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[olivermoss]

* Don't ask me what happened to last week, I don't know. The writing part of my brain was turned off and I slept a lot. Like, a LOT. It seemed to be a random fatigue spike. I really have no been video gaming much, barely at all until yesterday, or doing anything that could have dropped me like that.

* I did get an energy burst from reporting Paramount filming in Portland to the WGA. They were probably done with the outside shoots by the time I reported, but at least they are aware.

* Oh, hey, June. Time for my annual 'try to have interactions with Pride month that don't suck'. I don't know if this is ever worth my time, but at least I know I am not missing out on anything. Maybe it's still not worth my time and I am only doing this due to a very smug therapist who thought me not 'giving Pride a chance' was my whole problem.

One thing I can do this year is post pictures of pride flags to Tumblr to show that the entire world hasn't gone back on acceptance.

* Because I had some energy last night I played a bit of Killer Frequency. I wanted to give my brain a longer break from writing and also not fall into social media scrolling. I'll post about that game later.

Comments

[mistressofmuses]

Good on you for reporting the filming!

And I hope you do get some positive Pride interactions. I do admit I love to see pride flags (year round I love them, but there are some more during June.)

[olivermoss]

Usually, this town is covered in pride flags as soon as June starts and this year, even here not so much. None of the grocery stores are trying to out-ally each other.

I hate how overwhelming the first week of Pride is here typically, but I can't say I am happy with it being more subdued this year.

[mistressofmuses]

I feel like Pride has already been a bit subdued here, too. :/ A few houses that I'd grown pretty used to seeing with flags don't have them this year, and while it's not like I'm polling random people to ask why they don't have flags up... it's a bit sad to consider why they may not want to do so right now. I haven't noticed much from various stores or the like, either.

[olivermoss]

Yeah, it's a bit weird. I am happy to not have gay flags stuffed among the produce this aint good either.

[mistressofmuses]

Right? It's not so much that I just adore hollow corporate endorsement, but it definitely feels like a general symptom of social pressures changing, and not for the better.

[olivermoss]

The flags everywhere, and yet things not actually being all that accepting for some queer people and also there being more danger here than 100% of recent transplants expect creeped me out, but this is not better. This is worse

[mistressofmuses]

Yeah. I'd be happier with the omnipresence of performative pride stuff if it came with more actual inclusion... but it's definitely very concerning to see that it appears even tepid "support" is now seen as a risk or a liability. That's... deeply ungood.