"Beware my Power."

terfs not welcome! My multi-fandom tumblr blog for stilltrails on ao3. I have too many ideas that will take too long to write, so i'm going to burden you all with my many headcanons! interact with me, talk to me. Just don't be an asshole! Caard coming soon! defender of gay corinthian from the sandman.

[tina-snow]

okay. i just think that Black ppl shouldn’t be expected to “gracefully” handle being called racial slurs to accommodate anyone. in a moment meant to be a celebration of your accomplishments at an awards show with a history of racism & exclusion no less. words have effect regardless of intent, it doesn’t magically negate harm. and had michael & delroy reacted differently they would not be given the same understanding.

[sonarsunbeam]

fandomification and shipping is fucking up how some of yall consume media and i mean it

[sonarsunbeam]

a worrying amount of people wont give the time of day to a piece of media unless it has characters that they can ship. and like, im not saying shipping is bad or you cant be drawn to a piece of media because of its characters, but also it wouldnt hurt you to think about something outside of shipping and making incorrect quotes

also please stop sending me anon hate because of this post i am not that pressed about it and you shouldnt be either ❤️

[stilltrails]

There should be a sympathetic retelling of what Catherine of Aragon and Mary I went through, because their struggles are more "girl bossed" then viewed for how horrific they actually were.

Aside from the misogynistic court proceedings against Catherine, being separated from her constantly ill daughter while she herself was in the midst of constant illness, and Mary finding out her mother died because someone told her, never being able to get that closure or see her mother's body, like that's some really psychologically f'ed up stuff that is often pushed down, i feel, because of how courageous they both were

[sadieb798]

I read Carolyn Meyer's The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary, Queen of Scots, and there's this part of the book where Mary gets a letter from her mother after YEARS that basically tells her not to give up and she loves her and I have never emotionally recovered

[stilltrails]

Oh this is most certainly going on my to-read list!

[ellewantsrevenge]

MASTER LIST OF WAYS TO HELP IN MINNEAPOLIS

(this list is mainly ways non-locals can donate but by extension offers a lot of resources and places to volunteer in the Twin Cities + there are specific ways to donate time under the cut which can be adjusted to your local neighborhood)

full credit to cataloo from r/minnesota [x]

🩵Immigrant support

Immigrant Defense Network – coalition of 90+ groups organizing rapid response and collecting evidence.

Immigrant Law Center of MN – free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees.

COPAL – advocacy, organizing, phone hotline. Focus on Latine community.

Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) – education and protest organizing.

Interfaith Coalition on Immigration – advocacy, aid, events.

Monarca MN – training and phone hotline.

Unidos MN – education, protests, advocacy.

Center for Victims of Torture – advocacy and mental health services for immigrants and refugees.

International Institute of Minnesota – refugee resettlement group that provides support and legal help to vulnerable new-to-country families.

Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota – offers services to refugees, including legal aid to non-citizens.

🩵Food support

If local, food donations are welcome, otherwise monetary donations help these types of orgs source what is most needed

VEAP

Second Harvest Heartland

Every Meal

The Food Group

Meals on Wheels MN

Find a local food shelf

🩵Mutual aid funds & community support

Community Aid Network

Twin Cities Trans Mutual Aid

Leo's Tow (Venmo @leostowingmn) is towing cars back to families if a car is stranded when someone is detained.

🩵More links

MN50501 Mutual Aid Linktree – well-organized list of various Twin Cities groups.

Mplsmutualaid Linktree – many neighborhood and individual GoFundMes listed here.

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.

Stand with Minnesota – extensive list of organizations, mutual aid, and crowdfunding campaigns.

🩵Donate blood

Memorial Blood Center declared a blood emergency on Tuesday, Jan 13. MBC is the blood supplier for both tier 1 trauma hospitals in the metro area (Hennepin County Medical Center and North Memorial Health).

American Red Cross

🩵Donate food or other goods

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.

Volunteer your time (under the cut)

🩵Mutual aid

Reach out to your neighbors – especially if you know they are staying home right now – and ask if they need groceries or toiletry items. Offer to pick up prescriptions, give rides, or shovel their driveway. If you know them well, bring them a treat that you know they'll enjoy. Or just ask them how they're doing and let them know you are there to support.

