Dancing on Air
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I have started unironically doing this. It is DEVASTATINGLY effective. You make friends SO easily.
Stop wishing people would do this and be the person who does this.
It also increases the amount of quality friends you get. Because people who are receptive to this kind of blunt openness tend to be people that arent going to look at you weird if you make a minor blunder
What I expected would happen:
Me: hi I am a weird nerd who more or less taught themself a conlang a few years back
Them: that’s weird go away
What happened:
Me: hi I am a weird nerd who more or less taught themself a conlang a few years back
Them: I would never do that! But I did do equally niche weird thing I like!
Me: I would not do that thing, but I think it and you are cool.
Them: You are cool also. Keep being weird.
Me: Please do the same and please tell me cool things about it.
Them: Deal. We are friends now.
Me: What. How did this occur. Yay.
(via jewishpangolin)
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Yeah I said something similar yesterday but we can NOT let what happened to Renee Good cloud what happened to everyone else at the hands of these SS Demons!!!
Because we can’t disregard one person if we’re for human rights!
The above screenshot reads:
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renee Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y'all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
(Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com)The second screenshot above reads:
Renee Nicole Good wasn’t the first killed by ICE...
In 2025, ICE murdered:
Silverio Villegas Gonzalez
Carlos Roberto Montoya Valdez
Genry Ruiz Guillén
Serawit Gezahagn Dejane
Maksym Chernyak
Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez
Brayan Garzón-Rayo
Nhon Ngoc Nguyen
Marie Ange Blaise
Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado
Jesus Molina-Veya
Johnny Noviello
Isidro Pérez
Tien Xuan Phan
Chaofeng Ge
Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas
Oscar Rascon Duarte
Norlan Guzman-Fuentes
Miguel Ángel García Medina
Johnny Noviello
Santos Banegas Reyes
Ismael Ayala-Uribe
Norlan Guzman-Fuentes
Miguel Ángel García Medina
Huabing Xie
Leo Cruz-Silva
Hasan Ali Moh’D Saleh
Josué Castro Rivera
Gabriel Garcia Aviles
Kai Yin Wong
Francisco Gaspar-Andrés
Pete Sumalo Montejo
Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani
Jean Wilson Brutus
Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir
Delvin Francisco Rodriguez
Nenko Stanev Gantchev
In 2026, ICE has murdered 2 people:
Keith Porter [New years eve 2025]
Renee Nicole Good
-From the ICE_Raids Community on RedditAnd to all of our lovely WWC Followers, particularly those in the United States:
Take care. Take care of each other, your community, yourselves.
Travel in groups and make sure your loved ones know where you are. And absolutely know your rights.
And even in troubled times, try to find a spark of hope, creativity and comfort and hold onto it. For even joy is resistance.
Resources
For those who can support:
I’ve included the verified GoFundMe for Keith Porter’s daughters.
~Mod Colette & WWC Team
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I might be a little biased but I’m honestly starting to believe that there’s no purer form of love than the defensive spite you see from biologists that have devoted their life to the study of a maligned or misunderstood species. For example:
The hyena biologist that arranged for Disney animators to come sketch captive hyenas for The Lion King film (Laurence Frank) was so incensed when the animals were depicted as villains in the movie that he later included boycotting the film on a list of ways the average person could help hyena conservation.
Though it’s commonly known that Charles Darwin’s distaste for parasitic wasps played a role in his development of evolution theory (since he felt no loving God would create animals with such a disturbing life cycle), the biologists who study these wasps find it an unfair characterization. When they were tasked with coming up with a common name for the family of parasitic wasps (Ichneumonidae) that old Charles so disliked, they proposed the name “Darwin Wasps” to spite the famous naturalist who had insulted their beloved family of insects.
Parasitologist Tommy Leung was so frustrated with the way people write about parasites to evoke horror and gore that he started writing a Parasite of the Day blog, that specifically avoids inflammatory or unsettling language to describe them. He also illustrates different species in colorful anime art on Twitter in a series called Parasite Monster Girls—which he calls his “love letter to parasites.”
