Yuletide 2021 - Dear Author Letter

Oct. 22nd, 2021 10:31 pm
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I'm working on my letter, but I am so excited to be sharing a fandom with you! I'll fill this out more in a day or so.

Safe
This movie was unexpectedly nice. Statham and Ms Chan had real chemistry (familial, not romantic or sexual), and it elevates the movie from standard revenge shoot-'em-up to something far more interesting: an actual found family.

I'd love to see more of them growing closer together. What does Luke think about Mei going to college? What does Mei think about going to college? Where do they settle, assuming they do eventually settle down? I just want more looks at the future for their little family. Do they get a cat? A dog?

DNW: Please don't dwell on the bad things that happen to set up the story, and also that the relationship between Luke and Mei (if you write about them) not be made romantic.

Bullitt
Oh wow. This movie is fantastic. It's a police procedural and character study, but with the real focus on the characters, not the police stuff.

I love all of these characters and would be delighted for just about anything with them. What happens after the movie? Does Frank have any more contact with Chalmers? How did Frank and Cathy meet? Do you want to write a modern coffeeshop AU with them? I'd be fascinated.

DNW: I really don't want anything extremely violent, but am fine with canon-typical violence.


The Crazies
There's so much unexplored territory here. Every time I watch this, I see hints of a relationship between David and Russell. Did they have one? Are they each other's ex-lover? Why was that other guy so willing to leave his wife?

DNW: I really don't want to have the focus be on the grosser aspects of the Crazies themselves. I'm okay with canon-typical violence, but please nothing hyperviolent.

Humans are Space Orcs
This is always such a fun idea! Are we special because we can throw overhand? Are we special because we're tough but small? Are we *huge??* Are we incredibly cute but deadly; the 'big cats' of the galaxy?

DNW: I don't want hyperviolence for this.

The Adjustment Bureau
I love the doors and the secret of how the officials travel through them. I love the idea of a multitude of various futures - I want to know more about how it works or whose lives they've changed (and what from/to)...

Who was Elise going to be? How many changes happened to her? Do she and David work on making changes of their own?

DNW: I don't want hyperviolence please.

RED
I love caper movies and would be entertained by something in the same vein as the movies - lighthearted, fun, chaotic, and where the 'good' guys win.

Also, this set up makes for *excellent* AU fodder. Go wild.

DNW: I don't want hyperviolence in this, but am okay with canon-typical violence.
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US APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS RULING SAYING PROP 8 UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Feb. 7th, 2012 10:18 am
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OMG, YOU GUYS!!!

Prop 8 Unconstitutional

It's not as broad a ruling as the original - this would apply only to California - but it's a start.

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Yuletide Gift

Dec. 25th, 2011 02:22 pm
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OMG, you guys. YOU GUYS, you have NO IDEA.

I got a Yuletide story and it's the funniest bestest story EVAR.

Texts from Cephalopods

I can't ... it's hysterical. It's a wonderful holiday gift, just exactly what a Yuletide should be filled with.

Go look, laugh, admire, be jealous!

Stasia
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Salvation Army is ... not what they claim. (They never are.)

Dec. 1st, 2011 01:10 pm
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Any religious organization which pays for lobbyists should lose its tax-free status. (We won't get into the fact that I think ALL religious organizations should lose tax-free status. That's not the point of this post.)

The Salvation Army is a religious organization and it discriminates against homosexuals and it pays political lobbyists to pass discriminatory laws. This is ugly.



Want to get even with the Salvation Army
for discrimination in Jesus' name?

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Click here to find out how!
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Congress wants to take away your internet

Nov. 17th, 2011 05:52 pm
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Originally posted by [personal profile] dynamicsymmetry at Congress wants to take away your internet.
Folks, I know you're tired of me yelling at you, but you should be aware that there's a hearing this morning being held by the US House Judiciary Committee on a "copyright" bill that will essentially break the entire internet.

You like the internet, right? I mean, you're here.

From the link above:

As drafted, the legislation would grant the government and private parties unprecedented power to interfere with the Internet's domain name system (DNS). The government would be able to force ISPs and search engines to redirect or dump users' attempts to reach certain websites' URLs. In response, third parties will woo average users to alternative servers that offer access to the entire Internet (not just the newly censored U.S. version), which will create new computer security vulnerabilities as the reliability and universality of the DNS evaporates.

It gets worse: Under SOPA's provisions, service providers (including hosting services) would be under new pressure to monitor and police their users’ activities. While PROTECT-IP targeted sites “dedicated to infringing activities,” SOPA targets websites that simply don’t do enough to track and police infringement (and it is not at all clear what would be enough). And it creates new powers to shut down folks who provide tools to help users get access to the Internet the rest of the world sees (not just the “U.S. authorized version”).


This is being framed as an attempt to fight hackers and pirates. Don't buy it. And don't think for a minute that it's going to stop there. This is bad. And at the hearing today, only one opponent of the bill is being allowed to testify.

Please do whatever you can to fight this. Email congresspeople. Sign petitions. Yell about it in every venue you can.

And/or

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Mississippi Personhood Amendment - please read and spread the word

Oct. 11th, 2011 01:59 pm
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Originally posted by [personal profile] gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media.

Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.

Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing.

Jackson Women's Health Organization is the only place women can get abortions in the entire state, and they are trying to launch a grassroots movement against this amendment. This doesn't just apply to Mississippi, though, as Personhood USA, the group that introduced this amendment, is trying to introduce identical amendments in all 50 states.

What's more, in Mississippi, this amendment is expected to pass. It even has Mississippi Democrats, including the Attorney General, Jim Hood, backing it.

The reason I'm posting this here is because I made a meager donation to the Jackson Women's Health Organization this morning, and I received a personal email back hours later - on a Sunday - thanking me and noting that I'm one of the first "outside" people to contribute.

So if you sometimes pass on political action because you figure that enough other people will do something to make a difference, make an exception on this one. My RSS reader is near silent on this amendment. I only found out about it through a feminist blog. The mainstream media is not reporting on it.

If there is ever a time to donate or send a letter in protest, this would be it.

What to do?

- Read up on it. Wake Up, Mississippi is the home of the grassroots effort to fight this amendment. Daily Kos also has a thorough story on it.

- If you can afford it, you can donate at the site's link.

- You can contact the Democratic National Committee to see why more of our representatives aren't speaking out against this.

- Like this Facebook page to help spread awareness.


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I just wanted to say this publicly

Sep. 23rd, 2011 08:33 am
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It's Not the End
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Prompts plz

Jul. 14th, 2011 05:52 pm
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So, for Christmas a couple of years ago, I made, for Merrie, a deck of cards with prompts on. She's always complaining that she doesn't know what to draw, so I mustered up 52 random prompts (ranging from You have been eaten by a grue. to more specific image-based things like A tall woman, standing alone in a dark forest.).

Now I'm thinking that I could use a similar deck, for writing and drawing. I can come up with some things on my own, but I'd love to have your help, so, um.

Help?

Prompt me? I can usually make either a story or an image out of many different things (I keep going back to a rhinocerous with a tea cup, for example) so anything goes. Rating no concern, silliness no concern, technical skill no concern (if I can't do it technically, I'll learn how).

*glee*

Thanks!

Stasia
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