Reminder not to support the Salvation Army who are a bunch of bigots
It’s ironic that they think being pro LGBTQIA is a “Threat to their fundraising efforts” when the fact is I would NEVER donate a single penny of my money to any group, person or organisation that wasn’t 100% pro LGBTQIA and supportive of the rights and freedoms of LGBTQIA people
The Salvation Army’s bullshit makes certain that I will NEVER waste my money donating to their shitty little organisation because I am not going to give my money to worthless filth like them
Also sick, Apparently the Valparaiso, IN Salvation Army had Aryan Brotherhood members (in full attire) bellringing for them on Black Friday.
Here’s your annual reminder not to give to the Salvation Army, and before a single one of you says “but they do good work” here is ALSO your reminder that THOUSANDS OF OTHER CHARITIES THAT DON’T THINK GAY PEOPLE SHOULD DIE would also gladly accept your donations, often dozens or hundreds in your local region alone. Your options are never “bigots or nothing”.
2009 – GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites
2010 – FFN forums deleted
2011 – Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence
2012 – major FFN crackdown on porn
2014 – Quizilla shuts down
2015 – Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank
Didn’t quizilla have purges before finally shutting down? And I know basically every vidding home hot destroyed, repeatedly taking out the entire history of vidding online.
… they deleted Fandom Wank???
Well, not specifically. Journalfen failed completely and has never come back. FW was on Journalfen, so while you can see some entries on the Wayback machine, I think (?), the long comment threads aren’t archived.
2007 – Youtube starts using its “content ID” system to identify (and block) works that include copyrighted material in their database.
2009 – Greatestjournal shuts down, taking down fandom’s biggest collection of blog-style RPGs
2012 – Megaupload shut down by FBI; some (many?) fanvid archives lost
I thought there was also some kind of purge at Deviantart, but I don’t recall the details.
I’d like to remind folks that there was literally wank last month about why do we need the OTW.
Well, this would be why: we sincerely believed in the internet values of a decade or two ago, which involved owning our own servers if we wanted to see our projects remain stable, in the long term, online.
Worth mentioning: Yahoo purchased GeoCities, and was behind the decision to shut all those sites down.
Yahoo’s incompetence destroyed Delicious.
Yahoo owns Tumblr.
1356: 50% of monks.
People just… completely forget. I was there for all of the bans on fanfiction.net. You don’t know panic until you go to log in one morning and find out a bunch of your works have been deleted, gone forever, because some asshole arbitrarily decided that they wanted to ban something.
By referring to the order as a “Little Rosa”, you don’t have to make as big a deal out of the fact that you’re seeking help.
And believe it or not, it gets better. Rosa’s also gives out sweatshirts to the homeless (or sells them to the general public) that has information on local soup kitchens and even computer training in the area, on an insert sewn inside the sweatshirt.
I was once at the end of a long term relationship. Things were not looking good. I was deeply depressed, and if he wasn’t at home to cook for himself and give me some of the food, I just didn’t eat.
One week, he left to spend four days at his other girlfriend’s house. I stayed upstairs in bed for that entire four days. Do you know how much weight you lose when you do not eat for four days straight? Especially when you’ve only been eating sporadically before that. I was of about average weight for my height, but after several weeks of poor diet and then four days of nothing, my body was feeding on fat reserves.
I finally dragged myself out of bed to go to a party. I even got dressed and put on some lip gloss and everything and probably wore shoes, I imagine.
I got to the party and all my friends were there, and they all remarked on my weight loss and said how amazing I looked. There are photos of that event. I do NOT look amazing in them. I look emaciated and sick, with sunken eyes and grey-ish skin. I look like someone who has barely eaten in weeks, and who has eaten nothing whatsoever for days, and who is literally starving.
But there must have been a dozen people at that party who admired how skinny I looked and complimented me on it.
One person, ONE, took me aside and asked if I was okay. She told me no offence, but I did not look great like everyone else said, I looked sick. She asked what was happening at home, when was the last time I ate, could she do anything to help me? Where was my boyfriend, did he know I wasn’t eating? I said I simply wasn’t hungry and she pointed out my body WAS, which is why I was weak and felt so faint. She gave me the option – she could buy me the dinner of my choice and I’d eat it, or she’d take me to see the emergency psychiatrist at the hospital, where they might even put me on IV. I chose a burger.
What is the point of this tale?
Twelve intelligent, kind, non-judgemental people – of a variety of body types – looked at a very sick, weakened, literally starving person and made only a single value judgement: She is thin = She looks good. They didn’t see this because they had a conscious belief that thin people are more attractive. It was a subconscious reaction they had without thinking.
Only one person made the judgement: She is thin + She looks sick = She needs help.
I now weigh 2.5x more than I did that day, and I have a problem with compulsive binge eating. But I eat at least two meals a day, I leave the house almost daily, I’m in treatment for my mental illnesses and I do the physiotherapy for my physical illnesses. Yet… I don’t get a dozen people complimenting my appearance in a MONTH, let alone in one night.
But no one ever pulls me aside and tells me I look sick and threatens to have me admitted to hospital because I can’t take care of myself, either.
What’s my point, Anon? How does this apply to you? What is the take away here?
The best thing for your body and your health is to look after it. And Looking After Your Body =/= Losing Weight. I lost a lot of weight once, but was I looking after my body? I absolutely was NOT. A lot of the time, weight loss is a side-effect of looking after your body. If I stopped binge eating, that would be good for my body, and probably I’d lose some weight too. But the goal should be to stop binge eating – and I’m still learning how to focus on that and not on thinking about how fat I am and how thin I used to be and wish I could be again.
Be healthy, Anon, and everyone else! Take care of your body in whatever way is most appropriate for you! I’ll try harder if you do!
if youve never physically been in the presence of like, a real live wolf, and you probably wont get the chance to, heres some stuff about them you should know
a wolf’s fur is so unbelievably thick that you can get like, your whole hand into it while petting. and then you can keep going
wolves are a lot bigger than you think they are. think about how big you think a wolf is then just like double that
they dont really smell like dog but they DO smell and youre not going to be able to figure out if its a good smell or not
a wolf really wants to lick the inside of your mouth. he will not stop trying to lick the inside of your mouth at any cost, and generally speaking you need to press your lips together kind of tightly when he approaches your face so that he doesnt worm his damn tongue in there to give you what he thinks is an appropriate greeting
a wolf doesnt really want to look at you while you pet him but he wants you to pet him. hes embarrassed
if a grown ass wolf decides to lay down on you, you just have to deal with it and thats your life now
young wolves, much like young dogs, are overwhelmingly goofy and stupid. a teenage wolf will see your very fragile, very human shoulder and go “i can probably step on that with my full weight” and then he will do it
letting a wolf eat out of your hand is actually not remotely frightening, and youll want to do it all day
Frankenuff’s Castle 