Double Open Salon Tomorrow!

Hallo!

This is an old gun emplacement overlooking the mouth of Sydney Harbour, near where I live. The decrepit architecture of war overlooking natural beauty is one of those things I find emotionally moving, even if I find it hard to put a finger on what emotion exactly is evoked. Melancholy? Nostalgia? Admiration? Disgust? Gratitude? Something in the Venn diagram overlap of those feelings.

We now have a Forum, so you can chat among yourselves about things that come up in the salons, or your projects or topics from the podcasts, Bugleverse or Tea With Alice or the Audible documentaries. The relevant link is here:

https://discord.gg/NsgVCMMM

There’s plenty of lovely books and universes that seem to have wildly toxic fanbases, but I’m assuming that keeping this among the Patreonites to begin ought to give us a good head start on a respectful culture.

If not, and things start to get snippy and mean, we’ll either shut it all down or lean in and just migrate to one of those too-right-wing-for-moderation alt social media sites and make it compulsory that all posts must recommend fringe medical treatments sold out of the back of a van.

Update Tomorrow, Double Salon

I’m doing a big life update tomorrow - to let you know what I’ll be doing for the rest of the year, and I figure to try to make it as accessible as possible - so I’ll do two Special Salons; open to all patreons of all levels.

Rotating through timezones weekly has been good for accessibility, so I’ll do one tomorrow evening Sydney time, and one the next morning.

For those of you who haven’t come to Salons before, the protocol is fairly straightforward:

• If you are shy and don’t want me to talk to you, just have your video off. Like being an audience member at the back of the room where the lights don’t reach.
• If there’s a topic you particularly want to open up, let me know before the salon in a comment here, or in DMs via Patreon.
• Otherwise, just stick your hand up or comment in the chat during the hour.

Here are the details, passcodes to come through to all levels tomorrow. I should be covering the same stuff in both, at least until we get sidetracked into more interesting stuff. I have bullet points and everything (well, today’s To Do list says ‘make bullet points for Life Update Patreon Salon’, so that’s almost the same thing)

Salon 35a Details

Time: Aug 31, 2021 09:00 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

Or your local equivalent: converter to help figure it out to stick in your calendar here

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86122998003?pwd=dXlGS0ZqKzM5S0xFWTdXRkRsMVg1dz09

Passcode to come through to all levels a few hours before.

Salon 35b Details

Time: Sep 1, 2021 07:00 AM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

Or your local equivalent: converter to help figure it out to stick in your calendar here

Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89251658043?pwd=L0tKbUV4OVRQbXF6ZEo5RWRxTFhUUT09

Passcode to come through to all levels a few hours before.

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