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hi! it seems you didn't actually write all that much about Athena in your LaaC AU, but i absolutely love her, and i wish there was more fic about her, so i was wondering if you'd be okay with me basically writing my own nsfw Athena whump fics?
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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver
the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw
We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.
night sky continues to get brighter. theres always people here for you
does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver
the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw
We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.
night sky continues to get brighter. theres always people here for you
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I just added SO Many prints to my site!!! Check it out :)
Redraw of this GLaDOS piece from 2019! ❤ I was feeling kind of down because I thought the original still looked pretty good, but it turns out I have improved after all!
CAN Y'ALL BELIEVE HOW GOOD MY WIFE IS!!!!!!!!!!!
online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.
and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.
there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.
i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.
does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver
the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw
We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.
boop ~(=^‥^)ノ✨
Sorry I can’t make it, I’m busy, they brought back the tumblr boops. Yeah it’s gonna be all day.
Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops
On being an older fangirl
I was probably 10 years old when I first conceived of what was, looking back, fanfiction. Me and my best friend would lie in bed together on sleepovers and I'd make up stories about what happened after the end of our favorite book, "The Westing Game." She'd ask me for more stories, and I'd tell her more, inventing them as I went along. "Then what?" she'd say.
I was 14 when I went to my first convention. I had discovered Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was 1987, and my youth pastor was a huge Trekkie. He took me to a one-day crappy Creation con, but it was amazing to me. I met Nichelle Nichols. My dad showed me the Trek movies. He and I watched TNG together.
When I went to college in 1991, my dad used to videotape TNG episodes onto VHS tapes and mail them to me, so I could keep watching (I didn't have TV in my dorm room).
By the time I was a senior, we had Trek watching parties in the dorm lounge, where the TV had cable. Star Trek: Voyager had started up, and I wrote a column about it for the college newspaper. I joined a mailing list about it, with people in it that I still know today.
I got my first computer that could go online in 1995. I was on newsgroups. I discovered Doctor Who. I went to Trek conventions where we still passed around fanzines containing fic and art and smutty K/S fan creations.
Then it was Harry Potter. Then there were websites. Then there was Geocities, where we could all make our own little spots. We organized them into webrings. We talked on newsgroups and mailing lists. There were fanfic archives. Then there was fanfiction.net.
Then...there was LiveJournal. And we could interact in entirely new ways. We could form communities, and debate things, and fight over canon, and get into ship wars. On LiveJournal, I met my best friend of 22 years. I was in her wedding. She's my sister of the heart (which is what she calls me).
Then there was Tumblr. And Twitter. And now there's Discord. But it's all the same.
I am the same.
I am still that little girl who made up fanfiction in her head to entertain her best friend. I am still the one who was amazed to find communities on the internet - which was so new, so raw, so uncommodified - where others like me could meet. I found there people to meet in real life.
I am still that twentysomething going to her first major convention, being told that someone loved my fic, being asked about my writing process.
I am still that thirtysomething watching something I wrote blow up. Seeing friends from other fandoms find me in new ones, finding them there, too. Forgetting which fandom I know someone from, because I've known them for twenty years.
I still know some of the people who created those early websites, those mailing lists, those archives. I still meet people in new fandoms who say "Oh, I read your fic in [fandom] fifteen years ago!" There's no feeling quite like having someone remember something you wrote for that long. Or meeting someone whose fic meant a lot to YOU, or who you talked with on rec.arts.drwho.creative in 1997.
Aging in fandom is a gift. Being middle-aged in fandom is a joy. Having people who still read what I write and ask "Then what?" is a blessing.
It breaks my heart that so many people see it as something to be ashamed of, when it is one of my life's greatest gifts.
"I live in a red state my vote doesn't ma-"
If your vote didn't matter they wouldn't try so hard to make it harder to vote in red states. Voting in red states can turn them into swing states like Georgia, Ohio, and Arizona. And voting in blue states can keep them from becoming swing states.
California used to be Red. Texas was Blue long ago. Florida was once a swing state. Obama took Indiana but it's gone redder since. Ten years ago Arizona and Georgia going blue was unthinkable.
Things change and we can make them change.
And that's before getting into more local elections. Turning cities blue, the state legislature.
Red states have flipped blue in recent years at those levels too.
