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(looking for a song atm)
Well, given that it's just another day closer to the new administration, this song is what comes to my mind. ^_^
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(looking for a song atm)Well, given that it's just another day closer to the new administration, this song is what comes to my mind. ^_^
Needs more happiness!
*Keeps searching*
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RPG Superstar Season 9 Top 32
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Have any of y'all played the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game? I downloaded the phone app version (having played the physical version exactly once) this weekend and have been trying it out.
Despite the two starting characters being Merisiel and Kyra (who are obviously girlfriends even in the limited storytelling offered by a strategy card game), I find the game to be disappointingly homophobic and transphobic - that is to say, I'm bad at it and when I lose it is very frustrating to me, a gay trans. When I win it's a good game obviously designed by smart and kind people who respect me.
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Have any of y'all played the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game? I downloaded the phone app version (having played the physical version exactly once) this weekend and have been trying it out.
Despite the two starting characters being Merisiel and Kyra (who are obviously girlfriends even in the limited storytelling offered by a strategy card game), I find the game to be disappointingly homophobic and transphobic - that is to say, I'm bad at it and when I lose it is very frustrating to me, a gay trans. When I win it's a good game obviously designed by smart and kind people who respect me.
You legitimately did me a scare there for a second, Mecha :3
Every time i am slightly inconvenience i blame the homo- and transphobes so I agree Mecha. That game is very homophobic and transphobic and hates me.
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And another day, what is it, Tuesday?
Calming music (sorry if I've already linked this one)
*offers hugs to anyone and everyone that wants or needs them*
Good morning everyone! I hope that you have a good day today!
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A potentially important lawsuit has been filed for trans people born in New Jersey.
Transgender woman sues N.J. for right to change her birth certificate.
New Jersey, like most states, requires surgery to chance the gender marker on one's birth certificate. The woman in this case is suing to get hers changed without surgery.
Key quote from the article:
Trans-Help filed a successful lawsuit against Pennsylvania, resulting in an amended birth certificate and a change in the law, Chovanes said. In August, Pennsylvania became the 12th state to no longer require proof of sex reassignment surgery to amend a birth certificate.
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Not really a happy song but it's a soothing and defiant one, figured it'd fit what with Turkey Day tomorrow.
*offers hugs to anyone and everyone that wants one*
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I'm thankful that, so far as I can discern, you're all still here. Keep truckin', folks.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope that you all have a great day! Please take care of yourselves.
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I wish you all the strength to deal with those family members that cause you grief.
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Happy second Thanksgiving. I'm thankful that despite the unpleasantness of late, there are still people standing up for what is right. I wish I had something inspirational to say, but I think that Leonard Nimoy said it best "live long, and prosper."
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Happy belated thanksgiving to all of you who do celebrate it, and a good and happy day to everybody else, too!
I wish you all the strength to deal with those family members that cause you grief.If by strength you mean Amarettto Sours then yes.
And all the strenght you need to deal with the grief those Amarettto (I recon that third 't' has to stand for something truly amazing) Sours cause you the day after ;-)
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Happy belated thanksgiving to all of you who do celebrate it, and a good and happy day to everybody else, too!
And all the strenght you need to deal with the grief those Amarettto (I recon that third 't' has to stand for something truly amazing) Sours cause you the day after ;-)I wish you all the strength to deal with those family members that cause you grief.If by strength you mean Amarettto Sours then yes.
>_<
Never fear! My tummy is full of rolls and ham and turkey and ready for alcohol absorption.
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Happy Thanksgiving wooooooooooooot
It's just as well Thanksgiving isn't a British tradition - the dark nights and grotty weather in late November are never anything to be thankful about. :)
Hey! Dark nights and nasty weather are what November is all about. Or so say I, in the depths of my sinister Canadian lair, where by this point it’s been close to a month and a half since the harvest’s in, and Thanksgiving in November strikes one as a bizarre notion. :)
(Though not as bizarre as I would like, lately, since I’ve moved to one of the weird microclimates that allow for peach and wine country up here. I should be at least ankle-deep in snow already, darn it, like my family back home.)
Which is to say, happy Thanksgiving to you all who celebrate it this time of year!
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Yesterday wasn't quite the best, but for the first time I wasn't the only openly queer person at the thanksgiving table- one of my mom's best friends had a divorce with an abusive husband about two years ago and recently started dating a woman (as well as coming out as gay) and that was really nice. Hugs for all going forward :)
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New York Lawmaker’s ‘Pence’ Bill Would Ban Abusive LGBTQ ‘Conversion Therapy’
New York is having none of that $#!+ and naming it the P.E.N.C.E. Bill is glorious.
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Can my state borrow those lawmakers for a few years? You can just drop our's off in the Bermuda Triangle.New York is having none of that $#!+New York Lawmaker’s ‘Pence’ Bill Would Ban Abusive LGBTQ ‘Conversion Therapy’
What did the Bermuda Triangle ever do to you? ~grins~
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F~*#! I forgot to post yesterday, I'm sorry everyone :(
*offerrs hugs to anyone and everyone that wants one*
Without your post, it felt like a Black Friday. ;)
So, I'm kinda pissed about something. Rant incoming.
