this was gonna be an art blog but I'm gonna go reblogging shit as well so. if you dont want to see a bunch of stuff you may have already seen block the tag "fullcircle reblog"
Hey everyone! First of all, I want to thank everyone again for your generosity this year. With your help, in our fourth annual Hermit-a-Day May event, we once again raised a WHOLE GO KART'S WORTH of money - $4,052.53! - for Gamers Outreach. As a gift for your support, a10 and his amazing team have created an incredible AMV full of highlights from the start of season 11! It'll be premiering on youtube at 12 noon HADM (that is, US Central) time. Hope to see everyone there!
And while you're waiting for the premiere, why don't you take a moment to fill out this year's post-event survey?
Please help me make Hermit-a-Day May even better next year by answering the following questions! Nothing is required, but everything is help
P.S. I have to get one more sellout in this year - sticker sheets are still available >.^
Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.
Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.
All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.
After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.
It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of years—far longer than settlers have been in Canada—and made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotēn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.
And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racism—like Kashechewan—because it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.
The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.
Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.
ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.
Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.
*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.
If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.
My friends and I are raising money for Give Kids the World! I will be dono-matching up to $50 during my stream slot! Please stop by mine or another's slot so we can help support this great organization!
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
Do you have any book recommendations? I've been reading alot lately and I'm looking for things to put on the list
oh boy. long post warning
tl;dr: book list
Cosmere - Brandon Sanderson [fantasy]
The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [sci-fi]
Wayfarers - Becky Chambers [sci-fi]
The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir [sci-fi/fantasy]
Zeroes - Scott Westerfeld [superpowers]
Discworld - Terry Prachet [fantasy]
This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar [sci-fi]
Fence - C. S. Pacat [comic/sports drama]
Animorphs - Katherine Applegate [sci-fi... ?]
paragraphs talking about each recommendation below.
1 - Cosmere
Cosmere is a huge literary universe written by brandon sanderson that has a bunch of books and series set within it. it follows a unique magic system that has rules, logic, and is extremely fun in multiple different ways.
the main appeal of the Cosmere is that most of the stories are self-contained but contain minor references to each other. the novels are readable on their own and the series work just fine without context. additionally, each book has a different genre.
if you want a whimsical pirate adventure, read Tress of the Emerald Sea. if you want an east-asian inspired cyberpunk time-fuckery book, check out Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. want intense magic systems and fictional politics? read Elantris! thinking about a vast war epic with physics-based magic in a world based entirely on SEAsia and Pacifika? read The Stormlight Archive. if you want a classic YA tale with a scrappy teenage protagonist fighting against an evil empire, try Mistborn.
basically, Cosmere has it all. highly recommend it if you have the time! once you start, you're not going to want to stop.
2 - The Murderbot Diaries
i'm decently sure you've already read this, but i'll mention it again just in case you haven't. TMBD is one of my favorite sci-fi series because it explores parts of speculative science fiction that i feel like most media doesn't.
TMBD centers around Murderbot, a human/robot construct who works in security and is decidedly not under governor module control. it has a strong character voice and is incredibly fun to read the narration of. the story follows its adventures as it struggles with the capitalistic Corporation Rim and attempts to save its humans from killing themselves in horrible ways.
also you know agender aromantic asexual autistic rep. yes it's from a non-human character but Murderbot is still awesome
3 - Wayfarers
kind of similar vibe to TMBD, Wayfarers has a lot more focus on aliens and intergalactic politics. if you like the vibe of TMBD but love the speculative astrobiology of Project Hail Mary, i definitely recommend Wayfarers. the first book follows a cargo crew made of a motley of different species as they travel together in space. super fun characters, lots of awesome worldbuilding.
4 - The Locked Tomb
this is another one you've probably already read because it's quite popular on Tumblr, but i'll mention it again because this series is so good. it's ostensibly fantasy, but objectively science fiction. it's gothic horror in space. big for lesbianism, undying loyalty, and fans of knights (which i know you are).
it mostly follows an undying Empire and several noble houses that fight for power amongst it other at the behest of their eternal god-emperor. lots of skeletons and swords and vague reminders that this is supposed to be set in space.