Connect with any of the orgs above and see if they are looking for volunteers.

Connect with a church or mosque in your area. From u/MuddieMaeSuggins: "I know a lot of regular Redditors are not religious (myself included) but like it or not this is a where a lot of community organizing happens, especially in immigrant communities."

Connect with your local school's admin office and/or their PTA. It's ok to reach out even if you don't have kids at the school. PTAs are organizing mutual aid for school families, safe rides, school observers.

🩵Activism

Find an official protest or other event via Indivisible, 50501, FREE AMERICA, or MIRAC. Students at many high schools are staging walk-outs; if your local school is doing this, reach out to school leadership or the PTA and ask how you can support as a community member.

Join the effort to stop Hilton from housing ICE by booking hotel rooms and then cancelling at the last minute. This action can be done from home! The effort is being organized by Sunrise Movement, who are telling activists to target specific hotels one-by-one. More info: SHUT DOWN HILTON

Find people in your area who are actively monitoring ICE and/or stationing themselves in high-traffic areas and ask how you can help. Check for local FB events where people are organizing and just show up.

At minimum, read the COPAL Handbook before you go out to observe. The DFL, Monarca, and other orgs have been hosting online trainings for constitutional observers (though these fill up quickly).

When you see ICE in action, start recording. Be as loud and as disruptive as possible: honk your horn, set off your car alarm, blow your whistle. Let people know that ICE is in the area. If you see someone being detained, try to get their name and a phone number to call their emergency contact.

If you do not feel comfortable observing ICE in person, there are ways you can support from home. Just ask the people who are organizing in your area. I have social anxiety, and I had never participated in any kind of political action before this past Saturday. If I can do it, you can!

Local organizers are requesting that people who help monitor ICE DO NOT participate in 1-to-1 mutual aid efforts, as these can put the families you are helping at risk.

If you have friends/acquaintances who are sympathetic but not politically active, reach out to them. Show them that they're not alone in feeling helpless. Pick a few low-commitment actions from this list and do them together.

[qwestleon]

[r-ultrazul]

Like a fire.

[cjamswriting]

[sakasakiii]

glorfindel vs the balrog (uncut) (super extended edition) (never ever before seen footage)

quick unserious post bc im not sure how many of you have seen jjk season 3 and the naoya vs choso fight, but i couldnt pass up on the chance to draw that one ridiculous hair flip meme thats been going around 😭

[notcryingtoday]

Starting Yellowjackets I know nothing about it, it better be gay and tragic

[stilltrails]

GOOD LUCK!!

[dachkna]

Vassar College girls practicing Greek dance c. 1923

[crypticcuntking]

Nerdanel for @tolkienwomensweek (a little late sorry)

Day 6: Heartbreak, The Second Stage Of Grief

[misfitlunatik]

Quick sketch for day 3 of Hansry Cozy Winter - “warm bath”

(Or it this case - *hot*)

[naranjapetrificada]

Yes it matters. Here's why.

[stilltrails]

If you see less of me, it's because i'm genuinely trying to commit to my goal of having all of my ao3 fics completed by the end of August, 2026

[rabbitscreams]

we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

[rabbitscreams]

female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.

[rabbitscreams]

if you try to explain this to a white person they look at you like youre insane

[gay-milton-quotes]

briefly pursuing a career in animation radicalized me on this. So many stories from the industry about how you have to start with your character design as dark as possible, because INEVITABLY you'll get "notes" from higher-ups asking you to make them lighter.

In a class about making a pitch bible my teacher once role-played as a shitty executive with a classmate, pressing them in intentionally abrasive ways about why they made their characters diverse. He emphasized that we had to learn to defend these things, because the racism in the industry is extremely deliberate.

[vforvalensa]

Ronald Wimberly's comic essay, Lighten Up, stays evergreen

[ariaiscursed]

- the lonely academic

[modelsof-color]

Adut Akech for VS Holiday 2025 Campaign

[moonlightsdream]

FILMS in 2025: 82 | The Peasants Chlopi (2023) — dir. DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman