I firmly believe in ship and let ship but if this new push to make Aerti ‘the most popular pairing in the fandom’ means dealing with the ‘wlw are so perfect and pure uwu’ crowd, it’s going to get old really fast.
I don’t care that pointy-toed shoes ‘elongate the foot and make you look taller’ I’m four foot eleven, they’re just going to make me look like an elf
My miniature Terry Pratchett Discworld novel library!
Made from an Altoids tin, Popsicle sticks, cardstock, copy paper, and a whole lot of patience. All of the miniature books open and have real printed pages you can leaf through. And the insidevof the lid has a sort-of-3D scene of the UU Library.
Contains the novels from The Color of Magic, all the way through Raising Steam
Which pages did you include? First chapter? Favourite chapter? Favourite pages with no regard for chapters?
I cheated and used the first 15 pages from The Color of Magic for all of the books. I had to hand type the pages to match my paperback, and it was very tedious. I was burnt out messing with formatting and spacing all the words in my graphics program (I could not get the word processor on my laptop to match the format properly).
like the bonus of having adhd is when you get into hyper focus mode and you get a bunch of shit done but the downside is that most time your brain is like bees. just hundreds of bees.
Serena Williams caused a sensation with the black catsuit she wore at this year’s French Open tournament. But French tennis officials aren’t as fashion-forward.
From now on, players’ attire apparently will be subject to a dress code — and Williams’ sleek outfit is out.
“I feel like a warrior in it, a warrior princess … from Wakanda, maybe,” she told reporters in May, referring to the movie Black Panther. “I’ve always wanted to be a superhero, and it’s kind of my way of being a superhero.”
So like any good superhero costume, Williams’ black Nike catsuit was functional.
“I’ve had a lot of problems with my blood clots, God I don’t know how many I’ve had in the past 12 months,” she said at the May news conference. “I’ve been wearing pants in general a lot when I play so I can keep the blood circulation going.”
I love this ~innocent and innocuous idea~ that a short skirt is more appropriate for playing high-level sports than a full body suit. You can almost taste the dishonesty… =.=
So instead of this they’re going to insist she wear a tennis skirt, which means her compression socks are going to be fancy as hell. (Note that most of the compression socks I’ve ever seen were “flesh” colored, i.e. light beige.)
If they object to her wearing compression socks, honestly, it’s attempted murder.
When you have blood clots, and they keep happening, you HAVE to do what you have to do in order to keep your circulation good.
Exactly. Most people who came in with compilation and stuck around have been a delight, but any more of those who want to spit on our work, say we’re fandoming wrong and claim they understand the source material in the ‘one true way’ can take a hike.
While I’m on the train of thought of Douchebags in Fandom Who
Brought Nothing Good to My Experience of It,
let me run by a few notable specimens over my time here, from the early 2000s to just a couple years ago.
1.
The one who showed up on ff.net to offer harsh
critique unasked for, never had anything good to say, and had a profile that
said, “I’ll just be here doing critiques until I get my own story up.” They
stuck around a few years leaving snarky commentary, never published a damn
thing, at least under that pseud, and eventually dried up and disappeared from the fandom.
2.
The one who screamed at everyone that we weren’t
seeing what she was, that she understood Yuffie and Vincent better than anyone
else, literally said that she had no respect for anyone who didn’t do things her way, that our
reviews weren’t good enough for her fics, that she understood the nature of
maturity and we didn’t. Then she called the mod a Fucking Mog Licker about 500
times in a row.
3. Ye old raging homophobe. (Also hated any fic that deviated from canon, and then when he started writing it himself, had the nerve to claim he was the only one doing it right).
4.
The one who summarized his fic along the lines
of “Far outstrips every other fic I’ve read at this site, no American writer
can produce anything close to mine,” and had a very bland and plodding story
that I can’t remember the name of and have never even once seen mentioned
again.
5.
The one with the Big Boob obsession who thought
reviews were actual payment for fics and threw tantrums when we didn’t deliver all
the Cloti he wanted even if it wasn’t a Cloti fic because “I’m the one leaving reviews here!”
6.
The one who claimed to have publishing creds,
thought fandom was supposed to kiss his ass for it, and ‘graded’ fics in an
attempt to establish himself as an authority over the rest of us. Thought we were all shit to begin with.
If there’s a moral to this reminiscing, it might be: Don’t
come in here thinking you’re God’s gift to fandom and don’t treat your potential audience like shit.
The arrogance will outlive anything else you do, and probably even your name.
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