not a week goes by without me remembering this jhonen vasquez strip and i so often want to reference it and i keep forgetting it is not, in fact, a well-known meme
the nature of every viral epic dunk argument-terminating phrase is that, within a week of the phrase's inception, the phrase will be used by a big blog to shut up a minority trying to explain how they are being actively and visibly marginalised
This week, I read a fic that was around 20 years old, which had originally been posted on the author's personal website and which she added to AO3 a few years ago. She listed her email address with the fic, so after I finished reading, I sent her an email saying how much I enjoyed the story, how much I appreciated the work and effort she obviously put into it, and thanked her for uploading it to AO3. She responded the next day and thanked me for my message, then said she had a few more stories in the same series that she hadn't gotten around to uploading. I checked this morning--she added a 35,000 word novella and thanked me in the summary.
BasicallyJayWalker's 150 Follower Fic Game EXTRAVAGANZA!!!!!!
Put on your party hats and grab a kazoo folks bc we're having a party! A writing party :DDDDDDD
How it Works:
I have a set (two, actually!) of dice. Everyone may send in up to 3 dice they would like me to roll (ex. 1d6, 1d4, and 1d20 or 2d20 and 1d100)
Each of the dice corresponds to a different random element of the fic
My job, should I choose to accept it (and I must) is to write a fic with the given dice-rolled prompts in 24-72 hours after I answer the ask
I will then post the fic to tumblr (and @ the person who sent the ask) and Ao3, where they will be compiled into a special collection
Optional: the person who sent the ask will then have the same amount of time to write a fic! The catch? I will reroll the dice they sent me and send them an ask with the given prompts.
Rules and dates under the cut!
Rules:
Movieverse and showverse are fair game.
Up to 3 rerolls on any dice across all prompts. This is to make sure the prompt is something workable while also keeping the challenge
All elements of the dice must be included in the fic somehow. In the title, in the body, or in the background. However big or small doesn't matter, but you have to include all 3 things somehow
Nothing 18+. This is self-explanatory
Some requests permitted. Want a specific side character, villain, ship, or other thing included? One special requests may be made on each ask!
Pilots through DR S1 are fair game. I know DR S2 is releasing soon, but in the interest of keeping things spoiler free, we're going to be leaving it out.
Dates:
Asks may be sent between Tuesday, April 2nd and Tuesday, April 30th
The last day to complete an optional fic is Tuesday, May 7th
Prizes:
Should you choose to complete an optional challenge fic of your own, you have the chance to win one of three prizes. Winners and prices will be announced one week after the final fic is submitted
1st Place: one long fic with any elements of your choosing
2nd Place: one medium fic with any elements of your choosing
3rd Place: one short fic with any elements of your choosing
What Do the Dice Mean?
d4: Length
Flash (<500), short (500-1000), medium (1000-2500), or long (2500-5000)
d6: Core Ninja
Kai, Jay, Cole, Zane, Lloyd, or Nya
d8: Music
Whatever number it lands on, skip that many times on Spotify DJ and use the song that comes up
d10: Random Word
Whatever number it lands on, go into this random work generator and generate that many words to use in the fic
d12: Random AU
Whatever number it lands on, set the fic in that AU from a list I have
d20: Random Trope
Whatever number it lands on, include that trope from a list I have
Israeli forces were bombing residential buildings in Rafah so intensely that shrapnel fell on tents, where displaced Palestinians were sheltering after being literally told by Israel itself that this was the “safe zone,” and killed two children. Reminder that the death troll in east Rafah stands at 24, and Israel still claims that it will be continuing its ground operation on Rafah full force. So heartbreaking to see Palestinians fleeing over and over—on their own land—only to be cornered and massacred anyway, almost as if it was intentional all along. This is not the time to be slowing down. This is the time to be pressuring reps and funding humanitarian aid.
Rafah was literally the last stop. My chest aches to think of what this means for the Palestinians sheltering in the tents in Rafah right now, counting the seconds until their last—children included. This is Day 121.
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i feel like we should be taking advantage of this website in more useful ways like it shouldnt be jarring to anyone when i post my grocery list we literally have a bulleted list function
those creepypasta girlies were so right and anyone who thinks theyre cringe or stupid should explode immediately. yes all of these people are sadistic serial killers/supernatural beasts/vengeful spirits of dead children and yes they all live in a big mansion together in the woods where they bicker like siblings and yes the faceless suit-wearing tentacle monster is the resident father figure. what are you gonna do about it.
petition to tell biden and harris to comply with the icj’s ruling and provisional measures here if you’re a us citizen. so far they’ve sent 47,074 letters out of the goal of 51,200!
The UNRWA is concerned that if they do not receive more funding they will run out by the end of February please spread this message
in case any of you missed it, despite the ICJ's ruling for Israel to facilitate MORE aid into Gaza, the global west has responded by cutting funding to UNWRA, which is responsible for delivering significant amounts of aid into Gaza, as well as surrounding areas such as Lebanon. The countries cutting funding consist of the US, Australia, the UK, the Netherlands, Swritzerland, Italy, Germany, Finland, Canada and Japan. This was all due to a claim by Israel that members of UNWRA were Hamas-members or sympathisers which, at the end of the day, is a claim that concerns only 12 members in a total of 30,000.
Without proper funding, UNWRA is likely to run out of resources by February of this year (only another month) and urges the countries that have suspended donations to reconsider. This is a blatant move from the colonialist countries of this world to starve Palestinians even further when they are already facing unforeseen levels of famine.
Please take some time out of your day to call your reps, your political leaders and urge them to restart their funding. In the meantime, here is a link to donate to the UNWRA.
UNRWA human development and humanitarian services encompass primary and vocational education, primary health care, relief and social service
The exception is cheesy local commercials. Those should be the only ads. I will listen to someone who runs a store in my city doing an awkward rap. We once had a furniture store with these awful CGI ads and the slogan "where the deals are so low, it's almost criminal!" and then they got shut down, by the cops, because it turned out. It turned out the deals were so low because. You're not going to believe this but the prices were so low it was in fact
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