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a weird girl writing (she/her)

[waxjism]

I suspect you may have already answered my question based on the date you gave (1999), but are you bexless, or connected to bexless? I have some questions about the "Unholyverse" works.

I am not bexless, we were friends and compatriots in the fandom back in the day. We lost contact because I became a hermit.

[bugisweird]

What a shame, but I am glad this question is reconnecting folks.

Maybe one day, I will be able to get in touch with bexless.

[pastperfectcontinuous]

I want you to write for pleasure—to play. Just listen to the sounds and rhythms of the sentences you write and play with them, like a kid with a kazoo. This isn’t “free writing,” but it’s similar in that you’re relaxing control: you’re encouraging the words themselves—the sounds of them, the beats and echoes—to lead you on. For the moment, forget all the good advice that says good style is invisible, good art conceals art. Show off! Use the whole orchestra our wonderful language offers us! Write it for children, if that’s the way you can give yourself permission to do it. Write it for your ancestors. Use any narrating voice you like. If you’re familiar with a dialect or accent, use it instead of vanilla English. Be very noisy, or be hushed. Try to reproduce the action in the jerky or flowing movement of the words. Make what happens happen in the sounds of the words, the rhythms of the sentences. Have fun, cut loose, play around, repeat, invent, feel free.

Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering The Craft

[existentialqueer]

The best photo I took at Dashcon 2

[weremustelidae]

[Image Description: A photo of the YouTuber Strange Aeons standing at a microphone, wearing a party hat. Behind them is a powerpoint projected onto the wall which says "The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out." End Image Description.]

[honeythispodcast]

Hello all. I thought for a long time about writing in about the new tour, or about Danger Days, or about the storytelling or lack thereof in MCR material, but honestly, at the end of the day, I just wanted to say thank you. During one of your episodes, you used and described the term "collective effervescence". It gave language to experiences I had growing up in charismatic Christian spaces. It allowed me to perhaps understand my parents' inability to fully divest themselves of the influence of the cult they joined in the 80s. It allowed me to describe what has both felt amazing and disturbing in the religious spaces I grew up in. I didn't think when I started to listen to a My Chemical Romance podcast that I would be communicating with people about 80s cults and describing how hard we bought into watching people sob and speak in Tongues at Bible camp, but here we are. So, thanks???

wow you guys are so awesome. surreal to hear things like this. we never would've believed our little niche fandom community could connect us all & help us all in some way. y'all give us language too!!! beautiful stuff!!!!!!!

[bugisweird]

I wrote this. It is crazy to me that I started to be able to articulate the bizarre-ness of this story because of 2000s emo vampire band My Chemical Romance, but here we are. It's been a hot minute since I wrote this ask, and since that time, I began heavily researching the cult, and I am trying to write a book.

I'm kinda overwhelmed and terrified. I have a therapist now.

"Collective effervescence" is what the whole cult hinged on. The worship sessions were long, sometimes running to 3:00 in the morning. The music was described by contemporary reporting as "hypnotic". People danced and spoke in tongues. To this day, the former members insist it was real, like really real, and not manufactured. They came back again and again, because they believed they were experiencing the power of God. Then, it gets weird. It gets sexual. The documentation for the few years surrounding the sexualized worship is dense. I have thousands of pages of court documents, tape transcripts, newspaper articles, and even the occasional letter, but there's still so much missing. Almost an entire decade between the pastor's documented conviction and the events that eventually broke the place apart.

And then there's my parents, who nearly forty years later still buy what was sold to them and who have no idea at all that I know more than they do now, and that I am judging the shit out of them.

[onemonthintheatlantic]

SAM REID CALLING OMEGAVERSE "VERY URSULA LE GUIN"

[onemonthintheatlantic]

[shoots-and-kills]

Wildfires Blaze Through Pacific Northwest Tribal Lands

Wildfires blaze through Pacific Northwest tribal lands - ICT

It’s hot and dry across the region, making for tinderbox conditions.

Firefighters, pilots and equipment operators are mobilized across much of Indian Country in Washington and Oregon, to rein in wildfires that have endangered many tribal communities.

Amidst the powwow season and canoe journey season festivities, multiple tribes are currently being impacted by wildfires, and homes, livestock, pets, and valuables are in danger of being lost.

Community Rallies for Wildfire Relief: How to Help - Underscore Native News

As wildfires burn through Native nations in Oregon and Washington, communities across both states have banded together to set up sites to do

Above is an article describing what tribes are currently impacted. There is also a lot of information for WA/OR locals on where to drop off physical donations contained within it. If you are unsure of the current status of drop-off locations, check the official website(s) or Facebook profile(s) of the tribe(s) you wish to donate to.

