*Note: I've locked the story to registered users only because trolls. Sorry, but I'm not going to be a platform for hate.
Told in three stories, The Darkest Timeline is a glimpse into the lives being lived from Election Night 2016 to Election Night 2020. It is what was, what is, and what could be.
I started researching for this story back in March when SoThere, the wonderful human being she is, bid and won a story from me for the FandomTr*mpsHate Charity Auction. I thought back then it would be easy - I'd write up a little story, get it out into the world, and continue living my life. But this story has been anything but easy to write because the topics are nothing short of heartbreaking.
Where in the past I've powered through difficult issues I found this year the atrocities that were being committed, not just in the States but in places around the world, were taking a path towards the more horrendous places in humanity. We have children in cages. Women being subverted and made to be less than once again. White supremacy making a public and vicious play for our attention. I researched every angle I wanted to take in this story and all caused too much of an emotional response for me to tuck away once again. So I started this project - three ficlets surrounding the topics that have spurned me the most set with the same people, in the same timeframe, but with different character traits played up in different ways. Kind of like Black Mirror but with politics and current culture.
I'm still not done this story. It's a work in progress. But I'm putting the pieces I have out there to draw attention to them and to make me accountable to getting them done. Please don't look away. Please look at these issues for the darkness they have and the hope they can inspire. Be a vocal opponent to oppression. Fight for what you know is right. Treat those around you like you want to be treated. But above all, love one another. Please. I don't want to write this plea for humanity anymore and only doing something about it can make that possible.
SoThere, thank you for enjoying my work and believing in this cause enough to donate for it.