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agh okay I’m caving-- it seems like BP fandom is on tumblr so I’ll post BP-related stuff here when I remember.
is there already a centralized place to squee/make up headcanons/find betas/etc? if not, I can make a Discord server, if people are interested, but I don’t want to step on anyone’s toes if there’s one already. lmk if you know of one/if you’re interested in me making one!
[obvs I do know about the kinkmeme, but it’s harder to have instant-msg-style gushing convos on it ;D]
Hiatus
As you can probably tell from the dates on my most recent posts, I’m on a semi-permanent hiatus from Tumblr.
If you want to geek out about fandom stuff, I’m still writing and posting fic on AO3 as mlraven, and I hang out on the Yuletide and Fandom Exchanges Discord server.
If you know me IRL/want personal life updates, those are now on Dreamwidth (mlravenwrites).
I am doing some amount of lurking on Tumblr to find people in specific fandoms, so you can send me an ask/PM here, but I can’t promise if/when I’ll see them and respond. :)
Debating starting to use tumblr again and having many mixed feelings... maybe only if I weed through who I’m following?? Minimizing social media time has made a big difference for my mental health, so I’m reluctant to pick this one back up. But I miss image-based blogging...
it me!!!!!!!!!!
From Neill Cameron’s Twitter:
I was working recently with a bunch of kids who kept tearing up their own drawings in frustration, so I did something I’ve not done before.
I talked honestly to a classroom full of children about how much I hate my own drawing.
Okay, not the full extent. These kids ain’t ready to hear that. But that I do.
They were kind of appalled, and horrified and fascinated, but anyway, they stopped tearing up their drawings.
As I attempted to explain it — and many of you reading this will know already — when you make a drawing, there are two versions of it.
There’s the version that exists in your head, and then there’s the version that ends up on paper.
And because you can see both versions, you can’t help but compare them, and feel frustrated by the difference.
But here’s the thing, and I think it’s easy to forget this: no-one else can see that first version.
They can’t judge against it. They can only see, and judge, the version that exists on paper.
And you know what, this sounds crazy, but they might actually like it for what it is. They might think it’s cool that you made it.
I mean, holy god, if you guys could see the version of Mega Robo Bros that exists in my head.
Your eyeballs would melt and your heart be burned away by sheer divine fire of amazingness.
But the differences between that version and what’s on the page are only visible to me, and shouldn’t — can’t — matter to anyone else.
If a draing goes a bit wrong, ah well. Look at it, learn, try and make the next one better.
Or, possibly even better: abandon false objective notions of quality altogether and just enjoy the process, the activity, of making a thing.
Not quite how I phrased it to the Year5s, but hopefully you get the idea.
IN SUMMARY: be kinder to your drawings, and yourselves. I know, it’s hard. But try.
(Though this was written by a visual artist, the advice is applicable across creative disciplines – be kind to yourselves and to your stories!)
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Lani Ka'ahumanu, founding organizer of BiPol, the first and oldest bisexual political network, marches in the 1984 Lesbian and Gay Freedom Day Parade. Photo credit Arlene Krantz
Today is a good day to remember that the black panther party always was a proponent for queer rights and queer activists today can repay that kindness by supporting groups such as black lives matter and by working to eliminate racism in our own communities.
Also the Black Panther Party protected disabled protesters during a 23 day sit-in in 1977 that resulted in the winning of 504 regulations. Please don’t forget that.
20th Century Fox just released these retro posters for Hidden Figures.
don’t give me power over screencaps
Two quick and important pieces of advice from a lawyer friend for Muslim Green card holders traveling to U.S.: - If you are able, change your flight to fly to land at Boston Logan International Airport. The Massachusetts order from the judge is stronger and requires entry. - You may be pressured to sign a form I-407. Signing this form means you are voluntarily abandoning your lawful permanent resident status. *Do not sign this form.* Please copy & paste. And translations are helpful.
This was recently shared with me (via travelingmindlostsoul)
Hidden Figures (2016) dir. Theodore Melfi
this echoes what white women do today.
This was maybe my favorite thing about Hidden Figures. It did not let white women off the hook for one second. Kirsten Dunst’s character was passive at best and openly racist at worst. There was another white woman who, while never openly racist, was deeply passive until the last moment. The movie was, in many ways, an indictment of white feminism and I hope the white women who have seen it were paying attention.
Always forward
“No human being is illegal” was first spoken by Elie Wiesel, Z’’L, a Jewish Holocaust survivor. “Illegal immigrant” was first used to label Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust and being denied entry to then Mandatory Palestine. There is nothing wrong with universalizing the quote and its message, Wiesel himself did, but if you use it and also erase its Jewish, antisemitic, and anti-antisemitic origins? You’re doing it wrong.
Also if you’re pumped up about Nazis being punched, but still think Jews are privileged and behind all the world’s evils? You’re also doing it wrong.
what stopping girl hate is about:
ending internalised misogyny and the prioritisation of men over each other
what stopping girl hate is not about:
expecting women of colour, disabled women and LGBTQA+ women to excuse racism, ableism, homophobia and transmisogyny simply because it’s coming from other women
