Dear friends,
I need your help. This man is a teacher at the Craiova University, and I had the misfortune of participating in his lectures for an entire semester. Due to that period of time spent interacting with him, I can confidently say that his in-class behavior is miles worse than the examples above.
There were several instances where he brought up such subjects out of the blue. A particularly jarring one was him saying that immigrants are coming to Romania with the specific intent of killing us. There were many students who agreed with him.
It’s because of his influence as an university teacher that I reach out to you, asking that you email the Vice Dean and Dean of the institution to let them know that this sort of behavior isn’t accepted. You can also reach out to the faculty’s facebook page: Facultatea de Litere - Universitatea din Craiova.
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TL;DR for the images in English are under the cut!
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Anyway, my sister-in-law would like me to remind everyone that speculative fiction magazine Strange Horizons (and its multilingual sibling magazine, Samovar) are 100% free to read, are always looking for stories by and about marginalized people (all flavors of queer/non-straight/non-cis and intersex, POC, disabled, etc forever), and pay their authors, artists, and translators professional rates for stories that are available to read for free online. They are especially proud to focus on content about a particular identity whenever bigots get up in arms about their inclusion (or, as was the case with the Sad/Rabid Puppies and the Hugos a few years back, have completely misunderstood what the magazine and its staff stand for).
Thank you, that is all.
Thank you for adding links! I know Tumblr can be wonky about stuff that gets linked in replies sometimes, so I wanted to give you a direct boost as well š
Anyway, yes! Everyone! Go check out Strange Horizons and Samovar!
(This post got way more popular than I expected it to, and I am living for it.)
Casual reminder that you can get paid Pro Rates for writing about a disabled trans person of color in a speculative fiction setting! And your work doesnāt even have to be in English! The staff at Strange Horizons/Samovar would be really excited to get a submission like that, in fact!
So go check them out!
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im grateful for this year.
im grateful for my girlfriend. grateful for everything she taught and learned alongside me. the beauty she is and the beauty she brought into my life.
im grateful for my dear löffel. grateful for our joined hands, for the warmth that they showed me. for always inspiring me to be kinder, truer, braver.
im grateful for all the people ive met and loved this year. im grateful for all the progress ive made, for all the wounds ive healed and for all the new ones ive discovered. im grateful to myself, always.
and most of all, im grateful for being here today, with love in my heart for the entire world.
happy new year, everyone. i love u.
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i have never met an unpsychotic person who knows what it actually means to “not encourage the delusion” …not a single one
what “don’t encourage the delusion” means:
- don’t argue with or challenge the delusion—attempting to disprove someone’s delusions is not helpful at all and will result in that person not trusting you
- assure the delusional person that they are safe; be open and honest at all times
- encourage them to verbalize their feelings and offer protection to prevent injury to themselves or, possibly, others
- start building a trusting relationship with them rather than acting on a desire to control their symptoms
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do not confirm or feed into the delusion by asking questions about it when the person is not experiencing a psychotic episode
what it does not mean:
- insisting to a psychotic person experiencing psychosis that what they’re experiencing isn’t real
I don’t mean to trivialize psychosis by making a weird comparison, but this guide also serves as a handy checklist for helping someone through a bad drug trip. In both cases your number one priority is to get the person through whatever they’re dealing with unharmed.
i don’t think it’s trivializing at all, nor a weird comparison—as a psychotic person who has had psychotic episodes inadvertently triggered by drug use and/or worsened while trying to self-medicate with drugs, i think this is an important addition.
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The point of getting rid of the death penalty isn’t that there are some innocent people on it. The point of prison abolition isn’t that there are some innocent people in prison.
