#this is also an in progress list

[i-am-church-the-cat]

Logan Sargeant is a silly little guy

@vii-tto idk why but it wouldn't let me tag you. Hopefully you see this. also @spell-of-the-rain i added things if you want to check out 75-87

But here's the list of things i know/want to know about logan sargeant

Favorite Actor is Brad Pitt

Favorite Movie is Wolf of Wall Street

Favorite food is a hamburger

Has a boat and often goes deep sea fishing

Lived in London since he was 15

Lose Yourself by Eminem is his favorite hype up song

Is a Dolphins and Heat fan

Enjoyed “No Man, No Cry” by Jimmy Sax

Drinks iced lattes with oat milk

Pumpkin spice lattes?? Edit 12/16/23: No

Has been to Wimbledon

Knows what cricket is

Has a rescue dog named Coco

Also enjoys hockey Edit 11/1/23: Supports the Florida Panthers NHL team and has gone to at least 1 of their games with his friend Kyle Kirkwood

Does he follow college football?

What does he think of the new Miami head coach? 

If not for motorsport, does he think he would have gone pro in a different sport, and if so which one?

Enjoys listening to 50 Cent (is also a big rap fan in general)

Can he speak any other languages with any degree of familiarity?

Cannot draw

Can make a sandwich (other foods?)

Rates all food from one bite and with weird decimals

Gritty-ed in his f1 car

Makes the Williams photographers look like they take good photos

Does he have an English or a Florida driver’s license? And does he still have US citizenship even though he lives in the UK? What kind of visa is he on?

Top three female athletes? (Serena Williams, Simone Biles, and Megan Rapinoe are all acceptable answers) 

Collects Aussies and Kiwis for friends

Does he like the snow? Prefers the heat but does he like snow?

Does he like Missy Elliot? (Requirement) 

“Basic Halloween Bitch”

Calls people “mate” but in an American accent which will never stop being funny

Eye Crinkles™️

Does not have a set eye color he’s just too mystical for that

Has never been to a concert (presumably too busy with racing)

He can swim, he can drive, but can he ride a bike? Edit 11/15/23: He can indeed ride a bike

American commercial cars or  European ones?

Has an older brother but is like an older brother to Benny’s kid

Likes marshmallows

Does not like black beans

Did not think apple could be chips

Knows how to sail??

Knows how to golf

Can paddle (required for any F1 driver)

Lost the F3 championship in 2020 bc of a DNF in the last race

Can he sing??

Does he drink energy drinks? Red Bull or Monster? 

He and Duracell are passionately making out

Blush is very pretty 

Wears a lot of baseball hats

Somehow beat jet lag (expat king)

Mostly spends his nights in but he has some nights out (presumably very interesting ones)

Has an iPhone with a blue case

He looks very pretty in blue

His eyes are sometimes blue

Blue=fav color?? Edit 11/6/23: favorite color is Ocean blue (credit to @spell-of-the-rain)

Pretty insecure (armchair diagnosed anxiety)

Close with his brother and parents but maybe not his extended family?

Is Florida State his college team?? (Worst thing a man can be is a Florida St fan) Edit 12/16/23: believing that FSU got screwed over this year is acceptable

Did he graduate high school??

Did he ever consider going into NASCAR or did moving to Europe at a young age kind of set in stone his path towards open-wheel racing?

Hair is blond/dirty blond

Does he vote in American elections?? (If he supports RonD I cannot stan)

Burger Sauce™️

Logan Hunter Sargeant, certified Frat Bro, most American man ever

Has seen peaky blinder and presumably stranger things

Knows how to carve a pumpkin but has not celebrated Halloween at home in a bit

Possibly dating some instagram model

Caused $4 million in damages, gets payed $1 million a year, and supposedly brings in $30 million in sponsors

Key phrases: “Locked in”, “Bam/Boom”, “Done and dusted” Additions 11/1/23: "Oh hell yeah", "I think you're a little lost here, Chief". Additions 11/6/23: “Yeh” (gets quieter throughout the word (how it’s one syllable??)), “on the bounce” (credit to @spell-of-the-rain i believe)

Joined the Williams Driver Academy in 2021 

Got stuck in F3 bc he didn’t have the money to move up

Driver for Carlin in 2022

Former teammates include Liam Lawson, Oscar Piastri, Frederick Vesti (Edit 11/6/23: Max Fewtrell possibly?)

