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I need to write y'all a post about all the stuff I've found and subsequently thrown away (or taken to be recycled), because basically that has been my life for at least a couple of weeks. Like I said before, this isn't about rampant materialism; I'm throwing away a lot of writing, as well as boxes upon boxes of magazine clippings. "Don't throw away your writing!" Trust me, I'm keeping 10%, and 10% is still taking up too much room; I was 15, and no one should be forced to keep their bad teenager writing around to shame them before posterity. Anyway, my back also hurts. 

Reblogs of interest

Juneteenth: "Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality. Today, stand with us." 

Daveigh Chase, Disney’s Lilo Voice Actor and ‘The Ring’ Villain, Dies at 35

Remembering Richard Hunt, the beloved muppeteer who passed away from AIDS complications. Meanwhile, here's Elizabeth Taylor in 1992 talking about her AIDS research charity/advocacy work.

Happy Sinkhole Forest to all who celebrate

hi there,

it’s 5 months later that i’m finally responding to this ask… i’m really sorry about that. i don’t know that this is even something that you’d still like answered, but…

in recent years there’s been an increasing amount of mainstream media with canon LGBTQ+ characters / real-life LGBTQ+ people—both for better and for worse. i don’t have an exhaustive list of such media, but i have randomly blogged* about instances that i personally have come across in the past…

[manga/anime] Yagate Kimi ni Naru

[manga] Miss Kiryu Doesn’t Know What Love Is

[reality tv] “adventures in Japanese TV: “Gathering of 13 Trans Women””

[reality tv] “gender non-conformity sure does make for good entertainment for cis people, huh Japan?“

[news] “spotted: LGBT 101 on Japanese TV”

[tv drama] “Ie Uru Onna Gyakushuu S2E3: “A home that is accepting of all [kinds of] love?!”“

[reality tv] “transphobia & non-binary erasure in Japanese media”

[news] “spotted: same-gender marriage feature on Japanese news”

[docu series] “NHK Heart Net TV to air feature on non-binary people“ (see: 2017 episode featuring non-binary people in JP)

i think that it’s been within the last two years or so that i’ve noticeably been increasingly caught off guard by Japanese mainstream media randomly including queer-coded or even canonically gay (always gay) characters as a means of random-plot-twist (click), comedic relief/plot driver (fucking Ossaannnn ughhh click-click), or queerbaiting (click), but i haven’t always gotten my feathers ruffled by it enough to pointedly take note of it in the form of a blog post or Twitter rant, so…

while i hope the above helps answer your question, i’m sure that Google-sensei could provide you with much more helpful information. posting this publically just because i know others may be interested in this inadvertent linkspam.

So I see The Glue Post circulating again and I see an uptick in followers, so I think its time for me to do an updated version of Link Roundup. All of these links can also be found at my website.

Let me lead with what y'all know me for.

The Glue Famine is now an actual book that you can hold in your physical phalanges. So if you like reading about my personal pain- there. That's a thing that exists.

But I also write fiction! I have an Amazon page and a Tablo page where you can find the following:

A paranormal investigation series involving a werewolf lawyer and a fairy mob boss.

A romance about witches plus one cursed muffin. 

A book about cryptids, petty crime, and dirt.

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

I also:

do art, jewelry, and other crafts

designed my own tarot deck, which can be bought here and the guide book is on Amazon

have a Goodreads

have a Patreon

have a Redbubble

have a Ko-fi

I am a gigantic fucking Olympics geek. Like, huge. I cannot express to you how huge and so I shall provide the following links as objective proof:

https://nagaina.dreamwidth.org/897839.html

https://nagaina.dreamwidth.org/88181.html

https://nagaina.dreamwidth.org/96517.html

https://nagaina.dreamwidth.org/tag/london+2012

https://nagaina.dreamwidth.org/tag/beijing+2008

http://nagaina-ryuuoh.livejournal.com/152062.html

http://nagaina-ryuuoh.livejournal.com/153310.html

http://nagaina-ryuuoh.livejournal.com/153412.html

http://nagaina-ryuuoh.livejournal.com/154909.html

I arise briefly from my slumbers with a linkspam.  (Did you really expect anything else from me?)

