sundries

My proposal has been accepted for Infinitus. Now the question is whether I can make Infinitus fit in the summer schedule. Coming the weekend after Bristol and not knowing what Patty's summer plans are yet makes this a big maybe, although I am realizing that I would like to be there. Part of it is the programming item, which is more work related to the mourning of fictional characters but focused specifically on how death is a stand-in for eroticism both in JKR's text and fannish response.

I'll put this out there to a wider audience. I should submit a programming idea to NYCC. But I've no idea what that should be. Help me, Big Internet Brain.

Oh! I'll need to go to the Jewish Museum of London while I'm there. Largely because one of the characters in the "Fly Girls" project that's somewhere in the stack of actual salable projects Kali and I are working on has a Jewish British chick in it circa WWII.

The coins of Beriah Wall.

A Host of Mummies, a Forest of Secrets.

Have been having a lot of weird synchronicity lately. It's funny how crap that consumed my life twenty years ago will pop up on someone else's radar and I can be like "oh, oh, oh! I know stuff! yay."

Shepard Book's backstory is coming. I realize I'm excited because I imagine that backstory is a bit like the sorts of backstories I written for Snape at various times. We'll see.

AARP acknowledges the needs of LGBTQ seniors. AARP is powerful and if they are endorsing a report saying that LGBTQ seniors need legal protections for their relationships due to health and financial issues, that's a useful thing to have in our corner.

Appeals court finds that anti-gay online bullying (which included threats/descriptions of violence) is not protected speech.

Lesbian prom photos. A lot of lesbian prom photos. You can even ad yours. Via 51stcenturyfox.

copperbadge apparently posted this story for someone anonymous. It's a CoE fixit, ( you don't want spoilers but I can't make my point without them )

Anyway, it still made me cry.

Here. This old thing is about all I can manage for St. Patrick's Day. It's new to some of you.