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Small reminder that you should really download your favorite fics off of AO3. We are seeing mass censorships well as the chance that anything, such as another severe DDoS attack can shut down the site making works unaccessible and possibly lost for good.

If you do not know how to download fics, it is a simple 2-button click. I've written a tutorial here.

You think your stuff is safe until it's suddenly not, and then often times it's too late.

This post starts with AO3, (because it seems to be the common denominator across all users on this website /joking) but I recommend extending preservation efforts to anything online if you can manage to download it.

I'm not saying panic and start buying tons of storage devices to hold immense amounts of stuff. A cheap usb can hold plenty of things. You don't have to stop using services still available if it's more convenient to read books on your phone than to fill your backpack with 7 of them.

But you should still get (either buying or creating) physical versions because nothing is guarantee that it will remain forever. From shows being pulled from streaming services, to banned books, to losing access to digital copies of media because the service doesn't support it anymore, the account is lost, or the company goes under. This goes for messaging platforms as well. Your role-plays with your friends on discord can be lost forever, your photos can too.

This doesn't even include media most vulnerable to censorship and how quickly it can be removed, and quietly.

You think it will not happen to you, it will. Do not wait for unforeseen circumstances. Go back up and preserve what you can, your future self will be happy that you did.

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now THIS is an unboxing

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In light of recent events, let’s not forget that H. Bomberguy is responsible for driving a formerly-beloved transphobic TV writer into a downward spiral that cost him his career and his family… all by playing Donkey Kong.

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THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊

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reminders for today:

if you or someone you know might need it in the next few years, purchase plan b. the shelf life of plan b is 4 years, and we might not be able to access it as easily as we can now in the days ahead.

if you are larger/plus size: go online and purchase ella instead of plan b. plan b is less effective if you aren’t under 160 pounds.

if you can, purchase books that project 2025 is looking to ban.

mass deportations are starting. if you see ice vehicles or agents, yell ice raid and la migra as loud as you can.

if someone asks who you voted for, keep your mouth shut. they’re fishing for traitors.

if anyone, anyone at all asks about your neighbors or their legal status in the us, you know nothing. don’t be the reason that their family is separated.

if anyone asks about your religion or lack thereof, keep it vague. this administration will look for any excuse to persecute you.

your friends are trans or queer? for the next four years they’re not. don’t expose anyone’s status as a trans or queer person to anyone else, even if you think you can trust them.

did someone you know get an abortion? no, they didn’t. they were never pregnant.

in short, don’t be a snitch, and keep to yourself these next four years. we’ll make it through this even if it seems hopeless at times.

this is all i can think of at the moment, but i’ll be adding on to this as the day continues.

we can survive this. we’ve survived before, and we’ll survive again.

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I just read that Donald Trump and his circus took down a website called reproductiverights.gov

This was a website to help women learn about their reproductive rights in the US and to find health care.

This is absolutely disgusting so I’ll share in this post some resources in case you need them:

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn

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WE ARE STILL HERE

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So are we ready to admit the world is doomed yet <3

No cuz I'm not a little bitch

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small writing update.

i've taken some time to collect my thoughts about fandom spaces, and here's what i've decided. all GO writing is suspended until further notice. as for the TSP headcanons, i'm going to write for the headcanons that are left in my inbox, because you guys have been waiting long enough for that. i'll get to those over the next few days. after the inbox has been cleared, i'm not really sure what's next. i've been turning to more original work instead, actually. right now, i've got a trans poetry collection in the works that i hope will get published once it's finished. but yeah, i figured you guys deserved an update.

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Women, know that you are loved. Refugees, know that you are loved. LGBTQIA+ community, know that you are loved. Indigenous peoples, know that you are loved. Immigrants, know that you are loved. Children of immigrants, know that you are loved. Those struggling financially, know that you are loved. Senior citizens, know that you are loved. Black & Brown communities, know that you are loved. Disabled individuals, know that you are loved.

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You've been carrying a lot lately. I'm proud of you for enduring, but remember you don't have to carry it all alone. It's okay to ask for help.

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You will live to watch elon musk die. dont kill yourself.

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I don't really believe in separating the art from the artist, but I remember how much it hurt when I found out Rowling was an absolutely shit person and so I do worry about the Gaiman fans out there who are in pain because of the article that was dropped today. I hope this helps.

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having a hard time. the stuff with NG has been hitting harder since the second article came out. i don't really want to write GO content anymore, and i don't know where that leaves me.

same with TSP stuff, there are a lot of gross fans/content makers out there, and i just... want to retreat for a while. the work and love i've been putting into fandom projects feels tainted now, and i don't know where to go from here.

mostly, i feel like curling up in bed and not leaving it for a while.

obviously, this is not about me, and i'm not here to make what happened about myself. this is about the victims.

that being said, i don't know what to do anymore. i'm at a genuine loss, and there's no real clear solution.

sorry.