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making a note here, huge success
So every time something happy like the NY gay marriage law happens, people pull out all the icons and macros based on that famous Liberty/Justice kissing pic. And every time, I go looking for the Liberty/Justice femslash fic based on it, and I can't find any. Fandom! Why have you not delivered? C'mon! Lady Liberty sweeping Justice off her feet! There's so much story and personality in that image.
They could even get married in Lady Liberty's home state now. :D
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...also while I'm am mixing fanwork and politics,![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ellemurasaki (using her Liberty/Justice icon, natch) posted about the effort by a pro-science group to buy the rights and all the production materials for Expelled, the horrible, horrible anti-science film that was made a few years ago and interviewed several well-known scientists under false pretenses so they could butcher the interviews. They are hoping to get it all cheap at auction (the production company went bankrupt) and then make the materials, including the uncut interviews, available for people to turn into awesome, awesome transformative works. :D
Even if I had the ready cash I couldn't donate, because they're taking paypal only, which hates me, and donations have to be in by Monday for the auction closing Tuesday, but the link seemed worth passing on.
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Yesterday, I shelved ALL the books! All of them. Well, for certain definitions of "shelved", "all", and "books." And I didn't actually do the full sort or the catalog re-check, but I decided I'd met victory conditions. Most of them are even spine-out and single-shelved! And I can find any of them with almost no time or trouble! And there are no piles on the floor. And there's, like, three inches at least of free shelf space.
They haven't been orderly since the last time I moved. I feel like my head has been swept clear by a sea wind, or something. If I get the rest of the room neat enough to be willing to show it off, I might even take pictures. :P If I never buy any ever again, I might even me able to maintain this state affairs!
And then Mom went "it's been awhile since we were free on a Saturday morning, want to go to some yard sales?"
...I was trying to be good. I only bought seven? And two of them weren't really books?
From the HOPE warehouse sale:
Rocket Manual for Amateurs by Capn. Bertrand Brinley, 1960; New Lands by Charles Fort; The Official Guide to UFOs by Lloyd Mallan, 1967; all for $1 (they had a couple more UFO-y paperbacks from the '60s there, but I really was trying to be good.)
Chesapeake Arts Center/Community sale:
Clothbound sketch book; Skeptical Inquirer vol. XI issue 4 (Spontaneous Human Combustion); @$.25 each
Guide to the National Parks, 1993; $.50 (bought because it covers the battlefields, seashores, recreation areas, monuments, parkways, trails, and historic sites too. I already have one that covers the parks, wildernesses, forests, and NRAs but not monuments/historicals/etc. Maybe between the two I'll have it covered.)
Message on Stone: Native Western Rock Art, $.50
MVA parking lot sale:
4 blue tank tops @$.25 each.
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In other "things there needs to be a fandom for" news, I have been continuing to watch the UK 'Time Team' while crafting. I'm not sure I actually want there to be Mick/Tony/Phil fic*, but I want there to be a fandom where people talk about how Mick, Tony, and Phil are adorable. (Raise your hand if you've been around this journal for awhile and this surprises you in any way.) Also I have an abject crush on Carenza. Obviously. There can be Mick/Tony/Phil/Carenza OT4s too (except that she deserves better.)
*although if anybody wants to write the Tony/Phil fic set during the dinosaur special, or the fluff fic where they all live together in a rickety cottage full of artifacts, or a Time Team historical AU set in any given period of UK history, I would not complain...
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Now, as it is Great American Backyard Campout Day, I need to go drag out some tents and cots and see how dry-rotted they got over the winter.
They could even get married in Lady Liberty's home state now. :D
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...also while I'm am mixing fanwork and politics,
ellemurasaki (using her Liberty/Justice icon, natch) posted about the effort by a pro-science group to buy the rights and all the production materials for Expelled, the horrible, horrible anti-science film that was made a few years ago and interviewed several well-known scientists under false pretenses so they could butcher the interviews. They are hoping to get it all cheap at auction (the production company went bankrupt) and then make the materials, including the uncut interviews, available for people to turn into awesome, awesome transformative works. :DEven if I had the ready cash I couldn't donate, because they're taking paypal only, which hates me, and donations have to be in by Monday for the auction closing Tuesday, but the link seemed worth passing on.
****
Yesterday, I shelved ALL the books! All of them. Well, for certain definitions of "shelved", "all", and "books." And I didn't actually do the full sort or the catalog re-check, but I decided I'd met victory conditions. Most of them are even spine-out and single-shelved! And I can find any of them with almost no time or trouble! And there are no piles on the floor. And there's, like, three inches at least of free shelf space.
They haven't been orderly since the last time I moved. I feel like my head has been swept clear by a sea wind, or something. If I get the rest of the room neat enough to be willing to show it off, I might even take pictures. :P If I never buy any ever again, I might even me able to maintain this state affairs!
And then Mom went "it's been awhile since we were free on a Saturday morning, want to go to some yard sales?"
...I was trying to be good. I only bought seven? And two of them weren't really books?
From the HOPE warehouse sale:
Rocket Manual for Amateurs by Capn. Bertrand Brinley, 1960; New Lands by Charles Fort; The Official Guide to UFOs by Lloyd Mallan, 1967; all for $1 (they had a couple more UFO-y paperbacks from the '60s there, but I really was trying to be good.)
Chesapeake Arts Center/Community sale:
Clothbound sketch book; Skeptical Inquirer vol. XI issue 4 (Spontaneous Human Combustion); @$.25 each
Guide to the National Parks, 1993; $.50 (bought because it covers the battlefields, seashores, recreation areas, monuments, parkways, trails, and historic sites too. I already have one that covers the parks, wildernesses, forests, and NRAs but not monuments/historicals/etc. Maybe between the two I'll have it covered.)
Message on Stone: Native Western Rock Art, $.50
MVA parking lot sale:
4 blue tank tops @$.25 each.
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In other "things there needs to be a fandom for" news, I have been continuing to watch the UK 'Time Team' while crafting. I'm not sure I actually want there to be Mick/Tony/Phil fic*, but I want there to be a fandom where people talk about how Mick, Tony, and Phil are adorable. (Raise your hand if you've been around this journal for awhile and this surprises you in any way.) Also I have an abject crush on Carenza. Obviously. There can be Mick/Tony/Phil/Carenza OT4s too (except that she deserves better.)
*although if anybody wants to write the Tony/Phil fic set during the dinosaur special, or the fluff fic where they all live together in a rickety cottage full of artifacts, or a Time Team historical AU set in any given period of UK history, I would not complain...
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Now, as it is Great American Backyard Campout Day, I need to go drag out some tents and cots and see how dry-rotted they got over the winter.