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I hate the trend of just describing books with what minorities the main characters represent and nothing else. not only does it feel weird + exploitative to me it's also such a shoddy ineffective marketing technique. "this is my book with queer polyam disabled vampires you should buy it" ok great but what is it like. about. what are the themes. why should I read it
“I hate school I’m sorry Malala”- Funny yet poignant. Acknowledges both the difficulty of the task and the fact that doing that task is a privilege. Gives credit to the people who fought for that privilege with a tongue in cheek acknowledgement of the irony of the initial statement
“I’m just a girl I should be home baking bread not doing calculus” - at best historically uninformed at worst leaps decades back in time. Refusal to acknowledge the charged history of education and slights the centuries of women’s labor it took to reach this point
When to wear headphones: when listening to music or podcasts or videos or whatever in public. Its literally so fucking rude to force other people to listen to whatever you're watching/listening to, oh my god.
When NOT to wear headphones: when you're driving a car. This seems silly but no, for real. You NEED to be able to hear things going on outside your vehicle. If youre playing music through your car speakers, even if its loud, you will HEAR IT when someone crashes into someone else, or when your car suddenly starts making a strange or alarming sound, or when an ambulance or firetruck siren is coming closer and closer to you. If youre wearing headphones, you won't hear any of that. They'll block all external sound, and that is, genuinely, a hazard on multiple levels.
i'm on a daily poem email list and this was yesterdays poem and I cant stop thinking abt it. possibly my new fave so everyone has to read it.
what a good morning!! im gonna draw a dog!!
apRIL FOOLS I DREW TWO DOGS THEY’RE BEST FRIENDS
[true crime podcaster voice]
what's up guys? today we're going to be looking into another unsolved disappearance, and this time, it's the case of Phillip J. Fry. Phil disappeared on New Year's Eve 1999, and you better stay tuned, because the theories on this one range from Y2K to alien abductions. but first, let me tell you about Squarespa—
Why do people stop commenting on fics if they’re more than a week or two old? Please comment on old fics. Tell me you like my one shot from 2014. Tell me you like my old multi-chap I finished in 2016 that I spent a year writing. I will be fucking thrilled.
Fics are not social media posts. There’s no “stalking” someone’s “old posts”. They’re meant to be found and enjoyed years down the line. No need to be nervous.
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE QUEEN FOR THIS
a tutorial on rescuing someone from an uncomfortable or dangerous situation
Woman found injured but alive on a remote part of the Croatian island of Krk doesn't know who she is, but speaks fluent English (TW: for blood and facial injuries)
This is a developing story that is happening right now in my country and I thought it was my duty as somebody who has a slight platform to bring this up to the attention of as many people as possible. If we spread her image around the net, someone will hopefully be able to recognize her. I apologize in advance for any mistakes, as English is not my native language.
What we know so far: on Saturday the 11th, September of 2021, a local fisherman spotted a woman he didn't know on the rocks some distance away from a nearby popular beach. She didn't appear to be in bad spirits or in distress, and the area where she was at was not approachable to him by boat due to it being extremely rocky, but as she didn't call out to him he assumed she was just walking or relaxing there and paid it no mind.
However, the next day when he came back (Sunday the 12th), she yelled out to him asking for help in perfect English. As he could not get to her on his own due to the terrain making it impossible for him to dock there, he immediately called rescuers and a mission to save the unfortunate woman was underway. 12 members of HGSS Rijeka (Croatian alpine search and rescue organization) were dispatched to the scene and had to hike one mile to get to her.
They found the woman with some non-life threatening injuries, exhausted, dehydrated and disoriented. It was determined she spent the previous night there. She was unable to walk so they had to use a stretcher to carry her to the ambulance. She couldn't tell them who she was, as she could not remember and even today, over a week later, she can offer no answers to her identity and our police is asking the public for help.
The woman (and I can't stress it enough that I hate calling her 'the woman' because she has a name and identity and a life and deserves to be known as more than just "unknown woman found injured on the rocks") is estimated to be around 60 years of age, is of medium build, 165 cm tall, with blue eyes and blonde, short hair. I've seen it reported as shoulder-length but in the photos her hair looks a little shorter to me.
