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theminecraftbee · 2 years

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Hey bee! I’m sure you’ve gotten this ask before, sorry, but I am leaving the dream fandom due to being very uncomfy supporting him re:the recent situation. I’m planning on focusing on the other side of Minecraft YouTube for now and was wondering if you had blog recs for third/last life and hermitcraft?

hey! welcome to the hermitcraft fandom! we're a cool place to hang out i think personally. uh, be warned that i'm often bad at recs because i have the memory of a squirrel, so if there isn't someone on here that isn't because we aren't friends/aren't cool mutuals/i don't like them, it's because i am naming the first people i think of, which is not always people in a sensible order. also i tried to stick to hermitcraft guys more than traffic or empires guys here because i did not realize you said third/last/double life when i first read this ask WHOOPS.

also i saw the other list i was tagged in by @griancraft, i am EXTREMELY flattered, that list is here, and i have tried not to put any names that are repeats from there. i am vouching in general for a lot of the people on there though.

ALSO also before we get into the names: GO FIND YOUR OWN FRIENDS! one of the ways i do this personally is that i just... browse through the hermitcraft tag occasionally and stick a bunch of stuff in my queue and if i see a person crop up a lot i follow them because clearly i like what they're doing! sometimes also when i was a smaller blog if someone showed up in my notes a lot i'd also show up! uh, just in general, find other 'smaller' guys too! i have, as i said, tried to stick to people i thought you weren't already going to be following, but let it be known that i have no sense of scale anymore so i don't know who is considered "big" or not on here the scale may be WILDLY out of proportion. FIND YOUR OWN PEOPLE it's very fun to find people yes yes.

@dmwrites and/or @simplydm (her main) does very cool writing. i am a big fan of all of her ficlets. if you are following me for the writing let me direct you that way to ALSO get a lot of good ficlets.

speaking of other cool writers in the fandom. @mawofthemagnetar writes eldritch horror keralis and a bunch of other fics that are cool. also one of the people on my dash who is an xb understander, you know?

@fluffy-papaya and @betweenlands wrote dog at the door and a bunch of other stuff i like (plus fluffy's art is very cute). also i know solar and solar is cool... albeit. mostly not a hermitcraft blog at this point. but still. deserves to go here, be wary they will get you into a minecrafter you've never heard of. i still need to watch secret rivals. soon,

also on the cool writer list is @sixteenth-days, who writes hermit archives and also a bunch of other cool things!

@redwinterroses is someone i originally followed from more of the traffic side of the fandom but i recommend following her, she's pretty chill.

someone who i like a lot as both an artist AND a writer is @silverskye13. still need to catch up with monsters splitting hairs, love the artstyle, all their hels takes are good.

another cool artist and writer is @kiwinatorwaffles, lots of good xisuma, evil x, zedaph stuff over here from what i've seen.

@quaranmine runs the absolutely necessary @mcyt-cats blog. has the watcher grian takes i tend to actually trust, haha. she's pretty cool as far as general hc/mcyt blogs go.

@luigra does REALLY cute art i love the colors she uses and her style it always makes me feel soft and happy. also, of course, a fellow joe hills enthusiast. always important, us joeguys stick together like this.

speaking of fellow joeguys. @12u3ie probably knows more about joe than me. has been around here longer. fellow joeguys represent.

one last joeguy. hi @concorp. e does cool art and has a lot of good general hermitcraft stuff going on. also, as mentioned: fellow joeguy. also they do @badlydrawnhermitcraft and have been a guest on joe's show before!

@shadeswift99 feels like a pillar of the community to me. they run the @hermitcraftheadcanons blog, if you haven't been there before. they also do writing good and tend to know a lot of people who have been around a while. cool person.

i like @closet-thing's art a lot. tends to be somewhat horror-focused if that isn't your thing but if you, like me, DO like horror stuff, then you're in for a treat.

i am also a big fan of @jestroer's art. it has a very... i don't know the word for it but the style is very distinct and i like it. fluffy? if that's a bad word for it. i am sorry. i don't know how to describe art. anyway recommend.

@bdoubleowo is a good general mcyt blog! she does very nice art as well. the sexy fish animatic is scott smajor approved, you know.

uhhhh last one for now @girltimeswithscar has such good character designs. i am in love with how they draw skizzleman. also their mumbo. also their bdubs. also just their takes about bdubs in general. bdubs takes good.

as i said before... if a name isn't on this list it's because i don't have object permanence if you are not in front of me RIGHT NOW i do not remember you are there. i have MANY OTHER COOL MUTUALS AND BLOGS I'M FOLLOWING AND BUDDIES AND STUFF, and THERE ARE MANY BLOGS THAT ARE COOL. THAT I DO NOT FOLLOW YET. this fandom is full of so many cool and creative people! go! seek them out!

#answered #guessimherenow #discourse #<- barely. mentions the dream thing discusses no details #(for the record. please do not send me asks about it or bring it up. we are not talking about that here because it makes me feel like shit)#however my desire to talk cool people up has totally beaten the fact that i Do Not Want To Talk About Dream #so here's me talking some very cool people up! :D tried to go with people i thought you might have not already been directed to

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lilydalexf · 3 years

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Old School X is a project interviewing X-Files fanfic authors who were posting fic during the original run of the show. New interviews are posted every Tuesday.

Interview with nevdull

nevdull has 8 stories at Gossamer, and there are more X-Files fics at her website. They wonderfully and smartly capture the Mulder/Scully dynamic in various ways. I’ve recced some of my favorites here before including Fish for Fallen Light and Gazzaniga. Big thanks to nevdull for doing this interview.

Does it surprise you that people are still interested in reading your X-Files fanfics and others that were posted during the original run of the show (1993-2002)?

I'm surprised if there are wholly new readers, less so if people are revisiting old favorites and following discussions (like this one!) that might bring stories to their attention that they missed. I know of at least one "classic" story group reads that featured one of mine and it was extremely flattering to have been picked. I haven't done much fic re-reading myself but I completely understand the impulse to return to a beloved story.

What do you think of when you think about your X-Files fandom experience? What did you take away from it?

It was all so positive for me. I'm no stranger to internet drama but I didn't get drawn into it with this community (and when drama would erupt I generally had no idea what anyone was talking about!). I had a small group of friends I knew either purely online or partially in person and read the kinds of stories I liked or were recommended. I got a chance to practice both writing and editing, and get introduced to the practice of supportive critique that fandom does especially well. (Most modern software is extensively peer-reviewed, and I think I brought a lot of what I experienced with beta reading to my practice of code review both as a programmer and a manager.)

Social media didn't really exist during the show's original run. How were you most involved with the X-Files online (atxc, message board, email mailing list, etc.)?

atxc first, as I was very active on Usenet in general. But I connected most with the Scullyfic mailing list. The writing prompts were especially fun to play with.

What did you take away from your experience with X-Files fic or with the fandom in general?

XF is my only fandom experience—I've gotten into other shows but I've read very little other fanfic and I've never gone to cons. I tried following some of my favorite writers to other fandoms where I also liked the source material (Buffy, Bones) but it just didn't take. XF was singular for me in that way.

What was it that got you hooked on the X-Files as a show?

I got a pretty late start, I think around season 5, and had to work backward. Watching was a group ritual with my roommates and I would occasionally forward some fandom things to them like the blooper reels or super top secret spoilers, but I was the only one who went all-in with the online community.

What got you involved with X-Files fanfic?

The naughty stories! At first that was the only thing that made sense to me to read, because that was what was missing from the show. I didn't immediately grasp why anyone would read casefiles or post-ep fic or other genres—ironically these were the genres I ended up writing in. As time went on I would read just about anything from a favorite author or that got strong recommendations.

What is your relationship like now to X-Files fandom?

Occasional get-togethers with the Boston crew, and I had fun live-watching some of the recent season with folks on Facebook.

Do you have any favorite X-Files fanfic stories or authors?

My memory here is pretty poor and I'm going to forget lots of authors whose work I really loved, but just to list a few: Jesemie's Evil Twin, Anjou, syntax6, prufrock’s love, cofax, Penumbra, and Vehemently.

Do you still write fic now? Or other creative work?

I write (and do advocacy work for) a different sort of niche: interactive fiction, which has some overlap with video games but also the broader writing community through tools like Twine. Interactive fiction (IF) and Twine in particular has become an active area for authors from underrepresented groups. Like fanfic, IF is generally authored for free and is often people's first opportunity to get their work in front of a worldwide audience. (Also like fanfic, several IF authors have gone on to full-time writing careers as either novelists or journalists. And I know of at least one other IF author who got their start writing XF fic.) My IF story Stone Harbor definitely draws from an XF tradition, though I didn't realize that until just now!

What's the story behind your pen name?

There's a special file on many operating systems called /dev/null, which acts like a black hole—anything you write to it is immediately deleted. It's just a tweak on that.

Do your friends and family know about your fic and, if so, what have been their reactions?

At the time I was writing I treated it like a big secret, which seems silly now—especially since my stories are pretty tame. These days I don't advertise it just because it was so long ago, but I don't mind if people know. My husband is fully aware of the crew I hang out with on New Year's Day, and why.

Is there a place online (tumblr, twitter, AO3, etc.) where people can find you and/or your stories now?

I'm on Twitter as @liza and for some reason my stories are still up on https://nevdull.tripod.com/ and at Gossamer.

Is there anything else you'd like to share with fans of X-Files fic?

Thanks for everything y'all taught me!

(Posted by Lilydale on January 19, 2021)

#new post #old school x #xfiles fanfic #xf fanfic #xf fanfic author interviews #nevdull

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zalrb · 4 years

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FOUR MASTERLISTS BELOW. 👏🏾READ 👏🏾THEM

Two are about TVD, one is about chemistry in shows in general, the other is about miscellaneous TV shows.

Pro-tip. You can search tags: zalrb.tumblr.com/tagged/_____so if you want to see posts about stelena or bonkai or bangel etc in particular episode like 3x05 just type: zalrb.tumblr.com/tagged/stelena 3x05 etc. etc. just put the ship name before the episode number.

Stelena et al. Masterlist

I’ve been getting a lot of asks recently about my opinions on things I’ve spoken about before at great length, usually anons asking me to respond to what DErs have said. It’s fine, I’m flattered, but I’m going to post this masterlist and will ask you all to refer to the list before sending certain asks like, what do you say to DErs who say Stefan doesn’t challenge Elena, what do you to say to DErs who say Stelena is abusive etc., it’s all in this list. There are also posts on Stefan, Damon and Elena as individual characters and posts on friendship dynamics and how TVD deals with vampirism. I will be happy to do any follow-ups or discuss if my views from a particular post has changed (which is bound to happen at times, people’s opinions change or evolve). Please reblog so it can circulate.

Chemistry Masterlist

A good chunk of my posts about chemistry such as, which ships I think have chemistry, which ships I think don’t, what platonic chemistry looks like, how to observe romantic chemistry etc. can be found in this list. Please reblog so it can circulate.

