HMS Surprise is a modern tall ship built at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. The vessel was built in 1970 as HMS Rose to a Phil Bolger design based on the original 18th-century British Admiralty drawings of HMS Rose, a 20-gun sixth-rate post ship from 1757.
being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years
what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past ‘dresses are for women and pants are for men.’ i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we’ve made
“We’re in danger of losing what the entire second wave of feminism, what the entire second wave of women’s liberation was built on, and that was ‘Biology is not destiny’. ‘One is not born a woman,’ Simone de Beauvoir said, ‘one becomes one’. Now there’s some place where transsexual women and other women intersect. Biological determinism has been used for centuries as a weapon against women, in order to justify a second-class and oppressed status. How on Earth, then, are you going to pick up the weapon of biological determinism and use it to liberate yourself? It’s a reactionary tool.”
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Hey so did you know that the Mars rover Perseverance has an instrument called SHERLOC which is studying the composition of the soil, and an accompanying camera called WATSON that is documenting everything?
In 2024 they’ve been exploring somewhere called the “Beehive Geyser”, except SHERLOC’s cover got stuck (presumably resulting in grit affecting a sensitive instrument?)
I feel very normal about this.
Explore the universe together, guys.
SHERLOC has a calibration target to take pictures of for diagnostics and this is it:
Sony Pictures Classics will release a filmed version of Broadway’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” a Tony-winning production starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez.
SPC, which acquired worldwide rights to the movie, hasn’t announced theatrical release plans.
@beanarie tagged me for the first five questions, but seeing that I just did an extended version of the same meme last week on Dreamwidth, I’ll copy and paste those answers over here.
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1. Most Hits: The Sincerity of Dust, Sherlock BBC, Mycroft/Lestrade. 20,109 hits. The comment-fic that ate Cleveland.
2. Second Most Kudos: Etta Candy’s Last Stand, Wonder Woman (2017), Etta/Diana. 576 kudos. I published this before AO3 went to daily kudos summaries, and I was getting kudos emails all afternoon.
3. Third Most Comments: Going by comment threads (as viewed on my stats page), tie between Sincerity of Dust and Hornblower’s Lost Honour, Bush/Hornblower, strand them on a desert island together and make them kiss.
4. Fourth Most Bookmarks: Holocene Park, Elementary, dinosaurs under the streets of New York. 68 public bookmarks. One of the bookmarkers (laurajv) said:
by the second chapter i was recommending this to friends, all _you guys this is HYSTERICALLY FUNNY_ because the banter! the relationship between joan & sherlock! i was in love. and then it got better! and weirder! into it.
I love spying on what people say in bookmarks. (I know it isn’t REALLY spying, but it FEELS like spying because AO3 doesn’t notify us of them.)
5. Fifth Most Words: Nostoi, New Russian Holmes x The Lost World, Sherlock on a quest to save a homesick pterodactyl from drowning in the Atlantic (and Watson trying to keep Sherlock alive).
6. Fic With Second Fewest Words (That’s Not a Drabble): Huh. I have no idea what to count here. I have a bunch of 60-word ficlets (Sherlock Holmes), then a bunch of drabbles, then a bunch of double-drabbles, then a bunch of 221Bs (Sherlock Holmes again)… But if we take the spirit of “That’s Not a Drabble” to exclude all those strict-count microfic forms AND if we correctly count Vibra La Revolucion by its true word count and not AO3’s mistaken idea of its word count (it’s written in binary, so AO3 mistakes the individual characters for words)… The Strike of the Heron, Heron-pov fix-it. 227 words.
7. Seventh Most Common Relationship: Mary Morstan/John Watson, five works.
9. Ninth Most Common Character: Mary Morstan, five works. Which is NOT the same five works as above, because for a while there I wasn’t tagging relationship members individually as characters (not realizing at the time that AO3 doesn’t know that a Holmes/Watson fic is also both a Holmes fic and a Watson fic), but also because Elementary’s Mary Watson (Joan’s mother) is sometimes incorrectly synned as Mary Morstan (John’s wife). I really need to go back through all my Holmes-era stuff and correct the character tags, but UGH.
10. a. Tenth Mature and/or Explicit Fic: Gwir Good Gold, Bush/Hornblower, Selkie!Bush. 10. b. Tenth Mature and/or Explicit Fic: Stars Are For Wishing On, Strange Empire, Kelly and Robin Loving. For a long while I was using “Mature” for “difficult themes” instead of “discreetly vague sex”, and this story is an exemplar of that.
11. Eleventh Most Recent Completed Fic: All He Has to Offer, Bush/Hornblower, Flying Colours, Bush character study on the River Loire.
12. Twelfth Most Recent Story in Your Sixth Most Common Tag: Prologue, ACD Holmes, Mary Morstan/Kate Whitney, 221B, Sign of Four, the second pearl arrives.
13. Favorite Title That Isn’t from a Poem or Song or Shakespeare or The West Wing: Their Shared Will, Hornblower/Maria/Bush. See, he’s submitting to their shared will, but also he’s named Will and they’re sharing him! *high fives myself*
Picture is text from EMPT which reads: “As I did so I struck against an elderly, deformed man, who had been behind me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying. I remember that as I picked them up, I observed the title of one of them, The Origin of Tree Worship, and it struck me that the fellow must be some poor bibliophile, who, either as a trade or as a hobby, was a collector of obscure volumes.”
Just casually looked up Victorian tree worship (as you do) and came across this…
“…A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship, published anonymously in 1890. The fourth entry in a ten-volume “Phallic Series” printed privately in limited number…”
After hundreds of hours of writing and research, I am done with my long form exposé on the early roots of American anti-trans law. Looking both local and national, I picked apart America’s first five anti-trans laws.
These obscure laws helped shape policing, slavery, book bans, AND transphobia 😐
I posted this on Saturday and immediately left for Italy, sorry for the delay 😅
This article is nearly 50,000 words long.
It covers municipal law, national policy, ideological frameworks, and court cases. The discussion spans London, New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, and Missouri.
Doing history about the Antebellum Period sucks. But this was too urgent not to give my deepest attention.
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