Hey, the ACLU is getting people to send letters to your Reps to have Congress pass the No Kings Act.

This act would make constitutional amendments to ensure that even sitting presidents are held liable for their actions. That NOBODY is above the law.

Their goal is 150k messages sent and at the time of writing this they're about 2.1k off from that goal!

ACLU gives you a prefilled message that you can edit to send to make the process easier, and will send it out for you.

This only takes a few minutes!

Things baked into Terry Pratchett books that I didn't realise at first but very much needed and benefited from:

Being unpleasant, weird, socially difficult, off-putting, uncomfortable to be around, annoying, obnoxious, etc does not equal being a bad person

And it definitely doesn't mean others don't have a duty of baseline care about you

They don't have to like you but there is a baseline "we live in a society and I care about what happens to the people around me" type of duty that you are owed

They can think you're unpleasant to be around and even stupid and cringe in your presence but there is a duty of care to your existence

And if you are doing bad things you can stop

There are always chances to think about your actions and why you're doing them and if you really believe it's the right thing

There is always an option to stop

And some people do

And some people don't

But if people do that doesn't mean they aren't still maybe unpleasant to be around or awkward or uncomfortable

The "bad guys" in Terry Pratchett tend to

1. Believe they are in the right

2. Never question that belief

3. Have multiple opportunities to not be doing what they are doing but fully commit

4. May have points that at least feel reasonable on a surface level if you don't think about them too deeply

5. Face consequences of their own actions. Which includes the protagonist having to slap them down. If they didn't put the stuff in motion and refuse to back down they wouldn't be getting slapped

They aren't cartoon baddies they are really realised characters with convictions that they believe in and truly tend to believe their actions are the best thing to be doing. That they are doing what others should have already done

But in Terry Pratchett what makes you on the wrong side of the narrative is not your personality or your looks or how sociable you are

It's your continuing actions that define you AND your unwillingness to change

And I think I very much needed that reinforced in my life

Discworld Heritage Post

This feels very timely.

Alex Dimitrov, from “Together and by Ourselves”

Listen, the people who think the bear is inaccurate are wrong and have never been apart of the work force or even worked a job where management is unstable. You think you’re walking into your normal, slightly chaotic retail job and suddenly the sprinkler system is going off for the second time in a year and everyone’s running around trying to figure out what to do, and then your manager is screaming about an electrical fire and you’re staring at the gushing sprinkler knowing you’re gonna have to mop up tons of water and throw away tons of clothes later, and the regular customers who always come in are ready to throw a fit because they can’t buy their used clothes despite seeing 6 fire trucks outside the business and yet… it ends up being okay because at least it’s not like the first time where a chunk of ceiling fell down and you had to pick giant pieces of it in standing water. The water is soaking your socks but it’s okay, you smoked half a cig before having to come back inside. You might have had a tiny panic attack, but it’s okay you got pizza for lunch. And maybe, just maybe, you had a little fun mopping up dirty water with your rag tag coworkers.

I would say vote if you can tomorrow and then no matter who wins, get involved in your local community.

No matter who wins, we will need community organizing to survive. We need to fight for more affordable and walkable neighborhoods. You should attend neighborhood meetings if you are able. If nothing else just talk to your neighbors and get to know them. Community is key to us getting through it all alive.

Voting is important but you have so much more power and capability to create change beyond the ballot box. Whether it's fighting for bike lanes and transit, supporting affordable housing, joining a canvassing group, attending community gatherings and input meetings, answering surveys put out by local government, protesting injustices in your community, volunteering to help homeless people or any number of other things. You have to be involved in community because that is what gets us through things and you have to pay attention to local government because that is where real change is possible to achieve

when internet people are like “i love gothic literature but i hate anything that discusses incest, sexual violence, oppression, misogyny, abuse, torture, gore, murder, or death”

no actually me and everyone else who’s ever watched crimson peak were brainwashed by guillermo del toro into believing that incest and violence are cool and awesome. sorry

Horrifying that this pearl-clutching over horror actually being dark is unironically becoming A Thing…

(tags via @waterandsilver, id in alt)

I would like a break from profound mediations on grief and examinations of trauma.

𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬

𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭.𝐜𝐨𝐦

Dracula author Bram Stoker's long lost ghost story Gibbet Hill has been found in an 1890 Christmas supplement of a Dublin newspaper!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9119l64qo

~Kambriel

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I keep seeing people making fun of using growled, hissed, roared, snarled etc in writing and it’s like.

have you never heard someone speak with the gravel in their voice when they get angry? Because that’s what a growl is.

Have you never heard someone sharply whisper something through the thin space of their teeth? Or when your mother sharply told you to stop it in public as a kid when you were acting up/being too loud? Because that’s what a hiss is.

Have you never heard a man get so blackout angry that their voice BOOMS through the house? Because that’s what a roar is.

Have you never seen someone bare their teeth while talking to accentuate their frustration or anger while speaking with a vicious tone? Because that’s what snarling is.

It’s not meant to be a literal animal noise. For the love of god, not every description is literal. I get some people are genuinely confused, but also some of these people are genuinely unimaginative as fuck.

As a horror guy I vehemently do not support hatred towards romance girlies. Sister genres in my opinion. We both enjoy familiar tropes. We both enjoy interesting relationship dynamics explored between two or more people. We both enjoy werewolves.