Yearning After Bernoulli

Good morning everyone, and welcome to Radio Free Monday!

Ways To Give:

snufflesdbear is in a tax lien violation due to a missed payment while she was unemployed, and now things have escalated. She's trying to raise $2K by May 27th. She's offering art in exchange for donations. You can read the details and donate here.

subluxate linked to mercurialgirl, who along with her partner is trying to buy the blueberry farm they've lived on for the last three blueberry seasons, which their out-of-state landlord (who has lost her job) now has to sell. You can read more here and donate here.

jamie linked to Seth, who is trying to raise funds to finish the training for his service dog, Deke. The giveforward only lists $600 because that is the short term need, but he really needs $2,000 to finish paying for everything. You can read more here and give to help Deke here.

knitchick1979 has two upcoming fundraisers in Chicago for their Relay for Life team:
Monday, May 20th, 8 PM. Hambingo at Hamburger Mary's. $15 to play all night (3 cards per game, 8-10 games), fabulous prizes every round!
Thursday, May 23rd. Meatheads in Schaumburg. Bring in the flyer at the Facebook link any time during that day and the team gets ten percent of your meal.

noxelementalist linked to a fundraiser for "Winning Dad", a film about a gay man who decides to trick his father (who ignores everything about that side of his son's life) into going camping with his boyfriend. Arthur Allen, the director of the film, is running a Kickstarter to help pay for the costs of production. You can read about the film and check out the backer rewards here!

jedilora linked to a defense fund that has been set up for the folks mentioned in last week's RFM about the davis_square community being sued.
taerowyn also linked to some legal snark on the subject.

News To Know:

onebrightroad linked to an awesome event coming up in Chicago on June 1, in conjunction with the annual ALA convention: "Que(e)ry Party is in town for the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, and is co-hosting a party with Chances Dances. All proceeds benefit the Critical Fierceness Grant and the Leather Archives & Museum." You can find more info about the party here.

The Huffington Post recently published an article on warehouse labour abuses, specifically by Amazon.com but also in general. It's interesting reading and good to know if you want (and are able) to shop responsibly.

And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can always post items for my attention in comments here (or on any post) or email me at copperbadge at gmail dot com. If you're not sure how to proceed, here is a little more about what I do and how you can help (or ask for help!).

How can one person own this many coffee mugs?

I'm continuing my lazy half-assed packing of things I don't actually foresee a dire need for in the next few months, and in cleaning out my dish cabinet I discovered that I have more mugs than anyone needs. I possibly have more mugs than a family of four requires on a regular basis.

Some of them are in regular rotation, mainly ones that were given to me by friends, but I have two full four-mug sets just waiting for me to break one of them, and like half a dozen others I don't remember purchasing or getting as gifts. It's like there's a Mug Dimension in my cupboard.

I'm also enjoying learning new things about myself, like how I have three boxes of "books" and one box of "especially sentimentally valuable books" and one further box of "Nobody touches these books but me keep your fucking hands to yourself I will personally carry these to wherever I am moving."

(Sadly, I also have a "Nobody touches this but me" box for the kitchen.)

Most of my belongings can be divided up into Books, Kitchen, and Masks. Well, and Winter Clothing, but everyone has to have a hobby.

I HAVE COMMITTED A BIG BANG.

Really I committed it with Lienwyn, a charming artist who has done some amazing work that both inspired the story and was inspired by it. You can find all the info below; if you go to the fic, the art is embedded in it, but please don't forget to leave feedback for Lienwyn if you like the art!

DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH I LIKE 1930S SLANG.


Title: Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
Rating: R
Artist: Lienwyn
Author: Copperbadge
Summary: The year is 1930, Prohibition and the Depression are both in full swing, and Chicago Police Detective Steve Rogers has his hands full. There's a dead body on the banks of Lake Michigan, the entire city's legal system is corrupt, and the king gangster of the North Side, Tony Stark, has taken more than a passing interest in him.
Warnings: Some mild era-specific *ism; internalized homophobia.



Story at Dreamwidth | Story at AO3
Art at Tumblr | Art at dA