#Austin community venues

[keayexplores]

Central Machine Works: Where Community, Craft, and Good Times Meet

[nicodisigma]

characters i think will be back in TCOTD (please add more if i forgot someone!!)

obviously Hazel (and her horse), but that also means Frank to some extent since Rick started putting characters in 2-packs, 3-packs, xyz-packs (e.g. the hunters), because of how many of them there are now, and honestly can’t blame him

Jason, but i don’t really know if we should be happy cause that could mean resurrection and this trope usually is not executed well (that would be insane level of fan service too i fear 😭). also it was clear that Nico didn’t want to try communicating with him in any way like he did with Bianca, so i hope it will only be a ghost cameo and that’s it!

Percy, Annabeth and Grover, i actually ☝️ do think they are the people in the background of the tcotd cover. If Rick hasn’t messed up the timeline like he did in Wrath of the Triple Goddess, Percabeth should be in New Rome (idk what’s Grover doing there tho, probably visiting or helping)

Hades!!! Solangelo agreed to see Hades in tsats, cause Will had never seen him before, so I think it could even be a starting point of tcotd plot, which seems to revolve around monsters and the consequences of the events from tsats, so it all matches!

Naomi!!! It’s canon and confirmed!!! (she’s ginger trust me, you will see!!!!!) 🎊🎂🪅🎉🎊🎉🎂🎊🎉🪅🎊🎉🎊🎂 I just hope we will see her in her house in Austin and not on some concert venue 😁 i’m so excited

Lavinia Asimov and Poison Oak (omg i can’t believe it’s Lavinia’s gf actual name, in pl it was Toksykodendra i think it was way better idk 🙃). There are not many known* alive campers from CJ, so we are getting those 2 for sure. (notice how Lavinia is Nico’s second fellow European ☝️)

I forgot someone for sure (not Reyna, Apollo and Meg tho, I don’t really think there is a scenario where they could be easily implemented, especially that there were plans for a book about the hunters). Feel free to add or correct me 🚶‍♀️‍➡️

[slimybeth69]

Hello- this is my complete master list. (Things will be added as I write them.) It's 18+ ONLY, as almost all of my stories have a sexual theme or undertone.

Some of my work like my series Venus in Furs and A Small Spark vs A Great Forest can be rather dark, so check the tags and chapter warnings to save yourself some angst!!

If you're not a fan of the things I write, or the way I write-- please kindly move along! I still appreciate you.

AO3<- All of my fics can be found here.

My requests are on if anyone wants to send me some prompts! I love to see them, and it's a challenge- which I love. Send 'em my way. Don't be shy.

One Shots

Pretty Pink Nails - (Joelxf!reader)Joel gets you a special treat but it comes at a price. (smut, DD/lg dynamics, dark!Joel, referenced non-con, weird and uncomfortable age gap-- but legal)

Crybaby- (joelx f!reader) A foul mouthed Joel and you meet in the woods. And the things he does to you are filthy. In the best way possible. (Rough sex, spitting, humiliation, anal sex, anal virginity, dirty talk.

“i’ll be here”- (joel x f!reader) Joel makes sure your new years isn’t as lonely as your christmas. (pure fluff)

Longer Reads

Such Small Hands - (Joelxf!reader)The events that take place after Crybaby. (smut, graphic depictions of violence, referenced/implied SA, blood/gore, canon to the show)

Venus in Furs- (joel x f!reader) After saving your life and getting you back to Jackson, things with you and Joel feel different. While navigating this new life, raising a teenager with a man you think you know-- you run into someone unexpected. A sequal to Such Small Hands. (dark!joel, liar!joel, drunk!joel)

Que Será, Será - (au!joelx f!reader)It's almost twenty years after some weird outbreak almost happened but the CDC took care of that... Now you're living in Austin, Texas as an adult. What happens when you meet Joel Miller who hasn't been hardened and ruined by twenty years of murder and loss?

Girl Dinner - (kidnapped!Joel x crazy/unhinged!reader) -Summary: After the civilized world you once knew came to an end-- the men that survived... well they just take, take, take. Growing tired of having things taken from you-- you have a hankerin' to take somethin' for yourself... and make him perfect. (dub-con/non-con/DDDNE/dark)

A Small Spark vs A Great Forest - frankie morales X +18 lady reader (no descriptions but has background) warnings: excplicit/smut (Minors DNI) toxic relationships (not frank), alcohol/smoking mentioned and used, twin flame connections, unhealthy obsessions, the use of little girl or Niñita (with no real defied age gap), other sad shit :(

Touch- (touch starved! din x reader) The Mandalorian is quite interested in what you've been doodling. What happens when he finds out?

COMING SOON

Thirst- (Marcus x f!reader) You were paid for... not uncommon in these times.... he want's you to do what though?

