Wanted a fun way to ring in the New Year with fellow trekkies! I'm calling it the Captain Year challenge - I'm a huge "new year new me" ass bih so I thought these would help me get my life together and I'm striving to embrace my ~captain energy~ in 2026.

Tag me if you fill one out!

You can save them here or download pdf in stan.store/zilatreks 🖖🏽

said this as part of a larger point in a reblog but I'm gonna make it its own post:

humans have the right to do things that are mildly bad for us sometimes.

I think we should actually talk about the level of privilege involved when we see people post online about their 24 hour psych hold. Which they come out of with comparatively minimal trauma and a bunch of "funny" stories about the other people locked up with them.

Because I want to de-center their voices for once. We hear about psych wards from that sort of perspective a lot- where the person has a short term stay for something like acute suicidality or depressive symptoms. And the experience they have is that of a brief "holiday" or an inconvenient day-long hold. And they meet "strange" and "properly mentally ill" people (to paraphrase their narrations).

So. What about these mentally ill people they meet on the ward, then? The people living on wards longer term? The people who live most of their adult lives inside closed psychiatric units? The people who will die on the ward? The people held against their will? The people who have been imprisoned, and the key thrown away? The people who aren't fully aware of the world around them? The people who are experiencing a different world of their own? The people who are so heavily medicated that they're barely awake? The people who are in so much distress that all they can do is scream and cry and fight back against staff? The people who have endless trauma from restraints, injected sedatives and lost autonomy? The people whose lives have been restricted to the monotony of ward rounds and medication time?

They're not stories for someone's tiktoks. They're not the backdrop to someone's 24 hour hold. They're real people. They're real and they matter. And their voices and lives need to be centred when we talk about psychiatric units.

There are people who live in psychiatric units (often against their will) for years. Decades. The majority of their lives, even. People die in psych wards. And their voices are often forcibly removed from these conversations- be it through dehumanisation, saneism, trauma, or the fact that they're often still behind the walls of a psych ward. Or because their lives have ended whilst imprisoned.

When we talk about anti-psychiatry, psych abolition and psych wards, I beg you, think of these people first. Remember them, uplift them and their stories. Centre them. Always.

It's a bigger story than a 24 hour window. It's about stories spanning weeks, months, years, decades.

A lot of people don't get the option to leave after 24 hours. To go voluntarily, willingly. To experience little to no trauma on psych wards. To have their bodily autonomy in tact.

So what I'm trying to say is... Please, please remember that behind every "quirky" 24 hour hold story, there are decades of pain, saneist violence, societal exclusion and psychiatric abuse. Zoom out. The picture is bigger, and the story is longer.

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Stargate SG-1, 03.16 Urgo

So it's come my attention that there are a lot of students, particularly in humanities and social sciences disciplines, who need to hear this, so here goes:

Do the readings.

Oh my God, just do the readings. I promise, it gets easier once you get into the habit of it.

What makes a good student? Doing the readings. Literally just doing the readings is enough to make you a good student.

Department of HHS Document 2025-23465

On Thursday December 18th, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services under Donald Trump and RFK Jr. announced a proposed rule that would create an unprecedented attack on gender affirming care. In regards to this specific rule it would apply to care for individuals under the age of 18, but if passed it would open the door for further regulation that restricts care for all transgender people and enforces policies that further encourage non-consensual treatments for intersex individuals. Before this new regulation can go into place, though, it is required to undergo a 60 day public comment period. Then, the DHHS must sift through, categorize, and consider all unique comments before it can begin to institute this policy. Public comment periods can get proposed rules and regulations nixed entirely, but they can also delay them. Some proposed regulations have been delayed by an entire decade before by the quantity of unique and relevant comments the departments had to sift through. The comment period for this proposed rule is open now, and it will remain open until February 17th of 2026

(Apologies for any formatting errors, this was copy and pasted between Tumblr and a separate document several times due to technical difficulties. I believe I found all of the links it removed, but if anyone notices locations where I say I am going to link something and nothing is there, please let me know)

I'm going to put together bullet points for people to draw inspiration from with relevant comments that include contradictions and current laws that go against this proposed rule. I will also include a sentence-long copy-paste intro that has the information required for your comment to be counted.

Copy/paste: Regarding Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 42 CFR Part 482 CMS-3481-P, RIN 0938-AV87

Here is a step by step guide on how to write effective public comments. I've seen a lot of disagreement from people familiar with public comment periods on whether you should make an effort to write a formal comment or not, but my personal philosophy on this is that if all you can do is throw something simple together, that is what you should do. If you have the time and energy to do something more intensive then there is a chance that that will be more likely to be heard and seen, but if you would be able to submit nothing at all otherwise it's best to submit something that is informal, quick, and simple. Something is better than nothing, essentially.

Posted January 6th, 2026

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Further, some authors may never even find out the lawsuit is happening. The court's suggested notification scheme "would require class claimants to themselves notify other potential rightsholders," groups said, overlooking the fact that it cost Google $34.5 million "to set up a 'Books Rights Registry' to identify owners for payouts under the proposed settlement" in one of the largest cases involving book authors prior to the AI avalanche of lawsuits.

If you're an author, please use this database to see if you could qualify for that sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

I have never ever ever in my life asked someone to blaze my posts.

But if you want to throw me some pennies blaze this. I want ALL OF THE AUTHORS to know that they have the opportunities to get some sweet sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

Like to charge. Reblog to cast that Anthropic will have to pay out the ass.

-fae

General reminder that using AI to "write" "your" "fics" is like buying a scarf to take to the knitting group.

Not only did you not produce anything and tried to pretend that you did, you fully failed to grasp that the point of the hobby is to slowly go through the creative process and struggle to make things with people who share your interest.

It's not supposed to be good. It's not supposed to be done.

It's supposed to be a group activity.