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007 Fest Masterpost

Thanks for making it such an enjoyable fest this year everyone! Even though I only really engage much with the fandom during fest it's always worthwhile and I love seeing what everyone is working on and chatting. Here's what I did this fest!

roleplay: intro post, in character mission updates 1 2

fic: free real estate, the morning after, 007 2.0

headcanons: felix backstory, transgender Q, christmas backstory, connery bond girls

other: tarot readings, planning for a merlin crossover

social: I hosted a watchparty for The Matador, and attended several of the Hour watchparties which I really enjoyed seeing for the first time with the group. I'm also proud that I left 50 comments, it was a goal that encouraged me to read more fic and appreciate what's out there in the fandom.

See everyone next year!

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Oh how cute thank you! Looks like a pussywillow

It always annoys me when I type aromantic on my computer that it gets a squiggly red underline. I know it takes time to add new words to dictionaries but it's just a reminder every time I want to talk about this important part of myself how few people recognize or are aware of it as a concept. Maybe there's a way to enter it into my personal dictionary but that's not really the point

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It always annoys me when I type aromantic on my computer that it gets a squiggly red underline. I know it takes time to add new words to dictionaries but it's just a reminder every time I want to talk about this important part of myself how few people recognize or are aware of it as a concept. Maybe there's a way to enter it into my personal dictionary but that's not really the point

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Control Room, 2004 (embroidery on black velvet) & Space Station, 2006 (embroidery on canvas)

Farhad Moshiri

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you can’t save the world but you can save some bugs which is pretty cool and also important

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In general, Sinners has great cinematography, but I think this tracking shot that follows Lisa Chow across the street from her parent's Black storefront to their White storefront is one of my favorites:

Look at how it immediately establishes the rules of the movie's setting.

This is Jim Crow Mississippi where Black and White residents essentially live in different worlds. The continuous take forces us (the audience) to experience that segregation in real time as we walk behind Lisa crossing the street. There are no cuts or edits to interrupt the discomfort of having to witness all those visual reminders of racism against Black Americans.

I think it's also significant that it's Lisa, an Asian American woman, who the camera follows. As someone who exists outside the Black-White racial binary, she’s able to traverse these two worlds but the bright red of her shirt still demarcates her as a conspicuous outsider amidst all the blue and brown on both sides, representing the uniquely precarious position of Asians in the U.S.’s racial hierarchy.

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Daniel "Oz" Osbourne + Outfits (Season 4)

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Daniel "Oz" Osbourne + Outfits (Season 4)

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Star Trek really loves to talk about technological progression like it's linear and eventually occurs in the same way as it did in Europe across all cultures and that someone having different technology or ways of doing things means that the society on a whole is more or less intelligent, with more intelligent pretty much always meaning more similar to them. Just one of many ways the spectre of colonialism pervades every aspect of it

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Room to Grow is a tabletop roleplaying game for one or more players about personal spaces and the things we fill them with. It is played with a standard deck of playing cards and your imagination.

In this game you will flesh out a character by creating a room belonging to them and populating it with their stuff. At the beginning you will only know a few details of this person, enough to create the space you will be playing in, the goal is to discover who they are as you explore that space.  

Each turn you will draw a card, read that card’s prompt, use that prompt to create an object, and then place that object somewhere in the room.  

The game is broken up into three rounds, representing three different examinations of the room.  

When you reach the end of the game, you will reflect briefly on the room as a whole, the things you have seen and the person they describe. You will close the door, and the game will be over.

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I made a role-playing game! It’s my first published work and it’s free.

If you play it you legally have to tell me.

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society if they let seven of nine stay bald

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look at this fish!!!

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i think a major difference between tom + b’elanna and harry + seven is that the former two have all sorts of weird complexes around being gay specifically that also feed into their weird complexes around romance in general while the latter two have all sorts of weird complexes around romance in general completely detached from the fact that they’re gay. like the moment either harry or seven realize they’re into the same gender they’re just like “ok cool”

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I know some of you will love this

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