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Once you get this you have to say five things you like about yourself, publicly. then you have to send this to ten of your favourite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool~) 🌈

Five things, huh?? Okay, let’s do this. Thanks for the message @anemonensblog <3333

#1 - I’m a good listener/non-judgmental: I have always said to friends I don’t care how bad they feel about something they’ve done, if they need to talk, it’s 100% a judgment free zone. I’m not here for judging people. Life is messy, complicated and those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. I know from personal experience it’s never good to keep things bottled up and having someone to speak to who doesn’t side-eye terrible decision making is so important.

#2 - Writing: Sometimes I think my writing is terrible, sometimes I’m super proud of it and other times I fluctuate between the two. In all cases though, I just love writing. I love being able to write and take so much from that creative outlet. A large part of having the confidence to do so comes from fandom, so <333

#3 - Being Bi and Non-Binary: It’s not always easy and I’ve struggled with both things for a variety of reasons and I still don’t have it all figured out. That aside though, it makes me see the world through a different lens. Being able to volunteer with LGBT organisations - I’ve spoken in places from schools to prisons about LGBT matters - and march at Pride events where bisexual and NB people can feel invisible makes me so energised. Even one voice can make a difference and it’s been amazing how many people I knew way back when have contacted me privately since I came out and said...yeah...me too. I’m so happy it’s who I am, even in those moments when it still hurts.

#4 - My hair: I used to have long hair and when I left the corporate world I had it all chopped off and dyed it pink. It’s currently dark purple and I’m contemplating a rainbow thing next week. I used to hate my hair. It felt flat and never sat right, but I love it so much now it’s short. I feel like ‘me.’

#5 - That I’m fannish: I get obsessed over things (probably why I relate to Nick, LOL). Fandom changed my whole life - it made me pick up writing again, it introduced me to some of my favourite people, it gave me something to get excited about during dark days a few years ago and it’s let me explore so many deeply personal things through reading and writing fic, cosplay and just in general discussions with people. It’s given me an academic focus and has helped me get published as a freelance writer and an academic. I would never have had any of that, if I wasn’t the person who reads a book about a boy wizard and can’t stop thinking about it, even after all this time ;-)

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anemonensblog replied to your post “I’ve seen dunkirk!”

Ahhh did you enjoy it?? I'm seeing it tonight my local time ����

I thought it was really good.  It did a lot that separated it from the way war stories are usually told that I really appreciated.  There were times when what I appreciated about the movie was undercut (by sentimentality or cliche), but it didn’t undermine the movie as a whole for me.

I’m looking forward to your thoughts!

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PASS THE HAPPY ALONG! When you get this, reply with five things that make you happy and pass along to ten nice people. ♥

Also from @candawrites - sorry both of you for being so late!

In no particular order:Music TravellingMy familySleeping inFinding long, well written fanfic with plenty of feels about one of my otp’s

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☕️ tea? Like actual cups of tea?

Ane - hello loveee. Yes please. I am not big tea drinker, but I LOVE a peppermint and a Lady Grey, and am happy to try most herbal teas. This is the tea on tea in Silv world.  Send me a ☕️ and a topic and I’ll talk about how I feel about it

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anemonensblog replied to your post: I saw @owenjones84 on Twitter (works for the...

Owen Jones now follows Na’ama on twitter, so your wish about him knowing about the legendary binder might come true �� I feel like two of my worlds have suddenly collided.

I know! It was so funny seeing how far her retweet of Owen’s clip went - it turned up again and again on my dash.

Like there is a lot that is terrible about the world at the moment obviously, but it’s also brilliant and amazing.

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“When I saw harry with the scottish flag the only thing i looked...”

I don’t know nearly enough about it, but I feel a bit of sympathy for the Scottish independence movement because I’ve got the sense that it’s more about the political difference with the rest of the uk than anything else. That the public opinion there is overwhelmingly social democratic while the rest of the country forces Tory rule on them again and again. (Seemingly confirmed by the fact that

it’s seemed to die down a bit after the rise of corbynism?) Further strengthened by the fact that the ‘yes’ ads in the indyref was all about the future and community and the ‘no’ ads were all about the imperial past. I wasn’t aware of the Brian Souter thing, thing though. NOT a good look for the SNP. 

So I don’t know enough either.  There are definitely people who support both independence and the SNP on that basis - I know some of them.  But that’s definitely not all that’s going on.  The SNP has not always been that clear ideologically as Brian Souter’s involvement shows.  The SNP also had a policy to regulate buses (where Souter made his money) and dropped it after a very large donation from him.

I also think it’s worth pointing out that it’s probably not true that people in England were any less social democrat than people in Scotland.  There’s always high support for social democratic policies in any survey.  Voting was another issue (and it was always partly an issue of disillusionment and not voting).

Anyway - I probably put too much emphasis on Brian Souter when understanding Scottish politcs. ‘I hate him and he ran the Wellington buses’ is perfectly fine as a belief, but it can lead to errors of emphasis.

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anemonensblog replied to your post “fan artists!!!”

Um, I make fanart sometimes, my 1d art is in my ‘my art’ tag on my sideblog @anesotherblog

AWESOME!!! i will defo be checking out @anesotherblog then! thank you so much :D

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anemonensblog replied to your post “I read your answer about abolishing prisons & i wondered your opinion...”

As a norwegian I can confirm that our justice system has relatively speaking shorter sentences (the longest are 21ys, and are basically reserved for terrible murders), and there’s an effort to make life inside prison as “normal” as possible. Inmates have relative freedom within the prison complex itself, with access to hobbies and education. But there are still all the problems inherent to incarceration, no matter how humane the environment - the stealing of life.

Otherwise we have a decent welfare system, but it’s FAR from perfect and under constant attack. Our current right wing government is doing its best to sneakily undermine it. The Norwegian Labour Party has grown frustratingly complacent on a lot of issues. Although we do have a couple of genuinely socialist parties in mainstream politics, both of whom are doing good at the moment. So there’s hope!

Thanks - it’s really interesting in getting a Norwegian perspective.

And thanks so much for the recommendation of Lockdown the Novara podcast.  It’s so good.  I’ve learned a lot about the UK, which is super useful and I think they do a great job of introducing the issues.  The abolition or reform episode, which I’m listening to now, directly addresses Norway.  It makes exactly the points that I thought were probably relevant, but didn’t know enough to say for sure.  The first is that there is a prison system for non-citizens where people get treated considerably worse than the prison system that the Daily Mail disapproves of (which is relevant to the role of prisons in maintaining systems of power based on race and citizenship). On top of that life in these prisons is still horrific in a way that isn’t properly acknowledged.  In fact at times Norway has had a worse outcome in terms of higher rates of death in prison than the general popoulation than England and Wales have.  And that sort of statistic is exactly the sort of thing that people don’t talk about in prison.  The very real harm and consequences that it does to people.