Things I am grateful for:

[raven]

-Queer women. I don't think I could have had my point proven more spectacularly: a community of queer women, and interesting, gender-thoughtful people generally, is a great and marvellous thing. Thank you, all of you; eighty-plus comments and I'm still responding to comments and reading and thinking. I am, for some obvious and some non-obvious reasons, reconceptualising the queer at the moment, and thank you for your experience.

(Relatedly, the nice folk over at lgbtfest were soliciting queer-aware fic recs in advance of the ficathon, and I found this little gem. Out of the Cupboard Under The Stairs, by magnetic_pole, HP, gen. A sweet little coming-out story, very nice.)

-That I do not live in Oklahoma. Notable links of the last couple of days: some lunatic Republican in the Oklahoma state legislature thinks gay people are worse than terrorists; the smartest thing anyone says in response to this is said by a seventeen-year-old boy; meanwhile, you can pass Earth Science exams in the state of Oklahoma by claiming the Flying Spaghetti Monster created the earth an hour ago. Ye gods.

-Randomly, Vienna Teng. speccygeekgrrl uploaded "Whatever You Want" and yes, there really isn't a song of hers I don't like. I uploaded these for jacinthsong, but for anyone who wants to grab: "Shasta" (this is awesome), "Drought", and Say Uncle".

-Oxford! I'm off out bright and early tomorrow morning, and by lunchtime should be back in the land of dreaming spires, and dear me, thank god for that. Apparently my lovely friends have been setting fire to things in my absence, which I thoroughly disapprove of (without me? forshame), and I really can't wait to be back even if it is just for a couple of days.

Which means I can't say, without seeming disingenous, that I'm taking part in the Friday LJ boycott, because I wouldn't be posting anyway - I won't get back until very late on Friday night - and besides, I'm not entirely sure I endorse the idea anyway. I'm not really in the mood to discuss LJ's latest fuckwittery, though, because I need it - LJ, not its fuckwittery - to help keep me sane for the moment. No more on that.

That's it. See lots of you soon.

Comments

[outintherain.livejournal.com]

I just started listening to Vienna Teng last week; Eric's Song is emerging as a clear favourite; rather pathetically because it reminds me of Mulder and Scully.

Well, if we can't have our fandom vices...?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I have that, but haven't listened to it! My favourite of hers is "Lullaby For A Stormy Night" - and, coincidentally, I once wrote an XF fic with exactly that title (http://loneraven.livejournal.com/540899.html).

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

Eeeee I get a youuuuuu.

What? Yeah, it is all about me.

<3

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

yoooooooou. is all about our epic forbidden post-divorce love. <3 <3

[absinthe-shadow.livejournal.com]

Argh, I missed you. Woe. Everything happened when I was far away!

(And I can't say anything at all about Oklahoma. Thank you for linking to the letter.)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Missed you too! I would have dragged you up from Southampton, but found it more difficult to drag you from Austria!

[nerves-patterns.livejournal.com]

Reading the discussion to that post was amazing - I think everyone said what I wanted to say, but god, it's good to hear other people talking about it so rationally, so eloquently, so poetically, in a way. :)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*grins* I'm glad you got something out of it. I love this type of discussion; it's so valuable, and somewhat lacking in Real Life. :)