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I need to be linked immediately to this fanart.
I didn't attend or even knew "Readers Take Denver" existed until yesterday. I have been watching it explode in real time on Threads. Y'all it's a literary convention that turned into an absolute shitshow. & I find it bizarre that no one on Tumblr is talking about it:
Some Authors & Influencers who were guests had to pay for the privilege.
Authors & Influencers who decided not to attend this year were promoted like they were going to be there. & volunteers & directors made it seem like they were there or going to be there DURING the convention.
Authors & Influencers who were guests were double-booked including their tables & panels.
They didn't receive all the items they were promised including badges, stickers, lanyards & table placards.
Because of the over & double booking of everything - guests & their PAs were verbally assaulted, sometimes including physically, by volunteers & directors.
They had the lights turned off on them.
They had their items thrown off tables & across the room if they didn't move fast enough.
They missed panels they didn't know they were a part of or were thrust into them without knowing they were a part of them.
There were no snacks or water provided to guests.
Volunteers kept attendees from finding or interacting with guests when they were on con floor. & vice versa.
Guests had valuables stolen - cookies, books, purses, etc
During the ball people were sexually harassed & assaulted by people who weren't even part of the con.
Volunteers & directors were going in guest hotel rooms without permission.
Several guests are not coming back & many others who weren't there this year are no longer attending.
Apparently in the FB group moderators aren't allowing in posts disparaging the con.
The con chair was supposed to answer questions in a video chat, but dipped out last second.
Like this was quite literally a clusterfuck to end all clusterfucks.
So if anyone knows or has heard anything let me know. I want to share it with those affected on Threads.
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Fresh beets are wild to cook with too.
Wanna cut something & get a blood like visual?
Want the "blood" to stain your counters?
Want everything in your soup to look like organs?
Good news.
Beets are for you!
I started volunteering at this farm share program a couple years ago, where I help pass out boxes of veggies in exchange for some veggies for myself, which is great for a broke grad student but it led to me creating truly the most visually ABHORRENT meal I have ever made in my life.
I got some purple carrots, right? And I was excited because they're (A) free carrots and (B) they're purple, which is not something you see often. They taste just like regular carrots, so after devouring one to test the flavor, I decided that I'd use the rest in an upcoming batch of chicken soup.
MISTAKE. THAT WAS A MISTAKE.
You see. The thing about purple carrots is that their purpleness does not stay in the carrot when you leave it in a crockpot for like, six hours. The purpleness goes into the soup. It goes into the soup, where it turns the chicken purple. And the onions purple. And the celery, and the garlic, and the noodles, and any other thing you could possibly have put in that soup, varying shades of Very Purple.
I made a GIGANTIC pot of this soup that turned out toxic purple-brown, with individual components stained various ludicrous colors of purple (the noodles were a bafflingly nice shade of lilac) and it was the most dubious thing I've ever eaten. I took this soup to work. My coworkers were so confused and repulsed and I had explain that no, this is actually just soup, just regular chicken soup, but accidentally tie-dyed by the addition of two (2) purple carrots.
And you wanna know the real kicker as I explained all this? The carrots? The formerly purple carrots?
They ended up green.
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I made myself fried Indo Mie Mi Goreng (sweet&spicy) noodles w/ sauteed garlic, sesame seeds, spinach, fried eggs & topped it off the french fried onions tbe noodles come with:
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Yeah, they had over 7000 boxes that authors paid a fee for storage & to hire people to move around. The boxes were not stored at a secure location. They were stored in an unlocked garage. They then had a handful of teenagers at the con move the boxes around. They wouldn't allow them to organize them later.
But some authors are claiming their books were stolen & they're finding them on resell sites. Along with autographed books they did sign for the resellers - who are selling them at exorbitant amounts.
I didn't attend or even knew "Readers Take Denver" existed until yesterday. I have been watching it explode in real time on Threads. Y'all it's a literary convention that turned into an absolute shitshow. & I find it bizarre that no one on Tumblr is talking about it:
Some Authors & Influencers who were guests had to pay for the privilege.
Authors & Influencers who decided not to attend this year were promoted like they were going to be there. & volunteers & directors made it seem like they were there or going to be there DURING the convention.
Authors & Influencers who were guests were double-booked including their tables & panels.
They didn't receive all the items they were promised including badges, stickers, lanyards & table placards.
Because of the over & double booking of everything - guests & their PAs were verbally assaulted, sometimes including physically, by volunteers & directors.
They had the lights turned off on them.
They had their items thrown off tables & across the room if they didn't move fast enough.
They missed panels they didn't know they were a part of or were thrust into them without knowing they were a part of them.
There were no snacks or water provided to guests.
Volunteers kept attendees from finding or interacting with guests when they were on con floor. & vice versa.
Guests had valuables stolen - cookies, books, purses, etc
During the ball people were sexually harassed & assaulted by people who weren't even part of the con.
Volunteers & directors were going in guest hotel rooms without permission.
Several guests are not coming back & many others who weren't there this year are no longer attending.
Apparently in the FB group moderators aren't allowing in posts disparaging the con.
The con chair was supposed to answer questions in a video chat, but dipped out last second.
Like this was quite literally a clusterfuck to end all clusterfucks.
So if anyone knows or has heard anything let me know. I want to share it with those affected on Threads.
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They told authors they would give them a pasta meal & then backed out. One of the authors had to "STEAL" (is it really stealing at this point?) one of the pasta dishes she was so hungry from lack of food. Snuck out of the room with it & people watched her scarf it down in the hallway like a feral animal. Not judging the author. But this is the madness that was RTD. These were the circumstances. Like "holy shit" is an understatement.
I didn't attend or even knew "Readers Take Denver" existed until yesterday. I have been watching it explode in real time on Threads. Y'all it's a literary convention that turned into an absolute shitshow. & I find it bizarre that no one on Tumblr is talking about it:
Some Authors & Influencers who were guests had to pay for the privilege.
Authors & Influencers who decided not to attend this year were promoted like they were going to be there. & volunteers & directors made it seem like they were there or going to be there DURING the convention.
Authors & Influencers who were guests were double-booked including their tables & panels.
They didn't receive all the items they were promised including badges, stickers, lanyards & table placards.
Because of the over & double booking of everything - guests & their PAs were verbally assaulted, sometimes including physically, by volunteers & directors.
They had the lights turned off on them.
They had their items thrown off tables & across the room if they didn't move fast enough.
They missed panels they didn't know they were a part of or were thrust into them without knowing they were a part of them.
There were no snacks or water provided to guests.
Volunteers kept attendees from finding or interacting with guests when they were on con floor. & vice versa.
Guests had valuables stolen - cookies, books, purses, etc
During the ball people were sexually harassed & assaulted by people who weren't even part of the con.
Volunteers & directors were going in guest hotel rooms without permission.
Several guests are not coming back & many others who weren't there this year are no longer attending.
Apparently in the FB group moderators aren't allowing in posts disparaging the con.
The con chair was supposed to answer questions in a video chat, but dipped out last second.
Like this was quite literally a clusterfuck to end all clusterfucks.
So if anyone knows or has heard anything let me know. I want to share it with those affected on Threads.
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@butch-reader
I saw all that on Threads!
A couple of authors told them to stop deadnaming your friend. Only to be met with ambivalence.
I have also seen screenshots where Lisa was using your friend as a token.
Which is disheartening.
Author Drea Denea posted on FB that after all this crap at RTD - she reached out to another convention, Getting Witchy With It (GWWI) in Salem, she had been trying to get disability info from them for months. & finally told them after their lackluster ADA compliance & responses she would no longer be attending.
The owner of that convention & two other authors posted on FB (paraphrasing), "Some people aren't cut out for our convention."
Drea Denea, also a SA survivor, also witnessed the women being sexually harassed at the ball & went into survival mode the rest of convention. When she got home is when she had a full blown panic attack & Lisa made it all about her.
I didn't attend or even knew "Readers Take Denver" existed until yesterday. I have been watching it explode in real time on Threads. Y'all it's a literary convention that turned into an absolute shitshow. & I find it bizarre that no one on Tumblr is talking about it:
Some Authors & Influencers who were guests had to pay for the privilege.
Authors & Influencers who decided not to attend this year were promoted like they were going to be there. & volunteers & directors made it seem like they were there or going to be there DURING the convention.
Authors & Influencers who were guests were double-booked including their tables & panels.
They didn't receive all the items they were promised including badges, stickers, lanyards & table placards.
Because of the over & double booking of everything - guests & their PAs were verbally assaulted, sometimes including physically, by volunteers & directors.
They had the lights turned off on them.
They had their items thrown off tables & across the room if they didn't move fast enough.
They missed panels they didn't know they were a part of or were thrust into them without knowing they were a part of them.
There were no snacks or water provided to guests.
Volunteers kept attendees from finding or interacting with guests when they were on con floor. & vice versa.
Guests had valuables stolen - cookies, books, purses, etc
During the ball people were sexually harassed & assaulted by people who weren't even part of the con.
Volunteers & directors were going in guest hotel rooms without permission.
Several guests are not coming back & many others who weren't there this year are no longer attending.
Apparently in the FB group moderators aren't allowing in posts disparaging the con.
The con chair was supposed to answer questions in a video chat, but dipped out last second.
Like this was quite literally a clusterfuck to end all clusterfucks.
So if anyone knows or has heard anything let me know. I want to share it with those affected on Threads.
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IM SO SICK OF YOU ALL
No nuance allowed. please share for a bigger sample 💕💕💕💕💕
*by eat i mean how do you prefer your cereal.
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