I guess I’m just saying that if you’re a biologist studying an unpopular species and you have a little bit of a chip on your shoulder about it you can always count on me to be in your corner if you want to get a little petty with the public!
(via robinade)
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Be honest: Have you ever loved reading fanfiction for a pairing you don’t actually know, without any intention to ever read or watch the actual source material?
Yes. In fact the fanfic convinced me to give the source material a try.
(via robinade)
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it’s good for your mental health to have mutuals who are wildly horny about kinks which do nothing at all for you
this is both as in. sometimes you will realise that actually these kinks do do something for you and that can be very eye-opening and liberating
and also as in. sometimes you will hear someone decry these kinks as indicative of moral failing, and being friends with people like this makes you immune to that sort of knee-jerk outrage
Also primes you for awareness that there are a lot of people who like a lot of things you don’t like or even that make you uncomfortable, and that is okay, has nothing to do with their character, and is also none of your business.
It’s always good practice. Remember that minding your own business costs $0 and has numerous health benefits.
“Having freaky friends to immunise you against moral panic” is a take so good I can’t believe I don’t hear it more often.
“I have been attending the Devil’s sacrament with you perverts for three weeks straight and you haven’t awakened a fucking thing in me.”
(via queenitsy)
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“these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄” ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it’s a good thing that they’re amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence
they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.
Sometimes “they” are us who got an entire graduate degree for the explicit purpose of saying this stuff where academics might take it seriously.
(via robinade)
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If you could add one luxury room from a mansion to your own home, which would you choose?
the indoor heated pool
the greenhouse
the entire room devoted to a single cat / dog
the fully-supplied art studio
the two-story library with rolling ladder
the room-size aquarium
home theater
the formal ballroom
the oversize garage
the game room
I heard of a place with [tag] once, gimme gimme
all of these would make me a worse person
(via words-writ-in-starlight)
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Apparently, my decision to be silly and make fanart of someone’s writing (because I genuinely enjoy the story the person is writing and I was struck with inspiration upon reading a particular scene) has benevolent and wildly unforeseen consequences.
- I apparently gained a bit of control of the canon because said writer really loved the art and decided what I drew/draw is canon.
2. Writer put said artwork into the document of his story right below the scene, so now it’s IN the story where people who read the story will see it (with a link to me)
3. He sent the artwork to all his friends and people he knows because he was so excited
Wholesome interaction and I watched him do all that in real time, good stuff. However…there are two more consequences I was notified of today…nearly a full week after I gave the artwork.
- Seeing the artwork caused his friends to become interested in reading and hearing about his story, which means more people are reading what he’s writing and giving him critique on the story (which he actively asks for).
- Apparently, upon seeing the art, his writer friends got a sudden second wind to pick back up writing they’d abandoned for a few months. Because, I quote, “seeing that someone enjoyed {his} writing enough to take the time to make art of it gave them the motivation that maybe THEY can write something that will inspire someone to also create something.” I have accidentally caused a writing frenzy among his writer friends and my silly idea to make art for someone has had a butterfly effect for people who I don’t even know.
Uhh…I’m pretty sure there’s a moral here but I am tired and have a great deal of emotions about this.
The moral is draw fanarts.
Having experienced similar things in reverse (having written fic inspired by art) – the moral is GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS.
Fandom is a community.
If something inspires you, let the op know!
If you drew or wrote something for them, let them know!
If you like something you see, let them, and everyone else know!
Interact, share, and encourage! That’s what keeps fandoms alive and kicking!
(via robinade)
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ALTWhen the hurricane hit, the were SO many conspiracy theories floating around about it. That the hurricane was deliberately created via cloud seeding in order to kill off Christian republican voters and take the land. That the death toll was in the thousands and that the ~250 was a deliberate lie. That the entire population of towns were dead and missing. That the mainstream media was covering it up. You had disaster influencers on TikTok fundraising for basic necessities claiming that thousands were dead and dying of cold and the like. (Pocketing the funds of course).
They created this weird mass hysteria about a natural disaster being created to attack republicans and… republicans left them out in the cold.
