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Yesterday I transposed two digits in a title number, lost a transfer, and kept almost dozing off on a stack of plans. Around five, when I had irritatedly roused the entire department to search for a deed that was, actually, exactly where I had left it a week earlier, the other trainee said, "Iona, do you think you could be coming down with something?"

Oddly, I actually feel better this morning but suspect the inevitable result of four hours' sleep is coming soon. I am staying home and resting and writing your ficlets. Here are the ones I've done already:

for philomytha, Aral and Simon and telepathy;

for ladymercury_10, Amy/Rory, huddling for warmth

for hedda62, Simon and Alys pretend to be married

for bibliotropic, the crew of Serenity and accidental-baby-acquisition

for littlered2, Doctor/River, huddling for warmth

They vary in length from drabble to 2000 words. More to come!

I do wish Feministing wouldn't talk the way it does about, well, stuff. Skin-whitening products are Bad and Wrong, I quite agree, yes indeed. But... you know. There's a reason for them. Colourism, I've seen it called, but it's a kind of internalised racism or just plain old self-hatred that makes people like me think our skin ought to be whiter, and, you know what? It's my business, mine and my people's business, what we do about that, and I can't help but think it's terribly presumptuous for someone who's never been a part of a culture where this is an endemic feature to jump in and start spouting about the Bad and Wrong.

(And, just for the record? If there was some magic cream that would let me pass for white? I'd take it in an instant, and I'd pay more than $70 for it, too.)

In other news, lgbtfest is open for prompt-claiming, and I am having to resist very hard and not claiming... well, lots. I especially love the Harry Potter ones, becuse they twist off two identifiable nexuses (not a word I have used in the plural before): the thought that the magical world is much more socially conservative than ours, and the equally convincing thought that, well, they have magic. Rather than come out as trans, you might go to a back street for a potion as soon as you were sure it's what you wanted. I want someone to write that, actually. I'd also love someone to write about Voldemort's persecution of queer people and how that intersected with issues of birth, and oh, queer issues in the Potterverse generally.

In other other news, a brief vid rec (unlike me, I know): How Much Is That Geisha In The Window, a really gorgeous, savage indictment of the invisible Asians in Firefly. I don't entirely agree with the thesis, but the vid is stunning and very smart.

In other other other news, Small Cat just woke up and looked at me in a disapproving fashion. Back to equity and trusts. One day I will understand the law. Today is not that day.