While you're at it, the Extra Credit Bonus Essay is on: Current Modes of Fandom Discourse Around "Purity" in Media Consumption and Creation Owe Their Roots to the Specific Theological Teachings of Far-Right American Evangelical Christianity and Attempts to Impose Them as Universal Moral Precepts are American and/or Christian Cultural Imperialism (Discuss).
Anyway tl;dr this discussion has brought me to the conclusion that everyone in fandom needs to read and write at least one essay analyzing the themes of 1984 before being allowed to write any Thoughts On The Internet about what people are "allowed" to ship or whatever because, seriously. People.
George Orwell died like seventy years ago and he still S A W Y O U
Today in "random songs I've had stuck in my head for the last week for no reason":
HIM: Every time you say "day spa" all I can think of is:
I was supposed to go to the day spa today, too. I booked that ages ago and was looking forward to it but NO now apparently I have to CANCEL and be SICK instead. Bleurgh.
Also pleased to announce the Wankaway Empire is going well.
(Yes yes I am massively cheating... how else to test the "massively cheat" mod I made!)
*cries in infosec*
https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610