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Not related to the recent earthquake, but when it comes to Afghanistan it is dreadfully and disgustingly ironic when you see the two discourse opposing each other.
As in: when you look on Tumblr posts about the awful fanatic dictatorship, the removal of human rights, the violence and mass deaths at the hand of the talibans - a lot of reactions are “Now that foreign countries are gone from Afghanistan, at least they can choose their own path, they can make their own country, they can have their own culture ; to have the USA, or the UK, or any other power in here is SUCH a bad idea, always was and still is, and if we send people to help we are just making things worse or being mass hypocrits” (Here words taken literally from the notes of Tumblr posts)
But when you look at actual documentaries, interviews in secret with women hidding, and what most people have to say there, every time, they keep saying the same thing “We need international help! The world has abandonned us and the superpowers have let the talibans enter our country! We ask for intervention and help from other countries, to chase them away, because on our own we can’t. And their refusal to help or do anything just makes me so furious and desperate. If they don’t do anything, our only solutions are to flee our home or die.” (again, actual words taken from several of the documentaries and interviews that have been going around ever since the talibans took over).
I am not trying to say anything specific here, because there are not my words nor are they my opinions. But they are the things I see regularly and am confronted with, and this is the grotesque parallel that formed itself before my eyes.
There’s a lot of other things like that, when you compare what people have to say about an issue and what people inside said issue have to say. But this will probably be enough for today...
#i don't even know if i should tag this#because if i tag this i will have all the political blogs flooding at me#and i don't want that#but at the same time i wish people would realize how there's a two opposing discourses going against each other#one from the outside the other from the inside
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Heya! I post daily polls featuring items from various websites and ask "which item would you rather own?" Pretty simple!
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nev // 20 // she/her // bisexual // writer (sometimes) // chronically online // activist (politics are important !!)
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☆ what if we had one? // spencer reid - you and spencer babysit henry for jj and will, something about seeing him with kids lights a fire in you * view similar blurb here! *
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☁︎♡ stuck // charlie walker - after deciding to drop out of college to pursue a different career, you find comfort in a long term friend after feeling lost
☆ reading is fundamental // spencer reid - after spencer finds out that you were never read to, he decided that now was a great time to start. you on the other hand have different plans.. because what’s hotter than a man who reads?
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Since we're on the train of not clogging the TMA tags with posts about The Magnus Protocol, let's also please stop tagging posts from your RP blogs with the character tags.
Reblog so this reaches more people in the fandom and those who may need to see it can see it.
If you do this, I don't hate you. But please let's be mindful.
I know you want your blogs to be noticed and to get interaction, but tagging every rp post with a main character/fandom tag only clogs said tags with RP posts. Not only that, but many use heavily edited fonts and that, I've been shown, breaks text-to-speech horribly. It makes disabled people's browsing of the tags very difficult because (as said by disabled friend) "every five post, I get a scrambled nonsense audio that takes like 3 minutes to read on the text-to-speech, let alone try to read it by myself with my poor eyesight to figure out if it's and actual fandom post, RP or what".
I hate making these posts because I feel like a bit of an asshole, like, I know most of you aren't doing that to cause trouble or to intentionally clog the tags, but it's difficult to browse non-RP posts when the tag is half-flooded with RP posts. Please stop doing this and remove the main tags from your previous posts (there are ways to mass delete a tag, I think it's ab X-kit thing!).
I've spoken to other people who are also noticing this issue and as a former roleplayer I felt I should speak up.
(Also, please if you know someone who does this, do not send hate to them. This is not a post to incite that. This is just me sharing tumblr RP etiquette from back in the day when I used to RP here in several fandoms. Do tell them, politely, but do not harass or be disrespectful)
Tumblr has no algorithm, and yet half of the posts from character tags I follow are from RP blogs even though I don't follow any nor have liked/reblogged their posts. How? Because these blogs tag their asks, their starters, their IC posts WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER TAGS AND THE MAIN FANDOM TAGS.
As a former tumblr RPer, I'm asking you not to do this. Instead I bring you a suggestion. What can you do instead of tagging your RP posts?
Make a promo post.
Yes! A promotional post of your blog with all the info, you can even add an edit (but please ask for permission if you use someone's art and credit them). Kind of an intro to your blog so people know "ah, I might like following this person's RP" or "cool! I'd like to RP with them!". I did this a lot and it helped enormously! And yes, you may tag these with the main character/fandom tag, but they're ONE post. They won't clog the tags like tagging every single one of your RP/asks.
#tma rp#magnus archives rp#magnus archives#the magnus archives#the magnus archives rp#jonathan sims#michael the distortion#michael shelley#Gerard Keay#mike crew#I'm tagging the ones I've seen most#martin blackwood#melanie king#sasha james tma#oliver banks
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NEW PINNED POST FINALLY.
i canNOT deal with looking at the outdated one much longer so its new pinned time!
HELLAO! i go by taz, jevil, or if youre feeling sillay, you can call me drgaone! or just dragon. if youre normal. also any variation of the word dog
☆ he/it/bark, transmasc and pan!
☆ furry and therian (black wolfdog), selfshipper!!!1!1!
☆ not whatsoever diagnosed but everyone who talks to me agrees theres some divergent on that neuro
☆ taken and very loud about it i love bird sm
☆ chronic epistaxis i am the number one bleeder
《FANDOMS :3333》
◇ wings of fire
◇ pjsk/vocaloid
◇ fnaf, specifically the dcas
◇ hfjone
◇ the walten files
◇ chonny's charming chaos compendium
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♡ sun (five nights at freddys, romantic f/o)
♡ six-claws (wings of fire, father f/o)
♡ sayori (doki doki literature club, romantic f/o)
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♡ kinito (kinitopet, romantic f/o)
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♧ drgaone roars -> og posts
♧ drgaone snarls -> asks and answers
♧ tax evasion -> art tag! i used this one across all my past blogs (@taz-drgaone, and the one i had to deactivate womp womp) so going through a tag for a literal felony is fucking flooded with fruity dragons. in retrospect i should have made it drgaone draws
♧ manatee the silly! -> manatee my blorbo my silly. also used across all blogs but you dont have to scroll past political shit
♧ drgaone scrawls -> poetry n fanfic !!!!!!!!!
♧ saveforlater -> imagine me curled up on a pile of these posts like a sleeping dragon atop its horde of treasures
♧ holy shit the images are moving -> animations i post
♧ partnerposting -> me being in love
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♤ ask about my ocs.
