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a-love-like-that:

sammit-janet:

dare-to-dm:

themadcapmathematician:

tockthewatchdog:

tockthewatchdog:

i love that i have to go to menswear to find a shirt a human being in the world would wear and then when i do it takes me .5 seconds to find it. I love that

me: i need a plain black t shirt

target women’s section: would you like to have a giant scoop neck that would definitely like completely show at least one of your boobs. would you, an adult woman, like to wear a crop top? would you like to look like a human piñata. BLACK? I think you mean jewel tones babey!

target men’s section: yeah sure. it’s the first thing you see as you walk into the shirt aisle. have a good one

Women’s section: would you like a shirt made out of tissue paper that costs $34.99??

Men’s section: here’s 25 normal tshirts for a quarter

Women’s Section: Would you like to play fucking guessing games with our arbitrary sizing systems and style names?  Also, we added a bunch of fake pockets for your personal inconvenience!

Men’s Section: Here’s a bunch of pants organized by the exact inch length of your waist and legs.  With pockets that can hold more than just a credit card.

Women’s Section:  Oh you want a plain tee-shirt?  Here you go, it’s completely see through so you either have to a) wear something else over it or b) let everyone see your bra!

Men’s Section:  Here’s an amazingly comfortable shirt that no one can see your undergarments through.  Have a nice day!

Women’s section: if you’re a nerd? I guess you wanna show titties and have glitter huh???

Men’s section: Here this has the hogwarts crest on it and it’s like five bucks

bonus: women’s camisoles are $37 each and see-through and have a “built in” “shelf” “””””bra””””” with the capacity for exactly 0 breasts
men’s tank tops come 4 to a pack for $10 but the armholes go down to your hips, good fucking luck

women’s sizes go from tiny to slightly smaller than average; if you are precisely, mathematically average-sized, you will be slightly too large to wear the largest available size (which is styled as “XXL”) and so you have to go to a different section or maybe even a different store, and pay about 35% more per garment. Men’s sizes: small fits you if you are small, large fits you if you are large, medium is actually somewhat smaller than the average size of an adult man, but they carry up to XXXL in the same section and it costs the same as the size S.

all of the above makes it sound like you should just buy men’s clothes but ha, try having, like, proportions, that is Not Going To Work Out. It’s great that these pants fit a 38″ waist but if your hips are any larger than 40″ you are going to have to size up several sizes, so the waist will be much too large, oh and also the crotch is going to be down to your knees. And all those great cheap men’s t-shirts fit you like a billboard poster, except really tight across your boobs and at your neck, and you will not be able to raise your arms because the shoulder seam is down at your elbow, so like, have fucking fun with that. Hey at least they’re long enough unlike literally every woman’s shirt which ends exactly at your navel because even though they claim to be your size they don’t expect you to really have breasts.

I have been loving the comments on Basking this past week, even if I have had extremely limited...

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I have been loving the comments on Basking this past week, even if I have had extremely limited internet access– I’ve done my best to answer comments but I’m sure I’ve missed some, please don’t let that deter you.

There was a line that I had intended to be an illustration of their mutual awkwardness after sex but somebody commented yesterday to point out that actually it came across as sort of icky and gender-essentialist, which was jarringly out of place in the fic as a whole and didn’t even have the flimsy excuse of fitting in with the POV character’s worldview either, and once it was pointed out I had to admit that was a totally warranted take, it really was hard to even see what I could possibly have meant by it once I actually, like, read what I’d actually written and not what I’d intended it to mean.

So I fixed it, and there’s something else there that hopefully is less jarring at least. I have in the past really felt like editing published works was sketchy practice somehow (i don’t know, do people leave notes when they edit fic? I try to with journal entries but it’s not the same thing, is it? are there ethics about this? I just don’t know), but in this case it was demonstrably a way out-of-place line, besides being objectively offensive, and did not even remotely convey my intention to boot. (Not to say that I’m not a person who could harbor such thoughts, I’m sure that contributed to it in the first place!)

So, at any rate, my deepest and most sincere apologies to anyone that line really super grossed-out, because it was super gross, and not at all what I intended for the fic, and absolutely didn’t do justice to Crowley’s POV at all either. I can defend my process all I want of how that line got in there in the first place, but the end takeaway is that it didn’t work, so there’s really nothing else to say besides to apologize.

