Something incredible might be happening with this initiative. I've been keeping up with it over the course of the year it's been up and slowly losing hope (50% of time elapsed and only 17% of signatures, etc.) but this week has gotten more signatures than the previous 11 months combined.
First to establish the rules: to get an official reply from the commission and possibly legislation, an initiative needs 1 million signatures within 1 year AND at least 7 different countries need to hit their threshold which is calculated based on population (idk how it's calculated but a little more than 1 in 1000 adult citizens of the country need to sign to hit its threshold). This is to ensure that not all the support for an initiative comes from one or very few countries.
Ok so here's the graph for signatures that the conversion therapy ban got over time according to the wayback machine:
The deadline is in 2 days as I write this and there's a MASSIVE last minute push! 415,223 signatures to go still but the last update to the website added about 360,000 all at once. I think it might still be possible after all.
With that newest update we now also have hit 7 different country thresholds (up from 3 before this spike). Shoutouts to France, Finland, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, and Slovenia!
Found a figure that gets updated more often! Since my last post, we gained 67,883 signatures in just shy of 8 hours. At this pace we should hit 1 million in 40 hours from now. So whether or not the initiative succeeds is going to come down to the minute of when exactly the deadline is (i dont know how to look that up, it just says May 17th)
i reblogged my post with an update when we reached the 600K like 5-6 hours ago and we're now at 660K so we actually have a pace of something like 10K per hour since. which is so freaking awesome. we can do it!!
this event is for Theo Raeken centric fan works and will run from August 1st — August 7th 2025, it can be gen works or ship, all characters & au’s are welcome! feel free to send in an ask with any questions or concerns!
to participate in this event tag your creations with #theoappreciationweek25 and/or #theoweek25 then tag this blog @theoraekenapperciation — please make sure to read the rules found here before posting a work for this event
꩜ prompts - these can be mixed & matched however you please and if you don’t want to follow them that’s fine too!
꩜ day 1 — homeless theo — canon doesn’t explore this a lot but there’s a million possibilities for where theo could’ve been staying or where he ended up or even how many times he’s been without a home — [august 1st]
꩜ day 2 — traveling — maybe it’s back when theo was with the dread doctors or maybe he goes traveling post canon with someone from the pack — [august 2nd]
꩜ day 3 — tending to a wound — it could be theo’s own injury that he’s fixing up or it could be someone else he’s helping — [august 3rd]
꩜ day 4 — triggers — what triggers does theo have even after things have settled down? how does he cope with them? — [august 4th]
꩜ day 5 — rarepairs — this prompt shows up in all my events but it’s a good one so here it is again — [august 5th]
꩜ day 6 — pride — could be the literal sense of theo going to a pride parade or it could mean his pride throughout the series and how it affects his actions or something completely different — [august 6th]
꩜ day 7 — pseudo parent — is there an adult character you think theo could connect with? or someone his own age he subconsciously looks up to like a parent? — [august 7th]
꩜ visual prompts
꩜ day 1 — party
꩜ day 2 — theo’s truck
꩜ day 3 — clothing styles
꩜ day 4 — high school
꩜ day 5 — fangs
꩜ day 6 — career
꩜ day 7 — dealer’s choice
꩜ alternative prompts
꩜ alt 1 — song lyrics / quotes
꩜ alt 2 — haunting — the feelings that theo has may haunt him, or it could be tara, or any of the chimeras that didn’t make it, or maybe some random ghost decided he was the perfect candidate to haunt
꩜ alt 3 — arguing — we know theo has quite a mouth on him, explore how this might get him into trouble or maybe out of trouble?
Congratulations! The 4th dimension exists and you are their FAVORITE blorbo. The tags you got are from the most popular, most influential fanfic starring you. How are you feeling?
Ao3 version that lets you open the 'director's cut' where I, the author, explain every detail in excruciating detail to you and what it is in reference to.
#when im 25 i should get a letter in the mail stating that the first 25 years have been stricken from the record and that im free to be me
hello it’s me. i’m the letter in the mail and i’m here to say every 25 year old is officially free to start over and be themselves. tenfold if you’re queer because most of us didnt start living until our twenties anyway. live laugh love
The tags are all great here but this one made me look at it for a couple seconds. I don’t recall jesus being born an adult im very certain he was also a baby at some point
Imagine that suddenly everyone forgot about Supernatural and the show was erased from existence. Only you and one other person (spin the wheel) remember Supernatural.
Would you contact this person (imagine that it's actually possible) and discuss Supernatural with them?
Yes, I would regularly discuss Supernatural with them
this event is for Theo Raeken centric fan works and will run from December 20th — December 25th 2024, it can be gen works or ship, all characters & au’s are welcome! feel free to send in an ask with any questions or concerns!
to participate in this event tag your creations with #theoraekenchristmasweek24 and/or #theochristmasweek24 then tag this blog @theoraekenapperciation — please make sure to read the rules found here before posting a work for this event
𝜗𝜚 prompts - these can be mixed & matched however you please and if you don’t want to follow them that’s fine too! ↷
🎁 Day 1 — Chimera’s in the Snow - is it snowing in California or did theo travel for the holidays? is it a snow storm or just a dusting? are the other chimeras with him? all up to you! - December 20th 𝜗𝜚
🎁 Day 2 — Christmas Fight - what bad guy does theo have to face off against near christmas time? it could be a villain we’ve already met or someone/something brand new - December 21st 𝜗𝜚
🎁 Day 3 — December Blues - the obligatory angst prompt - December 22nd 𝜗𝜚
🎁 Day 4 — Rarepairs - is there any pairings that didn’t happen in the show that you’d like to see? any characters from past seasons you want to see interact with theo? - December 23rd 𝜗𝜚
🎁 Day 5 — Dealers Choice! - December 24th 𝜗𝜚
🎁 Day 6 — Christmas Day/Eve - how does theo spend the day of Christmas or the night before? - December 25th 𝜗𝜚
𝜗𝜚 visual prompts ↷
🎁 Day 1 — Stuck Outside
🎁 Day 2 — Ice Skating
🎁 Day 3 — Present Wrapping
🎁 Day 4 — Christmas Sweaters
🎁 Day 5 — Dealers Choice!
🎁 Day 6 — Pinning The Star To The Tree
𝜗𝜚 alternative prompts ↷
🎁 Alt 1 — Song Lyrics - could be a holiday song or a regular song you think theo would listen to during the holiday season, anything you’d like
🎁 Alt 2 — Santa Clause - we know theo’s childhood was unconventional, do you think that had an effect on what he believed in? what age did he stop believing? (Ik he has that one line where he says he was nine and still believed in santa so this is based off that)
🎁 Alt 3 — Set In Canon - maybe it wasn’t actually christmas time when we saw theo but who says we can’t play with the timeline and have a canon storyline take place in December
current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.
someone brought a cake analysis robot to feed the cake into to determine the exact ingredients and supposedly it can spit out the exact same cake. and if you're like dude. what. then they're like well if it bothers you you should have made more cake. i'm hungry and i deserve cake. and you're like dude we're at a party.
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