♤ my discord is assignedmuckaatblucka PLEASE ADD ME.
♤ tazzerjevil on ao3!!! read my fics boy but maybe not the smut. currently workinf on a jashling chatfic im v proud of
♤ my biggest trigger is the military PLEEEASEEEE dont send me shit related to it. or i kill you wigh my teeth
♤ PRO-PALESTINE. except i cant post much abt it because my pro-israel mother knows my tumblr. and also the above
♤ i am worlds most annoying dog. i will spam you with barking and yap about my partner so much
BASIC DNI SHIT! pls if ur a jackass do Not follow. also anyone against cannibalism, transspecies people (not one myself but its such a cool concept), mspec lesbians, xenos or neos. also if youre gonna tag me in a reblog chain plEASE dont do one of those ones where it says "tag [insert number of people]" i panic and have no clue who ta tag,,, also no reblog bait please!
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#drgaone roars#pinned post#the old one was bugging me so here ya go !!#update i edited it. cos i kept having to add things
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what's your take on the whole mack3030 racism thing?
I've addressed this before but I keep getting asks about it, so I thought I'd put everything in one post for easy reference.
The first and only time I put @mack3030 on my blog was when I referenced her as someone that knew about the doxxing situation, when I was asked about it by an anon referring to @miikocc. At that point, my miiko post was flooded by comments by someone who seemed to think I was friends with Mack and acted repeatedly shady when asked for receipts for their claims. So I made another post asking for any info on this situation and I got some truly helpful people there that directed me to what I needed to know (some of the above anons did as well). Mack herself also shared her side on my post.
I looked at all the receipts and considered it all carefully. I knew that Mack had apologized and decided at the time to let it be there, since I didn't follow her anyway. I decided to remove my reference to her in my post and simply not interact with/reblog from her. I almost never block people as a rule, which is why she's still able to reblog my posts and tag me, and I don't restrict who interacts with my content in that way. I like to be aware of what's happening in this community, and blocking people hinders my ability to be, even if I disagree with them or find them problematic. I wanted to see her actions for myself and make another post later (based on what I refer to later in this same post). Someone tagging me in a post does not mean I support or agree with them.
At this point, my issue with Mack is not necessarily her past alone; I, for one, believe that anyone can change and become better. I have to. It's easy to block people on the internet, but it's not something I can do in real life. I live in a red state, in a small town, where I constantly see people and care for patients that are overwhelmingly conservative. I was the only one in my entire extended family that voted against Trump, both times. My coworkers are almost all conservative, no matter their race. Patients have an even higher ratio. I hear racism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, and more every day. Until I'm in a different area- and even then, these people will exist- it's something I have to put up with. All I can do is say my piece and then try to see the good in people. Because there is still good in many of these people, beyond the cult of personality that has hurt so many, including myself. I see progress with my coworkers when they ask me about gender identity and neurodivergence, when we discuss race and poverty and worker's rights. There are even some that don't support Trump anymore after realizing many of the things he stood for that they were honestly ignorant of. I have to encourage that, because what's the alternative? Telling them they're wrong and evil forever now and just have to be my enemy from now on? People that have differing opinions from me are a constant in my life, and if I didn't have hope that they could change, I would honestly be miserable. So that is not the main reason I don't interact with Mack (besides not wanting to expose people that have been hurt by her to her content).
The bigger reason why I don't follow/interact with Mack is because I haven't seen the evidence of her changing, yet. She apologized, and that's good, but actions speak louder than words. Before the EA paywall debacle in the past week, and after I received the receipts about Mack, there were more issues with her involving blogs such as @gyarutrait and @saruin. Mack's friend @texasthegreatdestroyer was sending some very antagonizing and hurtful messages to people in an apparent defense of her. These messages displayed ableism, misgendered @gyarutrait several times, and presented a very enlightened centrist take on the political side of the entire debacle. They also messaged @saruin to berate them for blocking Mack. I messaged Mack and told her that this was extremely concerning to me and that her friend was hurting her case and only further ostracizing her in the community, and the way that Mack was being silent was encouraging me to think that she hadn't changed and agreed with her friend's views. I told Mack that if she truly had changed, she needed to speak up and denounce these actions, make her disagreement with those views clear, and apologize to those that were hurt. Mack's response was that she didn't agree with her friend, and that she needed time in order to make a proper response to that situation. I gave her that time, but nothing has come of it, even though Mack has been posting regularly about the paywall situation and reblogging from/tagging me.
Mack, you will never get away from what people think of you as long as you continue to allow this behavior. Of course, even if you said something, no one is obligated to to accept your apology or forget what you've done. But ignoring it, or allowing people to get hate and offensive messages on your behalf, is only convincing more people that the best thing to do is block you and never listen to a word you say. It also cements the ideas of people that think you'll never change and that they should be in the inbox of everyone you interact with to warn them about you. I know the paywall content is kind of like your thing now, and you feel like paying attention to this detracts from that conversation... but as I've said so many times now, we can care about more than one issue at once. And this is an issue that only seems to be consistently hindering you despite not acknowledging it.
I hope this answers your question, nonny.
Edit: while in the process of writing this, I saw that Mack has blocked the Texas account. I still haven't seen an apology or longer post from her addressing this, I can't find it, but if there is one please let me know. Even so, I'm less than impressed that we talked about this over a week ago and there was only a response now because she started getting heat for it again. Your friend is not you, and you can't control her, yes. But if you truly didn't agree with her, you should've made that clear long before this moment. I hope that the people that were hurt by this, at least, received some sort of apology or relief.
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Alphas #1: It Starts With a Pledge
Corbin is already waiting for me when I get to the café. It’s one of those hole-in-the-wall businesses wedged between a convenience store and a ghost town of a pizza joint that everyone says is the best near campus. Everything on this block is Romero’s best kept secret and that makes this as good a place as any for a secret meeting. I try to hide my frustration when I exit the café with my latte and take my seat on the patio next to Corbin.
We’re both wearing nondescript hats and chunky sunglasses, the private detective’s uniform. So inconspicuous it’s suspicious. Our clandestine wardrobes break the tension between the two of us. We share a laugh, and it feels good to smile with Corbin. I decide not to tell her how this makes me feel, her tagging along on every little investigation.
I’ve been working for Corbin for six months. We’ve broken three major stories together—a campus rapist, a drug dealing TA, a professor taking favors for grades. The Carpenter Watchblog is peaking in popularity, and now Corbin faces a burden unique to success: her readers expect a bigger story every time. She tells me that she isn’t chasing clout. She���s only started the blog because she wants to make a difference. I believe her.