Director Dave- (Dave york x f!reader) Dave uses some interesting directing techniques to make sure that this years production of the community center play "A Christmas Carol" is the best show your small town has ever seen. Rating: Explicit Warnings: Corny smut. Fingering. Teasing. Weird dirty talk.

Coming Soon

drabble #1 - Joel/you drabble #2- Din/you drabble #3- drunk best man!Joel/ you crybaby universe drabble #1- Joel/you

[theheartnexttophan]

Month-in-Rephiew: October 2024

So @danrifics mentioned (x) that October 2024 was one of the greatest months in Phandom history, and I was was thinking about how literally so much happened it was hard to keep up, so here’s a day by day breakdown of the month with all the stuff Dan and Phil did! This isn’t intended to be a proper archive, just a memory refresher (go look at @danandphilupdates or @terribleinfluence-tour to see all the posts archived). I might try to do this each month from now on, as I find it helpful to be able to look back on!

Phil tweet: phone wallpaper

Dan retweet: dropped beads, PJ mentioned Phil’s “all pleasure now”,

LGBTQ+ Public Figures survey + Dan retweet

People Interview Preview, 2 Phil Instastories: Seattle

YourEx Interview

Phil retweet: carrying tabinof in pocket, 5 Dan Instastories: 3 Football game, repost of Last Disco hat from Phil, tour promo graphic, 4 Phil Instastories: 2 Football game, repost of Dan from football game, Dan in Last Disco hat, People Interview, DanAndPhilBEATS: Spooky Week, TIT: Seattle (1st in America)

Joint Insta post (with People Magazine): Interview (+Dan comment), Dan Instastory: People Interview, Phil Instastory: People Interview, Fan pics at Target, TIT: Seattle

OUR BIG GAY PROM NIGHT- Dan and Phil play The Sims 4: Season 2 #16, 2 Dan Instastories: Phortland, International phlesbian day (also a tweet), TIT: Portland

2 Phil Instastories: DanAndPhilBEATS (also tweet), Lowave (also tweet), TIT: Vancouver

Fan pics from airport

DAPG Community post: DanAndPhilBEATS, TIT: Oakland

2 Dan Instastories: Pharamount, iPad (and tweet and DAPG community post)

Dan TikTok: Married Life, (also Instastory), 2 Phil Instastories: 2 DnP Cocktails, TIT: Phoenix

Phil retweet: one second of every post hiatus DAPG vid, Fan pics from San Diego Zoo

Joint Insta post: West coast photodump, 5 Phil Instastories: photodump, plane, sunset Phil pic, DDR, landscape passing while driving 3 Dan Instastories: photodump, Phil in cafe, game at arcade

POPPY PLAYTIME ANIMATION! Dan and Phil (+Phil Instastory about it), 2 Fan pics from in the street, TIT: San Diego,

3 Dan Instastories: elevator doors, theatre picture, Ranboo, Phil Instastory: repost from venue, TIT: Los Angeles

Phanniversary, Phanpocalypse, Phandom Gives Livestream, No but seriously imagine it

Phil tweet: Dan’s reflective trousers (+Dan reply), TIT: Salt Lake City

Gays Against Humanity (+Phil Instastory about it), Phan #1 on Ships list, TIT: Denver

1 Video shoutout, Phil retweet: DAPG anniversary art, Phil Instastory: newlywed game questions

Fan pics at restaurant (from previous night), 3 video shoutouts, TIT: Kansas City

3 Phil Instastories: Puppies, Bucees promo for Austin, repost of puppies art, TIT: Grand Prairie

15th anniversary of Pinof, Take me back to 2009 merch, Our Phanniversary Newlyweds Game, TIT: Austin

1 video shoutout

Dan and Phil in The Backrooms (+Dan Instastory), Phil Instastory: Gay halloween bedsheets, TIT: St. Louis,

Dan and Phil ADOPT A BABY, TIT: Detroit,

Phil reblog of merch inspired pumpkin, Don’t Yap Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE) A Quiet Place: The Game, TIT: Akron

Dan and Phil play Five Nights at Freddy’s: THE JOY OF CREATION, joint Insta post: 2009 merch, 2 Dan Instastories: merch, repost of opposing fringes gravestones, TIT: Indianapolis

1 Phil Instastory: editing video, Halloween Baking- RADIOACTIVE MUG CAKES, Joint Insta post: good omens costumes (also posted on tumblr and twitter), 2 Dan Instastories: good omens post, good omens pic at bar, 3 fan pics from bar

[dertaglichedan]

Press conference for teen 'killer' Karmelo Anthony descends into chaos as victim's father is thrown out

The father of a teen boy who was stabbed to death at a track meet in Texas was thrown out of a press conference for his alleged killer and targeted with shocking insults from the accused's supporters.

Austin Metcalf's father Jeff Metcalf crashed a press conference on Thursday organized by the supporters of 17-year-old alleged killer Karmelo Anthony.

