I wrote this, in 2015 and 2016, a monster of a fic that went from “haha 16 chapters at most, like 2-5K words each” to a massive 28 chapter epic of over 220k words and 7 spin-offs. And @ohmightydevviepuu surprised me by binding it, by hand, into two novels (JUST THE ONE STORY BECAUSE IT WAS TOO LONG JUST BY ITSELF???) and honestly I’ve had these for weeks and only just now stopped looking at them like they might vanish. It’s one thing to know how verbose you are and another to see it in physical form, like yeah you wrote so much about love and trauma and healing and family and *so many horses* that it’s literally not gonna all fit into one book.

Anyway, Dev made me cry and i texted several people to yell at them because only @distant-rose knew my address and @idoltina had commissioned that art from @iverna for my birthday a few years ago (a scene from one of the penultimate chapters) that Dev then used for the covers, and then it turns out literally everyone knew this was happening and there was a collective worry about the post office.

Anyway it turns out I’m still not done tearing up over this. Thank you, Devra ❤️🦢⚓️

meriwetherwrites:

chaifootsteps:

thepromiscuousfinger:

#Please little bird

I love that the modern-day tumblr post equivalent of chain emails only requires me to reblog a relatively pleasant image instead of forward an email to a bunch of my friends and family members to quell my raging anxiety.

kineticpenguin:

The mainstream media and politicians reacting to Charlie Kirk’s death like we lost a national hero is bizarre. I really think to the vast majority of normal people, the immediate response to the shooting was “Who the hell is Charlie Kirk?”

i-find-reliable-sources:

beeffizz:

beeffizz:

Been haunted by a kids interactive exhibit my sister and I went to some 25 years ago. I could remember blurry bits and pieces, even was able to find the museum that housed it. But thanks to reddit I was finally able to find proof that it existed and the name of it and I feel so free now.

I feel like I should mention the concept of this exhibit: a family of four goes missing and it is up to the children to pick a family member and figure out what happened to them by exploring their house. The house was colorful with funky proportions, probably to seem fun and whimsical for kids, but just ended up feeling very… off.

(You could crawl out of the toilet through a pitch black tunnel in the washing machine. I was too scared to do this.)

Also there was a head in the freezer.

Anyway the family member I chose got shrunk down and trapped in a doll house and I watched her get carried away by mice never to be seen again. Cool!

Miss Perception’s Mystery House exhibit located in the Port Discovery Children’s Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.

Here’s a blog with extra pics/blueprints

pinstripebindi:

1968bullittmustang:

gean-grey-blog:

tvdoctors:

THE PITT
1.08 • 2:00 P.M.

They didn’t have to do this. They covered the fentanyl epidemic, anti maskers, measles, mass shootings, human trafficking, addiction, homelessness, bureaucratic barriers, COVID mourning, and so much else. But they took a minute to give credit where it belonged and thank the people who set the standard for so many lives saved and shine light on the repeated trend of Black communities pioneering things like this and then being fucked over

I love this show so much

The Ambulance Service That Made the Modern EMS

How the Freedom House Ambulance Service and its Black paramedics set the standard for ambulance services and made EMS history.

Team Rubicon

everyone like “Willie, are you a doctor?” and when he said Freedom House I gasped and was like OMG THAT’S RIGHT IT WAS PITTSBURGH (I learned about Freedom House from an episode of the podcast Criminal)

michaelblume:

tinygryphon:

pathos-logical:

voidambassador:

freenarnian:

when you’ve honed the fine art of perfectly-timed reblogging of something aimed at one specific mutual and they immediately like it

Originally posted by blondebrainpower

Tags from @krawdad because i thought this was very cool from a puppeteering perspective

[ID: Image one is a Sesame Street gif of Big Bird throwing a frisbee to Cookie Monster, who promptly takes a bite of it. Image two is a set of tags that read: “#i want to appreciate how wacky a stunt tossing a frizbee to cookie monster is from a practical standpoint #guy inside the bird cannot see out of it. he gets a feed of what the camera sees. #he actually catches the thing the bird actually threw

#and the only reason i can tell they didnt fake it is because cookie monster doesn’t look at the frizbee when he catches it #because the puppeteer was focused on catching the dang thing at all #how many takes must this have taken to pull off #usually you achieve that with a cut #it’s so much easier to just cut to the other character catching a prop #i appreciate the effort #and i want others to notice it #it is also a left handed catch #on a right handed performer #someone else is doing the right hand.” End ID]

It’s also a left-handed throw because the puppeteer’s right hand controls Big Bird’s mouth

this is a really cool puppet stunt o-o

And again they didn’t even have to do this, the audience absolutely would have accepted a shot of big bird throwing followed by a shot of cookie catching, but they did it anyway, for love of the game

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

I checked the date on the original post and it’s December 11, 2021. That was the day after I came home from college, immediately after the semester where I had a breakdown that collapsed my health into chaos and dissolved my identity and goals.

This post is me at rock bottom, and that makes it so much funnier

essence-of-nature:

When two waves collide at the perfect time of day

scorpion-squadron:

mortuarybees:

mortuarybees:

mortuarybees:

mortuarybees:

as much fun as posting is PLEASE be sensible about what you say online

There is quite literally a database being compiled of full names, social media handles, and in some cases employers of people who have made fun of him or celebrated his death. Some of the submissions are screenshots of DMs or close friends stories, I’m sure many are also from private accounts, meaning whoever submitted it was not assumed by the poster to be someone who would literally doxx them in a searchable online database

This is a great time to consider setting any social media profiles attached to your real life, name, and/or face to private and remove anyone you don’t trust from your followers. Review your digital footprint and work backwards. How easy would it be, based on things you’ve said online, for someone to find your real identity and location?

cnn article about the coordinated right wing effort to ruin the lives of people who celebrate kirk’s death or refuse to express sympathy or even criticize him. The website is compiling a searchable database doxxing kirk’s critics claim they have received 30,000 submissions. some of those will be duplicates, especially when it comes to high profile individuals, and some will be troll submissions, but based on what I have seen (which is purely anecdotal, but that’s really all we have at the moment), I think most of them are not. Literal congresspeople are participating in this harassment campaign.

I have seen totally normal people on reddit asking for advice because they posted a meme on Instagram, someone reported them to this website, and now they, their families, and their workplaces are being inundated with harassment and death threats. They are confused and terrified because nothing like this has ever happened to them and they never thought it would. They’re not influencers, they’re not activists, they’re not chronic posters in niche online communities.

The goal of this campaign is not just to drive people to delete their posts or profiles, it’s to ruin their lives. As one person put it in the replies of a video game dev who was fired from Sony put it, “She’s been fired. When she finds work somewhere else, we will get her fired again, and again, and again.”

This isn’t to say that we shouldn’t speak publicly about our opinions or refuse to participate in this whitewashing of kirk and his work. But we should do so intentionally and remain aware of the risks. Most of these posts people are being targeted over are not thoughtful statements, they’re off the cuff reactions or memes. We are in a state of unprecedented online surveillance at a time when many people’s real lives are also virtually inseparable from their online lives

great article from margaret killjoy to get you thinking about how to reduce your digital footprint

This shit scares me because I’ve been on tumblr for 15+ years. While I don’t have my name on my tumblr, I do pay for tumblr premium, so that means my email and card info is associated with it. I could change the email, and use a throw-away card, but I don’t know if that’s enough?? Online privacy is rapidly deteriorating, especially as the UK and EU move to usher in Chinese-style surveillance - surely the US isn’t far behind.

What’s the balance between “obeying in advanced” and “protecting myself”? How concerned should I be when I don’t live in America? When I’m not “important”. When my tumblr account isn’t visible to non-tumblr users anyway?

We are living in scary times. It’s gonna take smarts, wisdom, grit, and kindness to outwit and outlive all of this.

bisexualisopod:

gxkv:

displayheartcode:

Some days it’s not worth crawling out of the shallow woodland grave, I swear.

the october daye series by seanan mcguire

transgenderization:

other than the usual reactionary sentiment it really really is funny right. surely this time we can put the genie back in the bottle. uninventing a technology is completetly possible and will be as simple as removing fire insulation from a wall

amongthespaghetti:

bowlcutprotag:

Literally nobody I know knows Gayle Waters-Waters despite how much she has contributed to society and meme culture. Get rid of the couches. We can’t let people know we sit. Was anyone gonna tell me x or was I supposed to read it in x myself. That gif of her in the kitchen breaking a board with her head. Her mad dash from the house that ends with her jump kicking her mailbox off

and let’s not forget:

twinklingwatermellon:

sailermoon:

“I’ll just rest my eyes” is the biggest lie you’re going straight to snorkmimimi land

“I’m going to sleep” is the biggest lie I’m going to stare at my ceiling for the next three hours

json-derulo:

I may have ended up going into tech, but getting a pre-law degree and working for attorneys for a few years repeatedly saved me from getting totally ripped off in my early 20s. So many charlatans are only able to get away with their bullshit because they expect you to not know what your rights are or how to create a paper trail.

