She/Hers. PNW. Sasspot grumpus.
This blog is just a carefully curated trashcan. All about me.
i dont have a favorite music genre. i just like songs that sound good. i have no specific taste,, if it slaps it slaps.
Was Elrond in a gay marriage? We don’t know, because it’s none of our goddamn business. … No matter what Elrond got up to, it didn’t effect his ability to perform his job like a boss. And that is to provide travelers with great directions.
i love this man
Pride And Prejudice - Pemberley
“The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.”
Research Spotlight: The Door-Knocker Earring
“I’ve come to embrace these items as symbols of resistance, and believe I have a right to be taken seriously no matter what I have on. I should be able to define myself and not be put into a box because of what I’m wearing.”
The door-knocker earring is more than a piece of jewelry, but a cultural marker with deeply rooted significance for women of color. For this reason, it is one of 111 indispensable design objects included in the upcoming exhibition, “Items: Is Fashion Modern?” In a new interview from the curatorial team, 3 wearers navigate the cultural nuances and meanings of the iconic earring mo.ma/2t6GjJn
[Photo: Amanda Lopez. Styling: Tanya Melendez]
they look like they’re on their way to prom but bilbo insisted on taking a picture of them first
I feel like fandom generations are both very specific and easily conflated. Like,, you either live through so many they blur together into one hellish mess or you join in on one generation and remain blissfully unaware of the previous ones
Trekkster Gods
Dawn of Networking
“I was there Gandalf”
Citrus Cheesecake
Archive of Our Saviours
We’re here again, Gandalf
As someone who dates to the Dawn of Networking, I feel like some of the essential experiences have been left out of that list:
* Usenet and the trees of alt.whatever.whateverelse.thisthing.thatthing
* DIAL-UP. You wanted to read that longfic? Nobody in your household could use the phone for hours. Corollary: someone else in your household picking up an extension and dropping your connection. Sometimes on purpose.
* Mailing lists. Mailing lists were a HUGE part of that era.
* Tonnage limits per day: you could only post so many bytes (not words) per day because downloading the emails over dialup would take forever. Your chapters were 5kb over the limit? You either split them up over two days or got slapped by the listmod. [I posted a 203k word story to a mailing list. It took more than a month and it wasn’t a WIP.]
* That One Person With the Unreadable Formatting.
* That One Person Who Double-Spaced Every Line.
* That One Person Who Wrote Fic Nobody Else Read, But Was Very Prolific.
* Pairing lists and general lists and the people who cross-posted to all of them on the same day, so you got four copies of the same story in your inbox.
* Fandom pissing matches that resulted in offshoot mailing lists, so you had to subscribe to both so you could read all the fic.
* Saving stories by downloading emails to .txt files and crying at having to fix the formatting. Or realizing that you missed a chapter in a longfic.
* Archivists who had actual websites before Geocities or Tripod were a thing. They would ask authors for permission to put your fic on their site and it was like getting into university: you wanted to be asked by the picky archivists, not the ones who took everything in the fandom.
* IRC. At least in comics fandom, that was a huge part of the culture. *Glomping* new arrivals and apologizing for disappearing because a family member needed the phone.
