shirasade @shirasade@fandom.ink

Came here after seeing the posts on fandom-after-tumblr - curious to see if this might turn out to be a real alternative... I'm shirasade pretty much everywhere - Tumblr, AO3, Pillowfort, DW (inactive), previously LJ. #introduction

Someone on TMS commented 'Shippers are the lowest form of "fans".' (scarequotes and all) - I couldn't help myself I had to reply (asking to please not generalise, especially bc shipper are majority female and/or lgbtq and often dismissed out of hand). Which of course was a mistake, because nothing gives me worse social anxiety than getting negativity in my inbox. When will I learn?

Fell down a research hole because my part of the #jalec round robin I'm organising will be based Hinemoa & Tutanekai (famous #maori story). Knowing how important names are in Maoritanga, I just spent over two hours searching for acceptable ones. Help, #kiwi folk, are Kahu & Manaaki ok for pre-contact era? @vamp @wheeflop @nubreed 🇳🇿

On the plus side, while reading up on the story, I found variants of it with a takatapui (Maori version of #lgbtq ) twist. Interesting... I suddenly have options! :)

"Not every cage is a prison, not every loss eternal." (Pike's fortune cookie.) That little tidbit might have been my favourite moment of the entire episode. (Also, everything with Tillie and "the power of math!" *g*)

It was a pretty good season opener, although I wish they'd given Discovery a female captain instead of another middle-aged white dude. And what's the deal with the colour scheme inside the Enterprise? But I liked how they adapted Spock's quarters.

Okay, baby!Spock was annoying, and then the dramatics of the non-reveal. However, couldn't they have included Number One? I must say, I'm rather suspicious of Pike & co.

I don't care that it's fan service, the Enterprise NCC-1701 is on my screen and I made dolphin noises. It's instinctive, this is my original fandom, the one I loved long before I found the internet...

Spent a fun hour at the police station, thanks to some fuckwit ordering stuff (men's clothes, size xxl😏) in my name. The weird/unsettling thing is that they sent the stuff to my home address (sth I rarely do bc I work), which means they know when the mail carrier comes by & grab the parcels. I only have 5 neighbours in my building, so this is an uncomfortable thought.

And what was it with Eric (the best! I like Otis most when he's around him, spitting into the face of toxic masculinity!) hooking up with his bully? As someone schooled in the tropes, I immediately recognized the tired "pulling of pigtails", and then they actually went full on fanfic with "fighting-turns-making out".
Problem is that Adam, despite the show's efforts, remained an asshole until the last episode, so Eric's sudden wistful looks weren't earned, imo.

Finished the show today. It has its definite weaknesses, but you know - Gillian Andersen! Also, they managed to be not-terrible when in regards to diversity, although I still maintain that they fucked up a perfectly good ace-coming out story with Otis.
Instead he remains an annoying straight white boy fucking things up and ending up in a love triangle. *yawn* (At least his new gf is poc and heavily queer-coded.)

Heh. I saw a post from fandom_stocking@dw that they were still looking for a handful of stocking stuffers - and somehow I ended up #writing 900 words of #xmen fic. That on top of the 500 words on my wip that I'd already written. Go me! :)

(And it's not even my old X-Men OTP... Wolverine/Rogue was my first *big* online fandom, back on yahoogroups, but the fic I wrote today is Logan/Scott. Let's hope the recipient likes it, as I totally winged it. *g*)

Huh, having said that - now I got a follower notification, and fandom.stopthatimp.net showed up under "authorized followers". And voilà, I can see my own toots on hubzilla, yay! :)

Okay, I tried again to follow myself from #hubzilla... This time, after creating the connection, I got this message:
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This connection's primary address is 'shirasade@fandom.ink'
Available locations: shirasade@fandom.ink

This connection may be unreachable from other channel locations.
Location independence is not supported by their network.

Last update: never
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So, does that mean, there's something in the settings of fandom.ink?

Things I've done at work today: written fanfic (on #writingstreak). Messed with #hubzilla. That's it, more or less. 🙈

Actually, I think you might have to accept the connection for me to be able to see you over there... Please? 😘 #hubzilla

Don't be confused if you were just followed by @shirasade@fandom.stopthatimp.net - I'm trying out Hubzilla. 🤔 Feel free to follow me there! 😁

It's been years since I last saw one, but I decided to organise a #roundrobin for my dear OTP #jalec - don't think anyone here ships it, but here's the info post with my starter anyway: https://www.pillowfort.io/posts/434347 :)