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SHARE their names.

SAY their names.

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Last year, The HRC (Human Rights Campaign), reported that in 2019 alone, at least 26 trans and gender nonconforming people were killed in the United States alone. Disproportionately, Black trans people were the victims. Those I have illustrated here, do not even scratch the surface of what is, and should be recognised as, an epidemic. Now, more than ever, it is crucial that we do whatever we can to support the black trans community. 

Please consider donating/signing the charities and petitions listed here.

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anonymous leaked bolsonaro’s private info including his credit card number and someone on twitter bought a whole ass macbook pro with it. yes. a person bought an macbook pro with the president’s credit card. this country really isn’t for beginners

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“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

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the lea michele situation is actually a prime example of why we should be wary of performative activism right now. if you are supporting the cause by protesting, donating, posting your support, etc. that’s great! but this problem goes so much deeper than just police brutality.

every single non-black person who has posted #blacklivesmatter this week needs to take a step back and analyze whether or not their actions (not just their words) have shown that they truly believe that statement. it’s a clear and obvious choice to speak out against the brutal murder of an innocent man. however, if you are not making the obvious choice every day to speak up for us when your friends/relatives make racist jokes, if you are not listening to and respecting the black people you know in real life, if you have not sat down to analyze the ways you actively benefit from this system, if you have not worked to start unlearning the biases you were raised with, or if you thought “black lives matter” was a controversial statement until this week, do not pretend to care just because everyone is talking about it right now.

when these protests are over, there will still be many battles to fight. this is not a game, and this is not something you post about just for likes and clicks. if you are resting easy right now thinking that you’re “one of the good ones” for showing public outrage over a situation that should anger any reasonable person, you need to do more. racism is not something you can pick and choose when to be against. we don’t get to pick and choose when we experience racism. so if you’re going to get involved with this situation right here, right now, then you need to be ready to hold yourself and others accountable for anti-blackness in all other areas of your life.

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iamhalsey: It’s become very clear to me that some of you need to see what I’ve seen. Please swipe through this. These pictures and videos don’t even scratch the surface. It’s easy from the comfort of your home to watch looting and rioting on television and condone the violent measures being taken by forces. But what you don’t see is innocent peaceful protestors being shot at and tear gassed and physically assaulted relentlessly. You think it’s not happening, it’s only the “thugs” and the “riots”, right? The police are keeping you safe right? You’re wrong. This is happening everywhere. And innocent people exercising their rights to speech and assembly are facing violence and abuse of power. With all of our medical professionals being CONSUMED and EXHAUSTED with Covid, there is little to no medical attention available. I have first hand treated men women and children who have been shot in the chest, the face, the back. Some will lose vision some have lost fingers. I have been covered in innocent blood. My father is a black man. My mother is an EMT. This week I had to put those two associations together in ways that have horrified me. This is NOT a virtue signaling post. But I HAVE to show you what I am witnessing with my own eyes. With Trump’s decision today to enforce the mobilization of armed forces on our own citizens, this has escalated beyond your privilege and comfort to not care. Please care. We are begging you to care. This is war on Americans. This is everyone’s problem. Everyone’s. #BLACKLIVESMATTER

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This white woman’s shocking account of police brutality reveals the importance of the #BlackLivesMatter movement

Molly Suzanna shared a story on Facebook that she had never told before: when she was 19, she ran a red light while crying, then was pulled over and forcefully removed and beaten by a police officer. She explains in the letter that she believes her situation would have been even worse had she been black — and she ends the letter with an important call to action.

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Minneapolis

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"It was the best night, never would forget how we moved

The whole place

Was dressed to the nines

And we were dancing, dancing"

Starlight by Taylor Swift - Bechloe Prom AU

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"I don't know what to say since the twist of fate

When it all broke down and the story of us

Looks a lot like a tragedy now next chapter"

The Story Of Us by Taylor Swift - Bechloe

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"Music starts playin' like the end of a sad movie,

It's the kinda ending you don't really wanna see

'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down,

Now I don't know what to be without you around"

Breathe by Taylor Swift - Story of Beca and Chloe

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[S]he's got a one-hand feel on the steering wheel, the other on my heart.

"Our Song" by Taylor Swift - Roadtrip AU Bechloe

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“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

- @robinlayfield

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So this will eventually be a database blog for all Pitch Perfect fanfics. [Yes, all. This isn’t a blog for my favorites, this is a blog for all PP fics!] 

Fics will be categorized by tags. I’ve also set up an author page to try to keep everyone who writes in the fandom together as well.

I also set up a side blog just for prompts. So if anyone has a specific Pitch Perfect prompt that you want to see written, a link to that blog can be found here

And to sort of round things out, you can also follow the twitter account. The twitter will be an accumulation of everything that’s posted on the fic blog and the prompts blog.