I once had a landlord try to withhold my entire security deposit after I moved out despite leaving the place in good shape. Just by writing a letter that A) cited the state statute saying a landlord must provide an itemized list with invoices for any repairs they deduct from a tenant’s security deposit, B) bluffed by declaring my intention to file suit if they did not (and cited the same statute again, which says that tenants are entitled to recover DOUBLE what the landlord withheld if they did so in bad faith) , and C) sending it via certified mail with return receipt (so they couldn’t claim not to have received it), they sent me back a check for like 2/3 of what they tried to withhold, plus the itemized list, plus an apology. I spent $2 on postage and half an hour on the letter and got back $300.

Another time, I got into a car accident (in which I was officially found not at fault) where the other person was driving a rental car. Over a year after the fact, I received a letter from some sketchy claims adjuster demanding immediate payment for around $2000 in damages to the other car. Once I stopped panicking, I gathered the info from my old insurance claim and called the adjuster, and some very snippy lady told me the letter was sent in error and I should disregard it. I followed up with her by email restating exactly what she told me on the phone, instructing them to work with my insurance company on any future inquiries about the accident, and threatening to involve my attorney (which I did not have) if they ever directly contacted me about it again. And again, I got an apology and saved myself a crazy amount of money.

If you are getting ripped off (or sense you are about to be), you want to ask yourself two things:

1. Can I indisputably prove that I said/did this? That they said/did this? When?

2. What rights do I have under the law? (For a lot of issues, googling “can X legally do Y” + your jurisdiction is a good place to start.)

And then, if you’re in the right, bluff. Act like you’re going to sue even if you know you don’t have the time or resources to do it. They don’t know you won’t, and even if they think they’d win, they know that would cost them more in attorney’s fees than just letting this go.

3liza:

3liza:

3liza:

chuds have started a doxxing site to compile a hitlist of anyone they see saying anything they perceive as anti-charlie kirk, it’s registered on NameCheap.com. you can send an email to the abuse reporting system of NameCheap at abuse@namecheap.com or call their abuse phoneline at +1 661-310-2107 with the following boilerplate:

A website hosted by your service, NameCheap.com, is soliciting the personal details of private persons in order to compile and publish a database of searchable identifying information as a way to make these targets vulnerable to harassment, stalking, and violence. This database is already public and searchable on the front page of CharliesMurderers.com, meaning the identifying information is already live on NameCheap. This is against NameCheap TOS, and may make NameCheap vulnerable to legal and civil action by the victims and law enforcement.

Doxxing is illegal in Arizona following the passage of HB-2501 in 2021, please see https://azleg.gov/ars/13/02916.htm.

I encourage NameCheap to take administrative action and remove CharliesMurderers.com from your servers.

as we’ve seen, corporations are generally not ideologically invested in dealing with inconvenience on behalf of political radicalism regardless of political affiliation of the clients, corporation, or the complainants. email mass reporting has worked many times in the past, and generally once doxxing sites like this have been deplatformed a few times, they get tired and give up. this is a low energy expenditure action that may be helpful, so i encourage you to take 30 seconds to copy paste it and send it, or call the number.

NameCheap is based in Phoenix, Arizona, so it is subject to USA doxxing laws. In 2021 Arizona passed HB2501 which could be read by most lawyers to cover this situation, in my non-professional opinion.

The website is being hosted by SquareSpace, who makes it as difficult as possible to report abuse. I am currently looking for an easy reporting method, please stand by.

send the following email to abuse-network@squarespace.com

A website hosted by your service is soliciting the personal details of private persons in order to compile and publish a database of searchable identifying information as a way to make these targets vulnerable to harassment, stalking, and violence. This database is already public and searchable on the front page of CharliesMurderers.com, meaning the identifying information is already live on SquareSpace. This is against Squarespace TOS, and may make SquareSpace vulnerable to legal and civil action by the victims and law enforcement.

Doxxing is illegal in New York State and federally, namely through 18 U.S.C. § 2261A.

I encourage SquareSpace to take administrative action and remove CharliesMurderers.com from your servers.