here is a carrd for BLM 

here is a carrd for the crisis happening right now in Yemen

here is a carrd for Hong Kong

here is a carrd for Palestine.

here is a carrd for trans rights 

here is a carrd for the terror bill in Philippines. 

here is a carrd with various donation links (for Syria, BLM etc)

here is a carrd for LGBT+ rights

this post is constantly being updated - please send an ask if you find more!

i say no worries a lot for someone who worries 110% of the time

i’m- THE JOY THIS GAVE ME IS INSANE

@crystal-exe @whatislifeanymore

@im-a-dragon-cawcaw

That hamster’s style…. I want it.

I also want to be able to draw this good

90% of writing advice can be thrown out the window for your first draft.

Show don’t tell? Ignore.

Basic grammar and punctuation? Unnecessary. 

Physical descriptions of characters? Don’t need to bother. 

Solid plot? That’s for later. 

The words don’t come as fast when you’re thinking of the best way to put them together. It doesn’t have to be pretty, or much more than inconsistent nonsense.  The point is to have it exist.

Effective storytelling is for subsequent drafts! Go write some nonsense! 

As a hyper-perfectionist human, THIS is a piece of advice I wish I’d internalized a hell of a lot sooner. If I hadn’t overwhelmed myself by considering every little thing, starting over when it gets “too messy”… there’s no doubt in my mind I’d have a first draft by now.

Now, passion is the only thing I care about in my first draft.

when i’m writing fiction, the main rule i try to stick to is that: the first draft is where i write what’s important to me.

this usually means character arcs and deep ethical and political debates for me, but for some people it’s gonna be physical description or in-depth plotting or Whatever

your subsequent drafts are where you fill in the gaps and make things make sense, but that first draft should be everything you personally care about, and don’t worry much about the rest

“A must see clip to understand the level of hate and racism taught to Azeri kids from a young age against Armenians. This is why Artsakh required and requires its independence.” 

Spread this shit I’m begging you, there needs to be international outrage about those atrocities

ebegging bc my computer just died :^)

so thanks to y’all and getting scholarships in I was able to pay off the CC debt! Which was awesome. however, last night, the computer I use for school, games, etc, completely died. To replace it, it’s gonna be around 800-1k. it’s an acer nitro 5 for reference. not only am I losing a bunch of shit on it thy was important to me and/or made my life easier, but it puts me out of commission for school which is rly stressful considering we are nearing midterms (I legit have a paper due on Tuesday that irl what I’m gonna do about)

so if you’d be willing to help that would be great!! and thank you for reblogging/reading

venmo - @ezra-saville (9332 is the number if it asks)

paypal - e.saville99@gmail.com

I also have zelle.

0/$1000

10/1000$!! Tysm! Pls keep rb!

Michaela Coel on Twitter

pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills  instead of being seen as behaviors

so now it’s like ‘the point of doing them is to get good at them’ and not ‘this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives’.

I know I’ve posted this before, but it bears repeating.

This is a thing humans do; you don’t have to be good at it to enjoy it.

the concept and idea of “you can always start trying to be a better person” is extremely important to me both in media and irl and i continue to be deeply deeply disturbed by the trend on this site pushing that these ideas in media are bad writing or even morally reprehensible

because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person 

from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating

it’s fucked up. 

What is the most important step a man can take?

The next.

I think part of the pushback about this is the idea that, to “redeem” bad people, their victims must first forgive them for unforgivable acts.

This is false. No one is obligated to forgive you. You can learn from your mistakes and become the best, kindest person on earth, and the people you’ve hurt still won’t forgive you, and you’ll have to accept that. And that doesn’t mean you aren’t allowed to grow. Because we aren’t just “pure” or “sinful”, we’re complex.

A bunch of commissions I did over pon my ko-fi!

hey idc what anyone else says its cool to name yourself after your favorite fictional character, no matter how "cringy" or "weird" the name is. if you like ponies and wanna name yourself after a pony, fucking do it!!! name yourself pinkie pie!!!!! if you like undertale and you wanna go by sans, go for it!!!!

dont pick a name to "pass" or appease other people. thats the fun part about picking your name!!! it can be whatever you want.

i know i tagged this as trans, but this goes for cis people too. if youre cis and you really like final fantasy, fucking name yourself sephiroth. sephiroth is cool as fuck and so are you.

I want to talk about “Visitability.”

As a disabled, wheelchair-using, person, I am very lucky. I am among a few of the very luckiest.

Going on twenty-two years ago, I bought a house of my own in a brand new suburban development. And I got a chance to give input while the blueprints were still on the drawing board. So all the wheelchair adaptations are to my specs – the kitchen counters are all at the right height, the doors are all wide enough, I have a roll-in shower in my master bedroom suite, and everything is on a single floor.

Great, right?

Right!! Like I said: I am among some of the luckiest, most privileged, disabled people in the world (and I try to use my privilege for good).

Except:

My house is the only house in my neighborhood (as far as I know) that’s barrier-free. All my neighbors on either side and across the street from me have steps up to their front doors. None of them have bathrooms I can use. I’ve lived here for nearly twenty-two years, and I’ve never once been able to go up and knock on a neighbor’s door to borrow the proverbial cup of sugar. And after a few tries in the early years to get my heavy motorized wheelchair up the steps and through their doors, the neighbors stopped inviting me to get-togethers and baby showers (and once at their parties, I’d have to hold it, sometimes for hours, before I could get back home and use the bathroom – that really puts a damper on “eat, drink, and be merry.”).

