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@ladywordfighter
It’s time to set the record straight—I’m not. Some of you already knew that, but if you don’t know me personally, or haven’t seen much of me
Today, September 23rd, is Bi Visibility Day! I hope all of you get to celebrate with those you love.
It’s been a year since I published this blog post. I’m still here, and I still see all of you.
In early May, I finally got around to using the “Lusty Lavender” hair color kit I bought more than a decade ago. I had delayed this process
This Pride Month, I take a look at the symbolism of hair color in film, and how I decided to dye mine for the first time ever.
It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.
They’re looking at each other, comparing cats:
And Vincent Price was also bi so, y'know, let’s hear it for the bi pride catboys.
Every single sliver of the Gregorian calendar, it seems, has some sort of theme. I’ll open a social media app, and 17 accounts I don’t even
This took me ages to write because sources apparently disagree on what one of these observances is called. Ultimately, I went with the name that seemed most inclusive: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
I'd just like to clarify some things about Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate speech in protest of the present administration and everything they are doing to the American people.
Senator Booker was NOT allowed to sit down, eat, or use the bathroom during his speech. Sitting or leaving the room to use the bathroom would be considered yielding the floor. Eating would have interfered with his speaking and the person who has the senate floor must continue to speak, except when listening to questions that they will then answer.
He only took occasional sips of water.
The person who previously held the record for longest speech on the Senate floor did have bathroom breaks and also did things like read from the encyclopedia.
Senator Booker did not do that. His speech was to point out the damage that this administration is doing and he stayed on that subject.
Senator Booker's speech did reach many people. It wasn't a silly stunt that was done so that he could take the record for longest speech. He wanted to show the country that democrats will do something to bring attention to the problems we are facing. That democrats are listening to them.
Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes to "make good trouble."
also like, a Black man breaking Strom Thurmond's record is absolutely *chef's kiss*
for those who are too young to know about Strom, he was literally a white supremacist
Cory Booker broke a record with his 25-hour Senate floor speech. How did he prepare to do it?
He trained himself to give this speech by practicing and then implementing limits on food and water intake leading up to this. He cut out food for days, then cut out water the day before.
He then went to do an appearance on Maddow after yielding.
He did interviews with multiple people after before he ate or slept. Including tiktokers. It was genuinely about speaking to the people to show us he was listening. He's standing for us in a way we've been begging our politicians to do for decades at this point. And he was smart and made sure to tell people that that's what he was doing, over and over again.
In the last few decades we've gotten used to expecting our politicians to lie to us. I was probably ten the first time I remember hearing "campaign promises" used as a joking euphemism for lying. I think a lot of people don't bother voting because they assume that everyone running is lying so voting doesn't really matter. If you don't know what you can believe from a politician then you're voting blind no matter who you vote for, so why do it. And the people who do vote tend to vote along party lines without bothering to look closer since political platforms tend to be fictional anyway.
Cory Booker talked to as many people as he could manage afterwards. He told as many different news sources as he could manage that he was there explicitly because it was what his constituents asked for. Implying that people should be expecting the same from their own representatives. Reminding people what his job actually is. Reminding people that there ARE people out there who will do the job they were elected to do and actually represent their constituents. He wanted as many people as possible to hear that they can actually demand things from politicians.
I admire him for this one. Give me a few more senators doing this and I might think there's still hope to prevent ww3.
wHy aRen’T dEmOcRaTs dOiNg aNyThInG?
Doing things takes time, especially when your party has limited power because voters were too cynical, stubborn, and self-righteous to put more of you in office. A day-long Senate speech requires several more days of prep.
Whatever criticisms leftists may have of Booker, he accomplished something historic, and that’s more than most of us can say.
If you’ve read any of my blog posts, you know I utilize em dashes even more frequently than I reference TVTropes—and why wouldn’t I? You’re
It's been a long time coming. In this post, I rant about how the rise of AI incentivizes dumbing down one's writing, why I'm against that, and how I think we should fight back.
I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with South by Southwest, the multimedia festival that just ended its 2025 run. On the one hand, it
When my brain storms, it pours. Just when I thought I was out of ideas for my media blog, the downtown bustle of SXSW 2025 inspired me to write this long-ass post.
someone on twitter is trying to claim that use of an em-dash is an indication of AI-generated writing because it’s “relatively rare” for actual humans to use it. skill issue
I can admit this is a little out of hand, but I promise AI didn't write my 150k fic 😂
Reblog if you're a human that uses em-dashes
Reblog and write the opposite of your URL
openfacedsandwiches → closedtoeburritos
ladywordfighter becomes…lordpicturepacifist? Or would that be sirnumberfleer? Not every word has one definite antonym.
It’s a newish year, which means we’ve got a newish batch of old material available for use without exorbitant fees. Copyright laws can get p
As usual, this post would have been more timely a few weeks ago, but the idea didn't come to me until halfway through the month. Nevertheless, I hope y'all enjoy it!
