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Patty has presumably reached Ohio. When I went to bed last night they were in West Virginia, and it's too early to prod at her now after all of that.

I have my period and feel MISERABLE, on the other hand, I'll be functional by the time I leave for the UK.

Facebook Fail: YA author Owl Goingback has been told by Facebook that he can't join until he provides government documentation that his name isn't fake. It's not fake; it's Native American, like him.

astolat has been hosting an unofficial rewrite of the problematic VividCon accessibility policy in her journal. It now continues here. If you are a con organizer or trying to learn more about being inclusive when it comes to people with disabilities, this discussion, especially the comment-heavy first part, is a must-read.

A review of ellen_kushner's "The Man with the Knives" is out that is spoilery for only the barest bones (literally) of the story, but that has me really excited because yes, yes exactly! and now I get to quote it in my Dragon*Con presentation.

Oh, cool Gilded Age place. Patty and I should visit.

Kai Wright has been answering reader's questions about gay youth.

Why is it so hard to apologize well?

Why is it that when my Mac breaks (track pad click death this time) it always starts working again the second I get to the Genius bar allowing some dude to give me the "stupid chick" face? Oh look, it started doing it again. Track pad replaced. So that's win, although I hate handing the thing over what with the "Battle Butler" wallpaper and the scads of porntastic fanfic on it.

Looks like TW S4 is going to start shooting in January.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

The fandom community is just that -- a community. Unlike many other scenarios in which there is a creator/consumer divide, there is not one in fandom. Due to how the community functions and who participates in the community, how work is distributed and how access to work is obtained many people believe that it is reasonable to provide content labeling for creative works in a way that allows the consumers to avoid work that may be problematic for them either because of things like migraines, epilepsy and PTSD triggers. Some creators feel this impinges on the potential impact of their work, despite the way the Internet allows that information to be available but not visible to those who don't want to know.

I used to be against warnings, then I realized that in this community allowing people to have information that makes them feel safe before viewing my work means more people will see my work.

While I occasionally will "choose not to warn" because I can't think of what specific warning might be appropriate for a story that is rather unremittingly dark, "choose not to warn" while informative can be sort of annoying. It's like if I go into a restaurant and I say "I can't eat wheat, can you tell me if there's any used to thicken this soup" and they say "We won't tell you that" as opposed to "no, but there's a lot of wheat in our kitchen, so it may not be safe for you."

In the the fan community labeling the tin does not impinge on creative freedom (the way it does with the MPAA ratings system which is full of double-standards, misogynistic and biased against entertainment for adult audiences), and being totally against warnings is, in my own opinion, sort of an asshole move.

But, like I said, I didn't get it for a long damn time.

[sunhawk.livejournal.com]

Sorry if I was unclear, I understand perfectly the need for warnings and that giving people the information they need is really important. I've never had a problem putting warnings or "contains" type info in my fic headers.

What I didn't understand was the perspective I saw that basically said "I don't want to use the 'i don't use warnings' label because it will create SOME sort of expectation, and I want people to watch my vids with NO EXPECTATIONS WHATSOEVER!" as if art is this precious, delicate thing that can only succeed through very strict presentation conditions and must be privileged over all other factors, including the risk for harm to the audience in question. I just wrote an overly-wordy blurb about it in my LJ, in fact LOL

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry for making the assumption that the not getting it came from the other side. My bad!

[sunhawk.livejournal.com]

No worries, it did me no harm :)