With more and more Ao3 authors restricting their works to the archive (due to AI scraping), they're going to be losing guest interaction. And probably generally feeling down because. You know. AI is stealing their hard work.

So! Now is a great time to stop by your favorite authors/stories and drop them some comments! They really appreciate it!

Do you get it now? Without due process, everyone is at risk. How are you going to prove your citizenship otherwise?

People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter

:P

• the one where you only see colour once you meet your soulmate 

Len remembers his mom describing the sky to him. The sharp pigments that made up the morning sparkle. Len gave up the dream of seeing colour after his first nickel in Iron Heights. Being back in Central City was supposed to be a quick job - one to iron out the kinks for the bigger heist in Bludhaven next month. 

He didn’t count on seeing a red blur. 

• the one where you don’t know your soulmate until you touch them

Barry is running late to a crime scene. So late that even Captain Singh won’t believe whatever excuse Joe’s cooked up to stall for time. He’s ten blocks away and he can already feel his side cramping. He’s turning a corner when he collides with a wall of muscle. His CSI kit bag goes flying as a hand comes out of nowhere to steady his descent.  Time skitters to a halt as the warm hand grips his right forearm where he didn’t have time to button up his shirt. His pulse wratches up as he feels the warmth expand. 

Looking up, his eyes lock with a shocked man unseasonably attired in a blue parka. 

• the one where you don’y know your soulmate until you hear them speak

Len is waiting for Lisa to finish her recon of STAR labs at coffee shop. He’s already cased out the five escape routes and he’s wired enough to worry about why she’s running late. 

“Coffee with cream and 37 sugars for Barry!” shouts the barista. 

There’s a pause between the idle chatter of the coffee shop when a lanky brunet walks up to the coffee counter. 

“Thanks, Iris,” the brunet grits out as he takes his coffee with a long suffering look that Len would commiserate with, he’s certainly had that look when dealing with whatever scheme Lisa has set her mind to, but the world seems to tilt on its own axis as the sounds around him dull and focus on the dulcet tenor of his soulmate. 

• the one where you get the name of the person in their handwriting on your body somewhere at a certain age

Bartholomew Allen in blocky script has been a mainstay on Len’s right forearm since he was eighteen. It had Lisa in stitches. 

“It’s worse than yours!” she cackles. 

***

Leonard Snart in tightly cramped handwriting appeared above Barry’s heart when he was sixteen. 

“At least he won’t make fun of your name,” Iris says with a dimpled grin. 

Barry just groans like a beached whale. 

• the one where the first thing they say to you appears instead

“There’s nowhere to run,” appeared in red crimson ink on Len’s wrist when he’s eighteen and in the backseat of a cop car on his way to lockup. He wasn’t surprised his soulmate was a fan of irony.  

***

“I didn’t see you before, your mom know you’re out past your bedtime?”  appeared in indigo ink wrapped around Barry’s shoulder blades when he was changing for gym class. Tony Woodward and his band of goons make his life miserable over it. Barry’s mom thinks it’s cute. And after the night where the man in the yellow suit takes everything Barry holds dear away, the indigo writing becomes even more pronounced. Like fate is cementing itself. 

So you know when you're writing a scene where the hero is carrying an injured person and you realize you've never been in this situation and have no idea how accurate the method of transportation actually is?

Oh boy, do I have a valuable resource for you!

Here is a PDF of the best ways to carry people depending on the situation and how conscious the injured person needs to be for the carrying position.

Literally a life saver.

(No pun intended.)

Look, I know Tumblr is the website of chronically online introverts, but this is also the only website where I have any reach. And I live in America so this is relevant to me. So I'll go ahead and put this here.

Run For Something

Every year there's hundreds of positions that go completely unchallenged. Some of them for areas that you, the general American Tumblrite, probably care about.

I'm being so, so, so completely serious right now.

Run For Something

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Run for something, and if you promise to never ban a book, the linked website and @fated-mates can get you in touch with volunteers for phone banking (aka letting voters know you exist, what you stand for, and convincing people to vote for you). Depending on your situation, they'll fund you, too.

(fated mates was more specific about helping Leftist candidates get $1000, but I'll let you listen to them on this episode and decide for yourself. I'm not affiliated with them.)

Women especially need to hear the message 7 times, according to some studies, to be convinced that yes, this is something they can do.

You can run for something! Run for something small. School boards. Municipal government. Run for something as a side hustle. Run for something because you're an empty nester and your book club stinks. Run for something so you can personally push things leftward, even if it's just one foot, that's one foot further towards your leftist goals no matter what they might be.

Run for school board because look at the fucking idiots currently running it. You know you're smarter than them. Fucking, if you've ever completed a school project you're probably smarter than them.

Run for something because Elon Musk is pissing you off. Run for something because you're trying to fight off despair. Run for something because you hate the idea that you can't do anything. You can do something! You can run for something.

But where to even start?

Don't worry, they got you.

Filling out this form will show you a list of state legislative and local offices where you can run based on your current address.

No matter the results, you will also be added automatically to the Run for Something candidate pipeline — check your inbox in the next few days for next steps.

Note: Data includes offices on the ballot in 2025 and 2026. Updates will be made throughout the year as additional information is available.

so my twitter feed pointed out something...interesting