#open letter

[tracen-post-office]

Open letter from Anonymous!

What's a secret or trait your character has that could be taken advantage of? e.g. "Will do anything for carrot cake"

[alexisblogsilla]

Chat Control is back & we've got only a few weeks to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans. | Tuta

The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". H

A pretty good blog on the discussion of Chat Control and how we can still fight it. I encourage all of you, European or Otherwise, to contact through https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ or otherwise to tell Germany and other countries MEPs to STOP CHAT CONTROL! In edition here is an open letter to send as well (Works even outside of the EU) https://crm.edri.org/stop-scanning-me

[baby-dog]

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[odinsblog]

Open Letter to the President of the Russian Federation from the President of Ukraine

4 June 2026 - 21:20

Open Letter

To the President of the Russian Federation

From the President of Ukraine

When you came to power in Russia more than 26 years ago, many people in Ukraine viewed you positively. That is how it was. But that is now in the past.

Now, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians view it positively that our long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in St. Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers. As you know very well, that distance is not the limit of our capabilities.

For 26 years, your time in power has completely changed the agenda of relations between Ukraine and Russia. From discussions about trade and other civilian matters, our nations have moved to talking almost exclusively about strikes and losses.

You have spent nearly half of your 26 years in power in Russia waging war against Ukraine.

Whatever you may say about NATO, geopolitics, or the Russian language, this war is your personal choice — a war without a real cause. That is how history will remember it.

Those years could have been very different.

We often hear that you are comfortable with this war. Of course, not in those cases when it comes to the security of your residence in Valdai or your parade in Moscow. Your own life is valuable to you.

But now we can all see that Russians are finally becoming less comfortable with this reality — with the fact that the war is bringing more and more negative consequences to Russia.

They do not like our drones and missiles.

They do not like gasoline shortages and constantly rising prices.

They do not like constant restrictions.

They do not like your intention to launch a second wave of mobilization in order to expand the war into another direction in Ukraine or to use it against other countries neighboring Russia.

They do not like the fact that there is no end in sight to your war.

Yes, you can still force Russians to exist this way. But your resources are shrinking significantly.

You will not have enough money or political capital to keep buying the loyalty of Russians the way you have for the past 26 years.

And we will do everything we can to ensure that the world helps bring that moment closer.

As you yourself like to say, “we need to run the numbers.”

Yesterday, I received a report on the losses of your army on the front in Ukraine during May. Once again, the number exceeded 30,000 Russian soldiers killed and seriously wounded. We have been maintaining that level month after month, and we have video confirmation of every one of your losses — these are not empty claims.

We know that 63 percent of your battlefield losses are killed, while only 37 percent are wounded. In the 21st century, no army can afford such a ratio. And the share of those killed will continue to grow.

It is not as if we in Ukraine are concerned about the fate of Russian soldiers after everything your war has brought to our country.

But I do care about Ukrainians.

We are losing our people, and every loss is painful to us. Even when the ratio of Ukrainian losses to Russian losses is one to five or one to six, it still matters greatly.

It also matters that you regularly postpone, every few months, your own deadlines for capturing our regions — especially the Donetsk region. And you will not capture it this year either.

But we in Ukraine do not want a permanent war. We know very well that life without war is infinitely better. And we want to achieve that.

I am convinced that the majority of Russians would respond positively to this as well — and you know it.

Many did not believe that Ukraine would be able to hold out for so long. You did not believe it. And those who advised you did not believe it either. That was a mistake.

You did not expect full-scale resistance from Ukraine, and you did not foresee that things would go this far. Yet here we all are — in the fifth year of this full-scale war.

Do not be afraid to take the path out of this war. That is the main thing that is required of you now.

Ukraine has preserved its independence. And it will preserve it. Despite all predictions to the contrary.

We have united many around the world to stand with Ukraine and against you. We found the weapons and the financing we needed.

We receive support. You receive sanctions. And this will continue until there is justice for Ukraine — the justice we seek and the justice that can be achieved.

We will not allow those who are trying to convince you that sanctions against Russia will be significantly eased, and that support for Ukraine will be significantly reduced, without any meaningful change in your position toward Ukraine, to succeed. The example of Orban shows how those who choose to help Russia in its war against us end in disgrace.

