NorthernWall

Fandom. Mental Health. Pets.

[buttpoems]

[phaeton-flier]

I'm a very big divorce supporter, no fault divorce is one of the top 10 victories of feminism, more people should do it

But part of that is that I view divorce as being a neutral act and not a sign of judgement on either partner

[bvckbiter]

“is this character good or bad” “is this ship unproblematic or not” “is this arc deserving of redemption or not” girl…

[kosmogrl]

[autostraddle]

via Same-Sex Marriage Started in Thailand This Week and These Pictures Will Warm Your Heart

[pochayun]

99% of fandom and shipping discourse is people getting mad at other people bc they dont' like how they're playing with their barbie dolls

[nondelphic]

editing is like taking apart a jigsaw puzzle and realizing half the pieces don’t even belong to this picture.

[lady-averie]

This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.

You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.

[booksinmythorax]

Ok, real quick, speaking as a librarian, you absolutely cannot despair about the adult literacy crisis and shame adults for reading fiction books you do not personally care for or think are "challenging" at the same time. It doesn't work with kids, and it doesn't work with adults.

Here's how to increase someone's reading level:

1) Let them read whatever they choose without shame or judgment. Maybe get them talking about it using open-ended, non-leading questions to encourage critical thinking and comprehension.

2) Let them get bored after a while and seek out different books.

3) Repeat.

[memewhore]

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

Woman murders man in broad daylight

[theknightinslippers]

[halorvic]

[abz-j-harding]

and a legend is born~

[anorthernwall]

Do I just use boomer words? :(

If you're not "gen x and older" how many of these words do you know: steward, emperor, patron state, missive, parchment, capital city, and imperial scholar ?

I'm a millenial and I know all/most of these words!

I'm a millenial and I know about half these words!

I'm a millenial and I know none or almost none of these words!

I'm a gen z and I know all/most of these words!

I'm a gen z and I know about half these words!

I'm a gen z and I know none or almost none of these words!

I'm a gen alpha and therefore too young to have read a work marked "adult."

I'm a gen x - leave me out of this!

Voting ended onSep 25, 2024

I'm asking because this is some real feedback I received on some of my writing today: "...with the wordy fancy language plus the info dump, it's too much. Words like steward, Emperor, patron state, missive, parchment, capital city, Imperial Scholars … how many of the millennials, gen Z, and gen A will understand any of these I wonder? Maybe more gen X and older?"

And I'm utterly perplexed. I'm wordy, yes, but none of these feel like "fancy" hard to understand words? They're not even the "hardest" words in the work. I'm a zillenial, if it matters.

[whomst-call-ghonsbubsters]

[dubiousculturalartifact]

Gentle reminder: “bear witness” means “learn about what’s happening, so you can talk about it, agitate for change, and help where you can”

Not “you must watch X number of snuff films and look at X number of dead children, in order to be a good person”

[staticnoisesss]

how you can help palestine

Donations

palestine children's relief fund

palestine red crescent society

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

save palestine - islamic relief canada

click to donate - arab.org

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

Petitions

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty.org

open call for immediate ceasefire

american government call for immediate ceasefire

american government to stop funding israeli military

ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au

location specific petitions

gaza call for ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)

note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.

australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)

sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)

skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)

singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)

contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)

write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)

template of letters you can send (EU)

guide on how to contact your MPs in EU

multiple actions you can take to help palestine - plant een olifbloom (NETHERLANDS)

includes: links for donations, emails to MP, emails to media, links to petitions and demonstrations

den haag, maak nú werk van vrede in israël/Palestina - the right forum (NETHERLANDS)

Campaigns

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

urge your MP to speak up for palestine

hands off al-aqsa

stop administrative detention

petition for UK to stop arming israel

❥ International

boycott puma — email them to end their partnership with israel

boycott coca-cola

palestine action

join the resistance

islamic relief canada

urge your MP to rally for ceasefire

text campaign for people living in USA

text CEASEFIRE @ 51905 to call for a ceasefire

BDS movement

get involved in boycotting companies associated with israel

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them to a follow up post.

UPCOMING PROTESTS

[illidria]

How it started

How it's going

[anorthernwall]

You never know what commenting on a good fic can lead to. <3

[anorthernwall]

As a long time fan of Heather Dale and an interpreting student I am SHOCKED that I just now stumbled onto this amazing series. Working with Deaf interpreters, Heather Dale has twenty-five of her songs retold in ASL and I love it. There’s a fair bit of rambling I could do about what makes this so fantastic, but honestly y’all should go check it out! ...and let me know if you want me to share my ramblings.

[harpyhormones]

subtitle regulations really need to catch up to modern day productions on youtube

when you have big professional companies like bon appetit, or geek & sundry, or microjig, or americas test kitchen, and theyre producing content to put on youtube and other sites, they shouldnt be allowed to rely on auto captioning, or fans captioning it for them

closed captioning regulations had to be implemented for tv and film because otherwise, we just…. didnt get any

and now that they can get away with not doing it on the internet, theyve gone right back to not captioning anything because nobody is making them

those regulations really need to catch up

tl;dr im hard of hearing and im pissed that closed captioning isnt required on videos on the internet