One of the most jarring things to me, growing up in the GWOT era with a funny last name and a middle east-adjacent ethnicity, was how I could get in trouble with school officials/peers not even for researching historic terror incidents/attacks, but for being *aware* of them.

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Anywho, it's valuable to read deeply about Montgomery if you are organizing today. Start with @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social's The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks - www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/221039... - the book also has a young reader's edition.

choo choo, motherfucker

'In the winter garden' - my favourite geometric garden aerial that I've ever done! I don't remember if I shared it here or not yet - it has camellia bushes in the centre and beds of winter heather and hellebore :) the geometric landscapes are always more challenging and I love that! #embroidery

#芍香縈夢 #MDZS #忘羨

The thing about being an US born person of immigrant extraction who has also lived in a couple of other countries and traveled to a bunch more is... I can be both very clear eyed in the way the US sucks while also being aware of how other countries use the USA's failings to distract from their own.

Centrist Democrats want to be Republicans so bad.

My Fiyero Tigelaar/Boq "Wicked" fanfic. After events at the Ozdust Ballroom, Fiyero and Boq retire back to their shared room in Shiz. And Fiyero is a bit tired of Boq obsessing over Galinda. So he does something about it. archiveofourown.org/works/62234365

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. - One Art by Elizabeth Bishop www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/...

Wrote a labor day Aresh Indolark/Kondou Seiichirou fanfic for "The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter", inspired by the official artwork #異世界の沙汰は社畜次第 archiveofourown.org/works/75349626

oh no not interlopers tapas.io/episode/3741... www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/th...

tapas.io/episode/3741... www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/th...

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Does anyone know what benefit scammers have from sending "forgot password" requests to accounts they don't own or have emails for? Example: I have an account on Website, scammer has my username, but not the password, so does "I forgot my password", which sends me the email to reset it if I want to.

some matchablossom for #SK8kinktober2025 day 2 prompt: lingerie. because of course i was going to put kaoru in lingerie 🍵🌸 #halefic #kinktober25 archiveofourown.org/works/71666351

Fandom isn’t your job. Take a month off. Take 3 years off. Post incomplete fics. Post incomplete art. Never post again. Switch fandoms. Stay loyal to one fandom only. Do whatever tf you want. You literally make all the rules of engagement in this arena.

The young lord is drinking wine on a hot day. But in color. #ShiQingxuan🎐 #beefleaf #WindMaster #tgcf #天官赐福 #HeavenOfficialsBlessing

Sensitive 🍵🌸 #matchablossom

my matchaloveblossom headcanon dynamic is basically Ainosuke hyping up Kojiro and Kaoru to fuck each other harder

This is wonderful and simple. Get your 5 year old BFFs together and do some crafting together. I plan to do this with my nibling when they come to visit me at the end of this month. oldster.substack.com/p/my-convale...

I know so many great people who are doing so much. If you are isolated from people who are trying their best, I can understand feeling like no one's doing anything, but really, you just need to find the people who are trying and try with them — or maybe encourage some new folks to try alongside you.

MY SHOP IS OPEN! It was updated with con leftovers so stocks are very low on some items. There're discounts on a selection of prints for your holiday shopping! myst-a.sumupstore.com

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

People expect miracles from medicine, but refuse the miracle that would let them avoid needing emergency care in the first place

I have to assume that a lot of these parents have never had to be genuinely afraid for their children’s lives, because that is something that changes you on a fundamental level. And that’s just not a state of affairs that was possible any time before vaccines, when HALF of kids didn’t grow up

And doctors are SO relieved when I say it. Margot’s pediatrician said she’s so tired of having to be a vaccine saleswoman to skeptical parents. That is not the way it used to be

Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors

Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

Saying goodbye to my favorite season 🍂 There are still a few desperate leaves clinging to the trees here, but less of them every day.

there is no response to Tom Cotton other than “you are a fascist and war criminal and we are going to dedicate our lives to punishing you for that” There is no need to argue facts with him. he’s a liar

We could start just by bringing back shame. You called for the US military to be set loose on 🇺🇸 citizens. You called for our NATO allies to sell us their land. You held up a public servant's nomination so long she died of cancer before taking office. You're no longer welcome in polite society.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

"You're a lawyer and you won't debate?" I don't view people's lives as an intellectual exercise. I never have. And so I honestly never developed that whole emotional detachment some lawyers have. I feel each case as though I was the one on trial.

Wrote a Wulf/Fréaláf Hildeson canon divergence fanfic for "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim". archiveofourown.org/works/75256331

Did Spotify tell you that your listening age is decades older than you are? Just another reason to dump that bitch.

#Ennead #엔네아드 #エネアド

King Horus * Black Seth Wish from @Qinn0101 💙❤️ #ENNEAD

On Saturday December 13th, I will be hosting: “The Worst Charity Stream” For every 1000 dollars we raise, I will play Shenmue 3: Enhanced Edition for an additional hour There will be guests. There Will be a punishment wheel. Money raised will be in aid of Palestine www.twitch.tv/supereyepatc...

I very very very rarely give travel advice. But here is my one bit of advice. Stay near a landmark. It doesn't have to be a BIG landmark just one when you hop in a cab and the guy asks "where are you going" you can reference said landmark without needing to pull up the data address in your phone

Losing loser loses again, this time on libraries. Trump and Trumpists are a huge danger to the republic, but also they lose *all the time*. Especially when people fight back! Which is apt to only increase the more people recognize that he's unpopular and can be defeated.

I always forget I can and probably should share creative stuff here. Anyway, some pen and shimmery watercolour stuff I’ve been doodling on lately

Reminder: It's never too late to start wearing a mask again

Lorn + company ended up taking away lorn's gloves + gold belt for the episode since it made him look too edgy protagonist guy compared to his compatriots lmfaoo

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A little Horus/Seth #ennead modern era fanfic where they visit Luxor Temple, and Seth is surprised by what he finds there. archiveofourown.org/works/75200266 #Horuseth #엔네아드 #エネアド #ホルセト #호루세트

Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know

If you see your favourite indies, especially those who are wide or avoid Amazon, raise their prices... We all just had two emails in less than 24h: - Smashwords is cutting down its royalty rates, especially at lower price points - Ingramspark is raising most of its printing costs again

and we don't really like to acknowledge fandom as existing outside of certain niches but this is true across culture. metal festivals are almost exclusively populated by people 25+. hyper niche film screenings? adults. limited edition merch runs? adults. adults run fandom.