matters of importance

fireholly99 1:08 pm
....does Barret have chest hair? I can't remember.

athene1miranda 1:09 pm
shouldn't be hard to find out as he wears a mesh vest in AC

fireholly99 1:10 pm
curiously he does in FF7 but not in AC.

athene1miranda 1:12 pm
so now we know there is a hair removal industry geared towards men in the FFVII universe. <---facts



(sorry for not talking/commenting much this week, I am kinda nonverbal and exhausted lately and I appear to have driven my main fic project 11000 words into a hole with no way to get to the ending that I have secretly already written and I am therefore spending a mostly-off-work week doing nothing but grouching at self. OH WELL.)

links:

Daisy goes to the funeral of Justin Whitmire. Because WBC said they'd go, so Occupy Greenville decided to go, and then three thousand Patriot Guard Riders showed up. You need to read this. It might restore your faith in humanity, if only for a few seconds.

this just makes me proud to be british dawwww:

Civic leaders in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, contacted the European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), which co-ordinates twin town arrangements, in 2009, asking to break their ties with Luxeuil-les-Bains in eastern France amid complaints that the latter had not put any effort into the relationship.

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In 2009, Swindon - the Wiltshire industrial town often used as a synonym for prosaic suburbia - agreed to twin with Walt Disney World in Florida. Seven years previously, Wincanton in Somerset went one stage further by twinning with Ankh-Morpork, an entirely fictional city that appears in the fantasy novels of Terry Pratchett.

via http://1000kindsofrain.com, here is a petition that I think everyone should support.

Back in the US: I am both glad someone is reporting on this and yet not sure how this is news to anyone.

Something from a year ago that I was just rereading because it is still relevant always; Rape? In MY anti-Tolkien?:

“Anti-Tolkien,” I think, should be about upsetting the cis-white-male ghetto. It should be about subverting, breaking, and rejecting tropes that make this ghetto such a comfy cesspool to wallow in. It should open ways for specfic that isn’t about white people, doesn’t take place in an analogue of medieval Europe or future FUCK YEAH AMERICA, isn’t always about straight love stories, and is cover-to-cover about women making their own stories.

It really shouldn’t be about women getting sexually assaulted and liquid brown hitting everything in sight.

e.t.a.: omg the FOMC transcripts from 2006 are now online and people are quoting the best bits. Seriously read this, it is godtier Now Do You Get How It Went Wrong stuff, all the more so because all the rest of us knew what was happening at the time.