Scabagail

Let’s start a young adult book club for thirty-somethings. Let’s go to a punk show. Let’s pet all of the dogs, ALL OF THEM. Let’s start a project and never finish it. 🌻 I have three pugs named Butters, Noodles, and Jelly, and they have their own blog: buttersandnoodles.tumblr.com/

[knitmeapony]

Kids.  Teenagers.  As someone staring 40 in the face lemme tell you a thing.

You are going to be horrified and embarrassed at some point by the shit you are doing now.

And you are going to wish with all your might you’d done more of it.  

You’re gonna wish you had more selfies, more photos, more videos being dumb with your friends.  You’re going to wish you’d had your hair even higher or your shoes even sparklier.  

Go.  Document the shit out of your ridiculous life.  Fuck trends but if you wanna be trendy, go all in.  Fuck in-groups and subcultures but if one sings to you, do it all.  Be exactly as cool or punk rock or goth or fandom or country or hardcore or hip hop or whatever, and don’t let anyone tell you differently.

Just don’t hurt people.  That’s the only thing you’ll ever genuinely live to regret.

[knitmeapony]

@palejoke tagged: #I mean no offense but why a 40 y/o on the hellsite

I think I have talked about this before, but because life doesn’t end at twenty or thirty or forty or fifty and thinking that folks are going to fall out of social media or that there won’t always be someone your age and my age and twice both of our ages interested in [insert anything, ever] is a very limiting worldview.  

Somewhere there is a sixty-five year old who unironically loves Taylor Swift’s music and a fifty-two year old writing Superwholock fanfic and a ninty year old who absolutely lives for the next episode of Archer and a seventy-one year old that can kick anyone’s ass in k-pop trivia.  There will always be these folks, and all the Internet has done is give fans of all ages a chance to interact in a way that they never had before.

Before BBSes and the Internet and Usenet and the World Wide Web and fanrings and forums and social media, those people would just love it in their own way, in the privacy of their own homes.  But now anyone can make an Ao3 account or a basic fansite or tumbl about whatever they want, and sometimes you’re gonna learn those people are old but they still get it, and sometimes you’re going to find out those folks are still kids, twelve or fourteen at the oldest, and marvel at their maturity and skill and attention to detail.  

And that is rad as hell, that is fucking incredible, that is… whatever the kids are saying these days, hah.

[esoteric-merit]

As a sidenote, once, about a decade ago, I decided to email one of my favourite authors before she bit it … she was pushing 90 at the time. ( … she’s still alive now). Anyways, we got to having a long discussion, because I shared my deadname with her late husband, and I actually had quite a long conversation with her. The part of the conversation I’d like to share with you about this now pushing 100-tear-old author isn’t that she developed a liking for her breakfast eggs from her honeymoon in Vienna, or that her Husband would sometimes steal her drafts to read them as soon as he could, or that she superglued a potted plant to her bookshelf to watch her orange cat try to knock it over and fail. Nono, I mention this to bring up what she would do as a writing exercise whenever she didn’t feel like writing her serious work. In short, erotic darkwing duck slashfic. You can find it online.

[knitmeapony]

This is the greatest addition this post has gotten so far.

[redshoesnblueskies]

I LOVE THIS FUCKING POST.

I love all the posts written by older fans, with their insight, and their generous attitude towards young fans, and young fanfic writers, and young fanartists. 

Older fans who patiently explain to whomever questioned the validity of older fans participation…

that it’s older fans running the AO3 servers and the entire OTW organization;

Older fans most often writing the actually well written fanfic; 

Older fans planning, organizing and executing massive cons;

Older fans who write out fandom history dating back to pre-internet so that history can be known and preserved and enjoyed;

Older fan lawyers enforcing Fair Use laws pro bono to keep fans from being sued for creating fic or art or any other media;

Older fans behaving well with life-lived-and-learned healthy boundaries;

or conversely dealing out smack-downs to those not behaving well be they older trolls or naively inexperienced younguns;

Older fans letting fans of all ages remember that zany enthusiasm is not the province only of the young - it is the province of humanity. 

And we’re right there loving being human with you.

[heartbeatemoji]

hint: if a person with clinical depression and anxiety says theyre tired …. dont tell them they have no reason to be …. bc guess what….. They Know and Its Shitty

[meowtian]

Louder!!!

[kucala]

I just want to add one thing-

If you have depression or anxiety? you’re not tired for no reason.

You’re tired because you have depression/anxiety.

Not only do they both come with low energy/fatigue as a legit common side effect, but they’re both fucking /exhausting/. fighting your brain all the time? exhausting. adrenaline crashes from anxiety/panic attacks? exhausting. being on edge all the time? exhausting. plus doing things costs /more/ energy when you have those mental illnesses.

You’re not tired for no reason, you’re tied because you have an illness that makes you tired.

[museifushindoushugi]

it’s dangerous to go alone. take this

[romy7]

thanks

[omghotmemes]

Very well

[nateswinehart]

Ha ha seriously tho.

[kitsiinabox]

[nateswinehart]

[anightvaleintern-blog1]

I needed to hear this right now. <3

[marqweabyss]

My new favorite post.

[scabagail]

Maybe you can’t just keep putting cute animals on top of your problems. Maybe. But it’s worth a try.

[scabagail]

Singing The Menzingers “When You Died” because it’s one of my all time favorite songs. And I’m wearing my favorite yellow shirt.

[scabagail]

I’m going to steal this dog 🐶

[scabagail]

There is nothing more infuriating than when you misspell something and spell check has no idea what you are actually trying to spell.

