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lydamorehouse) wrote2020-06-08 10:41 am
lydamorehouse) wrote2020-06-08 10:41 am
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JK Rowling is at it Again and Other Things Because F*ck Her, Anyway
...don't make the mistake I did and read it, okay?
Spare yourselves.
She's just being shitty again. It is so very tone deaf, too. As many people have pointed out, that to take umbrage (and yes, I use that word ironically here) over a headline which isn't even about her (she's my age, 50/50 she's still having a period,) at a time when it is Pride month and, even as the call for justice for George Floyd has gone unanswered many #BLM activists are refocusing their efforts to center black trans lives, is just PETTY and hurtful and beyond the Pale.
In fact, I don't want to waste any more time on it.
In other news, Mason is actually staying home today from volunteering. He woke up feeling a tiny bit under the weather and, since he is scheduled to go get another COVID test at 3:30 pm today, he decided to just skip the actual heavy labor in favor of considering getting his brain scraped as his volunteer work for the day. I should note, for the record, Mason didn't put it that way. That's my framing. Mason is too much of a true paladin to think that way. He is very, very willing to be tested every day, if need be, so that he can volunteer with a clean conscious KNOWING that not he's asymptomatic and passing on the virus while trying to HELP people. That would crush him.
It seems to be a day of false starts as I started out thinking today was a day that Shawn and I might venture into a fabric store, but she also woke up feeling crummy, though in her case it is a sign she is about to get a migraine. Instead, our only plans for the day now are getting Mason in for his test... and probably I should feed my two sickies.
It's supposed to get up to 93 F / 34 F today, which, to me, is just gross. So, I may set up the sprinkler in the back yard to keep my poor shade plants from wilting in despair, despite all the lovely evening storms we've had lately. In a surprise to me, I discovered one of our climbing roses had bloomed.
Image: pink blooms against a screen window... also what is n the leaves? Insect damage?
To be fair, these roses have been struggling. I had to cut out a ton of dead wood this year, but I have likewise been rewarded with a ton of new sprouts of new roses. I have hope for a full recovery. However, this one bloom is on the end of a very old branch that I left because it was showing signs of life yet. I am not surprised it might be susceptible to insects. It can't be very healthy, in general.
When it was cooler on Saturday, Shawn and I made rhubarb-strawberry jam and a lovely rhubarb-strawberry pie:
Image: bubbling red pile with lattice-work top. The crust looks dark because it is slathered in cinnamon-sugar.
Mmmmm, is it too early for pie? IT IS NEVER TOO EARLY FOR PIE!
So, that's us in a nutshell. Nothing too exciting. How's by you?
Spare yourselves.
She's just being shitty again. It is so very tone deaf, too. As many people have pointed out, that to take umbrage (and yes, I use that word ironically here) over a headline which isn't even about her (she's my age, 50/50 she's still having a period,) at a time when it is Pride month and, even as the call for justice for George Floyd has gone unanswered many #BLM activists are refocusing their efforts to center black trans lives, is just PETTY and hurtful and beyond the Pale.
In fact, I don't want to waste any more time on it.
In other news, Mason is actually staying home today from volunteering. He woke up feeling a tiny bit under the weather and, since he is scheduled to go get another COVID test at 3:30 pm today, he decided to just skip the actual heavy labor in favor of considering getting his brain scraped as his volunteer work for the day. I should note, for the record, Mason didn't put it that way. That's my framing. Mason is too much of a true paladin to think that way. He is very, very willing to be tested every day, if need be, so that he can volunteer with a clean conscious KNOWING that not he's asymptomatic and passing on the virus while trying to HELP people. That would crush him.
It seems to be a day of false starts as I started out thinking today was a day that Shawn and I might venture into a fabric store, but she also woke up feeling crummy, though in her case it is a sign she is about to get a migraine. Instead, our only plans for the day now are getting Mason in for his test... and probably I should feed my two sickies.
It's supposed to get up to 93 F / 34 F today, which, to me, is just gross. So, I may set up the sprinkler in the back yard to keep my poor shade plants from wilting in despair, despite all the lovely evening storms we've had lately. In a surprise to me, I discovered one of our climbing roses had bloomed.
Image: pink blooms against a screen window... also what is n the leaves? Insect damage?
To be fair, these roses have been struggling. I had to cut out a ton of dead wood this year, but I have likewise been rewarded with a ton of new sprouts of new roses. I have hope for a full recovery. However, this one bloom is on the end of a very old branch that I left because it was showing signs of life yet. I am not surprised it might be susceptible to insects. It can't be very healthy, in general.
When it was cooler on Saturday, Shawn and I made rhubarb-strawberry jam and a lovely rhubarb-strawberry pie:
Image: bubbling red pile with lattice-work top. The crust looks dark because it is slathered in cinnamon-sugar.
Mmmmm, is it too early for pie? IT IS NEVER TOO EARLY FOR PIE!
So, that's us in a nutshell. Nothing too exciting. How's by you?
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Ya'll raised a good kid.
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And the pie is so, so good! I wish I could send you some!
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Also, I found a letter from you in my pile of bills yesterday? My reply should be on its way today!
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I envy everyone who gets to eat those pies. I have never had a rhubarb pie, but I love strawberry.
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Strawberry fields are hard on my back and knees, even so I would join you in a heartbeat if it wasn't the pandemic!
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I was so FUCKING TAKEN ABACK at that I was knocked over. What a shitty, hateful, useless, SO TONE DEAF SHE'S ON ANOTHER PLANET MAYBE? hurtful fucking terrible thing to say. And the article was specifically about the challenges for menstruating people during the pandemic, "addressing the fundamental gendered inequalities of the most vulnerable among us"!
AN Y WAY that is a beautiful rose and a glorious pie. Thank you for showing us both of them!
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And, I spent a good thirty minutes of my life with my blood boiling OVER at her stupidity... Then, I decided I was hurting myself, read a few of the snappy comebacks nicely collected at the bottom of a Mary Sue article, if you need them: https://www.themarysue.com/j-k-rowling-doubles-down-on-transphobia-ruins-her-legacy-in-one-fell-swoop/ (but do skip to the end otherwise you have to read the whole shitty meanness again,) and then ate some PIE.
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https://twitter.com/MollyOstertag/status/1269426705338216450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
"YOU WERE SET OFF ON THIS BY A HEADLINE??? PEOPLE ARE GETTING MURDERED IN THE STREETS, BLACK TRANS WOMEN DIE AT HORRIFYING RATES, AND YOU FEEL THAT YOUR PERCEIVED OPPRESSION BY AN INCLUSIVE HEADLINE NEEDS TO BE SPOKEN AT THIS MOMENT?"
and of course Daniel Lavery is as always a cultural treasure
"I've been vibing with you all for decades, simply absolutely pulsating with energy…undulating like a frond under the sea with a jellyfish hovering overhead. Are you really going to throw all those vibes away just because I’m marrying the blue liquid that stands in for period blood in tampon commercials? Grow up. In commercials, real women menstruate real blue liquid, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that."
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