prompt me for writing in January?

[sciatrix]

I'm way more likely to be around and possessed of enough focus to write about things in January than December, so I figured I'd steal that prompt and try for a one-post-per-day thing here, too. Plus there's an extra day in January! But I almost always write better if I think someone will actually be interested, so I thought I'd start a list of topics here in case folks have suggestions. Anonymous ones are fine, if that is what floats your boat.

(I will be at an integrative biology conference between the 3rd and the 7th, so I'll try and have a bit of a backlog I can copy-paste in at odd moments so that I keep hitting targets.)

Stuff vaguely knocking around in my head at the moment includes m/f dynamics in all the Brooklyn 99 Jake/Amy I've been reading and comparing gender dynamics between fic and canon and anthropomorphization of animals as a method of understanding them: how that aligns with ability to understand humans who are Different from ourselves, to give you an idea. Stuff I've been meaning to write down for a very long time includes... let's see, whether or not you can argue that animals have gender which doesn't necessarily align with biological sex, why "homosexuality/asexuality is Nature's response to overpopulation" is nonsense, and fleshing out why I side-eye the idea that both historically and currently queer people are less likely to have had children than straight people.

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Comments

[polecat_flyer]

Fiction or nonfiction?

[felinejumper]

fleshing out why I side-eye the idea that both historically and currently queer people are less likely to have had children than straight people.

me me! I will read this! Having done exactly zero reading on the topic, I'm particularly interested in the historical aspect. And since I don't think "they had to pass" is, like...interesting or totally true, I am excited for your actual having-thought-about-it thoughts.

[implicated2]

I would like to read a meta-post about your linkspam posts. :) How do you pick links for linkspam posts? What makes a good link? Are there ever things you enjoyed reading but would not include in a linkspam post? Do you try to keep to a particular topic or set of topics or just anything interesting? Do you go looking specifically for things to share, or do you just read a lot of things and share the good ones?

[wanderingnork]

Seconded! This would all be very cool to know. I love your linkspams!

[yvannairie]

The topic of Fandom m/f vs canon m/f sounds interesting, despite not being in the fandom. I like a lot of m/f ships for their potential, not execution, so I'd like to see how the topic presents itself to others.

[notasupervillain]

Seconded!

[notasupervillain]

My personal hobbyhorses, which you can write about if they interest you.

1. How fandoms treat f/f vs m/m
2. How fandoms treat female Villans vs male Villains

[sebenikela]

I'm curious about the anthropomophization bits especially like... Apollo my sister's dog has dog-trauma issues and I'm always like "am I projecting or is this a familiar response" when he does things.

Swerving in another direction

[jesse_the_k]

...when did you become interested in science? What kept you going? Have you gotten negative results and been satisfied?

[brainwane]

Your thoughts on or reactions to a few specific foods: Oatmeal, Miso (soup or other), Licorice (black and/or red), Hollandaise sauce, Coconut milk.