#prepare for the worst

[vintage-tigre]

“Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.”

– Little My (Tales from Moominvalley, 1962)

[sofiaflorina2021]

America and the World Will Be Really Fucked Up

America and the world will be really fucked up if Donald J. Trump gets elected again for his second term. Prepare for the worst if he takes office of the president.

[geeky-politics-46]

So officially my goal before the end of the year is to finish any outstanding pieces or unfinished series so that if Project 2025 comes to pass you will have all lose ends tied up on anything you've been waiting on. Im also working on getting everything up on AO3 under my same username. If it looks like we will lose access to these sites, then I will orphan the works so they will still be available to read, even if I can't be a part of them anymore. I know they bring joy to people & that is what matters to me.

If you are also in the US I might recommend printing stories or things you have posted that you don't want to lose. Internet will be easier to track & while yes a printed copy gives you a physical paper trail it will also be easier to recreate than trying to go by memory if he actually does leave after 4 years & our country isn't beyond repair.

Right now, I'm looking at Project 2025 & Trump as hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. They basically plan to run right over the constitution & the Supreme Court has already given him the go ahead to do it without reprimand. They plan to go after porn & smut under a lawsuit to the Supreme Court saying it should no longer be protected under freedom of speech. I imagine LGBTQ+ content will be targeted first but Tumblr & AO3 may well get caught in the dragnet.

Obviously i want to keep writing & stay on here, because I love it, but you know just in case. This also explains my new header image, because we are very much in the bad place now.

[yourlocalbreadenthusiast]

Reminder that you can reblog and share and talk about activism and preparation for the next four years all you want, but we also have to actually get out and DO the things we talk about. We have to ACT. Everyone needs to participate how they can, don't just sit by and leave it to everyone else. We are all in this together.

[jillfvs]

if there's gonna be an until dawn sequel im gonna be so annoying about it

[bitchesgetriches]

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[luchicm04]

"Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between."

-Maya Angelou

[defensive-tactics]

Hope for the Best. Prepare for the Worst. Self Defense

[st4rcz4r]

Oh no I’ve fallen into a Skyrim hell hole fuck-

[lilacthebooklover]

okay that's it, starting my dark enchantress arc fr this time <//3

[edible-emerald]

MY AO3 ACCOUNT WAS ACTIVATED

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[brevmoment]

ill draw a comic about rockman getting his custom-made pal percy and you will NOT stop me

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

I feared that if I looked away, I would not be prepared for the loss to come and it would flatten me. I had inherited from my father (a former war reporter/professional pessimist) the belief that an expectancy of the worst could provide in its own way a ring of protection. We followed the creed of preventive anxiety.

Kyo Maclear, Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation

[amplifyme]

Sending up good vibes that the studios pull their heads out of their collective rear ends and give the WGA and SAG/AFTRA what they deserve soonest.

Just thinking of all the folks headed for PhileFest in September and the guest actors they've booked who won't be able to participate if the strike is still ongoing.

Fingers and toes crossed for y'all. ❤️

[mbrainspaz]

I hate it when boomers tell me to think positively as if that's gonna change anything. Statistically optimism has not paid me the survival dividends that cynicism has.

[duelfeather]

Wishingstarinajar's tags v

To be clear, unless staff trips over the trail of extension cords keeping the servers running, Tumblr likely isn't going anywhere any time soon.

What the info we've seen suggests is that updates are going to slow down, maintenance is maybe going to get a little shaky, and we're going to see more glitches as time goes on and the remaining staff gets further behind their workload.

Is this a good thing? No, absolutely not.

Should you be panicking, jumping overboard, running for the hills, etc? Also no.

So what does it mean?

Well, for myself and several other creatives you all saw tagged in that post, it means we're looking around trying to figure out what to do in the long run. We're not running for the lifeboats. We're just eyeing the iceberg in the distance and getting our shit together in the event that the worst comes to pass.

Speaking for myself, I intend to crawl through the walls of Tumblr until they pry me out of the air vents armed with a broom and oven mitts. I'm not going anywhere until the lights go out, and even then, I'll be chewing on the wires.

But that doesn't mean I'm not looking around for somewhere to land when the time comes.

Myself and several others are not panicking about this, but we are trying to be organized about it.

I'm just old enough to remember when fandom websites being nuked overnight was a very real thing. You'd go to bed one night and wake up the next day to find friends you'd known for years were just gone with no means of contacting them because the site you'd been using got wiped. Entire collections of fandom history were just destroyed in the blink of an eye.

We don't want that again. And the good news is, we have time. We have time to back up our shit, time to swap contact info with our friends, and time to find a new place to exist within our communities while also staying here because Tumblr ain't dead yet.

She's just slowly going to wind down over time.

Unless, of course, they trip over the cables. Then we're fucked.