Metcalf, who had been standing with the press, was escorted out of the venue after police were called to the Next Generation Action Network's headquarters in Dallas.

Minister Dominique Alexander delayed the event until Metcalf, who refused to leave on his own when asked, was forced out of the room by security.

Alexander then slammed Metcalf for showing up uninvited, calling his behavior 'inappropriate,' and 'a disrespect to the dignity of his son', TMZ reported.

Anthony walked free from jail after a controversial decision by a judge to lower his bond for charges that he stabbed and killed Austin Metcalf, who died in his twin brother's arms.

The horrific killing at a track meet in Frisco has divided the community and nation at large, with Anthony's family claiming they have been left too afraid to leave their home over racist attacks. 

Anthony admitted to the stabbing, per police, but his lawyer has indicated he will claim that he acted in self-defense. 

Jeff Metcalf, whose son Austin was fatally stabbed by Karmelo Anthony, 17, at a track meet, showed up to a press conference organized by the accused teen killer's family on Thursday

[austinslounge]

Recently learned some info on Austin’s future from my beloved Nana (she’s 78 years old and has clairvoyance/psychic abilities she’s basically the seer of the family and she’s had visions since she was little. She’s predicted crazy stuff from Michael Jackson’s passing to simple things like my brother face planting into a birthday cake) seriously she’s never been wrong, but please take this with a grain of salt, I know some people don’t like this stuff, but it was interesting to share:

My Nana’s predictions:

Austin Butler will win an Oscar for a role no one expected him to win but it will greatly surpass Elvis and so many fantastic roles he’s done that the academy won’t regret giving it to him!

She says he will stay single a for a few years but He’ll fall in love with a co-star like him and it’ll be so shocking because no one expected it either.

My Nana says the co-star is younger, beautiful but kind and has grown up similar to him. Straight up 1950’s beauty. My Nana says she’s Marylin Monroe pretty.

He will do a movie with Chalamet again and another actor people love but my Nana wasn’t able to get a name. Chalamet will be shook how well the movie does and by the praise Butler receives! Chalamet will also win awards for this film and they’ll become even better friends. Definitely good news there.

Austin will have a scar from upcoming action film but it won’t be anything severe.

The co-star will be seen as his “Priscilla” and there will controversy and speculation from the public at first but they will be private and the acting community will be so supportive of this relationship.

The co-star has a distinct birth mark on their body and beautiful blonde hair. My nana says it’s not a brunette but more of a “strawberry blonde” she wasn’t able to get height or eye color but she says this person could be Latina or Italian.

They are pretty curvy and stylish, but not high maintenance and had to work hard their whole life. She says they are not a nepo baby. How relieving.

The co-star will be sought out by a musician but ultimately will choose Austin over the musician. My nana couldn’t get the name of the other guy, but this will cause a stir of reactions. The musician will try to bash Austin’s movies after this, but the general public will find his disturbing behavior amusing.

She says Austin won’t care about the musician feelings pffft. He thinks the dude is pretentious and mean for no reason. He won’t entertain him.

The co-star and Butler will be seen as an “IT” couple that never causes problems but always works together.

This doesn’t have anything to do with Austin per say but she said: Jacob Elordi will be in controversial situation as well, it may even ruin his career and this will make people see him differently.

Meanwhile Austin’s spiritual walk or his journey with God will become better. He’ll heal from pasts traumas and bad relationships.

My nana says he’ll get married and the wedding cake will have cherries on it. This is specific but she swears on it. Cherries everywhere. Vegas vibes. Glamour but small venue with only friends and family.

My nana says he won’t get divorced but he will retire when he’s older and start directing films instead. He’ll enjoy this.

Again these are just her predictions but even if one of these things coming true, I’m thanking Nana!

Oh wow! 😳

Your Nana sure has some interesting "predictions" for Austin lol. 😆

I take those things with a huge grain of salt tbh, but I guess we'll be able to see what ends up happening for Austin in the future! 🥰

I'm not really feeling the "Priscilla" romance prediction though 😬👀

[saturniandevil]

April 2025 Important Dates

AKA my notes on The Astrology Podcast's April forecast. This month's forecast notes are a little late, due in no small part to the eclipse at the end of March--Chris and Austin wanted to record as far away from the eclipse as they could for electional & mundane reasons, and I in turn was too busy to sit down and take notes on the 31st itself or the following week! As such I'll be skipping the March recap for this month (interested parties can watch the video linked above).

We entered the month fresh off the Aries eclipse, with its effects lasting into around the 5th of the month. The energy of major endings and beginnings in our lives is strongly in effect. Neptune has also just entered Aries after about 14 years in Pisces. Here's a visualization of "eclipse season" below:

April 4th - Saturn sextile Uranus Experimental Uranus and careful Saturn rarely work together well, but a sextile might be the perfect aspect to help us balance new endeavors with what's tried and true. Mercury and Venus's stations next week in late Pisces will reactivate this sextile as well.

