The economic boycotts led by The People's Union USA for the month of July: Amazon, Home Depot, Starbucks.
For more details, see this Newsweek article.
For more details, see this Newsweek article.
From this U.S. fangirl for Canada on today's Canada Day and every day: declaring my love and respect for the Great Sovereign Land of Canada.
Ten Inspiring Quotations About Canada.
(And furthermore: Fox Delta Tango!)
Ten Inspiring Quotations About Canada.
(And furthermore: Fox Delta Tango!)
If you are in due South fandom you know about the "infamous due South troll," she of many names and one obsession: for decades she has been seeking out due South fic and vids that don't jibe with her personal opinion about which ships and which storylines are "true or not". She was flaming me even before I posted my first fic...back in 2011 she flamed my comment that I made on YouTube about a due South vid that I liked, telling me what was "wrong" with the perspective of the vid and how I was "wrong" for liking it. She actively seeks out for reading and for watching stuff that she knows she won't like and then she reads it or watches it and then she spews out her hatred. The last most recent time that she flamed me -- before TODAY -- was in 2023 when she pounced on a fic that I had written eleven years earlier and said hateful things about it -- I did not respond to her hate and TODAY she returned to that same fic and in even greater detail than previously FLAMED THE SAME FIC A SECOND TIME. Hells, that is some tenacity -- REREADING a fic to which she had already "objected" (she told me that she "disagreed" with my fic) and then commenting further in the face of my previous non-response. /o\
Today is Yuri Day! For details about Yuri Day see this page on Fanlore. For details about yuri in general see this page on Fanlore.
The very talented and very generous![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
petra is offering to write prompted drabbles and poems for Yuri Day. See their post and leave them a comment for your drabble or poem at petra's Yuri Day post on DW.
The very talented and very generous
petra is offering to write prompted drabbles and poems for Yuri Day. See their post and leave them a comment for your drabble or poem at petra's Yuri Day post on DW.PSA: beware this scam: it's not AO3
Jun. 11th, 2025 10:11 pmverushka70 will give you all the details about this comment scam being perpetrated by bots in fic comments on AO3. Do not react to the bot threats that falsely claim they are from AO3! Check out her very important warning in her DW post.Please signal-boost this if you are so inclined.
April-May mail from fen!
The USPS damaged one of my pieces of mail so badly that I couldn't read the signature because that part of the postcard was torn off -- and it's a wonder that the postcard ever got to me at all since the part with my last name and half of my street address and half of my zip code and the entirety of my state was torn off -- but I recognized the style of the message as one written byelayna, an amusing comment about having a vision of Fraser gaining some kind of super-powers caused by getting an electrical shock.
From "across the pond"smallhobbit sent me a card for "National Greeting Card Day".
minoanmiss sent me two postcards for "National Poetry Month," one with a poem by Emily Dickinson and one with a poem by Mina Loy.
My "MFU cousin"vysila sent me a box full of zines.
And ION about the USPS: two cards that I mailed to fen at the winter holidays in 2024 were returned to me by the USPS in 2025. One was a fairly quick return, as the card I sent tolauramcewan came back to me within one month. The other card, the one to ver_verlain and Rebel, was returned to me FOUR MONTHS after I had mailed it and it had stripes of black marker on it and the "Title IX" stamp was defaced.
The USPS damaged one of my pieces of mail so badly that I couldn't read the signature because that part of the postcard was torn off -- and it's a wonder that the postcard ever got to me at all since the part with my last name and half of my street address and half of my zip code and the entirety of my state was torn off -- but I recognized the style of the message as one written by
elayna, an amusing comment about having a vision of Fraser gaining some kind of super-powers caused by getting an electrical shock.From "across the pond"
smallhobbit sent me a card for "National Greeting Card Day".minoanmiss sent me two postcards for "National Poetry Month," one with a poem by Emily Dickinson and one with a poem by Mina Loy.My "MFU cousin"
vysila sent me a box full of zines.And ION about the USPS: two cards that I mailed to fen at the winter holidays in 2024 were returned to me by the USPS in 2025. One was a fairly quick return, as the card I sent to
lauramcewan came back to me within one month. The other card, the one to ver_verlain and Rebel, was returned to me FOUR MONTHS after I had mailed it and it had stripes of black marker on it and the "Title IX" stamp was defaced.PSA: a resistance protest list via sage
May. 1st, 2025 06:28 pmsage posted this under the heading "resist" and I told sage I'd do a signal-boost, so here it is -- protests only listed dates and not specifics, so if interested, do a search for protests local to you.May 1: Indivisible + 50501 + Unions + Law Day + May Day Protest
May 3: Anti-ICE protest
May 6 to 12: Amazon Boycott 2
May 20 to 26: Walmart Boycott 2
June 1: Pride LGBTQ Protest
June 3 to 9: Target Boycott
June 14: Flag Day & Trump's Birthday Protest
June 19: Juneteenth Protest
June 27: Stonewall Anniversary Protest
June 24 to 30: McDonald’s Boycott
July 4: Independence Day Boycott
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Tomorrow is the annual National Canadian Film Day. All around the world, let's stand up for Canada and sit down to some Canadian cinema!