Because people vote, and if we vote in high enough numbers we can turn a tight election into a walk in the park. If we vote in high enough numbers, we can turn a loss into a win. So many good things have happened in states where someone won by like 100 votes. (arizona is one)
Vote blue all the way down the ballot to save democracy. This is bigger than politics or parties or partisanship. Lives depend on it. the only way to be sure a state will be red is if it you don't vote. More and more regions flip blue every cycle. Never fall for defeatist voter suppression tactics.
There's another reason to vote blue in a solidly red state.
Why do those states stay red? Especially at the state/congressional level? Because the DNC has limited resources and devotes them, and time and energy to finding good candidates to run for those offices, for races they stand a better chance of winning, especially races they think they can flip.
The more blue votes are cast in a red state - even if it stays red - the more the party will see that state's offices are in play, and that means you get better candidates, more campaign support, and that, friendos, is how you flip a state.
ohio removed 160000 inactive voter registrations
Search for yourself here: https://registrationreadiness.ohiosos.gov Voter registration:
THIS IS URGENT!!! IF YOU HAVE BEEN REMOVED YOU ONLY HAVE 2 DAYS TO REMEDY THIS!!!
Please, no matter where you are, if you are a US citizen check your voter registration. If you live in Ohio, this blatant attempt at voter suppression will be final on 7/22/24. This number represents 1 in every 50 registered voters in the state. They are- allegedly- purging everyone who has been inactive for 4 years. Which in of itself is farcical, because plenty of people only vote every 4 years in the Presidential. But I have seen people say they’ve been incredibly active and voted in the most recent local elections and still been purged. Please, do not delay in checking. If you have been removed, register again right away or you will not have a vote in November.
America. America. Please. Register to vote and keep the fascist dictator out. Please. And if you’re already registered, check to make sure you were not removed.
We’re rooting for you. We’re depending on you. Every one of his followers are going to show up to those polls. You have to keep this man out of office.
We’re pleading with you to make the right choice.
-signed, the rest of the world.
For anyone in any US state, go here! Go now!!
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
USA please listen to me: the price of “teaching them a lesson” is too high. take it from New Zealand, who voted our Labour government out in the last election because they weren’t doing exactly what we wanted and got facism instead.
Trans rights are being attacked, public transport has been defunded, tax cuts issued for the wealthy, they've mass-defunded public services, cut and attacked the disability funding model, cut benefits, diverted transport funding to roads, cut all recent public transport subsidies, cancelled massive important infrastructure projects like damns and ferries (we are three ISLANDS), fast tracked mining, oil, and other massive environmentally detrimental projects and gave the power the to approve these projects singularly to three ministers who have been wined and dined by lobbyists of the companies that have put the bids in to approve them while one of the main minister infers he will not prioritise the protection of endangered species like the archeys frog over mining projects that do massive environmental harm. They have attacked indigenous rights in an attempt to negate the Treaty of Waitangi by “redefining it”; as a backup, they are also trying to remove all mentions of the treaty from legislation starting with our Child Protection laws no longer requiring social workers to consider the importance of Maori children’s culture when placing those children; when the Waitangi Tribunal who oversees indigenous matters sought to enquire about this, the Minister for Children blocked their enquiry in a breach of comity that was condemned in a ruling — too late to do anything — by our Supreme Court. They have repealed labour protections around pay and 90 day trials, reversed our smoking ban, cancelled our EV subsidy, cancelled our water infrastructure scheme that would have given Maori iwi a say in water asset management, cancelled our biggest city’s fuel tax, made our treasury and inland revenue departments less accountable, dispensed of our Productivity Commission, begun work on charter schools and military boot camps in an obvious push towards privatisation, cancelled grants for first home buyers, reduced access to emergency housing, allowed no cause evictions, cancelled our Maori health system that would have given Maori control over their own public medical care and funding, cut funding of services like budgeting advice and food banks, cancelled the consumer advocacy council, cancelled our medicine regulations, repealed free prescriptions, deferred multiple hospital builds, failed to deliver on pre-election medical promises, reversed a gun ban created in response to the mosque shootings, brought back three strikes = life sentence policy, increased minimum wage by half the recommended amount, cancelled fair pay for disabled workers, reduced wheelchair services, reversed our oil and gas exploration ban, cancelled our climate emergency fund, cut science research funding including climate research, removed limits on killing sea lions, cut funding for the climate change commission, weakened our methane targets, cancelled Significant National Areas protections, have begun reversing our ban on live exports. Much of this was passed under urgency.