It’s obviously going to take some time to get things fully running here, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to make a generic post just to try to spread the word.

So if this seems like something you’d be interested in and you’re wondering how you could help me out here are a couple of things you can do:

If you’re a writer in the Pitch Perfect fandom: send in an ask [not an IM, asks are easier to keep track of] with your social links [AO3, FF, Tumblr - wherever that you prefer to post your stuff] and I’ll add it to the blog.

If you’re a reader in the fandom: send in an ask [not an IM, asks are easier to keep track of] with your favorite fics and I’ll add them here.

Probably the most obvious way to get this thing going is to reblog this post so that other people can find it that way they can contribute if they’d like to.

This thing may flop or it could be super successful, I honestly don’t know. I just thought that this would be a cool way to link everything together. :)

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A Beale event..

Chloe Beale took a deep breath, cowering slightly behind her parents as they arrived at the large venue at the back of the Golf club. She’d been to heaps of family gatherings before. But this was the first time she’d attended with a ‘plus one’. The one.

She felt her little finger being hooked by Beca’s index finger and the redhead glanced to her right at her girlfriend. Beca gave her a small wink but Chloe could tell the woman was as nervous as she was.

Mr & Mrs Beale knew Beca well. When their youngest child had been at college they knew her as Chloe’s best friend and co-captain. The Christmas after graduation they had been introduced to her as their only daughter’s girlfriend. They’d been over the moon.

Two years on and the only members of the Beale family who knew that Beca was more than just Chloe’s best friend were Chloe’s parents, and Chloe’s brothers and their wives. The rest of the Beale family were oblivious (or so Chloe assumed).

“Mom, how are you?” Chloe heard her father call out loudly as he pulled her into a hug, the elderly woman now so deaf that this was the only way Chloe’s grandmother could hear clearly enough.

“Wonderful Jeremy, wonderful. And what perfect weather it is today!” The old woman said, her blue eyes twinkling with a broad smile on her face.

Chloe’s stomach churned and she pulled her finger from Beca’s. She was petrified of what her grandmother would think of her not being in a relationship with a man. But as her mother had assured her earlier, being in love with Beca meant not being afraid of what other people thought. The right people would support them, and the ones who didn’t weren’t worth keeping around - even if they were family members.

“Oh my goodness is that Chloe?” The elderly woman asked as she peered around her son’s body. Chloe swallowed nervously then forced a smile on her face. She hadn’t seen her grandmother in about three years. Not since one of her brother’s weddings.

“Yes it’s me grandma!” Chloe said brightly, stepping forward and hugging the old woman who held her tightly.

“And where are those boys of yours?” Chloe’s grandmother asked, pulling out of the hug and looking around them.

Chloe hesitated. Oh God, she was actually asking about a boyfriend! The redhead turned to her parents who had both furrowed their brows. Then over to Beca who had turned bright red, looking down at her feet.

“Uh..grandma? I don’t have a boy-”

“-No mum! This, uh, this isn’t Jaquie.” Chloe’s father quickly interrupted and suddenly it clicked. Chloe’s grandmother had got Chloe muddled up with Chloe’s cousin, Jaquie, who had two young sons.

“Oh silly me, of course.” Chloe’s grandmother said lightly, rolling her eyes then looking at her intently, “Now, tell me Chloe, I hear you’re gay.”

Chloe heard a loud cough from her parents and from Beca. The redhead however looked up from her grandmother’s serious gaze and over at her aunts and uncles, all of whom were stood nearby and smiling kindly.

“Oh grandma, I-I..”

“It’s okay dear.” Chloe’s grandmother said with a bright smile, “You know, my friend Eileen has a granddaughter who is gay too. Met her girlfriend on the interweb apparently. Terribly modern.”

Chloe smiled, a little embarrassed, but mostly relieved. She watched as her grandmother peered past her, then whispered to Chloe, “Is that her?”

Chloe turned to look at Beca who was stood awkwardly beside Chloe’s mother. The brunette gave them a polite grin.

“Um..yes. Grandma, this is Beca.” Chloe said, still in a small amount of shock, as she watched the elderly woman strode past her and over to Beca, holding her hand out.

“Rebecca! So lovely to meet you.” The woman said, shaking Beca’s hand eagerly. Beca appeared a little startled by the contact but looked up at Chloe with a smile.

Chloe returned to her girlfriend’s side and her grandmother looked at them with a warm smile, “Yes,” the woman said confidently, “You two look very happy together. Wonderful!”

And Chloe watched in delight as her grandmother turned on her heels and began walking off, calling out, “Right, shall we get this party started?” though it sounded more of an order.

Chloe felt Beca take her hand and the two women smiled at one another, before joining Chloe’s parents at a nearby table.

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Happiness Will Come To You.