Ukraine has endured harsh winters while you tried to destroy our energy system. We held firm — and even in darkness, the resilience of Ukrainians remained intact.

We brought the war onto your territory, and you would not have been able to cope with it without North Korea’s help. You are the first ruler of Russia to turn to Pyongyang for assistance.

And today you are fully dependent on China — also for the first time in Russia’s history.

You believed Ukrainians would not have the strength to defend themselves. Yet today, our people are helping our partners in the Middle East and the Gulf build their own defenses.

You hoped for internal unrest in Ukraine. Instead, it was your own military formations that staged a mutiny against you. June 23 will mark another anniversary of that event, and silence will not erase this fact from history.

And now it is you whom your own officials, businessmen, and propagandists look at with obvious fatigue. The world can see it.

The world has not grown tired of Ukraine, as you long hoped it would. But there is growing fatigue with Russia — even among those in the wider world who help you bypass sanctions and keep your economy afloat.

You cannot fail to notice it. After 26 years in power, age is beginning to take its toll. And with time, the fatigue with you will only grow.

We have seen intelligence reports showing that you are now considering plans to continue the war into 2027 and 2028. We also know that you hope ballistic missiles will achieve for you what everything else has failed to achieve. You want to draw Belarus even deeper into this war, and we are now forced to prepare for that as well. We see that you are trying to orchestrate something around Transnistria. Your propagandists threaten, in one way or another, every country neighboring Russia. Do you really want to go through all of this?

The choice is yours now.

Enough of war.

Ukraine proposes to end this war.

This must be done honestly, with dignity, and with guarantees that the war will not be reignited.

We see that the United States is fully focused on the issue of Iran, and it would be wrong to simply wait until the war in Europe returns to the center of its attention.

Ukraine proposes ending this war through direct engagement between us — and you.

I am proposing a meeting.

Everyone heard your representatives, smiling, say that I could supposedly come to Moscow. But after these 26 years, there is nothing for a Ukrainian leader to do in your capital — just as there is nothing for a Russian leader to do in Kyiv.

There are countries that have traditionally hosted leaders to resolve issues of war and peace. Switzerland, Türkiye, the countries of the Arab world — many are able and willing to host such a meeting.

It is leaders who resolve the key issues. That has always been the case, and it always will be.

I propose to set a clear date for such a meeting.

We have heard that you were promised in Alaska the resolution of certain issues concerning Ukraine and Europe. But you can see for yourself that Ukrainian and European issues are not decided in Anchorage.

Other agreed participants could join the bilateral track to be established between us.

Since the war is taking place in Europe, and since Ukraine needs security guarantees, while you also seek security guarantees for yourself, it would be logical to involve those who can genuinely serve as guarantors.

We believe Europe should be part of this process — those who truly have the capacity to influence the situation.

We also believe that the United States must be part of the process. This is what could help shape a new security architecture for our part of the world.

We’ve already experienced many agreements with Russia, including the Minsk agreements, that ultimately failed. That is why we must first find direct answers between us to the questions that remain, and not hide from difficult issues behind formulas, technical working groups, or endless time lost in shuttle diplomacy.

Your war has permanently set Ukraine and Russia apart.

The front line today is the line from which diplomacy must begin.

Ukraine is ready for a full ceasefire for the duration of the negotiations. This is standard practice, and current developments around Iran only reinforce that point. An attempt to establish real silence is the best way to begin talking to one another. We believe it would not simply be an attempt, but a real ceasefire — if that is what you want.

You know that the United States has the capability to monitor a ceasefire along the line where hostilities stop.

Ukraine is ready for an all-for-all exchange of prisoners of war, and this could become a good prologue to ending the war.

Serious steps must be taken to return civilians and children who were taken away during the war.

We must determine what kind of future awaits the generations of Ukrainians and Russians who will come after us.

If you do not personally come to the conclusion that it is time to end this war, Ukraine will continue fighting for its existence. We will have those who support us.