The point is that the state shouldn’t have the power to kill people. The point is that the prison system commits systemic abuses of human rights, doesn’t reduce crime, is deeply racist, and doesn’t take the desires of the victims into account. To argue about whether one individual on death row or with a life sentence is innocent or guilty is just a distraction from the central issues, which is that these institutions are unjust and should not exist
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my last post is dying again so im making a new one
can anyone spare a few dollars so i can get groceries, daily necessities, and christmas presents for my siblings? (they’re 3, 9, and 11)
paypal.me/corrinewatts
$ccorridor28
anything, even just 1 cent or a reblog, helps so much. thank you ❤️
since christmas passed, all donations will just be for groceries & daily necessities! thank you!
dont let the notes fool you,
we r still in need!!!
venmo: leafybb
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Being homeless with my daughter will be a terrible thing to happen to me during this period(pandemic/lockdown/covid/new year
I use to have two well paying jobs, but I got laid off from one when corona started which made my bills higher than my income, and I got my wages cut from the other job, but I could cope for a while cause I had a three months worth of savings for situations like this, hoping the pandemic will be over before three months but here we are,Bills been up my house rent is way past due date I should have paid since mid September, thatās what Iām worried about I really need to sort that out before I get evicted and become homeless with my daughter and spending my new year on the street cause I practically have no one to go to, this house is now so expensive for me now, so here I am, begging for yāall to help me and my daughter out
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whenever people talk abt feeling ashamed abt making donation posts my heart grows heavy. there should be no shame in survival. there should be no shame in wanting to thrive.
im so grateful that ure asking for help. please keep doing whatever u need to do to lead a good life.
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EBEGGING: Trans girl stranded in foreign country since the pandemic, need money to leave.
hi, you might have seen some of my other posts around begging for money. momentum is slowing on them so, new year new post. over the last month I’ve raised just under $600, which is good progress but only a little over a third of the goal.
after corona shuttered all the NGOs in london, I gave up my plans to seek asylum in UK and went to live elsewhere on a tourist visa. which is going to run out soon. i have no friends or social support here, and can’t afford to heat my apartment or feed myself. i have serious physical and mental health issues and need to get out of here, which is going to be expensive, as it entails immigration expenses, transport, and paying my living expenses for as long as it takes to do that. i’ve budgeted $1500 but if i raise it fast enough it could be more like $1250
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egg comic
https://gumroad.com/l/eggcomiczine
you can download a printable mini zine version of this for pay what you want on gumroad, jsyk!
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Do u ever read a friend’s fic and it’s like holy shit how do you consider me qualified to talk to you?
No
Y’all need better self-esteem
Alright I have been enabled so I’m gonna say somethings.
Fatalistic sarcasm is a thing, however, it usually hides deep feelings of insecurity, and whether you consciously recognize this or not, it validates them. Seriously, I used to constantly make jokes about how other people’s work was better than mine, and it did nothing for my self-esteem, it was a tool to deflect from my own feelings of inferiority and it actively worked against me thinking critically about my own and other people’s work. If it was a joke I could put myself down instead of analyzing why someone’s work was better and trying to incorporate that into my own
As someone who took creative writing courses I was constantly surrounded by other brilliant people, if I hung my head in shame every time I read something as good or better than mine I never would have lifted it.
As someone who has watched a lot of writers with very good idea’s crash and burn I mean it when I say you either develop a healthy sense of respect for your own work or you stop writing.
There’s three things I really wish more people consider
1. Do you think their work is better because it’s a different style, one that you like? There’s an element to ‘the grass is greener on the other side’, I have seen people work in some amazing styles that I wished to god I could replicate, some I managed, some I never did, but there’s nothing wrong with either. having a different style Is Not the same as having a bad style, each has their own strengths and you can admire one without putting yours down
2. Knowing someone who is a better writer is a blessing and if they knew you were using their work to bring yourself down they would not be happy, mooch off that friend, analyze their work, ask them to edit your shit, as long as you’re not annoying them be shameless about it. the best thing creative writing did for me was give me the confidence to ask people to critic my work and shamelessly better each other for that sharing
3. People need to normalize being confident in their work, the quality of your work has literally nothing to do with your worth as a person, the quality of your work has nothing to do with your worth as a writer. You can write something really shitty and the only thing I’d say to you is that your trying and I respect you for that
Literally every writer I know needs to read this.
The entire reason I started writing fic was because I was too sick to be anxious about it, and after that, whenever I would get down on myself my work would stagnate, so I learned to follow sick Magpie’s lead and just say fuck it.
