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I haven't had a ton of free time lately but have been trying to get started on my yuletide letter. Other than All Souls (which will be my 7th time requesting) all my requests will be new which is exciting! New fandoms! Except that means coming up with the prompts from scratch which is not easy. Usually I am repeating 2 or 3 fandoms so I can reuse and reword things.

Also, I'm kicking myself because I totally forgot to take pictures of my most recent craft project- I had been working on a rug (back to knotted kind, from a set of old blue sheets) and my parents asked for it but they'd need it before they headed out of state (they snowbird every year now) so I rushed to finish it before we headed to their house for break-the-fast after Yom Kippur and finished with a half hour to spare and documenting it totally slipped my mind. Oh well. They loved it which is the important thing.

I don't know if anyone's followed the SciShow vs the knitting community controversy but...

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For those unaware about a month ago on SciShow Hank Green did a video called "Physicists Don't Understand Why Knitting Works" that was... well, not great (and the info provided didn't match the clickbaity title at all). There was some true science presented in it, including some recent studies that were quite interesting, but it was presented in a way that, well, kind of implied actual crafters didn't know or even think about much about the hows or whys it's done the way it's done and if that's not enough it did so in a kind of pat-on-the-head dismissiveness of women's work kind of way. It also was just riddled with errors (from mistaking nalbinding for knitting, to not seeming to realize the difference between woven garments and knitted ones, to even misspelling the word 'stitch' numerous times, etc etc)

There were some great videos posted in response to it though, Kristine Vike did a great Scientist and Knitter reacts to SciShow's knitting video and JillianEve started a new channel, Evie Unraveling, to do her own I Remade the SciShow Knitting Video (with accurate SCIENCE) (there are numerous other good reaction vids, these were the two by people I followed already).

Previously, SciShow pinned a not very good correction/we hear you had issues with out content comment to the vid in response to backlash but I noticed a few days ago that SciShow actually pulled their vid and put up an apology youtube community comment which was pretty decent. Long story short (too late) I thought the whole controversy was interesting and that some of you might find it so as well. (As a note, I've still unsubscribed, I'd noticed a few errors/bad takes/odd ways they'd presented things in previous videos but hadn't really known enough about most subjects to question their ability to teach me things but I learned long ago that if I'd been following someone to learn from what they present and they do a topic I know something about and notice issues with what they present then it means it's likely there's been plenty of things I hadn't noticed so I can't rely on them anymore.)

And last but not least, here's 2 weeks of

recthething recs! (MDZS/Untamed fic and Batman, CLue, Doctor Who, MDZS, Merlin, and Supernatural tumblr art):

The fic:
the cat distribution system by ScarlettStorm (38k)
Summary Snippet: Wei Wuxian gets a cat, and then a boyfriend, both of which are a surprise. (great fic with great art from the 2025 MDZS Reverse Big Bang, also 2 podfics have been done of this fic, linked in the endnotes)

the tumblr art:

Batman/DCU
- Nightwing written in Nightwing (very cool effect)

Clue (the movie)
- “Okay, Chief, take 'em away. I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife.” (excellent art of the cast)

Doctor Who (Classic)
- Delgado!Master doodle (love this)

MDZS/The Untamed
- Dadji and his pride and joy (Adorable LWJ and a-yuan and bunnies)

Merlin
- Tenderness (perfect title for this terribly tender Merther moment)

Supernatural
- Dean Winchester <333 (excellent rendition)

petra

Somehow, I missed that William Finn passed on April 7, 2025, until I found out from an AO3 comment.

His work regarding death, loss, and grief is extensive; this is my favorite.

And if that made you cry, let this one, sung by the man himself, make you laugh.

May his memory be a blessing.

Current Mood: oh no
Current Music: Anytime the earth moves, I'll be around

dirty_diana

dear festividder,

hi! happy festivids! as ever I hope this letter helps!