“Corbin?”
The young woman stands in the doorway with her arms crossed. She speaks softly, but in a way that feels more confident than I’d be if our roles were reversed. Her name is Emily Reid. Her tip came through the Watchblog’s email and it was too interesting to pass up. Corbin gestures for her to take a seat. She hasn’t purchased anything at the café. I offer to buy her a coffee.
Emily politely waves off the offer and says, “I won’t be long.”
Corbin shows an unfamiliar level of restraint in not forcing the girl back into the café just to keep up the appearance of three friends catching up. She simply provides her warmest smile as Emily sits down. Maybe I’m rubbing off on her.
I ready my laptop for notes as Corbin slouches casually back in her chair and listens. In contrast, Emily is sitting straight-backed. She clears her throat and releases a little puff of air through her nose like she’s about to give a God, Flag, and Country speech.
Her story begins with the decision to pledge to a sorority—Alpha Delta Theta.
“Everything was normal at first,” she says. “Just a regular, fun group of girls. They were nice and supportive. They treated me like I’d always been a part of their group. That’s what it’s all about, you know. Helping girls adjust to college life, creating a community for strangers. I’d found my home away from home. And then the hazing started.”
Emily was doing her best to remain strong, but I caught the glint of tears in her eyes.
“They gave each of us a pair of underwear. It was the first test for pledging. We had to wear it for one week. When I slipped mine on I—well I can’t describe the feeling. The thing is, I guess, I didn’t really feel anything at all. Maybe weightlessness, or numbness. It was an absence of some kind. But not in my body—in my mind.”
Corbin shoots a glance at me as she reaches for her cup. I nod back in understanding, quickly typing a note: Obedience by Fleur.
“I knew what I was doing,” she continues. “When I accepted the underwear, they told us what it was, what it would do to us. They called it ‘slave for a week.’ We were each assigned to an upperclassman and had to obey their every command. We didn’t have a choice.”
“Did you feel pressured to accept?” I ask.
Emily bites her lip before answering. “The thing is that this underwear is the hot new thing, right? Everyone around campus is playing with it.”
We’re aware of the stories. We have emails flooding our inbox from concerned parents and right-wing student organizations appalled by a fetish suddenly entering the mainstream. Even Corbin, as hip as she is, has her concerns about the lingerie that mind controls you. Emily is our only first-person testimony, but if people are out there abusing Obedience by Fleur, why would their victims come to us?
“It just seemed like a fun joke, you know? And it's college. We're supposed to fool around.” Emily's gaze darts away for a moment as we consider how to interpret that last sentence. She continues, “A part of me even thought…well, you know, with homework, and papers, and midterms…it’s nice to lose control for a while.”
“I know,” Corbin nods. I wonder how much she does. So much of Corbin is still a mystery to me. “It didn’t stop at slave for a week though, did it?”
Emily shakes her head. She wipes a tear from her cheek. “It isn’t just the underwear. There’s something going on in that house. Every night she takes someone to the basement and when they come back they’re different.”
Corbin straightens up in her chair. I lean forward over my laptop. We’re getting to the details now.
“She?” I repeat.
“Madison,” Emily replies. “Our president. I was too out of it for that first week to notice. Fuck, maybe I did and I just didn’t care. Madison has this power over the sisters. They love her like a mother and fear her like a god. If you look passed the partying and the booze and the bullshit college drama you start to see it: The Alphas aren’t a sorority. They’re a cult.”
Spooky shit. In the distance the weekly Romero air siren test announces that it’s noon on a Wednesday. The sound pulls Corbin from rapt attention. She starts a little. I feel chilly and I look down to see goosebumps on my arms.
Emily raises her voice a little to project over the siren. “I tried to talk to my Big about it. I wanted to know what Madison was doing in the basement. She told me that Madison had a vision for us. She said that I needed to trust in her wisdom. When I said that wasn’t good enough, that I was seriously considering leaving the sorority if I didn’t get a real answer, she said that I was breaking my pledge by asking questions. ‘Good slaves only listen.’”
I don’t know if I say it, or Corbin, or the both of us, but the word just lingers there in the air between the three of us. “Jesus.”
“Weren’t you wearing it?” Corbin asks.
“Yes,” Emily says. “But after a few days…I didn’t like the way it made me feel. Or, I guess, I didn’t like how I felt without it. In the shower, all I could think about was getting it back on, going back under. It’s like an addiction. I couldn’t imagine surviving a whole week. I knew if I kept wearing it, at some point, I’d never be able to walk away. I’d be a slave forever.”
“So how did you stop it?” I ask.
“On the third day, when I was getting dressed for class, I ripped the chip out of the lining of the bra and panties.”
“And that’s when you start asking questions,” Corbin nods.
“Yes,” Emily says. “And I start noticing the pledges. One by one, they’re taken to the basement. They’re gone for hours, my friends. And when they come back, they have that look. The same one all the sisters have when they talk about Madison’s plan. And suddenly they’re interested in his her and serving her vision. I knew that I was running out of time. Sooner or later she would get to me too.”
“So you left,” Corbin says.
“I just walked out in the middle of the night. I left most of my stuff behind.”
“Do you have anywhere to stay?” I ask.
“I have a friend,” Emily says. “She’s from my stats class. Thinks the whole Greek life thing is dumb. Her dorm is cramped, but it’s better than losing my mind.”
I don’t have much, but I offer my couch. Again, she waves it off. “I’m only here to get the word out about Madison. As far as I’m concerned that’s my part, and this is the last I ever plan to talk about it.” She turns her attention away from me and onto Corbin. “Just publish the story, please. To most of us, you’re the only voice that matters.”
Corbin doesn’t know how to take compliments. She squirms a little and makes a sound that I don’t recognize. A laugh? A groan? It stretches for a second too long before segueing into, “Thanks.”
“Thank you,” I smile. “There isn’t a story Corbin can’t blow wide open. I promise this is the last you have to think about the Alphas until you read about it on the blog.”
Sometimes I feel less like an investigator and more like Corbin’s PR team.
We return to Corbin’s apartment to work out the details of the story over lunch. First, we debate pizza. But this will be takeout two days in a row, so Corbin guilts me into making ramen. She watches from the bar overlooking her tiny kitchenette. The noodles are taking their time to boil.
“I wish you hadn’t told her I’d publish the story,” she finally says.
I turn away from the pot to see the expression on Corbin’s face. It’s a look that I recognize, one she only has when she’s about to take the weight of the world onto her shoulders. I’ve tried to remind her that that’s why she hired me. I’m here to lift the burden.
“That’s what you do,” I say. “You publish stories.”
If I'm being honest, the blog is in a rut. It’s been weeks since Corbin’s last story and copycats are popping up around campus. We’re dangerously close to irrelevance. I’m worried about her. I don’t know if she’s losing interest or if it’s something else. The last story, the one about the professor taking favors from students, ended in his garage. Carbon monoxide. Is she doubting her work?
She said that we were lucky that he only hurt himself. Maybe she’s still spooked about the drug dealer. I set a meeting to catch him in the act, met with him face to face. She hated that he knew who I was, that I’d put myself out there like that. It was easy enough getting herself into trouble but now she’d pulled an innocent bystander into her pattern of self-destruction. I had to remind her that I’d volunteered for this.
Whatever it is, something has Corbin on edge. She rubs her face with her hands and I can almost see the anxiety rubbing away. She enters journalist mode.
“She uses the underwear initially to control the new pledges,” she says. “But she needs something more permanent, something that can’t be taken off.”
“Hypnosis?” I ask.
“Maybe,” Corbin nods. “Whatever it is, it takes time. She has a system. A way to break a person and bend them to her will.”
“I bet we’ll find the answer in the basement of that house,” I say.
Corbin is already shaking her head. “Absolutely not,” she says. “A house crawling with brainwashed sorority sisters? I can’t send you into that.”
“Allegedly brainwashed sorority sisters.”
After a bit of back and forth, I reluctantly agree to hold back and wait for more information. Corbin will do her thing—shake some trees and see what turns up. I must have had the conversation with her a dozen times now. I know that she didn’t want to take me on, but she did take me on, and now I’m wasting time on the bench.
I was a sheltered child, youth group weekends and bible camp summers. I didn’t understand the real horrors of the world back then, not until I left for college. I don’t know if it was one thing. Maybe the gender theory classes or the daily campus crime texts, but something awakened inside of me. When I discovered Corbin’s blog, I realized that I couldn’t be silent anymore. I’d spent so many years as a good church girl parroting back opinions like, “If she hadn’t dressed that way,” or “Guilty people don’t run.” It wasn’t just a morbid curiosity for true crime that drove me to Corbin. I wanted to make right with the world.
I don’t push the subject. Instead, we eat our ramen at the breakfast bar and talk about literally anything else. Corbin’s eyes glaze over when I start to speculate about the plan for Marvel’s phase three. She pretends to snooze, begs me to watch “Literally any other movie.” I compare her to an annoying film professor. We laugh. It’s a fun night as long as we avoid the mind controlled elephant in the room.
Stepping out of her apartment, Corbin grabs my arm and looks at me with those serious mom eyes. “Stay away from the Alphas,” she says. “At least until I get some more information.”
“I promise.”
I hop on a bus, and on the ride back to campus I pull up Twitter and start following Alphas. I soon connect with a bubbly blonde named Tina. I tell her that I’m interested in joining her sorority. Pledge season is ending, she says, but there’s never been a better time to be an Alpha. Nice and supportive, just like Emily said. By the time the bus reaches my apartment, Tina’s already invited me out for drinks.
I think about Corbin, my promise. Ask for forgiveness, they say. Go big or go home, or some other cliché.
I quickly send Tina a pair of clinking glasses emojis, then I type, “Where’s the party?”
#mind control#controlled#hypnotized#brainwashed#series: alphas#hope y'all appreciate a slower pace for this one#less mind control than usual but this series has always been about building character before the mind control payoff#really really want people to like it lmao#hypnokink#hypno story
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The Exception: Chapter 8
A/N: i know i took a million years finishing this chapter, and in my mind the fic is not over but i can't guarantee consistent posting with a lot of life things that have happened in the past few months. but ! inspiration struck and i wanted to get back into posting on this blog so here <3
tags: [#the exception on my blog] egon spengler x reader / slowburn / ghostbusters / fluff / angst / paranormal romance / fem reader
word count: 1361 | ~10min read
“Are you able to leave the building?”
“Do you have ghost powers?”
“Did you have any pets?”
Slowly, y/n was starting to grow tired of the questions. She knew the boys were just excited to have a pleasant entity to speak with but the more they asked the less they thought about the actual words they were saying. Some of the questions reminded y/n of her life, specifically the things she missed, and others were starting to make her feel like a guinea pig, which was something she talked with Egon about avoiding.
Egon, who was on the outside of the circle arguing with himself about whether or not he should leave so he could have some alone time with his thoughts, caught a slightly panicked look from y/n, which he seized as an opportunity to shut down the situation.
“Alright! Alright,” he shouted over the group, thankfully grabbing everyone’s attention. Or rather everyone except Ray, who was babbling on about his theories for location-locked spirits. Peter gently tapped him on the shoulder and he slowly turned around.
“Oh! Sorry, Spengler,” Ray apologized. He, Peter, and Winston alternated between looking around the room and making awkward eye contact with Egon, who hadn’t really planned what he was going to say. He just knew that he needed to provide a moment of silence for y/n.
“Ahem,” Egon cleared his throat, buying himself an extra second to think. “Right, well, I believe it’s very apparent that Miss y/n here has had plenty of excitement for tonight, but is far too polite to excuse herself. Am I correct in assuming this?” Egon asked y/n, who donned a bashful expression as everyone in the room turned to look at her once more.
“Well, I’d hate to ruin the fun, but all of these questions are starting to become… overwhelming.” she stated, with a touch of shame in her voice. Immediately, apologies and offers for places to rest were flooding out of the Ghostbusters mouths. As they brought her to a recliner in the corner of the room and wished her good night, each left to do their own thing somewhere else.
Dr. Spengler, who could barely manage to get a single word out during the commotion, was left standing in the centre of the room, staring at y/n. She looked up to him as he opened his mouth to speak, and watched with disappointment as he closed it once more and turned away, exiting the room.
Y/N was left alone in the chair, still reeling from the night’s events. Her mind felt simultaneously overcrowded yet blank as she recounted the incidents over and over. While she felt relieved that the rest of the Ghostbusters seemed more than happy to coexist with her, a small part of her mourned the secret relationship she had had with Egon. And what to do about him, she wondered.