Bonnie Bennett et al. Masterlist

This is a masterlist of all my noteworthy Bonnie Bennett posts --- about her antiblack treatment (if you feel the urge to ask me ‘why did the writers have Bonnie’ the answer is antiblack racism, read the posts in the list), about why I ship Bonkai, about why I don’t ship Bamon and why I don’t ship Bonenzo, what I think of Beremy, what I think of Stefonnie, it’s all here. Please reblog so it can circulate.

General TV Masterlist

(a semi-regularly updated list of my OTPs)

To see the links, you must view on the app:

There are posts about various shows including Merlin (Merthur posts mostly), The Borgias (Cesare and Lucrezia), Game of Thrones (Sansa Stark Defense Squad, Jonsa, Anti-Daenerys, Anti-Jonerys and general GoT stuff), The Handmaid’s Tale, Gossip Girl (Dair and anti-Chair, plus other posts), Teen Wolf, The OC, Star Trek Disco, FRIENDS (everyone is trash not just Ross), The Office (pro Pam and Jim FYI), Parks and Rec, and Kdramas in this masterlist as well as posts like “favourite quotes from OTPs” “favourite comedic roasts” etc.

These lists will all be updated regularly to semi-regularly.

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mitsususu · 4 years

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Would you sell your soul for love? Below are my Top 5 Favorite Stories:

*Special Note: Fallen Angels have their own list and are not included

“Crossroads” (T, 7k) by 74days

Steve accidentally makes a deal with a demon called Buchanan, who keeps showing up... and then doesn't leave.

+ Modern AU. Steve’s soul is weighed after 10 years, but in the meantime he gets good health and Bucky

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“How To Woo A Winter Demon” (T, 6k) by cleo4u2 and xantissa

Steve slept in the ice for a long, long time. Longer than anyone thought possible. For over two thousand years before S.H.I.E.L.D. found and unfroze him. Yeah, the world was different and so were his team members. Team-creatures? Steve’s not sure what the politically-correct term is. There’s a lot of things he doesn’t know. What he does is that the demon living on the seventh sub-level is hot.

+ Shrunkyclunks. Steve has zero idea about courting social norms, but he’s trying his best

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“Valuable Consideration” (T, 11k) by leveragehunters

The three basic things you need for a valid contract are: offer and acceptance, intention to be bound, and valuable consideration. These rules apply whether you're selling a house, a car...or a soul.

Steve was a law student. He didn't need to take Latin, but he'd gotten the strange notion into his head that it'd give him a deeper understanding of the law. One mistranslated assignment later and he'd accidentally offered to sell his soul to a demon named Bucky. Steve had no intention of selling his soul, but Bucky kept showing up and offering him different kinds of valuable consideration: fame, wealth, success, the usual things you'd expect in this sort of situation.

Steve didn't want any of it.

The only problem was, Steve was starting to want something from Bucky...but it had nothing to do with valuable consideration and everything to do with Bucky.

+ Modern AU. Steve gets a latin tutor and cuddle buddy

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“Better the Devil you Know” (E, 19k) by Kalee60

Attending work conferences was never Bucky's idea of a 'good time' - especially when the rival company was Heaven and he happened to be a demon from Hell. Even more unbearable, he'd been tasked to present a seminar (against his will) - Bucky was more about doling out punishments, less about educating his peers.

So of course, while Bucky is already down, Steve Rogers turns up, an angel Bucky had been trying desperately to forget for the last millenia… for an array of reasons.

Bucky now finds himself in close quarters with his feathery nemesis, and after living multiple lifetimes, was maybe finally learning that there really was a fine line between hate and lust, and an even finer one tethering it all to love?

+ Fantasy AU. Sharing a hotel room, mutual pining, feathered wings, and hot sex...what more do you want?

-☆-

“Dear Satan, for Christmas I want...” (T, 3k) by neversaydie

"What the heck are you doing here?"

"Heck, really, fat man?" The guy in black steps back and looks Steve up and down, quirking an extremely bitchy eyebrow at his uniform. Steve refuses to be embarrassed at the actually very flattering white fur trim on his sleeves and pants. "Oh, I'm sorry, stacked man. Your rep doesn't do you justice, Klaus."

"I'm a representative. This is just my winter job, okay? I'm a full-time tooth fairy most of the year." Steve scowls and shifts the sack of presents over his shoulder self-consciously. "What are you doing here?"

"Delivering presents for the boss." The guy sticks out his hand with a sharp, toothy grin, red eyes gleaming with mirth. The little nubs of horns above his temples look… glittery. Steve's not going to ask. "Bucky, Satan's Southern go-to guy."

"Steve. Santa in New Mexico through New Jersey." He shakes Bucky's hand reluctantly. "This is kinda my patch, why the hell is Satan delivering presents on Christmas?"

+ Fantasy AU. Steve and Bucky deliver gifts to the same house on behalf of Santa and Satan. Part 2 takes place in an animal shelter

-☆-

*More Stucky Recs here

#stucky #stucky fic #74days #cleo4u2 #xantissa #leveragehunters #Kalee60 #neversaydie #fic rec #Top 5 Favs

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rallamajoop · 5 years

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On the history of the airline stewardess (and why she deserves so much more credit than you probably realise)

So, to recap: in the name of producing one short fanfic, I have now spent far too many months researching the history of the airline stewardess. It's safe to say I came to the subject primed to get sucked in hard (in brief: I hail from an RAF family on my dad's side, and there is a definite vein of aviation nerdery running throuth us all to this day). But as not more than a fraction of that material was ever going to make it into the fic, it seemed the least I could do to give a quick summary of some of the cool things I got to read while getting horribly sidetracked er, writing this thing, and why others might find them interesting too.

