A refresher for those who have been following since the days of Kang World and an explanation for those who are t3h n00bz.

For a short while, we used to pick a theme and everyone would write something within that. Usually it was some version of longform because I cannot poem.  Seriously, I cannot even write a haiku – I’m that fucking useless in this regard.  But we did this and it was challenging and fun. Please don’t ask me to unearth the archives because I cannot be arsed to code, migrate or resurrect the dead.  My skillz are mad but they are limited.

Anyhow, while we’re introducing some new things:  Go Fuck Yourself Weekly (double entendre intended), we’re going to bring back some old things.  The Round Robin is one but it may not be permanent.

Brian Kurcaba of West Virginia made a horrendous comment about rape, unplanned pregnancy and abortion this week.  Automatically, we decided he was going to be nominated for GFYW.  As I started to work through some ideas, I realized I wanted to tell a story.  Kitten has a story, too. Actually, a lot of people have a story to tell.  These stories are about sexual abuse (any form).  The mere thought of condensing these stories just doesn’t sit well with me.  It didn’t sit well with her or another RMer, either.  After some discussion about how best to approach this topic, keep it isolated from the rest of the site due to the content, be sensitive to others and work with the limitations of WordPress, we decided it would be best if we put the Round Robin in a page (you can see it at the tippy-top, next to About) and have our posts as subs, just as our bios are.  For whatever reason, I decided to spew first.  Just in one of those wormholes today.

This is not funny content.  It’s not supposed to be funny content.  The content is deeply personal, graphic and potentially upsetting.  You’re not going to be able to unsee this, folks.  We ask that you take the time to read the Round Robin detail and respect the rules of engagement.  We ask that you read the detail in advance of reading the pages as they are published.  We’re not going to push them en masse.  From my perspective, not only does one have to be willing to write the story – they have to be willing to hit publish and deal with everything that comes with hitting publish.

So that is what is brewing today.

In a few hours or a few days, the snark will be back.  The snark never leaves.  It does like a nap now and then, though.  And the poets, they’re still here, as well.  Well, they’re actually outside building their first snowman or shoveling snow or complaining about snow or thinking about getting the fuck away from snow.  Whatever.  Normality is just around the corner, y’all.