🦋 bluesky: kaondecay.bsky.social
🖋 AO3: kae_hunter
📷 insta: kaehunter (i barely post there though)
🛏️ pillowfort: kaehunter (haven’t been there in years but might be time to dust it off)
LJ : the-tortis (good grief i have literally only posted once in the past 15 years, i should really go back & weed my old college posts 😰)
Mutuals can DM for discord & signal 🫶
Point sublime, gouache on three wood panels. The centerpiece was painted plein air, left and right panels were finished later using the center + photos for reference.
(I actually like left the best, Grand Canyon just doesn't feel right without those big iconic coconino sandstone buttes)
ppl on ao3 should use the "this work was inspired by" option more. so many fics out there that put links to other fics in the a/n but theres a better option.....
ALT☝️ use this!!!!!!
important addition i forgot that not everyone might know. similar to how ao3 bookmarks work, you can also link to non-ao3 fanworks using this format. so, for instance, if theres some fanart on tumblr that inspired you to write the fic? you can link that fanart to your fic!
If you are any kind of disabled in the uk we need to standup for people with ADHD who the media and political class are deciding to focus their attacks on
Because let me be 100% it will not end with ADHD they will come for us all
Wild that this conversation is happening *again* when this came out this year.
“The costs of untreated ADHD are often overlooked,” said Professor Cortese. “They include increased risk of academic failure, suicidal behaviour, substance abuse, criminality, injury and death. The failure to provide treatments which have been shown to reduce these risks represents a major ethical issue that needs to be urgently addressed."
Emphasis mine. There really should be more focus on the cost of a lack of treatment and the harm which delay of treatment causes.
If I don’t reply to you on discord today it’s because discord believes in reverse racism
The only thing im allowed to do is reacc and upload emojis so im out here on my ouija board shit
We’ve all heard of masculinity in a peacock way, but I’d like to pose a new idea: femininity in an anglerfish way
Combine anglerfish and peacock sexual dimorphism and you get this big awesome predator and her beautiful husband Singular Piece Of Glitter
Pro-censorship wattpad refugees drama is so funny to me because when I started using ao3 as a kid I was a devout mormon and I thought that reading anything even remotely pornagraphic was a sin and would ruin my life. So when I was 13 and found ao3 I went "oh awesome I found a fanfic website with a filtering system so I won't ever randomly stumble into porn. This is great! I was really worried about seeing something I didn't want to see on the other platforms." I didn't read any smut online until like three years later. If a mormon 13 year old can figure out 'don't like don't read' wattpad users can too cmon you guys i believe in you.
something I want to say as a personal statement, speaking for me, Shelby Donahue:
It always troubles me when people talk about trans women (like Meagan and Autumn Hill, my partners who I talk to every day) in men's prisons, describing them as "rape concentration camps" and emphasizing the sexual violence there. Both Meagan and Autumn Hill have told me, explicitly, that the vast majority of their fellow prisoners respect them and respect their gender, and while some prisoners have been threatening (particularly to Meagan), that the violence against them has primarily come from the institutional systems of the guards, wardens, etc. I know this in part because of their actions: Meagan and Autumn Hill have consistently helped their fellow prisoners, with little things like getting artwork to help a prisoner draw a birthday card for his child, or bigger things like helping someone get back in contact with their family. And a lot of prisoners have been supportive to Meagan and Autumn Hill, especially when they know about the Prairieland case. They make snacks to share, trade books, and comfort Meagan when she's feeling particularly sad.
I say all this for two reasons. The first is that prisoners are not all rapists or bigots, and in fact many of them are not even guilty of the crimes they're arrested for. They're an oppressed class of people, even the worst of them, and they deserve to be understood as individuals, not a nameless and faceless mass of violent threats. And, as individuals, a lot of them have been good comrades to Meagan and Autumn Hill. I want people to keep that in mind when thinking about prisoners. There's a lot of racial stereotypes and bigotries in the way people think of prisoners in the USA, and we need to unlearn those things and understand prisoners as people, as our equals.
