Aa-aa-and final part posted, so re-upping this whole thing.
Next step is formatting it all for print but . . . that might be a next year job, hey.
It occurs to me (because @jackalope reminded me) that I never answered what this was an ad for. So. I present to you . . .
Tokurecs September 2025 Monthly Self-Reccing Period
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fandom_on_dwWas not expecting to go down the "Jackson Pollock was a CIA psyop" rabbit hole tonight but . . . here we are.
[Derek] Thompson is very skilled, a latter-day slightly-less-talented version of Malcolm Gladwell, who can make the upper class chatter. For instance, he recently wrote about how young people aren’t partying or drinking much anymore, which is a perfect topic for a 15 minute conversation between two lawyers in DC.
Matt Stoller .
This is from a longer article on an internet slap-fight between Stoller and Thompson over the former’s critique of the latter’s “abundance” bullshit; basically neoliberalism repackaged as “hey wasn’t this better than fascism tho?” to sell back to a gullible “socially liberal but politically conservative” professional-managerial class. For all that I do have problems with Stoller (specifically, as a populist he’s too fast to get into bed with the far right so long as they make vague anti-monopoly mouth-sounds), I think his critiques here are worth a read, if only for the drama.
- I had a dream last night where I was in some sort of high-end, very posh mall, and spent ages looking at a mysterious cosmetics counter that had lipsticks that were exact matches for the OG Chanel Vamp and MAC Verushka. They had tubes of those discontinued lipsticks to swatch and match. I woke up as my dream self was about to spend $160 for two lipsticks. I'll admit I'd be tempted to do that in real life if the company did indeed have the OG tubes to swatch against.
- The US leg of the MCR tour ended last weeked. HOWever, as of yesterday, new ads related to MCR have been seen in New York, Detroit, Minneapolis, and San Diego. Some are just spray painted logos in parking lots outside of stadiums, but some have been bulletin boards and signs of either one or more of the band in the Black Parade uniform, or the Keposhka MCR logo. The fandom, no surprise, are losing our MINDS. Does this mean there's going to be another US leg of the tour? If there is, does it mean more weird storyline/lore that the band is potentially in some sort of stasis or time loop? (I won't give you the whole breakdown, but over the course of the tour Gerard has become more and more corpse-like; paler, wounds on his face, etc., and he's stabbed to death at the end of each Black Parade segment of the concert. There's more. There's a lot more.) Does this mean there's going to be a DVD or something? Should I start saving money for tickets and travel just in case? Who knows? Not the fandom, that's for sure.
- I've been tired ALL THE TIME lately. I'm sure some of it is the ambient stress level we're all dealing with plus the ongoing varying stress levels of work, but the rest may be my chronic health issues flaring up? My body trying to stage a coup and force me to rest? I don't like any of these answers.
- I'm finally getting back into a rhythm of witchy things. I'm pulling a tarot card most days, and I did some ritual work this week. It felt good. I need to do more, because it helps me approach things with more clarity and giving myself grace. And whooooo-boy, do I need both of those things.
So! How are you folks doing?
On algogen and trying to with sign-up applications. This is something I’ve noticed more and more at f.ink too, and I’ve been fooled a couple of times. (Mastodon keeps a note of the text you used as your account application in the backend, incidentally, so yes as an admin I can see what spambots wrote that fooled me enough to manually approve them.)
It does suck because I 100% know I’ve rejected really real human beings who would’ve been great community members. But, like. I only have a very blunt instrument to be able to tell who is a who versus a what. And, well. This is where we’re at with it.