But you, too, will have to fight much harder for your own existence — not Russia’s, but your own. And this is not a threat from me or from Ukraine. It is a fact of Russian history that you know well: when Russia grows tired, change comes.

We can work toward that fatigue.

You can stop your war.

Eternal memory to all those whose lives were taken by this war.

Glory to Ukraine!

[martyr-mayhem]

An open letter from Mahmoud Khalil on March 18, 2025.

Knowing fully that this moment transcends my individual circumstances, I hope nonetheless to be free to witness the birth of my first-born child.💔

Link to letter here 👇🏻

My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner

A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.

Contact your representatives and free Mahmoud Khalil 👇🏻

URGENT: RELEASE MAHMOUD KHALIL!

Demand action for Mahmoud: Contact your members of Congress to urge them to ensure that the Trump administration upholds Mahmoud Khalil’s ri

[chaoticquill]

An Open Letter to the BSD Fandom

Long post incoming. TL;DR: fuck fandom bullying. Full stop.

Fellow BSDers,

I have been writing for the BSD fandom since August 2021, where I started to write my way out of my big traumas. Somehow, with one image in my head, I started the CAU with A Drop of Black Coffee in the Pot. I'm not entirely sure if that makes me a "big name" in the fandom or whether that gives what I'm about to say more "clout," but hey... it's worth a shot, yeah? Because maybe people will listen.

Maybe.

Since coming into this fandom, I've made a lot of friends through Discord, and I have had a blast creating for, with, and among them. Through Discord, I became a rare pair aficionado and gained a soft spot for Chuuatsu, ChuuRan, and others. The conversations I had with fans, in short, brought me more than peace from my traumas. I found myself among a community who, through shared interests in pretty anime characters based on historical authors, held me up as I faced more traumas, enjoyed more successes, and just... lived.

HOWEVER (emphasis), in the last year or so, three of who I would consider my closest Discord friends--three people I care deeply about--have been bullied out of the fandom for their unconventional ships or portrayal of characters or preference for dead dove content, and two more have been targets of cyberbullying.

In one case, I was also targeted by Dazai Anon (one of the cyberbullies mentioned above). My response to this is always simple: I laugh at the death threats because I'm already dead inside, I delete the comments, I block the posts, and I keep writing what brings me joy. Sometimes, that's ChuuAtsu. Sometimes, that's a more popular ship. And in all cases, that's totally fine.

But that's me. And not everyone is like me.

I've written this post a dozen times in my head. I contemplated, as the "adult" in the room, putting everyone in timeout or putting on my disappointed parent face. But instead, I settled on this.

BSD fandom, respectfully, what the actual fuck?

Let me be perfectly clear: there is no good reason to ever bully anyone, but ships, tropes, character preferences and readings? These are among the worst. And don't even get me started on what's "canon."

What I guess I'm really trying to say is this: the three people I know who stopped making BSD content did because certain members of the community took their fun away. And that's never okay. There is room in the fandom for the main ships and the rarepairs. There's room for the fluffmongers, angst fiends, and dead dove aficionados. In fact, many of the friends I mention write content I personally don't, nor do they tend to write fluff and explicit consent the way I tend to, but guess what? We appreciate each other's art. We share ideas. We hold each other up. And, most of all, we're friends, anyway.

So if I'm in any place to ask this fandom for anything, it's to keep your own space as a writer/creator without taking someone else's space away. It's to have fun creating content SKK, but stop taking fun away from the people who create DaRan or DazAtsu or KuniDazai or Kouyou x Dazai or whatever ship. Most important, be kind to one another, regardless of what characters, tropes, or ships we love because at the end of the day, we're not just pseuds or creators; behind the screen, we're human.

As people, I don't think we have anything to lose in this. We can still work around tags and tropes and ships and characters we don't enjoy. Plus, who knows? You might make a new friend, gain new perspective on a character dynamic you never thought about, exchange ideas and share excitement about the newest manga chapter... and that might bring joy to both of you.

I really hope this letter to be the start of something bigger, maybe something that will move through boundaries between fan communities. I've thought about events, challenges, movements... but my limited resources as a creator with 99 mental health issues mean that for now, those ideas will have to wait. This letter, inadequate as it feels, still says most of what I want it to say.