April 7th - Retrograde Venus opposes Saturn, Mercury stations direct Mercury and Venus have started stationing direct and have just barely begun to be visible after sunrise (after they were being obscured by the eclipse!). Venus will emerge from the underworld to a place of power in her sign of exaltation, while Mercury isn't in as good shape--Pisces is their fall and exile, so if communications clear it's still a lot of work. Austin says Mercury "returns from the underworld confused and hungover to a bunch of weird emails."

April 12th - Full Moon in Libra, Venus stations direct The first lunation after eclipses will really start to bring things back to normal, especially with Venus going direct into a place of power in her exaltation. With Venus ruling the Moon, things should be set up for going forward and healing, but Mars in Cancer is still throwing a tantrum in the background, firing some warning shots before he enters Leo. Here's the chart:

April 16th - Mercury enters Aries

April 17th - Mercury conjunct Neptune

April 18th - Mars enters Leo Mars was last here back in the fall before retrograding into Cancer and bringing a cranky, childish, conservative mess to us the last few months. Mars in Leo brings us show masculinity and bravado, as well as bravery and showmanship. It can be admirable or obnoxious, depending on what you've got to show...Mars just gives you the energy! Mars stationed at 06 Leo before beginning this retrograde, so we'll be revisiting events as he retraces his steps through his post-retrograde shadow (which ends on May 1st). Cancer placements will be happy to know we're finally getting to the end of this Mars retrograde cycle:

April 19th - Sun enters Taurus This launches us into an upcoming T-square with the Sun (♉), Mars (♌), and Pluto (♒), further lighting up and complicating the Mars-Pluto energy elaborated below (April 26th).

April 20th - Sun square Mars

April 23rd - Sun square Pluto

April 24th - Venus conjunct Saturn

April 26th - Mars opposite Pluto Mars opposed Pluto right before the US election, the second pass around the new US Congress sworn in and the terrorist attacks in Las Vegas & New Orleans (as well as the possible source of the LA fires) on New Year's Eve/Day, and this upcoming transit is the third of the series. Mars's violence is amplified out of proportion by Pluto, giving us senseless violence and annihilation. We'll already start feeling this when Mars enters Pluto on the 18th...

Mars-Pluto makes us very aware of and irritated by power dynamics, both overt and subtle, real and imagined.

April 27th - New Moon in Taurus

The Moon getting involved further intensifies the Mars-Sun-Pluto T-square discussed above, though within a few days this starts to separate and the intensity fades.

April 30th - Venus enters Aries Venus is finally passing the last of her post-retrograde shadows, with Mercury completely clear and Mars well on his way out. April is the time to wrap up all of this unfinished business. Venus and Mars retrogrades give us big resets for the next year and change ahead.

[faegoddessog]

31: Samhain

Well loves, we made it, Every damn day (except that first one, which I'll rectify when I consolidate) Thanks to @slowsweetlove for providing the Austin based jungle-gym for me to play on. And thanks to all ya'll for hanging out with me , and Austin and sometimes Callum for October.. Hawtober? Hmmm...

Those of you that like to read my mind smut, I'll be taking a digital break for a while. Y'know: touch some grass, do some knitting, bake some bread, paint, declutter, put up some preserves or something cool like that.

Enjoy the end of my own creative challenge for #DDofAB- October 2024

Here is my ongoing masterlist of this project. Keep and eye out for the story in full (or at least less parts) to be posted

My other works are here if you are interested!

Warnings: missing the man, finding the man

You haven’t seen hide nor hair of Austin since those two weeks in New York.  He had pretty much moved out of his hotel and into your apartment for the duration of his stay.  He took you to plays, made you dinners and made sure a day didn’t go by without showing you that you mattered to him. That and he made sure your pussy stayed wet. You’d not had so much sex in your entire life. It was amazing. 

Then he was gone.  

Before he left, you two had agreed that, for now at least, you would keep it a ‘no strings attached’ kinda relationship. You had a whole bunch of work in the coming months and he was filming. He had explained that when he is working, he sometimes can’t really do anything else and usually his phone is taken from him.  He had texted you, off and on for a while, but it had been radio silence for some time. You knew he was filming in Hungary then here stateside somewhere. It was surreal and sometimes you felt like those two weeks were from someone else’s life. The lingering fear that it would be another ten years before you saw him again was kept only at bay by Callum. 

Cal had been far more communicative. He even popped into New York a couple times. Honestly he was far better at maintaining a friendship than Austin. 

“Yeah, it’s not like he doesn't care, he just gets caught up in creating character and the artist aspect of it all. Time kinda doesn't mean anything when he gets like that.  If you can handle that, you’ll be ok,” Cal had told you once at dinner. 

