UK people: Scrap The Bathroom Ban
Oct. 25th, 2025 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rydra_wonghttps://actionnetwork.org/letters/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
From TransActual and Trans+ Solidarity Alliance. Produces a template letter to your MP which you can customize as much as you can or want to.
Article by Jane Fae of TransActual (who have been absolutely kicking ass):
https://www.scenemag.co.uk/jane-fae-a-director-of-transactual-writes-on-the-eve-of-launching-a-new-campaign-to-get-mps-to-reject-the-ehrcs-bathroom-ban/
There are now a bunch of Labour MPs who are worried and making noises at the government, even if it's only about the impact on businesses of rules which are possibly illegal and impossible to follow without getting sued:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/23/dozens-of-labour-mps-warn-of-chaos-for-firms-over-gender-recognition-advice
It's alleged that Bridget Phillipson was sitting on the guidance because she was worried it'd scupper her bid for the deputy leadership, whereas Powell is actively trans-friendly and has called for MPs to have a chance to debate and vote on the guidance.
The below may be an overly optimistic view but it seems clear there's tension and conflict between the EHRC and government:
https://iandunt.substack.com/p/frightened-and-desperate-ehrc-anti (warning for Substack, in case you are boycotting it)
So this is a moment when leverage is possible, and letters to your MP may actually do something.
From TransActual and Trans+ Solidarity Alliance. Produces a template letter to your MP which you can customize as much as you can or want to.
Article by Jane Fae of TransActual (who have been absolutely kicking ass):
https://www.scenemag.co.uk/jane-fae-a-director-of-transactual-writes-on-the-eve-of-launching-a-new-campaign-to-get-mps-to-reject-the-ehrcs-bathroom-ban/
There are now a bunch of Labour MPs who are worried and making noises at the government, even if it's only about the impact on businesses of rules which are possibly illegal and impossible to follow without getting sued:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/23/dozens-of-labour-mps-warn-of-chaos-for-firms-over-gender-recognition-advice
It's alleged that Bridget Phillipson was sitting on the guidance because she was worried it'd scupper her bid for the deputy leadership, whereas Powell is actively trans-friendly and has called for MPs to have a chance to debate and vote on the guidance.
The below may be an overly optimistic view but it seems clear there's tension and conflict between the EHRC and government:
https://iandunt.substack.com/p/frightened-and-desperate-ehrc-anti (warning for Substack, in case you are boycotting it)
So this is a moment when leverage is possible, and letters to your MP may actually do something.
2017 [secular] Year End Meme
Oct. 24th, 2025 11:57 amcadenzamuseLast updated October 27
Dear Writer,
Thank you so much for writing for me! It's always amazing to have a work in a small fandom I love, and it's even more special when it's written specifically for me. I cannot wait to meet you at reveals, and I hope you have a fun time writing!
Here's my feeling about optional details and exchanges: optional details are optional, but if you're the type of writer who clicked on the link to read this letter, they probably don't exactly feel optional to you. Because of that, I want you to remember that from my end, I am just delighted to get a story about a tiny fandom I love! No one is grading you for Adherence To Prompts, and so you really only need optional details to the extent that they help generate fun plot bunnies for you.
This year especially, I signed up for Yuletide mostly because I wanted to write for a tiny fandom, so these requests are for canons that are old favorites of mine, in which I would be thrilled to read literally anything that isn't on my DNW list.
I love all ratings, G to NC-17, and whatever combination of genders, sexualities, and relationship types (friends, lovers, cuddlebuddies, frenemies, enemies, colleagues-who-endure-each-other, queerplatonic life partners, etc.) you are interested in portraying. Porn with plot is always just as welcome as gen worldbuilding.
Everything Yuletide-related I have ever done is tagged with "omgwtfyuletide!!!" Previous letters are tagged "dear yulegoat." Please be aware that some of the Dear Yulegoat letters are hosted here for my spouse,![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
Thorya, who sometimes writes for Yuletide but isn't otherwise fannish. Those should be pretty clearly tagged and marked "Thorya," so you can assume everything else is about me.
If you are into obsessively stalking your recipient, I also very, very occasionally Tumblr (Tumble?) at![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
cadenzamuse realbisexualalien and I have a bazillion bookmarks in larger fandoms at cadenzamuse, as well as longer recs on this Dreamwidth under the "!recs" tag.
Yuletide Opt-Ins
I like and opt in to: treats, interactive fiction, Unconventionyule/unconventional format, Chromatic Yuletide, TransTide, Queering the Tide, Family Matters/focusing on siblings, Yuleporn, Two for One/crossovers and fusions, Three Turtledoves/polyamory, Yulebuilding, and Femslash Festivus.
( Thoughts on Smut )
General Likes
( DNWs )
( Original Requests )
*
( Notes to Myself for Yuletide Record-keeping Purposes )
Dear Writer,
Thank you so much for writing for me! It's always amazing to have a work in a small fandom I love, and it's even more special when it's written specifically for me. I cannot wait to meet you at reveals, and I hope you have a fun time writing!
Here's my feeling about optional details and exchanges: optional details are optional, but if you're the type of writer who clicked on the link to read this letter, they probably don't exactly feel optional to you. Because of that, I want you to remember that from my end, I am just delighted to get a story about a tiny fandom I love! No one is grading you for Adherence To Prompts, and so you really only need optional details to the extent that they help generate fun plot bunnies for you.
This year especially, I signed up for Yuletide mostly because I wanted to write for a tiny fandom, so these requests are for canons that are old favorites of mine, in which I would be thrilled to read literally anything that isn't on my DNW list.
I love all ratings, G to NC-17, and whatever combination of genders, sexualities, and relationship types (friends, lovers, cuddlebuddies, frenemies, enemies, colleagues-who-endure-each-other, queerplatonic life partners, etc.) you are interested in portraying. Porn with plot is always just as welcome as gen worldbuilding.
Everything Yuletide-related I have ever done is tagged with "omgwtfyuletide!!!" Previous letters are tagged "dear yulegoat." Please be aware that some of the Dear Yulegoat letters are hosted here for my spouse,
If you are into obsessively stalking your recipient, I also very, very occasionally Tumblr (Tumble?) at
Yuletide Opt-Ins
I like and opt in to: treats, interactive fiction, Unconventionyule/unconventional format, Chromatic Yuletide, TransTide, Queering the Tide, Family Matters/focusing on siblings, Yuleporn, Two for One/crossovers and fusions, Three Turtledoves/polyamory, Yulebuilding, and Femslash Festivus.
( Thoughts on Smut )
General Likes
- ♥trope inversion/subversion♥
- relationship communication/"defining the relationship"/relationship negotiations/all the little negotiations and communications that happen in a relationship of any kind to make it work
- sex that is not completed by or all about penis-in-vagina intercourse
- soulmates and soulbonding of all kinds
- literary and pop culture Easter eggs
- friends-to-lovers
- enemies-to-[friends-to]-lovers
- family and chosen family
- little mundane details
- ♥worldbuilding♥
- "what if"/canon divergence AUs
- competence porn
- identity porn
- semi-public sex/public sex/exhibitionism
- scent kink
( DNWs )
( Original Requests )
*
( Notes to Myself for Yuletide Record-keeping Purposes )
Yuletide 2025
Oct. 22nd, 2025 11:23 pmeverysecondtuesdayHi! I have previous past letters with likes lists and prompts that still hold true, so feel free to peruse old letters, though please be aware of my current DNWs and requests. Some of these are fandoms I have requested in the past, please feel free to check out my fandom tags on the sidebar and see if there's anything in past letters you think might apply! I'm super excited for any of these fandoms, and I hope you'll have a lot of fun creating for the one you've chosen.
For ease of finding me: tuesday.
What I've written and what I want as a gift can differ, so for best results, please rely on my likes and DNWs over what you may find on my AO3 works page.
