Yours for Scotland

@ayeforscotland / ayeforscotland.tumblr.com

Scottish. I support Scottish independence. Co-host of the AyeSphere interactive podcast. He/Him.

Welcome!

Hello, I'm AyeforScotland and I've been here for too long. AyeforScotland started off as a Scottish politics blog campaigning for Scottish independence but has since evolved into whatever the hell this is. The fight for Scottish independence continues - I love answering asks about it. And naturally I also discuss wider UK and International politics as well.

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However, it can't all be doom and gloom - and I suppose I'm kinda 'creative' too so AyeforScotland naturally grew arms and legs and I'll list all the other stuff I do down below👇👇👇

As modest as I try to be, I'm particular proud of the community surrounding this blog and in my discord (YOU SHOULD JOIN). These are people like you who are reading this now who have educated me on a variety of topics over the past decade - and I'm still learning from them daily. I've also ran some amazing 24 hour hour charity streams for a range of charities across Scotland and the UK. So far those charities are the TIE Campaign, The Equality Network, Endometriosis UK, Galop, War Child & Cats Protection. I also co-host @theayesphere podcast every week with the wonderful @thebibliosphere. We chat about everything from politics to entertainment media, and do deep dives on games, TV and films!

Commissions

I regularly get messages asking to read, review and advise on Scottish dialogue as well as lend my voice to various projects. Commissions are open on Ko-Fi for this type of work. Just get in touch with your project and we'll get sorted.

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Discord - The home of the community - Filled with amazing people

Twitch - I play a variety of games on Twitch, I enjoy everything but like to focus on narrative, indie experiences. I also run community interaction games which are always a great laugh. Ko-Fi - My Ko-fi is for people who would like to support me in all the various bits and pieces I do to inform and entertain. It is hugely appreciated and often straight-up reinvested into providing more for you all. YouTube - I have a YouTube Channel I try to make content for when I can. I want to do more but time has been against me recently but there's some video essays I'm very proud of. There's also a separate AyeforScotlandVODs channel for my Twitch streams.

TikTok - Tends to be me ranting about politics or funny Twitch Highlights Twitter - The dying platform - Tumblr is far superior but you can support me as a creator there if you like. There's a few other links but I don't want this post to take forever. If you need anything or have any questions, my asks and DMs are open. Yours for Scotland, Aye

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London never fails to make me ill. Someone please kill me.

Krav Maga grading this morning/afternoon dead inside, let’s goooooo

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London never fails to make me ill. Someone please kill me.

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Dude atleast you don't have to live here

True lmao

London never fails to make me ill. Someone please kill me.

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Senua’s Sacrifice Part 2!

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prettyboyharrington

Please take the term “porn addiction” away from booktokers

And everyone else to be honest. It has a recent buzzword for the US Christian far right, and it’s not something that’s been able to be diagnosed.

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Everything I have so far on the dangerous and deeply flawed Cass Review - Brought together from many sources (especially thanks to https://www.erininthemorning.com/).

As its issues grow more public, and its fallout impacts more trans people, I've collated together some of the most egregious problems discovered so far.

Anonymous asked:

Is there any chance things could work out alright. Like Greens gaining more as the indy party that isn't transphobic. I can't imagine them winning out right. But gaining seats and playing a bigger part in influencing the winning party?

Depends who the winning party is. If it’s a unionist party then probably not.

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Back in the motherland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Not to flex but I just poured a glass of tap water.

Back in the motherland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Senua’s Sacrifice Part 2!

#ayeforscotland #hellblade #hellblade: senua's sacrifice #YouTube

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Anonymous asked:

What do you think the Indy movement looks like with a labour ran Westminster?

ayeforscotland answered:

Honestly can’t see a Labour government being much different from the Tories. There will probably be a brief narrative of ‘the adults are back in charge’ backed up by the newspapers before things continue like they do.

During that time I reckon independence polling will take a dip as a few people ‘relax’ on the issue in the hope labour will bring us all together. I don’t think that’ll last even if they go on to win a general election five years after that.

I don’t trust the labour government to reverse the damage the Tories have done. Whenever they choose not to invest in public services they’ll hand wave it away with lines like “There’s no magic money tree.”

Collapse of the SNP will probably a Labour minority Scottish government in a few years time, unless they really turn things around.

Sorry for sounding so bleak, I’m pretty exhausted. I’ve been doing this for a long time and it’s upsetting to see the independence spirit of 2014 be completely squandered by inaction.