At the moment of discovery, she was dressed in a dark blue and white striped short-sleeve shirt with a hood, black Capri pants, white socks, dark blue and white sneakers and a magenta pick bucket hat. She had no ID or a mobile phone on her. The fisherman's wife who was also on the boat with him has said that they spoke in English and that to her it seemed that her accent could have been Scottish, but she wasn't sure.
I'd like to add that the fisherman should not be blamed for not helping her the day before, as she was not in distress, did not seem to be lost or injured from what he could tell and was not communicating with anyone nor asking for help, and only when he went back the day later, did she asked for help and make it known that something's not right. It's a good thing he went back because he likely saved her life.
She's currently still in the hospital in stable condition and recovering well, but the police are no closer to finding out who she is. Nobody knows how she got to where she was found or if there was any foul play involved, but there has to be somebody out there who knows who she is, that's why I implore you to share her photo wherever you can so we can help her reclaim her identity.
I'm including the photo of her face with the injuries she sustained because it's the only good photo of her we have right now, and of the rescue mission so you could get a better look at her clothes from when she was found.
In the end, I'd like to thank you all for taking your time to read this lengthy post and for caring about a woman you don't even know who needs our help.
Sources I used for information: CNN Index.hr HGSS Net.hr
The image of the woman without pixelization: here
I posted this to a bunch of really popular/somewhat related subreddits and I got a message from somebody that seems like a solid lead!
This looks so much like the woman! They asked me for contact information for proper authorities and I found it for them and helped translate their message in Croatian so they can send it both in English in Croatian and now we wait to see if this lead pans out.
In an update to the case, the police have found what they believe to be the woman's backpack and wallet - but it contains no money, no ID, no anything. Just bug repellent and some touristy things. As it is believed she's not local and as Europe doesn't have a centralized fingerprints database, it could take a long time to identify her without people's help.
I did a little more digging and manage to find the full photo!
It's from an album called "The Giving Keys Amigo Booth 2014". The Giving Keys is a company name, and the photos date to December of 2014. I think the company is USA based?
December 11, 2014, 552 photos
"Hollywood, CA, Caitlin Crosby started paying them to engrave keys and make jewelry for this positive Pay It Forward movement. To date, The Giving Keys has employed 28 people transitioning out of homelessness and our keys are sold in over 2,000 stores throughout the world."
I found this album on The Giving Keys' Facebook page from the same suppposed event (you can even see the same photo booth backdrop in a few!) It seems to be a pretty large event, but maybe there's someone in one the photos who can help identify this woman. Spreading this so we can hopefully get her all the help she deserves!
I sent all the info that I and others found to the person on Reddit as they already contacted a lot of places (I also sent everything to the police as well) and the Croatian embassy got in contact with them and we've learned that everything is going to be sent to Interpol so finger's crossed, this could really be it!
EVERYONE, THANKS FOR THE HELP!
Update: we think we found her! The police has been notified but everything fits.
Today, a couple of Czech tourists spoke out saying they talked to her and that she told them she was from Slovakia. The woman in the photos that were dug out on here was in LA, as the photos were taken there. The fisherman's wife thought that the woman's accent could be Scottish.
A woman was found who fits all these descriptions. A woman from Slovakia who moved to Los Angeles and lived there for many years. She later settled in Ireland. The accent could be Irish, not Scottish. A lot of Croats mix them up.
Her name has been found and I won't post it publicly yet, but if the police confirms it, this is it!!! We all did it, Facebook Investigation group, Reddit, Tumblr and Twitter combined. Everybody put their talents to use. Thank you all so much!
feeds angels communion bread like i’m an old person on a park bench throwing crumbs to birds
guardian angels watching over us but they’re perched on a power line
horrific biblical angel but when they sit down they become round and cute like a fat fluffy bird
One day I came to work and found a baby angel in the warehouse. It sat quietly in an open stretch of concrete where the vans usually parked. It couldn’t walk or fly, and every time it flapped its wings, it listed to one side as if injured.
Some of my coworkers spared it a pitying glance, but everyone left it be. I wonder how long it had been there, exposed and alone on that wide stretch of empty space. The angel watched us with round, wary eyes and made futile attempts to move.
