son of linkspam: the linkspammening

staranise is looking for help finding a survey that asked fans "What do you mean when you say you ship two characters?"

cbrachyrhyncos has some useful thoughts about self-care and other mental health care strategies, along with a link to a related discussion on Russian Doll.

lovepeaceohana has some interesting thoughts about the role of reassurance in response to self-doubt and self-hate. I have a complicated relationship with reassurance, in that I both crave it and find it embarrassing and hide from it, so I am sitting with this and thinking about it for a bit.

kore has a really good discussion going about the recent spate of power grabs and cancellations of Disney/Netflix collaboration shows. I loved JJ, and I'm sad, but even if you didn't, the post is worth reading for the commentary on cinema and television history, and the changes we're likely to see as studios and streaming services try to forcibly return viewers to a model of "we make the content and you buy it direct from us at whatever the hell price we say." (And changes to actors' contracts, etc, which is also not... great.)

cimorene is thinking about replacing plastic-based textiles with wool for environmental reasons. Given as poor T is stuck in an ethics class right now (theoretically intended for business majors and healthcare professionals, for whom it is required) that has gone all in on demanding that students agree that veganism is the only ethical approach to life, this one resonated with me.

From mcu_cosmic: Let's talk about Asgardian colonialism!

shadaras has some very, very relatable feelings about butchness and gender shit, and I kept meaning to chime in and forgot.

elf has a roundup of Pagan terminology for non-Pagan writers.

That set of photos of the "rescued" puma who lives like a "giant housecat" is less cute than you might think. In general I appreciate Why Animals Do The Thing, and this pretty well explains why I see those photos and immediately freeze and get uncomfortable. It's not cute to see people setting themselves and an animal under their care up for a heartbreaking accident, but that's what is happening here. (I also appreciate WADTT for being careful to also talk about cute animal things that are totally cute (link to cats helping with calligraphy) and good for everyone and wonderful, and making room for people to find animals cute and interact in an ethical and safe way with both wild and domestic species.)

thingswithwings's vid Gettin' Bi has given me a ton of joy this week. Ironically, it was actually slated for a FPP the day after the one that made me lock up for a bit. It'll keep, though.

So has thingswithwings and eruthros' lovely tribute to My Cat From Hell. Seriously, I watched it, and then I went home and watched it with Ishka. (Ish will watch TV with me with every evidence of fascination, at least if she's close enough to stare at the screen. She used to come running home to watch Doctor Who with me when I was screening episodes with H.)

terezis sketched out an Adventure Zone Taakitz catfishing AU that had me giggling to myself all evening.

in media res i think there’s a lot of tension leading up to the confrontation, because at this point taako’s, like, pretty sure he’s being catfished? so he’s freaking out a little bit! he’s pissed! he’s ready to throw down. wait, no, he changed his mind, actually, this is stupid. he’s just going to ghost kravitz. magnus, turn the car around.

kravitz receives a lot of very confusing texts that week.

The Denver teacher's strike is over! The teachers won. I'm happy with that.

Relatedly, workers in Europe and the UK have been successfully deploying "mindfuck" striking tactics against employers, like secretly ending the strike a day early so that employers have to pay both the scabs and the rightful workers on the same day, or like coordinating strikes from different parts of the workforce at different times so that workers are doing 20% of meaningful work at 80% pay. Useful to keep in mind.

Birth of the cool guy: what lies beneath the surface of his performative feminism? A discussion about a certain kind of pro-feminist gentleman that I imagine we've all run into at one time or another. h/t opensummer.