ride_4ever: (Fannish 50 Challenge)
[personal profile] squidgiepdx has been showing fandom the love for 31 years (he founded Squidge.Org in 1994 to provide both website hosting and mailing lists for fandom and in 2020 he created the SquidgeWorld Archive) and I'm here to say let's have fandom show some love back with a successful fundraiser. (And I'm putting my money where my mouth is: I donated $100.00 to this fundraiser.)

Click here for detailed post about the fundraiser and about how to donate.

Click here for Fanlore page about Squidge.Org and SquidgeWorld.
dame_grise: barbed wire with caption: God be between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk (empty places)

Have you ever read a book, a story, or an article and thought, “Everyone should read this. It would change the world.”? This still happens to me now, but it was most frequent when I was in college. Yes, I was in college way back in the 1980s, so these books have been around a while. And they changed my life!
If you look at my life now, you may ask yourself why you’d want my life. It’s no great shakes being me. I’m in my mid-fifties and early retired because of disability. I’m the poster child of when wunderkind burn out in adulthood and fall flat on their faces. But without these books, it would have happened sooner. Without these books, I’d be dead instead of just hurting, sometimes addled, and still fighting like hell to keep living. Keep that in mind.


Life Maps: Journey of Conversations on the Journey of Faith by Jim Fowler and Sam Keen


Life Maps )

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini


Influence )

Becoming a Master Student by Dave Ellis


Master Student )
ride_4ever: (Make America Kind Again)
Five years ago today Representative John Lewis -- an icon of civil rights -- died, but his message lives on and we declare it today all across America with this Good Trouble Lives On National Day of Action. As Representative John Lewis said: "Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America".

Click here to find today's event details including a map that shows where a "Good Trouble" event is taking place near you today.
erinm_4600: (mal2)
Instead, just jumping right in with the WTFery Steve dropped on me, last night. The weather was HORRENDOUS. Traffic was even better, because of it.

For the past two-ish weeks, I've been plotting out a post-series drama and I've been jumping from ugly crying to laughing at myself for jokes that came out of nowhere to visualizing some scenes so hard I swear I can smell the sagebrush.

It's not normal.

Anyway.. there are two characters in the series who are the main slashpair. So much so that they made actual jokes about it in the show a few times. I'm not gonna yuck anybody's yum, but after nearly 20 years... I just don't see it. At all.

You tell me Kirk/Spock is a thing? Sure, okay. You tell me Spock/Bones is a thing? Sure, okay.

This feels (to me) like the equivalent of Riker/Worf and I just don't get it.

But that not the point.

Steve is a little shit. )

Anyway...

I am now 100000% on the F1/F2 train and I am never getting off. EVER.

I hope you're all well and I love all your faces ♥

(copy/pasted from LJ, the old way)
ride_4ever: (FK reading something)
June postal mail from fen brought me a beautiful card from [personal profile] elayna. It's colored by hand and she indicated that it was done in pencil -- must be some very special kind of pencil -- there's a depth of color and a shine to it that doesn't look like other pencil-work I've seen. And she pointed out that with one of the images being a compass and one of the images being a wolf or wolf-dog it made her think of due South. Also, she put a wolf sticker on it and used a maple-leaf postage stamp. I <3 everything about this card very much!

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