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Please, spread this for those who might need it right now
U.S. suicide hotline: call or text 988 (available 24 hours)
U.S. trans lifeline: (877) 565-8860 (when you call, you’ll speak to a trans/nonbinary peer operator. full anonymity and confidentiality)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) – provides 24/7 confidential support and referrals for individuals and families facing mental health and substance use disorders, including panic attacks and anxiety.
LGBT National Help Center: (888) 843-4564
Trevor Project: Call (866) 488-7386, text START to 678-678, or chat online.
Take care of yourself and each other. Please stay safe ♡
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It is what it is but like. Can it be something else
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having only been a fan of Drawfee for a short while - I mean it's been well over a year, possibly closing in on two, but importantly I started watching them after they went independent -
I have a very warped view of their history. I've watched plenty of videos from back when they worked for collegehumor and I'm vaguely aware of a period in between being laid off and going independent (possibly with some form of legal battle over the ownership of the youtube channel), I think I even know which episode of Drawtectives was done after that period (because they had to do it twice, not liking the energy of the first try)...
but all this to say that I just saw a post talking about a time that collegehumor was financially struggling and I just thought
"ah yes, that must've been when Drawfee got laid off"
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Yes, if you are in line before the polls close, you have a legal right to vote.
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one of the best fics i've ever read, one that had me addicted to my phone and crying, wasn't even prose. it was a huge, casual, bullet-pointed outline with every detail of an au that the author never got around to writing in full. and it was amazing.
let this be a message to all you who want to write but can't do it "normally": write it! someone out there will eat it up. whether that be poetry, tiny drabbles, or bullet pointed list: your work is always worth it. your art (yes, art!) will alway deserve to have its moment in the spotlight. why? because you made it. even if it wasn't done in a traditional matter, it came from your brain and your creativity and that is amazing.
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#my favorite fic I ever wrote...#wait first some background#as a teenager writing fanfic for the first time I had some weird notion that chapters needed to be long; 1000 words was the min length#in my mind at least#and I had difficulty getting there#so for what became my favorite fic to write I purposefully threw that rule out the window#I wrote a series of brief encounters between my two main characters with the chapter being exactly as long as it needed to be#usually a couple hundred words#but there were a few longer and a series of a about 5 chapters that were all one sentence#for art reasons#it was so much fun to write!#(of course I did have to add some kind of rules for myself#which was that 1) I didn't say the name of the story until the end#and 2) the characters don't/rarely refer to each other by first name
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The thing you have to keep in mind about Moby Dick is that it’s an explicitly anti-racist text written by a white guy in the 1850s. So you end up with stuff like Ishmael spending an entire paragraph complimenting a Polynesian guy on his skull shape.
#hmmm#why is it that the only response to “just as many white people should be enslaved as black people” that I can think of it#well...I guess as long as that number is zero#but something tells me that's not what it meant
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#I enjoy using the product rule occasionally#but the chain rule just seems like the sort of thing that you could settle down with#much more reliable(ly memorable for me#bad quotient rule bad quotient rule
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15?? More like 5.
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Grian in 2021: Let’s put my friends in a minecraft server with three lives and see who lasts longest :)
Grian in 2024: There is a snail following you constantly and if it touches you you die. It can’t be killed or stopped and it reflects damage and tnt back towards you. If you go too far away it teleports and it can burrow through blocks and fly using a propeller. Good luck.
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Hey, I wanna talk about how we do fandom! I've come to realize that I, personally, tend to differ from many others in that I highly prefer to only engage with a text as it's written, so I don't tend to really like fanon/extremely ooc characterizations and I find it hard to get invested in ships that aren't canon. My way of doing fandom isn't better or worse than anyone else's, but I am curious about how much of a minority I'm in! So:
*We've all seen ships of characters not from the same media and stuff like shipping the concept of ennui with the color blue, okay, I'm asking what you, personally, find compelling!
#similarly#there's a difference between “they have onscreen chemistry”#and “they have the potential to have chemistry”#having potential chemistry means that the characters could get along great#even if they never interact or are from different media entirely#it's all a sandbox of course#but definitely agreed that there's a difference between exploring non-canon possibilities with the character's as they stand#and changing the personalities entirely
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Sodom gets a whole range of sinful behaviors that I'm not sure have ever been strictly defined (at least not to me)
Gomorrah gets nothing
Where's all the love for gomo...gommamo...guh...
