Happy lesbian visability week! If you're looking to help a cute lil lesbian I still need $312 to get through the month (granted that's if i can avoid buying any more groceries).

Work and selling my ass online while being perpetually burnt out is not cutting it 😬

Cashapp: $bittersweetener

Venmo: bitter_sweetener

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I'm an autistic, non-binary POC who needs help to maintain my housing. My rent is due at the end of the month. I work a job, but I suffered a mental health crisis that's just been ongoing for the past few months. Every day is filled with emptiness and meltdowns and just stress on stress. In the past, I have had to rely on credit cards and adult online entertainment to make ends meet. I simply no longer possess the spoons to mask long enough to do that at this point. It's very draining to have a job that takes up all your energy AND sexualize yourself online to just afford to live. Please please please reblog and donate if you can. I am only asking for $200 total to just pay rent. My other bills are kinda on. The back burner until I can at least make this payment. I have so far made $20/$200 in both donations and drawing requests. See my pinned post if you want to see some doodles.

VENMO: bitter_sweetener

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$180 to go!!!!

Rhys Darby - Desert Sparrow - Karma (Music Video)

Oh if only I were a sexy Sasquatch 🥺😅

Every Instance of Gnossienne 5 in Our Flag Means Death

I was just really hit by how the first scene where this music appears is when Ed and Stede are together for the first time and Stede tells Ed 'You fancy a fine fabric'.

Knowing the meaning fine things have for them afterwards this just melted my heart ❤️

I've seen a lot of OFMD fans pointing at other fan campaigns recently, especially the failed campaign to save Anne with an E, and getting disheartened by what they see, and I think something that's missing in those discussions (particularly after the weirdly negative slant at the end of that Guardian article) is that not all fan campaigns are the same.

The campaigns to save shows that started out on Netflix (Warrior Nun, Sense8, Anne with an E, Shadow and Bone, etc.) are very different to what we are facing with OFMD, because Netflix is much more protective of its IP - and yes, they even hold the IP of shows that they've cancelled tightly to their chests and very rarely let them go. Some have been able to make the jump to different platforms, but not many, and it's actually pretty hard to do so (“For most shows, shopping away from Netflix is reportedly very difficult when Netflix owns the underlying IP”).

Because of this, fans of shows cancelled by Netflix are often campaigning directly for Netflix to reverse that decision, rather than campaigning to get it picked up elsewhere. Warrior Nun (I saw people panicking at the length of effort and the numbers they had to put in before they got their success) and Sense8 were both granted final films by Netflix to wrap up their stories after long-running successful fan campaigns - they were not saved by a different platform, and likely couldn't have been because of Netflix's strict grip on its IP. So comparing ourselves to fan campaigns for shows cancelled by Netflix isn't accurate or fair to us or to those other campaigns.

It's also worth pointing out that Anne with an E was a joint venture between Netflix and CBC, and that relationship appears to have fallen apart, which may have been a factor in its cancellation (see more at this tweet). This is also likely a contributing factor as to why, despite the campaign to save it being huge, it didn't get the reprieve from Netflix that other shows have received. That is baggage that OFMD simply doesn't have.

OFMD is in a very different position to many of the shows that were cancelled by Netflix and then went on to have fan campaigns around them, in that we have confirmation from HBO Max that they are happy for it to be shopped around. HBO Max is not holding a firm grip on the IP the way that Netflix does. We are able to try to find OFMD a new home. And that's a very different sort of campaign and trajectory than trying to convince the platform that cancelled us to reverse/amend their decision (I'd also argue it's slightly easier - nothing is certain, nothing is easy, but I think we have a better chance being allowed to look for someone else to pick us up rather than relying on the company that cancelled us to show us mercy).

Yes, some fan campaigns have had many more petition signatures than us (don't sniff at 80,000 signatures in two weeks, that's huge and fast), but that is only one part of the story. Petition signatures alone won't be the thing that clinches it. There are fan campaigns with hundreds of thousands of signatures that have failed, but there are also fan campaigns with way less signatures than us that have seen their show saved. There's so many elements at play, and every single one is unique. It's very tempting to play 'like for like' with these sorts of campaigns, but it's simply not a truthful reflection of the situation.

Every show is different. Every fan campaign is different.

We have every reason to be hopeful, and every reason to keep fighting. OFMD's numbers are good, it's already incredibly marketable to other streamers, and then ON TOP of that the fan reaction has been loud enough for a lot of people to take notice.

Yes, we're in a dip right now because that's what happens - every campaign has peaks and troughs because nothing sustains at the same level forever, and, again, it's only been just over two weeks and look at what we've done - but the impact we had, and the noise we made, happened at exactly the right time and kept happening for long enough to make an impression. A lot of things will be happening behind the scenes right now that we don't know about, and there's so many factors at play that we have no control over. It's a long game.

