[its-time-to-fight-trump-blog]

Non-AHCA scripts for the week, but still important. Call your electeds about Net Neutrality, The Financial Choice Act and Bear’s Ears. 

[astolat]

The War of Silver and Ash (15883 words) by astolat Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game), Witcher 3 - Fandom Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Geralt/Emhyr Characters: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Emhyr var Emreis, Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy, Lady Orianna Additional Tags: Vampires, Toussaint - Freeform, War, Nilfgaard Series: Part 7 of Witcher works Summary:

He hadn’t come here with a contract. He’d come here to get the faces out of his head: the bloodless dead sprawled in heaps through the streets of Beauclair, the morning after the rampage Detlaff had unleashed; the blank eyes of the boy in the orphanage tilting his head to let Orianna drink from his throat, with the lullaby she’d been singing him still hanging in the air.

Wasn’t working that well so far.

[thingsseenthingsmade]

Witcher 3 fandom? Sure, why not. What The Year of Our Bey 2017 was really missing was for me to fall in love with a fandom/pairing that has, like, maybe a dozen stories in it. And I thought Fast & the Furious was bad.

At least they’re good stories. 

/sigh

[fatbodypolitics]

Why you mad tho?

[fatgirlsdoingthings]

Summer anthem. 

[thingsseenthingsmade]

Noise behind him—gunshots?—and then the road wasn’t letting the Miata stop. The little car was so damn small, it didn’t take barely anything to lift the wheels off the pavement and toss it into the curve of the highway, spinning up, weightless for a moment, and then whirling, smashing, crashing glass and metal all around him as he spun. Wheels off the ground, there was nothing he could do but ride it out and hope the ditch wasn’t deep enough to kill him when he hit.

This story is finished! and completely posted! 

It’s weird writing in a tiny fandom that was most active like a decade ago, but there’s a group of trufans left, and you can find most of them in comments on this fic I think. I’ve really enjoyed seeing people’s reactions and hearing their thoughts, so definitely leave a comment if you want to talk to someone about, say, Letty’s characterization in the first F&F movie, or what ten-second car you would drive if you were a reckless idiot (like some people). I have Feelings about both of these things and will discuss them with you! 

Here’s the link: Highway through the Stars

And here’s the playlist, on Tidal and on Spotify

[koreanmodel]

Han Sung Min by Park Seong Je for Grazia Korea Jan 2017

[vijara]

Transgender Elders Show Us the Meaning of Survival, pt. 1 (click here for part 2)

For many trans people, representation can be difficult to find, and often one-sided: depicting trans youth but not trans elders. It’s like we don’t have a future, an adulthood, a middle age, an old age. It’s like we just stop. Supporting our young people is important, but we need to show them we have a future, too.

As photographer Jess Dugan explains on her website, “those [representations] that do exist are often one-dimensional.” Dugan set out to fill this representational age gap, teaming up with social work researcher Vanessa Fabbre since fall 2013 to develop the evocative photo project, “To Survive on This Shore.” In the recently released collection, diverse trans elders ages 50 to 86 are pictured at home or in meaningful spaces, gazing unapologetically into the camera, as if asking the viewer to look deeper into their unique context and life story.

(Full Article)

[thingsseenthingsmade]

All my trans*masc queers are getting top surgery this summer and I can’t tell if it’s because we’re all so fucking freaked out by Trump and the healthcare shitstorm and, like the end of the American empire in a sludge of incompetent fascists. Or if it’s just the trans*masc equivalent of all the straights I know finally getting solvent enough, in their early 30s, to afford a wedding and a baby.

[heavyweightheart]

Y'all know that individual health behaviors - choices around nutrition, exercise, smoking, etc. - only account for about 25% of a person’s health status? The determinants of health are largely social: income and education level, the safety of one’s physical environment (e.g. working conditions, clean water), and degree of social support. Trauma is far worse for health than fast food.

It’s tempting to subscribe to a just world theory, where good things happen to good people (or people who make good decisions), and problems befall problem people, but that just isn’t the world we live in.

Most sick people have spent their lives fighting against oppressive circumstances. They don’t invite illness and hardship with their bad decisions, they are miracles of survival in a sociopolitical environment that’s hostile to their very existence.

[thingsseenthingsmade]

Noise behind him—gunshots?—and then the road wasn’t letting the Miata stop. The little car was so damn small, it didn’t take barely anything to lift the wheels off the pavement and toss it into the curve of the highway, spinning up, weightless for a moment, and then whirling, smashing, crashing glass and metal all around him as he spun. Wheels off the ground, there was nothing he could do but ride it out and hope the ditch wasn’t deep enough to kill him when he hit.

This story is finished! and completely posted! 

It’s weird writing in a tiny fandom that was most active like a decade ago, but there’s a group of trufans left, and you can find most of them in comments on this fic I think. I’ve really enjoyed seeing people’s reactions and hearing their thoughts, so definitely leave a comment if you want to talk to someone about, say, Letty’s characterization in the first F&F movie, or what ten-second car you would drive if you were a reckless idiot (like some people). I have Feelings about both of these things and will discuss them with you! 

Here’s the link: Highway through the Stars

And here’s the playlist, on Tidal and on Spotify

[meredithmcclaren]

I don’t know why I did this.  But I’m glad I did this.

[zetsubonna]

Reblogged for historically accurate antifacist raptors.