...gumorrary
...gamammory
Okay, I get why "gomorrahy" didn't take off
#expected this to get a better reception tbh#or you know#any response at all#:(#I was very proud of it
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Bad idea: continuous presidential election.
The polls never close, you can always go change your vote to any of the currently eligible candidates.
The president is in power as long as they have the most votes, but that could change at any time, not just every 4 years.
If enough people get out and vote you could end up going through 5 presidents in one month.
No term limits of any kind, maximums or minimums. You're in power for exactly as long as you're #1 in the never ending popularity poll.
#the society in Extras#though that was a continuous popularity contest for absolutely everyone#in a society where social capital was literally used as money
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AHEM. *leans on doorway* I would like to know about that time you led a strike in preschool.
Okay, storytime. Both of my parents worked full time, and the woman who ran the family daycare across the street “went away for her health”- a charming euphemism for her family having her institutionalised because they couldn’t cope with her schizophrenia, but that’s another story for another time- so I went to preschool for two years. The preschool I went to was a good one. Still is, actually. My brother and his wife have their little sprout on the waiting list already, and he’s not two yet. It’s built onto the side of an ex-church, and it has great play areas, a sandpit, ducks, the works. Nice. We did all the usual preschool stuff; craft activities, storytime, naptime, playing with toys. To help us learn to be responsible and cooperative human beings, we were expected to clean up after ourselves, and put things away when we were done with them. Being small children, this had mixed results, so at the end of every day, there’d be a big group cleanup, where we went through and picked all the toys and books up off the floor of the main room and put everything in order.
All very nice, right? Trouble was, about half of the kids got picked up at 5, 5:30ish, and the other half, whose parents worked later hours, would be there till 6 or 6:30. The cleanup usually happened around 6, so the kids whose parents could pick them up early never had to clean up, and I noticed pretty quickly that the kids who never had to clean up at the end of the day didn’t seem to pick up after themselves during the day, either. They knew they wouldn’t have to deal with it, so they didn’t care.
I feel I should mention that my mother was, at the time, the secretary of a large public sector union. She’d been a unionist for some time (we’ve got a great picture somewhere of baby me on her lap at a Women In Leadership conference) and sometimes she had people over for dinner, and they’d talk about union business. I knew what was going on, here. This was a discriminatory practice. It targeted kids whose parents couldn’t afford for one of them to stay home with the kids. It encouraged unfair behaviour in the kids who didn’t have to clean up. This had to stop.
I went to the staff first. Mostly they laughed at me- in their defense, please picture a tiny blonde four-year-old in a princess dress squaring up to you about “dithcriminatory practitheth”- and told me I should set an example for the other kids by being tidy. Well. That wasn’t going to change anything. Having been knocked back by the administration, I took the struggle to the people. While we were cleaning up, I talked to the other kids who had to stay late, and we came to a consensus that things had to change. Look, to be honest, I don’t remember this happening with any kind of clarity. I was very small. Mum has told this story with great pride for some years, though, and most of the details come from her retelling. I don’t know if it was me who first suggested strike action, but I know it was me who led the sit-in protests; I’m told it was me who made an inspiring speech about fairness and division of labour, and it was definitely me whose parents got called.
Upshot was, we went over to a system of shorter clean-up sessions throughout the day- one before lunch, one after naptime, and one at the end of the day- and my mother has never let me forget that four-year-old me was a rabble-rousing monster child.
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Sodom gets a whole range of sinful behaviors that I'm not sure have ever been strictly defined (at least not to me)
Gomorrah gets nothing
Where's all the love for gomo...gommamo...guh...
...gumorrary
...gamammory
Okay, I get why "gomorrahy" didn't take off
#spurred by remembering the time that I saw a sign reading:#“now leaving Sodom and Gomorrah”#by the side of the highway just outside my home city#I'm not sure what the catalyst for that was (probably having a Pride parade)#but it made me happy
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