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I got an infected finger (it was incredibly painful), but then got antibiotics and degunked it and now it is much better.

I went to Vancouver BC with friends and happily walked several kilometers. I saw the public library and a beautiful sunset on a beach and a very impressive used bookshop, and failed to see a Fringe show about mashed up self-aware female characters from Shakespeare because it was sold out. But I'm glad to know it was there.

I start work on Monday. eeeeee

I finished Act II of the fanfic of dooooom, which is a relief because I'd been working on that last benighted chapter for 8 weeks and eaten half of my buffer. The completed chapter is 6k long and very, very structured.

New chapter up today! Now with more Muppets, adventure cartoon shows, and sexual tension.

Gender play in Shakespeare and fanfiction

ALFRED: You’ll both go either way in the end. We all do.
- me, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Magic, Act II, Scene ii

I identify as genderqueer and pansexual. Trying to capture the sense of permutation available in sexual and gender expression, in the voice of a character who isn’t long on rhetoric or academic gender vocabulary, is an exercise in frustration, and I will have excluded people. Starting with myself.

Here is about 1000 words of me chewing on that problem if you’re into that sort of thing. Discussion welcome.
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I’m open to suggestions on how to improve the nuance in this scene, add more dimensions later in the work, or do better next time.