Their houses may be as close to mine, physically, as my computer room is to my bedroom, but in terms of practical, day-to-day living, they might as well be hundreds of miles away.

That’s where the Visitability Movement begins: an aspect of Universal Design (link to the Wikipedia article) which acknowledges that people don’t just live in their own houses, they live in neighborhoods (and also, that houses last longer than people – the current owner may not need accommodations, but someone else might).

The Visitability Movement focuses on new developments only – It’s about building accessibility into the bones of houses from the very beginning – when  additional costs are either nothing or negligible – instead of trying to retrofit houses after the fact, when cost can be prohibitive.

Excerpt from the Website Visitability.org:

This may seem like a minor issue, compared to the recent attacks on the ADA in Congress, and the Trump Administrations attempts to cripple Medicaid with work requirements.

But the way things are now, disabled people are effectively hidden behind the doors of their own houses, and it’s hard to get Disability Rights to be included in the “Kitchen Table Issues” if we can’t join in discussions around our neighbors’ kitchen tables.

…Ya know?

Lack of accessibility is isolating.

Yes.

And sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, antisemitism, etc. are all usually framed as community-wide, social issues in the media. But disability rights are usually framed as private/family issues.

I think that’s directly linked (in both directions) to the lack of visitability in our neighborhoods.

And it makes it really hard to get traction on progress.

From @oswaldcobblepunk:

Back in 2012, I went to the home of the woman who ran a literary theater group to record this video (not captioned – sorry). Anyway, as I was motoring in my chair through the narrow hallway to get to the room where they were doing the recording (moved to the first floor, for my benefit), I happened to glance to my left and saw a long, narrow, staircase leading up to the next floor, where I didn’t expect one (in shadow, to boot).

And my heart seemed to skip a beat, because that is exactly the kind of image that shows up in my nightmares – and for the owner of the house, it was that precise feature that made it the house of her dreams (I know, because she’d mentioned dreaming of a house like that, when they were looking for a new place to live).

TL;DR: a house which a land of stairs is literal nightmare fuel to me.

Bringing this back, because Hurricane Florence brought this to the forefront of my brain, today.

(Wishing good luck and best outcomes for the people in the Carolinas, this week – Florence took a sharp turn to the south, overnight, and it looks like, if trends continue, we in Hampton Roads, Virginia dodged the proverbial bullet)

Anyhoo – just to double check my options, for preparedness and all that, I called the Chesapeake city Customer Contact center, to ask about emergency shelter.

Because I use a motorized chair, and a hoyer lift, and so I called ahead to the city office to ask advice if there’s any restrictions against that.  And the woman at the other end (who was actually quite helpful and decent, all things considered) pointed out the strict limitations on space – that it’s fifteen feet square feet, total, per family – all the people and all their stuff (all that food and water, and bedding, and clothes and amusements you’re told to pack and bring with you), and she asked:

So she suggested we get a hotel room, instead (When hotels only have one or two wheelchair-accessible rooms, already, in the best of times, much less when over a million people are evacuating an area all at once)

So that’s another reason Visitability is so important.

With city and state governments, these days, they’re shifting everything to “Neighbor helping neighbor.” But if you’re disabled, and your entire neighborhood is physically inaccessible, you’re S.o.o.L.

Spouse and I have been talking about trying to buy our own place in the next few years, and have gone to some open houses to get a sense of what our options might be. Every seller and every real estate agent I have talked to has been absolutely shocked when I have asked about accessibility, as an abled-bodied young-ish person. (Not even that young–I’m almost 45, though I pass for younger, and we are definitely looking for somewhere to age in place.)

I have friends now who can’t do stairs. I am likely to have more in future–it’s highly unlikely all of my currently able-bodied friends will stay that way. Our parents are pretty mobile for now, but they’re old. We ourselves hope to become old, and may become disabled even before that happens. And one of our biggest reasons for wanting a house is so we can host neighborhood events.

It’s particularly infuriating because we don’t need much space–there’s just two of us–and we don’t garden or have dogs, and a low-rise condo or a row house is pretty ideal otherwise, but 95% of those in the neighborhoods we want are impossible even to retrofit for a ramp. We’re likely to end up buying more house than we want, on more land than we will use or want to care for, just so we’ll have the option of staying there as we and our friends and family age.

IS WONDER WOMAN TELLING HER TO GO STAB THOSE BOYS AND PROBABLY KILL THEM

Yes

UNLEASH HELL

@clonesome @fallingraindrops @maurajeanne119 @rowdyhooliganism @codeblackphoenix

What does it take to teach a bee to use tools? A little time, a good teacher and an enticing incentive. Read more here: http://to.pbs.org/2mpRUAz

Credit: O.J. Loukola et al., Science (2017)

@clockworkrobotic

“Friend? Friend push ball? I push ball. I do good.”

Bees.  Smart enough to push a ball, not smart enough to not be fooled by a stick masquerading as a bee. 

maybe they know and they’re just being polite

Other dimensional beings are undoubtedly amazed at what human beings will accept as human beings too. “But it’s just a stick with a person on it.”

#excuse me neil but what the FUCK was that #thanks for that terrifying thought (nooby-banana)

NEIL WHY. WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT.

Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way. 

-  Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

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A nintendo switch and ps5 are the current things big donations will be saved for!!!!!!

So forget the switch (i cant edit the original post) i believe the PS5 is going to be around $450 to order, so i would say $475 is the goal just to be safe

New Rule: only 6 hugs per blog per week

MY AMAZON GIFT LIST IS UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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