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(Programming note: the university semester is starting soon, so I may be around less in the near future)

• There is a giant parade float thing of Donald Trump as The God Emperor of Mankind. It's definitely satirical, and not comparing Trump favourably to the Emperor-- but ehh. Least I can say is 'it's pretty.' (IMO, While Trump and The Emperor are both terrible people, they're not that similar? Though The Emperor maybe similar to how Trump sees himself, and that's the artitst's point? Who knows.)
• The Five Worst Dates in Dragon Age: aka The Best Description of the Inquisition Ever.
• (cws: rape, abuse, violence, victim blaming, the ways communities are very bad at dealing with the aftermath of those things) (I would put this under a cut, but dreamwidth is not playing ball.) Accounting For Ourselves an anarchist's essay on the ways that communities' attempts at dealing with problems of rape and abuse through rehabilitative/transformatibe justice fail spectacularly. It's enummeration of the problems these processes have is really useful and well thought out. For example, one of the big problems these processes have is that there isn't a clear idea what success, failure, or a reasonable timeframe is. However, the suggested solutions... are, let's just say, very anarchist. Ranging from "we can't have experts, because then we'll have authorities!" to "what if the survivors attacked their rapists? that sounds like a good idea!" (...one of the great problems in my life if that I am bad at explaining more moral widgets, so I can't explain my visceral reaction to that other than 'revenge is not great, premeditated violence is bad, and any community that is okay with it's members strangling each other* is desperately unsafe.)

*actual suggestion from the article, there.

• All Night Laundry, an interactive horror webcomic-thing that has sucked me in. Has a beautiful atmosphere, especially at the beginning. Also, cosmic horror and time travel are too great flavours that go well together! Very more-ish as a piece of entertainment. (There's a lot of warnings this should have, but they are all spoilers of varying degrees, so--) (Also, queer protagonists. That's nice.)

• I never knew I needed a combination of Batman plus Forensic Files, but I did.
• fiachairecht has started a Dark Femslash February prompt exchange/comment fic thing. I'm not sure whether I'll be participating; I'm picky about my darkness, but it's shaping up to be interesting.
• I've recently discovered Violin MD on youtube, who talks about medical/medical student topics, and does a surprising number of vlogs in hospitals. (And is also bizarrely chipper in the middle of the night?). I feel like I have to link to her video showing off a somewhat bizarre and terrifying case. (TW: horrifying medical stuff, of the kind that can easily make you paranoid.)

And in things I've recently made:

-  rip and tear(Explicit, Silmarillion, Finrod-centric, so much imaginary gore): Finrod fantasises about being mauled by werewolves. - Agarwaen (Teen, Silmarillion, Beleg/Turin): a podfic I made of fisheyed's fic of the same name. A Beleg/Turin fix it(?) fic.

(content warnings at link) earlgraytay's post on social capital is rather good. It's a good look at how using oppression dynamics as your only lens does not work, and how Subcultures Can Be Weird.

(warnings: torture and bullying of simulations) Tom Scott has started a series(?) of 'YouTube Videos From the Future.' Stealing Our Friend's Brain Backup PRANK (GONE WRONG!!!) 🤯🤯🤯 is hard to watch, but it is also exactly my kind of horror. I am sucker for the banality of evil, and horror where the antagonists are unaware of how terrible they are.

chocolateboxcomm nominations are happening! I am very excited. I am also endlessly fascinated by the tag set, for reasons of 'ooh, I should totally read/play/engage with that media some time,' 'wow, that sure is a lot of dragon age ships' and 'the people who are nominating original works are collectively amazing and I want to steal their brains.

I have been listening to far too many versions of 'The World Revolving.' And also trying to learn it on flute. (even though that is a frankly absurd amount of sharps)