Can't Be Tamed

“One night, in Clair’s Restaurant, I approached Stormé and asked her if she would be willing to provide a $5 donation [towards a Christmas fund for people living with AIDS].  I told her what we were trying to do, and when I had finished, she turned to me and asked, “Are you going to be here for a few hours, baby?”  I told her I would be, and several hours later Stormé walked back into the restaurant with over $2,000. I was speechless and unable to find the words to thank her appropriately, but Stormé simply said, “I’ll meet you here tomorrow with more.” She was true to her word.”

- HIV/AIDS activist Patrick Merry remembering the incredible generosity of drag king and bouncer Stormé DeLarverie

The Great 2019 Parasolverse Read Along is Afoot!

Reticence is the last book in the Custard Protocol series, and it is also probably the last traditionally published Parasolverse for some time. Miss Gail has been hinting it has a lot of cookies from the other books in the series to tie up loose ends, so with that in mind…..Miss Gail is having a 2019 Read Along to get ready for Reticence!

What’s the schedule? So glad you asked. We’re reading in chronological order! Here’s the order and our schedule!

The Curious Case short story 

January 1- January 6

The Finishing School series 

January 7 - January 20 Etiquette & Espionage

January 20 - February 3 Curtsies & Conspiracies

February 4 - February 17 Waistcoats & Weaponry

February 18 - March 3 Manners & Mutiny

Poison or Protect novella

March 4- March 10 

The Parasol Protectorate series

March 11- March 24 Soulless

March 25 - April 7 Changeless

April 8 - April 21 Blameless

April 22 - May 5 Heartless

May 6 - May 19 Timeless

 Romancing the Inventor novella 

May 20 - May 26 

The Custard Protocol (first 2)

May 27 - June 9 Prudence

June 10 - June 23 Imprudence

Romancing the Werewolf novella 

June 24 - June 30 

 Competence 

July 1 - July 14 

 How to Marry a Werewolf novella

July 15 - July 21 

 Reticence!

To be announced!

Don’t like reading alone? No problem!

 Join the conversation on:

Discord Server

Facebook Group

Goodreads Group

Here on tumblr (if you’re sticking around). We’ll be taking asks in our ask box, so feel free to share your feelings and observations with us. Also make sure you tag your reread posts with #parasolversereadalong along with #gailcarriger #gail carriger and #bookname. 

Some time ago we took a long, hard look at how we stacked up to the recommendations outlined in the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium. This is the initiative that sets standards for accessibility for people who may need assistance using the internet. It outlines steps to take and tools to use to create as seamless of an experience online as possible, whether you have auditory, visual, or neurological disabilities, are using a limited device, are on a slow connection with limited bandwidth, or…well, a whole bunch of other reasons.

The result of that long, hard look? Not great. We needed to make sure Tumblr was accessible to anyone who wants to use it.

Over the past few weeks we’ve been making changes to do just that. Our inaccessible menus are more accessible, we fixed our poorly described elements, and increased overall readability. You can read more about all that in our most recent @javascript post about the mobile web.

Part of making Tumblr more accessible involved upping the color contrast in our UI, most notably on the dashboard and everywhere else that familiar blue touches. The light grays and muted blues had a contrast ratio of 2.02:1. What does that mean? Bad. It was bad, and we needed to do better by people with visual impairments.

Enter your new dashboard:

It looks…cleaner, doesn’t it? Like someone dusted off the poorly accessible bits. The blue is darker, the grays are lighter, all the buttons and icons are brighter with our new brand colors, and it has a contrast ratio of 7.87:1 What does that mean? Good! Very good.

The switch to your brand new, higher contrast, less dusty dashboard has been slowly rolling out this week. If you haven’t seen it yet, you’ll get it sometime in the next few days.

A note: We know that this color change on the dashboard negatively impacts the beautiful bluespace art so many of you have created over the past few years. Seeing these older posts lose the utilization of the dashboard—something that made them so special and unique to just Tumblr—is certainly not a great feeling. There’s no way around that. We hope, however, that this change only means newer, more bluespace art will be created, and that this time around it will be easier for everyone to experience.

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The Great 2019 Parasolverse Read Along is Afoot!

Reticence is the last book in the Custard Protocol series, and it is also probably the last traditionally published Parasolverse for some time. Miss Gail has been hinting it has a lot of cookies from the other books in the series to tie up loose ends, so with that in mind…..Miss Gail is having a 2019 Read Along to get ready for Reticence!

What’s the schedule? So glad you asked. We’re reading in chronological order! Here’s the order and our schedule!

The Curious Case short story 

January 1- January 6

The Finishing School series 

January 7 - January 20 Etiquette & Espionage

January 20 - February 3 Curtsies & Conspiracies

February 4 - February 17 Waistcoats & Weaponry

February 18 - March 3 Manners & Mutiny

Poison or Protect novella

March 4- March 10 

The Parasol Protectorate series

March 11- March 24 Soulless

March 25 - April 7 Changeless

April 8 - April 21 Blameless

April 22 - May 5 Heartless

May 6 - May 19 Timeless

 Romancing the Inventor novella 

May 20 - May 26 

The Custard Protocol (first 2)

May 27 - June 9 Prudence

June 10 - June 23 Imprudence

Romancing the Werewolf novella 

June 24 - June 30 

 Competence 

July 1 - July 14 

 How to Marry a Werewolf novella

July 15 - July 21 

 Reticence!

To be announced!

Don’t like reading alone? No problem!

 Join the conversation on:

Discord Server

Facebook Group

Goodreads Group

Here on tumblr (if you’re sticking around). We’ll be taking asks in our ask box, so feel free to share your feelings and observations with us. Also make sure you tag your reread posts with #parasolversereadalong along with #gailcarriger #gail carriger and #bookname. 

Signal boosting for the courageous peoples of the Wet’suwet’en Nation.

We stand as witnesses to this historic moment when the federal and provincial governments, RCMP, and Coastal GasLink/Transcanada are openly violating Wet’suwet’en, Canadian law, and international law.

Coastal GasLink/Transcanada is proposing a 670-kilometer fracked gas pipeline that would carry fracked gas from Dawson Creek, B.C. to the coastal town of Kitimat, where LNG Canada’s processing plant would be located. LNG Canada is the single largest private investment in Canadian history.

Each clan within the Wet’suwet’en Nation have full jurisdiction under their law to control access to their territory. Under ‘Anuc niwh’it’en (Wet’suwet’en law) all five clans of the Wet’suwet’en have unanimously opposed all pipeline proposals and have not provided free, prior, and informed consent to Coastal Gaslink/ TransCanada to do work on Wet’suwet’en lands.

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This toolkit is incredibly useful for all supporters of indigenous rights or people who are concerned about the impact of fossil fuels on our planet. It includes links to send emails, make phone calls, sign on to statements of support for the Wet'suwet'en. It also has printable materials, info on where to donate and plenty of background on the (il)legalities of the situatuon.

Please click through and see if there are any actions you can take. PLEASE BOOST.