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hey y'all !!! clown wig season is IN!!!!! time to come back to the hellhome
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well here we are again
hey folks so we know what this is about. we know. so i’m not going to waste your time and i’m not going to sugarcoat things. it’s bad. and we can say that. it is bad. i’m going to link to some things focused on abortion but i am also going to link to some stuff related to voting because, while i know the democrats as a collective body do not make moves faster than a turtle in molasses in january in a place further north than i, i will be frank in saying that the alternative is worse. i would know, given that i live in a state with a trigger law when this decision goes out. i am not getting into that any deeper because frankly i have neither the time nor the energy to do anything but hope that many of the people behind all this get stage IV cancer and i do not care at this moment in time how that makes me sound. i am not nice.
SisterSong :: BIPOC lead reproductive justice organization that provides not just abortion access but also support for people, as quoted from their website: “contraception, comprehensive sex education, STI prevention and care, alternative birth options, adequate prenatal and pregnancy care, domestic violence assistance, adequate wages to support our families, safe homes, and so much more.” They take donations, they also take members. They have a conference on sex education. They have a care fund for people needing help during pregnancy and first year post-partum.
If/When/How :: If/When/How is probably about to be supremely critical going forward. Also if you’re a lawyer or a law student, they might represent an area of the law you’d want to get into. Their big focus is representing people in court who’ve gotten an abortion or worse, simply miscarried and folks are treating that like a goddamn crime. Which has happened before and makes me very mad. But anyway a donation here helps get these people a lawyer with experience in this fight versus a public defender, who doesn’t always have experience through no fault of their own. It also helps educate those same lawyers on HOW to best represent those cases.
National Network of Abortion Funds :: The name states what it is on the tin. It’s a network of abortion funds across the country that give people money to help with the multitude of costs of having an abortion. These costs can range to be: “Some funds help with travel, lodging, child care, doula, and translation services so that accessing an abortion is less challenging. Abortion funds also work to change laws and culture that make abortion hard to get.” Basically, if you want to just donate so that someone somewhere gets an abortion they need they’re a good choice. Money’s gonna be spent where it’s needed. And if you want something closer to home you can search to find a more local fund to support directly.
If you want links to my other posts about this that have more organizations they are here.
The other big thing you need to do is study your local midterm elections and go vote. Perhaps also help other people go vote as well, if you can. maybe phone bank for candidates who are trying to unseat republicans or more conservative dems – for instance Jessica Cisneros is trying to unseat Henry Cuellar. Who is literally a Pelosi supported Democrat who is anti-abortion. Yes that is the level of scrutiny we have to give things. Yes I am also mad about that, don’t worry. Anyway if you want to help but you either aren’t a Texan or don’t live in her voting district you can still help get the word out about her here: https://www.mobilize.us/sunrise2022/event/450154/
There’s very likely campaigns to get involved in and honestly, as someone with experience working in a domestic and family violence shelter for a year, the variety of activities you may have to do may not be as taxing as you worry they are. And a lot of those places ask that you stipulate what you’re capable of doing so that they don’t ask something you can’t perform. So if you’ve got the spoons and the spare time, check it out. At the very least don’t dismiss it entirely.
I’d also say if you’ve got people in your life of any age that could get pregnant to start doing the research on the types of self-managed abortions available at different gestation periods. Find out what to expect, how the meds work, what to say and not to say at the hospital if something goes amiss to avoid jail. If an arrest happens anyway have those justice hotlines numbers in your phone.
Don’t make them do the work of figuring this out when depending on their situation they very likely won’t be in a place to mentally and emotionally (perhaps even physically). This information is out there and is very available to you, I think one thing we can do for people we care about who are going to be affected worst by this is take this facet of planning and information gathering off their shoulders.
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Blink
3rd level transmutation
Artificer, Sorcerer, Wizard
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what's your 'thing' as a friend. i don't mean like 'oh im the mom friend' i mean like what's the Thing where if one of your friends was looking for a specific interaction they'd message you first. personally i can always be relied upon to get hyped about bugs, literature, and cursed internet images.
werewolves and dog pictures/videos.
I don’t post here often anymore, but when I do, it’s an album of screenshots.
Orion through the Expansions—Endwalker Update
A Treasure Hunter’s End - An Epilogue
“So....how’re you two holdin’ up?”
It was one of the quieter evenings at The Hard Place as the four of them sat at a mostly clean table, drinks before them. Orion, C’ravi, Leila, and Raih’a were all that were left of the Blackhawks now. Galahad had turned to monkhood, pleading his body and soul to Rhalgr to atone for all he’d done. According to Leila, Jajaya had ‘fucked off’ when things started getting too weird. Elias, the mage they’d hired to fill the talents left by Orion was dead...as was the manipulative, power-hungry woman from whom the group had gotten its name, Alyss Blackhawk.
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hey sorry i'm late i wandered into a liminal space
what do you mean i've been missing for 10 years
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The End of the War
[Keeping to himself as usual, Val couldn't help but overhear the nearby conversation. Something about big news in Ishgard. In an effort to conceal his connection, he had made the habit of never asking anyone for news of his home. He could only settle on scraps of information eavesdropped from travelers.]
[The strangers voices were clear as they described what they had heard in their travels: The long fought Dragonsong War was finally over. Man and dragon had made peace.]
[Val retreated to the outside balcony to find fresh air and privacy. His mind was a flurry of emotions. How could this be?]
[He had given his life to the knighthood. He had sworn to give his all to protect those he loved... and all the citizens of Ishgard.]
[But that opportunity... that life had been stolen.]
[And now he stood here, hundreds of malms from home. Having done nothing, having contributed nothing.]
[Just a coward who had run from his duty.]
[The air suddenly turned to a freeze. And all he could see were bodies and feathers and blood in the snow. Splintered shields, broken spears. Mangled limbs. Death all around.]
[And all he could do was cry out helplessly for the losses. A lone soldier lost in the icy wind, heart broken beyond mending.]
[And there was no one left waiting for him. No trail of love and warmth to lead him back home.]
[Just emptiness.]
[And desperate loneliness.]
Nidhogg had been felled and victory had been called. The war was won. Adhamh’s thoughts, however, were not to celebration but to seeking out his bard. There he was, across the bridge half destroyed in the chaos, and he ran. Every limb screamed for rest—for respite after the battles just fought—but he ran nonetheless.
There was a shimmer of sound, a clash of metal, as chainmail hit chainmail, Adhamh pulling the smaller man into him, his hands gripping the other’s head in a tender ferocity. He spoke no words, letting his lips carry his emotions—his relief, his anxiety, his fear, his love; an entire unspoken conversation between the lovers finding themselves on the other side of the heat of battle. It was a passionate exchange that spanned ages over the course of a minute. Then, the knight pulled back and he stared into his bard with love-drunk eyes and in a moment of pure, unfiltered spontaneity, the words unceremoniously slipped right off his tongue,
“—Marry me.”
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So I did a thing and made a Kofi
I’ll post my edits there as well as take commission work. Also, if anyone just wants to donate or contact me on discord for a commission request, let me know!
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I love all my commissions, you guys. But sometimes I just get -really- good ones.