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YALL. Holly Black has a list of resources she's used for writing her books on the fair folk. I'm OBSESSED. I love her work and world building. it's so true to the heart of faeries

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On Friendship.

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Due to the situation in America, I've decided to make a discord server with PDFs of the banned books.

Nosferatu's library is divided into categories based on authors, with each book having its own channel and each author having a discussion forum for you to talk about the books and the authors.

There is also a general chat, a channel where I update all the books I intend to add, and a channel to recommend more books to add.

Fuck Trump. Stay strong. Don't let the fascists win.

Edit: No, I will not be using a different platform or way to do this. I'm not asking for advice on what to use instead of Discord. If you know a better way, do it yourself. I will gladly share the PDFs with you. Otherwise, I'll stick to my method.

Edit 2: Link renewed, should work again.

Edit 3: Server is going through a massive structure re-work. For now, I am unfortunately unable to take book requests. Please hold on.

Edit 4: Server re-work is mostly done. We're working through as many important books and files as we can. We still don't take book requests for now, but we've managed to obtain a lot of CDC documents, history and safety resources (i love you willow).

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whoever bought the domain spidersge.org and had it go to a simple html page with nothing except the text of the famous spiders georg post:

Thank you. You are doing good work. Hope you have a wonderful day

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there will never be another headline that comes close to comparing with this

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~ via mignonettetakespictures ~

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Deny. Deny. Deny.

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The cruelty of racist white men.

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Also here's a free short book from Gutenberg.org:

Simple Sabotage Field Manual

It's great. Has tons of you-and-me-regular-people type tips on throwing sand in fascist gears.

Due to the situation in America, I've decided to make a discord server with PDFs of the banned books.

Nosferatu's library is divided into categories based on authors, with each book having its own channel and each author having a discussion forum for you to talk about the books and the authors.

There is also a general chat, a channel where I update all the books I intend to add, and a channel to recommend more books to add.

Fuck Trump. Stay strong. Don't let the fascists win.

Edit: No, I will not be using a different platform or way to do this. I'm not asking for advice on what to use instead of Discord. If you know a better way, do it yourself. I will gladly share the PDFs with you. Otherwise, I'll stick to my method.

Edit 2: Link renewed, should work again.

Edit 3: Server is going through a massive structure re-work. For now, I am unfortunately unable to take book requests. Please hold on.

Edit 4: Server re-work is mostly done. We're working through as many important books and files as we can. We still don't take book requests for now, but we've managed to obtain a lot of CDC documents, history and safety resources (i love you willow).

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I will never understand the hate for grey hairs. Your hair has sliver in it now. You have the color of stars on your hair. You have proof you survived and grew up. You have proof you are living. How is any of this bad?

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He is sealed in there for all of mankind’s safety

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Here’s why this matters: imprecise and euphemistic language is the language of fascists, authoritarians, and oppressors — power-craving leaders who either don’t want people to know what they are doing or don’t want them to think too hard about the illegality or immorality of their actions. The Nazis had all kinds of euphemisms — the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”, “protective custody”, “work-shy”, “enhanced interrogation” — to mask their mass imprisonment activities and mass murder.

–Jason Kottke at kottke.org

It's a fucking ongoing coup, and all the stuff the convicted felon is pushing is illegal. Contact your representatives to push back on all this (gestures broadly).

PS: Cruelty is the point.

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"it was in 2020" oh so like a year or so ago. a couple years. im sorry 5? did you just say five? five years ago ?

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i’m gonna make a movie where two normal ladies fall in love. everything’s chill, no age gap, they’re both out of the closet, their families love them, everything’s fine. the catch is that one lady has a cat and the other lady never figured out what the cat’s name was cause the Owner Lesbian ALWAYS uses a dumb nickname and now it’s been three years and they’re getting married and it’s too late to just ask

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We have always existed, and we always will.

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Other politicians are already pushing back.

The New York Attorney General Letitia James told hospitals to continue transgender care after Trump’s executive order, which is not a law. He can't make a law.

This stuff isn’t an illusion. It’s happening. It’s real. But you do “shock and awe” when you don’t actually have the power to make it stick. Otherwise there’s no need for the drama. You just do it. So recognizing that shock and confusion and not falling for it is essential to combating it.

– Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo