Me Giving a Pressed Conference: our advocacy for the disabled must include the addict, the imperfect victim, those we despise; the right to autonomy and life cannot devolve into a popularity contest
Reporter I Hate (Not Sexual Tension): Does that include all the attendees of the Bored Ape NFT event who went blind
Me: *Blood streaming from my nostrils and eyes* david, it includes everyone
don’t tell social media if you went to protests or not(especially if you didn’t), don’t give cops an easy way to track down protesters. punk life advice
Hey american tumblruser. Wanna do more about The Moment than harass your representatives (you’re harassing your representatives, right?) but for any/all reasons you’re not up to leaving your house to do it?
Look up your local organizations, pick your favorites. Get familiar, whatever that means in this context. Read over their website, scroll through their facebook page, watch any volunteer orientations, attend a zoom open house.
Once you are, reach out and ask if they need anyone to handle a mundane administrative task. Pick one you’re familiar with, or can get familiar with, either that you can do sustainably or something that’s a one-off, like building or cleaning up a website.
(I picked, “reply to emails asking questions that are already answered by your website.”)
Lots of political/community orgs are getting a surge of activity right now. Good odds they’re run by worn-out retirees. If they get an email saying, “I’m only available 30 minutes a week but do you need any data entry done?” or “Would you like some help line-editing your weekly newsletter?” the odds are very good they might actually physically cry with relief.
It’s not glamorous, but it feels real good and it is important work. You won’t make history but you’ll know where you stood inside it.
idk if this is a young fan thing or new fandom culture but some of yall think fics are abandoned way too quickly. a few months or a year or two is not unusual to go without a fic update. sometimes fics take longer to write, other times writers have rl events, or maybe there’s multiple fics and one gets more priority. there are tons of reasons for fics not to be updated every week or every month. it also isn’t uncommon for people to come back and update fics after a number of years—ive read updates that took five, or ten years. people’s lives change, but they still want to tell their stories. personally, i never consider a fic abandoned unless the author has said so; though if it’s been a few years i manage my expectations. but a last update being a year ago is… generally not a sign that a writer has abandoned their fic
That! Exactly that!!! Writers have lives and writing is hard! It takes time. Stop assuming fics are abandoned!
Original fic usually goes through this same process before being commercially published. Readers just don’t know that bc they aren’t receiving it in bite-size chunks online. Large periods of stagnant writing are historically just another Monday for most writers.
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