Funnily enough, neither of you were as driven to fuck without Austin there. You joked how he was the sexy lynchpin. 

Did you fuck anyway? Yeah, of course you did. But it was way more of a ‘friends with benefits’ feel than it had been with Austin.

Today though you are in the most unlikely of places. You are in Ohio for your cousin’s wedding. It was also Halloween, or Samhain, as she called it.

“It’s pronounced sow-een,” she kept telling anyone near with ears. She had this love affair with Halloween, excuse me, Samhain, so her wedding was gothy and occult themed. It was the only time she felt she could get away with it. Still there were grumbles from the relatives.  Skulls, ravens and ouija boards outfitted each table, complete with Tarot decks and black candles as wedding favors. 

She had arranged a palm reader and fortune teller  the way other people had DJ’s and photo booths.  The venu was out in a barn on her friends’ farm. You had come out that afternoon to help set it all up. The wedding wasn’t until after dark, of course. 

Her little sister, who was in her mid teens, had brought over a Ouija board and plonked down on the table where you were sitting and tasting the special "black widow" cocktail complete with black glitter and a red spherical ice cube. You thought it was a drink that tempted fate, and hoped it wasn't predictive of your cousins marriage to be.

"Play with me," she had asked, "it's not fun alone."

You agreed, what harm could it have really.

She asked things like:

Are there spirits in the barn? 'no'

Has anyone died in here? 'yes'

Am I crazy? 'no'

Have I met the person I'll marry?

The planchet wandered to ‘no’ for her and practically zipped to ‘yes’ for you. 

“Oooo, who is it! You have to spill, I’m dying to know!” she said wagging her eyebrows. She idolized you, living in the big city and making your own way in the world. You had promised her a trip to New York for a graduation present. She was definitely one of those black sheep of your midwestern family. Destined for something far bigger than marrying a local boy and popping out kids. 

“I don’t know, could be anyone,” you laughed, “I live in a city with eight million people.”  

“Ok, ok! Let’s try this. Ouija Board, where is this man?” she asks. 

O-U-T-S-I-D-E came the answer. 

“That’s unhelpful,” she made a sour face, “unless he’s like a forest ranger or something. Know any forest rangers?” 

“No,” You just laugh it off. Ouija Boards were supposed to be for talking to the dead. You are pretty sure that you aren't going to marry someone dead.

It was then that you heard the tell tale sounds of an old motorcycle in the driveway.

“Oh yeah, they said there was a movie being filmed about motorcycles and that they might be using the front drive to turn around in,” your little cousin says, walking towards the barn door. “Isn't that so neat, a movie, here!! I wonder if it has anyone famous in it. OMG that’d be lit! 

“I dunno, I’ll ask” you hear a deep voice outside. 

You turn just to see the silhouette of a tall man in the bright square of the barn door. 

“Excuse me, is there a restroom I could use here?” the timbre of the voice is unmistakable if layered with a Chicago accent. 

“Austin?” his name drops out of your mouth like a spell.

It’s bewitching, the way he strides into the barn, his heels thunking on the old wooden floor. The lights finally uncover his features, and Austin only has eyes for you.

“Is it you? Is it really you,” he says disbelievingly. 

“Me? It’s fucking you!” you retort, or try to. He is on you in seconds, gathering you in his arms. 

 He smells like cold air, motor oil and cigarettes. He kisses you, tasting faintly like whiskey.  The world falls away and it’s only you two. 

“I’ve been missing you,” he says, placing his forehead on yours.

“Me too, so much,” you breathe back, hardly believing this is real.

You stay there for the span of two breaths, until your little cousin squeals, “Oh my god it was right, he WAS OUTSIDE!” 

The End

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[texasobserver]

From “‘Drag is so Healing’: Austin’s Queens Won’t Back Down” by Digital Editor Kit O'Connell, originally published in the September/October issue of Texas Observer magazine. Photography by Cindy Elizabeth:

In an orange prison jumpsuit and chains, a tall, lean drag queen writhed to a cover of “War Pigs” by Brass Against, which sounds like someone swapped Black Sabbath’s lead singer for a woman and added a highly caffeinated marching band. As she lip-synced, Hermajestie the Hung completed a dramatic strip tease down to an army fatigue jacket and fishnets, all to riotous cheers and a rain of dollar bills. 

It’s April at the Swan Dive on Red River in Austin’s club district, where “Tuesgayz” night LGBTQ+ gatherings—which include “Queereoke” sing-along sessions—are a tradition. For over a year, the Black-led drag troupe Vanguard, with an informal membership of about a dozen performers that includes both drag kings and queens, has opened each show with the same invocation:

“On our stage we proudly proclaim that Black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, no human is illegal, all bodies are beautiful, and my body, my choice.” 

