Skimmed 784 posts, but phew I did it.

I am all headspun from the past week, which was an incredible workshop. And the pogo-stick plane ride on the tiny 9-seater didn't help (Sparky, they sat me at the rear of the plane so they could put the big people up front and make takeoff in 40kt gusts easier. Predictable results). One of the things I've been tasked with is to get off my bum and go to a couple of cons. Philcon is an obvious choice, and Readercon (though I'll need to pack an empty bag for books) - I'm requesting suggestions from the hivemind.

If there's any available, I'd like to ask for some good-news~ma for unspecified reasons, and some healthy-ladyparts~ma for my return visit to the boobnazi tomorrow.

Also, hi peoples - I missed you.

Aww, yay, did we see this? Zachary Quinto comes out

Go him! I mean, it was just "casual" and not the entire point and it'd be nice if more people finally felt like they can do it all and that they could do it that way.

Yeah, it doesn't always need to be the point of the interview! Like for straight people, shit.

She says to start off every evaluation with a positive.

how about "you have a strong point of view" or "There are a lot of wonderful ideas here"

His blog post on why now was really heartfelt and made me want to squish his cheeks.

I often think I'm doing genderqueer wrong due to never really having had any angst over it, despite it being one of those concepts where I was like, "Oh! There's a WORD for me!" when I discovered it. Partly because, really, it's all about my brain, which is disconnected from my body, and the body's just set dressing (I often feel like I'm cosplaying a human), so other than irritation that I can't Swinton my way between visual genders without making an effort, I ain't bovvered. And partly because, shit, people can't get my name right most of the time, so I give no fucks about pronouns.

I don't see how it would be that hard to set up a new list of payees with a new bank.

Exactly! The picture of the customer that accompanies the article, he looked so pissed, and it seemed to imply he was trapped. Really? Because he doesn't want to spend some time setting up online bill pay somewhere else? I thought it was odd. I get not changing banks to avoid a hassle, because that's been me for the past ten years, but now with the fee? I'm pissed, so I'll take that hour or so to move somewhere else.

Exactly! The picture of the customer that accompanies the article, he looked so pissed, and it seemed to imply he was trapped. Really? Because he doesn't want to spend some time setting up online bill pay somewhere else? I thought it was odd. I get not changing banks to avoid a hassle, because that's been me for the past ten years, but now with the fee? I'm pissed, so I'll take that hour or so to move somewhere else

I've been failing to move over from Chase to my credit union for months now. Having the time to set it up and get EVERYTHING back in place is something I haven't had.

Sure, but you're not trapped. It is an inconvenience for me, too. I just think it will be interesting to see whether people really do just suck up the fee and stay.

And here's an unrelated article about out actors on TV: [link]

His blog post on why now was really heartfelt and made me want to squish his cheeks.

Oh, that made me sniffle. Because while it gets better, it doesn't get a lot better for a lot of people and so wanting to change the world and visibility is a wonderful thing.