Vid likes 🎞:

All kinds of music! I always enjoy an r&b or hip hop vid, if that's inspiring at all, but I am really pretty easy to please. I like character studies, competence and BAMF-ness, romance, strong emotions including sadness, action and adventure vids, danceable vids, narrative vids, worldbuilding and engaging with the themes of the source. I'm not terribly into created reality or crack.

Vid DNWs ❌:

(The first item is a list of neurological triggers and there's a large chance I would be unable to watch any vid containing these effects.)
-I get mild physical discomfort and visual difficulties with effects like blinking, spinning, flashing, shaking, blurring, strobing or stutter cuts, flickering overlays, brightness flickers, dissolve cuts, very heavy fast cuts or very heavy quick action (action as in fight scenes, chase scenes, or similar, especially if shot with intense camera movement or cut quickly). (If it's a very few instances of flashing etc from the source, that's okay, unless the scene is specifically mentioned as a problem in the fandom details.)
Zooming, panning, and similar manipulation of still images also fall into the category of things that give me visual difficulties. (Stills that don't have motion-based stylistic additions are fine. It's also fine if it's just one moving still rather than a whole sequence.)
-the n-word (this applies to all fandoms even if used in canon)

All American: Homecoming

This show is a ton of melodramatic fun. Simone is gorgeous but my surprise other fave is actually Thea, what a GODDESS. I definitely ship them together or would enjoy a vid about their frenemyship. The guys are like, just okay. I wouldn't be into a vid that was solely focused on the cancer storyline.

I enjoy the show's questionably accurate but very earnest depiction of sports and striving to be your best at sports! I also love how much it leans into being a love letter to HBCUs. There's also great ensemble vids to be made about supporting each other, doing your best with life's curveballs, etc.

Andre De Grasse RPF

dnw: Ben Johnson

a Canadian sprint star! I love that he's always the underdog, fighting the ups and downs, but always believes in himself and, as they say, always finds a way to come home with a medal. His 4 x 100m team and their success and friendship is one of my favourite things if you want to take that wider scope. I'm not super interested in record discourse, as a person who doesn't believe Bolt's world records will be broken by anyone who's even born yet. (I'm here from a general fan perspective rather than a "study this person's technique for my own running motivation" perspective but if you do make more running motivation type vids I like watching those too!)

Emmanouil Karalis RPF

a vaulting sweetheart! I love him always improving and always going for a win despite facing a beyond generational talent in Mondo, and their friendship is so cute. I find his general off-track/social media presence adorable if you want to incorporate that.

The Fall Guy

I'm a basic b who found Colt/Jody a delightful ship! And I love vids that showcase all the action stuff too. Never too much dramatic slo-mo! Colt & Dan were also super cute. I think this is a great fandom for classic or classic-sounding songs.

Fire Country

Sweet emo firefighters! If you want to go serious I love the themes of this show, forgiveness and growth and change. (But meh on its feelings on the redemptive power of the prison system specifically.) A tribute of dramatic rescues and unlikely predicaments and dashing heroics would also be fun.

Bode and Gabriela and opposites attract and pining, ship it. Bode and Manny, I also ship it. Hot mess 4 hot mess. 😍Keeping it real: I don't know if you could distill the daddy kink aspects in a vid, but I would dig that! Those are my three faves, any solo vids for one of them would be great. Or team hurt/comfort and support and rescues!

Glory Road

This movie is pure cornball based-on-a-true-story sports drama and I love it so much, by the time "People Get Ready" kicks in at the end I'm always bawling lol. I'd enjoy anything really!

Let's Dance (Netflix 2019) [Safety]

This movie is so entertaining. I love how it just dumps every dance movie trope in and has fun with it. I enjoyed Joseph/Chloé a lot but Joseph & Karim were fun and Joseph/Karim could be a(n adorable) thing. Or you could go angsty, with some coming of age feelings. (If you're using any audio from the movie, either the French or the English is fine for me.)

I can't tolerate the effects in the first dance sequence (before Joseph wakes up on the train) at all, sorry. The David Guetta disco scene is not great but a small number of flashes is fine.