[weirdmageddon]

the wrong amazon is burning and the wrong ice is melting

[kalevala17-deactivated20201116]

[asundergrowth]

IT DIDNT CATCH FIRE IT IS BEING DELIBERATELY CLEARCUT AND BURNED BECAUSE LARGE AGROBUSINESS CONGLOMERATES PAID THEIR FASCIST GOVERNMENT TO IGNORE THIS COURT RULING

[starshals]

It’d explain why it isn’t getting coverage for sure.

[unculture]

You can give *directly* to Indigenous forest protectors in Brazil by supporting @ApibOficial (Brazilian Articulation of Indigenous Peoples). Indigenous groups are the only reason there is any rainforest left in Brazil at all at this point.

Here’s the link. 

[unculture]

Link

[alicedrawslesmis]

ugh fine my personal blog is not cutting so I’ll post here 

DO! NOT! DONATE! TO! AMAZON! CONSERVATION! NGOs! DO NOT!

they don’t act on the root of the problem, they don’t mitigate the effects of deforestation, they do have limited action and they don’t help conserve the forest land outside their very small grounds besides doing little to nothing to help the people who actually live in the amazon and conserve it on a daily basis

DONATE TO THE INDIGENOUS MOVEMENTS INSTEAD

they are organized, they can keep woodcutting companies away from their land, they are getting murdered for it, they are the only reason there is any forest left at all

[alicedrawslesmis]

THIS is a a fund for indigenous peoples of the Amazon (Brasil only)

THIS is a link to donate from abroad to the indigenous women’s march, it has already happened but you can still donate to support the cause

THIS is a link to support the free land camp, and you can email them at [email protected] if you really want to find ways to support them, donations will go to APIB (Brazilian Articulation of Indigenous Peoples) and you can keep up with their news here

(APIB is coordinated by, among others, Sonia Guajajara! so if you know her you know this means shit will get done)

[scabagail]

My 5G & Targeted Indviduals Conspiracy Theory

I fell down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories while doing research for a fictional story I want to write. I ended up coming up with my own “what if” conspiracy theory.

What if people who claim to be targeted individuals and gang stalked are actually experiencing symptoms created by the use of 5G or other similar technology? And the goal is not to mind control them, they are just picking up a signal and hearing other people’s conversations? And maybe they do have a natural but unusual amount of conducting metal in their body and that is why they are attracting it.

Maybe in some cases researchers realize the significance and actually are following them around, which adds to their paranoia.

And maybe they are even being killed by big corporations to cover up the potential health risks of our addiction to technology.

Of course some of these people are schizophrenic, so the number of effected people is probably inflated. That serves as a reason to dismiss the whole theory, when really they aren’t all crazy.

And that is my conspiracy theory with zero basis in fact.

[scabagail]

The Menzingers v. Rise Against

Everybody buckle up, because I’m about to over think some shit:

The Menzingers put out this awesome new song, “America I Love You, But You’re Freaking Me Out.” It’s great. Lyrically it’s great and it touches on a lot of current social issues that The Menzingers don’t usually get too into. Honestly, the closest to these topics was probably Nice Things and that’s super metaphorical.

So, The Menzingers have a lot to say. Of course they do. They’re 30 something punks. Of course I, your exact target audience, want to hear what you have to say. But, they make light of the topics with the video for the song, which is pretty silly all the way through and then gets serious at the end.

Was this an attempt to slowly introduce the idea to their audience who knows them as laid back? Were they scared to alienate their audience? (No pun intended.) Is this just how people from Pennsylvania deal with major topics? (Serious possibility.)

While listening to this song, I have to say I thought a lot about my beloved Rise Against. I first saw The Menzingers when they opened for Rise Against. The song itself doesn’t sound at all like Rise Against, but the topics are definitely relating to the types of things Rise Against, well, rises against.

Meanwhile, in 2019, it is fucking radio silence (no new songs) from my beloved favorite band. Wolves, which did touch on these topics came out in 2017. Now they are focused on The Ghost Note Symphonies album that revisits old songs in a beautiful way, but is certainly not a call to action.

Maybe my boys are tired. Tired of calling for change that never happens. Physically tired of keeping up with crowds of 14-year-olds. I don’t know. The Black Market Album was practically them announcing retirement, but then they were back with Wolves. I thought.

Here is The Menzingers. Still growing a following. Still playing dive bars. And they’re saying,

“To these sing-alongs of siren songs

To ooh’s, to ahh’s

To big applause

With all my anger I scream and shout

America I love you, but you’re freaking me out.”

Siren Song of The Counter Culture is one of the best know Rise Against albums. Many of their songs are framed around this kind of protest-song sing-along idea.

Think about “Make It Stop” the great anthem in support of gay rights and anti-bullying, with a chorus of “Ohh, oh, ohhh, oh, oh.”

Or “Help Is On The Way” about The injustice facing black communities during Hurricane Katrina.

Or “Prayer of the Refugee”

Or every other song that isn’t “Swing Life Away.”

As a huge fan of both bands, maybe I am seeing something that isn’t there. But I feel like The Menzingers are trying to pull strength from RA’s example and maybe say, “Hey. Dudes. Where are you? There are kids in cages. Can you rile some people up? ‘Decent is the highest form of patriotism’ and all that shit you’re always saying.”

And that’s what I think about that.

[unit214-blog]

hi sorry to be making this post but i’m offering writing commissions. i recently moved out of my parents house and i’m struggling to feed myself & my cat. i’m also having a flareup of chronic pain and am unable to work.

i wouldn’t be doing this if i wasn’t desperate, i only recently got over my trauma wrt writing @___@ anyway. i have some work on ao3.

my pricing is $1 per every 100 words!! no extra cost if i go over the requested amount, obviously. (uhh i also made a site w/ all this info consolidated)

email [email protected] (if u have questions) my paypal.me.

[scabagail]

When your friends know that you are struggling and also have Amazon Prime. ❤️💛💚💙💜

[riseagainstmemes]

[riseagainstmemes]