DOB: December 31, 2000

5'11

Had a giveaway for gloves he used to win an F4 race on Twitter in 2017 and both Lando Norris and Max Fewtrell replied

Originally his number was 3 but he switched to 2 for F1 (to much fan consternation who thought he had so many better options)

Childhood best friends with Kyle Kirkwood, a current Indycar driver

Logan's older brother Dalton raced in NASCAR until 2018

Did a commercial for Sport23

Does not have cowboy boots as of COTA 2023

Born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA

lived in Switzerland from 14-15(?)

knows the conversion rate for a kilometer

is taller than a tuna fish

Podiumed at the Macau Grand Prix in 2019

Won the CIK-FIA championship when he was 14 Additions as of 11/1/23

Loves waffles but they are not his favorite dessert

Very patriotic (oh hell yeah)

is the first American F1 point scorer in 30 years and the first one to score on home soil since 1989

Went to see the Nets in NYC (but would have preferred to see the Knicks)

has a custom Miami Dolphins jersey with his last name on the back

Claims to know all the lyrics to "Ice Ice Baby" (credit to @formulaaone) (Edited 11/6/23)

Additions as of 11/6/23:

Under the same talent agency as Alex Albon

Has the same manager as George Russell

George Russell was his mentor coming up

Went to a catholic private school (credit to @wenevrknew)

Does not like fish? (Credit to @spell-of-the-rain)

He runs weird (in my opinion as he reminds me of my brother when he was 12 (he ran very strangely))

Karted in Las Vegas when he was a kid

Can he drive a stick shift? (Alex believes he cannot)

Enjoys video games

Refers to his car as “she”

Knew how to attach a visor to his helmet prior to February(? Could’ve been March but before the season) 2023

Additions as of 12/16/23

Broke his arm in a 2014 German Karting Championship when Marcus Armstrong took him out at T1 (credit to @spell-of-the-rain )

Has gotten his head eaten by the Golden Knights mascot

If he could have any superpower, he would like to teleport

Has never flown a drone

Favorite racing movie is Talladega Nights (sad Mater noises)

Does not trust other people to drive him

Would rather sleep in then get up early

Considers himself fairly organized

His mother makes a very good sweet potato casserole

Got his habit of worrying from his mom

“Santa’s Little Helper”

Driving for Williams Racing Formula 1 Team in 2024

Got out qualified by his teammate every race of 2023

#logan sargeant #formula 1 #only one other person asked for this and they dmed me #but i'll make a post anyway #this is also an in progress list #so feel free to add stuff #logan lore list

[lil-lemon-snails]

Have some low-quality sun screenshots while i stress over colour palettes :)

vvv

Went through SO MANY stages w this design and i'm still not 100% about it BUT- progress is being made (maybe)

Witness my pain

#i just! don't know if i like sun in shorts asdkjgjs #but the silhouettes get kind of crazy without them raghghgg #also the GRIP pink/orange/blue colour palettes have on me-- i need to reel myself in #so much to do!! so much to edit!! the mental list is long but i'm enjoying sharing the progress :3 #okay enough rambling in the tags #for now... #divine circus au #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf dca #fnaf security breach #fnaf sun #digital art #dca au #snailems art tag

[eviefrie]

hello locked tomb fans. have i got a book (books) for you.

more archive undying propaganda, if this wasn't enough to convince you:

(but also if you've decided to read the archive undying, i don't know if i would recommend the libby edition? i have my libby set to "legible" and there are some font changes in the print version that did NOT show up in the ebook. obv i liked reading the ebook enough to buy the text, but as @urban-sith put it, he was lost and i was in jumanji)

#ARCHIVE UNDYING EVANGELISM BE UPON YE. #hold on. embarrassing list of tags incoming: #the locked tomb #nona the ninth #some desperate glory #tamsyn muir #emma mieko candon #emily tesh #bookblr #ok it's done. #i have more archive undying memes....it's very memeable. i also have a ppt in progress. #casper 2024

[riwooga]

Possessive-loving Wraith is a weakness i will never get over

Like...

