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oursin

Well, I suppose getting a text from the GPs apropos slots opening up for Covid booster was not entirely unanticipated - I was looking the other day to see whether these were on the horizon - so anyway, my dearios, I am scheduled for mine in just over a fortnight.

But the other thing was getting an email from radio people as to whether I could talk to them about History of Criminalisation/Decriminalisation of Abortion THIS VERY AFTERNOON -

- which it so happened I could, and these days, it is not just talking to them, it is being on Zoom as well with instructions re camera -

So I am always up for saying that the way the police have been carrying on of very recent years, and the health professionals who have been grassing women up to them, is worse than the Victorians as historians have pretty much failed to find anything much in the way of prosecutions of women rather than abortionists -

- possibly because in most cases that even came to light it was because the woman had died, though there are a few cited In The Literature where she lived and testified in the court case, and presumably was granted immunity.

I suppose it is not totally improbable that a very detailed search of the British Newspaper Archives using the various likely search terms under which one would anyway search for cases of abortion (not the word mostly used) would turn up a case or two of women prosecuted for procuring their own, but I really think it's more likely to turn up a lot of fascinating detail about who was doing illicit abortions, and whether local juries thought they were performing a public service and had just had bad luck in this one case (came across at least one in a fairly random swoop myself).

Unfortunately time constraints and what they actually wanted me to talk about (like why the 1861 Act still pertains, cue me ranting about having to defend the 1967 Act, which just introduced Exceptions to the existing Act, for decades because of the RtL mobs rather than press forward with further reform) prevented me from doing the full oursin Boring For Europe on the subject.

Mr 'warm leads for archivists' is still badgering me.

duskpeterson

Emorian enthronements generally occur every twenty or thirty years, alas. If an enthronement takes place while you are visiting the palace, it is unlikely that you will have been staying at the palace at the time of the previous Chara's death; enthronements take many months to plan and execute. But if you do happen to be in the palace when the Chara dies, be sure to submit a letter of sympathy to the Chara To Be – that is, to the Chara's heir. It is not necessary to personally meet with the Chara To Be; he will be busy with many matters at this time. If your mission requires you to meet with him, be aware that the heir is not actually the Chara until his enthronement. Until that time, the empire is jointly run by the Chara To Be and the Great Council. You may submit your business to either party during that period.

The enthronement of a new Chara is the highest rite in the Empire of Emor. If you are an ambassador or other distinguished guest, you may receive an invitation to the enthronement. Only serious illness or a similar calamity is an acceptable excuse for rejecting the invitation.

As I have mentioned already, it is always wise to dress formally in the Chara's palace, but this is the point at which you should fling forth all your flourishes. If you are a northern mainlander, imagine how you would want to be dressed for your burial. If you are an eastern mainlander, wear all the clothes and adornments you have been hiding because you feared the peninsulareans would find them too formal. Nothing is too formal for an Emorian enthronement.

You may wear a weapon to the enthronement, though that is not required. I recommend tying feathers, ribbons, or green branches around your weapon to make your peaceful intentions clear. All of the Emorian men at the enthronement will be armed, but not because they intend to fight each other; they are armed because they give their oaths to the new Chara upon their swords.

Part of their oath-bound duty is to defend the Chara against his enemies. Do not wave around your weapon.

Enthronements demonstrate Emorian rituals at their most elaborate. If you are an eastern mainlander, you will likely be enthralled by this evidence that Emorians understand the power of rite. If you are a northern mainlander, try not to fall asleep.

After the enthronement, you may be invited to a reception. This will vary in formality, depending on where it is held. If you greet the new Chara, be sure to address him as "Chara," not by his old title. Jokes about the new Chara are traditional, but should not be spoken directly to him. If you've seen the Chara's face transform during the ceremony, you probably won't have the courage to offend him.

[Translator's note: Emorian enthronements take place in Blood Vow, Law of Vengeance, and Breached Boundaries.]

olivermoss

Hilary Knight coming off of the Long Term Injured Reserve list changed my plans for yesterday. Yesterday was also the Trans Town Marketplace. Trans Town is a group I was unfamiliar with and I'll need to look into them more.

I wore my Torrent shirt because I was going to go right from one event to Sports Bra. I knew that a shirt with a logo, any sort of brand, was not going to be the vibe. It never is for a queer art event. But, it still felt good to wear because the Torrent have CJ, who is non-binary. They are the only person in top level professional hockey who is openly nb or trans. So, it felt right to wear. Sometimes wearing a shirt that is a little not the vibe is fine, if you feel confident in it. Sometimes.

Turned out, the event was far more punk/street that I expected and some vendors didn't even interact with me and I am reasonably sure that it was because of how I was dressed. And, fair enough. I go to a LOT of queer art pop ups and mostly it's people who art have a street/punk edge as an aesthetic, this was different. No one was LARPing here. I did not expect that, especially considering the venue.

They also had a prosthetics vendor with samples you can handle, which I've never seen at any event before. This event was... very much what I would have expected from a trans marketplace before I started going to queer art pops ups. I really liked it and want to find out a bit more about this group.

So, that was a lot of words to say 'even though some people there side-eyed my logo shirt and decided to not interact with me, I actually felt more comfortable there than at most queer events I've been to'.

Also, there was someone selling dairy /soy free mochi-based brownies that had the most perfect fluffy texture and I would like to eat 5 of those every day for the rest of my life.

And then I went to Sports Bra to see the return of Hilary Knight, and sadly the Torrent lost. It's not too surprising because from what I've seen so far, first game back for a top player is often not a great game for them. They need a few games to get back in the swing.

greghousesgf

I took out the garbage and am currently trying to run the dishwasher and hoping it actually works this time and later I'm going to get blue cheese and sour cream so I can make a stuffed baked potato for dinner.

Current Music: David Bowie

purplecat

A blooming magnolia in a stree under a grey sky. Petals on the ground.

This was the Magnolia on Tuesday. Then there was hail and a storm and more rain. Some of the blooms are still hanging on in there, but not many.

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A new Magpie Games Apocalypse Megabundle presenting a diverse abundance of Powered by the Apocalypse tabletop roleplaying games from Magpie Games.

Bundle of Holding: Magpie Apocalypse MEGA

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I have a few tangents to explore with this one! The main story part will be quickish: three out of four of the stories in this JLQ volume are better placed elsewhere (we’ve seen one already). It’ll also be quickish because two of the three characters in the remaining story (Flash and Thunderbolt) can autocomplete the phrase “Quick as a…!” ( Could’ve been three for three if the third character had been the Crimson Fox. )

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Title: Tying the Knot
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing/Characters: Harry Potter/Hermione Granger
Word Count: 231
Content Notes: none
Prompt:

no_true_pair March 30th - Harry Potter & Hermione Granger stuck in the middle with you

Link to fic: Tying the Knot (on AO3)

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cosmolinguist

Two dozen people from my workplace, which is national so we normally work in all kinds of places, schlepped to London for two days together in the head office today.

Only for the office to have to be closed by lunchtime in the first day because there's a flood in the building. Ominous rumors about toilets and smells abound...

We spent the first half of the afternoon trying to find somewhere to decamp to.

I don't even know if we'll be allowed back in the building tomorrow, lolsob

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Title: Separate Ways
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Varian, Travellers.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 495: Letting Go.
Setting: After the series.
Summary: Soon, the journey will be over, and the travellers will have to part.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.

Separate Ways

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Current Location: my desk

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radiantfracture

I'm not saying I'm ordering more book-themed hockey jerseys, although the manufacturer did send me a 30% off coupon.

But if I were, what are some good goofy literary team names? Any genre, any joke. Maybe leaning towards classics.

Like even just "Readers" or "Poets" or "Critics" is fun (to me) when sportsified into that jersey script. Or "Weirdos".

[ETA: Now that I think of it, political ideas are good, too. "No Kings" instead of Kings, etc.]

(Look, I need something to teach in this summer. Baggy cropped trousers and theme jerseys. That seems like earth people clothing, right?)

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Two more Doctor Who audiobooks to write up, and they are both good ‘uns.

Firefall is a Fifteenth Doctor / Belinda story set in Canada during and after the great Leonid meteor shower of 1833. Needless to say, one of the things that falls is not yer standard meteor, and the small community where the story is set becomes disrupted by the alien presence and also by the threat of change. The story itself is about as you would expect, but it is lifted by some great technical points – there are some very well-crafted passages, and Michelle Asante as the reader does all the accents well. I’m adding Beth Axford to my list of writers to look out for – she also ghost-wrote Carole Ann Ford’s contribution to The Adventures After. You can get Firefall here.

