[prepare4trouble]

Does anybody else track their life though a series of obsessions? Like “ah yes, i remember that happening, i was obsessing over Star Gate Atlantis at the time,” or, “this was during my Supernatural era.” I can map out my whole life in this way.

[empress-of-dark2005]

[crunchy-possum-soup2]

May i add this to your thesis

[brokenaroacecode-deactivated202]

Not to mention

[klenda-v]

The ever-classic

[oftheninerealms]

[berghahnbooks]

For Indigenous Peoples Day, we’re pleased to share this art work by Jonathan Labillois titled “Still Dancing,” which originally appeared in Volume, 9 Issue 2 of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. This issue featured a special section on Indigenous Girlhood. 

For more on Indigenous Peoples, please visit our blog. 

[sacredwhores]

Mai Masri - Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (2001)

[monsieurrobot]

[uryyybel-deactivated20190320]

[latinotiktok]

hey what the fuck is happening in Brasil with twitter

[depotestoterone-deactivated2024]

it's banned for not taking down accounts that our country justice system requested (most of those were nazis)

[latinotiktok]

do you guys have any other options?

[las-lus]

we can use any other platform besides twitter, most of us are going to Bluesky or threads (tumblr, ofc, is safe, but no one is coming here lol).

I want to add: The demand was to take down accounts that spread fake news during covid and far-right accounts who were using the platform to call to arms the right wings to attempt a violent coup after the 2021 election that ACTUALLY TOOK PLACE [x] (and, luckily, failed). Twitter was also owning us 3.6 Million dollars in fines over a different issue.

Instead of complying, twitter shut down it's Brazilian headquarters, firing ever single worker without notice. Any company providing a service in Brazil must have a brazilian representative to make sure it complies with our law, and twitter no longer does.

Not only that, but Musk himself started to spread fake news about our elections, literally and explicitly accusing our minister of justice of election fraud. The narrativer he is trying to build is that Brazil is in some sort of dictatorship and is against free speech when, again, the issue is people doing online crimes.

He also tagged him and threatening him with jail using an AI picture of him and compared him to Voldemort and Darth Vader in multiple occasions. Musk is, in fact, that pathetic.

[tamarrud]

And I'll say this until I don't have to say it anymore:

None of what's happening now is new, be it in Gaza or in West Bank refugee camps

The maiming, the destruction, the starvation, the executions...

All of this has been happening throughout the last 8 decades

What you're witnessing today is only an acceleration of the ongoing genocide so watch how you address it

[apparently-artless]

Natsume Yuujinchou Shichi PV [broadcast starts on Oct. 8, 2024, at 0:00 AM JST]

[pastabot]

today is not my birthday

[pastabot]

reblog if your birthday is not today

[pupucino]

life imitates art

[theblob1958]

people are saying do it scared, but you also gotta do it alone. you'll miss out on so much you want to do if you wait til someone will do it with you. do it scared and do it alone.

[thumperdaetime]

me (scared & alone) out in the wider world trying to broaden my horizons:

[wizardarchetypes]

I want to write a book called “your character dies in the woods” that details all the pitfalls and dangers of being out on the road & in the wild for people without outdoors/wilderness experience bc I cannot keep reading narratives brush over life threatening conditions like nothing is happening.

I just read a book by one of my favorite authors whose plots are essentially airtight, but the MC was walking on a country road on a cold winter night and she was knocked down and fell into a drainage ditch covered in ice, broke through and got covered in icy mud and water.

Then she had a “miserable” 3 more miles to walk to the inn.

Babes she would not MAKE it to that inn.

[pixelartpeach]

Are there any other particularly egregious examples?

[theglintoftherail]

This book already exists, sort of! Or at least, it’s a biology textbook but I bought it for writing purposes:

It starts with a chapter about freezing to death, and it is without a doubt the scariest thing I’ve read in years (and I read a lot of horror fiction).

[wandercuriosity-deactivated2024]

This book can be downloaded for free on Researchgate, posted there by the author himself:

The Biology of Human Survival: Life and Death in Extreme Environments

[unhauntng]

actually not emotional over graduating university, just over losing my jstor access

[jstor]

A registered personal account will get you free access to 100 articles per month!

[magiccarpetman]

Never clicked a link faster in my life.

[lenouveaucirque]

William B. “Bill” Watterson II.

[memecucker]

if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do... research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?

[mala-taste]

If I were writing about firefighters I'd also, in addition to just reading about them, take advantage of Our Blessed Internet to ask actual firefighters about how shit works. I'd do the same for a minority I'm not a part of.

I remember when there was this LiveJournal community where you could just ask about anything you needed for your novel - medicine, professions, vehicles, how things function in country X - and people who knew something about that would answer.

We need to bring this back.

[mala-taste]

And apparently just this summer they DID bring it back - it's called Little Details and it's on Dreamwidth!!!!

[alexseanchai]

[hersheysmcboom]

Protect Water: #NestlePledge and #StarbucksPledge

Join the movement to #BoycottStarbucks, #BoycottNestle, and boycott all of their products.

[2spirit-1spoon]

Buy These Alternatives to Nestle and Starbucks - Lakota People's Law Project

Lakota People's Law Project's list of alternative brands to buy if you have taken the #NestlePledge and #StarbucksPledge​. ​​

[2014rosychic]

"I didn't choose to leave [Gaza]. My grandfather did not choose to leave Gaza. We were kicked out and we could not return. My house is still in Gaza."

Olympian swimmer Valerie Tarazi, originally from Gaza, blasting those trying to erase her Palestinian identity.

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