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Eleanor Tomlinson wore this green velvet cloak as Demelza Poldark in the 2017 third season of 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌.   But did you know the costume actually originated with the 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏, where Amanda Root wore it as Anne Elliot?   Learn more at Bit.ly/Acces135    

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I am now thinking of how a big part of how Lolitas where able to flourish in Mexico City is that there are a number of parks and spaces we could gather. While restaurant meets are popular because the distances are so big you get hungry there are still enough third spaces to start gathering before going elsewhere.

Though some got annoyed out of Chapultepec and Bellas Artes. 🤔

death of subcultures and death of third places are directly connected and you can’t convince me otherwise

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¡¡Suletta y su muleta!!! (Muleta= crutch)

makes me so happy whenever they draw suletta using a cane/crutches in official art. im very pleased that they dont treat her disability like something Bad and/or try to gloss over it

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People I have to tell… past week I finished watching Gundam witch from Mercury. I took a semester for a number of reasons… one that azteca 7 just didn’t continue from episode 19 and another was that I was doing a podcast about it with @retro-friki and I wanted to have the perspective of someone seeing it at the moment but I am so glad I watched, and glad I watched it at that pacing.

It was wonderful

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"The Onion’s bid was backed by the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and one first responder. It also will have an exclusive advertising deal with the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety."

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Oh shit… is bluesky down? Was there a traffic surge? Did the news about Alex Jones losing info wars overloaded the site?

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The Onion realized they could do the funniest thing ever and bought infowars. 🤣🤣🤣

At least one thing went really well this month

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dear americans,

as a polish queer woman and human rights activist, i know exactly how you're feeling right now and what to expect from these elections. i lived through the 2015-2023 regime of pis, a right-wing populist party that divided families in the same way trump did. i’ve experienced the rise of fascism in poland, the influence of far-right parties like konfederacja, and their “santa’s little helpers”—ordo iuris, an ultra-conservative catholic organization (banned in many countries, mind you) that helped enforce a near-total abortion ban and runs anti-queer campaigns in public spaces. i supported the black protests in 2016 as a middle schooler when they first tried to ban abortion. as an adult, i actively participated in the 2020 women’s strike, running from police tear gas daily after they finally passed the ban. i supported friends who faced charges.

i’ve lived through intense homophobia in poland as a queer teen and adult. i survived the first pride march in my hometown, where far-right extremists threw stones and glass at us. i endured the anti-queer propaganda spread by the ruling party in state-owned media. i survived the “rainbow night,” poland’s own stonewall moment in summer 2020, when police arrested around 50 queer activists following the arrest of margo, a nonbinary activist. i survived the "lgbt-free zones," the targeted violence, the slurs from strangers on the street, and the protests i held against queerphobia. it was hard as fuck, but i survived.

but just because i survived, it doesn’t mean others did. many women died because of the abortion ban—marta, justyna, izabela, dorota, joanna, maria, and many others who didn’t survive pis’s draconian anti-abortion laws. milo, kacper, michał, zuzia (she was 12), wiktor, and other queer and trans kids and young adults took their own lives because of the relentless queerphobia.

despite all of this, our experience in poland can serve as a guide now. here are some tips for staying safe and how we, polish queers and women, organized under the regime:

safety first, always. if you know someone who’s had an abortion, no you don’t. if you know someone is trans, no you don’t. if you know people who help with safe abortions, no you don’t—at least not until you know it’s 100% safe to share. if you are queer or have had an abortion, only share this with people you trust fully. most importantly, not everyone has to be an activist just because they’re part of a minority. if it feels unsafe to share that you're queer, trans, etc., then don’t. it doesn’t make you any less queer.

use secure, encrypted messaging like signal for conversations on potentially risky topics, such as queerness, abortion, organizing counter-actions, protests—anything that might be used against you.

stay anonymous online. if you want to research or report something without surveillance, do not use regular internet. get a vpn (mullvad is affordable and reliable), download the tor browser (for both onion and standard links), and if you plan to whistleblow, consider using a riseup email account.

organize and build networks. community is everything now. support each other, foster independence, because your government won’t have your back. set up collectives, grassroots movements. create lists of trusted professionals—lawyers, doctors, etc.—who can offer support.

to lawyers and doctors: please consider pro-bono work. this is what got us through poland’s hardest times. your work will be needed now more than ever.

for protests or risky actions: always write a pro-bono lawyer’s number on your arm with a permanent marker.

get to know the anarchist black cross federation and other resources on safety culture: "Starting an anarchist black cross group: A guide"; Still We Rise - A resource pack for transgender and non-gender conforming people in prison; Safe OUTside the system by the Audre Lorde Project;

for safe abortion info or involvement: get familiar with womenhelpwomen.

stay radical, stay strong, stay informed: The Anarchist Library

if i forgot to (or didn't) include something, don't hesitate to reblog this post with other resources.

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Anniversary and debut in Yamagata Back in August 2024, Miyuki (美ゆき) celebrated her 10th year as Yamagata Geiko, and we saw the debut of Wakana (わか奈), who previously worked as a Maiko in Yamagata from 2006-09. Miyuki works as Jikata Geiko (musician). As of September 24, Wakana also works as Jikata, but practises dance, so she can work as Tachikata Geiko in future. Congratulations to both!

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A drawing submission by Yua from Toyama Prefecture in Kera March 2001, Volume 30.

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Just saying… prision abolition might not happen this year… or the next 4… just being realistic…

this isn't going to happen but it WOULD be very funny

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An author is literally taking down her fanfic because people kept trying to sell printed copies on Etsy. Goddamnit people! The fanfic cannot be used for profit is not a warning made for shit and giggles.

And I know people who print to sell fanfics do not care about the fandom(s) or the consequences as they probably live in a state of wringing out money from stuff until there is no more. But I am still angry. Their selfishness is fucking us all.

Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

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Hope is hard. It hurts. It disappoints. It backfires.

But eventually, it reaches back.

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"how can you be blogging about fun stuff while this horrible thing is going on?"

there's always horrible things going on somewhere. if you refuse to calm down until it all stops, all you'll do is give yourself a stroke

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Gav’s Tavern Hi, I hope you like this. It is different from what I usually do. Also it was a lot of work.

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yo hey US people who sent in absentee ballots, they are tossing mail-in ballots for no reason. i just had to call my county board of elections and demand a cure for my ballot because north carolina didn't send out any notices of issues with ballots, and the issues are fake. if you voted by mail-in make sure your ballot was actually counted