So don't look at other fan campaigns and be disheartened by what you see. Because what you see on the surface is nowhere near close to the full picture.

Even if we don't get our S3, lets celebrate the fact that we have made a huge impression, kicked up a huge stink, and been the thorn in the side of some people who absolutely fucking needed a couple of thorns in their side. And I think that's the best legacy that our rebellious little gay pirate show could possibly have.

i’ve had the same library card for sixteen years, since the public library came to my kindergarten class and handed them out to anyone who wanted one. one time i used it when i was around 17 and the person checking me out said i could get one of the “more grown up-looking cards” if i wanted. absolute foolery. this is one of my most prized possessions

OUGH.....who would ever willingly give up such a precious item....this is toadally amazing

I wish I could have kept using one of my old cards, it had a really cute bookworm character on it but sadly I went too long without using it and I had to get a new card the next time I went to that library :c Please treasure this he is SO cute

Two-year-old Albert Apsassin feeling the spirit at National Indigenous Peoples Day in Camrose, Alberta.

everyone look at my seal rolls

The 50th anniversary of AIMs (American Indian Movement's) occupation at Wounded Knee is coming up, so the Lakota People's Law Project is leading another push to free an AIM activist who was wrongly convicted of killing two federal agents in 1975- Leonard Peltier. He was convicted on false evidence and false testimony and sentenced to two life sentences. He is now 78.

LPL has a formatted email up on their website now which you can personalize and send to Biden to ask for clemency. (Please personalize emails like this so it doesn't get filtered as spam. Just move some words around, add some, take some, you don't have to write a whole email.) Please pass this around.

I want to talk about Taika Waititi the artist, because I've been thinking about Boy for two days. (Fucking hate this caveat, but any hate earns an instant block and I will turn off anon if I have to.)

Almost every one of his films is about the power of love to heal. What makes his work more profound is that this is not a naive "love conquers all/love saves the day" narrative. People die. People are hurt. Generational trauma warps. Homes and nations can be broken by their past and their people's unwillingness to face it. Fascism can't be overcome by love alone. Parents can't protect their children from darkness. Children can't escape from what the adult world forces on them. Love is not going to fix all the problems and make all the bad shit go away.

But love can make the world better and survivable. The past can't be undone and the future can be uncertain, but loving others, and yourself, can make life worth living even in the midst of deep sorrow. Some of it is in forgiveness—forgiving previous generations for the harm they've caused (Boy, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Thor: Ragnarok, and Jojo Rabbit all deal with this)—but it is also forgiveness without excuses. It's never "it's not that bad," but "yeah, it is that bad, but we have to survive beyond it and maybe laugh about it if we can."

Boy in particular is a fucking primal scream of a movie that still manages to be very funny and very forgiving. Jojo Rabbit is similar but on a broader scale, encompassing an entire nation. The nuance of it lies in the films absolutely believing simultaneously that love can make things better and that love will not fix everything.

I think it's really valuable to have that kind of work in the world.

columns of kelp underwater are so gorgeous. absolutely one of my favorite things in the natural world

Okay, since a lot of people have been asking for this, and I'm a big believer in sharing this experience with everyone, here are the director's commentaries for Boy (2010).

have fun, share, and feel free to come and scream to me about it afterwards!

I am SICK and TIRED of seeing so much hate towards Al! Al hasn't done ANYTHING to hurt ANYONE! Al is harmless!

But I can already hear the Al haters out there!

"Al isn't original!" No shit, Sherlock! That's what we love the most about Al.

"People aren't supposed to look like that!" That sounds like a problem between you and God, and frankly, plenty of people like the way Al looks.

"Al is just too WEIRD!" Have you ever thought that you might be to NORMAL to actually appreciate Al?

I think you all need to apologize to Al right now!

APOLOGIZE TO HIM

APOLOGIZE TO WEIRD AL RIGHT NOW!

watching the director's commentary on Boy (2010) is a life changing experience as it turns out.

Crowley being the bringer of his own bad luck will never not be funny

Needs to make an urgent call about Armageddon? Can't cause he just took down every cellphone tower in the London area a couple of hours ago

Needs to get to Tadfield Airbase as soon as possible? Can't because the M25 is on fire due to his meddling with the building of said road 5/6 decades ago

These are only two instances we know about and that happened recently, but it can somewhat already be considered a pattern

Now, just imagine how many times this happened through the millennia. How many times has Crowley fucked with something just to be fucked right back in return

I would seriously just sit there and watch a compilation of all the traps he created for himself in the last 6000 years