Full on Wraith romance when 💕💕💕

#Let me mess up all Quinn's shady business and just protect the Wraith and the temple and keep them company #Wraith moving up my list of favorites rapidly #Also making progress on the art with them I promise :')💕 #dol #degrees of lewdity #dol ivory wraith #ivory wraith #No but seriously please give me Wraith romance I have so many ideas in my little head of them 💕💕💕

[quantumshade]

this is an absolutely insane thing to say for multiple reasons but the most glaring are a.) using the phrase “sausage fest” is an incredibly loaded and weird term to use when 3 out of 4 rtd2 episodes so far have included trans women and b.) the implication that chris chibnall (a man) did not write his stories from a quote-unquote “male perspective”. sorry but casting a cis white woman as the doctor does not absolve you of all misogyny and racism.

#also just flat out wrong. for ‘’men’’ important in rtd2 we have shaun (who has the role of donna’s husband and rose’s dad) and the toymaker #who was an established villain. #whereas for important women we have donna rose mel ruby carla cherry shirley kate etc. #also ‘’male perspective’’ and ‘’female perspective’’ are nonsense terms that mean nothing. #also also while we’re at it. explain to me how exactly thirteen era is ‘’progressive’’ without listing various identities of the characters. #doctor who #delia.txt

[wonder-worker]

something I find especially entertaining about Edward IV's reign is how Scandalous™ it was lol

he married a woman “whose origins broke all established conventions for English queenship” in a secret ceremony without consulting any of his lords and then made it everyone else's problem. he committed regicide, he committed fratricide; he was accused of bastardry, he was accused of bigamy and a 19-year-long sham marriage, he was accused of using necromancy against his subjects, he was accused of being enchanted by witchcraft by both his wife and his mother-in-law (multiple times). his own mother was said to "rule the king as she pleased" in the early years of his reign. he knew he was hot and actively milked it for money. he was vain as fuck: “he was wont to show himself to those who wished to watch him, and he seized any opportunity that the occasion offered of revealing his fine stature to onlookers”. he knew everything about everyone. "he was more favourable than other princes to foreigners". he was “fond of boon companionship, vanities, debauchery, extravagance and sensual enjoyments”; he was "thought to have indulged in his passions and desires too intemperately”; "it was ever feared he was not chaste”. his subjects publicly gossiped about his sex life, his doctors thought he was insane. NOBODY understood how he was still competent despite all this.

honestly, who was doing it like him?

#(the quote is by J.L. Laynesmith) #Edward IV #my post #the original post was written as a drunken shitpost but it's still 100% true #henry viii could NEVER. Even Humphrey of Gloucester pales in comparison I'm sorry to say #(EW was also accused of controlling both Edward and the country but I don't want to get into the propaganda against her right now - however #true or false it may have been in reality - so I didn't include it. HOWEVER it's absolutely true that Edward gave her a great deal of #unconventional authority by appointing her in royal councils for the heir and spare in her own right during her tenure as queen. So there #was an existing basis for the accusations against her even though they were obviously ultimately extremely unfair and prejudiced #and meant to denigrate her) #Elizabeth Woodville #Cecily Neville #english history #its kinda funny how historians often emphasize his womanizing (which very obviously happened tho it's difficult to say to what extent) when #talking about his over-the-top lifestyle. But as we can see: Croyland - who was best-placed to know - emphasizes a wider variety of things #that worried/scandalized his contemporaries. Edward sleeping around was just one of many (and the last on Croyland's list) #I don't necessarily think it should be highlighted as much as it is #(also funnily enough 'sensual enjoyments' was also used to describe *Richard III* on his northern progress during his reign lol)

[destinationtoast]

Well, it's been a hell of a couple of weeks, and one of many things that happened is that I ended up coming home from Urgent Care looking rather like fruit being packed up for long distance shipping.

I got pretty scraped up when I fell while hiking nearly a month ago. Then I got significantly better... and then I got a whole lot worse.