Lost in Space TV 2018

I love this show and how it's all about space and hope and problem-solving and ladies being strong and humans sticking together. I have big feelings about Don/Judy. Or I would love solo vids for either of them because Judy is perfect? I think Don has a great storyline, the rogue with a heart of gold and his journey to being part of the Robinson clan. All the family feelings would also make a good vid. I especially love the bond of the three kids and Penny is also a fave. I love a good rescue scene, and this show has a bunch. The robot and Dr. Smith are not central interests, but they'e important to the themes and cool in moderate amounts.

(The flickers in S2/3 don't really bother me.)

Rivals

I love Rupert/Taggie, what classic tropey goodness. The bickering! But also he's the only one that really sees her. Or Taggie solo, she is the cutest, my sweet disabled queen. General ensemble with sexy/chaotic vibes would also be fun. And of course, it is a perfect fandom for all the 1980s classics.

Travelers (TV)

I love this show! I'd probably pick Trevor as a favourite but it changes every watch because all the main travelers have such interesting, different arcs and they're all great. I love Marci's particular journey to being a person and not a robot-doctor a lot. And Grant's journey, fumbling his way through unexpected stuff. Everyone, really! Sorry, I might be failing to narrow things down here. This is another show where all the big thematic stuff makes me really happy. Humans! Simultaneously the best and the worst. Fate! Inevitable? Maybe? Whether you'd want to go optimistic or sad or dark or whichever direction with it is up to you.

that's it! thanks and please have fun,

d

petra

Here is my series (in progress) for Kinktober 2025. Every day will be at least one limerick, with some verse cycles when I get too inspired to constrain myself to one at a go.

Thus far, I am leaning in the Obi-Wan/Anakin + Padmé on bass direction. There may be other guest stars. We'll see! Each day is posted separately for tagging purposes.

The prompt list I am using is here. Put in a plug for your favorite and we'll see what I can manage!

Current Mood: poetically inclined
Current Music: Be prepared! That's the Boy Scouts' marching song!

petra

This is in the same vein of Politics in Space as the time I wrote Josh Lyman of The West Wing being Princess Leia Organa's political advisor because she'd inherited him from her father, ~~Matt Santos~~ ~~Jimmy Smits~~ Bail Organa, and then they observed Space Passover.

Malcolm Tucker of The Thick of It (link is very sweary) deserves someone he can really look up to (metaphorically) and cuss out (effectively).

I propose Chrisjen Avasarala of the Expanse (link is very sweary and also spoilery), who can give as good as she gets in the cussin' department. Malcolm can't physically look up to her, as she is a tiny Indian (subcontinent) grandmother who dresses fabulously. That won't stop her from kicking his ass.

I'm not sure he'd approve of her tactics, but he's on Team Earth all the way, unless one takes Peter Capaldi's legginess and runs with it to the wonderful world of Malcolm Tucker, Belter, sasa?

I am in the position of having studied English, Spanish, French, German, and Mandarin to the point of being able to mostly follow Belter Creole in audiobook form, where there are no footnotes to be had nor glossaries. Hell if that means I can write it, let alone write Malcolm Tucker Swearing in it, but now I want to try.

Kindly remind me that only about one other person on Earth, Mars, or in the Belt or Jovian system would understand this goddamn story, so it's not worth the effort, because I am very tempted. Unless of course it sounds like fun to you, in which case, can I get a beta offer?

Current Mood: i still have an icon for this
Current Music: In which I just want an excuse to write "cunt" twenty times

petra

And when the internet gives me things like this short about Mark Hamill vis-à-vis Batman: The Animated Series, what can I do but weep and ship and weep and ship?

(It was SO HARD to pick an icon for this post. Too many options!)

Current Mood: oh my heart
Current Music: You'd be so nice, you'd be paradise

petra

SO: "'We sell topsoil.' I never see anyone saying they sell bottomsoil."

Me: "I want my soil to be vers."

SO: "Hm?"

Me: "Soil that switches between top and bottom. I believe it's short for versatile, but I never inquired."

SO: "Maybe it's short for Versailles."

eustacia_vye28

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

beatrice_otter

Back in the day, there were a lot of different fanfic archives. And then AO3 came along, and everyone moved there. And there's a lot to be said for having a central multifandom archive! I love AO3! But there's also something to be said for communities having their own space.

The OTW has always said they their code is open source and they want people to use it to make their own archives, but it is ... not very user-friendly, shall we say. But now there are several people who have gotten their own instance of the OTW-A code up and running for their own archives.

And now there is another! There is now a femslash-focused archive called Sunset! It was just created and is still very tiny, but if you are into femslash, either writing it or reading it, you might find it interesting. It is run by Agnes the Alien.

Sunset is a website established in 2025 dedicated to hosting femslash (F/F) fanworks. It holds pro-freedom of fiction, queer and trans inclusive, anti-racist and generally compassionate ideals. We're here to have fun and love women. Sunset is run by one person, Agnes the Alien, who dreamed this up in zher bedroom. Please be nice to zher!

...

THIS IS AN 18+ ARCHIVE.

I'd also like to shout out Squidgeworld, Superlove, Ad Astra, and Comic Fanfiction Authors Archive.

mecurtin

Purrcy was loving being petted while being as close to outside in the lovely fall sunshine and smells as he could get. Even though we're in NJ, we have *coyotes* as well as foxes, Great Horned Owls, & motor vehicles--it's much safer to be indoor-only, as well as better for the birds.

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby lies on his back in the sunlight on a window ledge in front of a screen, looking up lovingly at his human. His pupil is only a slit in his light green eye, his nose is very pink, his whiskers long, his paws are folded like a bunny's, his belly looks VERY soft. You can tell the window is low to the ground, blurry leaves, stones, and a few plants are visible outside it.

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby lies on his back in the sunlight on a window ledge in front of a screen, looking up lovingly at his human. His pupil is only a slit in his light green eye, his nose is very pink, his whiskers long, his paws are folded like a bunny's, his belly looks VERY soft. You can tell the window is low to the ground, blurry leaves, stones, and a few plants are visible outside it.

This week (well, last week) Bret Devereaux continued his series on "Life, Work, Death and the Peasant" with Part IVd: Spinning Plates, about women's traditional work: household textile production. Devereaux's expertise is on Rome, broadening to the Meditteranean and premodern European more generally. I commented:

Women's textile production was *even more important* in China than in western Eurasia, believe it or not. The saying "Men till, women weave" was the classic expression of the gendered division of labor for more than 2000 years. Since the time of the Han dynasty at least both men and women were subject to taxation. Depending on the dynasty, either the household had to provide both grain and textiles, or each adult male was assessed an amount of grain, each adult female, textiles.

The cash value of the grain & textile taxes tended to be roughly equal (see, e.g. Francesca Bray, Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China, p. 186), but it's rare to see either primary sources or scholars admit it: the life-or-death significance of the grain tax, and the grain harvest, absolutely dominates everyone's thinking. But (as Bray shows) up until the Single-Whip Tax reform of the late 16thC (after which all taxes were rolled into one, to be payed in silver) women's textile production wasn't just a foundation of the home, it was a foundation of the *state*.

As is usual for premodern technology, most of the technical innovations Dr Devereaux mentions above were invented in China several centuries (at least) before they appeared further west. Originally, Chinese tax textiles were hemp in the north, silk in the south. Cotton became important starting around the time of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty, and spread rapidly. I don't know enough about the workflow for hemp and cotton textile production to know how much of it went to spinning. The workflow for silk production is very different: silk is "reeled", because it comes off the cocoons as long threads, several of which need to be twisted together to make a workable floss.

I linked to my comment on Bluesky, and suggested that Chinese peasant households were probably more *efficient* at producing textiles than West Eurasian ones were, because they HAD to produce surplus to the household's needs: enough for the family, plus enough for taxes.

