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Discworld, Feminism, and other Stuff.

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This is the blog of a historian named Charlotte (she/it/they), known across the Internet as PhD, DSc, MD, PT Discworld. Officially a PhD! (also received a Professor of Thaumology from Unseen University, Ankh Morpork). She has interests in goth music, science, academia, Doctor Who, Discworld, and various other topics. Trans as fuck. GNU Terry Pratchett

truly one of the most demoralising things about being in the job market atm is "only successful applicants will be notified" is practically a universal standard. so you spend hours, sometimes days filling out applications, writing CVs and cover letters only to be ghosted as the only form of communication. Not even a "thank you but this time you've been unsuccessful" email. You're in a constant state of "did I not get it or have they not contacted me?" and you just have to eventually conclude you were unsuccessful without so much as courtesy, "sorry, but thank you for your application." A literal thankless cycle for months and months and months. You'd think with all the ways to automate these processes they would at least have the time, means and decency to acknowledge your submission and let you off the hook, but no. You're just in limbo in every possible way in the name of "efficiency". Solidarity with everyone going through this because it is truly dehumanising and demoralising to work so hard on putting yourself forward constantly without acknowledgement or useful communication of any sort for long periods of time, and most ppl simply will not have any compassion for what that's like.

Behold the giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis). Of the 14 living otter species known to science, this one is the biggest. Growing up to 5.6 ft (1.7 m) long, this mustelid can reach weights of 70 lbs (32 kg)! It inhabits parts of South America's Orinoco, Amazon, and La Plata river systems, where it lives in groups of up to 20 members. It feeds on fish, crustaceans, and even caiman.

Photo: Charlesjsharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

TCAF’s over, here’s Sex Fantasy 6.

I picked up a lot of great books (and pins & things) and met new people, spent time with friends, it was a wonderful fest, thanks to everyone who was warm and welcoming. Shortly before the weekend I participated in a reading for the launch of Lovers Only #1, in which I have a short comic about teen romance – along with Cathy G. Johnson and Mickey Zacchilli.

You can read all the Sex Fantasies here. If you’re new to the series and want to read through the issues in chronological order (they are not sequential issue-to-issue but if you read them in chronological order they get better instead of worse) use this link.

By the way, this series is now more than halfway over. After 10 Sex Fantasies there will be no more.