Y/N felt somewhat conflicted about Egon. Had she been too harsh earlier? She was starting to feel guilty about lashing out at him, especially considering not 10 minutes later did he get into a second argument with his closest friends over her. No, she concluded. It was unfair of him to kiss me when I was vulnerable with him and try to pretend like it didn’t happen. However, she couldn’t ignore that it had been the most incredible feeling she’d ever experienced.
Egon was back in his lab, pacing the floor and lost in his thoughts as well. He felt like a child for getting so flustered at the notion of y/n receiving attention from the other Ghostbusters, even after he decided pursuing his interest toward her was illogical and therefore could not continue.
For the second time he found himself acting out of line because of y/n. And not just any metaphorical line, but his own by which he lived and breathed his entire life. He had based his continuance on repetition and result based analysis, and a relationship beyond casual kindness with y/n could not work in any of the realities that played out in his head. Even so, he continued to fall back into thoughts of admiration for her. There was something implausibly captivating about her existence that continued to baffle him even in her absence.
As he wandered about his workspace, he stopped in front of one of the many tables cluttered with tools and gadgets. He picked up a PKE metre and turned it over in his hand. As he played with the object, he thought back to roughly an hour ago when y/n stormed across the room, bringing to life the sea of contraptions that lay strewn about on her path of destruction towards him. Although it made him nervous at the time, he couldn’t help but be mesmerised by her striking looks and determination.
Although she did not have the same level of understanding or experience with the scientific method, y/n also came to the conclusion that falling for Dr. Spengler would only result in a terrible heartbreak. Each way she looked at it, she could only see a future of disappointment for one of both of them. It pained her to come to this realisation, but she needed to tell Egon that strict friendship was the only possible answer.
Egon straightened his lab coat and fixed his glasses, setting the PKE metre back on the table. He decided he needed to be strong willed, and confront y/n about their relationship. Romance would only get in the way of his work and could jeopardise their bond, something he treasured regardless. Clearly, this situation was becoming a distraction and needed to be dealt with.
Y/N started down the stairs, her head down as she chose the words she planned on saying to Egon, hoping he’d understand. Silently, she continued downwards, nearly floating due to her weightlessness.
Egon headed up the stairs, watching his feet and rehearsing his lines for what should be an unpleasant conversation. All of the sudden, he stopped in his tracks. A familiar sensation caught his attention, and he snapped his head up as the hairs on his neck sent shivers through him. At the top of the staircase he saw her, graceful as ever, tapping her lips in thought and quietly mumbling to herself. He stared for a moment.
Y/N happened to look up and see him, and jumped back a little.
“Oh! Dr. Spengler! … It’s you,” she greeted him in surprise. “I was actually hoping to speak with you” she stated with a slight nervous tone. Calmly, she met him at the bottom of the staircase and gazed up at his face. He appeared to be patient and attentive, yet serious.
“As was I,” he admitted, trying to remain firm in his decision. He looked down at y/n and saw that she was still putting her sentences together, but was doing her best to stay resolute. He noticed her eyes lock with his, and then slowly trail down the features of his face to his lips. Egon followed the same path on her face, and unknowingly began to lean in.
Y/N gingerly put a hand to his chest and he stopped briefly, his pulse pounding in his head. They both paused for a mere second, but seemed to drag on endlessly. In a sudden rush of adrenaline from both of them, Egon moved all the way forward and Y/N wrapped both arms around his neck and shoulders, their lips meeting in the middle.
Instead of pulling back this time, Egon pulled in as close as he could without falling right through y/n and onto the floor. Her touch was icy and numbing, but it was comforting all the same. Once again y/n experienced true warmth for the first time in ages allowing herself to practically melt in his arms.
Slowly, the kiss came to an end. Both Egon and y/n looked into each other's eyes once more, innocent grins spreading across their faces. Neither could tell that they were both cursing themselves out in their heads.
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I'm asking this as anonymous because I'm afraid of backlash it might cause me but for a while now someone has been flooding the jdm and negan tags with things that have nothing to do with either one. I asked them politely to look into tagging etiquette because it was making my experience poor. I'm not someone who blocks people + because you're one of the most popular jdm blogs I thought I would ask you if you think it's okay I blocked them because they were very rude and defensive with me asking acting like I was attacking them. I feel bad blocking but they were spamming the tags so bad and sometimes with very triggering things.
I'm sorry you felt like you had to write me on anonymous. You should never be afraid to be who you are. If you felt like you had to block someone to make your own experience better on here then that's all that should matter to you. You don't need my opinion. I think most people would support your decision. If someone is making you feel uncomfortable or making your experience triggering you have every right to block them and not feel bad about it. You have to do what is best for you!
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You know, with whatever the *gesture wildly at America* is going on, can't help but wonder where are all the fixit fic from political science, social science students and the like? Isn't this what we study for? The bs of politics may prevent things from being real and there are troves of published IPs about a fantasy land somewhere that has things done well for them but what about us?
Maybe, I don't know, what's going on with Florida currently. Yes, we understand that decades of gerrymandering have stripped the power of the people and enabled that ruling interest to extract and exploit to enrich their patrons. And yes, let's not go all "screw Florida" and "they deserve it for all of the shit they've done" because the action of the elite few also harms the population which has tried and failed to change, not they are a monolith that is uniformly ignorant or advocate for the same interest.
And any IR students ever studied economic sanctions can tell you that regardless of its effectiveness in instituting change, sanctions hurt the population more. Taking away federal funding from those states most likely mean the people who need it the most (from disaster, poverty, medical assistance program, even schools) will lose access to it, further worsen their life. Because that local government may not already be interested in funding those programs in the beginning, and yes they have only been taking the federal funding for themselves or other non-social welfare programs.
So how about this? A fixit fic based on the concept of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) born out of the 1990s where the international community considers the very specific conditions where the need to save a population from genocide or systemic violence override the respect for sovereignty. Yes, we need a distinct concept to basically go into another country to do good because it is the year 1990s and we're not imperialist colonizers anymore haha. But anyway how about that? Federal government just go into those states and do those things, you know, that they have a bunch of practice elsewhere in the world? Safe passage for refugee for instance, for those wishing to get the hell out of those holes. Relief program delivering food, necessities, water during flood or, maybe, preventable-but-happen-anyway power outage done not by the local government because they don't care anyway, but by the feds or an independent third party like the absolute symbolic-and-dubiously-effective UN Peacekeeper Red Cross or Doctors without Borders. Or, even better, satisfying the military industrial complex as well, initiating an armed campaign under the guise of "we installed nuclear weapons there" or "this is a failed state that threatens our security" and just overthrow that local government so that others will accuse you of regime change. And 20 years later, Hollywood will produce a summer blockbuster titled something like "24 Hours: Red vs Blue" by Michael Bay that half the country will not care about.
That is, if the Writer's Strike and the Actor's Strike end by then.
Please recommend me tag or blog to follow for this kind of fic Im desperate
#yes this is about the SC decision about affirmative action no i dont know yet what the effect is but yes why not this anyway#love her to death tho#my partner#florida#michael bay#writer on tumblr#fix it fic#anti capitalism#international affairs#sanctions#responsibility to protect#writing#yes this is also vaguing about that guvner#supreme court
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I posted 4,440 times in 2022
That's 1,832 more posts than 2021!
438 posts created (10%)
4,002 posts reblogged (90%)
Blogs I reblogged the most:
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@b2supertiddydroid
@damnesdelamer
@gunsandfireandshit
@radiofreederry
I tagged 749 of my posts in 2022
#bird tag - 20 posts
#socialism - 17 posts
#me - 15 posts
#trade unions - 12 posts
#morocco - 9 posts
#sainsburys - 8 posts
#tesco - 8 posts
#plane tag - 7 posts
#yeah - 7 posts
#la via campesina - 5 posts
Longest Tag: 139 characters
#and everyone else is too busy trying to negotiate the fact they can't buy anything and their savings have evapourated due to hyperinflation
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
Politics is on hold it seems
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#4
speaking of unfortunate 9/11 predictions here’s the cover of The Coup’s album, created in June 2001. Boots Riley fought to keep the original cover despite 9/11 but sadly it had to be re-released with a new cover in November.
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#3
I got a book about Honduran history to prep myself and I want to wish Hilary Clinton a very burn in hell. The country went from 10 political murders in the 2000s to the police going around burning villages in collaboration with drug gangs after the 2009 coup.
1,967 notes - Posted October 17, 2022
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When it comes to understanding migration, this needs to be taken into account: if you are in a rural area in the global south, like Honduras, you have basically no access to social services, medicine, and education. In fact, the funding for those services is actually being cut, as the social security funds have been looted by corrupt politicans appointed by a military coup. Then you have to factor in that you likely have no access to the land, and no access to credit to buy seeds, and have to sell yourself for basically pennies to an agroindustrial giant. The peasants feed the local people; the agroindustries feed the Americans. In Guatamala, there is a neo-corporate fuedalism where you are allowed a patch of land if you are willing to work, unpaid, for coffee plantations which sell their produce to the German company Ritz. If you attempt to settle unoccupied land, a local businessman will claim it is his without any proof, and the police will take his side because the Agrarian Reform Institute, which issues land titles, is controlled by coupists whose main concern is squeezing as much wealth out of the country as possible. Thugs will murder a man and his wife in broad daylight, and the judge will respond by evicting you and your family from the land.
There is nowhere else for you to go but Tegucigalpa, where you can work trying to wash car windows or selling snacks to passing cars for a handful of lempira a day. Or perhaps you could work for a few dollars a day in one of the maquila factories making textiles for the American and European market, which are set up in special economic zones called Charter Cities where the constitution and labour laws do not apply, which can close down and spirit away whenever they like to another country when they are more willing to sell their people for even less. And then you have to factor in the hurricanes that sweep through the country, destroying everything, that the rains no longer come when they used to but when they do they come in flooding torrents. Much of the north of Honduras is currently underwater; most of the banana and coffee plantations have been destroyed.
And then you factor in when you tried to change this via electing a better government in 2006, he was overthrown in 2009; when you tried to get organised and resist the coup, your friends, your loved ones, your trade union leaders and peasant resisters all turned up mysteriously dead while the military and police worked with drug gangs disguised as agribusiness like the Dinant coproration to burn down villages that opposed them. For trying to change things in the way that you were supposed to, through non violently protesting, organising, and voting for something better, you were subjected to a decade of counterrevolutionary terror and violence that the “international community” not only ignored but gave its active approval to. All of the factors listed above have not only been ongoing for the last 10 years, they’ve been intensified, hothoused by the global counterrevolutionary terror that was the response to the 2011 wave of post-financial crisis uprisings and revolutions and accelerating climate apocalypse.
And at the same time, all of this is being done so more of the country can be turned into a massive cash cow for the benefit of foreign corporations and domestic oligarchs. The wealth of your country is siphoned off and flows around the American and European financial system, benefiting them and building a consumer disneyland that looks like paradise compared to your situation. That could, even if you are worked for nothing, give you a few dollars to send home that could build your abuela in the countryside a nice home for her to live out her days. What other option is left for you and your family other than joining the exodus of people heading north, to the countries where the wealth and profits and rewards of your homeland’s suffering are being kept. And after you cross mountains and rivers which freeze you to death and sweep you away, you are faced with a massive border wall of ahte and soldiers on horses which hit you with sticks. You are faced with an immigration detention centre that will chain you to your bed while you give birth and separate you from your baby who will be given away for adoption to a white couple. When you make a charge against the border fence in Melilla, fed up with being kept in shacks with nothing while the Northerners debate what to do about the problem people their greed has forced to move, the Moroccan police will beat 35 of you to death.
And then when you get there to that golden paradise, you end up doing work not dissimilar to the work you were doing back home, working for pennies (though pennies that are valuable enough back home to buy the family that remain the tiniest slice of comfort) for an agroindustrial giant that supplies supermarkets with cheap produce picked by cheaper people. While you work in the fields, a crop duster plane will spray you with paraquat; when support organisations try to raise this with OSHA they will ask for the plane’s number, and when this can’t be provided they will say nothing can be done. In fact, inspectors are ordered to stay away from the plantations on the Texas border. A member of the Border Agricultural Workers Project says she hasn’t seen a normal child born on the border in 20 years, such is the effect of agrichemicals. If you fuck up in the slightest, have any interaction with the state, you will be deported and sent back to square one. There are a 14 million migrants in the US in the same precarious state, effectively without any way of enforcing their rights. My aunt is a Mexican migrant in California. Her son was deported because he got a speeding ticket. It was 15 years before she saw him again, other than through the bars of the border fence, when she finally got her green card.
The situation in Honduras can be repeated for almost any other country. Syria, Venezuela, Iraq, South Sudan, Libya, all the headline countries are countries that have been subjected to a severe counterrevolutionary terror. The processes of dispossession and destruction of peasant economies and communities (primitive accumulation to use the Marxist jargon) have been hothoused over the last decade by war and violence. I just wish that relatively comfortable people in the imperialist countries realised that the “migrant crisis” is the result of policies that their governments forced on others. Violence that their elites made their fortunes off. What a monstrous, barbarous way of life we have.
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Hey em, could you please tag your political posts please?
sorry nonnie, but no. 1) i specifically don't tag them because i think they're important for people to see, and 2) tagging stuff takes a lot of energy for me. i am one person with a whole host of mental health issues that constantly drains me. i am not a corporation or an influencer with a team of managers. this is my personal blog where i post personal things pertaining to me. i simply cannot be held accountable for other people's experiences on this platform, and to suggest that i do so is quite frankly unreasonable.
if they're genuinely triggering for you (i.e. tumblr is the place you come to escape from politics) i get that and here are some things that might help:
most of these posts will already be tagged with topics in the original post. so if there's a specific topic you'd like to avoid seeing, i'd suggest blacklisting it, and any of my reblogs without tags should still be blocked for you due to how tumblr works.
you can also block content and tumblr will scan the text body for your blocked words/phrases.
having said that, i usually only post 1-3 political posts per day (with the rare exception that i accidentally schedule more, though i do try not to) and all of them in the very brief window of 7am-8am Eastern Standard Time. this is done intentionally to not flood y'all's dash, and i'd say it is usually objectively successful in that goal.
if you still have to unfollow me for that then do what you gotta do. you curate your own social media experience.
#also if you don't agree with my political views i think it's best you unfollow me anyway#i may have scrapped my old tag system where i did tag political posts a loooonnng time ago but i have Always kept it contained to#1-3 posts per day from 7am-8am every day#that's as much as i have the energy for#asked and answered#nonnie
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Mate, I understand why you're upset, and I think you have every right to ask that people don't interact with your blog using fandub stuff. It is your blog, after all! But like...you can't just go around insulting people because they like something that you don't like. As far as I can tell, it's not problematic in any way (if it was, I would encourage you to bully its fan base relentlessly). Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, though. Like, seriously. Please tell me.
You're allowed to interpret this character however you please. So is everyone else. And you gotta understand that when people make references to the fandub, they are no longer talking about the same Eggman you are. Canon Eggman and Snapcube Eggman are two entirely different characters. I do understand your frustration with people who don't seem to understand that, though. There are fandub fans who think of them as one and the same, which is very incorrect. But in the end, they're not really harming you (unless they ignore your DNI warnings n stuff, that's fucked up).
You DO, however, have the right to be as bitchy as you please to anyone who doesn't respect your wishes when they interact with your posts.
And I get that it's annoying. You've probably blocked every tag you can think of, and you probably still see that shit every day. At that point, you've kinda just gotta scroll past it.
In what way am I insulting people? I didn't say a mean thing about anybody in that post. It's not like I'm calling anyone stupid, or a piece of shit, or the reason why the fandom is bad- which are all things I was called just for politely requesting that the jokes weren't commented on my YouTube video and posts. They have done this on all of my social media for the past four years and people always get angry and rude when I say I'm not comfortable with it.
I share my honest thoughts and feelings relating to Eggman and I'm always going to be honest and never repress it or pretend to feel differently. I personally dislike the fandub, I'm allowed to find it unfunny and be tired of seeing it everywhere. And I'm sick of being insulted when people get pissed at how I don't want it on my posts and videos. I have no idea how I'm possibly insulting anyone when I share my opinions about a fandub. I'm not saying anything bad about the creators or the fans.
I'm aware that they're not the same, I'm not the one that can't separate them. That would be the people that can't look a single picture of Eggman in anything, especially in SA2, without making a fandub joke. Turning a completely unrelated post and piece of media into a fandub joke is talking about the same canon Eggman, because it wasn't initially about the fandub and that's where my frustrations lie. A massive majority of people are doing this and those are the ones I'm referring to.
It's hard to just scroll past it when it's always commented on completely unrelated posts and I actually like the post and want to interact with it but it's flooded out with fandub jokes. And yeah, it's frustrating on top of that when I've tried to block tons of words and phrases and still can't escape it. I still stand by what I've been saying for the past four years and when I'm sharing my thoughts on my own blog and am very clearly not insulting anyone, I don't see the problem with me posting my thoughts.
#I don't want drama I don't want a fight and that's why I'm absolutely not insulting anyone#saying I find something unfunny isn't insulting the creators or fans of said thing cmon#I'm so confused I'm the one that gets insulted lol
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Okay! Ground rules for my inbox!
Since apparently I have to say these things! Even when I’ve already said most of them before!
Don’t send me rude or incendiary messages. If you’re a dick, I will block you. If you say something that no matter how I respond to it, merely associating myself with the matter at all is going to get me mobbed and forcibly dragged into some micro-niche internet discourse from hell, I am not going to post/respond to it. I fight tooth and nail to not fight on the internet, and especially not in public. My IRL situation is extremely volatile and stressful, and I open my laptop to get away from stress. If you want to discuss a potentially loaded topic with me [and there is no guarantee I will engage unless I know you very well, and thus value your opinion and trust the information you will give me], DM me. I don’t have to post DMs publicly. Asks, on the other hand, are posted and can be reblogged and replied to, and can thus clog up my notifications with nasty fucking discourse that I don’t want to see from five billion strangers I do not know. Don’t publicly broach a subject that will incite a huge argument on my blog.
This falls under “don’t be rude,” but don’t bitch me out about taking too long to respond to your messages. I can be a very slow replier. Again, my IRL life sucks shit and takes up a lot of my time, and I have a dissociative disorder. That latter thing means 1. amnesia, of varying intensity at any given time, and 2. sometimes straight-up blacking out and often not having any idea how much time has passed between events that I do remember. I could think it’s only been a week or so since I last looked at something, and then it’ll turn out it has been two months. I have no control over the dissociation. It just happens whenever I get too stressed-out, apparently, and I can’t fight it -- trying not to black out when my brain wants to black out just gives me a migraine and doesn’t work.
Don’t spam me. Don’t flood my inbox with twenty messages, and then immediately send thirty more as soon as I answer a single one. Especially if all those asks are prompting me to give very detailed, thought-out responses to them [and if they’re not, if they’re just short little single-sentence things because you just want to casually chat...please just DM me?]. This is overwhelming and I will end up having to block you.
Don’t flirt with me. Not interested. This is just very awkward and achieves nothing. If you send me nudes, I report you. I thought only bots did this shit these days, but apparently I was wrong.