So, it’s gone now, and there don’t seem to be any other wild missteps in it, so. Fingers crossed. 

I should have beta readers but I just don’t, and so any missteps are solely my own.

ughhh

Feeling in a dark, gross, stressed-out mood. Spent Saturday morning with Farmkid, and there's this event run by one of the shops downtown in Troy, where all these other shops have agreed to have a little cardboard cutout figure of Waldo in them, so kids can go around and find Waldo and get the shop clerk to stamp their little "passport" thing, and once you've gone to 20 different shops you can turn in your "passport" and enter a drawing to win some Where's Waldo books.
This is, necessarily, quite labor-intensive, and has involved three or four different adults traipsing all over downtown Troy with Farmkid.
I went to three or four little shops with her on Saturday during the farmer's market, and she kept blithely shoving the piece of paper back at me to take care of. Which, fine, but I've got this supernatural ability to lose important pieces of paper, so I finally was like, listen, you have this little zippered wallet thingy on a string, I'm putting it in there and you hang onto it. Figuring, I could supervise that way more than I could handle the five different bags I had to be carrying, this being the farmer's market.
Predictably, Farmkid was cool with that for thirty seconds and then was like "no you carry it!" so I put it into a bag into a bag and in all the hustle and bustle...
when I left Sunday, it was still in a bag, in my car.
The deadline is Wednesday. Priority Mail will probably get it there by Thursday...

I found it in that bag in a bag in my car when I had been on the Thruway for about an hour on my way home yesterday, as a State Trooper pulled me over. I hadn't been going noticeably fast, and he insisted I had been, and took my license and went back and sat in his car with it for like eight years, and I sat there and looked at this stupid little child's wallet with this stupid creased piece of paper representing hours and hours and hours of work by numerous adults and wanted to cry.
He came back and had just given me a ticket for inadequate brake lights. "Your right rear taillight's out," he said. "I'm going easy on you." I was going like 73 miles an hour, by my speedometer-- but, it's the end of the month and along the 300-mile stretch of highway I traveled, I saw about seventeen dozen State Troopers, and I know they have quotas they have to meet, which is asinine and entirely contrary to the letter and spirit of the law.

I had that brake light replaced last Thursday, because it had gone dim and then gone out. I had the receipt; $19.80 to replace that brake light.
( listen I gotta whine sometimes )

a more cheerful moment

At the dumb boring office job, the store manager's kids are here for the moment, and the boy, who is maybe four, just came in and complimented me on my rainbow dress, and told me rainbow was his favorite color. And then he said that he wished it was raining today. I asked him why, and he said, because then it could end, and there'd be a rainbow, and he made a gesture describing the arc of a rainbow with one hand, and looked all lit-up and happy, and I told him I wished for that too.
We're buds now.

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in general you can leave an author’s note about editing if you want I guess, but I personally don’t see any problem with editing published works on Ao3; and I wouldn’t sweat stuff like sentence editing, especially in this context; “sketchy practice…” :’D it’s your fic, it’s ok to go back and touch-up on stuff if you want :)b

I think you’re right. It’s kind of an ingrained old-fashioned blogging thing, though, like, if there’s a discussion gong on, I’ve had it ground into me that if you edit something you’d best note that it was edited and why, and like– yeah! but. stories. that’s different.

And yet. I left a little author’s note, because it seemed disingenuous to not ever acknowledge it happened, but I’m not going into specifics because there’s no point repeating the thing that was hurtful. 

I also admit that part of me is super-dismayed because the thing is, I’m not a particularly popular author (I’m not complaining! I do fine! but.), so the vast majority of hits I get on a story are pretty much right when I post it– I don’t tend to get included in rec lists or roundups or whatever– so the vast majority of people who were going to read that story did so before I even realized that line was Bad and Not What I Meant, so like. Welp! And of course most people are going to see something gross and just back-button or whatever, and so I’m like… embarrassed, I guess. I don’t know, I can’t seem to explain it without having it come across as super-whiny. Maybe it is super-whiny of me so it’s a sign I should give up, LOL.

 So I guess it’s partly so if any of those people come back and are like “was this the story that…” it just seems like good practice to have a note up there, and just in general, I feel like edits post-publication should be acknowledged. I don’t know what I’d advise someone else to do in my situation, though.