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2017.09.08 15:07 katenepveu Toast Retrospective: Friday, September 5, 2014

Here is your Toast Retrospective for Friday, September 5, 2014, delicious Toasties!

Link Roundup! by Nicole Cliffe
Femslash In Space by Mallory Ortberg: “I’m flying today — involuntarily being dragged through the sky while crying with a certain soft and quiet dignity — so please enjoy this video of lesbian subtext from Star Trek set to the tune of Abba’s “I Fell in Love With A Starship Trooper.””
Modes Of Divination I Have Used, 1977 To Present by Felix Kent in Writing: “A General Note: I grew up in Los Angeles, in a household which many people would describe as New Age. A lot of things I believed then I no longer believe, or, more accurately, no longer believe are my business. However, certain habits of mind are ineradicable; one that I have been unable to eradicate is my desire to…”
Friday Open Thread. by Nicole Cliffe
Gal Science: Let’s All Talk About Slime Mold by Elizabeth Cutrone: “Let’s talk about mold. // Nope, not the stuff colonizing the fruit drawer of my fridge. That’s a personal problem, thanks. // Let’s talk about Physarum polycephalum, a slime mold (pictured right), which is incidentally not a mold but a member of kingdom Protista (kind of the taxonomic island of misfit organisms). Physarum is a gelatinous yellow decomposer which, though it’s single-celled, can grow to up to several square meters. Also, it’s smarter than you.”
“Taking a Mermaid to Church”: A Poem by Sarah Fletcher: “They told me she did not exist, at first, // that stained glass loves to trick the eye.”
Toast Points For The Week Of September 5th by Mallory Ortberg: “I am writing this to you FROM A PLANE, IN THE SKY, WHERE I AM NOT CURRENTLY CRYING. This is a moral victory unparalleled in the life of me. Guys, Buzzfeed Live was so amazing. I wish all of you could have been there. It was a freaking MURDERER’S ROW of talent.”

(All Retrospectives.)