Punslinger For Hire

they/them/any; here since 2012, queer since 1984

[64mpg]

affirmations for when you have brain fog

[willabee]

hmph

[desk-drawerr]

He eat a nemon

[ethertune]

Big Maneki-Neko, Japan (By edamame note)

[willabee]

pov you are watching jeopardy with willabee

[bovineblogger]

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[sparklywaistcoat]

FYI Meta now allows your Insta photos to be mined for AI without your consent unless you opt out.

[stuck-in-jelly]

Does anyone know where I can find some nice POC photography?

Im trying to make a character inspiration board but most of the photography is of pale skinned and skinny people.

@cutabello that’s a great hashtag but they are mainly selfies and im looking for things like this:

Im trying to find POC photography where there are in the world and being magical, or being with family, or going on adventures or anything other than it just being a selfie or talking about racism. Yes racsim should be addressed but I’d love to see more POC in surrealistic or domestic photography where there isn’t an explanation for them being there they just are. Like this:

@openheartopenhead OH MY GOSH????

Within 5 mintues I found EXACTLY what I was looking for? This is amazing i can’t even fit all the photos i found im floored!!

Every one! Check out the website it is really good help

[acepsychic100]

AAAA THANK YOU FOR THIS

[dyingroses]

After seeing this post I created a board for images PoC characters on Pinterest (still pinning poc in other boards but I thought it would also help to have a separate board so that people don’t have to sort through all my other “Storyboard Resources”boards and sections) (It’s not organized in any way just thought I’d break it up into sections to make the searching seem more bearable as more and more images get pinned there)

https://www.pinterest.com/octaviasusan/storyboard-resources-poc-characters/

hope this helps <3

[heywriters]

That’s awesome! I also started an Unsplash collection bc there are just so many good photos on there

[wreegis]

there was an incident at work today

[kuttithevangu]

All fantasy authors wish they had a bigger bathtub in their house. You can tell by every bathing scene ever written into a fantasy novel

[cooking-with-hailstones]

REMINDER!

You can make a smoke-grade air purifier at home relatively cheaply, and it's actually better quality than a lot of air purifiers on the market!

Also linked here. (Too much text for me to transcribe but you can get it on their website!)

This is a great activity to do with little ones as well, since they're much more vulnerable to smoke (and it can be like a fun craft activity with them)

Stay safe, check in on your neighbours, keep your pets inside, drink lots of water, and yell at politicians!

[cooking-with-hailstones]

Today's AQI in Detroit is over 500! Please mask up, filter your air as best you can, and check in on your neighbours.

[klapollo]

Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms — a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer —may be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.

Taylor makes bagged greens, salad kits, chopped salads, the works. Keep avoiding supermarket greens, but keep an especially close eye out for this brand/supplier. The above list of grocers and fast food chains is NOT exhaustive, so please continue getting lettuce and other raw produce taken off your burgers, sandwiches, etc.

[triplehamburgerjack]

Their other brand is EARTHBOUND ORGANICS!!!

[ayeforscotland]

How does fanfic of Harry Potter support JKR? People should be allowed to write fanfiction whenever they want!

You are granting JK Rowling cultural capital and relevance. Write about literally anything else.

[dragonesseclectic]

You are very much allowed to write fanfiction about Harry Potter if you want. No one is going to come to your house and take away your keyboard for it--if they try, have them arrested for home invasion and assault.

There is no such thing as thought crime, in spite of what the morality police would have you believe. Right-wing or left-wing, wannabe censors still suck and should always be pushed back against.

Yes, JKR is a terrible, unhinged bigot with too much money to do damage with. So is Elon Musk, yet no one is telling people not to write Tesla fanfiction.

[ayeforscotland]

Irrelevant and nonsensical comparison. Tesla didn’t endorse Elon Musk, and Tesla is dead. He’s not actively funding anti trans legislation to make their lives worse, including specifically targeting individual trans people. JK Rowling is.

[ayeforscotland]

I could’ve sworn thought crime referred to how intrusive thoughts do not make you a bad person? I struggle with them - and the fact that thought crime isn’t real has helped me a lot.

It doesn’t mean you can write fanfic about a work whose writer has funded anti-trans bigotry, and has stated that doing so is support in her eyes without having consequence for doing so. Writing a fanfic isn’t a *thought,* it’s an action!

Dino, that’s you thinking logically, instead of resorting to it as a fun rhetorical device. If you stop thinking, it all makes sense…somehow!

[ayeforscotland]

Not everything for everyone needs to be so rigid. I’m exhausted. I just want to go and read my fics and escape and not have to think about politics for two seconds. Fanfic is supposed to be my happy space. (I just want to reread my favourite queer HP fanfic from back in the day that I used for escapism, no I don’t support that demon lady)

I used to really enjoy listening to the Lost Prophets, their songs meant a lot to me at a formative stage of my life. I haven't listened to them since the news broke about Ian Watkins being evil.

Ultimately you can do whatever you want, and I hope you unfollow me because I really don't care about anons who want to self-soothe in my asks.

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Great time to start pricing this out by the way, fire season starts… on the summer solstice this year, that’s fun. Signs point to it being a doozy.

[sun-cheyne]

As someone that has had to go through this while being very poor, I can say this is VERY effective. While this is a fantastic build, you can even do just a single filter against the fan, or a fan on one side of a cardboard box and a filter on the opposite side.

[geopsych]

Another public service announcement. This time it’s air quality. Some of you are probably in it already if you’re in eastern Canada, New England or New York, but it’s sliding south, a huge mass of wildfire smoke. Please be careful. When it starts getting bad, especially, like when the sky gets orange or brownish, it’s best to run air purifiers in the house and wear N95 or KN95 masks when you have to go outside.

It harms your lungs and it’s especially bad for children (and pets!) or anyone with health problems. There are all kinds of chemicals in that smoke. It’s not only trees that are burning. The heat already makes it harder to breath. This makes it worse.

If any of you are experiencing it, feel free to tell about it in the comments. 💚

Also, throw out the mask every day and shower before you get in bed if you’ve been out or you’ll be breathing the particles all night. Stuff like that. It gets all over you, your skin, your hair, your clothes.

[so-i-did-this-thing]

It's a large (and shifting) smoke plume, so stay safe, folks. Look up how to make a "Corsi-Rosenthal Box" if you need an air purifier inside.