Grrr!

Spent all day waiting for my new chair to arrive, nothing. I know ebay originally said Tuesday, but they then upgraded that to Monday, and Parcelforce have had it since Friday morning.

I also seem to have picked up a throat infection, which seeing as I'm already on post-surgery grade penicillin because of another infection is going some!

As a minor plus I've found my shoulder physio notes even though I wasn't actually looking for them. On the downside this is mostly good because I should have been looking for them, whatever is happening around left elbow is definitely triggering my shoulder and neck. It's a handy reminder that my body does has systemic issues, it's not just I can't walk very well.

Linkspam: On Tragic Queerness in SFF and The Politics of Presence

Storify of Foz Meadows tweeting what she called a rant, but which I call eminently good sense, and which I've been trying to put into practise this afternoon.

On Tragic Queerness in SFF

TLDR: Stop killing your gay characters
Slightly Longer TLDR: If you're writing queer characters while straight, for god's sake read some queer fanfic where being queer is normal.

So, given the backburner WIP has a lesbian couple as protagonists,  I went to Foz's tumblr, where she has a list of favourite fanfic, and I've started reading.

I 'm not sure it makes all the points Foz wanted, but I really enjoyed this MCU piece about all the Captain America films that got made before his reappearance, and what happens when Cap and Bucky find out about them:

Steve Rogers at 100: Celebrating Captain America on Film

And I also found this on Foz's blog: The Politics of Presence, which has some very wise things to say on the necessity of having diverse characters in your novel.