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snow

I bet the wildlife is bewildered

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Also not a fan of the word refugee being applied to social media users who decide to switch platforms when there are actual refugee crises happening that all of our Western governments are happily fuelling with bombs

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Crocheting more socks

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heheeh snowww

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Power flickering so no more writing for me. Boo.

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*claims to be a blog for a fandom event*

*refuses to answer basic questions about the rules*

*doesn't include summaries for a list of 12 fanfictions you're listing out from last year's event*

like are you trying to make people not want to participate?

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Me @ the tumblr search bar: Fanfic prompts?

tumblr search: 100% nothing but shipping prompts (in small and colored text)

Me: Disgusting and useless.

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It’s clearly natural 🙄

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I do still think it's so funny that in 2023 I was like yeah~!!!! let's go!!! murderbot fandom challenge!!!

and then spent a week+ not being able to see from my new glasses prescription getting fucked up

in the shortest month of the year.

lofl.

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only way to make fandom even remotely tolerable

a shirt that says I♡ BLOCKING PEOPLE

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girlies maybe tma/tme is not the Only Axis Of Oppression ever to exist?

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it's just gonna be the same thing for 2025 but this year. hopefully. my glasses don't get fucked up like they did in 2023 so I spent a week not being able to see lofl......................

I think it'd be fun, so here you go.

You can submit art, writing, music videos, whatever you can think of.

[ID: A calendar for February 2023, with each date including an art prompt.

The whole thing reads:

February 2023 Murderbot challenge bonus points if you write only in 3rd person pov rather than 1st

01: Escaped large animal on the station

02: But who did leave the cracker wrapper in the sink?

03: Meeting another Rogue SecUnit

04: Helping enslaved constructs and humans escape a mining outpost

05: The wormhole

06: Pride and defiance

07: A disabled human teaches Murderbot about Preservation's wildlife

08: Murderbot meets a human who uses it/its pronouns

09: One of the other PreservationAux teammembers comes out as nonbinary

10: Murderbot learns the word "autistic"

11: Murderbot is trapped alone on a ghostship with an alien

12: Gurathin apologizes for being such an asshole

13: The ComfortUnit from RaviHyral runs into Murderbot again while they're both trying to rescue the same ship full of bots being sent to be turned into scrap

14: Murderbot hangs out with a group of trans humans and bots

15: The story of how Murderbot changes its pronouns to it/its

16: "So, what's the plot to this show?"

17: Murderbot makes a Sanctuary Moon fanfilm with Ratthi

18: Murderbot meets another person who's touch averse.

19: Murderbot joins a support group for refugees from the Corporation Rim

20: Murderbot learns the word "aroace"

21: Someone purposefully misgenders Murderbot. Pin-Lee has something to say about that.

22: Murderbot helps some locals pirate media from the Corporation Rim

23: Murderbot realizes just how much propaganda is in The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon

24: Murderbot teaches a human to impersonate a SecUnit

25: The secret world below Preservation's surface…

26: Murderbot creates a virus to destroy governor modules and sends it to the Company

27: Murderbot receives a permanent injury

28: Several winged, shapeshifting aliens fall out of a portal on Preservation Station"

End ID.]

You do not have to do all the challenges, and they don't all have to be done before the end of February. You can post them at any time.

Rules:

1: No shipping Murderbot with anyone, in any way. It is aroace and explicitly repulsed by relationships of all kind.

2: No erasing the fact that Murderbot is touch averse and does not ever want to be touched. The only time it lets anyone touch it is if it's saving their lives, or if they're saving its. Lives literally have to be at stake. Any other time, touch is completely off limits, yes, even for people it likes and trusts. No, you are also not allowed to draw representations of what's happening in the feed if you're going to show it as Murderbot touching someone else and enjoying it.

3: No misgendering Murderbot or any other character who uses neopronouns unless the entire point is to show it's bad. EX: You the author cannot misgender Murderbot, but an antagonist can.

4: No whitewashing or lightening Murderbot's skin. Murderbot, in the official art, has very dark skin and black hair. Do not erase this fact. Do not draw Gurathin as the literal Aryan ideal because you can't stand the thought that the protagonists are all black and brown people. White is not the default. White with blonde hair and blue eyes is absolutely not the fucking default.

5: If you are submitting art, Murderbot's face should be hidden in some way. It does not want people to see its face. We should respect that when we draw it, and there are plenty of fun and creative ways to accomplish this.

6: No NSFW.

7: Tag posts for the challenge with "Murderbotfandomchallenge" and "Murderbotfandomchallenge2023" if you want people to be able to find them specifically.

Entries that follow the rules will be reblogged to @murderbot-fandom-challenge event.

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#and/or bimisic

if the only time you're okay with saying "girls shouldn't have to end up with a guy at the end of the movie!!!!" is when it's a black girl protagonist, or a black guy love interest, you aren't a feminist, you're just fucking racist.

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how many times do we have to explain to people that being a minority does not give you a free pass to be a raging bigot and that having your bigotry criticized is not in fact bigotry against you.

You people just refuse to let go of your deathgrip on White Feminism and we can tell.

Harassing intersex people into accepting your binary views of the world does in fact make you a bigot. And no, people criticizing this is not you being the victim.

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i feel like im going mad seeing people be like "actually elon visited Auschwitz and is friends with Ben Shapiro so he cant be a nazi" as if surrounding yourself with nazis, supporting nazi parties and doing a nazi salute aint like indicative of being a nazi or people claiming this was just part of his autism, he's autistic you see and therefore it was just stimming or it was just a roman salute, quite different!!! its day one and people cant even call a nazi salute a nazi salute

it's because they're actually fine with Nazis so they don't want to condemn him for things they agree with!

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Do you have the Libby library app?

If not, download it to your phone, and under "Add library card" select the button to search for a library and start typing in "queer"...

Sign up with an email, no actual address required, and you are good to go 🏳️‍🌈

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no one gets a free pass to be a bigot without consequences or criticism and the fact that so many of you clearly want that to be the actual case is extremely concerning.

You are supposed to break down the wall that requires climbing, not kick the ladder out from under you.