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That’s a cute foot fetish you got there, would you mind keeping it 25796323689432 feet away from me?

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Hey guys, my opponent just fused their entire side of the board into a gestalt entity, which is currently dissecting and calcifying my pieces such that they fit into its twisted vision of an eternal, perfect state of the universe. What's the best counter in this situation?

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a robot shibari'd with its own wires. you agree, yes? reblog

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same goes for unlimited sick days, which my company does. I thought this would be great for me, a person with chronic pain, but in reality it meant I got zero sick days until I went through multiple humiliating reviews with my company's disability insurance (note: not MY insurance) where they basically treated me like I was faking it

Do not fall for the trap (moreso for salary workers), also known as fto (flexible time off)

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By the homeworld I hope to see one day...

Prints of this, as well as a few other Mass Effect stained glass pieces, are now available! I’d love to see/hear about it if you order any, it would absolutely make my day <3

This one, Femshep, and Mordin are the only ones currently finished, but I have plans to do a few other characters as well; you can check out the #mass effect stained glass tag on my blog to see the others, if they happen to exist when you come across this post!

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Father Astarion

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man i rewlly want one of those tattoos that look like. fucking robot parts. you know what i mean

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Myyy problem with a lot of ship content is that people have this tendency to make the characters, like... too normal. If you want to see your favorite little guys just happy and well adjusted that's your prerogative but To Me a lot of the most interesting pairings are fun because they're both being weird about it. I don't want to sand down my freaks I want to study them. Sometimes their dynamics in canon are better

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some of the shit thats being demanded of an archive run by volunteers is more than a little ridiculous. Putting the onus on, amongst other things, not having a timeline for when emails will be responded to- and not seeing that a quintupling of their usual attendance in a discord meeting would cause things to get a little crazy- does little more than reduce the feeling of seriousness for the rest of your cause. Cmon now

i mean, i do hear you on things like responding to emails. what was frustrating in that board meeting was that they didn't have a good process for taking questions and made it incredibly confusing to know how to do it, and then, when people would ask for a better process/clarification, board members would simply say, "then use our contact us form!" despite people knowing that they don't have time and energy to respond to those promptly - or, possibly, to even read them. so it felt like they were trying to just push us off either way.

i disagree with you on preparation for the meeting, though. there was just no way they couldn't have expected a much bigger meeting than usual, because the issues that have come up in the past couple months have covered such a range of issues - from racism to AI stuff to mistreatment of volunteers - that there was bound to be interest. the board had been receiving tons of messages via that contact us form. their own volunteers warned them that it would be a big meeting. @end-otw-racism was publicly encouraging people to attend and even shared what kinds of questions people could ask about racism! there was no reason not to be better prepared.

i also want to emphasize that there otw does not have to be a scrappy, incompetent organization. they have over a thousand volunteers and more than a $2.5 million budget surplus. meaning that money is not needed for their next six months of operating expenses, nor has it been dedicated to anything else (at least publicly). they have so little idea what to do with that money that in 2022 they only earned ~$90 in interest income, meaning that money has not even been invested prudently. it's ludicrous. and it's not unreasonable to expect that an organization use its resources properly. i know tons of nonprofits that would be thrilled to have $2.5 million (which is five years of otw's operating expenses - an absurd amount to have in reserve!) that are far smaller and scrappier.

back to this meeting - there were lots of very simple things they could have done differently. they could have appointed other otw volunteers to moderate the channels so that the board members could focus on actually answering questions. they could have frozen messages in the main channel earlier when it was already looking chaotic (they did not do so until halfway through the meeting), but simultaneously had a separate channel for questions so that those were not lost. they could have made a policy of only one question per attendee so that some folks were not hogging the conversation. all of these things could have been done in the moment when they realized how much of a shitshow the meeting was becoming.

when an organization that people are supporting and donating to cannot adequately respond to constructive questions and feedback, that is pretty unacceptable. and so many of us are coming in with a lot of distrust because otw has failed and delayed on so many of their commitments to fans of color in the past. i'm not inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt - they have to earn people's trust back. this meeting was not a step in that direction.

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As a fellow hung like a horse girl my favourite crime is going to gay bars wearing a skirt that barely covers the tip

this ask is like the polar opposite of anon hate. youve sent me anonymous bliss & splendor & joy

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I saw a post about the OTW abuse stuff that upset me a lot. I'm not going to link to it because it's full of utter nonsense, but I want to make clear this is not anti bullshit. This is the farthest from anti bullshit I can think of.

This is real substantiative harm that happened to a volunteer. Even if you don't believe it's true, don't you think just the accusation is enough to take seriously?

No, it's not great a lot of evidence is coming from an anon fandom meme. But for Reasons, this person felt it was the only place they could talk about it without fear of retaliation (which happened anyways).

And this pattern of behavior matches up with what people in fandom have seen from the OTW for a decade plus. It is a deeply dysfunctional organization that has managed to survive because it is the only one of its kind. (This does not have to be the case, but that's a whole different topic.)

The one thing that is correct from the post is the OTW was founded to ensure a place for objectionable but still legal transformative content. That was absolutely not what was being addressed, or what the volunteer saw. It was actual CSAM (or what was possibly actual CSAM), which is why the authorities got involved.

I will defend to the death fandom's right to produce the most heinous, fucked-up fanwork about fictional people, as long as it's warned for/tagged properly. But when real harm happens to actual people and is not remediated? That is where I draw the line.

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If you are following any discussions about the OTW, from End OTW Racism to the AI discussions to random other shit, I would strongly strongly recommend you read this comment and replies from an ex-PAC volunteer who was the AO3 Abuse Team's go-to volunteer for handling CSEM (real actual CSEM, suspected CSEM, or CSEM distribution attempts; not Wincest extreme underage) and who was "fired" from the organization by a legal team that appears to be running roughshod over other stakeholders in the org and contributing to a broadly abusive and horrendous environment for volunteers. You can use Dreamwidth search, if you have an account, to find terms like "PAC nonny" and see earlier comments as well.

I am a long-time OTW skeptic and I find this information to be horrifying in the most serious possible way; this kind of mismanagement and abuse will have long-term impacts on volunteers, and is indicative of carelessness and incompetency that IMO is likely to threaten the long-term viability of the org. In addition, it is breathtakingly cruel behavior.

The OTW failing to act on escalating CSEM harassment, failing to provide volunteers with appropriate support after being exposed to CSEM, failing to safeguard Policy & Abuse via appropriate processes and technical support, and failing to behave ethically and fairly with regards to dismissing a volunteer their board members disliked, are all completely unacceptable. It's genuinely horrifying stuff and the OTW should address it.

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it fucking sucks how you can do all the therapy and self healing in the world and you still have to wake up living under a capitalist death cult that's killed community and crushes your soul