Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family
sleepy af
also https://satsuma.dreamwidth.org/
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@ticky@octodon.social staring at the history explanation and its complete lack of any explanation for how CGE made the jump from “water and other utilities” to mass media production
@thedeadparrot very excited to blow myself up in ridiculous ways once i finally buy it in june
modern love languages
@pamela i also wanna say calendar friends who you have a shared hobby with are some of the absolute best people when you’re Going Through Some Shit. Sometimes you’re tired of talking about it and have no emotional bandwidth left and just want to have someone call you for a chat about that show you both watch, or play a board game with you, and just….keep doing that regularly as long as you need it
modern love languages
@pamela a few more:
second opinion friend (the one who you trust enough to go to with “hey am i maybe in the wrong here?” questions)
logistical organizer (can come in flavors, eg “figures out the scheduling” and “books the tickets/hotel rooms/etc”)
food as love (bonus: has learned how to accommodate your dietary restrictions)
mutual commiseration over [shared experience]
Satsuma
boosted
what i’ve been working on lately
fiercynn is also the co-vidder of a fantastic pan-fandom appreciation vid set to We Didn't Start The Fire which premiered at Vividcon in 2012 but was apparently in the works in since 2008 (!) It's a really lovely, multi-generational look at fannishness, fandom, and the canons fans have connected to over the years:
End Racism in the OTW | We Didn't Start The Fire [vid] (490 words) by fiercynn & Scribe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Multi-Fandom
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Subtitles: no, but there's a link to the song's lyrics
Summary:
Fifty years of fandom.
Todays #EndOTWRacism rec: fiercynn is working on porting some of her race in fandom meta over from twitter! The first chapter is a summary of the common objections, whenever fans try to do anything about racism on Ao3:
End Racism in the OTW | Fandom, Racism, and OTW: A Collection of Thoughts (441 words) by fiercynn
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: No Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Meta, Antiracism, Racism in fandom, End OTW Racism, Racism on AO3
Summary:
Meta on why addressing racism in fandom - including in the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) and AO3 - matters, and what we can do about it.
@lookitmychicken its difficult to be prepared for Jin even under the best of circumstances
@lookitmychicken the straight pivot from the chaotic and yet resigned vibes of the nickname game and them looking in up and going full throttle on the “oh Jin is fucking hot” is absolutely fantastic
@yesterdaychild aaa!!!! *hides face* *peeks between fingers*
@yesterdaychild i have been personally victimized by that shirt somehow the almost crop top is a million times worse than an *actual* crop top
(and!!! collarbones!!!!!)
@ljwrites i was gonna be like “yep thats the one!” but then i had a frightening thought that it’s entirely possible this has happened twice 😭
@ljwrites great now i’m thinking about that one woman who wrote an omegaverse nazi trollfic and then called anyone who went “uhhh hey what the fuck?” a book burner
Food, happy
@varve that picnic sounds amazing!! v jealous
and yes have been appreciating seeing the blackberry bushes in bloom around here too
@ljwrites we’re the dreaded fandom monolith that wants to uh *checks notes* promote kindness and diversity
@umadoshi i’ve really been enjoying mine! we are up to ep 19 so far and I’d honestly forgotten how much i appreciate Zhu Jiu’s ridiculous grandstanding. also, Ya Qing’s everything (wow its really been a rewatch for the antagonists huh)
@ljwrites i appreciate your contribution to my existential crisis 😂
@umadoshi i hope you enjoyed it!
i have also been terribly slow in my TV watching lately (I’ve been keeping up with the guardian rewatch but not much else)
Also have pinned that tag ^ to my profile so all this stuff remains findable bc, lets be honest, there's a very good chance I'm going to need to dig back up the same set of links six months from now
Back in June 2020 wistfuljane wrote a fantastic bibliography of the fandom discussions surrounding Black Lives Matter & the OTW Elections which was incredibly helpful at the time but! It turns out she's been keeping it updated: https://wistfuljane.dreamwidth.org/2020/06/15/a-decade-later.html
I won't claim its comprehensive because, well, Fandom has spent a *lot* of time talking about race (and failing to talk about race) in the last decade and a half but hopefully at least it provides some perspective for why so many of the people in #EndOTWRacism talk about it like they've been getting ignored by the OTW (and harassed by the OTW's "supporters") for over a decade and have zero patience left
sleepy af
also https://satsuma.dreamwidth.org/
User Icon is a variegated purple and yellow highlights — made by flowerdeluce.dreamwidth.org
Joined Sep 2021
