Dear SFWA members:
I’m running for the position of President. For four years, I was privileged to work with an extremely active and committed board, first as Secretary of SFWA and then as Vice President. I stepped down because I believe that new voices are vital to a service organization such as SFWA. But there are still things that I want to see accomplished, particularly trying to find…
I just saw that people have cut down some of the Joshua trees during this shutdown and I want to cry
w H A T
The what trees? Someone explain? I want to be appropriately sad. I mean, I’m sad either way because trees are better than people. But why are these trees more special than usual?
They’re a rare species, and one that is very stunning, and also one that is very vulnerable to habitat loss and climate change.
And if I ever get my hands on one of the people who did this, I will be hard pressed to not kill them.
Did you see WHY they cut them down? They cut them down so they could go off roading in closed off areas of pristine desert.
Some fucking people should not be let out of their cages.
i have so many Feelings about the word ‘bitch’. i love when it’s used humorously (’i’m out here ruining my own life as always bitch’), i love when it’s reclaimed (’i’m a boss-ass bitch’), i love when my female friends call me jokingly (‘listen here bitch’), but when a man says it? sirens, warning lights. when a man calls a woman it it comes with such hatred. it’s stabbing. it’s sharp and vile and it drips misogyny. it’s funny how the word can be fine 95% of the time and the other 5% of the time it genuinely fills me with fear
This is the nature of reclamation! In 2019 “bitch” is for women. Gay jokes are for lgbtqia+ people. The n word is for African Americans. And the list goes on. There’s a reason why those words feel different depending on their source; just because we’ve reclaimed the word for ourselves does not mean we’ve reclaimed it for everyone. It doesn’t mean that word is cleansed of its history and stripped of its weight. And it certainly doesn’t mean that the groups who used to wield those words as weapons against us can’t still hurt us with them - even if that’s not their intention.
Yes. A word CANNOT be reclaimed by, or for, a group it never described.
And we are not obligated to GIVE BACK “bitch” (or “queer” or any other reclaimed slur) to our oppressors, even if we use it daily to describe ourselves.
They don’t get to use it to describe us anymore. Not for a very long time, and maybe never.
I’m concerned that Spiderverse is going to send a generation of future cosplayers the wrong message
namely that it’s possible to spray paint cloth a different color
PSA you cannot spray paint anything that will bend, it will all turn to flakes and fall off. That goes for rubber boots, leather boots, foam, pretty much anything that flexes. You gotta use fabric spray paint for fabric, leather paint for leather, etc.
this is my favorite art program. it’s *much* more intuitive than photoshop/gimp or corel paintshop, but it still has the full functionality of a digital art program (layers, brush stabilizer, etc.). it’s not overwhelming to start on like practically every other decent art program I’ve tried, you can just pick a brush and start drawing as if it were paper if you want. plus you can download extra brushes for free! and they publish free art tutorials pretty regularly
ANYONE looking for a free art program: worth looking into.
YALL I LOVE THIS PROGRAM, especially the ipad version!! and i’m psyched that i don’t have to pay $30 a year for it anymore!!!