I often say I appreciate people taking the time to read my fics. I mean that for this letter, too. So thank you, truly.

And as always, don't forget to drink water.

Until my next update,

ChaoticQuill

[gustadevinadivine]

I fulfilled my promise. I want to hear your most unhinged shanks-luffy thoughts.

I have so many that I don't know what qualifies as unhinged, since I see both Shanks and Luffy as completely insane toward one another. They vary, of course. All of these are before they become a couple.

SFW

Luffy:

When he first realized he had a crush on Shanks, he tried to sike himself out of it by making imaginary bets with himself and using dumb logic like if Shanks likes me, then he'd arrange for our crews to meet tomorrow or if Shanks likes me, then he'll invite me to spar with him! They all come true because it's their routine.

Imagine this before they get together. Luffy chases away everyone who even remotely shows interest in Shanks, men and women. He loudly claims Shanks is his and his alone. It gets worse when he becomes Pirate King because then no one wants to cross the PK. Luffy is an overprotective DOG, and Shanks is his unwilling victim.

If Luffy stares at Shanks for too long, he will start drooling.

When Shanks teases Luffy, Luffy's comebacks are usually compliments (i.e., "At least, people can look at me in the eyes!" or he just covers Shanks' face or just hits him, softly, with love and care)

They spar a lot, much like how Whitebeard and Roger do, and Luffy loves it when Shanks hits him, and he can't explain it, and he likes hitting Shanks, too. He's pretty sure it's not normal at ALL. He's convinced Shanks likes it, too.

Luffy can kinda read Shanks' mind (Shanks is easy to read, Shanks thinks it's a little snooky)

Luffy is manipulative and sneaky. He works Shanks and gets exactly what he wants by being cute (Shanks is a complete sucker!!!) And, whenever Luffy gets what he wants, he snickers and rubs his little hands together like a fly.

Shanks:

His favorite hobby is taunting Luffy. He's a straight-up bully and purposely riles Luffy up, and sure, that's not unhinged, but he loves it when Luffy blows up, puts hands on him, or just yells at him.

When they spar, Shanks loves it when Luffy hits him. He's not a masochist, but there's just something about Luffy's zaniness that makes him excited. He knows Luffy enjoys sparring with him, and they truly are equals with respect to strength, so why not go at it? Right? It's definitely not a sex thing, Shanks hopes.

Shanks loves how possessive Luffy is with him. He's never experienced that with anyone else. He's always been the one in "charge," but with Luffy, Luffy kinda steamrolls him.

Shanks has had multiple uncomfortable hot dreams of Luffy eating him.

Shanks always, always spoils Luffy, and it's to the point that the Straw Hat Pirates gave him rules as to what NOT to feed or gift Luffy. Shanks gives it to Luffy anyway.

When he realizes he's in love with Luffy, he's like damn, never seeing him again and Luffy just follows him to the end of the Earth. He plays hard to get and is pleasantly surprised by how resilient Luffy is with his affection.

Shanks is jealous of anyone Luffy has had flings with (i.e., Law, Boa, not really, Katakuri). If a person so much as remotely hits on Luffy, Shanks gets MURDEROUS! He and Boa argue a lot.

[gatorgirl429]

It’s been five months since Tim Minear broke 9-1-1. I’m still pissed and full of thoughts about it. Here’s my Open Letter to Tim. He will probably never read it but I don’t care. I needed to say it.

An Open Letter to Tim Minear

Dear Tim,

I was a latecomer to 9-1-1. I didn’t start watching until 2021, during the pandemic, when I went looking for something new and found the show on Hulu. I was hooked from episode one. I binged the first three seasons in less than a week and have been a faithful viewer ever since. I kept tuning in because this show offered something special — compelling characters who, no matter what impossible situation or injury they faced (rebar through a skull, a leg crushed by a firetruck, lightning strike, slit throat, etc.), they always found their way back home. In a world that was and still is already so difficult, that mattered. It gave viewers like me comfort and a moment of escape.

