Someone recently retweeted/reposted Michael Sheenās fandom post from New Years Eve 2019. And I just wanted to repost it here because sometimes itās reassuring and comforting to read his words and know he appreciates it and loves fandom as much as we do. ā¤ļø
I think the good omens fandom is one of the best Iāve ever been a part of. I am sad that heās been driven off social media by people who are not true fans, and I miss his posts and silly chaos. I keep hoping to see him over here someday. I hope he knows how much he is loved. šš
So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didnāt learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)
I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up
If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help
Donāt get scared, donāt get annoyed, follow the dog! If it had been an emergency situation, I could have vomited and choked, I could have hit my head, I could have had so many things happen to me. Weāre going to update his training so if the first person doesnāt cooperate, he moves on, but seriously guys. If whatās-his-face could understand that lassie wanted him to go to the well, you can figure out that a dog in a vest proclaiming it a service dog wants you to follow him
Another public service announcement. This time itās air quality. Some of you are probably in it already if youāre in eastern Canada, New England or New York, but itās sliding south, a huge mass of wildfire smoke. Please be careful. When it starts getting bad, especially, like when the sky gets orange or brownish, itās best to run air purifiers in the house and wear N95 or KN95 masks when you have to go outside.
It harms your lungs and itās especially bad for children (and pets!) or anyone with health problems. There are all kinds of chemicals in that smoke. Itās not only trees that are burning. The heat already makes it harder to breath. This makes it worse.
If any of you are experiencing it, feel free to tell about it in the comments. š
Also, throw out the mask every day and shower before you get in bed if youāve been out or youāll be breathing the particles all night. Stuff like that. It gets all over you, your skin, your hair, your clothes.
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LAST SONG: āHumā from 28 Years Later soundtrack because I was listening to that album a lot while writing apocalypse fic
CURRENTLY WATCHING: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Season 3 on Netflix
CURRENTLY READING: nothing right now. open to recommendations pleek
CURRENT OBSESSION:
denver and trevorās whole deal. like whatās up with that
rick yelling at trevor and porter coming and standing close by trevor to absorb some of it
Jimmy Sotos podcast interviewsā¦Iād never heard of him before Perfect Match S4 but now he compels me. very multifaceted. randomly says the most insightful things in between random bullshit. highkey funny as hell.
CURRENTLY WORKING ON: after apocalypse fic, currently nothing! š which is unforch because I love the energy I get from having an active project, but none of my current half-baked docs are calling to me
CURRENTLY WEARING: work clothes business casual baby!!
LAST GOOGLE SEARCH: āfile statefarm claimā because someone hit my car (they were at fault) and now I have to get my car repaired š
FAVORITE FLOWER: been obsessed with calla lilies lately. their shape is so compelling.
no pressure! tagging @tfc-hockey @swifty-fox @sweethomeblue @mmmytelephone @coachspet and anyone else who wants to do this consider yourself tagged!!
They said it's leaning towards cancer but can't verify unless they do an endoscopy for 1500$. Today's ultrasound was 600 and I approved for them to do further blood testing to rule out other possible issues that's another 400. Don't know how much the steroids he's being put on will be. I might ask for help with the endoscopy because things are getting really overwhelming, today alone took all the money from selling my collection of jewelry and belongings. If anyone would like to help out, my art shop is here and my ko-fi is here. I'll be adding a free 3pack of discontinued stickers with every order over 25$
ok i hate to do this but you might've seen a touch of my recent behavior. i would like to have a bit better control of that sort of thing, which means i have to ask for help. i am struggling to attend work and it's having a dire effect in my funds. i am being harassed by my parents and would like to achieve financial independence after recovering from years of constant abuse. i apologize for laying this out so raw but i also must ask for a bit of help in affording the medication that will allow me to work a normal 40 hour week and not need to ask further. a buck or two means a lot and i'll gladly draw you something.
i am sorry to reblog this so much, but my job just cut my hours a LOT. this is now a lot more urgent. i need at least $300 for my meds, and anything else will go toward rent and utilities.
thank you all so much for the help so far. i am more grateful than i can say.
Transphobia is about to be signed into law in the UK. We can fight this.
I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.
Last year we broke the record for an LGBT+ mass lobby of Parliament. Will you help us break it again? Join us on 25th June 2026 to demand be
The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.
Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or donāt pass too well.
A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:
Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.
Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.
Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns
Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.
I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.
It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:
Worried about what to say?
Bring your personal worries about transphobia being signed into law, and trans friends being excluded from public spaces. You are a living person who deserves dignity. Remind your MP of that. You will also get guidance and brochures from Trans Solidarity Alliance that outlines our demands. This is mine from last year.