If it wasn't obvious from all those quotes in the opening paragraphs (most only-slightly-paraphrased from real news items), I have borrowed heavily from my sources in writing this fic. The bit about Heather's former roommate who kept her uniform pressed every day for months after her marriage, for example, comes direct from the life of stewardess Connie Bosza, whereas most of the rest of the anecdotes about Heather's housemates and homelife actually happened to Sherry Waterman. Usually I'd have worked harder to remix and reinvent, but here I found myself getting so attached to the subject that not sharing as much of these real women's stories as possible felt like the greater betrayal. But I'll skip citing every article I saved in the process (ask if you're really that curious) and skip to the meatier sources.

My own gateway to the subject came from Victoria Vantoch's book The Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon, where, in an introductory spiel about the life of her own mother, she lays out the profession as a mass of contradictions. Not only does she cover the subject from the very first stewardess of the 1930's to the equal rights challenges of the 1970's which transformed the industry, the work serves as a fascinating insight (and sometimes horrifically so) into the realities of Cold War gender politics. Vantoch deliberately underlines the case that, just because this is a story about a lot of pretty women doesn't mean it doesn't deserve to be treated as serious history. Though there are places I wish she'd gone into more depth, it's an excellent introduction to the topic (and available as an ebook if you want a copy).

For real inspiration, however, I got far more out of From Another Island: Adventures and Misadventures of an Airline Stewardess—the personal account of Sherry Waterman, one of few real stewardesses ever to get around to publishing a memoir (Flying Mary O'Connor is another, but it's out of print, not available at my mainstay of BookDepository.com, and cost somewhat more than I felt justified in spending on ebay). Beginning around 1950, she worked for American Airlines for 6 years, and when she had exhausted the possibilities of domestic air travel, she transferred to Transocean Air Lines and spent another 3 years flying the Pacific. The result is remarkably readable and captures the scope, the joy and the absurdities of the profession with gusto. (Waterman really did, for example, recognise a surprised-but-flattered Dr. Edward Teller on one of her flights, and has stories to share about passengers getting stuck in aircraft toilets—though in reality, the size of the passenger was apparently the primary issue).

By contrast, though equally well-written, Sex objects in the sky: A personal account of the stewardess rebellion, by Paula Kane, was a much harder read. Like Waterman, Kane spent 5 years with American Airlines, beginning in the late 60's, but she describes an experience of growing disillusionment punctuated by incidents of sexual harassment so unpleasant that my rec for this book probably warrants a content warning. The rebellion Kane chronicles would not have been possible without the prior civil rights victories of the 60's, but the sexual revolution and changing nature of the industry had plainly produced an attitude of entitlement to women's bodies that would become infinitely worse before it got better (and this is one of few subjects I only wish The Jet Sex had covered in more detail). In the process, she captures a moment in her profession's battle not only for their own rights, but to make air travel safer for everyone on board.

I owe a particular debt to Kane's book for underlining something which had gone understated in my last two sources—namely the vital importance flight attendants may play in managing an evacuation from the plane in the event of a crash. And thus it is, of course, that my story obtained its set piece. (For the record, Sex objects in the sky is available to borrow from OpenLibraries online, and thus one of the most accessible sources on this list.)

For more on key role flight attendants can genuinely play in saving lives, I'd also recommend the Angels of the Sky series as the Confessions of a Trolley Dolly website, and the Air Crash Investigations episode Getting Out Alive. For one last great online source I discovered in the middle of writing the story, we have Winged Women: Stewardesses, Sexism, and American Society—a Master's thesis by Michele Martin, which is freely available online, and built around interviews with several retired stewardesses. Don't let the fact it's a thesis put you off this one—it's written in very accessible fashion, and works as a much-abbreviated version of The Jet Sex for a good overview of the history of the subject. It even includes an account of a plane crash where two quick-thinking stewardesses really were instrumental in getting every last person of the plane in the nick of time (most other real-life examples I'd managed to uncover to this point, the heroism of the stewardess was underlined by the fact that a great many people did not make it out).

I would love to say more on the subject, but I don't think I could better explain how this subject grabbed me the way it did than to quote from the sources themselves. So if, by some miracle, you still want to hear more, below you will find quotes from the introduction of each of those three key sources. I'd like to thienk they all, in their different ways, really speak for themselves.

Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon Victoria Vantoch

In 1956, when my mother was in eighth grade, she dreamed of becoming the first female astronaut. She went on to become the salutatorian of her high-school class and won first prize in a model UN speech contest that awarded her a month-long, all-expense-paid trip to historical sites around the country. She subsequently earned a B.A. in Slavic languages from UCLA. The Library of Congress Aerospace Technology Division recruited her for her Russian language skills and she moved to Washington, D.C., where she translated Russian aerospace articles on everything from Alexey Leonov, the first person to walk in space, to metallurgy—all of which bored her to the core. She considered graduate school for international studies but did not have much savings and could not stomach the prospect of living on peanut-butter sandwiches for four years, so, in 1968, she brushed up on her Russian and interviewed for a stewardess position with Pan Am, which had just started flying to Moscow. She was devastated when the airline rejected her, but she managed to win a position with Eastern Airlines and her hometown newspaper chronicled her success. As a stewardess, she moved into a boarding house with Alice Paul, one of the twentieth century’s most famous women’s rights activists. While living with Paul, her life was a collage of contradictions. She lobbied on Capitol Hill for the Equal Rights Amendment at the same time that she went to work as a stewardess wearing pale blue hot pants. In 1969, she gave a speech to Congress in honor of the early women’s rights activist Lucretia Mott. The topic: gender equality in the workforce. That same year she also competed in two beauty pageants. She got married, had my sister and me, continued to fly, and spent much of her adult life feeling guilty about being an absent parent. Flying was never really about the money for my mother. It meant freedom from suburban life and office monotony, and participation in a public realm that was usually reserved for men. I rode on flights with her and felt proud—my mother was the stewardess. And since airlines allowed employees to bring their families on flights for free, by the time I was twelve I had traveled to twenty-five countries. Some of my mother’s early stewardess friends went on to get doctorates in chemistry, to work at the Department of Defense, to manage large households of their own, and to become successful attorneys. My mother, however, continued to fly until Eastern went out of business. Without a job at the age of forty-eight, she desperately campaigned for a stewardess position with other airlines. She created a colorful posterboard presentation that read, “I will die if I don’t fly” (along with—I’m serious—a song she wrote about her love of flying) and sent it to the American Airlines personnel department, which, after a series of interviews, hired her.

