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Dec. 30th, 2024 06:43 pm1. I got cards from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lyr, sallymn, and timespirit. Thank you all!
2. I am giving myself amnesty from Yuletide recs. I am reading and commenting widely, but I not going to rec anything except the wonderful gift I received:
New Fates for Old Things
Bot 9 series
Gen
Ship had once told Bot 9 that it was the fate of all made things to be discarded, but much has changed in the decades since they left Earth.
I'll have more to say about how awesome this is after reveals for reasons that will become apparent. LOL
3. Christmas was a shit show. I had been deliberating over how to handle my parents' insanity, and I had decided that I wasn't going to keep my mouth shut and leave the room anymore. It's always us accommodating them, and I get more and more resentful every visit until I'm just seething by the end of it. Not pushing back on their bigotry or conspiracy theories or whatever it is feels like letting them win. So I did push back whereupon my parents treated me and the children to an incredible harangue about how we were all going to hell, how Biden is a pedophile, how black people and white people had no problems with each other until Obama the Great Divider came into office, how police violence isn't a problem because black people in Chicago shoot each other, a bunch of nasty stuff about gay and trans people. Fiona got really, really upset and cried although I'm not sure they realized she did. Dylan handled it very well; they continued to calmly and maturely disagree with my parents who looked and sounded deranged next to them. They handled it better than I did. I always turn into a child around them who can't articulate things the way I mean to. It sucks.
4. At least I don't have to be in the classroom again until the 8th. I'm not updating my classes until the 6th because I don't give one single shit. Ha!
5. Happy New Year, y'all. I'm still in the process of sending out cards, so if you haven't gotten one yet, look for them over the coming weeks.
lyr, sallymn, and timespirit. Thank you all!2. I am giving myself amnesty from Yuletide recs. I am reading and commenting widely, but I not going to rec anything except the wonderful gift I received:
New Fates for Old Things
Bot 9 series
Gen
Ship had once told Bot 9 that it was the fate of all made things to be discarded, but much has changed in the decades since they left Earth.
I'll have more to say about how awesome this is after reveals for reasons that will become apparent. LOL
3. Christmas was a shit show. I had been deliberating over how to handle my parents' insanity, and I had decided that I wasn't going to keep my mouth shut and leave the room anymore. It's always us accommodating them, and I get more and more resentful every visit until I'm just seething by the end of it. Not pushing back on their bigotry or conspiracy theories or whatever it is feels like letting them win. So I did push back whereupon my parents treated me and the children to an incredible harangue about how we were all going to hell, how Biden is a pedophile, how black people and white people had no problems with each other until Obama the Great Divider came into office, how police violence isn't a problem because black people in Chicago shoot each other, a bunch of nasty stuff about gay and trans people. Fiona got really, really upset and cried although I'm not sure they realized she did. Dylan handled it very well; they continued to calmly and maturely disagree with my parents who looked and sounded deranged next to them. They handled it better than I did. I always turn into a child around them who can't articulate things the way I mean to. It sucks.
4. At least I don't have to be in the classroom again until the 8th. I'm not updating my classes until the 6th because I don't give one single shit. Ha!
5. Happy New Year, y'all. I'm still in the process of sending out cards, so if you haven't gotten one yet, look for them over the coming weeks.