(Spoiler alert for pretty much the whole Saw franchise.) When I started this blog, I didn’t expect to hop on current events beyond passing m
If you're spending your Christmas and/or Hanukkah scrolling Tumblr, I hope you're in a good place mentally.
I suspect this website might actually be the best platform to share my latest blog post. It's a bizarre combination of fandom exposition, criticism of healthcare in the U.S., coy descriptions of horrifically violent booby traps, and my usual pun-offs. Saw may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I'm impressed by the prescience of this late-in-the-franchise horror sequel.
Enjoying older media often entails accepting outdated terminology, politically incorrect humor, and plain wrong notions about our fellow hum
For anyone who wants a brief distraction, here's my belated Day of the Dead-related piece. If you enjoy it, I hope you check out some of my other posts!
💙 USA 💙
national suicide prevention (edit: alternatives to 988)
national domestic violence hotline
national sexual abuse hotline
trans lifeline and resources
💙INTERNATIONAL💙
list of suicide hotlines by country
domestic violence hotlines and resources by country
sexual (+ domestic) abuse agencies by country
international trans resources
edit: taking this opportunity whilst this gets traction!
Palestine Children Relief Fund
Lebanon Red Cross
International Rescue Committee (Sudan, Lebanon, Gaza, Congo etc.)
Ukraine Red Cross
NBC has called it for Trump- he'll get at least 270.
Assuming that holds, and it looks like it will, a few things:
Do not despair. No matter how hopeless you feel. That's just another form of "obeying in advance".
Do not lash out violently. It may sound cathartic to some, but it won't change anything except to get you and probably other innocent people hurt or killed, and make it easier for Trump to get support for violent crackdowns.
We have two and a half months to prepare- either to try to block Trump's taking power, or to resist what he does starting on Inauguration Day.
We cannot afford selfishness, nor apathy, nor recklessness or impulsiveness. We must be resolved, deliberate, and strategic.
Unions should be organizing to strike. If 5% of the country went on strike, it would bring everything to a halt just like that. If you are involved in a union, and are willing to run some risk, start organizing for this.
State and local governments should be organizing to resist deployments of Federal troops against them.
Hell, Biden and other Democratic office holders, including the House if we succeed in taking it, should be refusing to recognize Trump's legitimacy and organizing to block the transition on the grounds that he is Constitutionally ineligible as an insurrectionist.
If you are a Democrat or marginalized person (that includes anyone with a uterus), and aren't prepared to resist, you should try to leave the country in the two and a half months you have left before Trump can close the borders.
Above all:
WE DO NOT GIVE UP.
This is the real world, not a myth or a fantasy novel. There are no final victories in history, nor final defeats. We lost this round. It hurts. I imagine it will hurt more when it fully sinks in. A lot of people will probably suffer and die who didn't have to.
But that does not mean that we give up. THAT is how fascists truly win.
And if this all seems like wishful thinking, remember this:
A lot of countries have been in a lot worse position than America is now. For example, Ukraine has been in a worse position than we are, in a number of ways, for basically it's entire history. It faced Soviet genocide and Nazi genocide, finally regained its independence with the fall of the Soviet Union, only to find itself under a Russian puppet regime.
It then ousted that regime in the Maidan protests, and has been fighting against Russian annexation and genocide, with far too little support, for over a decade.
It did not surrender.
Maybe it will after tonight. But I doubt it.
And if it did, it would still have fought longer and harder against longer odds than we face in America today.
So to hell with giving up. Almost 64 million Americans and still counting voted for Kamala Harris, and we are not going to just lie down and obey Dear Leader.
Check your ballots and tell your people to check theirs. There is a process to fix errors (usually signatures not matching; common with younger voters who tend to sign their ballots nicer than their driver’s license or whatever form they signed to register)
Ballot curing rules for all 50 states and DC. Ballot curing isn't hard, but you need to act quickly.
I've seen a lot of posts criticizing terminally-online leftists for thinking that not voting will somehow send the Deomcratic party to the left instead of to the center, and while that is true
I haven't seen many pointing out that voting actually works for progressive causes.
Joe Biden moved to the left significantly on climate because the left wing of the party wanted to work with him. The centrists in the party, like Joe Manchin, frustratingly dragged their heels on everything because they weren't that interested in getting things done. But the leftists in the party, like Bernie and AOC, actually engaged in talks and compromises and pulled Biden much, much farther left on climate than where he started. A lot of great green policy came out of the last four years!
There was even a Pod Save America interview a few months ago where one of Biden's cabinet members (very diplomatically) confirmed that the leftwing of the party was so much better to work with than centrists like Joe Manchin. (Probably because leftists actually care about the things they talk about and want to do things besides go to fancy Washington parties and stay in congress for a million years.)
