Lady @Lady@cat.family

for real though i’m just going to be reading from the #EndOTWRacism collection (<https://archiveofourown.org/collections/EndOTWRacism>) for the rest of this month

i’ll share the good ones and pretend the bad ones i haven’t read yet

guess that decides which one i’m reading

@Satsuma @Forestofglory oh see i think fandom-at-large has ALWAYS been the kind of structureless freeman is critiquing in her article

AT BEST it grew out of exactly those same feminist consciousness-raising groups and book clubs freeman is saying aren't enough, and at worst it was a boys club where status was defined primarily by proximity to celebrity

@Satsuma @Forestofglory do you think monopoly leads to internal destructuralization? it definitely has disrupted other kinds of fan organizing but i'm not sure you can blame Ao3’s own disorganization on that

like i see the problem with Ao3 is that it basically scaled up the informal networks which were being used to run things like Yuletide to a level where it stopped being effective

@Forestofglory @Satsuma excited for #EndOTWRacism primarily because they seem to be a step in the right direction in that respect

if we can get sustained organized movements of fans that do what we want, we can rely on OTW less and less

@Forestofglory yes although i was ranting to @Satsuma that i feel like this is symptomatic of structurelessness in fandom organizing in general

i think we need to fix fannish organizing before we can fix OTW

@clarfonthey i've never heard another name in math but Unicode gives it an informative alias of “angled dash (in typography)”. Wiktionary notes “When used in a symbolic logic context, this symbol can be called tilde” but that's not going to be helpful for disambiguation

why did ICANN approve this

wait google seriously made a .zip TLD?!? lmao why

https://youtu.be/4T1fvc06cp0

first one to be titled after a Hozier song

i’m skimming this one and rating it a 1/10 i’ve frankly read enough from this author but they just keep posting ’em

but it is tagged “Ghost Sex” so it is VERY tempting