If you watch a Canadian movie tomorrow and feel like coming back here to post about what you saw, please do.
If you watch a Canadian movie tomorrow and feel like coming back here to post about what you saw, please do.
In March I got delightful postal mail from sidleypkhermit! It was a combination of two cards -- one card inside the other -- and a bunch of intensely adorable stickers. Great timing about the stickers because earlier this year someone gave me a sticker book -- which is the first time I am assembling my stickers all in one place and with an eye to some kind of intentional organization -- and now I'm going to make one section of the sticker book specifically "stickers from fen".
sidleypkhermit! It was a combination of two cards -- one card inside the other -- and a bunch of intensely adorable stickers. Great timing about the stickers because earlier this year someone gave me a sticker book -- which is the first time I am assembling my stickers all in one place and with an eye to some kind of intentional organization -- and now I'm going to make one section of the sticker book specifically "stickers from fen".The organization We Need Diverse Books has initiated what is to be an annual celebration called "We Need Diverse Books Day" and the first one is today, April 3rd. USA Today has an article about it online.
We Need Diverse Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that works to improve literacy and build compassion by affecting change through turning diverse manuscripts into published books and then donating diverse titles to readers nationwide. Read all about them on their website.
We Need Diverse Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that works to improve literacy and build compassion by affecting change through turning diverse manuscripts into published books and then donating diverse titles to readers nationwide. Read all about them on their website.
Today, April 2nd, is World Autism Awareness Day and the whole month of April is National Poetry Month so today I bring you a poem by Adam Wolfond, a Canadian non-speaking autistic poet, artist, and book author. (You can read more about his life and accomplishments at his website.)
EROS OF BATHING STIMMING DANCING PACING
by Adam Wolfond
Mostly I want to rake in the people
to understand the ways of pacing real thoughts
the feeling way
pace pace pace the talking
and type type type the thinking
and the two will rally
and become
Pace names the ways of thinking
and typing feels the ways of pacing
every string games
the perfect love in movement
in real relation
with inspirational rights
of people like me
Having the lust dancing in giving life to feel
the names of categories dancing
out of bounds
is amazing to play
and I get a thrill guessing
the way people will respond
to me and my open
languaging
language is the pavement answering
the way and I am the water
bathing and living
lustfully
Main idea in the eros of autism is the pace
dancing so I feel
fantastic like rallying ocean waves
carrying me like a boogie
board of puttering
on top of the warm water
Mind is lavishing
in the ideas in the eros
pacing
give me some examples
Love the power I have been bathing autistically
and living stimming dancing
the pacings
opening that field of thinking toward
artful liberation
from people who think autism is a problem
and janitors of diversity
live in that world
where simple cleanup
is bigger problem
lusting real ludicrous idea
that we need clean perfect people
I fastly make need
jumping always
on the page
===========
Adam Wolfond, “Eros of Bathing Stimming Dancing Pacing,” Copyright © 2022, Milkweed Editions.
EROS OF BATHING STIMMING DANCING PACING
by Adam Wolfond
Mostly I want to rake in the people
to understand the ways of pacing real thoughts
the feeling way
pace pace pace the talking
and type type type the thinking
and the two will rally
and become
Pace names the ways of thinking
and typing feels the ways of pacing
every string games
the perfect love in movement
in real relation
with inspirational rights
of people like me
Having the lust dancing in giving life to feel
the names of categories dancing
out of bounds
is amazing to play
and I get a thrill guessing
the way people will respond
to me and my open
languaging
language is the pavement answering
the way and I am the water
bathing and living
lustfully
Main idea in the eros of autism is the pace
dancing so I feel
fantastic like rallying ocean waves
carrying me like a boogie
board of puttering
on top of the warm water
Mind is lavishing
in the ideas in the eros
pacing
give me some examples
Love the power I have been bathing autistically
and living stimming dancing
the pacings
opening that field of thinking toward
artful liberation
from people who think autism is a problem
and janitors of diversity
live in that world
where simple cleanup
is bigger problem
lusting real ludicrous idea
that we need clean perfect people
I fastly make need
jumping always
on the page
===========
Adam Wolfond, “Eros of Bathing Stimming Dancing Pacing,” Copyright © 2022, Milkweed Editions.
To join the National Day of Action against the cruel and illegal power grabs of The Orange One and his cronies, check the website of "Hands Off 2025" for action locations, sign-making templates, list of partner organizations, et cetera.
I got a beautiful handmade art card from goss all the way from Trinidad! (International mail having particular uncertainties, I'm always extra-relieved when I know that she got mail I sent her and I'm extra-excited when I get mail from her.)
goss all the way from Trinidad! (International mail having particular uncertainties, I'm always extra-relieved when I know that she got mail I sent her and I'm extra-excited when I get mail from her.)It's The Eleventh of March, dS fen!
