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ginger-grimm · 2 years

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Hello everyone, it's late and I should be sleeping, but this shit is keeping me up. I don't think I need to do much introducing to my woes, we all know who it's about. So buckle up, bitches (affectionate), cause I have got to say my piece otherwise I may explode.

I was encouraged by @come-along-pond to make my own post on this after her post, detailing her anger on being used.

Even though this is going to sound like a bad Criminal Minds episode, I would like to establish a timeline real quick for people who may be confused still:

Saturday noon I received this ask by an anon, informing me that randomestfandoms and ocfanhub are the same person, I replied in a jokey manner because several people have been accused of being the same person in the past and I thought it was just another ridiculous claim - boy, was I wrong

Maybe half an hour later I saw a vague post by @waterloou on my dash, so like any normal person I went to their PMs and asked for the tea, they told me Maddie has been accused of stealing another OC and I have to admit, shamefully, I was still somewhat giving them the benefit of the doubt because I considered them a good friend and I couldn't fathom why they would do this - admittedly, I was scared of letting a friend go

Then my ask post was reblogged by @anna-phora with some scawlding hot commentary, which left me wondering if I should just delete the post and if I have stepped into something that wasn't for me to joke about

I was assured by Lou, Vannah, and then Dina that Anna wasn't talking to me personally and Dina offered to clue me in on what was happening

When she did I was schocked to my core to be honest, how could anyone do this?

The evidence was now stacking up and I couldn't ignore it anymore. I believe my friends and I find it simply reprehensible to steal, manipulate, and straight up lie to others

I blocked all of Maddie/Veronica's accounts because the way they lied to people is just not okay and I do not want to associate with a person like that any longer

And yet, it did hurt me to have to do this. Don’t get me wrong, Maddie is in the wrong, plain and simple. They stole, lied, manipulated, cheated the system.

I didn't want to believe that someone who wrote such kind messages at this to me:

Could be someone who deeply and profoundly hurt others with their actions. I still can't believe it, to be honest and it makes me quite sad to see a genuinely talented creator take such a wrong path.

I wasn’t stolen from, not to my knowledge, but I would like to mention that I also feel betrayed. Again, I have already stated that I don't mind making an extra gif for someone when they ask me, I love to meet others OCs even if I'm not in the fandom. What I can't stand is being lied to just so the person can gain some extra gifts under false pretenses.

I think what spurred this post into action was this particular ask from "Veronica"

Now, I've had crossovers with Maddie from Teen Wolf all the way to Riverdale, so this ask is genuinely making me shiver considering they're the same person.

Like, what was the reason for this? My spring giveaway isn't particularly crossover related, and you even made several crossover requests for the ones we had on your Maddie account. Again, making multiple requests with your accounts, which you have done since my first giveaway in 2019.

I made gifts for your for stolen OCs. Do you even understand how icky that feels after all the support I've shown you the past year? I thought you were a friend and here you were lying to me and abusing my trust in the people of this community to what? Score some extra gifts? Play pretend?

I will admit I'm a fucking idiot for not seeing through this rouse sooner. I quite literally thought to myself how similar these two edits looked and chalked it up to you "two" taking inspiration off "each other"

From "Veronica" to me

From Maddie to me

I'll let you guess who made what - surprise! It's the same person.

I don't even know what kind of conclusion to draw from all of this. I honestly just wanted to post this so that I can move on and go back to creating for OCs who are my own and creating stuff for people who did not lie to me and use me.

I know Maddie won't see this because I blocked them, but I genuinely do hope that they take a break and seek help for whatever mental issues they may be experiencing (I say this in the least catty way, this behavior is actually concerning).

I'm glad people are speaking up and I once again apologize for letting my friendship with this person blind me to the point where I ignored people's complaints at first. I will try my hardest to do better in the future. I love you all and wish everyone a gentle rest of your day/night.

#anna says things sometimes #it's 4am and i have a bio test today #which i will fail i already know it #fuck i can't sleep #idk if it's this whole thing that's keeping me up but i assume so

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thetwomeatmeal · 7 years

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“Just You and I” is one of the most memorable scenes on the show and it’s crazy to think how unlikely it’d be for any TV show to pull off something like that today.