I’m putting this together for an ace group I recently joined that has a bunch of folks worried about imposter syndrome.  Rather than copying and pasting individual links into a post there, I figured I’d copy and paste them into a linkspam here.  Efficiency!

Most of these are on the older side, but still worth reading.  (If you have more recent recommendations, have at it, although I’m mostly interested in long-form writing.)  Anyway, here goes.

Self-doubt and self-invalidation

If You Can See the Invisible Elephant, Please Describe It by Sciatrix

Switching On Airplane Mode by Sciatrix

You may also be interested in the Carnival of Aces on doubt.

But what if I just think I’m asexual because...?

Asexual, because reasons by Siggy

There is no control group for the universe by Coyote

An Ace Survivor’s Manifesto by @queenieofaces​

You don’t owe anyone a tour of your scars by Coyote 

You may also be interested in this Carnival of Aces on the concept of the “Unassailable Asexual,” this one on asexuality and mental health, and this one on asexuality and disability.  There’s also always the @resourcesforacesurvivors​ recommended reading list.

For the grey and demi folks

Many ways to be between by Siggy

What It Means to be Ace: Building Community on Shared Experience by Jo

Shared Experience, Different Words by Siggy

What do we need a word like “semi-arid” for? by Coyote

Here’s a whole linkspam on greyness.  Here’s another one.  Here’s one on demisexuality.

Self-validation

How do I keep from invalidating myself?, advice from @queenieofaces​

You’re not alone.  I’ve been there too. by @redbeardace

Sex is just one planet out of galaxies by Coyote

McConnell didn't have the votes ("You don't have the votes / You don't have the votes"), so the Senate healthcare bill got delayed. There's still a lot of public posturing and wavering, but you can bet once the recess is over, the GOP leadership will start wheeling and dealing to get to fifty. They have room to play with two no votes, so just like in the House, I suspect they'll give the two most vulnerable some cover (my money is on Collins and Heller), then twist arms for the rest. So we need to keep twisting back, and harder.

Osita Nwanevu wrote this long and excellent article about the history of US democratic primaries, with a thesis that (contrary to the narrative that BernieBros and others have been trying to push) racial and social issues have been keeping white working class voters away from progressive candidates since 1972. Not coincidentally, this was the first presidential election after the GOP adopted the "Southern strategy", Richard Nixon's plan to attract racist white Democrats alienated by the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Nwanevu is a little too quick to throw around the word "neo-liberal", but otherwise this is a fascinating look at history and trends.

It's easy to dismiss the various Twitter-tempests-in-a-teacup as distractions from "real" issues, but let's consider that Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are accusing the President of the United States of blackmail, and that's not a small thing.

Not politics exactly, but a hot topic in tech lately is allegations of inappropriate behavior of venture capitalists toward women who are asking them for funding. This Guardian article uses one particular case as a jumping off point to talk about the problems with sexism and misogyny in the tech world. I also found this Facebook post to be a thoughtful response.

Speaking of Silicon Valley and its sometimes-toxic culture, this video from Fusion does a good job of why the resignation of Uber's ultra-bro CEO, Travis Kalanick, will not solve all the company's problems.

In voter suppression news, I was cheered to see so many states pushing back on or flat refusing the administration's request for voter data. And this hasn't been a particularly partisan response either -- only 17 states have Democratic Secretaries of State, but as of the most recent count, at least 44 states are refusing to cooperate, either wholly or in part. When the governor of Mississippi told Trump to "jump in the Gulf of Mexico", I figured that was pretty much the ballgame. Maybe there's some hope for the republic after all.

"I Don't Know How to Explain Why You Should Care About Other People" is an article that sums up a lot of my feelings right now, and a lot of other people's too, if the number of times I've seen it shared on social media in the last couple of weeks is any indication.