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A lot of sentiments I see online about "just standing up for yourself" fall apart when considering that a common consequence of "standing up for yourself" is losing a key part of your current support network. It's hard to tell someone to stop being transphobic to you when you carpool with them to work, and it'll get a lot more expensive without them. Can your budget tolerate that cost, or is it the expense that stretches you too far? It's hard to tell someone that they need to be more polite to you when they're the one who helps walk you through legalese. Can you find someone else to do it for you, or are you left floundering? It's hard to tell someone to stop being sexist to you when they're the one writing your reference letter. Do you have someone else who can be your reference, or are they the only one whose letter would be accepted?

In order to be able to stand up for yourself, you need to be able to bear the potential consequence of that person leaving. You need to either have redundancy in your network, or be able to pay for what they did for you. Safety is about more than if someone will hit you.

#Reblogged #gold-from-straw #psychoticallytrans

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I've been toying with "Kate" recently, because it's what my dad has always called me and I just like it more than "Katy." "Katy" just sounds...sharper? It's the strong E sound at the end, I think.

Don't think I'll ever actually change it since they're so close it doesn't really matter. But yeah, chosen name is just a Nickname that Got Promoted.

note from blogrunner: yes, we've definitely had a poll like this before, but enough time has passed and there's a lot more people following this blog now

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(for the purposes of this poll, there is no monkey's paw situation: the chore you pick stays the same level of difficulty/grossness/etc. as it normally is for you, and you only have to do it as often as you want to. the chores you don't pick are magically done for you exactly the way you'd want them to be, just with zero effort on your part.)

#Yard work #I will happily and willingly do yard work all day long #Reblogged #vaspider #bemusedlybespectacled

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Love going to bed with a new, good daydream scenario fresh in my mind. Like yes girl, movie night!

#Reblogged #swifty-fox #thumping-whumper

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Bitches will find a fictional man attractive and then immediately imagine him in situations where he is losing alarming amounts of blood

#Reblogged #wizardarchetypes #1000fingers

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#Reblogged #systlin #catasters

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The one and ONLY time we ever considered shooting a dog in my rural family was because a tree fell on his head and for half a second we thought we were going to have to put him out of his misery since there would be no way to get him to a vet in time for it to be done via drugs.

He was fine though. Pulled it his head out from under the tree and pranced around like nothing happened. Lived for ten more years, and was a pretty damn smart dog the whole time. Sometimes too smart.

What that bitch did? Not something that has EVER crossed anyone's mind in my family, even when there have been some hellish dogs in the family (mostly due to my aunts refusing to train their dogs properly).

I was saying to Emet earlier that one of the big things I was worried about with this fucking Kristi Noem thing was that she was trying to present this as "a rural thing"

Like "oh you city people just don't understand, this is just how it is in rural places"

And I really didn't want to see this just accepted by the news media, most of whom have never lived anywhere rural, as just "how we are"

Like, no, absolutely not, we don't just fucking shoot dogs bc they aren't good at being hunting dogs. Everybody I've ever personally known who hunts with dogs knows that a dog that is a bad hunting dog may be a great family pet. It's clear that people like that must exist - she's a person, after all - but it's not just How Things Are.

There are enough bad stereotypes about Rural People. We don't need more.

However, I have been relieved to see that a bunch of places covering this have had people on who grew up in rural places & who were pushing back on this hard, saying exactly that: no, this isn't normal.

Ugh.

#Animal death #Animal Death Mention

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They're doing some work at the Colorado National Monument because of this bill, and what I specifically appreciate about it is that they have a sign up at the entrance to the monument specifically stating that the work is being paid for by Biden's bill. You can't not see it when you go to the monument. You can't not know how and why this work is getting done.

So, thanks to President Biden’s Infrastructure Bill, remote locations on the Navajo Nation Reservation will be receiving electricity for the first time — ever.

Also, water treatment devices are being developed to help the tribe access clean running water. After decades without.

#Reblogged #gold-from-straw #saywhat-politics

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#Reblogged #noirsongbird #so-many-ocs

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-standing up after 8 hours of hyperfocusing on a book outline- Hahaha. Oh no.

#Mistakes have been made #mostly related to hydration #whoops #Am Writing

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And that’s my next disaster book planned! I’m trying to get everything I want to work on this summer outlined NOW, before my summer job starts, so that it will be easy to pick projects up and put them down as needed depending on my schedule.

#Volcano book #Am Writing

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Every time I say something about what I don't like in/with my books, I inevitably end up doing that exact thing in my next project. Certain types of character death. Flashbacks. Whatever.

Anyways.

On an unrelated note, I really hate getting six figure publishing deals. I'd never want that to happen. Nope. Terrible.

#Musings #Am Writing

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Okay, good, because this one has four. 😂

I didn't really think four would be too many (I have books with more), but originally I was just planning on two for this book. Then I started plotting and realized four might work better, which got me curious on people's general feelings on the matter.

Obviously it's a matter of execution more than anything, but still!

It's also worth noting that this book is a standalone contemporary adventure/survival thriller, so it's not like it's a series where you slowly build up the amount of POVs as you go. You've just got four from the jump.

No "other" option. If you don't like multi POV books, please keep scrolling!

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No "other" option. If you don't like multi POV books, please keep scrolling!

#Trying to decide how many POVs to have in my current project #Poll #Tumblr Poll #Writing #Am Writing

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Sharing a neat resource I found today for creating character names that are anagrams for other things.

Other anagram solver things I've used only generate regular words, not names. This one actually generates names, though! And it seems to have a bunch of other neat settings I haven't played with yet. Guessing it's mostly English names, but I'd have to play with it more to be sure. Still useful, though.

#Writing Resource #Resource

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***bodily drags brain away from ideas of a duology*** THIS IS A STANDALONE YOU LITTLE FUCKER. DON'T YOU DARE.

I'm having so much fun with my next book. It's another standalone disaster story, which I've written plenty of, and I am, if I do say so myself, pretty damn good at such stories. But this is the first one that I'm writing as a more intentional throwback to classic disaster films and tropes, which is proving delightful.

#Volcano Book

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I'm having so much fun with my next book. It's another standalone disaster story, which I've written plenty of, and I am, if I do say so myself, pretty damn good at such stories. But this is the first one that I'm writing as a more intentional throwback to classic disaster films and tropes, which is proving delightful.

#Volcano Book