all I wanna do

[tielan]

...is write Maria/Steve fic.

Nobody's asking for it (which is why I haven't signed up for any exchanges), a handful are reading it, I am writing it nevertheless because my brain won't let it go.

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How TF did Boris Johnston become PM of Britain? In the immortal words of HRC: What Happened?

Seriously. We are so fucked.

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I did work out why the vampires are meeting my heroine under the circumstances they are. It's a bloody work contract, brain, of course they set out the damned conditions before she takes the job.

Also, I'm doing a lot of worldbuilding of this thing as I go along. And I might have to go out into the Sydney nightlife at some point.

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I'm a little bit calmer about the permabee happening on Saturday - not much calmer, just a little. I'd prefer if I had twice the number of people and am thinking about posting something that might encourage a few more local friends to get involved. There's the moving of a giant water tank involved, and while I think the number of people we have could do it all working together, I'd like more.

I do need to check for pipes in the area - there is a sewerage line that runs parallel to the street, a water line that provides to a garden tap, and possibly a gas line into the house? I should probably do that TODAY...

And having submitted the inquiry, now I'm being inundated by a morass of emails "from" various utility providers (they're automatic "YOU HAVE THIS RESPONSIBILITY" emails) and now I'm worried that if they find any evidence of work in the area, they'll be assholes about anything that I do, even if it doesn't disturb the utilities.

*facepalm*

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A bunch of friends in the US are having a meetup next year. I was thinking of going, but given activity in the US regarding non-whites and their treatment, I'm doubtful about the wisdom of this. Yes, I'm an Australian citizen (at this point irrevocably since I was born here to parents who were also Australian citizens, but who knows - skin colour is increasingly becoming the indicator of whether or not you have rights, no matter your citizenship) but frankly, I don't trust ICE officers to believe that.

As it is, I'm going to Indonesia next year and am slightly nervous about that, too. The Chinese aren't well regarded in Indonesia, and people around the world will always see me as Chinese before they'll get it in their heads that I'm Australian. And this is even more difficult in non-white countries than it is in white ones. To them, 'Australian' means 'a white person'.

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I saw a post on FB that said a community in Nashville, TN locked arms to keep ICE officers out so the vulnerable in their community could get away.

A small lamp of hope in the darkness.

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[kass]

The story about that neighborhood in Nashville made me cry. I am so horrified at what my country is doing right now, I have no words.

[tielan]

It's hard to believe that everything's gone so bad in all of three years. And that so many people are standing aside to let it happen, thinking it's just temporary or that they can duck their heads and let it all pass over them.