The second reason is that you, and me, and everyone we know may end up in jail, or prison. I think about that a lot - getting raided by the FBI will have that effect on you. If we end up in prison, we have to understand the risks and dangers realistically, without excessive fear or unrealistic optimism. And I think it's important people know the facts about what prison is like, and what prisoners are like. Not everyone is violent in prison - but everyone there is the victim of a lot of violence. There are potential friends and allies everywhere.
#a lot of people should make more friends with people who’ve done time
^^^this (which also applies any number of other things the media will have a lot of incentive to get horribly, horribly wrong)
They're sending a trans woman to prison for life over the fact that she attended an anti-ICE protest where a cop died (she had already left the protest when the 'violence' started)
please stop making stuff up to fit this nonsense separatism and read what hill actually has to say
I do not believe in 50 years. I don’t. Maybe I’m in denial but I still kind of don’t believe that I’m actually going to serve out this whole sentence and I think there’s a little reason for optimism in that regard. There is a big movement of support for a political pardon for us from the next Democratic president of the United States. My mother told me that my father said that the next time a Democratic president is in office, he’s going to write him a letter to ask for a pardon for me. And that was the first positive interaction that I’ve had with my dad in five years. And when I heard that, I just burst into tears and, like, just became hysterical for five minutes because it was just the perfection of the absurdity of the time to me. My arch-conservative father, who I can’t really stand to be in the same room as right now because of his transphobia, that he would do this thing, right, like appeal to a Democratic president on my behalf. And it really shows this bipartisan sentiment that this is obviously unjust, this is obviously political. You know, if this arch-conservative and I can find common ground over the belief that this is a political persecution, I think that there’s a very strong chance for some future good thing to come our way out of that.
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[interviewer]: Is there anything else I didn’t ask you that you want to get out, that you wanna say in this context? Obviously, people will see this and I know you have limited connection to the outside world.
AH: I would say the same thing that I’ve said before, which is: Be brave. We’ve been accused of being terrorists, but terror is the power that this administration wants to ply in order to keep people quiet, in order to keep people content. Fear of incarceration, fear of homelessness, you know, it’s this fear, this fear that we’re going to lose our privileges, that we are going to use our comfort, that keeps people docile, keeps people from speaking the truth. Don’t be afraid.
https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/autumn-hill-speaks-from-jail-after
i have to bring this up every time I see this: nobody died at the protest Autumn Hill was at. A cop suffered minor injuries. Autumn Hill wasn't even present when that happened.
as for the tweet that was screenshotted: her fellow protestors are in prison alongside her, that's why they're not protesting to demand her release. Here's a website with more information about the whole case. We're still trying to bring them all home, regardless of gender
i think that there's a specific annoyance about ao3 discourse that is hard to capture. of like. the site exists to allow everything. thats their main thing. and people keep seeking it out when the censorship gets too intense on their site and then getting mad that they allow everything. and it's like. i don't even necessarily think it's wrong to want specific content moderation. i don't agree with it but i think while having specific archives with certain rules is not for me, if people want to create them for each other... sure. but you're getting screwed by corporate censorship, going to the everything webbed site and then going whoa there's everything here. like ya man. you came here to find the banned stuff. idk. does anyone understand what I'm talking about.
They can make their own. They can very much make their own! AO3's code is open and can be freely taken to make your own fanfiction website! As an example, I just found out a Star Trek fanfiction community used the code to migrate to AO3's code base.
They seem to be a little stricter than AO3 (no RPF for "anyone still alive or dead within the past fifty years, who is not a notable historical figure of some type" is an example(I guess cause Lincoln was canonically in star trek as were a number of other figures), as well as works that they consider to be harassing others. They allow works exploring themes of racism, much like how Trek itself does, but are trying to take a harder line on works that seem to intentionally be written to cause harm under a general harassment clause))
Their site, their rules, and that proves the point.
If the people attacking AO3 or trying to make it something it's not really, really wanted to, they could make their own. They can make their own with their own rules and their hyperspecific 'my banned content is okay but yours isn't.'
And that's part of the whole point of AO3.