5 - Zeroes
okay just to break of the flow of good recommendations this one is actually a dogshit series that i like because i think bad media is good if you ignore everything bad about it. yes it sucks yes the characters are written poorly yes the finale was disappointing. however. its good if you ignore all of that.
zeroes is about a group of teenagers in 2016 with awful superpowers having to work together despite all of their misgivings. it's mostly about what happens when the friend group breaks apart and then has to continue seeing each other even though there was crazy drama. but also everyone has superpowers. great if you want to go insane about bad media.
6 - Discworld
okay back to good media. read Discworld. do it.
another vast and expansive series where you can jump in anywhere. whimsical fantastical adventures with literally the best writing style ever. also good political commentary.
7 - This is How You Lose the Time War
I LOVE THIS BOOK !!!!! it's got weird formatting, writing style that hurts your brain, and also lesbianism.
this book follows letters written to each other from two members of opposite sides of the time war. Red and Blue continue to meet* each other across time across battlefields, each leaving letters as they cross paths. incredibly beautiful book. read it.
8 - Fence
okay back to bad media. this series is single-handedly the reason that i wrote 30k words about fencing. it's technically a comic book series, but it also has some novels that expand on the world. it's all M/M with some F/F if you squint, but it's a good mindless read if you're up for Sports. you will end up learning more than you should about fencing though.
another one of those series that's good if you ignore everything bad about it.
9 - Animorphs
i could talk about animorphs for actual hours to be honest. nothing i can say would give it justice though. it's a 90s scholastic serial written for kids during senseless war and violence. it's about shapeshifting kids. it's about body-snatching aliens. it's about the cruel violence of war and how it changes you. it's about the lengths that you will go to save your life, your family, your country, your planet. it's about transgenderism.
technically it's written for kids, so all of the 60+ books are really short but the writing is easy and the plot is very deep. it's one of those series that you could read as a kid and enjoy, then read as an adult and actually understand the harrowing effect of what the characters are going through.
it's gorilla warfare. sorry, i meant. guerilla warfare. with gorillas.
The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.
Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"
The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.
Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."
This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.
This torches everything. And I do mean everything.
A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):
ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives
allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason
preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies
requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.
What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.
Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.
Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.
Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:
"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"
But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.
Like they said- get the noise up. The administration has tried lots of ways to ban being transgender, and they've always failed. Make sure to tell community members and ask them to pass the word as well.
Don't let fear or feeling doomed stop you. If you're overwhelmed that's okay, but take a break, take a breath, talk to someone about how you're feeling, and continue.
We've beaten them before and we'll beat them again.
Aro and ace activism is housing reform, is well-funded public housing, is an expansion of affordable housing, is allowing single people to get affordable and public housing, is rent controls to make it possible for single people to be able to afford to live alone on a single salary.
Aro and ace activism is healthcare reform, so that no one needs to rely on a spouse for health insurance, so that healthcare is available to everybody regardless of income, so that no one’s lived experiences or basic dignity are dismissed or overridden by doctors
Aro and ace activism is well-funded and expansive public transit, so that you don’t need to have someone on hand to drive you places if you are incapacitated, so that you don’t have to pay for an ambulance if you need to get to the hospital quickly
Aro and ace activism is disability and elder care services, so that no one needs a spouse to care for them, so that no one needs children to care for them, so that marriage is not a bind for disabled people, so that people on disability who want to and can live alone can
Aro and ace activism is community-building, it’s public events, it’s free social activities, it’s mutual aid, it’s activities that bring community members together without socializing relying on just a romantic partner
Aro and ace activism is developing a culture of believing when people tell you who they are and what they want rather than assuming you know them better than they know themselves
Aro and ace activism means a better world for people without “normative” desires or “normative” social support, which means a better world for everybody
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