Khylara (Fan) in ICU

https://mediawestcon.wordpress.com/2019/02/07/fan-in-icu/

"Long time MW*C attendee, Fan Author, and Poetess Khylara (CSI: Miami, Star Trek, MFU, Blakes 7, and many more) is in hospital ICU with serious complications of her diabetes.

Anyone who wants to e-mail me greetings for her, I’ll be printing them and mailing to her sister to deliver. E-mails can come to jersey.lion@gmail.com.

Prayers and positive energy is greatly appreciated by her family and friends."
Dated Feb 7, 2019

Signal Boost: Archive of Our Own: Upcoming changes to downloading stories

archiveofourown posted: Archive of Our Own 

Upcoming changes to work downloads

Soon we'll be replacing our current method for generating work downloads with the Calibre command line interface. Our current patchwork system of third-party tools and custom code comes with a number of bugs and limitations, and moving to a well-maintained and documented application like Calibre will enable us to better maintain and even enhance the download feature going forward.

Because this is an entirely new system, there will be some differences between old and new files. We've provided an overview of these changes and some previews below, but we're still testing these changes, so there may be some minor differences between the previews and the final versions. Additionally, exactly how a file looks and behaves may vary depending on your device, software version, and settings.

 

Signal Boost: Attack the Block Helped Set the Course for the Last Decade of SciFi Films

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posted: Attack the Block Helped Set the Course for the Last Decade of SciFi Films

 

"In a world in which any person of color’s interaction with the authorities, no matter how minor or seemingly routine, has the potential to end in violence or death—or else in exposure to a dehumanizing system of law enforcement that feeds off of racial and economic inequalities (a less immediate but still destructive outcome)—we’re forced to question the standard ‘crime and punishment’ narrative the minute the alien’s attack disrupts the arrest and forces us (and Sam) to realize that there is more to the story. And more to Moses.

These interactions capture Attack the Block’s approach to moral quandaries. Science fiction has always used outrageous and supernatural situations to examine ethical assumptions, but rarely have films in the genre so directly addressed systemic racism and inequality. Before the invasion, Sam—a recent nursing school grad living in the block as she begins her career—saw little in common between herself and Moses, his friends, or even genial weed dealers Ron (Nick Frost) and Brewis (Luke Treadway)."