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How does Vox Mew-china plan to deal with a Titanic Problem?

Like usual they will probably just… Wing it.

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I THINK IT’S DONE????!!?!?!!!!!!!!!!! 

3 months of work and learning how to make cosplay armour (something I’d never done before) and now it’s time to be Krem at MCM London!

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jimkerk

the least realistic thing about star trek is that starfleet uniforms don’t have pockets and nobody complains about it

My instinct is to agree with this, but like, when I really think about it…

No money, no credit cards, identification is all vocal/fingerprints/retinal, so no wallet.

Again, doors are voice activated, or just unlocked by entering a code.  No keys.  

Communication devices are tiny and stick onto clothing starting in Next Gen.  TOS had bulkier communication that they carried around or kept in, like, packs and stuff, so the arguments for pockets is a little more valid, and if I remember correctly, those costumes did have pockets, tho I could be wrong about that.  But anything post TNG, the point is moot anyway.

Tricorders and phasers are really the only thing anyone’s carrying around, and that’s usually on away missions where they’d be bring their packs/holsters or just have them out.  I mean, who wants to stick a phaser in their pocket?  

So, yeah.  There’s not much little stuff people need to carry around everywhere.  And if they are preparing for a longer journey or want to bring bulkier things, well…just bring a bag.  It fits more anyway.    

what if i find a cool rock and want to take it home with me

Every time a member of the USS Enterprise has found a cool rock and taken it home, it has resulted in eleven deaths, six temporal displacements, the holodecks breaking again, and somebody getting turned into a lizard. Pockets are a privilege, not a right.

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Sex ed resources recommended by queer people for queer people!

Since we don’t learn squat in public school about sexual safety beyond PIV, I’ve asked the queer community in WA, USA for resources. Below is a master list of the recommendations I got. Some of these do not have proper language surrounding the existence trans people. As a trans person myself, I’ve left off the ones that are particularly bad about that. It sucks that we don’t have very many good resources that take our existence into account in their language, but here we are. Books (some have audio book formats)

Girl Sex 101 by Allison Moon (not gender specific as the title suggests, according to the person who recommended this one)
I Love Female Orgasm: An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide by  Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller (If you have a vulva or ever have sex with someone who has a vulva, then this book is for you.)
Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Young Adults, Ages 18-35 by Michael J. Tino, Laura Anne Stuart, and Sarah Gibb Millspaugh
S.E.X. by Heather Corinna (the founder of the Scarleteen web site in the Online Sources section below)

In-Person Resources

The Center for Sex Positivity puts on all kinds of workshops in the greater Seattle area.
The library at Gay City in Seattle, WA has a full section on sex/sexuality. Classes and workshops at your local Planned Parenthood.

Online Sources

Bedsider (a resource about birth control)
Free Emotional Labor (Facebook group where you can potentially ask for resources)
Fucking Trans Women (a how-to zine)
Oh Joy Sex Toy (web comic)
Planned Parenthood (information about over a dozen different STDs) (PP still says “STD” on their web site for “Sexually Transmitted Disease” even though a lot of other places have updated to “STI” for “Sexually Transmitted Infection.”)
Primed: The Back Pocket Guide for Trans Men and the Men who Dig Them
San Francisco City Clinic (chart of how various STIs can be passed)
Scarleteen (vast resource of information recommended by multiple queers, founded by the author of the book S.E.X. as found in the Books section above)
Sexplanations (a YouTube channel run by an actual medical professional)
Trans Sex Activity Book
Trans Sexuality: A safe Guide for Trans People and their Partners
Trans Sex Zine (volumes 1 and 2)
Trans Youth Sexual Health Booklet (heads up for nude drawings as soon as you open this link)

Podcasts

Queer Sex Ed
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Remember remember the 5th of November the gunpowder, treason, and plot. I can see no reason Why the voting season should ever be forgot. So pick up your pen do your research and then go and cast your ballot.

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Charities/organisations to avoid:

PETA: They’d rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)

FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. They’re also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)

Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and don’t have a single autistic person on their board (x)

Please support other, better charities, and feel free to add any others you can think of to this.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure: CEO makes insane amounts of money, they deny a lot of requests for wigs/help with treatment/etc., and have attempted to sue other charities that use the color pink as part of their anti-breast cancer campaign. ( x x x )

The Salvation Army: They promote the hatred of LGBT+ people, work with fundamentalist Christian groups to support conservative politics and rip off and exploit workers. ( x x x )

Wounded Warrior: They take money that should be spent on veterans and blow it on huge opulent parties for the company bigwigs. 26 million in 2014 alone wasted! ( x x x )

^ Important reminder to NOT waste any money donating to these groups

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ayellowbirds

Reblogging because of the added info about Wounded Warrior.

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arch4ngel

A good way to know if a nonprofit you’re donating to is allocating their money in the right way is to check out their Charity Navigator rating: http://www.charitynavigator.org

Signal boosting, the bell ringers are out in force, and this info is too important.

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damselflier

Just to add in case anyone didn’t know: Donating money to your local food bank is pretty much always one of the best ways to stretch a dollar as far as it can to feed the most people possible. [x]

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Event/scene organizer’s #MeToo pledge:

I, [state name], promise to do my best to hold people accountable for sexual assault in my event/scene. To this end, I will default to believing survivors. I will not hire people on or take volunteers as organizers, bouncers, DJs, teachers, door staff, or any other event-related roles who have been accused of sexual assault. If I am accused of sexual assault I will continue to default to believing the survivor, and I will set the standard I want to see by immediately stepping down or going on hiatus from my role, signing up for consent courses with the intention of correcting my future behavior, and working with the survivor through a mediator or other accountability personnel to make sure I do anything I can to help the survivor’s recovery. I will not take a leadership or organizational role until that process is completed because the power of the social capital that comes with leadership makes coercion easy and accountability difficult.

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“Jesus christ eat the goddamn mac and cheese.” scowls the hero “I can hear your stomach growling through your armor, you know.”

The villain blinks “You-”

“Are feeding you, yes. If all I wanted to do was punch people and throw criminals in jail, I would’ve become a vigilante. Heroism involves kindness, dipshit.”

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lectorel

“Heroism involves kindness, dipshit” is the most amazing phrase I’ve ever read. I need to incorporate it into all my work.

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