This tweet is a winner, hands down. I was thoroughly amused.
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
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As I mentioned in a previous post, I had a baby this summer! It was an incredibly joyful time, but also a little scary, because she was born 7 weeks early. I promise, I am going to get to the fandom part of this soon!
During the first week that she was in the NICU, I was seized by this fear that if, God forbid, something happened to her or to me, she wouldn’t know how much she was loved. I was desperate for any way to communicate that to her. It was not rational. There were a lot of hormones involved. But it felt so important. It still does.
And so I brought to the NICU @pandamomentum’s beautiful bound version of So Wise We Grow, and I read to my daughter from it. This part:
“Do you anticipate having children, someday?” Spock asks suddenly – he is unsure of what prompts him to do so.
“It is certainly my wish to do so,” Storek replies, without hesitation. “I have always enjoyed the company of children – you know that I often babysit Lieutenant Uhura’s twins – and when I find a suitable partner, I look forward to revisiting that enjoyment, with children of my own.” Storek arches an eyebrow of his own, and looks at his father. “At which time I will indubitably experience all the agonies to which I have subjected you and Captain Kirk for so many years. Revenge, I suspect, will be most satisfactory for the both of you.”
“And the joys,” Spock says, so quietly that Storek must lean forward to catch it.
“What?”
“I urge you not to forget the joys,” Spock says, still quietly, but with as much feeling as he can muster. “I find, when I think of the events of the past seven years, that they are what first comes to mind.”
I wanted her to know that, 14 years before she was even born, I loved her, and wanted her, and was thinking about what my life with her would be like. She didn’t understand the words, of course. But, hopefully, the love came through.
She’s doing marvelously now, thank God. And someday, she will understand the words. Fandom gives us many things, and one of the things it’s given me is a record of 15 years of my dreams and preoccupations–which, for me, is 15 years of kidfic and stories about characters whose longing for parenthood is central to who they are. (That’s not all I wrote about for 15 years! But it’s a pretty obvious throughline.) If there comes a time when I’m not around to tell her how much she was wanted and how long she was loved, my past self can tell her over and over and over again.
So, thank you, fandom. Thank you for giving me the stories I read and re-read to keep my spirits up in the hospital. A special thank you to @pandamomentum for making the book that carried my love - yeah, I could have read from my laptop but it wouldn’t have been the same. And thank you, fandom, for giving me the tools and the art form and the community that have allowed me to write a record of my heart. ❤️
Guys.
Y’all.
I…
I just. I just… i have discovered something. And I have laughed too much. I have laughed every time I have tried to explain it to someone. I cannot get through this.
Look. Okay.
There are two things you need to know, here.
First: There’s a style of Greek pottery that was popular during the Hellenic period, for which most of the surviving examples are from southern Italy. We call them ‘fish plates’ because, well, they’re plates, and they’re decorated with fish (and other marine life).
Like this one, currently in the Met:
ALTOr this one, currently in the Cleveland Museum of Art:
ALTThey’re very cool. We’re not 100% sure what they were for, because most of the surviving ones were found as grave goods, but that’s a different post.
The second thing you need to know is that when we (Classics/archaeology/whatever as a discipline) have a collection of artefacts, like vases, sculptures, paintings, etc. and we do not know the name of the artist, but we’re pretty sure one artist made X, Y and Z artefacts, we come up with a name for that artist. There are a whole bunch of things that could be the source for the name, e.g. where we found most of their work (The Dipylon Master) or the potter with whom they worked (the Amasis Painter), a favourite theme (The Athena Painter), the Museum that ended up with the most famous thing they did (The Berlin Painter) or a notable aspect of their style. Like, say, The Eyebrow Painter.
Guess what kind of pottery the Eyebrow Painter made?
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It's legit. Section 11.G "Opt out" explains how.
I just did this, and Etsy doesn’t actually tell you anywhere on the site how to find your username (it’s randomly generated), which you need to opt out, so here’s how to do that:
https://help.etsy.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015653248-Your-Username
the main point is “The URL of your profile page contains your username. It looks like this: etsy.com/people/[your username]”
This is so important!
I'm shocked Etsy didn't already have a class action waiver and forced arbitration clause in their terms before now, it seems like just about every TOS does. Being able to opt out by email instead of by postal mail is HUGE, though, most businesses whose terms allow opt-out at all require you to do it by postal mail so that as few people as possible will do it. if you ever use etsy PLEASE send this email and retain your right to enter a class-action suit if you ever need to, the more people the better.
I will once again clarify that Etsy DID have a class action waiver before, they did NOT have an opt-out. For legal reasons they are required to provide and opt-out for a limited time, THAT is what is new. Having a chance to opt-out is new, not the arbitration clause.
theladypeartree asked:
Can you pls also share sleepy lwj and wwx bc I know the perfect place for them to nap as well!! 🤩
poorly-drawn-mdzs answered:
The sleepy lads, at your whims! Transparent too!
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