If we’re to draw some narratological principle out of it, and maybe connect it to my two-ontologies framework, it’s that in Twin Peaks there are psychosexual lines of communication that deny language and rationality. The knot of feelings between James, Donna, Laura, and Maddy is better expressed through music than dialogue, and that’s why the song can have such a powerful effect on its singers (and its audience). But the visions of BOB, the communications with the Lodge, the momentary dances and flirtations that dot the show, are all speaking on this level too. What takes some time to notice is that no one questions the existence of this supernatural and irrational level -- any other show would have a Dana Scully or Jack Shephard around to take issue with, say, Cooper putting up wanted posters for a man he saw in a dream. Here he’s allowed to flit laterally between clues like a Zen cicada.

The question, then, is what grounds this psychosexual network, which the show gives every indication of being geographically specific to Twin Peaks. I’ve made the case in other posts that BOB is simultaneously a mass-hallucinatory product of Leland’s abuse, and a real cause of it who lives in a Black Lodge above a convenience store. However, the psychosexual network is common to both ontologies, and is really what unites them. The Bookhouse Boys are aware that Twin Peaks is the site of some kind of supernatural evil (as are, separately, Major Briggs and maybe the Log Lady); the Lodge residents are aware that they’re there to feed off the pain and sorrow of others. Which, problematically, means that said pain and sorrow precedes their residence. Isn’t it the same unspeakable woe that attracted the Lodge, but also Leo and Josie -- that made Leland kill his daughter, but also made Laura seek her death? Where does the hurt first come from? But isn’t this a deeper question?

#tp rewatch #twin peaks

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mayday-us-blog · 7 years

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“Whose district am I in, anyway?” Exploring gerrymanded territory with the March on Harrisburg

By Teddy Rube, National Organizer

This post is part of a series on the March On Harrisburg, a non-partisan, volunteer run movement supporting three democracy bills in the Pennsylvania State Legislature. You can read more about the March in our earlier blog post.

Last Saturday and Sunday, MAYDAY’s campaign director Chris and I joined activists for the first two days of their intrepid 100-day March on Harrisburg in support of three anti-corruption reform bills in the Pennsylvania Legislature. We marched through all sorts of interesting features: through towns, over roads, along train lines, across bridges, rivers, and hiking trails. What we couldn’t see, though, was that we were constantly crossing and recrossing (and recrossing!) some of the most ingeniously gerrymandered electoral districts in the country.

At the end of Sunday’s grueling 15-mile march, Maddie Whitehill, one of the March’s coordinators, sat down with me to talk about Pennsylvania’s gerrymandering woes.

“I’m exhausted, though it’s not because of the walking,” she said, laughing. “As we marched, we were trying to figure out, what districts we were passing through? It should be an easy question – in a democracy!” She shook her head. “But no! It’s a complete and utter nightmare.”

Maddie’s frustration isn’t surprising, given that Pennsylvania’s electoral districts, both for Congress and the state’s legislature, have been consistently ranked as some of the most gerrymandered in the country. In Pennsylvania, state legislators are responsible for drawing district lines, and invariably, legislators draw lines to benefit themselves and their parties at the expense of the democratic system.

“In this state, we’re walking through districts that have been so gerrymandered that two houses right next to each other are in separate districts,” Maddie pointed out. Chris and I experienced this first hand. During the 26.5 miles we walked over two days, we crossed 11 Congressional district lines (but just through 5 districts), 8 state senate district lines (for only 4 districts), 17 state house lines (through 11 districts).

Even looking at the maps from the comfort of my computer, it’s dizzying to keep track of. The districts we walked through are beyond mangled, with bizarre angles, undulating curves, and chunks ripped out of them, clearly designed to stuff voters into a specific district (called “packing”) or to spread them out, called “cracking”) (The process is summarized well in this hilarious (and NSFW) video by Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver). You can puzzle out the district lines yourself, below:

Our route through from Philadelphia (bottom right) to Collegeville (top left) through Pennsylvania’s State House districts

Our route through Pennsylvania’s State Senate districts

Our route through southeastern PA’s congressional districts, with the infamously mangled 7th district highlighted in yellow

Big Money and Gerrymandering

Critics of reform often point out that gerrymandering has been a part of politics since the Republic was founded, and they’re right. However, what’s changed is the huge amount of money that’s poured into our political system since 2010′s Citizens United decision and is now dedicated to intensifying gerrymandering’s impact.

