And That's Today's Coverage On The Effects Of European Colonialism

I wanna buy one but I don't have money (• ▽ •;)

Three months ago I pitched an idea for a party game. Today, ‘WHAT THE PLOT?!™’ is a real game and available for pre-order! I am so excited. Thank you everyone for your support!

Get over yourself. Words on paper about fake people from a fake universe are not hurting you because they exist. Let people write what they want. AO3 exists BECAUSE people like you want to censor freedom of expression.

woooowwwww. im not censoring freedom of expression. im saying that glorifying rape, sexual abuse, underage content, etc. is wrong and ao3 actively promotes it by not having any rules. 

people are posting incest fics, rape fics, etc. NOW, if youre going to write a story about incest where you are not glorifying it and you make it categorically clear that incest is wrong and the topic is handled in the correct way with respect to those survivors, that is different and that is tackling a different topic. writing a story where you actually ship two siblings together because you think incest is hot or good, etc., is glorification.

here’s an example ive used before. in my WIP, one of my characters was sexually abused before the story. the character’s rapist is not redeemed, the character is not forced into a relationship with the rapist and so on. in rape fics on ao3, these characters are abused and then are forced into relationships with their abuser, because the author thinks rape is hot or good. RAPE IS A VIOLATION OF BODILY AUTONOMY AND CONSENT. RAPE IS ABSOLUTELY VILE AND GLORIFYING IT LIKE THESE RAPE FICS DO IS ABHORRENT.

im an author myself so i understand the whole freedom of expression. i write stories with serious themes so that i can tackle them and handle them with care and respect to victims and survivors. rape fics, incest fics, etc. are offensive to survivors.

also i find “get over yourself” infinitely amusing. i have mental health problems and often struggle to hold a high opinion of myself so trust me when i say i dont have anything to get over anyway. fiction affects reality and when a platform like ao3 is so big, it is definitely affecting reality.

edit also, the fact that ppl are defending these fics proves the fiction affecting reality thing.

Cops murdered a black girl in Toronto this week too but Canadians are too up their own asses about how we’re “Not the racist ones! That’s only America! We’re the nice ones :)” to acknowledge it or do anything about it

Hi my name is Emma. I’m a sovereign Yaegl and Gubbi Gubbi woman. I am a community worker and teacher on unceeded Yuggera land. I’m not gonna get into the sob story, life has been fucking rough. Currently I am searching for work, I am on welfare but I cannot save anything on welfare.

I need to buy a car. For many reasons such as;

- getting to protests and having somewhere safe to sleep

- Caring for my sister

- Getting to work

- Getting out to country for cultural healing and protecting country

Pay the Rent

PayPal: emmajaner404@gmail.com

If you want more information let me know

Thread with petitions on Twitter:

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Wait what's a buildings fire evacuation plan if you aren't supposed to use the elevator to get down

So someone sent an ask to a hetalia blog and I think the op deleted the ask but I’d already typed this out and I’m feeling strongly about it so I’ll post it myself even though without the context of an ask its cringy.

Basically, you cannot call the Hetalia fandom tainted or tell us we’re forever marked and we now, at this point in time, have to start making an effort to change.

Firstly, literally every single media out there will be tainted with bad fans, with bad content, with bad everything. Just like rule 34, if it exists, there will be problematic issues related to it.

We cannot be holding back a fandom for the actions of people 10 years ago who likely are not even a part of the fandom anymore or who are extremely different to who they are 10 years ago.

Fandoms are fluid and constantly changing with  different members, trends and engagement.

It has been demonstrated through time, the fact that they were not in the fandom to witness it is not the fandoms fault. It is changed now, every single fandom for any book, movie franchise, youtuber, any piece of media will have changed drastically in 10 years time.

You cannot hold the current fandom at fault and put the responsibility on the current fandom for the actions of a different fandom in a different time where all fandoms were in a completely different culture. Its unfair, unrealistic and selective.

The fandom is not tainted. We are not inherenting anything other than a show that we can create content for and engage with whilst being completely disconnected from the past fandom.

We did want it ressurected. That is how they found us, thats how the raiders found the fandom, thats how many old and new fans found it. It was in a ressurection proccess, with tags and projects being made to engage new and old fans.

Its being ressurected because people enjoy the show. Thats it. A fandom is a group of people who currently enjoy a piece of media. It can have a generally good or bad viewership (and most large ones do have bad ones) but a fandom isn’t tainted, it physically cannot be tainted.

Do not put a burden on us that was never ours to own. We can only mold the fandom now, we can only influence it now, we can’t influence the or mold the past and you cannot expect us to.

You can either judge us as we are now or you, in a genuinely polite way, please mind your own business.

Native American Hand Talkers Fight to Keep Sign Language Alive

Prior to contact with Europeans, North American Native peoples were not a unified culture but hundreds of different cultures and tribes, so when speakers of one language met those of another they communicated in the lingua franca of Hand Talk

Research has shown that Hand Talk is still being used by a small number of deaf and hearing descendants of the Plains Indian cultures.

“Hand Talk is endangered and dying quickly,” said Melanie McKay-Cody, who identifies herself as Cherokee Deaf and is an expert in anthropological linguistics.

McKay-Cody is the first deaf researcher to specialize in North American Hand Talk and today works with tribes to help them preserve their signed languages. She is pushing for PISL to be incorporated into mainstream education of the deaf.

i'm literally begging you to help us defend our freedom of speech. we have eight days.

please reblog this post, especially if you live outside of the philippines. please help us.

i didn't make the carrd, but it's one of the most useful links right now. #JunkTerrorBillNow needs the most urgency, but there are other issues present too.

i'm begging you all to reblog.

idk about y’all but I think it’s pretty terrifying having to personally hear bisexuals in offline spaces express being practically shamed out of openly identifying as bisexual because they’ve internalized the belief that bisexuality is not inclusive of trans/nb ppl and if that doesn’t hit home for you how dangerous misinformation and ahistorical takes are in the current state of LGBT activism then I honestly don’t have much else to say.