John Peel was already on my list of Who writers to keep an eye out for, and with The Mind Trap he is back in his comfort zone of the Second Doctor era, with the story read by David Troughton. So we are in good hands. It’s a pretty minimalist story set in a deserted space jail; Jamie is removed from the scene for plot simplicity and we end up with the Doctor and Zoe crossing wits with mysterious prisoner Markan and his robot. Peel uses the short allocated time economically and throws in some interesting twists which are also totally consistent with the feeling of the era. If you like the Second Doctor at all, you’ll enjoy this. You can get The Mind Trap here.

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Fandom: BTS
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Kim Taehyung | V and Jungkook
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Crochet art
Artist on DW/LJ: N/A
Artist Website/Gallery:

knity_knoty |

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Why this piece is awesome: Adorable dolls are adorable! But it's got a sprinkle of cuteness since it's based on a pic that j-hope posted on his IG some time ago.
Link: Untitled Taehyung and Jungkook crochet dolls (link 1) and link 2

sovay

My poem "The Cryptogamists" is now online at Strange Horizons.

I am honored to have it appear as part of the magazine's special issue on fungi in SFF, an entangled network of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art by Mary Soon Lee, Ruthanna Emrys, Romie Stott, Yri Hansen, and branching more.

Given an invitation to write about mushrooms, mosses, lichens, my brain responded, "But what if Geoffrey Tandy had been posted to Bletchley Park because they really did need specialists in cryptogams?" It was written almost entirely to a combination of Kele Fleming's "Turing Test" (2024) and Rabbitology's "The Bog Bodies" (2026) plus the occasional "Five Minutes of Pink Oyster Mushroom Playing Modular Synthesizer" (2020). It is the first poem I have been able to write all year.

Current Music: Kele Fleming, "Turing Test"

larryhammer

For Poetry Monday, dipping back a few millenia:

A love song of Shu-Sin, Unknown

Man of my heart, my beloved man, your allure is a sweet thing, as sweet as honey. Lad of my heart, my beloved man, your allure is a sweet thing, as sweet as honey.

You have captivated me (?), of my own free will I will come to you. Man, let me flee with you — into the bedroom. You have captivated me (?); of my own free will I shall come to you. Lad, let me flee with you — into the bedroom.

Man, let me do the sweetest things to you. My precious sweet, let me bring you honey. In the bedchamber dripping with honey let us enjoy over and over your allure, the sweet thing. Lad, let me do the sweetest things to you. My precious sweet, let me bring you honey.

Man, you have become attracted to me. Speak to my mother and I will give myself to you; speak to my father and he will make a gift of me. I know where to give physical pleasure to your body — sleep, man, in our house till morning. I know how to bring heart’s delight to your heart — sleep, lad, in our house till morning.

Since you have fallen in love with me, lad, if only you would do your sweet thing to me.

My lord and god, my lord and guardian angel, my Cu-Suen who cheers Enlil’s heart, if only you would handle your sweet place, if only you would grasp your place that is sweet as honey.

Put your hand there for me like the cover (?) on a measuring cup. Spread (?) your hand there for me like the cover (?) on a cup of wood shavings.

Original text:

Thanks, WikiMedia!

Hat tip. One of the world’s oldest surviving lyric poems, written presumably during the reign of Shu-Sin / Šu-Suen, king of Sumer and Akkad from circa* 2037-2028 BCE. The tablet identifies the speaker as Inana, and it’s generally read as relating to the sacred marriage of the fertility goddess** and the land’s king. That said, it reads to me as a straight-up (i.e. non-ritual) erotic poem — a smoking hot one.*** The translation from Sumerian is a composite created by Graham Cunningham from ones by Krecher & Jagersma and Sefati (source, credits).

* While relative times in Middle Bronze Age Mesopotamia are relatively solid, absolute timestamps have error bars of ±60 years. For context, he ruled two and a half centuries after the death of Sargon of Akkad, the father of Enheduanna.

** Possibly, though this is highly debated, embodied as her high priestess. Not debated: she almost certainly didn’t wear little red panties.

*** I hope those wood shavings (?) don’t catch on fire.

---L.

Subject quote from Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind.

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