Hermajestie—who described herself as a “postbinary, polyamorous, pansexual pot-smoking parent” and goes by “any pronouns but he/him”—explained later that she started each night the same way because she “realized that once I mention these things, the trash usually takes itself out.” 

(We are using performers’ stage names in this article to protect their privacy.)

Vanguard, she explained, serves as a “declaration and celebration of queer freedom, queer love, queer existence and queer solidarity.” The space she has created is often politically charged. Each night, she recounts the latest legislative attacks on queer rights, urging her audience to get involved. Tuesday’s routine culminated in her holding aloft the severed head of former President Donald Trump and hurling it into the audience (a similar stunt that earned comedian Kathy Griffin public censure shortly after Trump’s election). 

The members of Vanguard represent an evolution in drag. While elder performers were often cisgender, gay men, many of today’s queens are transgender or nonbinary and explore their identity through the art form.

Austin’s drag scene is thriving: From the heart of downtown to the Hill Country, patrons can attend events every day of the week, including late-night revues and brunches on weekends. One monthly show highlights new, amateur queens, another the elders of the community. Drag has made inroads in non-LGBTQ+ spaces as well—queens frequently perform at birthday parties, fundraisers, and, last year, at a new student orientation at the University of Texas at Austin. 

At the same time, drag is under attack. Senate Bill 12, scheduled to go into effect September 1, will levy fines against venues that host performances appealing to an ill-defined “prurient interest in sex” where minors are present; performers could also face up to a year in jail. The legislative affront goes hand-in-hand with protests and harassment from right-wing activists outside of nightclubs and on social media, where drag performers are frequently doxxed. While most performers remain defiant in the face of oppression, the growing pressure leaves them concerned for their future. 

(Editor’s Note: As of September 18, 2023, SB 12 is under a temporary restraining order while a judge rules on a lawsuit led by the ACLU of Texas.)

Read more at the Texas Observer.

[totallingmycar]

a week for a witch 🩷

MONDAY

★associated with: the moon, clairvoyance, femininity, dreaming

★spellwork: healing emotionally, divination, home, travel, fertility

★crystals: moonstone, pearl, selenite

★deities: Selene, Diana, Thoth

★candles: white

★flowers: lotus, lily, jasmine

TUESDAY

★associated with: Mars

★spellwork: protection, banishing, passion, success, self-confidence, matrimony

★crystals: garnet, ruby, bloodstone

★deities: Tyr/Tiwaz, Kali, Aries

★candles: red

★flowers: holly, snapdragon

★actions: be brave, set goals, achieve/aim for victory, work on esteem

WEDNESDAY

★associated with: Mercury, reading/writing/studying, travel, the arts, divination

★spellwork: communication, business, travel, art/creativity, money, luck, wisdom, change

★crystals: lapis lazuli, agate, aventurine, citrine

★deities: Odin, Hermes, Athena

★candles: purple

★plants: fern, lavender, mandrake

THURSDAY

★associated with: Jupiter, storms, water, element, harvesting, leadership, honor

★spellwork: money, career, abundance, luck, healing, contracts/legal work

★crystals: turquoise, aventurine, lapis lazuli

★deities: Thor, Zeus, Juno

★candles: (royal) blue, green

★plants: bay leaf, honeysuckle, cinnamon, oak

FRIDAY

★associated with: Venus

★spellwork: romance, fertility, passion, family, reconciliation, beauty, nature

★crystals: rhodochrosite, garnet, rose quartz

★deities: Freya, Aphrodite, Eros, Lakshmi

★candles: aqua/(light) blue, pink

★flowers: hibiscus, apple blossom, pink rose

★actions: connect with the water element, self care/beauty rituals

SATURDAY

★associated with: Saturn

★spellwork: protection, banishing, cleansing, creativity, manifestation

★crystals: obsidian, hematite, jet, amethyst

★deities: Hecate, Saturn, Hades, Hestia, Bast

★candles: black

★flowers: pansy, thyme, cypress

★actions: drink black tea, cleanse house, personal transformation, self discipline

SUNDAY

★associated with: Sun

★spellwork: success, wealth, abundance, growth, healing/health, creativity

★crystals: carnelian, tigers eye, citrine

★deities: Apollo, Helios, Ra

★candles: yellow

★flowers: orange, sunflower, marigold

★actions: bake with cinnamon, get creative, watch the sunset

[taylor-on-your-dash]

12-year-old performs at 76ers game

Taylor Swift of Wyomissing Hills was invited to sing the national anthem.

By Jeremy Carroll

Taylor A. Swift, 12, of Wyomissing Hills, thought her 10-year-old brother, Austin K., might have been playing an April Fool's Day joke on her when he told her the Philadelphia 76ers invited her to sing the national anthem at an upcoming home basketball game.

But Austin was telling the truth, relaying the information from their father, Scott K., who phoned with the thrilling day-after-Easter news.

