I am suffering from so much Melshi brainrot right now in light of Andor season 2 and just continually binging both seasons. And let me tell you, I was STUNNED to find that there is not nearly enough Melshi content out there!
And by content I mean fanfic. And by fanfic I mean reader x
I cannot express with enough vigor how absolutely insane it STILL IS TO ME ... to see the very specific Clone Wars Anakin in real life action and I don't just mean getting to see Hayden in the costume.
Y'know how CW Anakin was flirty? In the flicks, we went from pining Padawan to mature married Jedi. The CW has a version of Anakin we hadn't seen in live action and in that first GIF, with the smart a$$ mouth and cavalier smile AND PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY almost non chalantly but still expertly batting away a blaster shot, I saw/see animated CW Anakin come to life and it's just such a specific set of feelings that go with that. I SO appreciate the privilege of watching Hayden get to be this version of Anakin.
would anyone like to participate in some malicious compliance and civil disobedience today? 🤭
“The Heritage Foundation (Project 2025) wants your opinion on whether DOGE should defund the FBI, EPA, etc - and whether or not you support teaching actual history.
They expect republicans to fill this out - you know what to do. Spread the word.”
I cannot overstate this: AVOIDING DUE PROCESS AND INVESTIGATIONS DOES NOT BENEFIT ANYONE.
Fill it out and fuck up their results! DOGE is a MASSIVE waste and only exists to dismantle our government, not make it more efficient. The goal is to eliminate all kinds of regulations and barriers so corporations can do whatever the hell they want and so Trump can privatize government services for his buddies, which will affect EVERYONE and make things MORE expensive
Remember Musk is much less popular with Republicans than Trump is. This could actually pass. Call your representatives no matter what state you live in! And keep protesting.
I recently went through a DBT program and I think I finally understand the idea of "attachment". As an ND, I feel my emotions intensely and always thought that my attachment and outpouring of love in my relationship was healthy attachment (spoiler alert: it was not).
Insecurity has always plagued me and was never more apparent than it was in my relationships. I would do WHATEVER it took to save a relationship because I was just so damn attached and afraid of losing what we had. In doing so I undermined myself, my own health, and our relationship, which only perpetuated my own self-loathing and insecure behaviors.
But there really is a balance between loving others AND loving yourself. I can both love and adore my partner and the joy we have in our relationship AND know that if things don't work out, I can still love myself, mourn for what I've lost, cherish what we had, and look forward to something new WITHOUT needing to feel like I should be trying to control his feelings, behaviors, or our relationship. Because I can't. And it's not my responsibility.
And that is a freeing thought.
It allows me to be fully present in our relationship, take care of myself, and support him in a way I wasn't doing before BECAUSE I was attached. I can enjoy our time together without worrying (or at least minimally worrying - I'm still a work in progress lol) or fearing that it'll all come to an end.
Not being attached doesn't mean I don't love him any less. It just allows me to show up and make the best of the time we have together.
I'm proud of how far I've come and wanted to share. I also just couldn't help but emphasize even more with Anakin. I didn't get to this place without some serious self-reflection, guidance, and persistentence which required me to directly face the things I didn't like about myself.
I couldn't have done that without a truly safe space to be myself and feel the things I felt without judgment.
Anakin didn't really have that luxury and had a literal Sith chirping in his ear working against him. That's not to say Anakin holds zero responsibility or accountability. I just empathize and understand better than I did before and it makes Stars Wars all the more poignant and beautiful for me.
The CDC website is currently (02FEB2025) being scrubbed of public health information and decades of research. Content from the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, which includes data from a national survey, has disappeared; so have parts of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Social Vulnerability Index and the Environmental Justice Index. All links for LGBTQ+ pages have disappeared. Women’s health pages have disappeared. Contraceptive guidance is gone. Reproductive health information is gone. CDC vaccination information statements have disappeared. Bird Flu findings are being suppressed. The CDC's landing page for HIV data has vanished. HIV study data has disappeared. The AtlasPlus tool, which contains nearly 20 years of CDC surveillance data on HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis, is down. Remaining information may be in the process of being altered.
CDC researchers have been ordered to retract all studies containing the following terms: Gender, Transgender, Pregnant person, Pregnant people, LGBT, Transsexual, Non-binary, Nonbinary, Assigned male at birth, Assigned female at birth, Biologically male, Biologically female. Contact your legislators: https://5calls.org/issue/transgender-lgbtq-rights-trump-eo/
The Department of Government Efficiency, run by Elon Musk, has hacked into government systems that host Social Security and Medicare benefit payment systems, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, service of government workers, grants, benefits, payments to government contractors, medical information, etc. Government employees who manage these systems have reportedly been locked out. Contact your legislators: https://5calls.org/issue/elon-musk-opm-gsa-takeover/
The Trump administration has frozen external communications from federal health agencies, including the CDC, FDA, and USDA.This includes press releases, social media updates, and critical scientific publications like the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The directive requires all outgoing public health communications to have 'approval' from Trump-appointed political appointees to ensure they align with the administration's policies and priorities before release.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency telling them that all staff who work with the WHO must immediately stop their collaborations and "await further guidance." CDC staff have been ordered to immediately stop "engaging with WHO (World Health Organization) through technical working groups, coordinating centers, advisory boards, cooperative agreements or other means — in person or virtual." CDC staff are no longer allowed to visit WHO offices.
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All U.S. global health funding has been frozen. This includes funding for PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief. PEPFAR provides billions in funding to organizations to combat HIV and currently provides HIV medications to more than 20 million people across 55 countries. Ceasing this program will put millions of lives in jeopardy. Clinics have reportedly "stopped distributing medications and PEPFAR central information systems were shut down." Workers have been ordered to cease care or "they will be in defiance of the stop-work order and disciplinary action will be taken" U.S. contractors working for the program have reportedly been laid off. Even if this action proves to be temporary (which currently seems unlikely) pausing retroviral medications (the medications used for HIV treatments) for any length of time is a serious risk.
I'll try to explain this risk: Imagine you have an HIV positive patient. They take a retroviral provided by the PEPFAR program, which suppresses the HIV virus and significantly reduces chance of spread to others. They are then denied medication. As the HIV medication lessens in the patient's body, the virus regains strength and multiplies. Since there is less retroviral medication in the body, the virus becomes stronger and has the ability to analyze the medication without significant damage. The virus can then mutate to resist the retroviral medication entirely. If patients stop medication on a mass scale, the chance of medication-resistant mutation occurring in the HIV positive population increases significantly. What does this mean for the world? We could soon have an uncontrollable global spread of new strains of HIV that are resistant to all known methods of suppression and treatment.
Trump has banned transgender individuals from serving openly in the military and shut down all diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives for both active duty military and veterans. VA staff have been ordered to report efforts to conceal diversity and inclusion personnel, or face "adverse consequences". Federal employees have also been ordered to remove pronouns from all correspondence.
The following story is being supressed in the U.S. news so I’ll share it here: A few days ago, a transgender veteran hanged themselves by jumping from a Veteran’s Affairs hospital garage. They were found wrapped in a transgender pride flag.
Contact your legislators: https://5calls.org/issue/transgender-lgbtq-rights-trump-eo/
On the first day of his administration, Trump signed Executive Order 14168, “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring …
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is currently undergoing the confirmation process to become Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). This is a role that requires deep knowledge of healthcare systems and science-based policymaking. Kennedy has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of relevant education and has no formal qualifications or experience in healthcare, public health administration, or federal governance that align with the responsibilities of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). If confirmed, Kennedy would oversee a $1.7 trillion budget and agencies like the FDA and CDC, raising fears that his leadership could disrupt critical programs related to disease prevention, vaccine distribution, healthcare access, and safety inspections of food and hospitals. He has stated that he plans to fire and replace 600 employees at the NIH and that he "will have every nutritional scientist" in the health and agriculture departments fired. Kennedy is widely known for spreading race-based medicine ideologies, conspiracy theories, and vaccine misinformation, including debunked claims linking vaccines to autism. He has also publicly spread HIV misinformation.
As many are already aware: USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong has been fired. As of today she has not yet been replaced by a Trump appointee. The USDA Inspector General is responsible for investigating fraud, waste, abuse, and inefficiencies in USDA operations, including food safety programs. Staffing shortages and inspection gaps from layoffs and a nationwide federal hiring freeze has already strained the system, significantly increasing risks of foodborne illnesses in the U.S.
Tariff-related public health concerns to keep an eye on:
U.S. farmers were not given any time to adjust agricultural infrastructure to support the tariffs. Higher reliance on domestic food production (meaning food production within the USA) could lead to unregulated intensified farming practices, also impacting environmental health and food safety in the long term. Economic pressures from falling livestock prices due to retaliatory tariffs could force producers to cut costs, potentially compromising animal welfare. For example, farmers may reduce spending on proper housing, veterinary care, or feed quality. Farmers may keep more animals in facilities not designed for increased occupancy for longer periods, leading to overcrowding, animal neglect/cruelty, increased stress, and disease.
To offset increased costs due to the tariffs, both foreign and domestic food producers may be tempted and even incentivized to cut corners on quality control & sanitation standards. This will increase the risk of foodborne illnesses and compromise food safety. Producers may also be tempted to cut corners on production costs by relying on fillers and chemicals.
Trade tensions may disrupt collaborative efforts between countries like Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. on cross-border animal health monitoring systems, making it harder to control disease outbreaks. Retaliatory tariffs may also discourage trade partnerships with countries that have strong food safety standards. This could result in imports from less-regulated markets with weaker safety protocols.
The tariffs might force some industries to source materials from alternative suppliers. For example, the pet food industry relies on high-quality tinplate steel for canned products to prevent food safety issues such as discoloration or spoilage. If tariffs affect the availability of quality materials, it could impact food safety. Changes in established supply chains could lead to temporary disruptions in food distribution, potentially affecting the freshness and safety of perishable goods. Retaliatory tariffs from China, Mexico, Canada, and their allies are already in the process of being implemented.
A few more safety domestic farming concerns include: soil degradation & erosion, unregulated use of fertilizers and pesticides, livestock manure and agricultural chemicals contaminating drinking water, nitrous oxide fumes, deforestation, habitat loss, overfishing, declining insect populations, water shortages from over-extraction of groundwater & unregulated irrigation practices, zoonotic diseases spreading from animals to humans, and antibiotic overuse in livestock to mitigate poor conditions.
Why don't more people care about this??? Are we so desensitized to all the bullshit that we're not registering serious red flags anymore???
My life is being completely upended by these fucking morons and I know I'm far from being the only one, which just means this "administration" is all the evil we knew it was going to be and it pisses me off how complicit our country was in creating it
elon musk did a nazi salute twice at the inauguration, and republicans are defending him.
trump revoked executive order 11246, which prohibited discrimination.
trump put all dei employees on leave to be fired.
trump banned all lgbtq+ flags from being hung in government buildings.
trump rolled back biden’s executive order to lower prescription drug costs for people using medicare and medicaid.
trump rescinded the $35 cap on insulin, and prices are expected to rise to $1500 a month.
trump ordered the national institutes of health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.
trump ended the guidelines to prevent ai misuse. the guidelines prevent many things, but notably it prevents production of ai child pornography.
when sean hannity asked trump about the economy, he said “i don’t care”, after campaigning with the economy as his main talking point.
trump has withdrawn the us from the world health organization.
trump is ordering health agencies to stop reporting on bird flu and halt publications of scientific reports.
trump has pardoned over 1500 people who stormed the capitol on january 6th.
trump changed mount denali back to mount mckinley.
trump signed an executive order to rename the gulf of mexico to gulf of america.
trump shut down cbp one, an app which granted legal entry to 1 million+ immigrants.
trump is allowing ice raids at churches and elementary schools.
trump announced plans to declare a national emergency at the us-mexico border.
trump signed an executive order to expand the use of the death penalty.
trump disbanded the school safety board that works to prevent school shootings. it was comprised of survivors, educators, and gun violence prevention advocates and formed after the school shooting in parkland.
trump withdrew from the paris climate act.
trump revoked all protections for transgender troops in the us military.
trump rescinded executive orders made by biden that benefited and protected women, lgbtq+ people, black americans, hispanic americans, asian americans, native hawaiians, and pacific islanders.
trump is attempting to make it legal to refuse to hire or fire pregnant women.
multiple state legislators are drafting bills to allow the punishment for abortion to be the death penalty.
trump pardoned 23 individuals convicted under the freedom of access to clinic entrances (FACE) act for their anti-abortion activism, including oftentimes violent protests at abortion clinics.
trump signed an executive order allowing deportation of foreign students who they believe express support for hamas or hezbollah.
trump announced that the us government will from here on out only recognize male and female as sexes. intersex is not legally recognized anymore.
trump refused to swear on the bible during his inauguration.
andy ogles drafted a constitutional amendment to allow trump to be president for a third term.
georgia republican congressman mike collins called for the deportation of new jersey born mariann budde, the bishop who urged trump to “have mercy” on the lgbtq+ community and immigrants during a service at the national cathedral.
six states (arizona, idaho, iowa, kansas, mississippi, and north dakota) are planning on challenging obergefell v. hodges, which would end same-sex marriage nationwide. about a dozen more states have representatives who are also considering filing similar resolutions.
amazon revoked protections for lgbtq+ and black employees.
every single republican told us we were overreacting. trump swore he had nothing to do with project 2025 yet continues implementing details outlined in it. not a single person has the right to tell us we’re being dramatic anymore.
hope the possibility of cheaper eggs and gas was worth it.
...The complete spreadsheet of submitted prompts is now available! Anyone who is interested in writing a fic for this event can now peruse the lists and pick one (or more!) that they want to fulfill! The prompt sheet is linked on the bottom on this post, and here are just a few notes:
Posting can happen anytime from now until April 15th
Tag @cloneficgiftexchange in your post to be reblogged! I won't be tracking the organization tag for reblogs but you are welcome to use it
There are tabs along the bottom of the spreadsheet for you to navigate by season
Some prompts are open to any clone, and some have specific options, you can see specifics for each prompt (as well as if it's okay to do smut for that prompt) on the spreadsheet
The "any season" prompts are open for you to choose the time of year that they happen in, but they should still fit within the overarching theme of the event, which is Seasons. We only had a few of those suggested on the form, so I supplemented with some ideas that will be open to any clone.
there is no limit to the number of people that can fulfill a prompt, but I'm going to be updating the spreadsheet with links to prompts as they're posted. this way, if you want to pick a more lonely prompt you can see which ones they are!
the rules/faq can be found below for your reference, and all the necessary resources are also linked on the pinned post! If you have any other questions, feel free to ask!
One of the best writing advice I have gotten in all the months I have been writing is "if you can't go anywhere from a sentence, the problem isn't in you, it's in the last sentence." and I'm mad because it works so well and barely anyone talks about it. If you're stuck at a line, go back. Backspace those last two lines and write it from another angle or take it to some other route. You're stuck because you thought up to that exact sentence and nothing after that. Well, delete that sentence, make your brain think because the dead end is gone. It has worked wonders for me for so long it's unreal
I don't remember where I heard this now, but I absorbed the advice, "if you're stuck, count ten sentences back and start again from there". It's not always ten sentences back, for me, but it does force me to look at the last handful of lines I've actually written on a sentence instead of a story level, and that is eminently helpful in unsticking myself most of the time.
I recently resolved a point where I'd been stuck for months not by changing anything in the scene I was currently writing, but by realizing I needed to add another scene before that one to establish key information I couldn't work into the current one
ICE raids are set to start as soon as tuesday (JAN 21, 2025) in Chigago so make sure you know your rights, your community, and your plan.
ICE MUST have a warrant to search/enter any property. they will lie and manipulate you to allow them on the premises but if they arent holding a valid document in their hands they cannot legally do anything
They may say something like "our warrant is in the truck," tough shit, have them bring it to you, DO NOT FOLLOW THEM ANYWHERE. Do not leave your property if confronted.
If you are taken, say nothing until a lawyer is present. The exception is if there are bystanders present/filming, then you should shout your name and whats happening
If you are witnessing a raid in your community, wait to warn others via phone as the cops may be monitoring nearby communications and may use that to select their next targets. Warn by code or word of mouth
escape if the opportunity presents itself, but dont be stupid.
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