If you would like to avoid some truly disgusting and painful wounds, you should know that you are likely to develop an allergy to Neosporin if you use it for multiple weeks (and probably the same goes for other brands of over-the-counter antibiotic ointments, I'm guessing).

#in better news #my parents and I successfully moved my grandmother to a retirement home #where she's been on the waiting list for over a year #there's lots left to do still but great progress #and it was hard but went well #and i got my parents each to sign up for some big health treatments they need but have been avoiding thinking about #and i tested positive for covid but it turned out to be a rare false positive #(though that cost us some time with the move while i isolated until i got PCR results) #so yeah overall a hell of a week and a half #also my parents and i rewatched S1 of Ted Lasso #and they were like #'you sure know a lot about this show' #XD #toasty life #contact dermatitis #neosporin allergy #i might be a fruit well-packaged for shipping #op #50

[cdelphiki]

All thoughts of baby furniture left his mind when he heard a knock at his door, not ten minutes later. Jason’s eyes darted down to Matt, who was still peacefully asleep on the pillow on the floor next to him, where he’d chosen to sit. 

Carefully and quietly, Jason got to his feet and set the booklet down, then grabbed his gun off the end table next to his couch. 

Very, very soon he’d need to purchase some good gun safes to keep those in, so little hands couldn’t get ahold of them. 

Silently, Jason crossed the room and paused at his front door. He wasn’t expecting anyone to come over, and literally everyone was great at texting him first. 

Because he was jumpy, as everyone said. 

With one quick glance back at Matthew, who was still sound asleep, Jason leaned forward and looked through his peephole. 

Then sighed. 

Loudly. 

“Who told you,” Jason said, after he unlocked his door and swung it open. 

Bruce smiled his stupid dumb smile and said, “Hello Jason,” as he held a damn gift back out for Jason to take. 

“Yeah, hi. Who told you? Babs or Damian?” 

“Damian,” Bruce said, still holding the gift out. 

“I’m going to kill him,” Jason grumbled as he took the bag so Bruce would stop looking stupid. 

Because Bruce was an asshole, he pushed his way past Jason into the apartment as he said, “No you won’t.” 

“I’ll maim him,” Jason said, “I will. I told him not to tell you.” 

#My muse has been all over the place this last week or two #but im happy with the progress ive been making on multiple of my fics that have been on a long hiatus #I'm hoping to get the next chapter of jason and the three terrors out this weekend as well #so that is ALSO still on the front burner no one worry about that #my current goal is to just get as many of my fics finished as possible #i want my WIP list to shrink lmao

[bizarrelittlemew]

✨🫧 MARCH SPRING WIP CLEANING 🫧✨

i think this is a brilliant idea by @ophelia5wims on twitter - i have wayyy too many wips and it's making it hard for me to choose what to write since i wanna write ALL of them lmao, resulting in me staying undecided and not writing much at all. SO i will try following this challenge this month! posting for accountability:

Day 1: State your intentions! Set a realistic number for works to complete, words to write, etc (and then set a stretch goal!)

Works to complete:

60s commune one-shot (Roach POV)

chapter 15 and 16 of Circus Nights, trying to keep them <2k words each

the sequel to Throw away the oars

first chapter or 3 scenes of the modern royalty/celebrity au

one-shot with Stede in the probation rice sack onesie and collar (that is finally taking shape after i've been rotating it in my mind for some time)

Stretch goals (in no particular order):

1 more scene of dogwalker Stede/car designer Ed age difference au (+ 2 more thirst posts for Stede's tumblr)

organize my notes for the trope smoothie fic

chapter 17 of Circus Nights

i won't set a goal for words to write, since i'm more interested in slimming down my wip folder, so my goal is to post to ao3 4 times 🤸

(and please, if any of these interest you and/or sound like something you want to see sooner than others, let me know/ask about them!! it will help me stay motivated and decide on what to write first 💖)

#OFMDspringWIPclean #ofmd fic #i'll also slim down my gifset to do list and i'm already making good progress #i had 20 now i have 8 #cleaning out the remaining requests from october/november and making space for new ones

