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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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iliothermia

In case people weren’t aware, there seems to have been a massive issue throughout Patreon. People have had their subscriptions cancelled and many had their payments flagged as fraud with their bank.
150$ of my patronage disappeared, that’s 150$ a month as a disabled artist that took months to build that I’m unsure I’ll ever get back..Gone. It won’t allow me to message anyone whose payments were declined.I also had around 10 people’s payments flagged as fraud, some have had to re-patron.

If you’re supporting Patreon creators I advise you look to see if at least the people you remember supporting are still there / that your payments aren’t marked as fraud, especially if you’re supporting for physical rewards you’re expecting. 

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baddingtonbitch

faceless gay men who run uncategorisable aesthetic blogs are the unsung heroes of this website. they'll log on for an hour and post 10 pictures in a row and it's like

  • robin williams in issey miyake
  • melted ps2
  • dudes frotting in motocross gear
  • ethel cain
  • dudes sucking cock on a trailcam
  • stilettos in mud
  • brutalist urinal
  • cyclist with road rash, torn shorts and one ball out
  • rug being washed in iran
  • the pope holding light years by kylie minogue
spacemancharisma
replaymp4

okay but like, reply in the tags what fandom you’ve been in with the best quality of fanfiction

inception which is wild since there's zero backstory or last names for most of the characters i've read some genuinely compelling finnpoe ones too but with bigger fandoms like that the good ones are harder to find wait that one super long thorbruce ragnarok fic where they were both trans and ruled asgard together was life-changing mcu fics definitely dont fit this though... trying to scroll through the ao3 tag scares me
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mymarifae

wait now i'm curious about something

how do you keep track of your place when reading a book?

i use a bookmark

i use a piece of scrap paper or whatever else is nearby

i dog-ear the page

i fold the page to the exact sentence i stopped at

i leave the book open and flip it upside down

i memorize the page number

something else...?

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just stick paper in there but if i own the book i can usually tell how far i am since i highlight and write and draw all over the pages something about owning a perfectly pristine book just bothers me she is mine and she is well-loved!
serbamf

Anonymous asked:

Wait wait you can't just drop that off and not elaborate. What do you mean is there a mafia presence in Wales?? Please spill, what things did you notice??

bisquid answered:

Okay so bearing in mind that I have ADHD and Chronic Terrible Observational Skills:

  • I am in Cardiff
  • For a concert I am attending solo
  • Doors open at 5
  • 4:15 ish I go ‘hmm I should eat something’
  • Cardiff is - unsurprisingly, being tiny and yet home to FOUR concert venues - Very Busy
  • Find McDonald’s
  • McDonald’s is very full. I recall my last concert related McDick’s experience, and promptly bounce
  • Directly across the street
  • Is an Italian restaurant
  • It looks closed but fuckit maybe I can beg for like. Bread or some shit
  • Go over
  • Am immediately pounced upon by the hitherto unnoticed chain-smoking woman hanging out by the door mostly hidden by a potted ficus(?)
  • “I was wondering if you were open and if-” “yes yes we are open what would you like?” (strongish Italian accent)
  • Inside restaurant is Deserted
  • Explain that I’m sort of in a rush, am assured it’s fine
  • Order chicken milanese which is generally a pasta dish with a breaded chicken component
  • Am led to seat nearish the front and promptly provided with a pint of coke in a glass tankard
  • Am then provided with a front row seat to an absolutely incomprehensible series of people entering and exiting (and in one case walking directly into) the door to what I can only presume is the kitchen
  • Starting with the guy who had been sitting at a table chain-smoking over a pile of papers
  • I counted at least three people exiting at least twice without actually entering in between
  • Am finally brought food
  • It is a breaded, butterflied chicken breast approximately the size of my face and a small pile of pasta approximately the size of my fist
  • It is all delicious
  • Chain-smoking papers man reappears, now wearing a chef’s apron labcoat thing
  • Go up to pay, chain-smoking ficus lady is now having a very loud argument in a language I did not recognise but was not Italian Welsh English French russian Gaelic or Spanish
  • She sees me, says, and I quote 'ah little girl lost, one moment’ and promptly hangs up
  • I am 27 and only nominally female
  • I am not remotely lost
  • She charges me for the pint of coke but not the food
  • I try to point out that she hasn’t charged me for the food
  • 'do you want to pay for the food?’
  • ’…. Not if I don’t have to?’
  • 'good’
  • I leave. The door is now full of half a dozen very tall very Italian men and one absolutely adorable cocker spaniel
  • I ask if I can pet the dog (I have my priorities straight okay)
  • I am allowed to pet the dog. The dog and I are now best friends
  • The dog lead holder asks me in extremely accented but impeccably correct English if I had enjoyed the food
  • 'yeah it was great!’
  • Everyone laughs a bit
  • I smile and pet the dog and realise I’m now late for the concert and hurry off


  • I see a post on Tumblr about mob fronts and several connections are made in my brain all at once
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lilyliveredlittlerichboy

me a few years ago: its so weird how right wingers always wanna blame the "elite" given that alot of them are in the global 1% of wealth and therefore almost by definition the same "elite" they claim to hate. weird right? lol right wing logic makes no sense

me now: oh my god they mean Jewish people. its always been Jewish people. and the insistence of online leftists to use words like "elite" and "cabal" (to refer to a handful of ultra rich people who dictate a lot of how our lives are run) kinda makes them sound like antisemites too. maybe this whole idea that the world is run by a select few is a gross oversimplification which only serves to reinforce antisemitic stereotypes... oh no. maybe i have a lot of shit to unlearn. maybe i need to start vocally defending Jewish ppl. also local community building is the only way out of this

lilyliveredlittlerichboy

This post has been making the rounds on jumblr and I've had a few different reactions so I just wanna weigh into some things here.