But this was the early 1990s and, by now, being a stewardess had lost its cachet. Around that time, in my early teens, I was interviewing for admission to exclusive New England boarding schools. During one interview that wasn’t going particularly well, the pompous interviewer in a tweed jacket suggested that I become a stewardess like my mother—“ because of my smile.” I knew then I would be rejected. My face burned. I stopped mentioning my mother’s profession. It was no longer something to be proud of. It had become an insult. My fascination with airline stewardesses began with my mother. It began with curiosity about how a talented public speaker who was nearly fluent in Russian and committed to women’s rights chose a career that ultimately allowed her to be written off as a vapid sex object and, ultimately, as a low-status service worker.

From Another Island Sherry Waterman

I was aware even then of so many little things commonplace to us, and yet so significant. These things were most evident in San Francisco, one of the crossroads of the airline world. A lei of wilted pikake blossoms tossed across a copy of the New York Times – both had been fresh that morning; two roommates had returned from Honolulu and New York. A pair of Alaskan mukluks and an aloha shirt crammed together in a suitcase; another roommate was leaving for Tokyo and returning via the Aleutians. Two stewardesses, chattering on the phone about their forthcoming vacations; each was going around the world in a different direction, and one was saying, impatiently, "Well, okay then. I’ll meet you in Egypt." Six roommates gathered around the table for a spaghetti dinner, pleased by the rarity of their all being at home together, and no one bothering to comment that at dinner the night before, all had been thousands of miles away, in different directions.

This was our way of life and it was natural to us. It was the way most of our friends lived and we often lost sight of the fact that it was not the way everybody lived. We were impatient with people who expected us to make dentist appointments three weeks in advance— who could know where she would be three weeks hence?—and we regarded a six months' lease on an apartment as signing up for eternity. We lived from city to city and felt at home in all of them, but we also lived from day to day, and never felt truly at home anywhere. During the first week in June, Dallas was our home and we loved it. Our roommates were among the best we'd ever had. Then the Texas summer hit with fierce intensity, and we raced to the airport with transfer requests clutched in our perspiring hands. Two weeks later we were settled by the sea in Los Angeles, and we spent the summer on the beaches. But the summer waned and the chilly fogs became more frequent, and it was time to move back to Dallas. So the transfer requests were filled out again. It was October, and one of us was playing Autumn in New York on the record player, and another one of us said, "Did you notice that tree on the corner has some leaves that are turning brown —just like the leaves back East?" So we changed the course of our lives with the eraser on a pencil.

We could follow the sun or the seasons with less planning than most girls give to a two-week vacation. We packed ice skates and swim suits in the same suitcase and used them both within 48 hours.

All of this was in the days before jets, but we still got around pretty fast, and we always measured distance in terms of time rather than miles. "How far is it to Dallas from here?" "Oh, four hours in a DC-7. Or were you speaking about a Six?" Short distances were figured that way too. A girl who lived in the beach area of Los Angeles would have her hair done and her shoes repaired in Washington, D.C., because it was "closer" —a ten-minute walk from her layover hotel. We were familiar with so many cities that sometimes we got them confused. I dropped a token in the fare box of a San Francisco bus and the driver stopped me as I started toward the back. "What's the matter," I inquired, "isn't that token for this bus line?' "Lady," he said, squinting at it, "that token isn't even for this country."

Sex Objects in the Sky Paula Kane

Almost lost in all the sexual innuendo of the Madison Avenue imagery is the primary reason why stewardesses are on board a plane, which is to enforce safety regulations and supervise the immediate evacuation of the plane in the event of a crash. And in crash after crash, the efficiency and courage of the stewardesses have meant the difference between passengers' lives and deaths.

Forty passengers and three crew members were killed in the December 8, 1972, crash of a United Airlines jet at Chicago's Midway Airport. But fifteen passengers survived, many of them because of the heroic efforts of the two stewardesses, Kathleen S. Duret and D. Jeanne Griffin.

The plane crashed into a block of houses one and a half miles southeast of the runway while attempting an instrument landing in scattered fog. Almost the entire front end of the plane was demolished on impact. The two stewardesses, who had been seated in jump seats at the back of the plane, rushed to open an emergency exit, but were driven back by raging flames. They worked their way along the right side of the burning cabin, clearing away the debris of galley equipment blocking the aisle. Then, one by one, they assisted nine surviving passengers to the exit and out of the plane, pausing each time to take gasps of fresh air before returning to the dark, burning, smoke-filled cabin. Six passengers found their own way out through breaks in the plane's fuselage.

