tommyrot, what makes that noteworthy?

It was helpful for me, I just popped the link open and skimmed for a few seconds. The contrast between names and pronouns was confusing.

ION, this io9 headline confused me for a second: Were-Monkeys? Were-Fish? Were-Ferrets? New Anthology Is Open To Going Any-Were.

I get confused on whether gender identity should be backdated in cases like this....

I always think the best way to proceed is to use the pronouns the individual person prefers, but fandom_wank isn't exactly set up for that.

get confused on whether gender identity should be backdated in cases like this....

I totally don't know. Not doing it helps delineate the time period, but doing it maintains continuity. I assume everyone's preference on that varies, but if you're talking about someone not present, you often might not know their preference.

There should be a handbook. That would make things so much easier.

t edit Or, what Jess said.

Twilight won, really? I feel like that's such a pop culture blip. Or am I just super hopeful that twenty years from now, we'll have forgotten about all that?

I think you might be right. It seems like the big fandoms have a lot more to play with in terms of made-up cultures, settings, languages, and what not.

Alas, my porny Tolkien pun got nothing.

Yeah, I'm thinking they didn't take the tinhat contingent of LoTR fandom into account.

Is this referring to something specific? I'm not sure what you're talking about.

Timelies, all, or happy lunch break in this timezone...

One last (hopefully clarifying) note on immigration and then I'll shut up about the topic and talk about cats or something:

The system is awful, it endangers us, hurts people, and needs fixin'. Immigration is a beautiful thing when "managed" and the people who get here with nothing and whose grandkids go to college and become doctors and such - bless 'em all.

But illegal immigration is a problem. There are several choices, including a) change the laws - long-term issue; b) enforce the laws on the books, build the border wall, etc as promised; c) declare amnesty - or some combination of the three.

But the law is the law (until you change it). When the laws are bad and/or aren't enforced, tragic human suffering ensues (dying in the desert, being deported, exploitation of workers, etc.) The current system has to change.

Arizona's new law is bad in ways, but it's an effort to do something about a real problem. Since the Obama administration has decided to put immigration on the front burner now, we'll be hearing about this for a while.

Thanks for hearing me out, folks.

Look, a cat!

I always think the best way to proceed is to use the pronouns the individual person prefers, but fandom_wank isn't exactly set up for that.

fandom_wank is actually very committed to using the pronoun that the person prefers, and both moderators and the community have come down hard on people who argued that someone like Victoria Bitter doesn't have the right to decide his own gender identification.

Is this referring to something specific? I'm not sure what you're talking about.

The people who were convinced that two or more of the actors were in a romantic relationship and being forced to cover it up by the studio.

fandom_wank is actually very committed to using the pronoun that the person prefers, and both moderators and the community have come down hard on people who argued that someone like Victoria Bitter doesn't have the right to decide his own gender identification.

Right, but it's still an aggregator of posts and comments from all over the internet at various points in time. Unless the moderators are changing pronouns on the original sources they're linking to, there's always going to be some confusing grammar in there.