Recently, I helped kickstart a game called Chronicles of Elyria. It's amazing by all accounts, but the part that really gives me joy is that a marriage contract (family is a really important mechanic in the game) can be between any two people. Period. Furthermore, there are mechanics in place for (forgetting the precise term) for surrogate birth parents, so gay or lesbian couples in-game can actually make a contract with somebody to surrogate for them and have a child. This was amazing.
What's less amazing is the astounding-well, not exactly toxicity, or hostility, more like coldness-to the LGBT populace in the community there, despite the devs being very LGBT inclusive. Every time me or somebody else tries to start a thread like this on the boards, it immediately gets mocked and derided, despite all of the wonderful people I have met on there.
This is a thread I started. First page is pretty tame, but after that it devolves into yelling.
This other one got even nastier.
I swear... Ugh.
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So I joined a club on my campus called "In The Zone" which aims to make the area a safe space for LGBT people, and I was really looking forward to meeting everyone, sharing my experiences, and learning more.
Turns out that there are just three other members (so far as I'm aware anyway) and in a manner not unlike how I got into Pathfinder - that is, all at once as a GM - I'll be participating as a speaker in a public forum in January. I still don't know exactly what to expect or even if I should prepare something for the event and we haven't had a meeting in a few weeks.
Hoping this doesn't go terribly wrong.
I work with people who call quantum mechanics "easy." I've had to play the voice of reason in near-slapfights related to quirks of particles I can't even pronounce the names of, let alone understand the related math.
What do you do that means you work alongside quantum physicists but don't understand any of the physics?
Diplomacy and public relations. My job is to convince people capable of funding their lab experiments that it's a good idea. They also use me as a sounding board for when they have to translate from science-speak to English.
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My buddy's girlfriend dumped him so we got together to keep him company and drank all night. And some this morning.
(Mike's Hard Lemonade is meh, it's an inbetween drink)
*offers hugs to anyone and everyone that wants one*
I also wish the best to those who have someone to love and cuddle and vice-versa.
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Ran across some discussions of Angela Morley today. Posting this stuff here because it's sometimes helpful to hear about trans people who have had successful careers, especially back in the day. Hope this isn't boring to anyone. I think it's kind of cool. Always good to have a reminder that we've always been around.
Might have posted about her here a while ago, but for those who hadn't heard of her, she was a British composer and arranger who worked radio and film and television in the 50s through the 90s. She passed away in 2009.
Earlier this year, when Anohni (of Antony and the Johnsons) was nominated for a Best Song Oscar, there was mention of one other transgender musician having previously been nominated. That was Morley, who was twice nominated, for her work as the music supervisor, arranger and conductor on The Little Prince (1974) (that's the one with Gene Wilder) and The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
She transitioned in 1970 when she was in her mid-40s. (Making her sort of a contemporary to Wendy Carlos, in that respect). Here's a brief BBC profile of her.
You may not have heard of her, but you have most likely heard her work. She worked with John Williams on the orchestration of his scores for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Superman, E.T., Schindler's List, and the two Home Alone films. She also scored a number of episodes of Wonder Woman, Dallas, Dynasty and Cagney & Lacey. She won a few Emmys (I think 3) for her television work, including her work on Dallas.
And prior to that, she wrote the music for the film adaptation of Watership Down, after the original composer wrote the music for the first 6 minutes of the film and then dropped out.
In addition, she worked with singers like Shirley Bassey and Dusty Springfield in the late 50s and early 60s. Here are her orchestrations on Bassey's As I Love You. The orchestrations are very lush, pretty beautiful. In later years, she did some work with Itzhak Perlman and with the Boston Pops.
And I saw this tidbit on her website:
In March of 2001, I was asked to arrange a medley of the five nominated film scores for Itzhak Perlman & Yo Yo Ma to play at the Academy Awards ceremony. I’m very happy to be in that sort of company!
What really surprised me today, when I ran across some discussions of her (I'd heard of her before) was that back in the 50s, she was the composer and conductor for The Goon Show, which was a famous and long-running British radio comedy show. It featured Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, and its absurdist humor was a direct predecessor of and influence on Monty Python a decade later. I used to listen to Goon Show episodes as a kid (my library had some on vinyl), and so I was used to hearing the occasional shout out by the Goons to Wally Stott, Morley's name back then. Just kind of floored me today when I realized that I was listening to the work of another trans person when I was listening to those shows. Kind of like growing up listening to Wendy Carlos' Moog albums without knowing about her.
And I think about the fact that she transitioned at 46, in less accepting times. And she made it, and did a lot of great things after transitioning.
Anyways, here's a piece composed by her, Reverie for Violin and Strings.
Here she is at Abbey Road Studios in 2003.
Here she is hanging with her Emmys.
And here she is just looking classy.
Sorry that went on so long. I just think that, since we're heading into difficult times, and lots of us run into struggles day to day even without that, it's good to hear about the people like us who not only pushed through, but also had an impact on things, even if in a less well-known way. So, Angela Morley. There's a name to remember.
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And while I'm on the subject of transgender film composers, here's a cool pic of Wendy Carlos working on the music for Tron on her Moog.