“People in, Money Out” is March on Harrisburg’s slogan, and for the Harrisburg marchers, gerrymandering is inextricably linked with the issues of big money corruption plaguing Pennsylvania and the country. As Maddie described, gerrymandering in Pennsylvania is a tool of wealthy politicians and parties to protect incumbents at the expense of the actual voices of voters in the districts.

“Right now, these districts defend politicians who already are in office. It’s extremely difficult for someone without money to run in a cracked district, where voters are separated out. You might have to travel across the state in order to reach voters.” In districts like Pennsylvania’s 7th, which at its furthest protuberances stretches nearly 80 miles, wealthy candidates who can pay to get their message around the district—whether by personally traveling, or through TV and other advertising—have an immense advantage over candidates with less funding. New candidates, unfamiliar with the distant and often disparate communities in a gerrymandered district, face a huge uphill battle.

Gerrymandering also allows the leadership of political parties to consolidate their own power at the expense of even their own voters—and they’ve been doing it for years. Maddie told me about a state legislator, Fred Taylor, who had challenged his party leadership in 1990. To neutralize Taylor in the 1992 elections, the Democratic leadership redrew his district, Pennsylvania’s 51st, to specifically exclude his house. Not to be deterred, Taylor bought a new home and moved into the new district, only to have—surprise!—the leadership redraw the maps around his house again, leaving him out.

In 1992, that type of targeting was considered egregious, and the story a unique anecdote. However, as mapping technology—and the funds to pay for it—have grown in leaps and bounds, it’s become routine. In the past few years in Pennsylvania, Maddie said, “political parties have started to use software to draw what is most likely to get them elected.” This mapping software helps explain why the districts we walked through are so minutely drawn.

Rise of the robots? Detail of Pennsylvania’s 7th district, drawn with a software-generated precision.

The problem’s only likely to worsen, Maddie told me, “since ISPs (internet service providers) can now sell your internet data,” referring to the repeal in April of federal internet privacy rules that prevented ISPs from selling online browsers’ private information. With the privacy rules repealed, it’s probable that politicians and parties with deep pockets will be paying telecom companies hand over fist for the ability to minutely draw around your yard, based on everything from the banana peels in your garbage to that book you ordered on Amazon last year. It’s gerrymandering �� la Fred Taylor, but on an a staggering scale.

(Fun fact: After Trump signed the privacy repeal bill in April, Salon published a great article about how big data will worsen gerrymandering. The congressional districts they profiled? Pennsylvania’s 6th and 7th.)

Marching for Solutions

March on Harrisburg describes gerrymandering as “a distortion of the relationship between citizen and government,” and they’re right. Politicians hand-picking their own voters, with the help of complex software and lots of money, isn’t how representative democracy is supposed to work. Fortunately, activists like the Harrisburg marchers are talking the talk and walking the walk.

One of the three bills the March is supporting is SB 22/HB 722, which would create an independent redistricting commission. The details are complex, but the March on Harrisburg and their major ally Fair Districts PA feel that this is the best shot Pennsylvania has at beating gerrymandering in decades.

Members of the March’s legislative committee met with every single state representative and senator in the lead-up to the march. Sean Leber, March on Harrisburg’s web designer who also participated in the lobbying meetings, told me that the bill has strong bipartisan support in both houses of Pennsylvania’s General Assembly. Much of the pushback, Sean and Maddie told me, comes from the leaders of both parties, who for obvious reasons don’t want to surrender the ability to gerrymander their way into power.

After marching 100 miles through dozens of district lines, the March on Harrisburg will steamroll into the state capitol on Monday, energized and ready to make the case to legislators that gerrymandering needs to be stopped. You can follow their activities on Facebook or their website

Gerrymandering can often seem like an abstract problem -- just funny shapes on a map. But March on Harrisburg, with its unique citizen-led trek across some of Pennsylvania’s most dizzying electoral borders, is helping make the issue gerrymandering – and it’s relationship to the scourge of money in politics – a concrete reality.

#gerrymandering #marchonharrisburg #endcorruptionpa #mayday.us

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