Satsuma @Satsuma@wandering.shop

Time to vote on next month's #rec theme over at #Fancake:

🔹 Aliens
🔹 Crack
🔹 Dominant/Submissive

If you're a comm member, pop by #Dreamwidth and vote. If you're not a member, but want to be, join up and then vote! 🎂

And if you have any questions, I'm the person to talk to. #fandom

https://fancake.dreamwidth.org/1912638.html

Alright friends, I've hit a wall in my research so I'm throwing this out there:

Anybody got any references, stories or anecdotes about ancient/medieval mercenaries + marriage? Bonus points for true stories about down-on-their-luck or retired mercenaries & soldiering companies and what they did after the war was over?

Bonus bonus points for information about ancient war brides.

I can't get a good starting point just using search terms and it's driving me nuts.

#LittleWritingHabitsChallenge

I believe in you.
A haiku is longer than
Ten words for the day.

#Fancake's #rec theme for August is Polyamory! #fandom https://fancake.dreamwidth.org/1908304.html

There's still another full week of #SummerSchool

https://cloud.scholar.social/index.php/apps/calendar/p/H8Bf8m2PeMrrW2FA

What presentations are you most excited about?

You can still sign up! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScvSn4094sn6ZaGmDFpPVG8uUR71-8Efqx4y46QbrGQKbTolA/viewform

For my #SummerSchool talk "The Feminist #Pansori" I put together a Google Doc about the background of pansori and a plot summary of the two repertoires I will mainly be talking about, with lots of links to related media. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RE7cyz5uQKZMdOF_7T-yWf8ZwM2gO06u0b_uR36prmc/edit#

The document may be updated between now and the talk, but it's more or less complete and may serve as good advance reading for those attending, especially because I will NOT be covering all this ground in the talk--the plot summaries in particular will be drastically pared down. The document may also be of interest for those who are not attending but would like more information about pansori.

I’m always extra impressed when people go on strike when they don’t have a union to support them.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-27/blizzard-employees-call-for-strike-after-discrimination-lawsuit

Spores 🌿😍

there's this idea of a story being complete and correctly ordered that's not actually real. it's an ideal that doesn't need to be met. something happening before something else may add dimension to it. it may create a specific experience, but you're not missing out by experiencing it another way--you may even like it more by doing it differently than intended

Argentina Formally Recognizes Nonbinary People, a Latin American First

Argentines no longer have to be identified as female or male on their national identity documents, the latest step in President Alberto Fernández’s push for gender equality.

Gender: X will be "offer as an option" on passeport, national ID doc, etc.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/world/americas/argentina-nonbinary-identification.html

https://www.theblaze.com/news/argentina-offers-non-binary-gender-option-for-national-id-document-passport