I write because I enjoy it. I write because I love it. And I write because I want to share a piece of myself with the world and say this is me, take it or leave it.
Learn to give yourself grace. Learn to get better at writing because you love it, not because you hate what you create. And most of all, learn that no one is able to write exactly like you do, and that is amazing.
<3
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I dream of one day being able to craft characters as vividly and efficiently as Billy Joel in “Piano Man.”
- Paul “the real-estate novelist”. Three words! That’s all we need to build a complete picture of this man’s personality and history. And then it just rounds out the picture with “never had time for a wife”.
- And we don’t even pause a beat before jumping to the equally vivid tragedy of “Davy who’s still in the navy and probably will be for life.”
- And these two are talking together! Because of course they are, these kindred souls stuck in their lives of mediocrity.
- The whole song’s nothing but lightning-fast character sketches. The old man whose song is “sad and sweet and knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.”
- John at the bar, so firmly established as cheerful and friendly and exuberant before the 180 turn to “Bill, I believe this is killing me.”
- The waitress practicing politics.
- Even the businessmen “sharing a drink they call loneliness, but it’s better than drinking alone.”
- All these tiny little tragicomic figures gathered around a bar’s piano. Sketched in five minutes and thirty-nine seconds–and that’s counting the choruses and harmonica breaks.
- I dunno, I just think about it every time I hear the song and think he deserves more credit for it.
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Please Help
I’ve made this post before on my last blog but I just remade so here we go again.
I’m a disabled jewish transfem lesbian and assault survivor currently stuck with my emotionally toxic parents, who continue to gaslight me, get in screaming matches with my sister, and treat my trauma as a personal burden.
I’m currently in intensive therapy for my PTSD, depression and anxiety, but healing is a slow process that is additionally hampered by being stuck here in a toxic household. Additionally, my disability makes it very difficult to work, to the point where I haven’t been able to hold onto anything more than an entry level part time job while living with my parents.
For my own sanity and well-being, I’m currently searching for somewhere else to live until I can adjust and get a job. I have a few thousand saved from covid relief, and I’m planning to buy a used car soon, so I will be able and willing to relocate from my current residence in Monterey county to basically anywhere in the U.S. if necessary.
So: If anyone has a spare room available and would be willing to let me stay for a month or longer so I can get my feet under me OR if you know of any resources that might help me find or afford housing, please let me know.
Hey this post is kinda floundering, but the holidays are coming up and I already know from experience that I’m probably not going to get through the next few months without at least four breakdowns at my parents’ hands.
If anyone has ANY resources or availabilities that might help me get out of this fucking hell house in any reasonable time frame, please let me know. I’m doing my very best here but living here has put a hard upper limit on my mental health.
Just hit the fourth breakdown with three hours to spare. My mother has decided to introduce a fun new parenting tool where she gets angry and yells at me during / after I go nonverbal due to active panic. So now all my small, avoidable stress spikes turn into full blown panic attacks around her.
I don’t have that much hope I’ll be out of this house anytime soon, but I am beginning to get deeply fucking desperate. If anyone could send resources that might help me into a living wage, or transitional housing, I would be eternally grateful.
Otherwise, please consider buying my poetry book so I can panic a little less about having less than a hundred bucks of monthly income.
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Does your day get immediatly better if you see certain color combinations or are you straight
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The worldās oldest story? Astronomers say global myths about āseven sistersā stars may reach back 100,000 years https://phys.org/news/2020-12-world-oldest-story-astronomers-global.html
Holy shit, this is cool!
So many cultures call the Pleiades some variation of the āseven sistersā despite only having six visible stars. There only appear to be six because two of the stars are so close together as to appear as one.
The myths also mention one sister leaving or hiding to explain why thereās only six. And based off observations and measurements, those two that are so close together used to be visibly separate. One literally has moved to hide.
And based off the similarities between the more commonly known Greek myth and the Aboriginal Australian myth, plus some other stuff, this myth could possibly even date back to when humanity still all resided in Africa!
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