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Living in the shadow of fear
[Content warning: suicide, domestic violence, self-harm, disordered eating, abuse] On Sunday night it took me a while to doze off. There’s construction going on nearby for the new Skytrain, and they’re doing it all night. I have to sleep with my window open when it’s so hot, so at night my bedroom is full of…
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Independence! …from harassment. Hopefully. Someday.
(x-posted here.) If you’re involved in the SF-o-sphere you may have seen the internet go boom in the past week. Elise Matthesen was sexually harassed while she was at WisCon, and formally reported it. This is actually news, because reporting is so rare – mainly because society in general makes it incredibly difficult for people to report this sort of…
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Pay the Ferryman; it only costs an arm and a leg
Note: this post was originally written at the beginning of May. I forgot to push “publish”. Tense has been edited to make more sense to it being published now. I honestly would probably be perfectly fine with a bridge from Vancouver to Vancouver Island. It’s not that I don’t like boat rides. The ferry itself…
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Wolffy and the Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad, No Good Birthday Week
With apologies to Judith Viorst. Last night, after midnight so really this morning, I discovered something terrible. There is malware on two of my sites. This malware redirects you to porn or something else if you try to visit the mobile version of the site. It has no affect on the desktop versions that I…
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Texas GOP, STAHP. You are not Time Lords. You don’t even have ONE heart.
That joke may be lost on you if you don’t follow Doctor Who, or what happened in Texas on Tuesday the 25th (yesterday/today). I can help you with the second bit! What follows is my Storify compilation of tweets (some by me; most by others) telling the story of Wendy Davis’ heroism and her 13+…
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Happy Summer Solstice!
Today is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, though you wouldn’t know it to look outside my window. (Traditional Vancouver June: wet, cloudy, gray.) For me, this day is not only the longest day and a day sacred to Manannan mac Lir (whose symbols include mist and rain, so I’m not really complaining about…
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Aristeia: Tree of Liberty, by Wayne Basta
Y’all remember I talked about Aristeia: A Little Rebellion when I was halfway through with it, right? I finished it back in April (and I will be reviewing it, eventually). The third book is coming out in just a few days, and Wayne is holding a giveaway at his blog. Because I enjoyed books 1…
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May ’13 Book Haul (or I Have an Infestation of Vashta Nerada Please Send HEY WHO TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS?)
Hey, it’s June! Holy fuck when did that happen. Anyway, as I actually acquired new books last month I figured I’d share which ones I got with y’all, and how I plan to never ever read them. (I have too many books. Someday they will revolt. Either they will, or the alien flesh-eating beasties that…
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Book Review: The Boss by Abigail Barnette
Full disclosure: I was given an ARC of this book on the condition I would review it. The Boss is one of those books that I didn’t think I’d get into all that much. Not because I don’t love Jenny Trout/Abigail Barnette. I do love her. I sort of hero worship her from afar and…