Iâm so tired of all these âTrump wouldnât have let x,y,z happenâ people.
Please. Give me specific examples. How would he have fixed any of this?
He would have stopped the war in Ukraine? How? Be specific. Because from where Iâm sitting, it looks like Russia has been threatening in invasion since long before Biden took office and instead of helping, Trump withheld aid from Ukraine in an attempt to blackmail them into giving him dirt on a political opponent.
He would have saved gas prices? How? Because to me it looks like corporations are making record profits, and still raising prices because they KNOW people will blame Biden and not corporate greed. I can assure you that Trump would have no problem with corporations making record profits.
He would have prevented the overturning of roe v Wade? Are you stupid? He appointed 3 of the justices who spearheaded the movement.
For the love of god, politicians are not your favorite character on a TV show. Their actions have real world consequences and you standing here acting like theyâre God is disgusting.
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I vote every pro life person in America gets put on a list and whenever a child needs an organ, graft, or transfusion, we legally require them to donate it, even if it will kill them because itâll save a child and childrenâs lives matter more. Sorry Brad, little Amy needs those lungs more than you. Sorry Karen, little Alex needs your heart.
We should also make them pay all the medical bills themselves, and refuse to let them take time off of work to recover (you know, if they survive lol).
Yâall donât like that idea? You think itâs a violation of your rights to have your bodily autonomy stripped even if it keeps someone else alive? What an interesting concept⊠I wonder how no one has ever thought of that before.
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Yâall I-
Some man, some literal cis-man, like without a uterus, just said to me âYou just donât understand how pregnancy works.â
My dude⊠Iâve been pregnant 3 times. Had one miscarriage. Recovered from pushing a whole full term child out of my body and am currently pregnant again. I think Iâm significantly more qualified than you in this area but go off I guess.
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I think a lot of people who have never been pregnant and support these laws fail to realize how difficult it is to not do anything that could harm the baby during pregnancy. A lot of it comes down to weighing risks and benefits and that looks different for everyone. I tried the âfollow every recommendation perfectly with no exceptionâ thing when I was pregnant with my daughter and I was miserable the whole time. (Also there is a lot of conflicting info out there that makes it impossible to follow everything perfectly) So sending people to jail for eating deli meat or runny eggs, drinking caffeine or forgetting to take prenatal victims is really, REALLY not good.
Another consequence of overturning Roe: charging mothers who donât provide the absolute âbestâ environments for their babies.
In 2019, a pregnant woman gets into an argument, and the other person shoots her in the stomach 5 times - obviously the baby is lost. The pregnant woman (who got shot) was charge with negligent homicide for âbringing her baby to the fight.â It took 7 months of protest for her charges to be overturned.
Now that Roe is overturned? Can a mother be sued if she doesnât take folic acid pills and her baby is born with spina bifida? What about the mom who doesnât realize she was pregant until the 2nd trimester, drank in the 1st, and decides to keep the child? If her baby is born with fetal alcohol syndrome, is she charged with negligence for not keeping her body in tiptop shape, even though she didnât know she was pregnant?
These are not hypotheticals. If a womanâs body is no longer her body, but *always* either a potential or future baby carrier, then weâre in for a whole host of crimes against pregnant people.
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Iâm so sorry that this is so long, but I have so many thoughts on this. TLDR at the end.
ALMOST everyone Iâve ever heard make this argument is an able bodied, nuerotypical, middle to upper class person who has no disabled children, friends or close relatives.
They like to ignore that a huge percentage of families can either not financially or not emotionally support an extremely (or even in some cases moderately) disabled child. We have a horrible health care system with insurance companies that often deny the therapy or in home care disabled children (and adults) need and ignore the fact that most families require more than one full time job to afford basic necessities already which leaves no parent able to stay home with the child who most daycare centers wonât accept (depending on the disability). They scream âadoptionâ while ignoring that most disabled children (especially POC) put up for adoption end up bouncing around foster care until they age out of the system and then end up as the people they hate so much who depend on the government for (what is usually subpar) basic care. Then they fail to see the irony that the policies they support are the main reason people would choose to terminate a pregnancy after finding out about the disability.
Iâm pregnant (very unplanned) and idk what I would do if faced with that choice. Not because of eugenics or that I wouldnât love my child, but because this country really isnât friendly or supportive to disabled people/children/or their parents. People have to have fundraisers to afford things that should be provided by the government or at the least insurance companies. My husband and I barely make it by financially as is. We live in an apartment complex that is not even remotely accessible to people with any physical disabilities that prevent the use of stairs and can not afford a single other place within a 2 hour drive of our places of employment. I have to beg, plead and fight for my insurance to cover any of my mental health meds or appointments and still end up paying ridiculous deductibles and often have to switch from meds that work to ones that donât or cause side effect with no warning bc my insurance randomly deiced the ones I was on were to new/expensive/experimental regardless of how much my I, my doctors and pharmacist try to fight them. I donât even want to think about the fight they would put up over potentially significantly more expensive therapies and treatments. Actually I know already because my cousin is on the exact same insurance plan as me and has a nonverbal son with the most severe level of autism and neither her or her partners insurance will cover a single god damned therapy or service for him or support for his parents.
TLDR: screw this country and screw the people who use this argument to shame people who made or considered making what they decided was the best choice for themselves and their families in a country that refuses to support its own people.
Unfriendly reminder that reproductive rights are BOTH the right to have a child AND the right to not have a child. "Legalizing abortion will make eugenics happen" a) no the fuck it won't, and b) even if it did the person carrying the child gets to make the choice
The solution to the slaughter of disabled infants is not ban abortion it is to create support for disabled families you absolute truckknuckles
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I wonder how many bookstore employees have had to move âThe Handmaids Taleâ out of the current affairs section this week.
I will not confirm or deny whether I have contributed to this phenomenon.
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I want to fight. I want to dress up in a red robe and white bonnet, drive to the state capital and carry around signs about how the government is killing us and how we are about to have less of a right to our own body than a corpse because if we donât fight, it wonât end here. Theyâll come for access to birth control, LGBTQ rights, interracial marriage, voting rights, the religious freedom of anyone who isnât Christian. The list goes on and on.
But Iâm scared.
Iâm pregnant, and I have a 15 month old daughter. I want to fight for my children to have a better life, and I want to fight for the rights of everyone with a uterus but Iâm terrified that Iâll end up in jail for peacefully protesting and leave my children without a mother, that Iâll be hit with a rubber bullet or tear gas and lose my pregnancy, but most of all Iâm scared that protesting wonât work no matter how hard we try.
BLM protest went on for months all over the world and no progress was made. Yeah, it spread awareness, but when it came down to it the media moved on, politicians ignored us, and nothing was improved. We screamed and begged âdefund the policeâ and they laughed in our face as they raised their budgets. Police where I live just killed a 17 year old black child and faced no repercussions. It barely even made it onto the news.
We live in a dystopia where people are jailed for protesting peacefully. Where the government doesnât care what people think, and the scariest part is that a huge chunk of the population either doesnât see it or doesnât care because it doesnât effect them yet.
Iâm done. I donât want to be a hero. I want out. For me and for my children. I want out of this hell hole of a country.
Anyone who knows how to go about getting citizenship in another country, please give me some advice. Where should I try to go? What do I need to do? Who do I need to contact? I donât care how much family Iâm leaving behind. I want out.
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Hereâs the thing pro-lifers donât understand.
I donât care why youâre pro-life. Youâre wrong.
Itâs against your religion? I donât care. Mind your own business. Freedom of religion applies to everyone, not just you. Abortion is a protected right in many religions. Aside from that, religious freedom does not mean you have the freedom to force everyone to live by your religions rules. Quite the opposite actually.
Youâre infertile and somehow feel entitled to other peoples children? I donât care. Your lack of ability to carry a child does not give you the right to force someone to go through the trauma of pregnancy and childbirth so that you can fulfill your need to be a parent. Hire a surrogate. Take in one of the 400,000 children in foster care. I donât care, but leave people with a uterus alone.
The fetus is alive? I donât care. So are cancer cells, bacteria, cockroaches, wasps, spiders, mold, grass and trees. Unless youâre going to refuse cancer treatment, stop washing your hands, stop treating your home for pests and mold, and mowing your lawn or cutting down trees, sit down and shut up.
The fetus has bodily autonomy? No it doesnât. If it requires the life of another person to survive, it does not because the rights of a parasite do not supersede the rights of a living breathing person. Doctors canât legally harvest organs from a corpse without the consent of the dead person or their next of kin. They canât even legally compel them to give them up. It doesnât matter if little Sally is going to die without a part of Gregâs liver. You legally can not take it without his permission. You are literally arguing for a corpse to have more rights than a living person.
So in conclusion, if youâre pro-life, youâre wrong. I donât respect you or your opinion, and I will fight until my last breath to ensure that the rights of all of my fellow uterus owners stay in place despite your dumb, dark ages opinions.
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mental illness is you sitting exhausted in a corner and youâre like, âhey brain can you just shut the fuck up and chill for a secâ and ur brainâs like âfuck youâ and runs around setting the house on fire
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literal actual professional doctor: you have xyz mental thing
me: are you sure iâm not faking it for attention
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hahaha but like why am i such an insecure paranoid piece of shit
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The 5 Stages of Grief-- I Mean of Plotting a Book
(And a masterlist of blog posts that help along the way)
All plotting styles are different and these are just the 5 stages that I go through and think are most common.
I will be updating this with links as new posts are published, so bookmark this post if you find it helpful!
1. That little idea
The little idea can come from literally anything. Thatâs the beautiful thing about a creative mind. The idea is also usually very, very tiny at first. Itâs a character or a setting or a bare-bones plot or a prompt. But itâs an idea!
Prompts Masterpost
Using an Image as Inspiration
2. A bigger idea!
This is where you flesh out the little idea. I braindump (i.e. writing down every little idea I have pertaining to the story, including plot points) during this time. This is also a good place to figure out the central idea/question/themes, and important characters.
The Ten Genres
50 Character Name Ideas
OC Names of the Day #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
How to Make a Story File (w/ template)
3. Setting the stage
Now is the time to flesh out your worldbuilding, characters, arcs, and relationships.
How to Make a Story File (w/ template)
When You Have a Large Cast of Characters
The Anti-Villain: A Study in Motivation
My Personal Character Files: The 6 Box Method (w/ template)
Some Worldbuilding Categories œ
Some Worldbuilding Categories 2/2
Worldbuilding in Detail Vol. I: Flora and Fauna
Worldbuilding in Detail Vol. II: Religion
7 Worldbuilding Tips
Little Quirks and Habits for Your OC
Words to Describe Dress of a Character
(Semi) Master List of Character Motivations
4. The Worst Puzzle Known to Man
Now youâve got to start arranging the plot points you have into a cohesive-ish order. I find this is also the time I get tired or bored of my story, so Iâve included my post about beating writerâs block. Because, as we know, it can happen well before you even start writing.Â
Tips of Writerâs Block
5 Better Ways to End Your Story
Raising Stakes
5. 5 Seconds to Launch
A working outline should be ready for you to work from now. Youâve ordered the plot points, filled in the gaps, your characters and their relationships are ready to go. While I have a âworking titleâ from the get-go, this is when I settle on the final title.
5 Ways to Find Your Novel Title
Gillian Flynn: A Closer Look at Two-Word Titling
Some Titling Formats and Examples
Reminder:Â I will be updating this with links as new posts are published, so bookmark this post if you find it helpful!
Please let me know if any links are incorrect!
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I donât think a lot of people understand that no matter how progressive or well-read you are, there are always going to be moments in your life where somebody pushes back against something thatâs so culturally ingrained you never even considered it before. And youâll say âHuh, it never occurred to me to challenge this but youâre right,â and that doesnât mean you were âmorally toxicâ before, it means youâre a non-omniscient human capable of growth.
Also, some preferred terms for things will change and evolve, and terms we prefer now might eventually be considered gauche or even offensive, and that doesnât mean you were a bigot at the time for using them. It means we evolved as a society and chose new terminology to reflect that change.
Nobody is a fully formed realisation of progressivism that can predict all shifts and modes of thought. The world will always change, and hopefully you will, too
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For anyone not keeping up, Trump held a rally earlier today, told his supporters to storm the Capitol building with him, then went to hide in the White House.
Protestors tore through 4 layers of barricades and are fighting cops to get into the Capitol building. A possible bomb was spotted and the Madison and Cannon buildings have been evacuated while a bomb squad was called in. And just now the Capitol has gone into lockdown.
But also Pence issued a statement that he is not doing anything with the electors and McConnell denounced Republican senatorsâ efforts to stop counting the electoral votes.
And as I was writing this, the protesters breached the Capitol and Pence was pulled from the Senate chamber.
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So for years black girls have had to read fanfics where y/n was automatically described as being paled skinned with long flowing hair and blue eyes. We couldnât relate to it exactly, it excluded us, it ignored us. But we read it cause it was all that was out there. Now when we start writing fanfics for other black girls to feel included and represented, now you all are saying that you ââcanât relate to itâ therefore donât support black writers when we were supporting your work all those years even though you were acting like we donât exist within these fandoms.Â
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Harry Potter AU in which Fred and George are in different houses and they steal and wear each others ties whilst doing stupid things in hope of the others house losing points
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My biggest pet peeve about tumblr is people who preach about the growth and development of their favorite players but then make posts calling less popular players trash for something they did literal years ago. Yes people grow. But people you donât like grow too. Donât act like you were born the person you are today. I was a complete asshole up until I was like 14 and I didnât know any better because thatâs what I was raised around. I was lucky to make friends in high school who tought me a lot about being a good person. Even public figures should be allowed the chance to become better people without their past being constantly thrown in their face.
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