( Text Likes )
( General Likes )
( Horror Likes )
( Ship Likes )
( Smut Likes )
( Do Not Wants )
Requested Fandoms
( Dwarf Fortress )
( House of Leaves )
( RED (Movies) )
( Rimworld )
Anyway here is a cool person I didn't know about before
Oct. 22nd, 2025 06:08 pmrydra_wonghttps://bsky.app/profile/luketurner.bsky.social/post/3m35pa3ywek2h
[Image description: Bluesky post by Luke Turner reading "here is a pleasingly anti-fascist animal painted on the Hurricane of gay RAF pilot Ian Gleed", above a picture of Gleed in the cockpit of his plane pointing to the image on its side of a cartoon cat swatting at and destroying a swastika.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gleed (he may have been the fastest RAF pilot to ever make ace, in two days; he was only 26 when he was killed)
Further research byrobynbender established that he actually had said antifascist cat painted on all his planes:
http://www.hatfield-herts.co.uk/aviation/gleed.html
[Image description: Bluesky post by Luke Turner reading "here is a pleasingly anti-fascist animal painted on the Hurricane of gay RAF pilot Ian Gleed", above a picture of Gleed in the cockpit of his plane pointing to the image on its side of a cartoon cat swatting at and destroying a swastika.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gleed (he may have been the fastest RAF pilot to ever make ace, in two days; he was only 26 when he was killed)
Further research by
robynbender established that he actually had said antifascist cat painted on all his planes:http://www.hatfield-herts.co.uk/aviation/gleed.html
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Oct. 21st, 2025 03:43 pmmdehnersFluff has joined Lilibit in scoping out my digs;>! Unlike her he checked the whole apt. He's also taken to sitting on the cat shelter roof and watching me from the window. He has to be an indoor-outdoor cat because no feral would be able to keep his coat as nice as he has.
Haven't seen Stubbs for a couple days but he's eating the wet food which the others don't like so he's around somewhere. He's the one I worry about.Hopefully, he'll take advantage of the shelter when it gets really cold.
Speaking of, I saw the 1st Hailstorm since I moved here! Thankfully, they were the size of Whoppers candy so no damage here. Actually, about 15 min before it started I started to move plants indoors for the Winter....
FridhR,
Pat
Haven't seen Stubbs for a couple days but he's eating the wet food which the others don't like so he's around somewhere. He's the one I worry about.Hopefully, he'll take advantage of the shelter when it gets really cold.
Speaking of, I saw the 1st Hailstorm since I moved here! Thankfully, they were the size of Whoppers candy so no damage here. Actually, about 15 min before it started I started to move plants indoors for the Winter....
FridhR,
Pat
Yuletide, Podfic, and Recs
Oct. 20th, 2025 06:35 pmdonutsweeperOnly a few more days to signup for yuletide! They close 9pm UTC 24 October (time converter thingy) The post with all the info is here, there's some differences this year including a trial run of allowing DNMs (do not matches) as well as upping requests from 6 to 8.
Not surprisingly, neither of those changes have effected me. In my previous yuletides I only signed up with the maximum number of requests a few times, I am way way way more likely to do the minimum (8 vs 3 according to past letters) with a handful of 4 requests and a single 5. I also tend to repeat requests a lot (having asked for only 30 different fandoms in total) although I've never repeated a signup exactly, since I haven't re-requested anything that I've received (perfectly valid thing for people to do that, I have even filled certain people's requests numerous times, I just haven't ever done it).
This year I've asked for four fandoms (All Souls (TV), Vampire Gastelbrau (2011), 看見愛 | See Your Love (TV), and 雪迷宫 | The First Shot (TV)) and my letter went up about a week ago. I will probably continue to tweak my offers until shortly before they close because I always do that and never can leave them alone. (Although the requests are kept hidden during signups, the signup summary is available and updates every hour or so).
I didn't have the headspace to finish putting together my usual short stories in the yuletide tagset list but thankfully embraidery was willing to pick up the job and posted the list, with links when possible, here over on the yuletide community comm.
In exciting news, an old fic of mine Appeasement Fed (a The Yellow Wallpaper & The Residence at Whitminster crossover) from Yuletide 2020 was recently podficced. You can listen to the amazing job wilfriede0815 did for it here.
And before I forget, here's two (I think?) weeks of![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
recthething recs (one mdzs/untamed fic and tumblr art for Doctor Who, FMA/FMA:B, Merlin and SPN):
The Third Bow by Ashura (20k, locked to archive)
Summary: Finally Wei Ying drops onto the edge of the bed and blurts, ‘Lan Zhan, are we married?’