I also pointed out that although, unlike in the west, Chinese women's labor was a crucial & explicit part of the state's tax system, and the marriage system relied on bride prices, not dowries (which are supposed to be better, maybe?, for women's rights)--yet neither factor gave women rights, respect or control.

I also got to tell someone about how Iceland used to use cloth as currency.

petra

Mirror Kukalaka (Star Trek) is a searchable tag on AO3.

As of this writing, Mirror Spot (Star Trek) is not.

I am so glad that people are examining the question, "But what if the teddy bear was evil?"

Spot, too, deserves a rampage, being the best kitty.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Fanfare for the Common Bajoran (the DS9 theme, which is not called that)

mecurtin

An empty jacuzzi is an ideal spot for wild! shenanigans! And it's also great for slowly sneaking toward mom, like the mighty predator you are.

A slightly blurry action shot of Purrcy the tuxedo tabby in the empty jacuzzi bathtub, twisting around after his tail

A slightly blurry action shot of Purrcy the tuxedo tabby in the empty jacuzzi bathtub, twisting around after his tail

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby has crept to the inside rim of the tub and is staring up with his big, light green eyes, very much like a stalking tiger. Beware!

Purrcy was very concerned, walking hunched and close to the floor, because there had been the distant sounds of a *very* large growling something out there in the sky earlier ... he REALLY hates the Thunder Growler, this is his Sad Face about it

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby is standing on a wood floor, looking up with his head cocked. His whiskers are rather droopy, his pupils wide, his expression deeply worried. He is very concerned that the Thunder Growler may show up again.

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby is standing on a wood floor, looking up with his head cocked. His whiskers are rather droopy, his pupils wide, his expression deeply worried. He is very concerned that the Thunder Growler may show up again.

My new icon is Clio, the Muse of History, from this painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Johannes Moreelse, because she doesn't look *at all* like a Greek goddess picking heroes, she's a young woman taking notes on your stupid-ass behavior.

Last week Bret Devereaux's Friday post was On the Use and Abuse of Malthus, and I commented:

The standard description of the demographic transition has a important counterexample. Birth rates in France started falling in the 18th century, before industrialization or a drop in infant mortality. Guillaume Blanc's 2023 paper, The Cultural Origins of the Demographic Transition in France, begins with a quote from Malthus, in fact. Blanc presents preliminary evidence that France's demographic transition was the result of secularization & anti-clericalism.

A reasonable level of birth control could be achieved using only materials found in the home (mutual masturbation, coitus interruptus--not to mention oral sex, sodomy, or the other thousand & one fun activities that are not PiV), once French people stopped worrying what God wanted them to do. The assumption that premodern people *had* to have as many offspring as possible is not supported by this evidence.

Faustine Perrin (2022) suggests that the Enlightenment/the Revolution/anticlericalism led to a rising level of felt equality for French women in marriages, so that they were better able to assert their desire to bear fewer children.

In the present day, this ties into the work of 2023 Nobel Prize winner Claudia Goldin, whose article on The Downside of Fertility I just read because she talked about Bujold's Vorkosigan series in an economics podcast. TLDR: Bearing & raising children is hard work, labor even, and women are reluctant to do it if they don't have help.

petra

I used part of my stuck-in-bed-with-owies day to catch up on my story index of 2025, at the end of which I discovered I never finished updating the one from 2024. 2024 will have to wait, because at the moment I am just floored by how many fucking limericks I have written this year.

If you subscribe to me on AO3 and you don't like my poetry, I am so, so sorry (insincere). This will continue unabated, as I just came to the (un)fortunate realization that I can do limericks for Kinktober.

For anyone whose ears perked up at the mention of Kinktober, here's a possible kink list for you.