The National Transportation Safety Board found in its investigation of the accident that most of the passengers in the cabin section died after impact as a result of inhaling carbon monoxide and other poisonous fumes from the fire. Those nine passengers lived because of the experience, the expertise, and the courage of Ms. Griffin, a stewardess for ten years prior to the accident, and Ms. Duret, a stewardess for seven years.

Yet their actions earned just one sentence in the sixty-one-page NTSB report: '"Nine passengers who exited through the rear service door were assisted by the two flight attendants; these attendants were the last to leave the aircraft."

Their exceptional bravery in carrying out their legal role on the plane, as stated in Federal Aviation Regulation 121391, "to provide the most effective egress of passengers in the event of an emergency evacuation," earned them no citations or awards from the airline.

Stewardesses who please customers, who receive complimentary letters, and provide exceptional "service," receive awards of merit from the airline. But apparently not stewardesses who save human lives. You have entered the weird, upside down, Alice-in-Wonderland world of the airlines. Presumably the companies are very concerned about safety, since the public's concern for safety on planes has been a major problem in attracting more customers. Yet in several areas the airlines display an incredible disregard for elemental safety. Hazardous materials are illegally shipped in cargo bins below the passengers' seats. Cabins are constructed with materials that in accidents emit a deadly, cyanide-filled smoke.

The stewardesses, in charge of safety in the cabin, are dolled up in miniskirts and coonskin caps, "hot pants," and other bizarre costumes. They are seated in unsafe jump seats, in unsafe corners of the plane, are always called "girls," and are treated like children by the company. And when they "grow up," they are encouraged to leave, even forced out after flying a few years, because they are no longer considered girlish enough. The tightly written script they are ordered to act out in the air, including the constant smiles, the constant engaging of each customer's eyes, the constant subserviance, makes it difficult and sometimes impossible for them to enforce even rudimentary discipline during the flight.

The sexual stewardess fantasy has a direct effect on the safety of flying. It also takes its toll on the psyches of the women who play the role. Stewardesses tend to have serious identity problems as a result of being treated like pieces of fluffy assembline line equipment by the airlines. We tend to move in regular stages from romantic idealism to disillusionment to frustration and anger and self-doubt.

[...] But in the past few years stewardesses have finally started to fight back. They have won a series of rulings by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that have stopped the airlines from forcing women to retire from flying at an early age and from banning married flight attendants.

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He Just Likes The Rush - Ch. 4

In which Jonathan earns a reputation for himself at Arkham and Edward is a whiny baby.

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Jonathan's first arrival at Arkham had been eventful, if nothing else. There was a sort of pattern to it, whenever an addition was made to the Rogue Gallery. Everyone - guards, staff, and inmates - wanted to know how you would size up with the rest of them; how much trouble you would be; how dangerous you really were; most importantly, how useful you'd prove as an ally. It was basic human nature, he supposed. A sort of collective pack mentality. Jon didn't feel any obligation to prove anything to them, and so any interest in him died down fairly quickly; due in part to his impressive talent for utterly shutting down conversation before it could ever begin; no need to follow social conduct in a house of madness.

The eventful part came some time after this period of calm, accompanied by a startling realisation that, despite his physical incarceration, Jonathan felt more freedom than he ever had. His nature exposed he was free to explore and discover all these hidden little facets of his personality that even he hadn't been personally aware of. More than ever, he started to count that day at the University as a blessing in disguise. He could pick away at people and peel back their layers and see just what happens when you push them just the right way. People's fears were truly an amazing, amazing thing. What a motivator they were! He decided he had a few things he wanted to try.

The first guard to attract his eye and his ire never regained the ability to walk. Really, it was a failure on the part of the asylum; didn't they know he was an expert of the human mind? His cellmate was a typical paranoid schizophrenic - he'd never bothered to remember his name - and once Jonathan had worked out the nature of his delusions, all it required was a few nights of half-heard whispers from the cell, not human, that one who does the morning rounds, a passing phrase in his ear in the rec room, he's gonna hurt you if you don't get him first, plastic cutlery that had conveniently found its way under his pillow… it must have seemed like fate to the poor man. Jonathan only bothered to hide his glee at such a successful experiment when the other guards showed up to restrain the man after his victim's screaming was finally heard amid the usual chaos of the hallway - he had never even considered that one's fears could be used to force their hand in such savage ways. It was a beautiful realisation.

Oh, yes. He was imprisoned, but he wasn't bored, by any means. He resolved to continue with his work as quickly as possible once he got out.

After that, people started behaving a little differently around him. As always, there was no proof he'd done anything, but people could still tell. Maybe it was the look of curiosity in his eyes as he regarded people, now. The thoughts and the ideas and the theories he created with every conversation you held. Getting analysed by your doctors is one thing; from an inmate was another entirely. He caught one of the night staff gesturing to his cell and referring to him as 'Doctor fucking Lecter over there' one night. He decided to take it as a compliment. He wouldn't forget their face.

He did wonder - with a short, quiet laugh to himself - if he should try hissing at people, though.

Jonathan went on like this for some time; playing along disinterestedly with his therapy and honing his skills among the minds of the other inmates. He was no fool, though; he did not mingle with the so-called 'A-Listers' that were currently incarcerated alongside him; only two for the moment, one Harvey Dent and one Harleen Quinzel. He was aware of them both and knew that associating with them could not hold any benefit.

And then Edward re-joined the proverbial ranks, which livened things up splendidly.

When he'd heard the rumours, he surprised himself by being slightly pleased to have the chance to speak with Edward again. The man had been right; it was amazing what intelligent conversation could do for the mind. He hadn't realised it until now, he too had found himself slightly stifled by the lack of… someone to exchange theories with. The change was a welcome one.