First up:

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Jews I love you and I'm so glad that this little thoughtramble I wrote a month ago resonated with so many of you. I hope it helps with educating some people on just how widespread and insidious antisemitism is.

Secondly: I'm a gentile so I'm by no means an authority on these things. But a couple fellow gentiles in the notes are saying stuff along the lines of, "but can't we criticise billionnaires?"

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To which I say, watch where you step, cus you're on thin ice. I've learned a litte the past few years and here's my conclusions:

  • Of course a lot of stuff a lot of billionnaires do is reprehensible. On the left we should absolutely be criticising them! The best way to do this while avoiding antisemitism is to be specific about who you're criticising, and what for.
  • E.g. "The people running Exxon, Shell and BP have been sweeping climate change under the rug for decades while actively contributing it, they think their profits are more important than sustaining life on earth and that's abhorrent. We need better laws and processes to stop them from poisoning the planet."
  • E.g. "Elon Musk is a ridiculous manchild who's ruining Twitter and endangering people with his self driving cars and stupid ideas. He's an entitled dickhead and his wealth is mostly derived from colonial exploitation that his parents did. He does not pay enough taxes on what he earns. We need better inheritance laws and to close tax loopholes that allow him and people like him to hoard wealth."
  • E.g. "Jeff Bezos exploits his workers and has an unfair monopoly over online shopping and other convenience services. He needs to pay his taxes and pay his workers more and we need better monopoly laws to stop businesses from being able to control the market like this."

Also, please consider your motives:

  • Are you trying to make a positive difference for, e.g. Amazon workers? Go ahead, raise awareness of their plight and push for unionisation.
  • Are you just trying to find a group that is acceptable to hate? Stop right there and reconsider. No matter how privileged or powerful that supposed group, you're wayyyyyy too close to bigoted talking points.
  • Are you just making sweeping statements in order to rile up emotions and get people on your side? That's fascist tactics. Please don't.

And especially,

  • If you find yourself wanting to say, "I'm not antisemitic, but--" Please just don't say whatever you were going to say. If you have to make that qualification, there is an extremely high probability that what you're about to say is, in fact, very antisemitic. Compare to "I'm not racist but-" or "I'm not transphobic but-" followed by the most vile bigotry you've ever heard. Don't be that person.

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Absolutely correct. The amount of times I've come across online bigots who are like "George Soros is funding BLM!" or "LGBTs are elites trying to plunge this country into immorality!" This is all antisemitism. In general just be wary of anyone wanting to blame "elites" or "rich people" (yeah even that one cus historically Jews are stereotyped to have money!!! and also not all rich ppl are inherently evil!!!!) or "shadow government" or "globalists" or "lizard people" or really, literally anything that seems to imply that a small, select group of people is secretly running the world: That's antisemitism baby. It's all antisemitism. It's disgustingly common.

By all means, criticise billionnaires. But be specific. It's one of the best ways to make sure it's not veering into antisemitism. We know who these billionnaires are, for the most part; we know their names and we know their crimes. Talk about them specifically.

It doesn't help if you just swap out "elites" with "billionnaires" or "the 1%" if the rest of your rhetoric remains the same. It sounds exactly the same to antisemites, and they will feel empowered. In truth, it is much more complicated than "billionnaires are running the world and fucking us all over"; some billionnaires are using their fortune for good, and they don't directly cause our problems - they may exploit a system that was set up long before they were born, sure, but your problems are also caused by Sue from accounting and your neighbour ratting you out to the authorities and that kid across the road yelling slurs at you. Your problems exist because society lets them exist, and that includes everyone. The system makes it hard to fight this, and sure, most billionnaires don't help the issue. But again if you're just looking for someone to hate on, it's very likely you're actually reinforcing oppression rather than "punching up".

Sweeping statements are dangerous and a lot of your talking points have been used to justify genocide in the past. Just cus the world's been a lil less overt about its antisemitism post-Holocaust, does not mean antisemitism has disappeared, far from it. And it's being revived at an alarming rate just now so please, Gentiles, pay attention to what the dogwhistles look like and don't reinforce harmful stereotypes.

Thank you.

PS: A few blogs that have helped me unlearn and unpack antisemitism are @spacelazarwolf, @hadeantaiga and @gehe-lihiyot-androgynos-varda with a special shout out to @softness-and-shattering for being very patient with me rambling about jewish/antisemitism related stuff in dms. Youre all soooo great n I appreciate you soooo much <3

There's also lots of Jewish ppl in the notes of this post, I'm sure a lot of them have lovely blogs to follow.

There's some reading recs in the notes as well:

  • Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel,
  • People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn,
  • The Holocaust: A New History by Laurence Rees

I haven't read these books myself, I've read a preview of Jews Don't Count and it's on my list of books to order when I have more money, but basically, go look at what actual Jewish folks have written on the subject, I'm just a random Gentile who doesn't like bigotry so don't take it just from me.