Current Mood: poetic
Current Music: The apples fermented inside the lamented

beatrice_otter

justmarriedexchange fics have revealed, and so I can tell you that I wrote a Trip/T'Pol fic! My recip,

lionessvalenti, had several suggestions for canon-divergent AUs, which happen to be one of my favorite types of story to write--pick a canon event, tweak it slightly, and see what happens from there. And also, I love Vulcans, and have Opinions on the way Star Trek: Enterprise handled them, and this fic gave me lots of opportunities to explore all of that. I really enjoyed writing it, and I hope you enjoy reading it!

Title: that I could call my very own
Author:

beatrice_otter
Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise
Pairing: Trip/T'Pol
Written for:

lionessvalenti in Just Married Exchange 2025
Word count: 14k
Summary:

T'Pol figures out something is wrong with her mother before leaving for Vulcan. She and Trip decide how to face the problem together.

"Maybe we're coming at this from the wrong angle," Trip said. "We're worried about what's happening on Vulcan with your mother, and trying to figure out the best way to handle that. But what if you looked at this long-term? What do you want your life to be like, a decade from now? Two decades from now? Then work backwards and figure out what we should be doing now to work towards that."

AN: This is a very minor worldbuilding note, but in English, there are gendered terms for "people who dedicate themselves to a religious life"—monk for men and nun for women. That is not the case for all languages; in Greek, "monachos" is used for both men and women. I'm going to assume that Vulcan doesn't have different words for different genders, but uses the same word for both.

sixbeforelunch provided a lot of excellent brainstorming and beta help, as is usual for my Star Trek fics.

***

"Ensign Sato, are there any remaining communications difficulties?"

The Human shook her head. "None that I'm aware of—I've got a lot of things coming through from Starfleet and the general Earth communications network, both stuff that's been waiting while we were out of range and congratulations for our triumphant return. Why?"

T'Pol debated. On the one hand, it was possible that neither her mother nor any other family member nor any former colleague had sent her a message while Enterprise was in the Expanse. Ensign Sato was very busy and had a great many tasks to perform before she could be debriefed by Starfleet and begin her well-deserved vacation. T'Pol had no desire to add to those tasks if there was nothing wrong. And it was certainly true that being out of contact had been a welcome reprieve; T'Pol was not in favor with the Vulcan High Command, nor with her family, and it had been a relief not to have to deal with anyone's disapproval.

( But she had always known that would be merely a temporary reprieve, unless she chose to abandon all claim to Vulcan entirely. )

On AO3. On Squidgeworld. On Ad Astra. On tumblr. On Pillowfort.

petra

Less exciting by a long shot than yesterday's Huntington treatment news, but I was feeling extremely icky today and then Genghis Khan by Miike Snow came on in the café where I stopped for lunch, and it made me chair dance.

I didn't link the official video. I linked a shot-for-shot remake from Phineas and Ferb, a tv show about which I know approximately nothing not found in the vid. And I ship it anyway.

Current Mood: a little bit genghis khan
Current Music: I don't want you to get it on with nobody else but me

neotoma

Vertigo (1958)
John "Scottie" Ferguson
Midge Wood
Judy Barton
Madeleine Elster

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar (Yours Truly Johnny Dollar (Radio))

Johnny Dollar

Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe

Mephistophilis (Doctor Faustus - Marlowe)
Lucifer (Doctor Faustus - Marlowe)
Good Angel (Doctor Faustus - Marlowe)
Evil Angel (Doctor Faustus - Marlowe)

An American in Paris (1951)
Jerry Mulligan
Adam Cook (An American in Paris)
Henri Baurel
Milo Roberts

Mirabile - Janet Kagan

Annie Jason Masmajean
Leonov Bellmaker Denness

petra

BBC article.

Bring tissues if you, like me, are susceptible to Really Good News.

Current Mood: oh humans yay
Current Music: You gotta have heart and music

nocowardsoul

Cherry Ames, Mountaineer Nurse by Julie Tatham (aka Julie Campbell) (1951)
People comment on the fact that Cherry changes jobs so often. I think one of the reasons is that the series is meant to be educational. In this volume, the reader learns how to provide nursing to rural families with little formal educational. How do you convince them to get vaccines, or to not dip a child in a pool at midnight?