It'd been a stupid mistake that had gotten him caught in the end. A stupid, stupid, idiotic oversight that he could've and should've seen. Edward was furious; with Batman; with the GCPD; with Gotham and more importantly with himself. His trip through inmate processing blurred past, only making a small handful of snide remarks at the idiotic jailers. He wouldn't be here long; he knew that and they knew that, no matter how many times they said"this is the last time, Nigma." He considered it as more of an alternative greeting at this point - a reflex upon seeing his entry.

So he was sulking in the rec room. Pulled up a chair by the table with the chess board nobody would play him at aside from Jervis in his more lucid moments, but he was absent from the guest list at the moment. So yes, he had resorted to sulking. They took his mask - he hated when he couldn't wear his mask it made his face- his face was exposed with his eyes on show for everyone to see and just read what he was feeling in the way that baffled him to absolutely no end.

And his vision…

It all just made him feel… flawed. It was frustrating and it didn't help with the already-present anger at his own foolish errors. He barely noticed when Jonathan took up the chair at the other side of the chess table.

"Riddler."

Jon's greeting was curt, flat-toned. Edward turned his head slightly to look at him, eyes narrowed; sitting with his hands steepled, he gestured, then, to the board

"Presumably since you're sitting alone sulking at a chess board, you'd like someone to play. Can't guarantee I'll be much of a challenge."

Edward raised an eyebrow. Then furrowed it again. He couldn't read Jonathan's features; wasn't sure what could've happened since his break. You could tell a lot about a person by how they played chess. Did Jonathan know that too?

"You're on, Doctor Crane."

They spent the remainder of the recreational time playing. Jonathan, for lack of better words, got absolutely thrashed. He lost count of how many games it was, but that wasn't the point anyway. After the first game Edward lifted out of his sullen mood, making quick and decisive manoeuvres and running circles around the other. Jon would linger on his moves much, much longer - dragging his gaze slowly across the board, staring at Edward for a moment, utterly expressionless, and then make his move.

Edward tried not to show the mild unease that the lingering glances had planted in his stomach. Jonathan was playing his own game, apparently.

"Are you hoping to read the future in my face, or are you going to make your move? Flattered as I am, my appearance is not actually magical."

"I'll move when I'm good and ready."

"I'm going to die of old age first."

"Fine by me. I'd finally have a win by technicality."

"Actually, if the game cannot be brought to a legal conclusion, it is considered a stalemate."

"Mmh. Shame."

Jonathan had not stopped staring at him for the duration of the exchange. Jonathan, in fact, was just noting the bizarre colour of the other's eyes. Such a curious, light greyish colour that he had actually mistaken it initially for cataracts. It was oddly striking. It made him wonder why a man who did so much for drama and aesthetic would hide such a pleasant (pleasant?) face. He recalled his curiosity for Edward's mask when they'd first met.

"Why do you cover your eyes? Obviously, it isn't to hide your identity."

Edward's face became the picture of indignance.

"That's- none of your business, is what it is."

"Come on now, we're friends, aren't we?"

"I just do. I like it."

Edward folded his arms defensively. Jon nodded slowly in response.

"S'fine."

"….What?"

"Not gonna push it. You'll tell me if you want to."

A long pause.

Nobody had ever just… accepted it like that before. Respected his wishes. He was expecting more of a fight; a half-dozen pre-thought defensive arguments died on his tongue.

"…Thank you, Jon. Now play the damn game."

Finally, mercifully, he did. The gameplay went back to its regular proceedings. Edward actually almost lost that match; the exchange had settled a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach, distracting him. It made him a little nauseous - try as he might, he just couldn't put a name to it but whatever it was it lifted his spirits and the room seemed a little brighter for it and everything he had been brooding over before seemed silly now in hindsight.

Suddenly, the prospect of his stay at Arkham didn't seem so bad with the presence of a tolerable companion - because he realised just then that it was Jon's presence that accompanied the feeling and he supposed that so long as the opportunity presented himself he'd be quite happy to whittle away the recreational hours playing chess just like this, actually. His rapid escape plan shifted down his mental ladder of priorities a little.

Yeah, he supposed it could be worse.

#edward nygma #jonathan crane #edward nigma #the riddler #scarecrow #danny writes

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Get to Know Me Better

Hi there! If you’re reading this, you most likely came from my side blog @jikooksama :) After running it for a while and getting to interact with some very lovely people, I thought it’d be nice to share a little bit about the girl behind the blog (◕◡◕✿) I would’ve posted this on my side blog (since that’s what was tagged), but I didn’t want to mislead/annoy anyone with a non-rec so! I’ll just leave it here for anyone who’s curious ♡ Thank you so much to @mirkwood131 for tagging me! I actually had no idea I was tagged until I scrolled waaaay back through my activity lol, but I’m so flattered that you chose to tag me :) Ahh I’ve always wanted to do one of these but have never really gotten an opportunity before (⌒_⌒;) So thank you again!

Rules: answer 30 questions then tag 20 people you’d like to know better.

First things first! I’m Toni, nice to meet you :) Nicknames: Tones, Toni Stark (lol), Toni the Tiger (like the mascot from Frosted Flakes, hated the name as a child but I’ve since grown fond of it)

Gender: Female

Star Sign: Virgo

MBTI type: ISFJ

Height: 5′0 (152 cm) so short… (￣▽￣*)ゞ

Time: 1:25 am

Birthday: September 17th

Favorite bands: Young the Giant, Bastille, Sir Sly, BTS, ODESZA (not really a band but so so good)

Favorite solo artists: Porter Robinson, Flume, Jaymes Young, Alina Baraz, Travis Garland, Chrome Sparks, Jai Wolf, etc. (honestly this list could go on and on lol, if you ever wanna talk music I’m your girl)

Song stuck in my head: Dark Side by Phoebe Ryan (such a good song/artist)

Last movie watched: Anastasia (gorgeous movie, I’m so happy it’s being made into a musical)

Last show watched: Umm I actually don’t really watch tv or netflix… does Bon Voyage count? lolol

When did I create my blog: May 2017

What do I post: On @jikooksama it’s fanfiction recommendations, on @chimtokki (my main blog) it’s BTS and whatever else interests me :)

Last thing I googled: “best credit card to get miles” lol

Do you have other blogs: Yup! But I hardly go on any aside from my BTS blogs

Do you get asks: I do! (to everyone who’s sent an ask/request: I probably say it a lot but thank you so much for putting up with this slowpoke)

Why did you choose your url: Well, Jimin is my bias (but I honestly love every member of BTS), I adore Jikook, and I’m half Japanese so that’s basically how jikooksama and chimtokki were born (but tokki means rabbit in Korean in case anyone was wondering lol)

Following: 87

Followers: (◡‿◡✿) It’d feel kinda weird/awkward to share this, just know that I’m so so thankful for all of you!

Favorite colour: All shades of blue, olive green, black, & white

Average hours of sleep: Hmm, I’d say 5 to 12 hours (it’s usually either or, no in between lol)

Lucky number: 17 or 8

Instruments: Piano, and I’d love to learn more guitar too

What am I wearing: Pajamas!

How many blankets I sleep with: Two

Dream job: Hmm, it’s varied a lot over the years lol. I’d say it’s between medical researcher, astronaut/astronomer, and archeologist. Seems like an eclectic mix but they all fulfill my need for adventure and discovering new things ;)

Dream trip: Italy, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan (even though I’ve already been there multiple times lol) hmm anywhere really, like if you ever wanna talk about travel I’m also your girl ♡

Favorite food: Japanese food, but all food is good food!

Nationality: USA

Tags: Oh wow, umm I honestly don’t know cause I’d love to get to know everyone better! Plus I don’t want to pressure anyone into doing this if they’re uncomfortable… umm how about just I tag anyone who’d like to do this :)

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Hi Julia! I just started a master's program a few weeks ago that has a public health focus, and I'm hoping to get the chance to do some rotation work/my capstone in the area of vector biology/vector-borne diseases. I'm also looking into PhD programs, as I think I want to apply after this program finishes (May 2019) or possibly do a gap year first and retake my GRE, get work experience, etc. (1/2)

(2/2) I found a PI at a university I am interested in whose research focuses on vector biology of mosquitoes, and she seems to accept graduate students every 2 years or so into her lab. I’m wondering if I should contact her now just to get more information/feel the situation out (she’s not accepting students now, but as I said if accepted I wouldn’t be starting until 2020/2021 depending on when I apply), or if I should wait until sometime next year to try and get in touch? Thank you so much!

Hi!

Whoo on starting your master’s program! and on such a cool and pertinent project too!

i’ll list the pros and cons of contacting that potential PI and you can then weigh what decision is right for you.

Pros of contacting her right now:

You’ll have a head-start on learning about her research, getting to know her and maybe her lab, potentially meeting them early, getting a tour, etc

You’ll be on her radar. Maybe she’ll remember your name if she’s on the admissions committee :O

Shows that you really know what you want and that you’re proactive in reaching your goals

If you decide right now that her lab isn’t a good fit, then you have more time to research other labs

You two could establish a really good relationship and she could be a great resource for your PhD application (or she may even hire you to work as a research tech or associate after your Masters! wouldn’t that be one hell of a letter of rec)

You can stay up-to-date with the lab’s research by reading their papers and meeting with the PI often to discuss these papers, so when you start, you hit the ground running (which is beneficial for both you and the PI)

More info than less, and earlier rather than later, is always a plus

Cons:

PI’s are extremely busy people who talk to dozens of people a day, so unless you contact her regularly from now until your start date, she may forget who you are in a few years

Because your potential start date is a few years down the road, she may not want to talk to you/meet with you because she may not prioritize students from that far away. See if from her point of view: she has a limited number of hours in a day: would she rather spend 1 hour meeting with a potential student already accepted into the PhD program and can start asap, or meet with a potential student who hasn’t even applied and has no guarantee of applying/staying?

Her response may simply just be “glad you’re interested! here’s my lab website if you want to learn more. good luck on apps”. As I said, PI’s are really busy people. (If you want her to give you advice on the PhD program or application in general, she will not take the time to do so. That’s the program coordinator’s job.)

People’s interests are always shifting, and so are research areas/technologies. The PI may be flattered that you have an interest so early on, but she may also wonder if you know to take your time and really explore (and also wait to see where your Masters research and potential gap-year job takes you).

If, for some reason, she takes your word that you want to work in her lab in 2020/2021, and you end up not doing so (either you go somewhere else, or choose another lab bc your interests change), then that could be a potential burnt bridge. It’s always a small world when it comes to fields/research areas in STEM, and getting on one person’s bad side may jeopardize a lot of opportunities.

Also, she may move, or stop her research (for personal or financial reasons, as some of her grants could very well end in 2 years). It could be beneficial to assess the “climate” earlier to your start date.

In the end though, the decision is up to you. I’d also advise asking a few more people for their opinion. Maybe there’s someone out there who went through this exact scenario--their experience would definitely be more beneficial than mine.

Best of luck on everything!

#elastic-elephants #advice #gradblr

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