[trippedandfell]

like everyone else i have been compelled to write again due to bi buck and miiiiight have a little fic dropping later - if anyone would like to be tagged, feel free to like this post <333

#i searched for my tag list but couldn’t find it so! here we are #also it’s very short but i haven’t written since like. September 2022 so progress is progress yknow #cole.txt

[poorlemons]

Day 12 - Tiny Just a doodle and a WIP of my day 11, its gonna take a bit so yes, i am posting out of order. The context behind the WIP is that i looked at the word painted and just thought about “draw me like one of your french girls”. so i delved further and decided to draw my oc Tourmaline again but in a like.. like he and achilles are being goofy and think its funny as hell because tourmaline cannot paint. wholesome vibes, they’re just havin fun

#amphibiuary2023 #amphibian #original characters #wip #doodle #work in progress #art #this prompt list keeps making me draw backgrounds #like what #i never do that??? #goddamn #also HANDS doing STUFF #i like drawing hands but holding pens n shit is a different story #my art

[intersex-support]

Intersex Organizations

International:

Organization Intersex International: 

Map of intersex organizations

Intersex Organizations in the US:

InterACT- Advocates for Intersex Youth

Intersex Campaign for Equality  

Intersex Justice Project 

Intersex Initiative 

Houston Intersex Society

Interconnect

South America:

Organización Internacional Intersexual - Hispanoparlante 

Brujula Intersexual

Argentina Intersex

Communidad Intersex PacificoSur

Caminar Intersex

Orquidea Intersexual

OII Hispana

Intersexual Venezuela

Proyecto Intersex

Intersexuales Chile

Peru Intersex

Canada:

Intersex Canada

Africa:

Intersex South Africa

Transgender and Intersex Africa

SIPD Uganda

Intersex Nigeria

Intersex Society of Zambia

Intersex Ghana

Zimbabwe Intersex Human Rights Trust

Intersex Person's Society of Kenya

Association of Intersex Parenthood Kenya

Europe:

Organization Intersex International Europe

Intersex Russia

Intersex UK

Zwischengeschlecht (Switzerland Intersex Organization)

Belgium

Iceland

OII Italy

Italy

OII Germany

OII Austria

Ireland

Intersex Greece

Kaleidos Intersex

Scotland Against Intersex Surgery

Asia: 

Organization Intersex International Chinese

Organization Intersex International Phillipines

Intersex Asia

Intersex Nepal

Intersex Vietnam

Australia and New Zealand:

Intersex Human Rights Australia

Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand

#actuallyintersex #intersex #intersex resources #intersex organizations #if anyone knows if any more to add please let me know! this list is always a work in progress and is updated as more organizations form #a big barrier for me is that i can only really search for intersex in languages that i read #so if there are intersex orgs that don't have a name in english french spanish or italian #i really cannot find it easily #so please send in recs if you know any! #mod e #also. can't vouch for any of the ones outside of the US bc i simply don't know them

[rigelmejo]

This is the lovely post by MoonIvy that inspired me to get myself back into reading chinese by the way:

And this is MoonIvy's other amazing post, which includes a list of everything they read so far in order of difficulty which is a great reference list if you are looking for something to try, and includes some suggestions on listening study things you can try too.

MoonIvy is part of the group managing the Heavenly Path site I keep mentioning, that just has so many phenomenally organized media recommendations, a good guide to starting to read, and lots of linked resources:

#rant #reading #resources #chinese resources #rec list #so in these posts moonivy mentions some good starting places for HSK 4 people to push into reading #and i agree at about hsk 4 you can handle 1 a ton of graded readers (from 500 hanzi to 2000 as you go) #and 2 u can eventually handle native novels at hsk 4. thats when i pushed into native novels #i would say though. my own difference in learning #is i personally found it motivating and enjoyable to read WAY above my level at times. #i personally always go between 1 easier thing for myself and 1 harder thing to read. i felt that kept my #reading level both progressively increase while also giving me easier stuff to practice extensive reading #and for me it was HIGHLY motivating to read 100 pages of priest in print 2 years in #HIGHLY motivatkng to read tian ya ke with a click dictilnary 10 months in. #to see chapters go from 1.5 hours to read to 50 minutes to 40 minutes to 25 minutes. #so for me. i would say if you WANT to read something way above your level? just go ahead #you can always bounce between easier and harder stuff #i find a good balance worked better for me. and also i tend to learn better when massively challenged ToT #idk why i think its just cause its familiar. id read my parents novels at age 8. ToT it feels #more like how i leafned my native language to simply read my foreign language the same #though i know it demotivates some people. in contrast i find keeping some harder stuff on hand #reminds me to challenge myself and not idle at the level im at. #so i say? assume u can do ANYTHING with success. and do it. and when it burns u out or is not fun anymore? #go do something easier u Know is Easy. (and it sure will feel easy after the Anything before lol) #then u get confidence doing it easy. and remember ur #still capable of Anything so try again when ur ready.

[ladytauria]

i was going to wait until the new year to do this, but my other list is just about finished, so!

making a short list of wips i want to focus on in the following year! (i will definitely write other things, but :P)

under a cut for easier updating!

touch me slow, feel my heart bleed — possibly a temporary title; currently from power by isak danielson. JayTim. dom!omega verse. Omega!Tim; Alpha!Jason. featuring: jealous/insecure jason; marking; collars; & first time bottoming. [ moved over from previous priority list ] DONE

the tenderest of touches (break the hardest of hearts) — JayTim. Stray!Tim. title from hardest of hearts by florence + the machine. the background plot is hood & stray teaming up to kill the joker. the main plot is having inadvisable kinky sex with your reluctant ally & falling in love. also featuring: identity porn; friends to crushes to reluctant allies to fuck buddies to lovers. MOVED TO BACKBURNER

cloves, cardamom, and coffee —JayTimJay. temp title, probably. aob. sequel to clove, smoke, & honey (jay/jason). in which Alpha!Jason’s universe is the one where RHATO #52 (?) & Gotham War happen, only for Omega!Jason to find out and decide he’s better off in his universe. he doesn’t necessarily mean for him to become the third in his relationship with Alpha!Tim, but, well. that’s what happens. this has been kicking around in my head since i wrote it, & i have been heavily encouraged (waffle, abyss) to write it.

you try so loud to love me (i cannot seem to hear) — JayTim. title from that unwanted animal by the amazing devil. in which the lazarus pit fuels jason’s penchant for self-destruction, & tim decides rather than fight, he’s gonna fuck it out of him.

the sweetness of honey — JayTim. Reverse Robins. Underage. AOB. jason is rescued by tim after he was abducted, and goes into heat. tim mates him—and then comes the aftermath.

i’ll add more to this list but. there are several im turning around so i’ll have to decide first lol xD

#feel free to nudge me for progress updates if you want #also prompts could technically be on this list too #i write them as warm ups and/or when nothing else is flowing! #bc there’s usually a clearer direction xD #my posts #the priority wips #priority wips

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

24 in 2024

i haven't seen any of these floating around yet, so i thought i'd get one started! here are 24 books i want to read in 2024 (and a bonus readerly goal):

Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives by Sarah Williams Goldhagen

Obsolescence: An Architectural History by Daniel M. Abramson

Offended Sensibilities by Alisa Ganieva

The Night, The Night by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón

Dayswork by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel

Dawn by Sevgi Soysal

Trashlands by Alison Stine

The Girl in Red by Christina Henry

How to be Eaten by Maria Adelmann

The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang

The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

Black Tide by KC Jones

A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

The Ambergris Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer

The Great Cities Duology by NK Jemisin

The Spider and her Demons by sydney khoo

A Shining by Jon Fosse

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology edited by Vince A Liaguno and Rena Mason

Self-Portrait with Nothing by Aimee Pokwatka

Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin

Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land by Malcolm Devlin

Always North by Vicki Jarrett

At the Edge of the Woods by Masatsugu Ono

Bonus Readerly Goal: i'm gonna try REALLY hard to only buy a book after i read five (5), this year (pre-orders DNI). gotta get that backlist under control SOMEhow, right??

notes on the color-coding: the green books are Just Because books (with a couple little red riding hood adjacent retellings in there, which is writing-project-related). a few of these came in a translation subscription box, and i am Interested in Architecture, and i'd love to read more of both this year.

the blue ones are bookmarked for nano prep (i wanna write something fucked up about space this year, i think, it's still cooking). i know it's early for that, but The Vibes™ have to marinate for a while. will probably add some haunted house books to this part of the list!

lastly, the purple ones are driscoll adjacent! filling my words well with related vibes worked well, this year, and i want to do that again next year. since i read through the entirety of my previous ~driscoll vibes~ stack last year, i've been restocking it, so most of these are very recently purchased.