[chaoticnebu]

@blockmind

[greenekangaroo]

YES. 

[thingsseenthingsmade]

Noise behind him—gunshots?—and then the road wasn’t letting the Miata stop. The little car was so damn small, it didn’t take barely anything to lift the wheels off the pavement and toss it into the curve of the highway, spinning up, weightless for a moment, and then whirling, smashing, crashing glass and metal all around him as he spun. Wheels off the ground, there was nothing he could do but ride it out and hope the ditch wasn’t deep enough to kill him when he hit.

This story is finished! and completely posted! 

It’s weird writing in a tiny fandom that was most active like a decade ago, but there’s a group of trufans left, and you can find most of them in comments on this fic I think. I’ve really enjoyed seeing people’s reactions and hearing their thoughts, so definitely leave a comment if you want to talk to someone about, say, Letty’s characterization in the first F&F movie, or what ten-second car you would drive if you were a reckless idiot (like some people). I have Feelings about both of these things and will discuss them with you! 

Here’s the link: Highway through the Stars

And here’s the playlist, on Tidal and on Spotify

[thingsseenthingsmade]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It’s finished! I just posted the last chapter and I already don’t know what to do with myself. Leave a comment and we can chat about who is more fun to write, Brian or Dom, and our favorite head canons, and whether or not I should write a couple of porny epilogues. 

[jelasdax]

Yay!

So now I’m curious: who did you find easier to write?

[thingsseenthingsmade]

Ha, that is really difficult question to answer. I think, at least in this story, it was hard for me to write Dom when he was afraid, and hard to write Brian when he was afraid. But mostly, in both cases, the difficulty came from not letting myself identify too close with either of them even though I have a lot of personal feelings tied up in the question of: so you’re afraid–how do you act like you’re not?

Anyway, probably what you’re really asking is, whose characterization is more difficult to pin down? And I think the answer to that is Brian. I mean, you’ll have to judge for yourself whether Dom feels authentic in this story, but Brian was the character I kept coming back to and asking myself: is this right? Is this what he would really do here? It was really really tempting to glam him up a little bit, which I definitely DID do, but I think it feels within the bounds of his canon characterization. Or at least his fanon characterization!

I don’t know, what do you think?

[jelasdax]

Fear is tough, yeah. Especially with these characters and this franchise, because acting like you’re not afraid is such an integral part of the story. Unless you’re Rome in Furious 7, in which case your fear is played for laughs. I suppose it works because he’s such a dramatic character? Or because he’s the only one who can let himself show that he’s afraid. Hmm.

I don’t know, I think you did a good job of capturing their underlying personalities. It can be easy to overthink that kind of stuff. If Brian had, for instance, been constantly crying at the drop of a hat I might have looked at it a little side eyed, but here there was an established reason for why he might act in certain ways that are different to his canon characterization. Self discovery does lead to new behaviours, after all.

And I was interested in both answers, haha. I know that for myself I prefer writing Brian rather than Dom, because Dom is so much more introspective than Brian is. I find that I like the compartmentalism and avoidance - that concept of negative space, where you only know how he’s feeling by what he won’t narrate to himself. It’s actually kind of aggravating sometimes, but on the whole I find it easier.

Then again, at least Dom will address his fears. Brian pretends they don’t exist.

[thingsseenthingsmade]

Oh man, that description of negative space is so perfect. I do like that part of writing Brian, for sure. It’s interesting because it’s tricky. I think Dom does that too--he gets overtaken by his emotions, especially anger, in a way that means he acts without analyzing or even naming what he’s feeling. Which is why, lbr, in real life they would need a very good relationship counselor. But it’s fun to write.

[thingsseenthingsmade]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It’s finished! I just posted the last chapter and I already don’t know what to do with myself. Leave a comment and we can chat about who is more fun to write, Brian or Dom, and our favorite head canons, and whether or not I should write a couple of porny epilogues. 

[jelasdax]

Yay!

So now I’m curious: who did you find easier to write?

[thingsseenthingsmade]

Ha, that is really difficult question to answer. I think, at least in this story, it was hard for me to write Dom when he was afraid, and hard to write Brian when he was afraid. But mostly, in both cases, the difficulty came from not letting myself identify too close with either of them even though I have a lot of personal feelings tied up in the question of: so you’re afraid--how do you act like you’re not?

Anyway, probably what you’re really asking is, whose characterization is more difficult to pin down? And I think the answer to that is Brian. I mean, you’ll have to judge for yourself whether Dom feels authentic in this story, but Brian was the character I kept coming back to and asking myself: is this right? Is this what he would really do here? It was really really tempting to glam him up a little bit, which I definitely DID do, but I think it feels within the bounds of his canon characterization. Or at least his fanon characterization!

I don’t know, what do you think?

[thingsseenthingsmade]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It’s finished! I just posted the last chapter and I already don’t know what to do with myself. Leave a comment and we can chat about who is more fun to write, Brian or Dom, and our favorite head canons, and whether or not I should write a couple of porny epilogues. 

[plussizeneverlookedsogood]

Iconic

[destinyrush]

Happy Pride Month! 🌈

[its-time-to-fight-trump-blog]

The US is pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord. Let’s call your federal elected officials to protest, and tell them you will hold them accountable. 

Then call your local elected officials to ask that they uphold the Accord at local levels.