Yes, you can ask me to tag things! Please do, in fact, if I post about a triggering topic you need to avoid! Even if it seems weird. I don’t judge. I would, however, recommend either DMing me your trigger-tag request, or asking on anon [or just asking me not to post the ask], so you don’t have to publicly confirm that something triggers you specifically. Assholes can and will use that knowledge to deliberately hurt you.
I have DID, please don’t be weird about it. Being curious is one thing, I know it’s not a very well-known disorder [outside of Hollywood, where it is usually dramatically misrepresented for the sake of entertainment value] and there’s a lot of misinformation floating around about it. Respectful questions don’t bother me, I actually have a special interest in psychology and find it fascinating myself [if not extremely scary because I actually have to live with it lol], and if you accidentally bring up something that turns out to be a little too personal for me to comfortably talk about in public, I will just politely decline to comment on that specific thing. What I mean when I say “don’t be weird” is:
Don’t demand to speak to a specific alter at a specific time. Who is awake at what time is not something that any of us can consciously/intentionally control. You’re pretty much just stuck with whoever happens to be around when the message gets answered. Now, if there’s no time demand, it’s fine. If you send a message for someone specific with the acceptance that they’ll just have to get to it whenever they’re awake, knowing that there is absolutely no telling when the next time that will be is, I don’t think that bothers anyone.
If one alter talks/acts differently than another one did, that’s...that’s normal. They are functionally more or less different people. Don’t get freaked out about tone changes, people like to accuse us of shit like “suddenly being so passive-aggressive” just because the last guy they were talking to was super expressive and the guy they’re talking to now is kind of deadpan. That’s not what’s going on, it’s not you, it’s us.
Don’t pog at introjects like they Are Your Favourite Blorbos. They’re not. Even if an introject is made out of aspects of some fictional character you like [...or hate], they aren’t that fictional character. They aren’t, like, Fictional Blorbos Plopped Into The Real World Straight Out Of Fiction Land One Day, that’s not how introjection works because that’s not a real thing that can happen. At most, they’re like...an imperfect clone of their source’s personality? And not necessarily even their whole personality, maybe only one single aspect of it that our subconscious happened to latch onto, and so they aren’t necessarily even like their source at all in literally any other way. They’re probably not going to act “canon-compliant,” because they aren’t the character and are not roleplaying. They’re just dudes. Please treat them like normal dudes. They are no different from any other alter, introjection is a normal thing that happens in DID/OSDD for known reasons.
I’m not a professional, please don’t treat me like one. I don’t have any sort of degree in Brain Science, I’m just a guy who happens to have a weird brain. I’m not an expert on all the little intricate details of my own disorder, I’m still learning about it myself. I’m no authority on the subject.
{{!!Don’t reblog this!!}}
Supposedly there’s an option to turn reblogs off for specific posts, but apparently that feature has not rolled out to me yet because I sure can’t find the toggle anywhere.
#Boundaries Time!#.It speaks#About me yo#.Toby ⚙️#Getting weird and unpleasant messages lately. Stop that please.
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Week 6: What is Digital Citizenship? Hashtag Publics, Political Engagement and Activism
Welcome back to my blog! ☀️
This week's content is gonna be a little bit serious as we're going to talk about the world of digital citizenship, focusing on how hashtags bring people together for political engagement and activism. I'll break it down so it's easy to understand and fun to read. So, what exactly is digital citizenship? Basically is having the know-how to use digital tools to connect with others, share ideas, and be active in our online communities. It's all about being a positive part of the digital world. (Media smarts, 2022)
I guess all of us are very familiar with hashtags (#), even I also love using hashtags when posting stuff on social media. For me, hashtag publics are like online groups that come together around specific hashtags. When people use the same hashtag, they join a bigger conversation. I’ve seen two famous hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo have created huge online movements (the impact is legit crazy). (Bestvater et al., 2023) These hashtags bring together people with similar concerns, letting them share stories and raise awareness. It's pretty cool how a simple hashtag can connect voices from all over the world, showing us how serious these issues are and that they're happening everywhere, we can't just ignore or brush them off.
I deep down really think that hashtag publics are really powerful because they make it easy for people to get involved in political engagement. Political engagement involves activities like voting, campaigning, or sharing information to influence government and public policies. Social media has made this incredibly accessible. I remember seeing #BlackLivesMatter was everywhere, and all of my social media platforms were flooded by this hashtag, that's why I did some research because I was too curious about how is this hashtag became so famous.
#BlackLivesMatter started in 2013 after Trayvon Martin's killer was acquitted. Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi created it to fight racism and violence against Black people. It became a worldwide movement where millions used the hashtag to share their stories and call for justice. (Adams, 2020)
Another hashtag #MeToo is also frequently being used and mentioned. I know one of the cases in China, there's a big #MeToo moment occurred involving a former intern, Xianzi, accusing a famous TV anchor, Zhu Jun, of sexual assault. Xianzi's accusation sparked a wave of support online, with many women sharing their own stories of harassment in the entertainment industry using #MeToo. This moment highlighted the power of such movements to create a sense of community and empower people to fight for what's right. (Nast, 2018)
Hashtags aren't just for raising awareness—they're also a big part of activism. Activists use them to get organized and keep the ball rolling. Like during climate strikes, hashtags such as #FridaysForFuture help folks rally worldwide. Students from all over use these tags to swap stories and get others fired up to join in. It's wild how a little tag can turn into a big force for making things happen.
In short, being a good digital citizen means using hashtags wisely, talking about politics, and getting involved in activism. That's how we can make the internet better and make real change happen. So, if you see a hashtag that speaks to you, jump in and add your voice to the conversation.
References :
Adams, C. 2020. A movement, a slogan, a rallying cry: How Black Lives Matter changed America’s view on race. NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/movement-slogan-rallying-cry-how-black-lives-matter-changed-america-n1252434.
Bestvater, S., Gelles-Watnick, R., Odabaş, M., Anderson, M. and Smith, A. 2023. #BlackLivesMatter Turns 10. [online] Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/06/29/blacklivesmatter-turns-10/.
Media smarts, 2022. What is Digital Citizenship? [online] MediaSmarts. https://mediasmarts.ca/digital-media-literacy/general-information/digital-media-literacy-fundamentals/what-digital-citizenship.
Nast, C. 2018. One Year of #MeToo: How the Movement Eludes Government Surveillance in China. [online] The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/one-year-of-metoo-how-the-movement-eludes-government-surveillance-in-china.
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