I think I am now allergic to all food. Either that, or I have a horrible disease that makes all food cause me terrible pain. It can't be that hard to just avoid eating entirely until I can get to the doctor's sometime next week (at the earliest), right? I can absorb nutrients through osmosis or something. That should be an asexual superpower. I'm going to lobby for it.

Besides being so sick I just want to sleep through the next week, uh...

I managed to finish an interview for my management class project. Which is great, because I think I'm too sick to actually leave the house between now and when the first segment of the project is due. Hopefully at some point today I will be marginally less delirious and will be able to do some homework.

How clothes work, I don't know. I almost bought some professional clothes this week, because I know I'll need them eventually, but they were so expensive I stopped myself. I realize that when I have to buy an actual wardrobe I will have to spend a lot of money and it would probably be better to invest in pieces over time, but I appear to be one of those people who is incapable of picking out decent clothes on her own, and it's doubly hard to spend the money when I don't know what to buy in the first place. Also I really want to see what's going to be available at the Genderplayful Marketplace. If it ever opens.

Maybe this week I will also figure out why I am too shy to post anything but open threads to group_x.

group_x is open!

ETA: If I just rejected you from the community it's because we need people to please read the profile and community entries and comment HERE to get membership. The person I rejected has no entries and PMs are disabled so I have no way to get into contact with them. I hope you read this, sorry!

Wrote up the draft for the community safe space and accessibility policies. In the actual community this'll be one of the first posts, will be linked to in the profile and the sidebar, and won't be behind a cut. Thanks to sciatrix for feedback on the draft.

Please leave comments! Especially if there's something you need added to the accessibility policy.

One big section still up for debate is the issue of whether to delete or freeze material that violates the policies. I've heard good arguments for either, and if there's a tie in opinion I'll split it, but I wrote up policies for each option that you can read under the cut.

The argument for freezing mostly centers on record-keeping and transparency; if someone protests being banned we can link them to the offending material. If the material is in a post the mods can put it under a cut, but we can't do that with comments, and removing/hiding material is one of the arguments for deletion. If people want to delete things instead, the deleting mod will take print screens (thanks for pointing out the accessibility fault in that, codeman38) copy the text for record-keeping and then upload them somewhere all the mods can see (probably Google Docs, which would also allow the mod to delete the print screens from their own computers).

ETA: It looks like there's no longer a setting for mods to edit the content of posts, so putting things behind a cut in a frozen post wouldn't work.

Read the sections on freezing/deleting under the cut and let me know what you think.

YET TO DO:

Membership policy post (tomorrow or this weekend, depending on my energy levels)
Results of the name poll (voting's slowed down but I'll give it another day)

My goal is to get the community up by the end of next week, but we'll have to see how that goes. My new semester starts Monday and I'm not sure yet how much time my classes will take up; I'm taking one more this semester than I did in the Spring.

( Cut for length. )

In writing up a draft of the safe space and accessibility policies for the ace community, I've come across a few questions that I want to get some feedback on before sending the draft out for editing (and then posting it for more editing).

• Do we want to include an age note? (Not allowing in anyone under 13 or something.)
• Do we want to include suspensions? (In addition to outright banning.)
• Do we want to include freezing and deleting content? (If something violates the safe space policy, do we want to have notes about freezing threads or deleting comments and posts? What would be the conditions to decide between freezing and deleting? Do we feel there's a difference between deleting entire posts and deleting comments or comment threads? Etc.)

For the accessibility policy, so far I've got:

• Image descriptions required when including images or linking to images
• Putting flashing animations behind a cut with a warning
• Descriptions required when including videos or linking to videos (even if the video has captions)

These are the most common accessibility concerns I've seen. I'm sure I'm either overlooking or unaware of more things, so if there's another concern you're aware of or that would be important to you, please let me know.

Name poll to come soon, also. I just wanted to make them separate posts and not do one right after the other.

If anyone is coming here from Tumblr (which I suspect most of you are), hello!

I am terribly awkward and bad at talking about myself, but memes are easy to fill out, so I wrote one up. You can copy/paste the text from the text box if you want to do the same in your own journal or in the comments. (And feel free to skip any questions you don't want to answer. I wrote some questions I didn't answer.) Also, add any questions you wish were on there.

Later I'll make a post about creating an ace community (still interested in possible names! Right now people have suggested GroupX and acecommunity).

<strong>username:</strong> <strong>What you can call me:</strong> <strong>My default icon explained:</strong> <strong>Sexuality:</strong> <strong>Gender:</strong> <strong>Preferred pronouns:</strong> <strong>Other platforms I'm on:</strong> <strong>Favorite books:</strong> <strong>Favorite movies:</strong> <strong>Favorite TV shows:</strong> <strong>Favorite songs:</strong> <strong>Languages I know:</strong> <strong>Occupation:</strong> <strong>Location:</strong> <strong>Pets:</strong> <strong>Favorite food:</strong> <strong>A long-term goal:</strong> <strong>A short-term goal:</strong> <strong>My superpower would be:</strong> <strong>Favorite animals:</strong> <strong>Hobbies:</strong> <strong>How I would describe my personality:</strong>

username: aceeccentric
What you can call me: ace eccentric
My default icon explained: A Good Omens reference. In the bottom right corner is the top of an angel wing. The background is mostly blue with a strip of white at the top. It features the quote "Just enough of a bastard to be worth liking" said by a demon character in reference to an angel character.
Sexuality: Asexual romantic
Gender: Neutrois, genderqueer
Preferred pronouns: She and her
Other platforms I'm on: Wordpress and Tumblr
Favorite books: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Favorite movies: the Harry Potter movies, Little Shop of Horrors, and The Princess Bride
Favorite TV shows: Stargate: Atlantis, most of the USA Network original shows, Leverage, Doctor Who
Languages I know: Just English. I remember a tiny bit of Latin from school.
Occupation: Grad student. Studying library and information science.
Location: Southeastern United States
A long-term goal: I'd like to get some original fiction published someday.
My superpower would be: Healing people. It used to be telekinesis, but I have too many people in my life who can't get to a doctor.
Favorite animals: Basset hounds and sharks
Hobbies: Writing fanfic and original fic, reading
How I would describe my personality: Introverted, protective, thoughtful, semi-optimistic, awkward.