Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

if you were born between 1992 and 1998 and are not aware of one of the largest and most notable (not praise) Harry Potter fanfics in existence, second only to My Immortal, you hung out with the wrong friends

« If you are a normal, decent, well-socialized human being, you probably have not heard about Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. » oh please come on

uhhh

i have a very solid structural requirement in my notes for this chapter but the plot requirement is just “???”

“trans-coded protagonist”

“trans protagonist”

The GlitchCat #SundayPost offers news and updates from our corner of the fediverse to yours.

§ Instance News :—

• A lot of people on this instance have been participating in #DecRecs, a hashtag for recommending whatever you want to recommend in the month of December. I’ve been using it mostly as an excuse to reshare some of my old fanfiction bookmarks, but you can rec anything you like!

§ From Our Users :—

• @Lady had a p·r which was recently merged to GlitchSoc. This is a slightly revised version of code which we’ve been rolling here on GlitchCat for some time; at some point I will need to port over the changes.

§ Holidays and Observances :—

• 🥾 December 05 is Clauseen, the final day of Hallowtide in the KIBI calendar.

• 🧑‍🎄 December 06 is Clausmas, a·k·a Sinterklaas Day or the Feast of St Nicholas. Basically nothing is known about St Nicholas, and this day epitomizes the KIBI practice of using fictitious or legendary saints’ days to reappropriate Catholic/Christian traditions away from their religious underpinnings (in this case, Christmas; compare St Valentine). In this case, the recentring on 06 December is especially apt, as Saint Nicholas is actually the template from which we got a lot of our (quasi‐secular) Christmas traditions from, e·g Santa Claus. My take? Celebrate Santa on Santa’s day and leave Christmas in the dust.

• December 06 also marks the beginning of Yuletide, a·k·a “the holiday season”.

• 🕊 December 10 is Nobelmas, also known as Alfred Nobel Day or, per the United Nations, Human Rights Day. If ever you wanted a day to celebrate peace on earth and goodwill to men, this is a great day for it.

this is thematic’ly and artistic’ly significant in the context of the fic so i might actually do it

what if i trolled zelink fans by publishing an explicit zelink fic but the only explicit part was untagged lesbian smut

#DecRecs i never played much of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn because i wanted to beat Path of Radiance first and look i never did that either

so suffice to say i have no idea who the characters in this fanfic are or what their significance is

doesn't matter. still one of the best casual lesbian sex oneshots i've read https://archiveofourown.org/works/17326742

i wish this writer a very let your queer people be problems and learn how people who aren't straight have sex

is this zelink writer who just intimated zelda might be trans before dropping that thought for some very straight sex the same one who wrote link as maybe nonbinary but not in a way which has any meaningful consequence except zelda gets to dress him up in cuter clothes in that other fic

it doesn't make the story charming or relatable it just makes it unrealistic

i simply can't relate to people who think hylian sexual politics are the same as christian sexual politics

link having a hand kink is pretty normal but this is the first time i’ve seen “link has a kink specifically for the soft hands of a princess who has never known a day of manual labour, specifically touching his dick”

honestly extreme cringe taking a jewish linguistic innovation and making it appear christian 😬 but of course they didn’t know

it… wasn’t a bible reference… yiddish and hebrew are just languages people here speak… lol

i realized that mastodon’s culture was changing when i made my post about mastodon dialect (which included “emoji (plural) → emojim”) and somebody replied with the joke “biblically correct emoji”

• shel left this community on unhappy terms when snouts died and afaik still does not look fondly on it. that’s why the post is on cohost, not mastodon. linking to it from a mastodon rules list is a crossing of streams which is really socially fraught and i would Advise Against out of respect for all people involved.

• mastodon’s queer community in 2017 knew nothing about being a community, and we owe a great debt to the progressive jews who were here to tell us how it is done. there is, i think, an above-average amount of jewishness in mastodon culture, dialect, and norms. even so, nobody has ever used “lashon hara” to mean anything other than the jewish concept as applicable to jews. yes we all knew what it was.

• lashon hara’s applicability to mastodon primarily came in the form of maintaining community integrity by letting bygones be bygones (look there’s even an english phrase). whether you commit lashon hara against somebody not in our community is between you and the Most Holy. it’s not moderators’ jobs to keep tallies of your levels of sin (imagine literally having a rule like “DO NOT SIN” lmao). the only reason an instance admin should intervene is when it actually affects the people here.

• if you are an instance admin and your definition of “community” includes “abusers”, stop. the only way this rule would be relevant to an instance administrator in that circumstance is if said abuser was fully redeemed AND the person badmouthing them WAS FULLY AWARE OF THAT FACT. that would indeed be shitty, but that is such an improbable scenario that it hardly needs a dedicated rule. the far more likely scenarios are either (a) the abuser is unrepentant and unredeemed, or (b) the person talking shit is as yet unaware of any personal growth the (former) abuser may have had, neither of which can be accommodated by “don’t commit lashon hara”.

• why?? would you do this???? have you no understanding of how meta works on mastodon???

“instance uses shel’s cohost post about lashon hara to deflect criticism of abuse” like half of the words in this sentence are problems

what