arctic Marshmallow ice cream, marshmallows, powdered sugar, and chocolate pieces covered in rainbow sprinkles,

and Migo's Marshmallow Medley Milkshake, a milkshake made with the aforementioned Blue Arctic Marshmallow and topped with whipped cream and sprinkle-covered chocolate pieces.

Customers could also go to Cold Stone's website to take a quiz and determine which Smallfoot character they were, however this quiz no longer exists and was not archived.

Additionally, Cold Stone filmed a promotional video featuring the yeti characters Migo and Meechee going to the establishment to procure the milkshake and ice cream.

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ducktales crew: lol okay so then we wanna introduce our silicon valley villain, we’re gonna call him mark zuckerbird and-

I work at a library. We do this thing where, every so often, we weed the collection. It hurts to see books go, but it's necessary to make sure there's room in the library for new materials.

I have seen so much support for the library in text, and I've seen folks pass around those beautiful "queer your library" flyers. Keep doing that. That's great. Nothing wrong with that. But you HAVE to turn your words into action. We MUST remember to actually go to our local organizations and libraries and actually, with our own fucking hands, interact with these materials we want to see more of.

My branch is medium-sized for a library, maybe a little small. We don't have as many materials as I'd like, but we have fundamentals. Tell me why, even with all the verbal support I've gotten from my local community for the library as a resource for our LGBT+ community, every single trans biography and a good chunk of our vaguely queer theory books were on the list. This isn't a scheme to take the books off the shelves, it isn't another bigoted American governmental push. The only thing we look at when we weed is how long it's been since the last time the item was checked out.

Three years.

No one in my community interacted in any meaningful way with the few books on trans life and history we physically had on the shelves for three fucking years.

I promise you the materials you want and need are there, but this isn't a horde. This isn't a static safety net. You have to use them. You MUST use them or, in the future, maybe in three years, they *won't* be there anymore.