hopeless-and-lesbian:

I’m in the mood to lay in bed with a partner and be held very very tightly. I want to hold their arms as we spoon and fall asleep feeling safe and protected. Just the two of us.

charlesoberonn:

blackshirley:

itstimetomotivate:

I promise. Doing it scared will you give you the best results in the end. I’m learning to step more out of my comfort zone this year, and so far I’m proud of myself.

transformativeworks:

The OTW is pleased to announce that the 11 millionth fanwork has been posted to the Archive of Our Own. From fic to fanart to podfic, every fanwork on AO3 is the result of someone’s love for and dedication to transformative fandom, and we’re grateful for each and every one of your contributions. AO3 wouldn’t be what it is without you!

We’ve hit 11 million fanworks just six months after reaching 10 million fanworks last October. In those six months, Accessibility, Design & Technology has rolled out the ability to mute works, bookmarks, and comments from specific users; Open Doors has imported over 16,000 fanworks from at-risk and offline archives; Tag Wrangling has wrangled over two million tags; and Policy & Abuse and Support have answered approximately 10,000 tickets each. We’re excited to continue to grow and support fans in the coming months, and we look forward to seeing what you create as we do!

boggmann:

Sunday

typewriter-worries:

sproutlett:

forgive yourself again and again and again and again and again

love letters, victoria chang

that-house:

that-house:

that-house:

that-house:

Making a shitty one-page RPG called Oh Shit It’s the Killer. The premise is simple: you’re a high schooler spending the weekend in the woods with your besties. The Killer is there also. He is trying to the Kill you

I say shitty not to demean the quality of my work but because it’s less an exercise in good game design and more an attempt to induce paranoid internal conflict that turns into murder (in game of course). It has like three mechanics and one of them actively encourages you to murder the other PCs

Great news!

It’s done

I put like three braincells into this, so if there’s anything about it that outright sucks, uh. Sorry not sorry, L + ratio + let’s use the 1-page restriction as an excuse for any unfun mechanics

“What if there was a game about being a genre-savvy slasher protagonist murdering their way to the role of Final Girl?”

“Sounds cool when exactly does the PvP start”

“character creation”

sergeant-angels-trashcan:

Yall remember how Texas had that “report an abortion” form that they had to take down after a week?

Well, Missouri has one, only it’s for reporting transgender concerns.

Comrades. Friends. Romans. Countrymen. You know what to do.

teslacoils-and-hubris:

Micro-dosing on reanimating corpses by going to build a bear

toaster-trash:

I KNOW I DID NOT SPENT 10 HOURS ON THIS IN MY GCSE ART EXAM NOT TO POST IT HERE holy shit I am dying and I’m going to go make coffee and listen to The Magnus Archives

ALT

did-you-know:

Boketto is a Japanese word that means ‘gazing vacantly into the distance without really thinking about anything specific’. 

(Source, Source 2)

lakecountylibrary:

Bill Criminalizing Librarians Revived - again.

April 21, 2023:

After the sound defeat of language calling for felony charges against librarians and educators in SB 12 and SB 380 earlier in April, the Indiana legislature is once more considering criminalizing librarians and educators for the materials on their shelves.

Here’s the Indiana Capital Chronicle on the situation:

Indiana lawmakers suggest a likely revival of “obscene and harmful” library materials ban - Indiana Capital Chronicle

Indiana lawmakers are mum about the revival of a much-debated ban on materials deemed “harmful to minors” in school and public libraries.

Indiana Capital Chronicle

The legislators themselves don’t know yet what bill the language will be slipped into, but we expect they’ll hear it next week, possibly as early as Monday, April 24.

What To Do:

They’re moving fast, so if you live in Indiana and feel strongly about libraries and censorship, please call your reps and senators NOW. Even if you already contacted them earlier this session!

Here’s how to find and contact your legislators: https://iga.in.gov/legislative/find-legislators/

Here are some talking points and the general gist of our concerns:

• Charging librarians and educators with felonies is not an appropriate response to the issue of challenging books.
• It is a librarian or educator’s job to ensure that children have access to a range of well-reviewed quality books. They are trained and follow objective processes for material selection.
• Libraries and schools already have processes in place for challenging books on their shelves, and these processes work.

And here’s our own webpage where you can catch up on the situation and stay updated: https://www.lcplin.org/billupdates

If you don’t live in Indiana:

Please do not contact the Indiana legislature about this! Instead, you can just hit that reblog button and help us reach as many people as possible.

Thank you, everyone, for your continued support of libraries and librarians!!