"My mom and I were just jumping up and down we were so excited," said Taylor, who sang the anthem just before tip-off of the Sixers game against the Detroit Pistons on April 5.

"I just really love doing that sort of thing," she said. "It is an adrenaline rush for me."

Swift, a sixth-grader at West Reading Elementary Center, sang the national anthem at a Reading Phillies game several years ago.

Last month she did another rendition at a basketball game at Wyomissing High School in which the Harlem Wizards played against the Wyomissing Heroes, made up of school faculty and other members of the community.

It was her performance at the Wizards' game that gave her the chance to sing at a much larger venue, Philadelphia's First Union Center, where 20,754 fans came to see the Sixers and Pistons play.

Scott Swift sent in a video of his daughter singing the anthem to the 76ers, hoping the team would recognize her talent.

Sixers manager of game operations Kathy Drysdale, who said she gets hundreds of videotapes from perform ers interested in singing the anthem at one of the team's exhibition games or 41 regular season home games, sat up and took notice of Swift.

"She has this fantastic voice that catches everyone's attention," Drysdale said. "Her voice is so strong and powerful at 12 years old. You look at her and think, 'Did that come out of her mouth?"

Swift left for Philadelphia right after school on April 5 with her parents, brother and a friend of her brother. They encountered lots of traffic and wound up making it to the arena just in time for her sound check at 5. Shortly after their arrival, team officials presented Taylor, Austin and Austin's friend with duffel bags full of 76ers merchandise, including basketballs, jerseys and hats. Taylor also received a jersey signed by some of the Sixers players.

After getting ready in a private dressing room, Swift was escorted by a security guard onto the court, which was adorned with a red carpet.

Her mother, Andrea F., admitted she was very nervous leading up to the anthem.

"They had a number of cameras all focused right around her and she was up on the big screen," Andrea said. "It's very, very scary as a mom to see your child out there."

Taylor was much more relaxed about the whole thing, experiencing few butterflies even as the lights were dimmed just moments before her performance.

"I was just practicing the first note over and over in my head," she said. Swift, who sang the final words of the anthem in the midst of deafening cheers from the crowd, said the whole experience was a big thrill. "All of these NBA players and all of these other people were looking at me," she said. "It was really a wonderful feeling."

Swift has been performing practically all of her life in local theater productions.

Next Friday and Saturday she will perform in Wyomissing High School's production of "The Sound of Music." Swift, whose maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, Wyomissing Park, is a retired opera singer, has been pursuing a country music singing career. The aspiring singing star, who also plays electric guitar, performed with the Pat Garrett Band at last year's Bloomsburg Fair and has cut a country CD.

Late last month the Swifts traveled to Nashville, where they distributed the CD to record companies in the hope of landing a recording deal. When she is not busy performing. Swift enjoys spending time with her friends.

Conduct date: April 5, 2002

Release date: April 19, 2002

[positivexcellence]

mattwolski: About 14 months ago, @davidkanne and @ericfreytag approached me and asked if I would be interested in collaborating with them to develop a pickleball-centric concept on Manor Road.

Fast forward to this weekend and we blew the lid off of @otherracquet in celebration of our opening to the public with a venue that has organically developed into one of my favorite projects in so many ways. From the endless support of @jenlanwol and…so what if I am biased - the absolute best branding work in the game, to newfound partnerships with great people, and a couple of newly identified heroes in @chelseakloss for her superhuman ability to bring the simplest of diagrams and inspiration photos to life and the beauty of everything that @among_songwriting touches! Other Racquet took a village to develop…not to mention the steadfast duo of @austintatiouscheesecakesand @chait_daddy who continue to reach new heights in operations each step of the way. 

Other Racquet Social Club is an absolute celebration of what happens when an incredibly gifted team rallies around a shared vision for a space and its place in the community. On behalf of Jenny & I, thank you to everyone in our Austin family who came out to support us this weekend. I can’t wait to share it with the rest of you soon. 

PS: special shout out to @dontgo_jason_waterfalls for being the spark on this one from day 1.

[hoveringaboveuranus]

https://impossiblearchives.rice.edu/ufo-and-impossible

The UFO and the Impossible

THE 2025 CONFERENCE

April 3-5, 2025

This is the third international conference in the Archives of the Impossible series. The series is functioning as a community builder, but a community spread out across nations and transcending any professional or private category. We have had physicists, physical anthropologists, and biologists speak, but also archivists, experiencers, historians, philosophers, and humanists from literary theory, American military history, and analytic philosophy to the study of Buddhism, African American religions, and American-Mexican history.

The first conference featured our archival donors and announced the collection to the world. The second conference, on transdisciplinarity and transnationalism, featured a series of models or theories of anomalous phenomena from the arts, sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This third conference will focus on a slice of the phenomenon that is much in the media today--the UFO, now called the UAP (for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon, since many such objects are "transmedium" in nature, that is, they come out of the water or ocean).