Official Websites

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation

Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

Financial Donations

Cedar Fund Wildfire Recovery Campaign

Yakama Nation Signal Peak and Ransier Fire Updates

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Wildfire Recovery Fund

[lilacsforthelilaccity]

Aid for Spokane, Washington Complex Fires

Since the fires are still uncontrolled and we don't know how many people have lost their homes, here are a bunch of organizations seeking donations for relief for the 60,000+ people who are displaced and who may or may not have lost their homes.

The HOME Starts Here fund is usually for homelessness, but it's been opened for wildfire relief:

Donations to the H.O.M.E. Starts Here Fund go directly to supporting services for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

Innovia fund is a local nonprofit that has created a wildfire relief fund:

2nd Harvest food bank takes donations of shelf stable food, but they also take cash donations:

Second Harvest: Local Food, Lasting Hope for the Northwest

Second Harvest provides fresh, nutritious food to those in need across Eastern Washington and North Idaho. Join us in creating a hunger-free

And the red cross needs no introduction:

Donate to the American Red Cross

Additionally, if anyone affected has a gofundme or a ko-fi or something for mutual aid, feel free to add it to the replies and I'll reblog it.

[guccifloralsuits]

If THE modern translator of the OG Odyssey text wrote this about my film adaptation I’d kill myself

Emily Wilson you’re goated

[bugisweird]

Hello, it is me, a lone little researcher reaching out to you, the wonderful little weirdos who dug up Gerard Way's (alleged) kinky forum posts from the 90s. I need to know how you did that.

Where did you start from? How did you find the information? I need to know because I have a shit ton of cult-related research to do. Please teach me your ways. Please and thank you.

[sabertoothwalrus]

maybe this is not my place to say because I am monolingual, and I'm sure it's part of a larger, more nuanced discussion about visibility and accessibility on the internet, but I think it'd be cool if people posted in their native languages more instead of in english. I see people do it way more on other platforms than on tumblr which is almost exclusively in english

[minothtime]

El problema es, como bien has dicho, la accesibilidad y la visibilidad.

Tumblr en concreto es muy anglocentrista y un gran número de los usuarios no habla más que inglés. Si quieres que tus cosas lleguen a gente con gustos u opiniones similares, escribirlo en inglés asegura que la gente por lo menos lo pueda leer. Suma a esto el hecho de que bastantes series y tal son originalmente de habla inglesa (y a veces ni se traducen a tu lengua madre), lo que crea un fandom principalmente angloparlante.

Más allá de eso, también hay que tener en cuenta las diferencias culturales que surgen entre fandoms de distintos idiomas. Por ejemplo, durante mucho tiempo el fandom de Vocaloid angloparlante y el hispanohablante han chocado con respecto a temas como la piratería. En ocasiones es complicado manejar estas expectativas, y si sabes varios idiomas, peor incluso.

A mí me gustaría subir cositas en español y encontrar a gente que comparta mis gustos, pero en Tumblr en concreto es casi imposible. Tumblr ya es de por sí mucho más «nicho» en espacios hispanohablantes que otras RRSS como TikTok o Instagram, y si tus intereses no son muy populares, despídete.

La lingüística de los espacios de fans también está hipercentrada en el inglés. No es una pareja, es un ship; no es un universo alternativo, es un AU; no es destripar, es hacer spoiler, etc. Incluso las siglas: en español es LGTB, pero lo que sueles ver es LGBT. Parece una tontería, pero esta disonancia cognitiva hace que resulte muchísimo más complicado hablar en tu propio idioma en un fandom. Por no hablar de las innumerables referencias a posts o a memes... en inglés todo, por supuesto. Como te atrevas a hacer cualquier referencia cultural no inglesa, no te entiende nadie. Pierde la gracia.

Casi todo esto se puede achacar al imperialismo cultural estadounidense. El inglés es útil para comunicarse con gente de todo el mundo, pero su omnipresencia sirve de barrera para todos los demás idiomas. Quizás habría que reflexionar un poco sobre por qué coño el resto del mundo tiene que tragarse años de clases de inglés para hablar del juego que le gusta en una red social mientras muchos angloparlantes no se dignan ni a meter un texto en un traductor automático y prefieren pasar de largo.

[bugisweird]

I love how I made this tumblr to be all "I am a smart and thoughtful writer", but my dashboard is like, "Hey, you want to see drawings of Markiplier and Ryan Gosling cuddling?" And, like, yes, it turns out I do, but I feel like it'd blow my cover as someone who is Cultured™ to admit that.

[bugisweird]

Imagine this is, like, such a smart first post.