So, I really cannot stress enough that actually showing up and working with people actually does pay off for your cause. You can do more for the things you care about when you are at the table. Your vote actually does create the change you are seeking, even when you are voting for someone who is not 100% aligned with you.
I was going to make my own post about this but might as well do it here:
Obama was the lesser evil in 2008 and 2012.
He did not at first support marriage equality (which I realize might be weird for people who weren't alive back then, but marriage equality was not a popular opinion until extremely recently), but did eventually come out in support of it after a few years in office (and because Biden voiced his support of it and kind of backed him into a corner, lol). He did not lead a national marriage equality initiative or anything, but he did not defend laws like the Defense of Marriage Act (which didn't allow the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages even if it was legal in the state they lived in), allowing it to be struck down. He nominated Supreme Court justices who later voted to recognize marriage equality nationally.
What was the alternative? Well, up until Obama was elected, a sizeable contingent of Republicans wanted to amend the Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage nationwide. Governments in multiple states refused to recognize valid marriages performed in other states that did allow them. California alone allowed and then undid marriage equality multiple times (anyone else remember Proposition 8?).
He got the ACA passed. It was not Medicaid for All or pure single-payer like the leftists wanted: the ACA was based on MassHealth, which was instituted in Massachusetts under Mitt Romney, a Republican. There were a lot of concessions to Republicans in it, even though they ended up opposing it anyway. But it prohibited insurance companies from denying coverage to people for pre-existing conditions and allowed people to stay on their parents' health insurance until they turned 26, which was a huge fucking deal.
What was the alternative? Well, do y'all remember that the Republicans spent most of the Trump administration trying to "repeal and replace" the ACA, and were only stopped because John McCain voted to keep it while dying of brain cancer? And that even up until the end of his term, Trump was saying he had a great plan to replace Obamacare, and repeatedly said even up to the last moment that it was going to come out "within two weeks" (it never did), and then handed Lesley Stahl a big binder full of papers and said that was his comprehensive healthcare plan (it was not)? And how Trump just said in his debate with Harris that "he has concepts of a plan" to replace the ACA?
He did not give sweeping amnesty to undocumented immigrants or disband ICE. But he supported DREAMers through an executive action called DACA, which Trump immediately attempted to undo and Biden redid when he got in office (a lawsuit challenging this just had oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court twenty fucking days ago). He did not mass deport millions of people (Trump has repeatedly said that he will on Day 1). He had guidelines for prioritizing certain deportations over low-level ones (deporting a murderer was more important than deporting a shoplifter). Every immigration lawyer I've spoken to has said that it was much easier to negotiate with ICE attorneys under Obama than it was Trump, because ICE under Obama was at least willing to negotiate at all. Under Trump, everything the immigration defense attorneys asked for, no matter how slight, was unilaterally opposed with no negotiation.
He did not end the war in Afghanistan or close Guantanamo Bay. In fact, the use of drones to kill people in multiple foreign countries was expanded tenfold under Obama. But he, along with several other countries, put together and negotiated the Iran Nuclear Deal, an extremely important foreign policy victory that Trump immediately fucking undid the second he was in power.
Electing Obama didn't just hold the status quo: things significantly improved for minorities in a shitload of ways. Not nearly as much as I think I or anyone else here would like, but it wasn't just stopping the drift rightward, it was turning the tide to the left.
Harris isn't going to be the sweeping herald of leftism we'd want her to be. But at least things can improve, which they will not under Trump. They will be worse.
I appreciate how well-researched and articulate these points are. For months now, I've been trying to figure out a way to vent my frustration over protest voters and non-voters without needlessly starting fights. As a political canvasser, I've done more than enough in-person arguing; I'm too damn tired to deal with this shit online.
This anti-voting sentiment reminds me a little of the pro-shoplifting movement that was popular on Tumblr for a hot minute. People were actively encouraging theft as a way of sticking it to corporations, but all it did was make life harder for minimum-wage employees who had to cover the costs of stolen items out of their own paychecks. Not voting, or throwing away your vote, has a similar effect--it helps nobody, and will in fact cause harm, starting with the most vulnerable members of our population.
I think Lin-Manuel Miranda pretty much sums things up in "The Election of 1800" from Hamilton. Just swap the names of those candidates for our current ones.
"I have never agreed with Jefferson once (oh!) We have fought on like 75 different fronts (oh!) But when all said and all is done Jefferson has beliefs; Burr has none"
The horror genre is a fertile ground for diegetic scores—tunes actually playing in-universe—which frequently serve to build dramatic tension
Happy spooky season! As it turns out, Top 10 lists are insanely hard to compile when you're a slow and overly pedantic writer like me. I managed to make it happen, though, and I'm pretty proud of the result. Enjoy!
