Just a little (link) love: Lego! edition
September 19, 2019
I’ve decided that while I’d like to go to FinCon 2020, I can’t justify it out of my regular income that’s all committed to other expenses. Between now and the end of January, I need to earn enough from my creative endeavors / from the blog to justify that FinCon ticket and trip. I’m going to continue sharing cool stuff I made in support of that:
Thanks to SP for the nudge, I just realized (duh) I can show a preview of the interior here even if I can’t show it on Amazon! Duh.
*-* I’ve always intended to put the monthly updates that I publish about JB into a book for zir. I made two books for that: Milestones, design 1 and Milestones, design 2.
*-* For beloved aunties, uncles, caregivers of all sorts: a journal for the people they love, design 1 and design 2.
Content cats: a Twitter thread
Women should have emergency money always: a Twitter thread
I had noticed that Tanja’s blogging schedule had changed, I’m glad to read her reflections on why.
Not going to guilt myself on the fact that I don’t remember our list of 2019 goals, just leaving this here to remind myself to check in on them next week.
How much of a hand are you at mending things?
Learned helplessness is deliberate manipulation.
How Much Does Sexual Terror Cost Women?
Which tea dragon are you? The tea dragons are so so so cute.
Scarleteen needs some help. I didn’t know this site existed but a resource like this is good.
What do you think of accepting money gifts from bad people, institutionally? You’d think it would be simple but it is not. On a personal level, I refused to accept money to pay for Mom’s funeral (in the neighborhood of $5000-10,000) from her horrible parents and siblings who had hurt her for so many years in so many ways. Even in my grief I knew they just wanted to publicly rehabilitate their image and I knew that by the way they disrespectfully and relentlessly badgered me up until and throughout the funeral. Good people who want to pay for things out of love and respect conduct themselves better. They did not deserve public redemption by means of writing a check. Do billionaires get to absolve themselves so easily just because their checks are much bigger?
In related news, Ronan Farrow reports on donations to MIT Media Lab from a terrible person.
Lego!
A small moment of niceness to start the week: I lost the part of the tape dispenser that holds the roll in place. After I explained what it looked like to the 8yo, he helped me build a replacement out of Legos! pic.twitter.com/4rm7KMTfJP
— Celeste Ng (@pronounced_ing) September 9, 2019
When my mom was ill earlier this year, we learned (well I already suspected this) that my parents think it’s the daughters’ job to wash mom’s hair, cook, and do the dishes and other chores while mom is ill, not dad’s job. Ugh. Really not looking forward to her getting older and needing more help. Dad seems to have figured out the laundry machines at last though!
Eesh I hope you find other options that aren’t YOU as they age.
I like the idea of the milestones books! LO’s baby book has monthly pages through age 1, then drops to yearly. Although I can’t say I’ve been totally reliable in filling them out promptly each month! Can you make a sample of the inside pages visible on Amazon, or is it intentional that you want to keep them private?
T is the mender in our family, and I’m grateful for that.
Learned helplessness is infuriating enough that I might post a whole blog post rant on it.
That’s why I liked making them totally customizable. It’s not realistic to think you’d be able to fill in every month reliably, but you don’t have to! I really wanted to make the inside pages visible on Amazon but I couldn’t, they have to do it and they’re not doing it reliably. BUT it just occurred to me that I could just show it here! DUH.