The conference will be guided by several questions: What might be the traces of the influence of UAP or NHI (Non-Human Intelligence, an acronym especially popular in political and legal circles today, including in Congress) in the religious traditions of the past? How does this possibility change our understanding of religion – not only its past but also its present and future? What kinds of intellectual, socio-cultural and existential shifts does such knowledge ask us to make? What does the inquiry lend to new conversations between science and religion?

The registration for the 2025 conference event can be accessed here. Because these events are very expensive to host, and because we want to have more of them in the future, we are charging a registration fee of $175. This will not cover the full costs of the event, but it will help us cover some of our food and venue expenses. We will close the registration after 200 commitments, as our auditorium only holds enough space for that number. We will also include a live on-line version of the conference, which is not bound in the same way.

Any and all financial gifts to the Archives of the Impossible are much appreciated and can easily be given via the "Give Now" button on this website, easily accessed here.

Conveners:

Prof. William B. Parsons, Rice University Karin Austin, Project Manager, Archives of the Impossible, Rice University Prof. Diana Pasulka, University of North Carolina, Wilmington Prof. Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University

[austinstyles]

I am so thankful for all the kind people I have meet here on tumblr. And in the different community I am a part of her on tumblr.

Her are just some of the people. But their are so many more nice people. and I will be truthful and say I stay away form very  toxic people on her.

@asshlyyyy @darlinboypresley @dre6ming @flwersgarden @ab4eva @venus-haze @crash-and-cure @sagesolsticewrites @sassy-ahsoka-tano @elvisabutler @purejasmine @emmymaehereeeeee @foreverdolly @louisejoy86 @adoresbutlers @missmaywemeetagain @karamelcoveredolicity @fxntxsix @c-rosenn @lindszeppelin @eliseinmemphis @pennyroyalcreep @fangirlwithasweettooth @floralcyanide @blainesebastian

And so many more amazing people in the Austin Butler community and multifandom communities.

So I am happy with a lot of my experience on tumblr. And I hope if I ever take a break, I would still be welcome back with open arms.

Have a great day.

Grace🖤

[santoschristos]

Dike Astraea Sun in Aquarius I (20-30 Jan. 2024) The Sun enters Aquarius I (which Austin Coppock called The Mark of Exile) on 20 January 2024 at 9:07 am EST and departs on 30 January 2024 at 5:13 am EST. While ruled by Saturn, this part of Aquarius is administered or governed by Venus, and thus it represents a type of cold, passionate desire that might be characterized as fury. The Mark of Exile speaks to this. In Hellenistic-era communities along the Egyptian Mediterranean, this was the season of Dike (sometimes called Dike Astraea from her appearance as the constellation Virgo).

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Alexander Joffe

Christmas and festive celebrations and shopping were disrupted in parks, malls, stores and public venues ,such as midtown Manhattan and London, by protestors declaring “Christmas is canceled.” Assaults and arrests were reported. Protests were also held on Christmas morning outside the homes of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and national Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Efforts to shut down New Year’s celebrations were made in major cities.

The situation in Gaza was the ostensible motive but the actions were undertaken by pro-Palestinian groups as well as a wide array of communist and social groups including The People’s Forum and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. The support for “Palestine” given by climate change personality Greta Thunberg demonstrated the unity of these and other far left causes.

Another direct reflection of “Globalize the Intifada” protests were hundreds of bomb threats and swatting threats called in to Jewish institutions, apparently from outside the US. Violent protests were held outside of Jewish owned business in cities including Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City. Property crimes directed against Jewish owned businesses and other sites in New York City also rose 85% in December. S

Shabbat services at Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles were relocated for the first time in history after a pro-Hamas demonstration was scheduled in a park across the street.

The House of Representatives also passed a resolution condemning the October 7 attack and stating that anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism. The measure passed 311-14 but 92 Democrats voted “present.” The pro-BDS “Squad” comprised the no votes along with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY).

The increasingly wide distribution of Muslim communities in the US and their growing political action around the single issue of opposing Israel is a growing factor in future electoral calculations, particularly in states such as Michigan, Virginia, and New Jersey.

At the same time pro-Hamas activists have continued to target Democrats. In one incident a Michigan Democratic Party holiday event was disrupted when members of the Palestinian Youth Movement and Party for Socialism and Liberation entered the venue to harass Congresswoman Shri Thanedar (D-MI). The resulting fight sent several individuals to the hospital. Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) was harassed by pro-Hamas protestors at the 92nd Street Y who shouted “Ritchie Torres, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.” Pro-Hamas protestors also vandalized the offices of several Democratic Congressmen. as well as the home of Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA). The willingness to attack politicians is a grave escalation in the war against Israel in the US.