I couldn’t accept that the angel wasn’t worth saving. Eventually, I asked for a cardboard box. The custodian helped me gently coax the angel into it, and reminded me not to bring the angel back if it recovered, because there were too many angels in the warehouse already.
My coworkers, seeing me with it, began to take interest in the wounded angel. Will it survive, they asked? Who would nurse it back to health? Where will it go? Most wildlife rehabilitators wouldn’t accept angels; angels always congregate around human civilization, and rehabbers are more concerned with wilder creatures.
It was decided, by unanimous nonverbal agreement, that this angel was my responsibility now. During my shift, I sent a few frantic texts: to my mom, to a friend, and to the only angel expert I knew of.
My friend said: “Here are some places that might take the angel; you can call and see.”
The angel expert said: “The angel’s leg is injured, but its wings are fine. See how it uses one wing as a crutch? Keep it in the box until you can take it to a professional. Give it some food and water. You can keep it in the bathroom where the cat can’t reach it.”
My mom said: “I found a place that will take the angel. I can pick it up after you’re done with work and take it there.”
After my shift, I retrieved the cardboard box, lifting it carefully so as not to jostle its occupant. The baby angel struck out with its wings, in fear or protest. I whispered to it: “Be not afraid.” We parted ways on the sidewalk, the box exchanging hands, tucked into the foot space of the passenger’s seat of the car.
A text came a couple days later saying that the angel was okay, that it could already walk again and would make a full recovery.
All my life, I’ve been enamored by angels. The patterns of their wings, their gentle voices, their curious eyes. Their persistence in surviving, even when society cast them aside. With angels looking down on me from roofs and fences and power lines, I always felt less alone.
And I used to wonder: if I spoke of them by a different name, would people remember that pigeons were once called holy?
Mortis is a now defunct website which was made in 1998, which contained only a login page and no other information. Read more about it on my blog, Confusing Cases!
https://confusingcases.wordpress.com/2021/05/09/mortis-com/
Confusing Cases is a weekly blog I update every Sunday about unsolved mysteries. So far I’ve covered several topics including the Dyatlov Pass Incident, the Loch Ness Monster and the Circleville Letters.
At the moment, I’m in the middle of a seven part series about the Zodiac Killer. Each article is about a different Zodiac attack, while the last article will cover the suspects.
If you’re interested in unsolved mysteries, true crime or supernatural legends, you should check it out!
bring back Georgian-era sentence structure. fuck this single clause Hemingway bullshit; I want to string the reader along for pages, to link, however disparate, an endless array of actions using every form of punctuation I can imagine - even those I rarely use - and generally be as incoherent as possible (though it is to be said that this is for internet and casual use, and not for increasing the impenetrability of research papers, a far less noble goal than the one I proposed).
Please don’t pirate books at least while the author is alive. I’ll make an exception for actual billionaires and wildly expensive textbooks you cannot afford yet need to complete your studies. I can’t make an exception for assholes, because we’re all considered assholes by someone. I don’t know how many people realise how many writers who created successful, beloved stories and characters still die poor while other people get rich off the same work. I don’t think people realise that in the UK the current average yearly earnings for an author has nosedived over the last fifteen years to £10,500. That obviously is forcing people to quit writing. It increasingly means writing is a job for people who’ve inherited money or have wealthy spouses who can support them. I don’t know if people realise that in general, writers are poor and getting poorer. I’m sorry, but if you think widespread sense of entitlement to free books has nothing to do with that … you’re just wrong.
I say I don’t think people realise - the truth is I hope they don’t, because the alternative is that they don’t care. That’s certainly the impression I’ve got from Twitter, where a truly horrifying number of people are arguing that copyright on all books should expire after thirty years, and you should be able to acquire books for free after that. This … would not just mean that everyone gets free books. It would mean if you write a book at 30, not only do you lose any royalties from it at 60, but Disney can take it, make a franchise out of it, Scrooge McDuck it up in a pool of money while you starve because writers don’t get workplace pensions.
Some threads on the unintended (?) consequences of this. I can’t go over it all again. John Brownlow NK Jemisin Michael Marshall Smith Me Marina Lostetter Kari Dru and others William Gibson and others
There are plenty of others. It’s not that this actual idea will actually happen, but I do think it reinforces the idea that it’s not only okay, but sometimes actually virtuous to search for ways to enjoy writers’ work without paying for it. Like it’s somehow a step towards a better world. Not just at the reader end, to be fair, at the employer end too. And I do see a lot of people here too who are all about supporting workers unless the workers are writers in which case fuck’em.