"They have called this day The Eleventh of March! And whomsoever of you gets through this day, unless you are shot in the head or somehow slain, you will stand at tiptoe when e'er you hear the name again. And you will get excited at the name March The Eleventh! We happy few, we few, we band of brothers... our names will be as like... household names! And those who are not here... be they sleeping or doing something else, they will feel themselves sort of crappy! Because they are not here to join the fight on this day The Eleventh of March!" -- Sergeant Buck Frobisher, March 11, 1999
(Also, I got a kick out ofdewline pointing out to me that there is this Wikipedia entry called "March 11".)
"They have called this day The Eleventh of March! And whomsoever of you gets through this day, unless you are shot in the head or somehow slain, you will stand at tiptoe when e'er you hear the name again. And you will get excited at the name March The Eleventh! We happy few, we few, we band of brothers... our names will be as like... household names! And those who are not here... be they sleeping or doing something else, they will feel themselves sort of crappy! Because they are not here to join the fight on this day The Eleventh of March!" -- Sergeant Buck Frobisher, March 11, 1999
(Also, I got a kick out of
dewline pointing out to me that there is this Wikipedia entry called "March 11".)Title: For I Will Consider My Half-Wolf Diefenbaker
Author:ride_4ever
Fandom: due South
Relationship: Benton Fraser & Diefenbaker
Characters: Benton Fraser, mention of Diefenbaker, mention of Ray Vecchio, mention of Ray Kowalski
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 151 words
Summary: Fraser considers aspects of Diefenbaker (the half-wolf, not the 13th Canadian Prime Minister).
AN: Inspired by “For I Will Consider My Dog Percy” by Mary Oliver, which in turn was inspired by “For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry” by Christopher Smart. No copyright infringement intended.
Fic on AO3.
Author:
ride_4ever Fandom: due South
Relationship: Benton Fraser & Diefenbaker
Characters: Benton Fraser, mention of Diefenbaker, mention of Ray Vecchio, mention of Ray Kowalski
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 151 words
Summary: Fraser considers aspects of Diefenbaker (the half-wolf, not the 13th Canadian Prime Minister).
AN: Inspired by “For I Will Consider My Dog Percy” by Mary Oliver, which in turn was inspired by “For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry” by Christopher Smart. No copyright infringement intended.
Fic on AO3.
Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration, has written about participating in the February 28th economic blackout protest. You can read what he wrote about it on his Substack or read it as quoted below.
A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers — including Amazon — tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”
The purpose is to send a clear message: We have the power. We don’t have to accept corporate monopolies. We don’t have to live with corporate money corrupting our politics.
We don’t have to accept more tax cuts for billionaires. We don’t have to pay more of our hard-earned cash to Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg or the other billionaire oligarchs.
We don’t have to reward corporations that have abandoned their DEI policies to align themselves with Trump’s racist, homophobic, misogynistic agenda.
We have choices.
Most Americans are struggling to keep up. Most live from paycheck to paycheck. Most can barely afford housing costs, food prices, and pharmaceuticals — kept high by monopolies, and fueled by private equity.
If politicians won’t hear the voices of average Americans who are being shafted by corporate America, we have to deliver our message to corporate America directly.
From midnight tonight to midnight Friday night, please: No Amazon, no Walmart, no Best Buy, no Target, no Disney, no Google, no Facebook. Don’t spend on fast food, major retailers, or gas.
Avoid using credit or debit cards to make nonessential purchases.
Buy essentials such as medicine, food, and emergency supplies, of course, but make those purchases at small, local businesses.
Consider this a test run. If lots of people participate, I’m sure a longer one will be organized.
Economic blackouts are an initiative of The People’s Union USA, which describes itself as a “grassroots movement dedicated to economic resistance, government accountability, and corporate reform.”
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Economic Blackout Protest dates for March and April can be found on the FAQ page of The People's Union USA.
A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers — including Amazon — tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”
The purpose is to send a clear message: We have the power. We don’t have to accept corporate monopolies. We don’t have to live with corporate money corrupting our politics.
We don’t have to accept more tax cuts for billionaires. We don’t have to pay more of our hard-earned cash to Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg or the other billionaire oligarchs.
We don’t have to reward corporations that have abandoned their DEI policies to align themselves with Trump’s racist, homophobic, misogynistic agenda.
We have choices.
Most Americans are struggling to keep up. Most live from paycheck to paycheck. Most can barely afford housing costs, food prices, and pharmaceuticals — kept high by monopolies, and fueled by private equity.
If politicians won’t hear the voices of average Americans who are being shafted by corporate America, we have to deliver our message to corporate America directly.
From midnight tonight to midnight Friday night, please: No Amazon, no Walmart, no Best Buy, no Target, no Disney, no Google, no Facebook. Don’t spend on fast food, major retailers, or gas.
Avoid using credit or debit cards to make nonessential purchases.
Buy essentials such as medicine, food, and emergency supplies, of course, but make those purchases at small, local businesses.
Consider this a test run. If lots of people participate, I’m sure a longer one will be organized.
Economic blackouts are an initiative of The People’s Union USA, which describes itself as a “grassroots movement dedicated to economic resistance, government accountability, and corporate reform.”
=====================================
Economic Blackout Protest dates for March and April can be found on the FAQ page of The People's Union USA.
