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Please add tags I'm barely functional right now

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emily gwen, the creator of the sunset lesbian flag that we’ve come to commonly use, still continues to live in poverty.

multi-billion dollar companies have used their design and made profit from it, and yet they have not seen a cent for their creation.

i’ve been friends with emily for years, and i have not once seen them be financially stable the entire time. i’ve seen them homeless, unemployed, starving. right now, they need our help more than ever.

please consider donating to emily’s ko-fi, especially if you’ve used their design to create something and profited from it.

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today a fascist won an election for the first time since 1933. here, in germany.

i don't care if it's just one (out of 16) states. björn höcke is a fascist. a court decided not long ago that it's allowed to call him a nazi. bc he is one. not "far right" or "conservative" - he is a nazi.

here. in germany. and he just won an election.

it hasn't even been 100 years.

i am scared.

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Meal Prep? Idk, man, Oma called that eintuppern.

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Hey Wintersberg followers, guess what the fuck

It's back, bitches

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ok so apparently TERFs believe that when we say something along the lines of "reblog this post to turn everybody trans by 2050" that we're actually serious.

anyway reblog this post to turn everybody trans by 2050

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Sherlock Holmes having a universal ace experience -- expressing disinterest and immediately getting called an inhuman robot.

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We need to stop thinking of capitalism as the default economic norm and shifting away from that as radical thinking or restructuring. Socialism is the norm. Socialism and community based economics is what enabled us as a species to evolve and grow. Humanity exists because we evolved to care for each other, share resources, work communally, and see each other as fundamentally important just for being another human being instead of basing value off productive output. We have pre-historic evidence of humans who got permanently injured and who could not have survived with chronic ailments without the long term support and care of those around them. They couldn’t hunt or farm but they were a person so their community cared for them. That’s love. That’s beautiful. That’s what happens normally between other humans when they’re not living paycheck to paycheck to support the lifestyle of a billionaire who pays less tax than they do. 

Survival of the fittest isn’t survival of the individual - humanity’s greatest evolutionary advantage is being social.

It’s only in recent history that capitalism has emerged and used the economic and social power imbalance that it creates to reinforce that structure and then convince us that it’s normal. It’s not. Billionaires are abhorrent and unnatural. Increased productivity leading to record profits but workers still work the same hours is a bizarre punishment, not an achievement. It’s absurd that our labour should reward shareholders instead of being put into a communal resource pool to ensure that everyone has access to free medical care (LIKE FUCKING DENTAL), and public transport, and a renewable nationalised energy grid.

How ridiculous that we’ve normalised such a harsh, cruel, indifferent, and bizarre economic system as capitalism. How damning of it as a system that giant corporations spend billions to convince us that they’re working for our benefit while they literally destroy the planet while their workers live in poverty.

Socialist activists in the late 1800s and 1900s fought for the minimum wage, for the healthcare that we enjoy, for public transport, and public education, and libraries, and all the best things we enjoy - while capitalist corporations fought against those and then when they couldn’t stop them brainwashed everyone into thinking “yep, well that’s as good as it gets but we can’t improve it any more because otherwise we’d need to pay more than 0$ in tax and imagine how terrible that would be!”

Imagine how much better the world would be if we just kept going and reforming the world to be about people before profits.

Socialism is normal as fuck. It’s how the world naturally works and you’ve just been convinced otherwise.

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Wintersberg readers:

Gonna TRY to finish this fic for NYE

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This.

People who complain that school doesn't teach them anything they can use in real life often have severe misconceptions about what real life is. Chiefly, that they're already in it.

Yes, we could teach you how to fill out a tax form or pay bills, but I promise these things are actually quite unchallenging. Like, I could teach you, but it'd take like 20 minutes; you'll be fine.

The biggest problem is that these complaints make "real life" seem to just be 1. acquire job 2. know how to do job. And that's important, but it's a small fraction of life. If all my students have is a job and the ability to pay bills, then I haven't done justice to their education.

School also teaches you how to care about things. How to know when you must care. What to do with that care. You need to be equipped with critical thinking skills to decide what should be deconstructed, what you really believe and don't believe instead of what you're told. You need to know the history of these things to make informed choices. And yes, even math, even when they put letters in it, is giving you a mind. It's working and wiring your logical reasoning that will guide you.

