Notices by artsyhonker aka Kathryn (artsyhonker@mastodon.art), page 6

Never for a moment doubt that the gigantic corporate machines built around controlling and extracting creative art from those with talent are steadily increasing their diet. If we want to see a different landscape, it's going to take action.

If it resulted in one more CC-licensed album per month we'd all still be ahead

what if everybody wrote one email every week asking one of their favorite artists if they would release one of their older albums under a Creative Commons license

On 22nd February, two of my pieces will be sung at Evensong at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. One is my Nunc dimittis, the other is my setting of 'Christ has no body now on earth but ours' by Teresa d'Avila.

Music list available to download from https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/cathedral-services-and-events/services-and-music-list

Sheet music for my pieces is available free online, thanks to my generous patrons.

OK.

I need to hire a professional sensitivity reader/consultant to have a look at a poem for me.

It's a bit delicate, because it isn't my poem! But I have, with permission, set it to music.

I haven't published yet, and I'm aware there is one line that might be ableist but in all honesty I can't tell. If it is, I need help finding words to ask the poet to change it.

Is this a thing that can be bought? How much am I looking at?

#ComposerProblems

Some words for sexual orientations:

* sexual orientation = drawing or faining (fain is an archaic English word for desire; see https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fain )
* #asexual = undrawn or unfaining
* bisexual = twain-drawn or twain-fain
* gay (in the sense of homosexual) = same-drawn or same-fain
* gay (strictly in the sense of men loving men) = wer-drawn or wer-fain (wer or were is an archaic English word for a specifically male human, whereas "man" was a gender-neutral word for a human; see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wer#English )
* heterosexual = other-fain, else-fain, or else-drawn
* lesbian = lass-fain, lass-drawn, lady-fain, lady-drawn, or wif-fain (wif is a Middle English word for woman; see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wif#Middle_English )

Some words about gender:

* gender = kind
* assigned gender = allotted kind
* gender dysphoria = kind-woe
* #transgender = cross-kind
* transition = crossing
* cisgender = same-side-kind or stay-kind

Some words about nonbinary gender:

* gender binary = kind twofoldness
* binary genders = twain kinds
* #nonbinary = untwain
* genderfluid = kind-flow
* genderqueer = kind-queer
agender or genderless = kindless
* bigender = twi-kind
* neutral gender = fair-kind
* neutrois = fair-three

Building words from Germanic English roots is a fun linguistic experiment that is helpful when you find yourself overwhelmed with what we think of as "long words," which are of Greek or Latin origin. Wikipedia gives several examples of writings that attempted to do that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_English
The #Anglish wiki has a lot of resources for if you want to try it too:
https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Main_leaf

Pen technology geeks: have you invented a music manuscript rastrum pen that takes ink cartridges yet? I still want to draw curved scores.

Everything I have tried so far smudges or is a dip pen or is darker or lighter or larger than I want. But really, a cartridge fountain pen or some kind of fineliner would be ideal; 1cm wide total, five lines.

#ComposerProblems
#Calligraphy

#mastometa are there any good usability options for emojis? Like, making them bigger or showing alt-text all the time? I pretty much never know what an emoji is supposed to be cause they're too tiny to decipher.

I really don't like doing this, but my university application - coming as it did at the end of the month - sucked the last £18 out of my bank account.

I have got nothing until the end of February and I have two job interviews and (hopefully) a university interview to travel to. I need £200 to pay outstanding bills and survive the month. Every tiny bit would help.

I am a trans NB person trying to dump old baggage and start again with life now that I know who I am.

https://www.paypal.me/radiosocial

Me, watching "Tidying up" on Netflix: Wow, this Konmari thing is pretty awesome, I'm gonna clean up my space and declutter a bit.

Also me: Hmm, now this show's so popular, the thrift stores and flea markets are gonna have some niiiiiice stuff in them pretty soon...