(Obligatory ‘no one deserves this based on who they voted for & also the margin was pretty thin.) These rural communities are overwhelmingly republican, with urban NC being where most of those dem votes are… and still the republicans can’t even pretend to care about their core constituents. Unfortunately, we’ve seen time and time again that no matter how hard rural America gets fucked by republicans, they see it as ‘the government’, while anything that benefits anyone but them is a crime by ‘the liberals’… and even the things they do benefit from are a crime by ‘the liberals’.
Regardless of who is actually responsible for what, the GOP is credited with any positive changes, the dems are raked over the coals for anything that’s less-than-perfect, and anything that is undeniably a republican decision is simply The Government (with no expectation of accountability).
Oh my. I’ve been waiting for this to happen for almost fifteen years.
Not the “(((they))) are controlling the weather to wipe out Christian Republicans” and all of the other conspiracy shit, no. What I’ve been waiting for is the storm that would wipe out coastal homes in North Carolina, and I’ve been waiting since 2012.
Why 2012?
Because in 2012, the North Carolina General Assembly passed Replacement House Bill 819, which, being blunt and sarcastic, tried to outlaw sea level rise.
More technically, in order to keep the high valuation of beachside developments and properties from crashing due to the accurate fact-based assessment that they’d be worthless in a few decades due to climate change, as “beachfront property” is worth a lot, but “underwater property” is not…
Well, to keep those properties and investments from having to face that reality of their future residents being shellfish and tidal pools, the General Assembly made it illegal to use science-based models to predict how high sea level change would go over the next century. Instead, they mandated that a simple linear increase based on historical data would be used–saying that the sea level would change by only 8 inches (20 cm) by 2100… instead of the 3 feet (1 meter) that climate science was predicting. That way, all of those pricy developments on the Outer Banks and beachfronts would maintain their high assessed worth… at least until the sea and storms showed up and said to the General Assembly, “What, are you going to arrest the ocean?”
Which has now happened.
And, just as predicted back in 2012, the insurance companies are taking one look at this and going, “Nuh uh”.
As that article I linked up above notes at the close…
In short, HB819 proposes a number of potentially far-reaching changes that may result in unintended consequences for coastal property owners, local governments, insurers, emergency managers and other organizations and agencies.
And now those consequences are here.
I want to be very clear here, what happened with Helene and the fallout is not just an issue effecting North Carolina. It is effecting disaster response as a whole. After disasters, FEMA does what’s called door-knocking. Essentially they go on foot in these effected areas and go door to door/encampment to encampment to make sure everyone knows what help is available to them, help people fill out forms, provide resources to do it if you don’t have internet and such, etc..
Except they don’t do it anymore. And it is in large part because of Helene. The rhetoric around it was so violent, and the rumors that FEMA was going to steal people’s houses were so pervasive, the door-knockers were threatened over and over, even had guns pulled on them. How true this is doesn’t particularly matter, it may have just been more rumors, but either way it resulted in door-knocking being stopped for Helene and eventually stopped entirely. It is not a thing FEMA does anymore.
Now, to get individual post-disaster assistance if you don’t have a way to access the internet or a working phone, you will have to go to dedicated facilities. Can’t get there due to disability or injury? Don’t have a way to access news about where those facilities even are and how they work? All the roads washed out or impassible due to debris? Too bad, you’re on your own now.
So not only is the aid being delayed if not fully withheld for the Helene survivors, many of them may not have even had help in the initial application process the way they should have, and now in every disaster going forward, other people are going to face the exact same thing.
This government has done so many horrific things, but FEMA specifically has drawn some of the highest levels of ire and destruction. We’ll be feeling the effects for a long, long time, and I truly hope we find ways to fix things sooner rather than later.
Side note:
If you live in a disaster-prone part of the USA, it might be worthwhile to download and fill out the Emergency Financial First Aid Kit, especially if FEMA isn’t going to be helping you work through that anymore. We initially got ours from the FEMA site, but it looks like there are a few other places out there.
If/when you need to evacuate your home, take it with you.
It’ll give you a head start on all the paperwork mess you’re going to have to fill out and you’ll have all the information you need with you already.
(via words-writ-in-starlight)