Like. If you want to radically change society in such a way that mass-media conglomerates don’t exist and so can’t exploit us and we’re supported to make art in some other way than fine. But can you start the revolution with actual rich people please, not ask us to live right now, in the society we’ve got, without the money we need to survive it. Finally, a plea: I really, really, do not want to debate this. This whole thing genuinely makes me feel tense and shaky and sick. If you’ve got to disagree - unfollow me, block me, vagueblog somewhere I can’t see it. The Twitter version of this already has me feeling like I’ve been kicked in the gut. I didn’t want to write this post. I just felt I wasn’t going to have any peace until I did.
More from Courtney Milan, including on how no, it’s not like patents.
So much good here.
not even about the topic at hand but
I can’t make an exception for assholes, because we’re all considered assholes by someone
Jeffrey Epstein In 2002, Jeffrey Epstein faced his earliest allegations of abuse and within the same year, former reality television star Donald Trump told New York Magazine that Epstein was a “terrific guy… it is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” One of his alleged victims, aged 14, reported his abuse in 2005 which sparked the first investigation into him. In May 2006 he was charged with unlawful sex acts with a minor. He struck a plea deal in 2007 so that he pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution with a minor instead of facing federal sex-trafficking charges. Read more; https://confusingcases.wordpress.com/2021/03/14/jeffrey-epstein/
you have a problem with minor making boundaries on who they want to interact with? like seriously the purpose of carrds is to establish boundaries, like cranky that you couldnt interact with someone?
i have a problem with minors willingly placing so much incredibly personal information in a single place on the internet where literally anyone can see it and especially with the culture that has normalized this to the point where it is expected and anyone who doesn’t want to share that information is automatically viewed as suspicious.
you have 13/14-year-old kids listing all sorts of information that makes them vulnerable to predators (including the fact that they are 13/14!!! that makes them vulnerable!!) and that can make it easier to narrow down their real life identity. that specific tweet didn’t talk about location but i have seen children list their location and what school they go to, and that genuinely terrifies me. i’ve seen lgbt teenagers making public tweets about how they’ve been kicked out by their homophobic parents and need a place to stay in a specific city—you are literally broadcasting the fact that you are young and vulnerable and your family isn’t looking for you!! ANYONE can see that! that’s fucking dangerous!!!
and the idea that you should list your triggers all in one place is also incredibly dangerous, like i know the point is to let people know what to avoid but what you’re actually doing is giving potential bullies or predators a ready-made list of things they can use to hurt and harrass you. all of the things that that person listed as “basic info” is stuff that can be used to target you. it lets other people know you’re part of an in-group, yes, but it also puts a target on your back. i’ve gotten racist hate messages, homophobic hate messages, rape and death threats, and i’m fine because i’m an adult and i’m not online that much, but it still takes its toll and i cannot IMAGINE being 13 and opening yourself up to those things online because everyone is now expected to list their race and sexuality and fucking trauma and medical diagnoses for everyone to see as soon as they click their profile.
the problem with saying “xyz people dni” is that only the polite and respectful people will actually listen and not interact with you. the people who you should actually be worried about, the people who actually actively want to hurt you, will use the information that you have willingly provided them to target you. do you think putting “terfs and fascists dni” on your carrd is actually going to stop terfs and fascists from interacting with you? if they want to hurt you they will hurt you, expecting them to respect boundaries just because you have publicly stated them is leaving yourself extremely vulnerable.
make boundaries by using the block button liberally, or like i don’t know setting your fucking profile to private. protect yourself by valuing your own privacy and not actively providing people who might harm you with the exact tools and ammunition they can use to do so.
the idea that i could only be upset by this trend because i ??? want to disrespect people’s boundaries???? is so fucking bizarre. i made that post because i am legitimately terrified for these children’s safety. not to be all kids these days, but LITERALLY kids these days are sharing their face, their identities, their entire lives, with the entire internet on a public platform without a second thought, and expecting their peers to do that as well, and it has real repercussions.
