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andrewryanandme:

wholeheartedsuggestions:

ruthsic:

wholeheartedsuggestions:

hey, stop blaming yourself for what people did to you. it’s not your fault. you didn’t cause it. some people are just assholes.

What if I did it to myself?

forgive.

jumpingjacktrash:

agingwunderkind:

jennypen:

“Ew you’re an adult why are you in fandom”
Kid, if being mocked for fandom shit wasn’t enough to stop me when I was an actual 15 year old, hearing it from a 15 year old when I’m 30 is genuinely hilarious

by the time you’re in your mid forties, it’s nothing more than a background buzzing, like cicadas on a summer afternoon

it’s kind of cute. like toddlers with their water wings sitting around wondering what all these adults are doing in the useless 12-foor-deep deep bit of THEIR wading pool.

we created fandom, darlings. we continue to create it. you’re in our house, not the other way round.

it’s ok. just keep having fun. don’t worry about it too much.

geekandmisandry:

sadhoc:

laws about minimum wage should apply to disabled people

laws about minimum wage should apply to incarcerated people 

everyone deserves a fair living wage for their labor

“If that was the case then employers wouldn’t want to hire disabled people.”

Cool, make them. Crack down on discriminatory workplaces. Some person’s labor is not worth inherently less than when someone else does the same job.

elfwreck:

gallusrostromegalus:

moonblossom:

hiddenlacuna:

saathi1013:

hiddenlacuna:

hobbitystmarymorstan:

styleandpanachee:

yall ever heard about ao3s next of kin policy

..hmmm..

Who wants to be executor of my smut?

…is this supposed to be considered weird? I don’t get it.

I think it’s more that it was an unexpected feature. I’m glad it’s there.

Yeah I actually found it while prepping for brain surgery, and was incredibly relieved that it was a built-in feature and not something I’d have to leave convoluted instructions about or whatever. It’s a bit morbid, sure, but it’s a great feature.

…an unexpected but very appreciated feature.

This is a feature designed by women who’d been in fandom for decades, and who had faced the issue of, “X is dead, and we know she loved fandom, so… can we reprint her stories? Who can decide? Her family knows fuck-all about fandom. Who was her best friend? Do they know if she would’ve liked her story to be reprinted in the Best Of OTP Fic zine?”

Running across that once doesn’t make you think about a policy, but by the time it’s five to ten times, and then you’ve seen people vanish from the internet (might be dead; might just be not interested anymore) and nobody knows whether it’s okay to collect their fic in an archive or transfer it to a new one….

Yeah, the FNoK policy is one of the awesome things about AO3.

heelsandswords:

prochoice-or-gtfo:

protego-et-servio:

The point of voting blue in 2018 isn’t to make the US perfect. We cannot accomplish that in one fell swoop. There’s gerrymandering, voter apathy, voter suppression, and generations of older party-line fucks we have to deal with.

Voting blue in 2018 is to make it less immediately threatening for PoC, LGBT+ people, the disabled, and any other marginalized demographic. It’s a stopgap against Republicans who are aligned with Nazis, white supremacists, and sexual abusers.

Correcting politics in the United States is going to take decades of new voters staying on top of politics and not falling prey to apathy, like our predecessors. 

People telling you not to waste a vote on 3rd Party this midterm aren’t saying “never vote 3rd party.” Republicans have united behind one utterly heinous front. We need to unite behind Democrats, for the time being.

In Canada, splitting the leftwing vote between the Liberal and New Democratic Parties was how we wound up with almost 10 years of Stephen Harper. Holding our noses and voting for the party that had the best chance of winning was how we got Justin Trudeau, who isn’t perfect, but is leagues better than a Conservative government. Yes, it sucks to have to make sacrifices, but you need to look at your alternatives.
-V

I think the most important thing people have to remember is that it’s easier to make forward progress when the people in power don’t inherently want you dead.

We’re not going to have a utopia. Let alone a utopia in our lifetime. But we can make a better society. We don’t do that by only allowing perfection. Perfectionism gets you nowhere. What we need is “good enough”. Is the bar for “good enough” really low right now? Yes. Does that change that that IS good enough? No. Good enough saves lives, helps us maintain energy to work on raising the bar, and gets us at least pointed in the right direction.

So just hold your nose and fucking vote blue. Keep voting blue. Because we can’t really raise the bar until we’ve not only made some changes – Obama made changes and we tried to raise the bar too early – but sustained those changes.

Social progress is not a sprint. It’s a marathon of lifetimes. It takes lives. Susan B. Anthony’s life went to social progress. Sojourner Truth’s life went to social progress. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life went to social progress. Marsha P. Johnson’s life went to social progress. People have fought and died for social progress, and it’s not fast or easy.

But it’s worth it.

This is the race of the tortoise and the hare, and we must be the tortoise. Even though it’s not exciting, or fun, or easy, let alone fast.

lilmisscopypaster:

baking-accident:

tide pods are absolutely an aperture science invention. blue, orange, and white color scheme? pleasing rounded plastic aesthetic? look tasty but will burn your throat and kill you? i bet they were cave johnson’s attempt at creating delicious snack packs

“Cave Johnson here, 

So I have some bad news and some good news, the bad news is those Aperture Science confectionaries we just spent millions of dollars making are absolutely toxic, they will rupture your insides immediately upon ingesting them. The good news is we’ve found they’re great for taking stains out of clothes.”