Queerce Bitch Faggot

What it says on the tin. 🌻1854 was the BEST year.

[word-wytch]

I think there's something that needs to be said about encouraging readers to leave feedback.

For me it's not about "tell me my writing is amazing and stroke my ego"

It's more about "please engage with me so that I can experience your joy secondhand and foster a connection with you"

I understand that not everyone wants this in their reading experience, some people are shy and a million other reasons why maybe someone wouldn't want to engage and that's perfectly fine!

But what I'm trying to steer away from is being a passive content creator with passive consumers. What I want to steer toward is fostering a community that is essential to fandom. I want to see your reactions because it makes me feel like I'm a part of something.

On encouraging reblogs —

I understand that not everyone is comfortable reblogging, especially explicit content. This is ok!

But just consider that the only reason you were able to enjoy a fic or fanart is because someone else shared it, and by not sharing it yourself you are potentially robbing someone else of the opportunity to enjoy it as much as you did.

As OPs our reach only goes so far and this website relies on reblogs in order for anything to truly get seen by a wider audience.

So that's really it! That's why I encourage these two things at the end of every story I post. Not because I'm trying to be demanding and "make people feel bad" if they don't do it.

I know most other social media sites encourage mindless content consumption and that's just the way of the world nowadays, but I am from a time when community was at the heart of fandom and I just don't want to lose that.

[aimmyarrowshigh]

But what I'm trying to steer away from is being a passive content creator with passive consumers. What I want to steer toward is fostering a community that is essential to fandom. I want to see your reactions because it makes me feel like I'm a part of something.

[justahumblememefarmer]

Putting some positivity out there about the election

Harris has raised a record amount of money from small donors after Biden dropped out, in addition to being able to access all the funds from their campaign they already had

Trump is deeply unpopular and people have already seen the chaos that 4 years of his presidency would bring. A lot of people have been energized to vote against him, even if they're not fond of Dems

Polling showed a red wave for Republicans in the 2022 midterms, and yet they only barely had control of the House, and couldn't even agree on a Speaker for a historic amount of time. Dems also increased their lead in the Senate. Historically, midterms favor the opposition party and have lower turnout, so this is a good sign for the House in 2024

Dems are fighting back in swing states. PA and GA both put in Democratic senators in the midterms

In my home state of PA, I am from Bucks County, which is a swing county for the state. Moms for Libery took over the school board and used it to attack queer students, enact book bans, and funnel money to themselves and the superintendent. At the most recent election, Dems turned out and took back every single open seat, ousting the board and superintendent. Worry about similar takeovers in surrounding school boards also increased turnout

Abortion rights are on the ballot in many states, which has been a winning issue for Dems and increased turnout

Republicans were prepared to attack a feeble old Biden who isn't the strongest speaker. I don't think they expected him to actually drop out, and they now have to put an 78 year old convicted felon up against a prosecutor

Awareness of Project 2025 and it's contents has entered the public sphere and is being much more openly discussed on the news. While Trump has insisted he has nothing to do with it, most of the authors worked in his administration and Trump has worked closely with the Heritage foundation

Feel free to add more things on this thread, but the most important thing is to get out there and VOTE

Vote for President

Vote for Senators

Vote for Congresspeople

Vote in your local elections

Vote Blue down ballot

[beatrice-otter]

If you want to work to help things along, here are some things you can do:

Contact your local Democrats and ask them what you can do to help. They will probably have a website with a calendar. Check it, and start showing up to things, and start building relationships.

Donate money, especially to your local Democrats and Democratic candidates in swing states and swing counties.

Write letters and postcards. Getting handwritten notes in the mail has been shown to increase voter turnout, and higher voter turnout means more Democrats get elected and more Republicans lose their seats. There are several different organizations that do this:

Postcards To Voters. Postcards to Voters are friendly, handwritten reminders from volunteers to targeted voters giving Democrats a winning edge in close, key races coast to coast. You can either make postcards or buy them, but the messages have to be handwritten. Postcards To Voters gives you specific things that have to be on the postcard to support specific candidates.

Vote Forward. Vote Forward’s volunteers write personal, heartfelt letters to potential voters with an easy-to-use online platform. The majority of our letter-writing campaigns are nonpartisan campaigns, which focus on mobilizing potential voters in communities that have historically been marginalized in the political process—such as people of color, women, and young voters. They also support partisan campaigns to encourage likely-Democratic voters to turn out in strategic states and districts. Vote Forward gives you letters that you print out, and then add about a paragraph of personalized hand-written stuff about why you personally vote. They've done research and their letters boost voter turnout (and specifically left-leaning voter turnout) by up to 3.4%.

Postcards to Swing States. A part of the Progressive Turnout Project, which is committed to updating the Democratic playbook and testing new ways to reach more voters that traditional canvassing can’t reach. That includes recruiting and training new organizers, funding grassroots voter contact groups, and empowering volunteers to write millions of postcards to swing state voters.

Markers For Democracy. Markers For Democracy is a group of grassroots activists working to elect Democrats up and down the ballot all over the United States. They have written hundreds of thousands of postcards to notify voters about special elections, vote-by-mail deadlines, early voting, Democratic candidates running in close elections, and voter registration drives in regions of high voter suppression.

[eunyisadoran]

Oh my God I'm so grateful for this addition. I want to help, but talking on the phone takes so many spoons. Postcards? Now that I can do!

[fresne999]

Also, if you're short on $, see if there is a local Swing Left or Sister District group in your area that is hosting a postcard/ letter writing party. They'll supply postcards and stamps, you supply the writing. Some areas also have remote pickup for postcard kits.

In terms of making postcards I either order a design printed at gotprint (currently 20% off) or buy a ream of 200 pound card stock, cut them into 4 postcards and put an image on the left half of one side. I have a rubber stamp with a cat on it and urge folks to be a cool cat and vote. Voice of experience here, the best postcard designs for political postcards take up half one side, other half for the address and the full back for writing. Here's the print images I use. Postcards to voters has images you can download as well.

Have fun with it. This is craftivism.

[queerce]

Does anyone in this thread have actionable things I can do if I'm in a district that the democrats have abandoned? There ARE no blue people in my local elections. I can't vote for anybody local that is a Democrat because the party is not present in this district and I just don't know what to do about that. I have already written my state reps about various issues and have gotten form letters back that indicate they didn't listen. I live in a blue state but a red county.

[mod2amaryllis]

something about the way my extremely reactive dangerous patient today is wearing a pride collar...

[mod2amaryllis]

diversity win! this bite risk is GAY! 🏳️‍🌈

[mod2amaryllis]

obsessed with the possibility that i could've been referring to a human patient who wore a pride collar to the hospital. they're just really method about their pup play

[mod2amaryllis]

with the biting, and all

[queerce]

I do actually want to see my chart so I know if you people are FUCKING LYING about me in it!! absolutely horrifying to see you say this after saying you think children are people. So children are people but patients are fucking animals, I guess? Like maybe this is my extremely bad bad bad BAD experiences with abusive, shitty, violent nurses, and knowing how common abusiveness is IN that profession, making me read this in bad faith but what the fuck. What the fuck.

[salamanding]

quick little art about dysmorphia and how i don’t know what i look like

[catchymemes]

[sapphling]

divinity kink in less of a "fuck me in a nun habit" way and more of a "put me on my knees and rewrite my understanding of faith and show me what a loving god's hand feels like and give me mercy and wrath and splendor and leave your communion dripping from my lips and teach me how every part of my body was meant to worship you"

[literatureandotherstuff]

also divinity kink in a "my mortality corrupts you to turn into something that isn't entirely divine anymore" way, a "divinity is a lonely perch, let me drag you to the earth with my base soul" and "all may worship at your altar but whose altar do you bow to" way

[queerce]

no it's divinity kink as in "hermes is hot and i've climbed on the altar table naked to fuck him" what are you guys TALKING ABOUT

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Why do so many people make tiktoks while they're clearly driving. What the fuck. Stop that shit, you're gonna kill someone.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I think people online treat driving too casually tbh, like there was a poll about people's bad habits while driving and they weren't bad habits or problematic or whatever, they were all things that literally kill people every single day. You are driving a massive vehicle that can very easily turn into a murder weapon with your carelessness, take this shit seriously.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

"Haha I never use my turn signals" you are going to kill someone.

"I don't do full stops at stop signs lol" you are going to kill someone.

"Sometimes I text while I'm driving 🤭" YOU ARE GOING TO KILL SOMEONE.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Also people who speed up or suddenly stop or swerve a lot to freak out someone in the car for fun: it stops being funny when you get into a car accident because of it. Just so you know.

[hyperlexichypatia]

Every form of abuse commonly perpetuated by parents is also commonly perpetuated by teachers and therapists.

Every form of abuse commonly perpetuated by teachers is also commonly perpetuated by parents and therapists.

Every form of abuse commonly perpetuated by therapists is also commonly perpetuated by parents and teachers.

Yet discussion of abuse by any one of those agents is always met with the response that the other two agents can solve it, like a constant, depressing three-way loop.

If you respond to abuse by teachers with "This is why parents need to be more involved!" and respond to abuse by parents with "This is why therapists should be more involved!" and respond to abuse by therapists with "Parents and teachers should stop this!" then... what happens to kids who have parents, teachers, and therapists who are all abusive in the exact same way? Which is... quite a common scenario?

[medicalsin]

nice personality disorder did your mom give it to you

[gigi-tastic]

Why yes!

[queerce]

Joint gift from both parents actually.

[theriverbeyond]

Ideal work schedule:

I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks

I complete the list

I leave immedietly

[queerce]

0. There is no job interview, I simply show up, and they hire me. 4. I am paid $500,000 a year after taxes with full, high-quality health insurance that includes vision, dental, and mental health.

[labcoated-lunacy]

If you got turned into a mad science experiment, which would you most like to be?

classic frankenstein's monster

tentacle abomination

flesh abomination

cyborg (robot exterior, human interior)

cyborg (human exterior, robot interior)

SLIME

fucked up chimera-style creature (combo of various animals)

human consciousness downloaded into a computer

whatever tf was going on with that guy from i have no mouth and i must scream

walrus

other (describe in tags!)

Voting ended onApr 9, 2024

(Shhh. Don't worry. Asking for a friend.)

[queerce]

i have no mouth and must scream; bc the number of times I've been made more harmless without any thought to my autonomy or desires is a number above zero and that's fucked up.

If we were supposed to pick based on eroticism I would have picked differently but madsci kreaturen are always unwilling and abused, so.

[sadhoc]

you can say over and over that disabled people can have sex. but when you think it, make sure you are also thinking of those of us who are visibly disabled. people who cannot move the way bodies "should." people who struggle to speak can still request sex, with AAC, with body language, with what speech we have. people with medical devices implanted in their bodies, housebound and bed bound people. people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. "disabled people can have sex" does not just mean invisibly disabled people, or people who meet able bodied/neurotypical standards of independence

[useless-englandfacts]

obvs acab but the scottish police force have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

[virtualgirladvance]

[queerce]

Oh PLEASE charge her and fine her into oblivion. Force her to give all her money and assets to Mermaids or something PLEASE I AM BEGGING.

[gahdamnpunk]

These are $30 for one but stitches at the hospital are more expensive so this is pretty damn great

[unaffiliatedpangolin]

So what you’re saying is that someone in the free market has responded to high costs by developing a new product that is far less expensive, and can be applied by the injured person themselves not just a doctor or nurse.

[thriftshop-faith]

This is neat AF

Its an advanced butterfly bandaid.

@keyhollow

[clueingforbeggs]

This isn’t ‘Neat’ this is horrifying. America is in shambles.

[the-desolated-quill]

‘Oh drat! I’ve been stabbed and I can’t afford to go to hospital. Good thing I’ve brought my emergency DIY stitches.’

America… your health care system is fucked up. You know that, right?

[holy-anxiety-batman]

Yes we know thank you

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

never gonna get over the cycle of

product invented -> problem with capitalist hellscape mildly circumvented -> americans celebrate because its incredibly good that this product exists -> non-americans telling us we’re dumbasses for? being happy theres a tiny little workaround for our shitty system? acting like we’re stupid for looking forward to a product that fixes an 800 dollar problem for a fraction of the cost?

extremely cool and sexy of you all to uhh *spins wheel* mock the citizens of a dystopian nightmare for *throws dart* being excited about the prospect of having one less thing to suffer for.

[oakenroots]

Okay like I know y'all are like “fuck capitalism” and I’m right there with ya, but this is amazing for emergency aid in extreme environments as well.

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

crucial also that this method does not involve making additional punctures in the epidermis which is just one more way for bacteria to get in. and on that subject, the wound can be washed and disinfected and monitored for any infection very easily this way because the tissue is simply being pushed together instead of bound together. if you notice inflammation, there’s nothing stopping you from popping this zip-tie bandage off, thoroughly cleaning the wound, and slapping a brand new one on. try doing that with stitches, buddy. this is a huge improvement over prior technology and that’s all without even mentioning how much it could help someone who is bleeding from a head wound and lives just a bit too far from a hospital. or what if you’re in a car accident and the pileup makes it hard for an ambulance to get to your location? you can buy yourself a little time this way. this would be an incredible invention with or without single payer healthcare

[taraljc]

I would also like to point out that superglue™ was originally developed as a medical adhesive for use in war zones. that episode of poker face did not make that shit up.

[queerce]

When i cut myself real bad on Easter as a child, my grandma just had me hold my hand under running water until it stopped bleeding then bound it real snug with a regular bandaid and this si the same principle but a lot safer. It's improvement of a technique most people were already using. (I'm not going to graphically describe the injury but it was about as bad as the one pictured just in a different location that was easy to wrap snugly)

I've also had both dissolving and non-dissolving stitches and lemme tell you, this shit would have meant seamless healing instead of a huge ropey scar across my chest. This is gonna change the hell out of surgery.

[fairuzfan]

Full tweet:

🚨🚨 In the space of 2 weeks we’ve gone from a pilot project that involved my cousin making and distributing one pot of fortified stew a day to a fully fledged soup kitchen with 10 volunteers that feeds 160 families a day or roughly 800 hungry people daily, in Omdurman #Sudan

To do this we’ve cut out all possible overhead costs to ensure we can feed as many people as possible

🟢Our volunteers are unpaid

🟢Our cooking utensils are borrowed

🟢The kitchens storage rooms are donated free of charge

🟢Transport of food items from the market to the kitchen is free courtesy of my Cousin’s Tuk tuk.

🟢However, in order to maintain this kitchen beyond Ramadan we need you to support this Gofundme that is now fully funding this kitchen 🙏🏽

Donate to For Sudan:Help us support families impacted by war, organized by Mustafa Ibrahim

Dear friends and compassionate souls, … Mustafa Ibrahim needs your support for For Sudan:Help us support famili

Id: there are two photos in the tweet. The first in the tweet are of a group of men and women. The second is of stacks of backs of lentils.

[lycaniums-room]

Hunger

[redactedcrow]

I wish I wasn't a stranger in my own skin