I, a mistake, was made.

Kai or Kestrel | they/them | aroace | 21yo Heated Rivalry is my current hyperfixation. Free Palestine, Fuck AI, Fuck Fascism and Imperialism

[diabolicalworldwriter]

sorry for the insta formatting, and if I didn't provide enough info, this is my first time taking comms. tl;dr I will draw for you if you donate to palestinian families. please do so if you have the means, whether you want art or not; they need all the help they can get.

otherwise, stay informed, amplify palestinian voices, defend the victims of this ongoing atrocity.

this is the link to Ahmed and Rawan's fundraiser. I've also reblogged a number of fundraisers in the last while and will likely keep that up.

[diabolicalworldwriter]

Never make a joke in your tags about your 19yo sister who you censor the word "damn" for as you read your dumb bullshit aloud to her being the closest thing you have to a beta reader

The ai beta acc spam bots will smell blood and hunt you down clamoring for your attention, apparently

[abd-ahmed-fimaly1]

I am Abd Ahmed from Gaza, Palestine.

The war has taken everything from me and my family — our home, our safety, and our source of living. We were displaced from Rafah to Al-Mawasi, and when we finally returned, we found our house destroyed and impossible to live in.Today, we live through hunger, poverty, fear, and constant pressure just to survive. Some days we cannot afford food, clean water, or even the most basic necessities. Sitting for long hours without a single meal has become part of our daily life.Before the war,

I was studying engineering and dreaming of building a better future for myself and my family. But the war stopped my education and destroyed the life I worked hard for .

I am trying to help my family survive and find a safe, stable life again. Any support, even a small donation, can help us with food, shelter, and hope during these difficult times.

Help Abd Ahmed and his family to survive

I am Abd Ahmed from Gaza. I am trying to help my family to live. We do not have any means of livelihood, and life here is expensive. We cann

[abd-ahmed-fimaly]

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #745 )✅️

[diabolicalworldwriter]

Once I'm done with Theater AU (putting the HR characters in a setting I'm familiar with so I can actually write about it, but somehow still roping myself into writing several explicit scenes for character accuracy and exploration reasons) I think I will have to write an Asexual AU (putting the characters back into hockey which idk fuck about but I don't have to write any explicit scenes because Shane and Ilya just really like meeting up after they play on the ice and getting hyper competitive over card games or something)

First handshake and Ilya notices a suspiciously deck shaped outline in Shane's pocket. Finally, he thinks, a worthy opponent, and in more than just hockey. Shane subconsciously sought him out for hockey reasons but also because from afar the cigarette pack looks kinda like a box of cards.

CCM shoot. Before they even reach the showers Ilya notices Shane checking out his back pocket and asexually (because I cannot describe any of his actions as sexy/sexily anymore, those are the rules /j) pulls out the deck and starts very expertly shuffling it. Shane is briefly entranced before insisting "not here" (They are sweaty and still need to shower. The cards could get wet. Ew.)

"Scott Hunter is literally next door and if he hears us yell Rummy a little too enthusiastically he'll want to play too and you know he has stupid old rules. He'll ruin the game!"

"What color?" (Shane just played a wild in Uno.)

"Mr. Real Estate. Mr. Landlord." "We're both playing Monopoly Go, don't act like you're not a part of this too."

They've modified Skipbo like my cousin and I do so they both start out with a massive pile to get rid of and the discards go up or down, top card duplicates are wild, etc etc anything to make the game more exciting. Shane's used to playing by the rules but not with Ilya. With Ilya it's a whole other game. Also one time Ilya managed to get rid of his whole deck in his first turn, before Shane could play a single card, and it was "such a good trick" and they both know that was absolutely dumb luck but "You don't get it Hollander, I just have better strategy. The cards love me."

Shane tried really hard to play with Rose but she always wanted to play Candyland. Which is an insulting application of cards, bastardizing them into a juvenile board game with no strategy involved. She recognizes quickly that his heart's not in it and suggests her good friend Miles, who has been playing solitaire for far too long, but Shane only wants one specific man to be his partner (in 500)

I'm joking but at the same time I feel like I could make a pretty good crack fic seeing as I've never taken anything seriously in my life.

[abbielauren2024]

Reblog if you’re grateful for your commenters <3

[rjzimmerman]

Mapping how the U.S. forcibly took Indigenous lands

Not long after the Great American Experiment began, the newly established nation set its sights west. Here's how a series of conflicts, forg

Excerpt from this story from National Geographic:

1775-1819 In 1775, most of the United States was still Indigenous land; however, even George Washington acknowledged that it would require a “great wall” to restrain European settlers from encroaching on Indigenous territory. Over 200 years of land transfers (in which lands previously inhabited by Indigenous people became official property of non-Indigenous people), the Indigenous population was gradually confined to small areas within the U.S.

1820-1864 By 1820, settlers had moved well into the Midwest, displacing Indigenous inhabitants through conflict or the simple pressure of their presence. By 1834, the frontier reached as far as Kansas. In one astonishing 14-year period, starting in 1850 and motivated by mid-century gold finds, nearly the entire west coast of the United States transferred from Indigenous to U.S. hands. The only state still almost entirely unscathed was New Mexico.

1865-1894 At the end of the Civil War, 20,000 soldiers were manning western forts. Between 1865 and 1879, vast areas of land were seized, including the rest of Kansas and most of Texas, North Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, and Nevada. The Department of War struggled against the Apache and Navajo in New Mexico. Cessations and treaties continued to chip away at Indigenous lands, with the exception of Oklahoma, though the 1887 Dawes Act would soon change that.

1895-2026 From 1895 to 1988, Indigenous people lost another two-thirds of their lands to non-Indigenous people. The largest of these losses was in Oklahoma, previously known as Indian Territory. A major catalyst was the Dawes Act (aka the General Allotment Act), eventually rescinded in 1934, which broke up commonly held land and parceled out plots to Indigenous individuals—destroying collective social structures—who were often later obliged to sell.

[diabolicalworldwriter]

FIRST TWO CHAPTERS OF HR THEATER AU ARE UP!!

tumblr is being cruel and not letting me embed a big link into the post (in Pride month?? really?) so just embedding in the title:

Only After The Finale Can You Bow

Summary:

Shane was made for theater, he thinks. Costuming, Acting, Set Builds, whatever he has to do to be involved. For a few years he's been shut off from the acting aspect of that, dedicating all his love into costume design and creation, not quite finding that to be enough. Lucky him, his parents are about to direct a musical for the first time, and they trust no one more than their son to take on a role. Lucky??? Him?? (There are mixed feelings) Ilya Rozanov is also in the cast. They've only met briefly before this, but Ilya's intent on fixing that.

Or "The Mental Illness and Hand Sewn Costuming Theater AU"

The sillies are in Into The Woods. Sure hope they have a better time than I did lmao (that bar is in hell tbh)

[diabolicalworldwriter]

Chapter six is now up!!!

The silly little snippet that goes with this one:

[galaxycepheus]

If your system doesn't account for the fact that Parents Are Going To Be Abusive/Neglectful/Insufficient then it objectively sucks I'm sorry I don't make the rules

[galaxycepheus]

Monitored bank accounts for those under 18. Requiring parental consent for medical procedures. Parental controls on personal devices. "We won't teach this at school because parents are supposed to address it at home." Anything that puts all of the child's power onto the parents' hand, anything that assumes parents are going to inherently do enough of a good job no one else needs to interfer, every single one of these IS going to be used by controlling, neglectful or unprepared parents and already are, and if the system did not account for that very real, tangible, dangerous tendency, then it's not worth fucking anything. You shouldn't make things "for the youth"/with children in mind if you are going to overlook this painfully common aspect of their lives u_u

[allonsybadwolf]

"crochet can't be made by machines" went from being a cool fun fact to being a call to action of "so if you see mass manufactured crochet in Target, that was made by a person and they were underpaid and you should boycott it" which is true, it was made by a person, but EVERY item of clothing you own (that you did not purchase from a company using ethical labor) was made by a person being underpaid (at *best*.)

Sewing machines are operated by *people*. Knitting machines are operated by *people*. Yes lots of the process is automated but you cannot tell a machine "make me a t-shirt" or "make me a knit cardigan".

Higher awareness of fast fashion, and the true human labor and abuse behind it, is GREAT, but let's not pretend that the crochet hat in target is THE problem. Every article of clothing in target is the problem. "All clothes are made by people" is the jumping off point here into understanding this issue it's not just crochet it's the whole thing ahhhhHHHHHHHHHH

[enerdsout]

[marzipanandminutiae]

If you've ever seen images of sweatshops in the early 20th century, in New York or the UK or other developed countries

Guess what

Your clothing is still made in a place that looks like that. The only thing that's different is the tech level of the sewing machines and the race of the workers 

[novelconcepts]

Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.

You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.

[thisisnotenuff]

SHARING BEDS

lorde // euripides trans. anne carson // lorde // lena oleanderson // natalie haynes // futile devices - sufjan stevens // john berger // true blue - boygenius // known and loved - joel ansett // leach - superheaven // E.B. white

[amygdalae]

How to be scary and evil while still bringing joy and comfort to everyone around me

[diabolicalworldwriter]

Fifth chapter of HR Theater AU is up and I figured I should post some of my old sewing projects alongside it, since I mention them in the notes. Not too glowingly.

I sewed these when I was thirteen. I'd had a class with my friend's mom where we learned to backstitch by hand, did some small projects, used patterns to make a skirt for a doll, then one for a person... and then the class was over and I just started bullshitting. As I do.

I was impatient as hell, so the hems (if they had any) and one specific seam were held by the running stitch... yikes. Worse, I tried to finish off some edges with hot glue.

(anyways here's a bunch of screenshots from some long ass videos I need to at some point edit down to concisely explain my issues/appreciations with each, and one photo from when I was 13, because ofc my favorite of the collection is the one that I can't even pretend fits me now lmao)

(for reference on what I am capable of now, my last three large projects):

I think it's actually very lovely to look back on what I used to do. They weren't perfect, most were downright bad, but there was an idea there, a foundation to build on. There was passion. They were the necessary first steps to being able to sew like I do now. I've had a long learning curve for all my interests. Most things I do I do with little assistance or instruction, just fucking around and finding out. Sometimes I find out the bad way. Sometimes I put hot glue on hems and then put them in the dryer. But then, years down the line, because I was too damn stubborn to give up after fucking up that bad, I got to make ball gowns and wolf costumes and prince coats, and I got to see them on my friends and/or under stage lights.

In short? If you love something, it's ok to fuck it up a lot. It's ok to take years to get good. It's ok to look back and realize you weren't that good, because it means you've gotten better.

I have a lot more to improve on, always more to learn. I'm excited for that.

[diabolicalworldwriter]

Still practicing freehanding with ink

Reminder to myself that drawing chibis makes me irrationally angry because I don't know what their proportions are supposed to be and then they look dumb and I have to casually draw a puck over them like that was the plan the whole time. So yeah the fighting my perfectionism thing is going great.

Also have a pencil Ilya in a dress from a couple weeks ago that I forgot about whoops

[hellpotter]

it’s not weird to find fanfiction from 2021, or 2017, or 2014 that you’ve never read and actually taking your time to read it.

it’s not weird to love it and comment and leave kudos because the author will probably still see it someday and it will make them happy.

it’s not weird to like said author’s work so much that you want to go look for other fics from them.

it’s not weird to go through the authors profile and look for other fics from the ships you like (or maybe some that you’ll give a chance because you liked the author) and maybe bookmark them for later.

it’s not weird to read these other fics and like them too and comment on them because you actually like them and you want to let the author know.

it’s not weird to read fanfiction from 5, or 8, or 10 years ago and actually enjoy and engage with it because it’s perfectly normal to relate to something that’s less than a decade old!

let’s stop treating fanfiction like they’re instagram posts that stop being interesting in 24 hours! fanfiction is NOT social media, fanfiction is art!!! and art doesn’t get old in one day, one year, or even a decade!

read fanfiction! write fanfiction! comment on fanfiction! let’s not let fanculture die people!!!!!

[bundibird]

Not only is it not weird, it is ACTIVELY ENCOURAGED. Authors LOVE IT when people do this!!! Its not "weird" and its not "neutral" -- its a fucking DELIGHT. Feel very absolutely free to read though an author's entire back catalogue, leaving kudos and/or comments along the way; we absolutely freaking love when someone does this. There is nothing more joyful than getting a comment notification for an old fic. It will make our day, I promise.

[taraljc]

There needs to be a special word for the warm, gratifying feeling that you get when you watch someone kudos everything you've ever written in a specific fandom in backwards order over 3 days. and that word needs a modifier to express the inexpressible joy when they start leaving comments on every story no matter how old it is.

[snakebites-and-ink]

Hate how people treat friendship like it's nothing more than the training wheels version of romantic love.

[snakebites-and-ink]

Children's cartoons are full of the power of friendship, but as soon as you get to media for teens or adults it's all about "true love" which is almost exclusively used to refer to romantic love. Children's media focuses on friendship and holds it up as a deep and valuable bond, but once romance is involved friendship is relegated to a nice side garnish if it's acknowledged at all. And as soon as the target audience is old enough to be interested in romance it's nearly impossible to find any stories without it as at least a subplot.

When someone starts dating it's not only normalized but near-universally expected that they'll put their friends second to their partner, regardless of the length or depth of the respective relationships. The "friendzone" is where you hang out when you're hoping for a "real relationship." When there's a romantic or sexual aspect they're "more than friends."

I'm going to end up on the news.

[mohdayesh]

I don't want to talk about the 1000 days because I died a thousand times over during those days. They ripped my soul from me, took my sanity, and killed everything beautiful I saw. It's just a number the world talks about today and forgets tomorrow, even though tomorrow will be worse because it's 1001, meaning tomorrow there will be death, hunger, fear, poverty, and oppression. Nothing will change except that we keep getting worse and worse and worse. The whole world is showing sympathy today, but tomorrow they'll forget, even as our extermination and killing continue.

[el-shab-hussein]

Please help my friend Mohammed Ayesh. Without his help vetting fundraisers, hundreds of families would not have gotten the support and backing they needed. And now, he and his family are in need of help too.

His pregnant wife still has bullets lodged in her body and needs surgeries to have them removed. Please help them if you can.

Pay Mohammed Ayesh using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/MAyesh674 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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