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( Entire post contains spoilers for Andor S2 (and Andor S1, and probably Rogue One)> So I like it. I like that somebody basically went - to paraphrase somebody's take on Bluesky -  )

Anyway.
That's my thoughts on that one.


TTFN,
Ms Syren.

Okay.

So ages ago on twitter, someone commented that (in TNG, at least) Worf is this very kind of staid, stick-in-the-mud guy who tries to marry the first girl he sleeps with and is kind of hard core about Honour and the entire rest of Klingon culture while, also, yes, kind of hard core about Honour, will happily stay up all night shotgunning beer, cries at the opera, and collectively never met a casual daytime look that couldn't be improved with stud leather and a titty window.

And what I thought was: No kidding. He was raised by humans.
( In-Which I go on at some length about Klingon cultural stuff that is mostly not made-up-by-me )

So, yeah. He didn't get the whole thing.
Of course he's going to be a little bit weird.


This has been Fannon Corner with Ms Syren.

Via Reyl:
If you're trans and live in Ontario, please take the Trans PULSE Survey.
From the website:
We are documenting how discrimination affects trans people's health and we need as many trans people as possible to participate.
Please link this all over the place. :-)


Via Ami_B:
Pro Choice Coalition Ottawa who are pretty much what they sound like. Go check them out, and maybe hang out in front of Morgantaller with them curing the next month or so, if you've got the hours free. :-)


Via the Goddess Scholars yahoo group:
School of witchcraft opens in Taiwan -- While I suspect that the term "Witchcraft" is being used for sensationalistic reasons, I think it's really awesome that the Paiwan (one of the aboriginal groups in Taiwan) have opened a training school[1] in order to preserve their communities' traditional healing techniques, rituals, and ways of interacting with the gods and the ancestors.


From Pandagon:
Once again, sexists choose punishing a woman over their own self interest. On how rape culture, the shaming of sexual women, and "false rape accusations" go together like a horse and carriage.


From Karen Healey (Attention Rebelious Jezebels):
Heck Yes, I've Got Spirit! -- In Deffense of Cheerleaders and, quite a bit less-so, their portrayal in/by the media.


From Dira Sudis:
A Review Of Sorts (of How to Suppress Women's Writing, by Joanna Russ) -- on women's writing, fanfiction, and taking ourselves seriously.


From Tiger Beatdown:
On Douchebags, Willful Ignorance of One's Own Misogyny, and Various Forms of Harassment! Jolly Good Fun!


You Remember the Sexual Assault Prevention Tips (Guaranteed to Work) that I linked to, a while back?

Well, apparently there's been a bit of a ruckus happening over it.

The is the response from the author of said list of tips.


AND


Two from The Man Files:
A View from the Pole -- about the kind of guys you find in strip clubs and what they're like to work with.

AND

In honour of Take Back the Night, which is tonight:
Take Back the Night -- About how the cultural memes about "women should learn how to protect themselves better" and "rapists are strangers in the bushes, not people you actually *know*" and so on, and the more typical types of "rape prevention tips" that get circulated widely on campuses, for example, are really not remotely effective and actually contribute to (or bolster) the problem.


- TTFN,
- Amazon.


[1] As opposed to passing the techniques down through bloodlines, which is how it's traditionally been done -- I guess maybe the children of these ritualists don't necessarily want to learn the techniques or take over the family business?

Okay.

So, now that Nanowrimo is over for another eleven months, I've gone back to doing fanfic and am trying to pick up where I left off with "Live Truly, My Heart" (the Trin/Switch Matrix fic I'd been working on for months before Nano 07 turned up).

And I have done so. :-D


:-\


By which I mean "I'm in exactly the same predicament I was in at the end of October". :-P


Said predicament is this: I don't know what to do next.

I know there are things I want to include, and I know I've got a year and a half worth of time-line left to fill before Neo turns up on the scene to throw a wrench into Trinity's brain.

I know that, in the space of 18 months I need to fit the following in:

Three trips to Zion to recharge the Neb
Two or Three sex scenes (explicit or not)
One trip to the Oracle
One Frustrated Hissy Fit by Cypher
One introduction to the Lady in Red
One detailed chase scene between Trin (and possible others) and Agent Smith, which will involve Smith calling Trin by her plugged-in name.


You would think that I'd be able to break down the time-frame into two-month periods and stick one event into each period, wouldn't you?
But I seem to be having trouble getting going.

Also, while my first bunch of chapters covered a good month or two at a time, I've (foolishly or not) gotten into the habit of using one chapter to cover one afternoon (a paragraph by the MC on having extra time on her hands, followed by three pages that cover one run-through of the Sparring Program, for example) or one twenty-minute conversation, or something.
This is great for, say, character development, and it gives me the chance to, say, let Trinity learn something new and then think about it in a reasonable amount of time rather than have her spend two months sorting through her reaction to Mouse knowing about her triad-esque relationship with Switch and Apoc (for example).
Unfortunately, I think it might sound strange - and, possibly, like a bit of a cop-out - to have too many chapters start with "days turn into weeks, which blur into months. Thus and such happens, and yada yada yada goes on. One day..." Because that works beautifully, until it becomes a crutch. And I'm dangerously close to that happening, anyway.
<*shrug*>

So that's my issue. It's getting a bit frustrating.

I'm kind of hoping that - once the exhaustion wears off, at least - the routine of my new job will kick-start my creativity in my off-hours, the way being enrolled in an MA program did two and three years ago.
I can hope, anyway. :-)


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)

The Brat Queen writes on What Is Slash?

(Link yoinked from Tashiro).

Intelligent, with handy, dandy extra links inside. Whee! :-)

Okay.

I'm enjoying the fun challenge (and 'challenge' is definitely the word) of writing an orgy. I've never done this before, so I'm a bit... uncertain of how to do it. Which is why I'm posting. Any suggests would be appreciated.
Anyway.
Warning: The story is a piece of discworld fanfiction (Moria, I can see you looking disgusted from here). As such, if any of you really don't want to know, kindly don't look...
( Under the cut. )

So there you have it.

Suggestions or, hell, questions, are totally welcome. :-)

- TTFN,
- Amazon.