Saathi

Critiques are always better when they're coming from *inside* the house. If you're on the outside peering in thru the windows, get off my damn lawn, creeper.

NICE work!!

"Austerity leads to community-building" says a guy who Manfully Refrains from ordering something he might enjoy because of the ~optics.~

I hate that song *so much.*

Oooh that lighting is DOPE

Which as an argument has been SO harmful to our ability to call out patterns of fannish bigotry in the past decade! I'm sympathetic to folks targeted for frivolous ship war nonsense but "X shippers allow/encourage bigotry in their space so long as they get Content about their faves" isn't the same!

TW was also the 1st time I saw the idea "if you criticize us in any way, you're obviously just an anti" really crystallize as a way to dismiss important convos abt racism, misogyny, etc.

(and I absolutely would not have said anything if that one convo was the only time I've encountered it, it's happened multiple times over the years! It's the most common thing I've heard about that fandom actually!)

No no I'm not like mad at you, I'm just frustrated that I *keep encountering it.* Thing in isolation: whatever. Repeated pattern: makes me wanna vent, that's all.

Consuming fanwork and ignoring the wider discourse in a fandom is not "staying neutral," it's just turning a blind eye to who reaped the most benefit from harassment campaigns and active toxicity, all so that you can have your ~fun escapism.~

"oh I don't engage with the fandom directly, I just read the fic and see the gifsets" okay but now you don't know the avowed, self-identified white supremacists you're giving clicks and kudos and glowing comments to.

It's always said like it's the FUNNIEST JOKE and I'm like "you do not know the amount of base, blatant racism that went into that fanspace so that you'd come away with that impression."

The # of times I've heard "I never even watched Teen Wolf, I've just consumed the fanwork, & I didn't even KNOW Scott was the lead!" is absolutely an indictment of that fandom, imo. Not necessarily of the ppl who didn't know, but of the fandom culture that built up so that ppl *wouldn't* know.

588-2300.......

Me too the fuck

Ooh gorgeous!!

Sometimes ya gotta take the hit.

The eternal SW fan Mood.

Posted a little Chani/Irulan WiP last night: www.tumblr.com/saathi1013/8...

Nah, I remember the pre/early internet days and campaigning/"awards season" was still a thing, but it was mostly limited to press tours, special screenings, billboards/ads, and the like. Probably also bribes. Like everything else, social media just dialed it all up to 11.

Some people at that con are checking slack going WHAT THE FUCK rn

[Pitt s2 spoilers] Ohhhhhh all the hospitals are getting cyberattacked bc all their IT furries are at Anthrocon, got it.

It's also interesting to see a utopia depicted on TV, even if it has flaws.

...wife and I are watching Moonhaven on Netflix, and it feels like scifi from another time. Possibly the past or maybe the future, but it doesn't feel "now."

Yay! And I didn't even have to break out the "hot evil sapphics" card!

Yeah the protag team often breaks the rules but less in a "rule of law bad" and more "the powerful make dumb rules to oppress people and we are jaunty little assholes."

There is also a lot of pro-queer, pro-kink stuff, and a slight soupçon of pro-SWer in it too.

Killjoys is great and the overarching theme is definitely "fuck The Man" so I wouldn't call it copaganda exactly.

Murder by Memory "Narrator [Blair] Baker keeps this novel's tone firmly cozy..." — Library Journal Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in this sci-fi ode to the cozy mystery, ...

Something I’m still excited to get to say: Murder by Memory, the first Dorothy Gentleman novella, is eligible for the Hugos! Nominate as your heart moves you, and you have until the end of March! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...