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Friday, December 18th, 2009
florahart
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4:21p
I often find this blog thought-provoking...
So, Shapely Prose...
I don't actually agree full-bore with everything she says all the time, because I do think there is a relationship, if not quite the one(s)* being pushed by large chunks of society, between weight/food and health, but I also think that given how prevalent those social messages are, having some voices that are a little over the top on the other side is probably all to the good.
Anyway, today she talks about the effort to have kids not leave Santa cookies because cookies are a sometimes food, and the comments, in which people write letters to Santa and tell him why he can't have cookies, may have me falling off my chair with giggle. Possibly repeatedly.
*The messages I think are bad are: 1. fat people are unethical and weak and probably pathetic; 2. fatness and weight can be measured and talked about in absolutes even in the absence of other data; 3. only thin people are pretty. The messages I wish we spent more time on are: 1. feeling well and strong are worthy goals and sometimes but not always weight management/reduction is a part of reaching them; 2. the ethics of consumption are about sustainability and sharing of resources, not about fatness; 3. beauty isn't about skirt size.
Nothing about any of that should be taken as a criticism of the efforts I am aware many people who might read this have made to change their own bodies.
I originally posted this at http://florahart.dreamwidth.org/1015256.html, and you are welcome to comment there. OpenID and/or anon comments are allowed.
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(comment on this) Thursday, December 17th, 2009
florahart
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12:50p
Fic: "Conspiracy" (Kirk/McCoy, PG)
Title: Conspiracy
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy
Words: 1600
Rating: PG
A/N: I know, shocking lack of porn. Sry. Established Kirk/McCoy, shortly post-XI.
( Conspiracy )
I originally posted this at http://florahart.dreamwidth.org/1014744.html, and you are welcome to comment there. OpenID and/or anon comments are allowed.
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(1 comment | comment on this) Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
florahart
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10:28a
Fic: "Edible Tattoos" (Kirk/McCoy, NC17, sappy)
Title: Edible Tattoos
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy
Rating: NC17
Warnings: none
Word Count: ~2150
Summary: Jim has a plan, involving edible Christmassy tattoos.
A/N: Written for Space Wrapped, a Kirk/McCoy Christmas countdown comm. So, I've been awake a lot lately (no, I mean a LOT) and am all screwed up for time. I had one fic I started for this, and then I realized it was getting all involved and there was no way it was getting done today, so I though, okay, but I can always do porn, short and sweet, right? And then the porn developed other traits, like possibly oversugary sweetness.
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(comment on this) Monday, December 14th, 2009
florahart
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10:45p
I am swiping this PSA content wholesale from BethBethBeth
(and hoping she doesn't notice the plagiarism) (am kidding. Beth, I am plagiarizing you. Sry.)
No, I'm just a little too sleepystupid to be more coherent on my own, and she says all the things I mean to, so.
Anyway.
Take a look at this charming news from ![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) synecdochic about LJ's decision to make Gender a mandatory field and only allow the options 'Male' or 'Female.'
Even if I didn't have friends who identify as transgender or genderqueer, I'd still be disgusted by LJ's shortsighted and, quite frankly, hateful decision, because...what will our next mandatory binary choice be? “Black or White?” “Christian or Atheist?” How many ways can you imagine you being written out of the equation?
Read the relevant linked posts, consider changing your gender listing to unspecified' while you still can (if you haven't already done it), and consider – one more time – whether it might not be smarter to leave LJ once and for all.
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Part not from Beth: so, in following links, it seems pretty clear the intent is probably targeting for ads, which, yeah, hi, I don't actually want pop-ups and flash ads in the first place? but oh my GOD do I ever not want ads that guess what I will like based upon my biological gender, because, and I swear this is not a slam against those of you who are fond of cosmetics and shoes, but I am not one of you, and I already tolerate 837456826345 pages of less-intrusive nonblinky ads for these and similar in magazines more aimed toward women. Not that I want to see more ads for trucks, either, but I'm more likely to buy a truck than a truckload of shoes. Anyway. This shit is not binary, sorry, and I know there is a whole industry of people who try to take demographics and break them down this way and I know that by and large, they see trends and averages and it works well enough for them, but it doesn't work well enough for me, and I can't imagine I'm so very unusual that my frequent irritation at assumptions made along these lines is totally off the end of the curve.
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EDIT: There are now addenda to the original post in which the US GM asserts this was all a test thing and they really had no such intent. I think that's ass-covering, but as long as the outcome is Not Do That, okay. *Waits for next time they do a code push*
I originally posted this at http://florahart.dreamwidth.org/1013562.html, and you are welcome to comment there. OpenID and/or anon comments are allowed.
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florahart
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7:17a
Hmm. Amazing superpower, or beneficiary of serendipity?
Heh, yesterday, in a locked post (locked because it was mostly about other kinds of content), I said something to the effect that we were now in the annual period of impatience, in which we wait for fic both by and for self to post at various fests.
This morning, fic for me is up at both Happy Trekmas [here] and Smutty Claus [here is the fic; the Smutty_Claus post at LJ is here].
Either I have a superpower (in which case, I probably should use it more directly for good rather than for making the world eject fic for me), or I am the beneficiary of entertaining serendipity.
:D
I originally posted this at http://florahart.dreamwidth.org/1013199.html, and you are welcome to comment there. OpenID and/or anon comments are allowed.
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(1 comment | comment on this) Sunday, December 13th, 2009
(comment on this) Friday, December 11th, 2009
florahart
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11:29p
Super-late holiday cards?
I have had a stupid day.
Stupid week, actually. Some of the factors have been household drama, broken things, and a lot of medicine with not nearly enough sleep.
I believe this calls for a round of increasing general cheer. So. Drabbled*-within cards, anyone? No particular reciprocity expected, required, or anticipated.
I will need a character and a prompt (HP or Trek Reboot or original if you wanna see what my cracked head comes up with), and I tend to like prompts that are single words or short phrases, though a couple single words is fine and if you MUST use a quote, just know I am at least as likely to take it out of context as in. ;) And obviously I will need an address and a handle I can write on the envelope that will both get to you and not freak anyone out.
I have some cards that are Christmas-specific, and some that are non-denominational; if this is critical to you, please to note. I make no promise whatsoever that I will get them mailed by Friday, so they are likely, at least some of them, to be late. Late December or January cheer is good, too, right? Right! *nods*
Onward, then. Comments are screened (and clearly I can't answer any of them as that would unscreen them). Just in this case, I am disabling comments on the other sites so as to put all the comments in one place.
If I get *horribly* overwhelmed, I will note accordingly. But, I mean, hey, cards will go on sale in a couple of weeks, and FEBRUARY cheer is ALSO good.
*If I'm hand-writing, it's likely I will not do exactly 100 words. I mean, I might, but just saying. You might get a limerick. Or a bunch of haiku. Or a word puzzle, for all I know.
I originally posted this at http://florahart.dreamwidth.org/1011674.html, and am directing you there to put the comments all in one place. OpenID and/or anon comments are allowed.
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
florahart
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3:29p
Meme, ganked from many
Meme is: please comment to tell me, If I came with a warning label, what would it say?
Flora's addendum is: please, feel free to build upon other people's answers and generally be ridiculous. I has the snot and lung-ick, and require entertaining.
I originally posted this at http://florahart.dreamwidth.org/1010290.html. Comments may be left here or there; you can comment there with OpenID even if you don't have an account.
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