The main thing people who make this complaint don't understand is that when we talk about children as the "next generation, the future" it's literal. We won't be here forever! We will die! And then it's YOU who is in charge! You decide!

You decide how society changes. You decide what stays and what gets left behind of popular ideology. So, you go to school, and we teach you everything we know. Yes, even that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell and lines from Shakespeare's sonnets and what year the civil war happened. Because it matters.

It matters because we know it! It's knowledge! And if we don't teach it, it dies, like we will, so now it's yours. Decide what you teach the next ones. And if that's just how to get a job and pay taxes, well, we did our best.

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Dear @catlady1986, as promised, here's some more appreciation and one more expression of gratitude for your fic "Hello Neighbor". :) I’m making a separate post here because I noticed that what I want to say actually doesn’t fit into the Ask box. xD

Thank you so much for writing this wonderful story! The past two years haven't always been easy for me since there's a lot going on in my life right now (many things are actually very positive, but there have been severe setbacks as well). Reading your fic was one of the highlights of my week and also helped me to stick to a (somewhat) healthy schedule because I always read it on Friday night and stopped working afterwards.

I genuinely admire your worldbuilding and character development skills. The characters that you presented were all so multilayered and relatable and their development was incredibly thought through. I found every character you introduced as well as their backstory extremely interesting. Additionally, (I think I never mentioned this in the comments) I love how inclusive you were with respect to the depiction of LGBT+ characters in the story and that there were many more besides the main ship. What I kept mentioning though, and what I’m gladly mentioning again, is your skillful introduction of so many RE characters to the story. As someone who seriously sucks as plot and worldbuilding, I truly admire your work here. Same goes for the many, many subplots besides the main plot. The world that you created felt so real in a way through this.

As a German speaker, I also love that you included so much German in the fic and that you put so much work into finding the correct expressions for everything and so on. I totally understand why authors decide to not include other languages in the end, but as a multilingual person, I appreciate it whenver this happens because switching between languages is simply real. xD

Finally, I think that the ending that you decided to choose now in the end is beautiful! Since a big part of what I do for a living is centered around writing, I can just tell you what you probably already know: Writing is rewriting. There are many famous authors who are known for rewriting entire novels. I admire you and every other fanfic writer for posting work in progress regularly since this requires a whole lot of courage. Another big part of what I do is sharing work in progress with others, and I think it’s super hard to show something to the world that isn’t all planned out. The point I’m trying to make here is that I think that changing parts of a story is just normal, and what’s important is that you are happy with the final work. We, your readers, love your work because of the decisions that you make with respect to it, because this is what makes this your work, and this is what we enjoy. :)

Anyways, I don’t know how many hours you put into this fic, but it must have been uncountably many, so I decided to take some of my time and put down my thoughts here. Hope you enjoy them! And I also hope that things get better for you! Whatever you get up to in the future, I wish you all the best, and if you end up writing more in the RE fandom, I’ll definitely be around and read it. Actually, I don’t comment on fics that often and it doesn’t happen that much that someone’s writing style clicks with me so that I decide to comment regularly (doesn’t mean that things I don’t comment on aren’t good works or anything, but still), and I’m generally rather shy on the internet. So there’s something really special about your writing, at least to me. :)

I probably forgot half of what I actually wanted to say, so it could be that I’ll have to make additions to this post. :D

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Well friends, this is it... The last page! I'm dropping it as a bonus for all of my subscribers this final month.

It's been an incredibly fun journey, and I'm immensely thankful to everyone for your encouragement and support! You're the reason that I was able to see this comic to completion. 🖤

Next month, the entire comic will be up for sale at the link in my bio. I'll continue to create some additional Wintersberg content, and I have other stuff in the works, so stay tuned! ☺️🖤🖤🖤

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Howl // Prey

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i know unicorns are usually silver or lavender with those skinny horse legs built for running but id like to see more unicorns with natural colouration built like tanks like these beasts

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gold fish ethan winters gets flushed and meets electric eel heisenberg in the gulf of mexico someone help him (i know they r both fresh water….. but shh… they r literally mermaids it is fine)