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[honestly-shite]

As if I didn't already have enough ideas for writing, I am now daydreaming about Painter!Ezra who has a studio in St Ives in the 1950s and I need to stop

[sunstarelanor]

me: comes back to tumblr after An Appointment in therapy in which my therapist and I talked about Adhd effects on my emotional regulation and how I like to have direct plans and contingencies to ...... Thee Discourse

me: *sigh* oh, fandom. smh

[genderqueerpond]

reading old posts from that time i was seriously considering stopping identifying as trans and

1. god i was really transparently trans and in pain, no wonder the community "failed" to encourage me to leave??? why was that so...*not* obvious to me at the time? did i not hear myself?

2. i was still Right about certain intracommunity politics

[queerspacepunk]

im procrastinating getting up so a note about how i tag stuff for anyone who’s interested:

i tag for organisation mainly, and i also tag for content bc im a supporter of ppl having the right to have control over the content they want to see. however, afaik, most filtering/blocking nowadays works on text, meaning that if pineapple is something you don’t wanna see, and the post contains the word pineapple, there’s no need to tag it pineapple as well.

i will tag stuff that doesn’t include the word, or might not have one easy word to cover it (like unreality for example) and if there’s other stuff you would like me to tag pls say so

i will not, however, be tagging the word queer as a slur or censoring it. there’s no need, if you don’t wanna see the word you can block it directly and im not gonna contribute to the nonsense.

similarly w offensive language/slurs i generally try to avoid reblogging posts w that kinda language unless the person who used it has the right to use it (eg if it was a gay person calling themself a fag) or if it is appropriately* censored and necessary for discussion (eg: reminding people not to use the word g*ypsy, or how i try and navigate having to use the r-slur in its scientific/pharmaceutical context). in both situations the presence of the term itself serves for blocking purposes so there’s no need to tag for it again or do a censored tag (which kinda defeats the purpose but w/e that’s a whole other post). i might tag something ‘slurs’ as a way to group together posts about that topic, but that’s an organisational tag not a warning one

[maximum-rex]

Uh oh sisters!

Looks like it's time to write Angst while listening to sad love songs! I'm breaking my own heart 🙃!!!

[canesbian]

game(82)winner: elias lindholm

[writedrunk]

It’s been dark for a long time now. In the far north, the sun hovers perpetually near the horizon, dipping below it for good in the early afternoon. These are the days when it’s hardest to believe in springtime. But this month brings us a shift in priorities and perspective: as Saturn moves into Capricorn, we’re in a new astrological era.

Saturn, planet of daddy archetypes and diligence, has been forcing us to go back and check our work in the sign of Sagittarius for the last two and half years. Sagittarius is the sign of ardent, passionate faith in wherever we’re headed next. It thrives on leaping, bounding, ricocheting, and bursting into sparks. It trusts that the right trajectory will always be the one it happens to take. While Saturn moved through Sagittarius, we collectively felt our faith challenged and our joy more hard-won. Mythologies proliferated, mass movements arose and faltered, and the most encouraging moments of the past few years burned against the sky like a shower of sparks from a fire that kept leaping from tree to tree, trying to jump the gaps where there was nothing to feed it. Saturn keeps us careful, and many have been conserving resources like joy, connection, optimism, and adventure—while still dreaming of a world that offers these in abundance.

With Saturn in Capricorn for the next few years, we are turning a corner. One the one hand, Sagittarius energy will feel less easier again, more buoyant and immersive. But our collective energy for serious, hard work will be focused on the sign of longterm strategy, environmental conservation, and what it means to build anything sustainably. Capricorn is a sign of working with reality: with the exact mess we’re in right now, with the tools at hand, with a blueprint and a repair manual, with the dogged persistence that is the only way shit ever gets done. Saturn in Capricorn brings us all into direct contact with the reality of our lives. Moving into this Saturn cycle, we’re panning back from easy wins and grand ambitions and learning how to buckle down and build something longterm—more vastly ambitious, but more humbly assembled, with patience and rigorous testing.

From these last few years of wild shots in the dark, what are you wanting to hold onto and take more seriously? This a year that rewards focusing on exactly what matters to you most, and learning what you’ll need to make it a reality. This month also ends with a lunar eclipse in Leo, reminding us that we must bring our full hearts, passions, and playfulness into this project of becoming serious.

Capricorn:

In a series of dreams I had about what this month would look like for you, we spent every night pulling some kind of heist. The one that mattered most was when we broke into the office of your philosophy professor to steal both his research and his bonsai trees, which were really an old-growth spruce forest in miniature, arrayed across his desk in pots that resembled decaying nurse logs. The needles of these trees were infinitely fine and seemed to reflect a more condensed crystallized sunlight. The reason this last heist mattered most is that our mission was both to destroy and to rescue—the two could not be unlinked. Bear this in mind as you begin 2018: the next few years will be a balancing act between destruction and conservation. Be bold, be wise, and be patient.

--Corina Dross, Jan 2018 Horoscopes

[vinteraltus]

Canadian Federal Election 2015

This will be my first time voting in a federal election and I bet it’ll be a lot of your first times too! I want everyone who is eligible to go and vote this year and have your say in this large and wonderful land so I made this post to help get your started!

ELECTION DAY: MONDAY, OCTOBER 19

step 1: voting, the logistics

Click HERE to register to vote, check if you are registered, or update your voter registration info

There are new electoral districts for the 2015 federal elections. Find your new (and your previous) electoral district HERE by putting in your postal code or you can use this map (it’s more complicated that way, but yay options)

step 2: when and where to vote

You can vote on the official Election Day (October 19) but, if you’re busy or unable to make it, there are four advance voting days for your convenience! Polls are open from 12pm-8pm on these days.

Friday, October 9

Saturday, October 10

Sunday, October 11

Monday, October 12

Your voter information card will arrive via mail on October 1 and will have a ton of useful information on it, including where you can vote. It will give you the address of your local polling station.

REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR VOTER INFORMATION CARD WITH YOU TO THE POLLS! It’ll make things go faster. And again, if you aren’t sure please check if Elections Canada has your correct address in their system.

step 3: your political parties

There are four major parties in Canadian politics, with Bloc Quebecois being another major fifth player centralized in Quebec. The four major parties and their leaders are:

The Conservative Party of Canada, Stephen Harper (current PM)

The NDP (New Democratic Party), Tom Mulcair

The Liberal Party of Canada, Justin Trudeau

The Green Party of Canada, Elizabeth May

Then there’s the Bloc Quebecois, a party focused mainly on the interests of Quebec and therefore are centralized there.

Now, where can you get good, concise information about all party platforms so you can make an informed vote? Here are some links to help you get started:

Everything You Need to Know About the Parties’ Platforms (National Post) - a good guide to help get you started and informed

Twitter Hashtag #elxn42 - join the conversation!

Canada Election Quiz - see which political parties line up with your beliefs (pro tip: select “other stances” to see more detailed answers you can pick)

Canada Votes 2015: The 20 Year Old’s Guide to Politics - a quick and dirty summary of the main issues and party positions on each, catered towards newer (younger) voters

Canada Votes CBC - CBC News coverage of the elections!

Global News coverage of the Federal Elections

[thelesserhalf]

If you work on election day, you’re legally entitled to time off in order to vote. And you’re forgetting the most important polling stations! October 5-8 there are special ballot polling stations on a lot of campuses, community centres, etc. They’re special because you don’t need to be in that riding to vote there. Check where the closest one to you is here: http://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=vote&dir=campus&document=index&lang=e