Money issues?
Trans Solidarity Alliance provides a travel bursary that you can sign up for via the link.
Got a refusal or no response from your MP?Ā
Come anyway! You can request a same-day appointment with your MP through a process called greencarding. They will come and see you if theyāre already in Parliament. Even if they donāt, theyāre made acutely aware of your cause because you showed up in person. This is my greencard from last year.
Here is the EHRC Code of Practice in full. It's a tough read, but some highlights are:
Organisations canāt provide trans-inclusive, single-sex services, or they risk being sued for discrimination.
e.g. domestic violence support for women including trans women, menās rugby group including trans men (12.68).
Trans people will have nowhere safe to pee.
If youāre a trans man, businesses can't allow you to pee in the men's, and you can also be ejected from womenās bathrooms if youāre perceived as a man. Vice versa for trans women. EHRC suggests a āthird spaceā bathroom, which is discriminatory and unworkable for most businesses. (13.130-133)
Sports organisations must exclude trans people from single-sex competitions (13.73).Ā
A womenās only sports competition must exclude trans women because of their biological advantage or face potential lawsuits (13.74), but a trans man who has undergone testosterone treatment can also be excluded based on fairness rules (13.81).
Trans women are stripped of the legal definition of ālesbianā, and therefore no longer have legal protections if theyāre discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. (2.50, 2.92).
Here is the Good Law Project's better explanation of the EHRC Code.
I have also made a PDF printout of QR codes for the government petition, email your MP tool, and mass lobby link to pass around your communities. DM me and I'll send it to you.
I need to say something people donāt seem to want to hear.
Things are worse now than they were 25 years ago.
I was sixteen years old, freshly out of the closet, walking around holding hands with my girlfriend proudly, happily, utterly in love and at no point did I ever feel scared.
This was twelve years or so before same sex marriage was legalised and an apology was given by the queen for the criminalisation, harm and stigma brought upon our community. Equal rights seemed unthinkable to me at sixteen years old, and yet I never once felt a need to hide who I was or who I loved.
Today, I do.
The Pride flag I hang every June has been stolen and found burned in a nearby field. My neighbours donāt put my bin out when they take out everyone elseās, a deliberate choice of exclusion. A woman braked to a stop outside my house and asked me what I was doing there (I was very obviously cleaning my windows), and she looked shocked when I said I was the person who lived there, glared at me and drove away without explanation. I am the only female-shaped person who visits my local barbers, and although the staff there are friendly and welcoming, I see the coldness in the eyes of some of the other customers in the mirror, and I feel the need to explain my hair fell out due to cancer rather than that I actually quite like having short, masculine hair. Because I donāt feel safe.
I donāt feel safe.
Everywhere I look, I see Pride posts flooded with hateful comments, and itās more than the ignorant basement dwellers Iāve dealt with all my life, these are deranged, radicalised individuals who believe their hatred is allowed because it is being given a platform. They are organised. They are finding each other. They are so full of rage and desperate to point it somewhere. At someone.
And I hate that Iāve been pushed into a state of fear and shame that Iāve never, in my twenty five years of being openly me, experienced.
It is bad out there. And Iām afraid itās going to get worse.
I know my page, my whole thing, is mama bear hopecore, but Iām genuinely all out of hope. Itās so fucking hard to be hopeful in this charged political climate. So if youāre out there, and a part of you is afraid, Iām telling you that you are 100% right to be, that in twenty five years the most dangerous it has ever been is right now, and just staying alive and being yourself is all you need to focus on right now.
Take care of yourselves, and each other. And remember that you are loved, you are valid, you are worthy, you are enough, and if you needed to hear it today, Iām so fucking happy youāre here.
You found the hour at the end there. It was worse when I was 16, and better when you were 16, and now itās worse, but I believe it will get better again if we keep living and loving, and talking when itās safe to do so, and vote, always vote.
BLM is still a thing. If you donāt reblog this, but wouldāve in June/July you were only in support of black lives when it was a trend. They still need justice
hi! carey means needs help still - he's the voice actor for frylock in aqua teen hunger force! adult swim screwed him badly and pays no residuals and barely paid him during the show's run. he has heart failure and survives on con earnings, plushie sales, and donations while waiting for disability to get back to him. posts used to make the rounds for him, but haven't in a while, so i wanted to make a new post!
if you'd rather buy a plushie - here's the shop he and his wife run!
just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out
if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.
if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to
PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply
figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list
so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...
so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts
posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig
