❄ WIP-mas ❄

Do you love bingos? Do you join bingo events just to hoard cards? Do you have a ton of WIPs you never found the time to return to?

Then this event is for you. Presenting:

The Cake Shop WIPmas Bingo!

What is it: A friendly event to encourage folks to finish off their past bingo cards.

When does it take place: From today until the end of February, 2024!

How to participate: It's simple, just fill in a prompt from one of the many bingo cards you have laying around. Digital art, traditional art, stories, prose, poetry, and songs are all welcome. If you share your creation, don't forget to tag us so we can reblog your post!

Are there any special rules: None! No word counts, no creative restrictions. We only ask that you tag all content responsibly.

As a hoarder of bingo cards, I require a bingo card to complete this challenge: Well, good news! We've got you covered!

Feel free to use any of our Stamps to check off your completed squares!

We’re super excited to see what you all created! And remember to tag us, we’ll do our best to reblog every post shared!

Now go forth, and conquer all the bingos!

Valentine's Rarepair Bingo!

Here we have Lightning Strikes Maybe Once, Maybe Twice, by @iboughtaplant! Pairing: Ares/Hypnos (Hades Video Game)

Rating: T

Ares pining over Hypnos asleep in his bed followed by lots of soft kissing

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A small funny thing that happened to me within the cakeshop event in CRK was this:

Licorice comes in and asks for a cake, I make it and he leaves. I expected another cookie to come in but instead it was Licorice with his hood up instead. I thought it was a little funny. I made the cake and he left. But then, he came back a third time. I was really confused but also very amused. I think I still remember him making a comment about him not actually drooling and I just started smiling.

I don’t think this happened to anyone else but I don’t really care. This is a golden memory that I’m definitely going to remember for a while.

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Today's Focus

10.03.23 - Still sunny and warm, but because it's above average so is the AC at work and I grabbed the wrong sweater for my outfit today. At least I figured out how to make my pumpkin spice coffee taste right.

Work - I got one new case in at the end of yesterday that I have to make up in our case file system and create a physical file for. But that's p much it; anything else will be what comes in via email and I might possibly have to service documents for one of the Claims lawyers.

Background Noise - There are about 13 random videos for me to catch up on, plus I have saved a bunch of themed videos relating to random drama. Each video I watch will be followed up with a short wrestling interview I've been holding back.

Perchance I should be tracking how many of these I end up watching each day.

Study - Alright it's article day. That means the plan/goals for today are:

Three (3) more transcripts from the Emmett Till murder trial.

Two (2) Panama Paper scientific studies

At least three (3) Panama Paper news articles

At least ten (10) pages of the Glass Report

Finish The Great American Experiment

Go through my "Good News" article bookmarks - read as many as I can, and delete those that are no longer relevant (about festivals/events that have now passed)

Yesterday I did manage to:

Finish the article about the live action Snow White controversies.

Read all 4 press releases

Read 3 of the 6 Emmett Till murder trial transcripts I planned

Finished the Wikipedia article on Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (did not read the decision on Justia yet)

Read 3 of 10 planned pages of the Inflation Reduction Act (those are dense pages though)

Extras - I have to stop at the drugstore to get more hyaluronic acid serum, and Ik I'm cooking dinner tonight but I think the rest of the chores are for tomorrow. Slowly but surely I'll write some words of my various WIPs today.

Anti-LGBTQ+ baker loses appeal when court rules he discriminated against trans woman

A Christian baker who has spent years fighting for the right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people has lost his appeal in a case about his refusal to make a cake for someone celebrating their gender transition. In 2021, a Colorado judge in Denver ruled that Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop illegally discriminated against Autumn Scardina when he refused to make her a birthday cake because she’s transgender, arguing that baking the cake violates his religious beliefs. The Colorado Court of Appeals announced its decision that the cake is not a form of speech and that Phillips’s refusal to serve someone because she’s trans violated Colorado’s anti-discrimination law. The court stated: “We conclude that creating a pink cake with blue frosting is not inherently expressive and any message or symbolism it provides to an observer would not be attributed to the baker.” “They just object to the idea of Ms. Scardina wanting a birthday cake that reflects her status as a transgender woman because they object to the existence of transgender people,” said Scardina’s lawyer, John McHugh, according to the Associated Press. Phillips is represented by the anti-LGBTQ+ organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a Southern Poverty Law Center designated hate group. “One need not agree with Jack’s views to agree that all Americans should be free to say what they believe, even if the government disagrees with those beliefs,” stated ADF senior counsel Jake Warner in response to the ruling. Phillips originally made headlines after he refused to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple in 2012 and was found to have violated the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. He claimed that his religious beliefs prevented him from selling a cake that would be used in a same-sex couple’s wedding. He appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which gave him a partial victory but didn’t say Christians don’t have to follow anti-discrimination laws. Throughout the years-long process, Phillips repeatedly said that his issue wasn’t gay people’s identity, but that his products would be used at a same-sex couple’s wedding. He said that selling products that would be used at an event he disagreed with was an endorsement of marriage equality in general. He could not be forced to endorse something he disagrees with because of the First Amendment. He repeatedly said that he would make a birthday cake for anyone, so Scardina decided to ask him for just that: a birthday cake. She said she believed him when he said he would make a birthday cake for anyone, and she wanted it to be blue on the outside and pink inside. Scardina said that Phillips was fine with her order when she requested it in June 2017 until she mentioned that she’s transgender and the meaning that the colors have for her. Phillips allegedly told her that he “did not make cakes for ‘sex changes.’” She filed a discrimination complaint and later sued Masterpiece Cakeshop. In 2021, Phillips said that the cake would celebrate “somebody who thinks that they can” live differently than the sex they were assigned at birth. But the Denver judge disagreed. Phillips was fine with making the cake and selling it to Scardina before he knew she was trans but changed his mind when he found out, showing that his issue was her identity and not the product itself. If a cake that’s blue on the outside and pink on the inside is an act of speech, it shouldn’t have mattered that Scardina is trans. At the time, ADF stated that “radical activists and government officials are targeting artists like Jack because they won’t promote messages on marriage and sexuality that violate their core convictions.” http://dlvr.it/ShW5Zf

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PRIASME is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer/songwriter and international DJ, having performed at such prestigious spaces in SF and LA like the SF Armory, Ferry Building, Ace Hotel LA, the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, and others, as well as clubs and bars in Seoul, Tokyo, and Manila.

born in LA and raised on the west coast by Minnesotan transplants, a life-long journey around the world has now landed her in her familial homelands; she currently resides in s minneapolis.

she began DJing in Portland in 2005 working for the athletic dept in college, spinning and MCing basketball games, school events and private parties. this only gathered momentum spinning for food industry events and private parties, and eventually club and bar spaces while living in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

in 2018, work and life took her to Seoul, Korea, where a deep love for club culture foreign to most US cities started to take root. the underground music scene in Seoul, it’s overlap with queer liberation, and its direct connections with vibrant european scenes in Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin and London opened a whole new world of therapeutic movement and a wellspring of musical possibilities, regularly spinning at cafes and small clubs, including a 2 month weekly residency at TMTC in Itaewon. in 2019, she spent a few months in Tokyo spending time digging for records and DJing, including the regular DEUS trap door basement party in Harajuku and at the famous Aiiro Cafe, a queer cornerstone in the Golden Gai district of Shinjuku.

this experience, combined with regular clubbing several nights a week in Korean clubs like Soap, Contra, Cakeshop, Pistil, and Modeci, along with seeing world class acts like Korea’s 360Sounds DJs Soulscape and Jinmoo, as well as international acts like Hidden Spheres, Shortkut, Lefto, Tijana T, Jael, T.Williams, the late Virgil Abloh, surgical sample artist The Avalanches, and the absolutely legendary Francios Kevorkian, expanded her understanding of what a DJ is and the power collective music spaces have for deep soul healing.

priasme’s selections are influenced by this diverse exploration of global sounds, with a west-coast mentality, punk ethic and an emo soul. she stays steady in the alleyways between genres, always seeking to peek over walls, break down borders, and shatter ceilings when it comes to musical tastes. but more broadly, she is a healer, through sound and movement, and this is the string that connects all of her selections. she believes that music is medicine, and 2022 is a time where healing is desperately needed. the power of the drum, rhythm and movement can and will heal and bring people together in a new way that is essential for the future of humankind. facilitating this for her community is her role in life.

Valentine's Rarepair Bingo

I'm pleased that this tiny, impromptu event seemed to have generated so much delight. The event is over now, but I am going to finish rebageling a few fics as they're finally posted, so consider this a last call. If I haven't reblogged your work, either @ me again, or toss it in dms! Thank you, everyone, for your participation! It was so great to see everyone having fun creating for both old favourite and new pairings just to get to type in a new tag. You all did fantastic. A reminder that there is a collection on ao3 if you would like to join in. There's no requirement to, our members just are fond of them.

Valentines Rarepair Bingo

We have Forehead Kisses by @jayofolympus-writes Pairing: Arnaghad & Kiyan (The Witcher) Rating: G (Another new relationship typed in, and this one pleases me so very much. Look for more of this pairing coming soon because Jay has given me Ideas and Feelings when we were playing with the silly bots over the last month!)

I saw your Eskel event, and um, you forgot Alzur's Legacy Eskel? So, I think you're gatekeeping me because I've only ever seen Alzur's Legancy. Ur cancelled, m8.

Oh my GOSH. Nonny you are right!!!! My beautiful, beautiful son! It's not his fault he was killed in the first 10 minutes! We need to add him in IMMEDIATELY. There's not nearly enough Alzur's Legacy fic- you can't even filter for it!!! Woe, woe woe. I am always cheering for Greybert, but here I am sleeping on Alzur's Eskel, he who has .... fuck. only a couple fics? Who even has written Alzur's Eskel? If you have, drop me a link!

(the official link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GLtk2cLRu4)

Thunderstorm

For @continentcakeshop 's Eskelpades summer event.

Prompt: A Simple Witcher & Thunderstorms

Rating: Teen

In the dead of night, When Summer presses close against the skin— Dews the neck and robs the open windows of relieving breath— He comes: The Thunderstorm.

Rolling over far off hills With thundering hooves and punishing patience crackling in his fingertips He rides; Drawing ever nearer to his long awaited destination. The Thunderstorm.

As a cool breeze He presses through screen doors, past hopeful open curtains To seek his torrid lovers Where they lie in fitful darkness, damp and gasping for relief from the only one who can provide. The T hunderstorm.

He speaks with thunder, Rumbling through the souls of his beloveds to spark an eager aching in their bones— With ancient sensuality he murmurs: “I’ve come to ease that which consumes you from within and quench your thirst.” The Thunderstorm.

With torrents of rain He caresses fields and forests, rippling hills and sun-parched planes— A flash of lightning on his cheek. Slowly and with trickling reverence he licks his way to thirsty grateful roots as Nature gasps: “The Thunderstorm.”

They tremble still, All those who, in unsettled sleep, lay desperate for release; Now all in awe their bodies quake And quiver at his ceaseless touch—his sultry breath as still he hovers over them. “O Thunderstorm!”

When all is done (Dry soil soaked and greenness all unfurled, withered blooms revived and glistening) He lingers, Sweet sighs whispering like silk across his lovers’ skin as they breathe anew, Revived by his gratuity.

The Thunderstorm.

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By: Aaron Sibarium

Published: March 16, 2022

More than 100 students at Yale Law School attempted to shout down a bipartisan panel on civil liberties, intimidating attendees and causing so much chaos that police were eventually called to escort panelists out of the building.

The March 10 panel, which was hosted by the Yale Federalist Society, featured Monica Miller of the progressive American Humanist Association and Kristen Waggoner of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a conservative nonprofit that promotes religious liberty. Both groups had taken the same side in a 2021 Supreme Court case involving legal remedies for First Amendment violations. The purpose of the panel, a member of the Federalist Society said, was to illustrate that a liberal atheist and a conservative Christian could find common ground on free speech issues.

"It was pretty much the most innocuous thing you could talk about," he added.

That didn’t stop nearly 120 student protesters from crowding into the event.

When a professor at the law school, Kate Stith, began to introduce Waggoner, the protesters, who outnumbered the audience members, rose in unison, holding signs that attacked ADF. The nonprofit has argued—and won—several Supreme Court cases establishing religious exemptions from civil rights laws, most famously Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission in 2018.

As they stood up, the protesters began to antagonize members of the Federalist Society, forcing Stith to pause her remarks. One protester told a member of the conservative group she would "literally fight you, bitch," according to audio and video obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

With the fracas intensifying, Stith reminded the students of Yale's free speech policies, which bar any protest that "interferes with speakers' ability to be heard and of community members to listen." When the protesters heckled her in response—several with their middle fingers raised—she told them to "grow up," according to video of the event obtained by the Free Beacon.

The comment elicited jeers from the protesters, who began shouting at the panelists and insisting that the disturbance was "free speech." Eventually, Stith told them that if the noise continued, "I'm going to have to ask you to leave, or help you leave."

The protesters proceeded to exit the event—one of them yelled "Fuck you, FedSoc" on his way out—but congregated in the hall just outside. Then they began to stomp, shout, clap, sing, and pound the walls, making it difficult to hear the panel. Chants of "protect trans kids" and "shame, shame" reverberated throughout the law school. The din was so loud that it disrupted nearby classes, exams, and faculty meetings, according to students and a professor who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Ellen Cosgrove, the associate dean of the law school, was present at the panel the entire time. Though the cacophony clearly violated Yale's free speech policies, she did not confront any of the protesters.

At times, things seemed in danger of getting physical. The protesters were blocking the only exit from the event, and two members of the Federalist Society said they were grabbed and jostled as they attempted to leave.

"It was disturbing to witness law students whipped into a mindless frenzy," Waggoner said. "I did not feel it was safe to get out of the room without security."

As the panel concluded, police officers arrived to escort Waggoner and Miller out of the building. Three members of the Federalist Society say they were told that the Dean of Yale Law School, Heather Gerken, called the police, though the law school declined to comment on who asked for extra security. The Federalist Society did not call the police, the group's president confirmed.