(please note that all this color-coding/explanatory text is absolutely optional and Extra™, if you want to play--you can add it if you'd like, but by no means feel Obligated To Do So lol)

tagging @asexualbookbird, @six-of-ravens/@sixofravens-reads, @agardenandlibrary, @freckles-and-books, and anyone else who wants to play!

#books #24 in 2024 #reading goals #book talk #asexualbookbird #six-of-ravens #agardenandlibrary #freckles-and-books #if anyone would like me to remove their tag please say so! and no pressure to play #i'm just curious about what y'all want to read! #ALSO if anyone/any followers would like me to ADD you with an official tag please slide into my messages and let me know--i'm happy to add! #you can also just tag me in your own post and say 'thanks for the tag' if you're so inclined!! really whoever wants to play can #(i just know that i myself personally almost never respond because 'what if they don't really mean ME anyone') #(but i assure you that i mean --you-- anyone reading this) #(again: will also happily add you to tags if you'd like just let me know lmao) #(also also: yeah i'm making this instead of finishing off my 23 in 2023 reading list lmao) #(i got pretty far!! all that's left is bitch queen and daemon voices and both of those are literally in progress!!) #(so that's pretty good i think) #anyway ezra you're up lmaoo #not me procrastikn----booking? #procrastibooking #procrastiblogging even #in btw #driscoll

[mostlymaudlin]

re news literacy on social media: i find that the best way to follow fast-moving news these days is to follow beat reporters from multiple outlets (especially people who are either local to or reporting from wherever the news is happening). they may not get everything right every time because people are inherently imperfect, but that's why you can't rely just on one source. and good reporters admit when they've been wrong. reporters will also RT non-journalist sources that they trust, and then you can add them to your list too. i left the journalism industry bc i didnt like keeping my opinions to myself lol. but even when i was working in local news, this is how i'd keep up with things outside my own beat.

i would never discount eye witness accounts of people affected by violence and tragedy, but this is a way you can corroborate claims you see on people's personal accounts -- because unfortunately, people like to troll or push agendas when emotions are high. at least reporters can't delete their accounts and disappear after they spread disinformation; they have to deal with the consequences. and yeah, sometimes their org protects them from more concrete consequences, but you'll still see people cooking them in the replies, and that'll help you to make your call. because at the end of the day, there's never going to be one place you can go to fully understand something -- you need to make a good faith effort to seek out information and make the best call you can. and if you make a call and form an opinion and everyone tells you you're wrong? don't be an asshole about it. own it and try again. both unconscious biases and fucking up are part of allyship and the only way to move on is to accept the consequences and do better.

personally, i'll never reblog or retweet something if i don't feel confident in it. there's amplifying voices, and then there's spreading disinformation. i am not going to break news that will help the people of Palestine on my fandom social media account by reposting something that i can't tell is real or not. but i sure as hell could clog up the feed and warp people's perceptions of real events by reposting something fake and potentially harmful.

#i tend to do this by making twitter lists whenever im trying to pay attention to something #also if im being real #i think there is an urge rn to repost EVERYTHING you see about Palestine so as to not be complicit in western media's silence #this is the sentiment online every time something awful happens in the world #but i think allies need to take a step back and remember that this isnt about us and how we feel #we cant just repost everything at random bc we feel social pressure to look progressive. or because it makes us feel a bit less powerless #if we're actually trying to amplify voices then we have to do so intentionally #also this doesnt apply to just like posts rooted in emotion or peoples personal experiences and stuff im just talking about claims of Fact #especially if we're talking about something as insidious as the western propaganda machine