the long reach of fandom
7/5/17 15:06![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bronze_ribbonsSeeing these cookies at a Starbucks after today's workout reminded me of time spent laughing and drabbling with y'all -- especially ![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
valis2.livejournal.com. ;)
And the recent "36 hours" feature on Tokyo in a mainstream US newspaper brought to mind fics shared withgeri_chan, lysanatt, and the rest of the Harudaki deep-divers.
(I have not cancelled my subscription to said paper, primarily because access to its archives remains essential for my work, but the defensive condescension displayed by various staff members -- see analyses at Fusion, Esquire, American Orthodox if you need context -- has me irritated enough to cease linking to or quoting from said paper for the time being. As I said in my note to its executive editor, "In publishing writers whose claims wouldn't make it beyond a New Yorker fact-checker, and headlines that not only soft-pedal but normalize the Trump administration's crimes, [your paper] has plummeted in reputation to the point that I can no longer link to or tag [any piece from the paper] -- even nonpolitical ones -- without asking myself to what degree my own credibility will take a hit.")
valis2.livejournal.com. ;)And the recent "36 hours" feature on Tokyo in a mainstream US newspaper brought to mind fics shared with
geri_chan, lysanatt, and the rest of the Harudaki deep-divers. (I have not cancelled my subscription to said paper, primarily because access to its archives remains essential for my work, but the defensive condescension displayed by various staff members -- see analyses at Fusion, Esquire, American Orthodox if you need context -- has me irritated enough to cease linking to or quoting from said paper for the time being. As I said in my note to its executive editor, "In publishing writers whose claims wouldn't make it beyond a New Yorker fact-checker, and headlines that not only soft-pedal but normalize the Trump administration's crimes, [your paper] has plummeted in reputation to the point that I can no longer link to or tag [any piece from the paper] -- even nonpolitical ones -- without asking myself to what degree my own credibility will take a hit.")
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