Of course the Kentucky mountains mean feuding families, and a feud means a pair of forbidden lovers, and Cherry plays a part in their happy ending. She also tells the grannies that the man buying their hooked hugs is underpaying them and writes her friend Mai who finds a NYC store that pays them fairly.

Davey Logan, Interne by Henry Gregor Felsen (1950)
This begins with young farmboy Davey galloping a horse into town to fetch a doctor, but the doctor won't come and Davey's mother dies, so he decides to go to med school instead of veterinary school. He gets looked down on for being a hick, sees various patients, makes $75 a month, romances fellow interne Janet, and clashes with a reporter. It's less inane than many career books I've read. Its existence is a bit curious - Felson wasn't a doctor and most of his fiction was about hot rod racing.

Davey gets a residency at the Mayo clinic, but he turns it down to start a practice in his village. In the '50s you could start practice after interne year without doing a residency. In fact the characters mention that in some states you can start practice after med school without doing an internship, but I don't know if that's true.

A funny moment is when a surgeon tells Davey it's the right choice to go into Internal Medicine because, "It's the frontier. It's the only branch of our profession with a real future. Look at us surgeons. We've reached our limit. We can cut anything out of the human body that it is possible to cut out. But our field is narrowing, not expanding. Every new discovery these fellows in Medicine make, the surgeon becomes less essential. Yesterday we cut all the time, because Medicine could not cure. Today the so-called miracle drugs cure thousands that once would have needed surgery." That's not happened to surgery in the 1950s!

Beth Donnis, Speech Therapist by Kathlyn Gay (1968)
The first book I've read from the Messner Career Romance for Young Moderns line. Beth (short for Bethesda, not Elizabeth) just graduated and takes a job at the local school. She's an orphan raised by her aunt, a realtor, and there's a subplot about her aunt selling to the father of one of Beth's students, which makes the book a little more interesting than if it were entirely speech therapy. OF course she falls in love with an English teacher named Hal. (Jobs of parents and love interests are an interesting topic to me.)

At one point Beth goes to a teacher's classroom to see why her kids haven't arrived, and the teacher says they're viewing a history film in "the film room." Beth says what about the kids sitting at the desks, and the teacher says they're too noisy and being disciplined. Beth says "that's hardly consistent" but I'm on the teacher's side. You shouldn't have to miss any part of class to do speech therapy or anything similar.

A detail I noted in the author's bio: She was PhT (Putting husband through). "Kathlyn Gay was born in a small town north of Chicago, Illinois, and attended Northern Illinois University at DeKalb for two years. She planned to become a teacher, but met and married a fellow student, leaving school to help out financially while her husband got started in his profession as an elementary school teacher. She began writing the day her nine-year-old daughter was born and sold her first article. Mrs. Gay has been writing professionally ever since and was writer/ editor for a national organization which solicits funds for overseas relief. She is now a full-time free-lance writer publishing both fiction and non-fiction in national magazines."

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donutsweeper - babble and recs
petra - Sad news from April 2025
dirty_diana - dear Festividder 2025
petra - Kinktober 2025: Limericks of Jedi gettin' it on
petra - Crossovers that will never be unless I make them: The Expanse + The Thick of It
petra - I am but a simple Bat-fanperson
petra - My straight man
eustacia_vye28 - The Balance Between Worlds, 3/5.
beatrice_otter - New archive just dropped
mecurtin - Purrcy in autumn sun; Blogcomment: Chinese textile taxes
petra - Tag of the day
mecurtin - 2 sets of Purrcy; blogcomment record: the demographic transition in France
petra - There once were subscribers so patient
beatrice_otter - Fic: that I could call my very own
petra - Small joy and a rec
neotoma - Yuletide Nominations 2025
petra - Science: Treatment developed for Huntington's Disease
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