The imbroglio is the latest controversy at the Ivy League law school, which has seen several speech-related scandals in just the past year. Last September, for example, Yale Law administrators spent weeks pressuring a student to apologize for a "triggering" party invitation that referred to his apartment as a "trap house." The episode cast a spotlight on the culture of Yale Law's diversity bureaucracy, which drew widespread criticism for chilling student speech.

The chaos at the panel shows that it's not just campus administrators who threaten free expression. At the nation's top law school, it is also the students themselves.

"If trap house illustrates the students-to-administration problem," a senior member of the Federalist Society said, "this illustrates the students-to-students problem."

In the two days following the panel, more than 60 percent of the law school's student body signed an open letter supporting the "peaceful student protesters," who they claimed had been imperiled by the presence of police.

"The danger of police violence in this country is intensified against Black LGBTQ people, and particularly Black trans people," the letter read. "Police-related trauma includes, but is certainly not limited to, physical harm. Even with all of the privilege afforded to us at YLS, the decision to allow police officers in as a response to the protest put YLS's queer student body at risk of harm."

Signed by 417 students, the letter also condemned Stith for telling the protesters to "grow up," and the Federalist Society for hosting the event, which "profoundly undermined our community's values of equity and inclusivity."

Stith declined to comment for this story.

It is unclear whether the letter's long list of signatures reflects genuine consensus or mass social pressure. In group chats, Discord posts, and emails reviewed by the Free Beacon, students sought to shame anyone who hadn't actively condemned the event.

"It feels wild to me that we're at this point in history and some folks are still not immediately signing a letter like this," one student wrote to her class GroupMe. "I'm sure you realize that not signing the letter is not a neutral stance."

Merely attending the panel was portrayed as an act of bigotry. Before the event got underway, activists littered the room with flyers denouncing everyone in the audience.

"Providing a veneer of respectability is part of what allows this group to do work that attacks the very lives of LGBTQ people in the U.S. & globally," the flyers read. "Through your attendance you are personally complicit, along with the Federalist Society, in platforming and legitimizing this hate group."

The "hate group" label was placed on ADF by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which says the group defends "the state-sanctioned sterilization of trans people." That accusation is based on a 2015 brief the ADF filed with the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that EU member states should be allowed to make medical transition a prerequisite for changing one's legal gender. On its website, the Alliance Defending Freedom explicitly "condemns forced sterilization of any person."

The shaming campaign also targeted Stith and Miller, both of whom received their own open letters decrying their participation in the event.

The letter to Stith, which circulated on a law school-wide listserv, declared that "our protest was about you" and accused Stith of giving "a platform to ideas that deny our full personhood." The letter to Miller was signed by 150 law students, who emailed her before the panel urging her not to participate in it.

"We are at a loss to understand why the [American Humanist Association] … has decided to legitimize an organization that is so actively hostile to queer flourishing," the email said. "We urge you to withdraw from this event, which is little more than a thinly-disguised slap in the face to Yale Law's queer students and their allies."

Miller told the Free Beacon she was taken aback by the email—not least because the Supreme Court case she was speaking about had been hailed as a victory for civil rights groups.

The case, Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski, involved a public college in Georgia that prevented a Christian student, Chike Uzuegbunam, from proselytizing on campus. After he graduated, Uzuegbunam sued, saying his First Amendment rights had been violated.

At stake in the case was whether plaintiffs could sue over past constitutional violations that did not result in any economic harm. The 11th Circuit had answered no, setting a precedent that could foreclose a wide range of lawsuits—not just those related to free speech and free exercise, but also to civil rights.

"A lot of our clients are LGBT," Miller said. "If that ruling stood, and LGBT rights were violated in the South, we wouldn't be able to help them."

The American Humanist Association was one of several progressive groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, that filed amicus briefs in support of Uzuegbunam. But it was the Alliance Defending Freedom that actually argued the case before the Supreme Court, which ruled 8-1 in Uzuegbunam's favor.

Miller—who herself characterized the ADF as a "hate group" during the panel—said the disruption was an ominous sign for the legal profession.

"As lawyers, we have to put aside our differences and talk to opposing counsel," she told the Free Beacon. "If you can't talk to your opponents, you can’t be an effective advocate."

Waggoner was more blunt.

"Yale Law students are our future attorneys, judges, legislators, and corporate executives," she said. "We must change course and restore a culture of free speech and civil discourse at Yale and other law schools, or the future of the legal profession in America is in dire straits."

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Alternative headline: Yale Law Students Fail Constitutional Law Practical Exam.

Reminder: In 2015, Yale Law students lost all of their shit when a professor said that she trusted the students "strength and judgment" when it came to choice of Halloween costumes, rather than needing the college administration to "control the forms of costumes of young people". Yes, you read that correctly. No, I didn't write it backwards.