It’s been six months.
not to sound like a boomer, but I need some people to learn how to write emails in a semi-professional (at the very least) format so you're not cold emailing a business/potential employer/any other stranger about formal matters in the exact same way you'd DM a close friend on instagram
the formality/language can loosen up in the email chain once you've established a rapport and you match the other person if they're being less formal, but please don't have the very first email you send a stranger be written in all lowercase ultra-casual sms slang with no greeting or signature and a billion emojis
Can I just ask, why?
(adding your tags since I'm addressing them)
It’s polite, for one. Professional doesn’t need to mean elaborate—in fact, most professional emails are aiming to be as clear and concise as possible. (in english at least, I know some other languages have some very complicated and elaborate email etiquette)
Greetings and signatures also don’t need to be elaborate. I feel like lots of people overthink it and assume that professional emails need the whole “dear x, my name is x and I am writing this email to inform you about [topic], sincerely [my name and all my contact info]” shebang, when really it’s as simple as adding a quick greeting/signature and avoiding super informal slang.
Here’s an comparison using art commission inquiry as the topic, written with zero extra fluff:
Hi, Are you currently open for commissions? Thanks, [my name]
If I want to add a little more fluff, maybe I write:
Hi, I love your art and wanted to ask if you're currently open for commissions. Here are details of what I'm interested in. Thanks for your time! Thanks/best/etc, [my name]
Those are very short while also being more polite than an email that just says:
are u open for comms??
with zero greeting/signature and very informal tone.
There’s still a person on the other side reading that email, and just like how being polite with a customer service agent on the phone will get you better results than being rude with them, sending a clear and professional email will have you taken more seriously by whoever is reading it. All 3 emails get the same point across, but the last one leaves a much worse impression. You don’t speak to your close friends the same way you’d speak to strangers, and it’s the same in text form. I get so many emails that are just abrupt questions, with not even a quick "thank you" either in the initial email or as a follow-up after I respond, because they ghost me as if I'm just a chat bot answering questions.
I know complaining about email language sounds like a ~corporate america white-collar bullshit~ kinda thing, and there is indeed significantly more elaborate email etiquette that can vastly differ depending on your job/field that I’m not addressing at all, but just having the very basics goes a long way in how your emails are viewed by other people.
Oh boy, let me tell you, we get emails from students like this all the time at my pay job. Barely any information about what kind of help they need, if any info at all. No names, no student ID, not even using an email known to the school.
It took me ages to figure out they were treating writing emails like they were talking to a chatbot.
Now besides the obvious issues - I cannot help you if I spend the better part of three days trying to pull basic information out of you - these messages look like spam. More importantly, they can come across as a scam, and that makes it even less likely to get the problem fixed.
Taking the time to write a proper email is not only polite, it could be critical to getting somewhere in your education, in your career, and in writing and art. Use templates if you need them, but it is worth the effort to sound like an actual human trying to talk to another human.
I think that maybe there is also the issue of them not being taught to write an email/letter/professional speak. I don't know if that is 100% the case but I would assume maybe 30%. I think in my whole school experience I was taught once or twice how to write an email (I think in computer class and as an example in a college class but by then I already learned how) and then the other was just me being polite and not sending "text/casual speak" to a professional bc (what I would assume) common sense.
The chat box comment makes sense though. Bc I do that or speak to a robot like that until I can actually speak to a real person. Maybe ppl my age and older just assume kids to know that?
And if you didn't know that, don't feel bad just google some examples of "Professional Email examples" or something. There's a LOT of shit I don't know and when I say, "oh I dont know how to do that" ppl are always like "omg really?" like yea sorry this type of thing never came up for me. Everyone has different experiences in life or learns at different times in their life. I think if you're polite from the start people will forgive you. But also be ready to maybe not get a response if that does happen.
This absolutely is a huge issue and these critical skills are not being taught in high school. It sucks that kids these days have to go out and learn basic things they will encounter at jobs, like Microsoft Excel and effective online communication and I'm not blaming anyone who lacks these skills at all.
These programs have been cut at fundamental levels because people assume teenagers know know how to do it. But Microsoft Office is expensive as hell and a lot of people don't have laptops or home computers. These gaps exist in the education system, and while folks are out there trying to get them addressed, it never hurts to build those skills yourself with whatever tools you can find. There's no shame on anybody for not knowing what they don't know.
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I'm here now :3ccc