I’ll probably have some more thoughts when the fallout of the Bute House Agreement settles. I’m just exhausted.

Sorry again, I’m only running on a few hours sleep at this point so my head isn’t really in the game.

One thing I’ll say on the Scottish government stuff this week - Scottish Labour have done the absolute classic thing that they do whenever there’s a genuine crisis in ScotGov that they could exploit for political advantage.

They take it too damn far.

Humza Yousaf might face a vote of no confidence, but Scottish Labour are tabling a vote of no confidence in the Scottish government. I don’t think it does them any good at all, it makes them look like they can’t even architect a decent political strike without getting carried away.

Anonymous asked:

What do you think the Indy movement looks like with a labour ran Westminster?

Honestly can’t see a Labour government being much different from the Tories. There will probably be a brief narrative of ‘the adults are back in charge’ backed up by the newspapers before things continue like they do.

During that time I reckon independence polling will take a dip as a few people ‘relax’ on the issue in the hope labour will bring us all together. I don’t think that’ll last even if they go on to win a general election five years after that.

I don’t trust the labour government to reverse the damage the Tories have done. Whenever they choose not to invest in public services they’ll hand wave it away with lines like “There’s no magic money tree.”

Collapse of the SNP will probably a Labour minority Scottish government in a few years time, unless they really turn things around.

Sorry for sounding so bleak, I’m pretty exhausted. I’ve been doing this for a long time and it’s upsetting to see the independence spirit of 2014 be completely squandered by inaction.

I’ll probably have some more thoughts when the fallout of the Bute House Agreement settles. I’m just exhausted.

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No stream today because I’m not feeling well BUT there are still a few more days of April to get some majorly discounted original art! You can use code SaveMe245 to get 50% off any original art in my Ko-fi shop! It helps me have fewer listings to move over to my website and gets you some cool art at a steal - it’s a win/win!

Highly recommend grabbing some of Katie’s art while you can💙

Guy in a Union Jack tshirt just sat next to me which I’m taking as a micro aggression.

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Humza Yousaf terminating the Bute House agreement with the Scottish Greens while I’m travelling.

Cheers big man.

Part of me thinks this will actually allow the greens to be a bit more combative. I think they’ve had to toe the line a bit more so it might work out better overall.

Not sure if I agree with Humza terminating it while the Greens were scheduled to discuss and vote on whether to continue the agreement or not. Feels a bit spiteful.

Same wavelength with @tgraywrites over here.

This is an incredibly stupid decision by Yousaf, he has bad political advisors, and it fully legitimises many of the arguments made by people in the SGP who wished to leave the BHA.

It doesn't look like taking control, it looks like a desperate attempt to look like he has it, which makes it look even more like he never did.

Now, instead of looking like the SGP flounced out of government when they couldn't get their way (which many would have spun the decision as being) it might well be spun instead as a weak FM struggling and failing to look in control as everything falls apart around him.

And even if it *isn’t* because of pressure from the right of the SNP, it fucking looks like it to everyone and will be spun as a victory.

Will that get young people on side? Will it fuck.

Narrative with young people will very quickly become, imo, that the Greens stood up for the interests of those young people and the SNP wasn't even willing to engage with those interests so burned their government down to avoid them

Partly that, and partly that the SNP leadership is so conflict-averse that they’ll burn bridges to appease the right of the party as well as unionist parties for some reason.

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Humza Yousaf terminating the Bute House agreement with the Scottish Greens while I’m travelling.

Cheers big man.

Part of me thinks this will actually allow the greens to be a bit more combative. I think they’ve had to toe the line a bit more so it might work out better overall.

Not sure if I agree with Humza terminating it while the Greens were scheduled to discuss and vote on whether to continue the agreement or not. Feels a bit spiteful.

Same wavelength with @tgraywrites over here.

This is an incredibly stupid decision by Yousaf, he has bad political advisors, and it fully legitimises many of the arguments made by people in the SGP who wished to leave the BHA.

It doesn't look like taking control, it looks like a desperate attempt to look like he has it, which makes it look even more like he never did.

Now, instead of looking like the SGP flounced out of government when they couldn't get their way (which many would have spun the decision as being) it might well be spun instead as a weak FM struggling and failing to look in control as everything falls apart around him.

And even if it *isn’t* because of pressure from the right of the SNP, it fucking looks like it to everyone and will be spun as a victory.

Will that get young people on side? Will it fuck.

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