Recs to Explore - Long Weekend Edition

[jjhunter]

Got any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).

Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die". Just introduce us to some new things to read.

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people with great ongoing series

[jjhunter]

siderea has an extraordinary, ongoing patreon-supported series of essays I can't recommend highly enough. Have a sampling that I'm still thinking about:

• [pshrinkery/healthcare, Patreon] Why You Can't Find A Therapist, No, Really | [Part 2] | [Part 3]
• [curr ev, womenslib, Patreon] The Other Strike I Think Women Should Hold
• [psych/clin, law/gov, socjust, Patreon] Violence and Mental Illness: How Not to Do Social Justice
• [med, healthcare, anthro, Patreon] The Other Medicine, Part 1

Someday (I dearly hope) jenett will restart her fantastic weekly salon posts series. I recommend subscribing now just in case, and checking out a few of my favorites from previous posts below:

• Eleventh salon: What makes a vacation a vacation?
• Seventh Salon: What it is that we do.
• Fifth Salon: Things we carry with us
• Let's have a salon [What are you learning right now that you're really interested by?]

Roughly once a month larryhammer posts a wonderfully whimsical report about TBD ("nom de internet of our child, not yet a writer"), currently age 4 and five months, and their ongoing development on the tag living (tag also includes occasional other posts). Repeat features include "Achievements unlocked this last month", telling quotes re: linguistic development ("talking, talking"), "Current favorite play at home" and other delights.

As someone who is currently in the stage of 'huh, maybe I do want to have kids someday but self, wanting to observe their neurological development should not be the only reason', I really enjoy these glimpses of an intriguing tiny person growing up. Some examples:

• "black turns beamy bright / turning on the light / today is gonna be the day" [TBD is three years and ten months old, a.k.a. "going on four." Very going.]
• “u don’t have to be rich to be my girl / u don’t have to be cool to rule my world” [TBD is three years and nine months old, and almost daily anticipates turning four.]
• "don't worry that it's not good enough / for anyone else to hear / just sing / sing a song" [TBD is three and a half, and spent half the past month looking forward to being Spiderman for Halloween.]

ETA: this is now a post on my journal. Yay, Follow Friday!