Lan Wangji’s hands freeze in place, the soft cloth slipping from between his fingers. Whatever he imagined Wei Ying was gathering the courage to say, this is a question he absolutely would not have predicted. He looks up, blindsided, to see Wei Ying shifting uncomfortably, fingers twisting in the folds of his robe. ‘We — what?’
Or: Wei Wuxian has feelings. So does Lan Wangji. They figure it out. (aka WWX and LWJ get a clue :) a part of the 2025 MDZS Reverse Big Bang)
Tumblr art:
Doctor Who
- 3rd doctor, UNIT and Master (love their expressions, particularly Jo's)
Fullmetal Alchemist (all Oct 3rd related art)
- Don’t forget. (animation of the watch with flames reflected on it)
- Don't forget 3. oct. 11 (gorgeous Ed and Al)
- Don’t forget! (amazing painting of the watch and fire)
- don’t forget (so many layers to this one, I love the juxtaposition between Ed's determined look and Al's wistful one)
Merlin
- i'll keep the king, i'll keep him safe from the dark things that wait (amazing Merlin and kilgharrah art)
Supernatural
- Untitled (Dean sleeping in the Impala, clutching Cas' coat. Oh my heart)
Not surprisingly, neither of those changes have effected me. In my previous yuletides I only signed up with the maximum number of requests a few times, I am way way way more likely to do the minimum (8 vs 3 according to past letters) with a handful of 4 requests and a single 5. I also tend to repeat requests a lot (having asked for only 30 different fandoms in total) although I've never repeated a signup exactly, since I haven't re-requested anything that I've received (perfectly valid thing for people to do that, I have even filled certain people's requests numerous times, I just haven't ever done it).
This year I've asked for four fandoms (All Souls (TV), Vampire Gastelbrau (2011), 看見愛 | See Your Love (TV), and 雪迷宫 | The First Shot (TV)) and my letter went up about a week ago. I will probably continue to tweak my offers until shortly before they close because I always do that and never can leave them alone. (Although the requests are kept hidden during signups, the signup summary is available and updates every hour or so).
I didn't have the headspace to finish putting together my usual short stories in the yuletide tagset list but thankfully embraidery was willing to pick up the job and posted the list, with links when possible, here over on the yuletide community comm.
In exciting news, an old fic of mine Appeasement Fed (a The Yellow Wallpaper & The Residence at Whitminster crossover) from Yuletide 2020 was recently podficced. You can listen to the amazing job wilfriede0815 did for it here.
And before I forget, here's two (I think?) weeks of
recthething recs (one mdzs/untamed fic and tumblr art for Doctor Who, FMA/FMA:B, Merlin and SPN): The Third Bow by Ashura (20k, locked to archive)
Summary: Finally Wei Ying drops onto the edge of the bed and blurts, ‘Lan Zhan, are we married?’
Lan Wangji’s hands freeze in place, the soft cloth slipping from between his fingers. Whatever he imagined Wei Ying was gathering the courage to say, this is a question he absolutely would not have predicted. He looks up, blindsided, to see Wei Ying shifting uncomfortably, fingers twisting in the folds of his robe. ‘We — what?’
Or: Wei Wuxian has feelings. So does Lan Wangji. They figure it out. (aka WWX and LWJ get a clue :) a part of the 2025 MDZS Reverse Big Bang)
Tumblr art:
Doctor Who
- 3rd doctor, UNIT and Master (love their expressions, particularly Jo's)
Fullmetal Alchemist (all Oct 3rd related art)
- Don’t forget. (animation of the watch with flames reflected on it)
- Don't forget 3. oct. 11 (gorgeous Ed and Al)
- Don’t forget! (amazing painting of the watch and fire)
- don’t forget (so many layers to this one, I love the juxtaposition between Ed's determined look and Al's wistful one)
Merlin
- i'll keep the king, i'll keep him safe from the dark things that wait (amazing Merlin and kilgharrah art)
Supernatural
- Untitled (Dean sleeping in the Impala, clutching Cas' coat. Oh my heart)