As the show has leaned further and further into the farcical over the years — bee-nados, a cruise ship disabled by both pirates and a hurricane, and, apparently in this upcoming season - asteroids (or aliens, it’s hard to tell from the promo) — it was Bobby and Athena, as portrayed by Peter Krause and Angela Bassett, who anchored the stories. They kept 9-1-1 tethered to a semblance of reality, grounding the chaos with heart, humanity, and dignity. Their performances were often the reason many viewers stayed loyal, even when the storytelling veered into the absurd. Together, Bobby and Athena embodied redemptive love and second chances, showing that healing and hope are possible after deep pain. They were the balance that made the show more than just spectacle.

The tone of the show has shifted over the years, and not for the better. What once was an equal mixture of exciting rescues and heartfelt personal stories has devolved into one ridiculous disaster after another, with only the occasional character scene squeezed in. Gone are the moments of the 118 bonding in the engine on the way to calls, the quiet conversations around the firehouse table, and the sense of family that made this more than just another procedural. The heart has been steadily draining away.

Tim, it feels like you woke up one day, randomly decided to kill off a character, and just pulled Bobby’s name out of a hat. It feels so random because you neglected to give Bobby and Athena any kind of arc leading up to it. In Season 8, there were few special moments for your show’s bedrock couple. Their house burned down and they were forced into a small rental, yet we never saw them mourn that loss or grapple with their situation. Bobby was stuck as a technical advisor on a TV show — a job he hated — but did he vent about it to Athena? Not that we saw. Athena was injured on the job and began to question whether she could still do it. How did Bobby support her? The audience doesn’t know. We even got a half-hearted scene of Bobby and Athena house hunting, but none of the joy of them designing their new home together. In earlier seasons, scenes like this would have been obvious, expected, and welcome. Now, you couldn’t be bothered. I don’t know if this was laziness, arrogance, or both — but it was damaging to the characters and the show.

That’s why your decision to kill off Bobby Nash isn’t just disappointing — it’s appalling. Bobby was not only the captain of the 118, he was the heart of the show. And yet you chose to rip him away in the most unnecessarily cruel way imaginable: forcing him to die a slow, agonizing death, trapped behind glass, while Athena could do nothing but watch. To subject the characters — and the audience — to that kind of misery was not bold. It was sadistic.

What made it even crueler was the false hope you dangled beforehand. You reunited Bobby with his long-estranged mother and brother— giving us a glimpse of reconciliation and healing — only to drag them back for his funeral and not even show their grief. Stills released after the episode aired revealed you filmed those scenes — Bobby’s family together at the funeral — but then cut them. That decision made the funeral itself feel tacked on, as if you were trying to rush past Bobby’s death as quickly as possible. And to have Athena bury him all the way in Minnesota — stripping him from the city, the team, the found family he built, and his actual family of Athena, May, and Harry—wasn’t just tone-deaf. It was pouring salt in an open wound.

Over the years, you squandered countless opportunities to deepen Bobby’s story. You could have shown him as a sponsor to someone struggling. You could have explored him leading AA meetings for other firefighters and first responders. You could have put him back in harm’s way, re-injured in the line of duty, forcing him to face the risk of relapse — and let us watch Athena stand by him through it. These would have been real, human, and powerful stories. Instead, you ended his journey with an unnecessary and cruel death.

And let’s be honest— 9-1-1 is not known for realism, so don’t start pretending now. Ridiculous plot twists are the hallmark of this show. And that’s good news for you, because you can undo this colossal mistake and bring Bobby back. Make it a dream like Dallas did back in the day, or reveal that the government faked his death for national security reasons—anything. At this point, no explanation would be too far-fetched, and fans would welcome it if it meant restoring the heart of the show.

But as of now, the comfort is gone. 9-1-1 was the one show I could count on to make me feel better at the end of a long day. Now it only leaves me angry and sad. I can no longer watch the show in repeats because I get mad seeing Bobby and knowing what you did. You’ve stripped away the escape, the reassurance, and the heart. What’s left is just another grim series that punishes its audience for caring too much.

It really is very simple: you didn’t just kill Bobby. You killed what made the show special.

Sincerely,

gatorgirl429