I subscribe to journals I want to read, adding and removing as I gain and lose interest. If you add me to your circle, I'll check out the last five or so entries of your journal to see if I'm interested in reading. Pets, memes, and TV shows I hate make this less likely.

I'm being conservative about unlocking for people. I have not yet unlocked for anyone with whom I'm not reciprocal friends on LJ. I also have not yet posted any locked entries, so nobody's missed anything. (Locked content on LJ? Pleas for attention, grudgewanky snarling, and questions too embarrassing to ask in public, along with the occasional bit of bitching about family.)

My standard for unlocking so far has been extremely random, because I have a very weird headspace about being 'friends.' Er, long story short getting on my access list is weirdly difficult, but it's not because there's a super high standard associated with it or anything. I'm just weird.

That being said…I love people unlocking for me! No, like, seriously, I do. Way to be totally inconsistent, I know, but I love to see the behind-the-curtain stuff. And I don't break lock, really. And, if I were silently judging you, I'd just unsubscribe, I wouldn't say something hideously embarrassing. So, unlock for me if you'd like, it would be very cool.

Add or remove me from your circle at will. Please don't mention it, either way. I have circle notifications on, and I never know how to reply to a personal note.

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I'm sorry.

I'm sorry for telling people how to manage a psychiatric condition I don't have and of which I have little understanding.

I'm sorry for implying that people who failed to follow my advice were at fault for secondary injuries they received from reading fanfiction without a warnings statement.

(I did this in my post on Warnings. This was ablist.)

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I wasn't able to clearly communicate in several short posts I made on the terms reader, writer, and privilege on June 24.

coffeeandink elsewhere made a comment that more closely resembles what I would say if I were saying this today. (N.B. I haven't discussed this issue with her. mimesere, the OP, has withdrawn from the warnings discussion.)

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I'm leaving comments open on this post, and I'm willing to discuss anything that I, zvi, said or did. I'm not defending statements made by other people with regard to people with triggers or other mental health issues.

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Stance on Warnings
Author/Artist: zvi
Giftee: Keenir/rodlox
Characters: Parker, Sophie, Maggie
A/N: In response to the requests "Parker" and "the characters having fun".

Briefly references The Stork Job and The Second David Job. Makes the questionable assumption that moving filming to Portland means that the Leverage Inc. headquarters are now in Portland.
Summary: Parker knows what she wants, but she doesn't have the tools to get it. Her consultation with Sophie got pretty weird, pretty fast.

An Exercise in Friendship

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I've written a story for a fic exchange, and I'm not sure if it's sufficiently responsive to the requester's request or not. The story's Leverage gen, it's a little over 2000 words. I'm not looking for a beta, just to know if I should write something else for my recipient and go ahead and post this story to the rest of the world as not part of the exchange. (I have until July 14, so if I need to write something else, I have enough time to not do a crappy job.)

ETA: covered. Thanks.

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Imeem removing all user generated video and pictures on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 h/t inalasahl.

cesperanza names some alternate video hosting sites

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I do not think it is inappropriate to use the term privilege in relationship to mental health.

I have seen comments in this discussion referencing the privilege of writers (unmodified) and readers (unmodified.) I think that usage is inappropriate.

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The category "reader" does not logically imply either survivor or person who has never had something to survive. Likewise, the category "writer" does not imply either survivor or person who has never had something to survive.

In this discussion there are survivor readers and unattacked readers, survivor writers and unattacked writers. There are also many, many, many people who both write and read, so inhabit both those categories.

<eta> I do not think it is inappropriate to use the term privilege in relationship to mental health.

I have seen comments in this discussion referencing the privilege of writers (unmodified) and readers (unmodified.) I think that usage is inappropriate.</eta>

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I am not able to talk to people about warnings, triggers, and all of the associated issues raised in the entry Warnings or the entries to which it links, A couple of notes on warnings and An additional statement on warnings. You* do not have my permission to comment on any of my dreamwidth entries on these issues, you do not have permission to private message me on these issues, you do not have permission to e-mail me on these issues, you do not have permission to speak to me in chat about these issues, you do not have permission to talk me on the phone or in person about these issues, you do not have permission to send me physical mail about these issues.

I'm not trying to be melodramatic, but after I said I couldn't have this discussion and did my best to prevent commenting on the warnings entry through technological means, two people contacted me about it through a different route, so the way I stated my limits before wasn't clear.

*You includes everyone in the universe except latxcvi and the_willow.

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There have been a lot of things I have said about warnings which have not been understood as I intended them, and I will take this opportunity to clarify a few.

1) I chose the metaphor of a food allergy because food allergies are potentially life threatening. Impertinence's post clarified to me that triggers are serious injuries.

2) I've never said that the reason I dislike warnings or that I think people should not assume that the absence of a warning line means there is nothing for which they need to be warned because I believe adding either a warning or do not warn statement requires a massive time investment.

3) I've never tried to convince people who wish to put warnings on their fic to refrain from adding warnings, whether for serious triggers or for overused cliches. When I said that I was opposed to character death warnings, I meant that I dislike seeing them on stories and do feel they detract from my enjoyment of them on the stories where I see them and then read the story. In a similar way, I dislike Supernatural the tv show and Supernatural fanfiction, and while I wish it would all disappear like magic, I wouldn't do anything to make that disappearance occur or make judgments about people's intrinsic worth as human beings because they do like Supernatural or its fanfiction. (I am not comparing someone being triggered by character death to someone watching Supernatural. I am talking about my relationship to character death and Supernatural, not the rest of the world's.)

4) The use of the word "privilege" with the categories "reader" and "writer" doesn't make sense. Privilege is talking about systemic advantages accorded to one group of people over another group of people, where membership in either group is either involuntary, a source of a stable sense of identity, e.g. race, religion, gender, health status, age, class. Further clarification

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1) amadi gives code for hiding text which better accommodates screenreaders than other methods I have seen suggested.

2) When I put up the notice about privilege checks in my post on warnings, I did so because it is not unusual for a debate on one fraught topic to lead to people acting racist, classist, sexist or badly in various ways. Cereta's post about rape garnered racist responses*.

I've taken very public stands about racism in the past, and my sidebar says I'll challenge comments for being *ist. I wanted to both give people notice that the sort of monitoring they might otherwise reasonably believe was going on was not happening, and deputize other people with the right (though not the responsibility) to make those sorts of verbal challenges in my place. I wanted to give some people explicit permission to make those challenges because I have sometimes seen people say, "Well, this isn't your space, so I don't have to listen to you on how to have this discussion."

I don't believe my position on warnings is sexist, ablist, or victim blaming, but all of those comments telling me I am totally wrong about that and this is why are the kinds of comments that I meant by privilege checking with regard to any social justice issues. (I have not caught up with the total discussion, this entry is in response to a particular comment thread.)

<ETA> kalpurna asked Are you saying that you approve of people making privilege arguments, although you disagree that they are correct in this case? Yes, that's what I intended to communicate by the previous paragraph.</ETA>

(*N.B. Maggie's post is about race, class, and sex, in the context of global tourism and fear of the sexuality of men of color. She has not made a public post on warnings in this round of debate, and if she has made a prior statement or a statement in comments somewhere, I don't recall them. That is to say, to the extent there are sides in this discussion, I don't know hers, and I'm not drafting her to mine.)

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I was not in the Metrorail crash.

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<ETA time=2009/07/01, 1301 EDT>Please read my apology before reading this entry.

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I don't have any ideas yet. I'm not even sure what some of these mean. If you have any suggestions, I'm open to them.

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Okay, so you guys have read (exhaustively) about my opinions on AOS and you all know the types of stories I like:

cupidsbow recommended Breaking Points by Ragdoll on crack_van and it sounds good but it's Kirk/Spock.

Will I explode into a white hot ball of rage if I read this fic? Or might I actually have a good time?

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( five q&a )

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( 5 questions )

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That Gaila as a Person of Color joke is not as funny as you think it is. I'm just sayin'.

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Okay, so I am being really quite choosy with the AOS Kirk/Spock/Uhura stories I read, because there are some things that have bugged the shit out of me in the KSU I read before I got really choosy:

1. Kirk was REJECTED by Uhura in the film
2. Kirk and Spock don't appear to end the movie as actual friends; they're strangers who pulled together in the face of adversity, but How to Win Friends and Influence Vulcans strikes me as the likely immediate outcome of Spock becoming the Enterprise's Commander: the friendship equivalent of going out on dates before your relationship can be described as dating.
3. Uhura gets used as a way for the two guys to have sex with each other
4. ~*destiny*~: to be clear, Kirk being all wistful and sad because Spock Prime put thoughts in his head about a love which transcended death, er, three times at my last count, is not the same to me as destiny. Nor is destiny Spock paying attention to Kirk because Spock Prime tells him the kid is all that and a bag of chips and Spock realizes that, kind of, JTK is all that and a bag of chips.
   
   It's the stories which are like, "And then they kissed, and then THEY REALIZE AS THOUGH FROM A BOLT OF LIGHTENING IN THE HEAVENS THAT THEY LIKE EACH OTHER IN A FOREVER KIND OF WAY AND UHURA CAN JUST SUCK IT (and I, the author, do not have to explain the source of these feelings in any way whatsoever by reference to any of the fine qualities these two characters do have which might conceivably actually make them fall in love/ignore a fine Nubian queen like Uhura because they have a ~*destiny*~!)"

So, you know, if you know of Star Trek XI Kirk/Spock/Uhura stories that address 1 & 2 and avoid 3 & 4, I would love to read them a lot. Please share.

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( ravyn asked )

Darkroom still going strong.

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silence the world's heartache (for me) by wintercreek. Spock/Uhura. Nice telepathy story.

The meme is Ask me something. I might answer. I might not.

And I'm still up for inappropriate touching in the Dark Room.

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