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Just sent this text to a friend, and it occurred to me that most if not all of y’all need to hear it.

#you’re gonna be okay #really #it’s all gonna be okay

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“I’m aware of it all day, every day. We’re triggered all the time, even the best of us. On the plane ride here. I’m sitting next to a casting director from Broadway, and I asked him what he thought about a particular show. He took a long pause. So I say: ‘I guess you didn’t like it.’ And he tells me: ‘The entertainment industry is forced to put on stories from marginalized communities, even if they’re not good.’ He said that to me. As a Black person. It’s like, dude. I’m just trying to make conversation. And there it is. Suddenly I’m back in my blackness. What am I supposed to do? Do I engage? Do I turn this into a learning moment? Or do I l just let him off the hook? It’s work. That’s what it is. It’s work. That’s my challenge. To walk into a room, and not have to work mentally. To be aware of my blackness; to not forget it. But to also be present. And focused. And productive. Right now I’m at a climate change conference, and I’m one of the only Black people in the room. I’ve had decades of practice, but it still takes me five minutes. To transition. To stop worrying if people believe that I belong here. To stop feeling like a unicorn. It’s five minutes of work that nobody else in the room has to do. It’s a choice to be aware of your whiteness. It’s not a choice to be aware of your blackness. It’s the difference between going to a new upscale restaurant, and going home to Mom’s table. At Mom’s table there’s nothing to figure out. You don’t have to think about what to order. Or what you’re wearing. Or what you’re going to say. You’re at ease. That’s why people go home: so they can feel at ease.”

#being black

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“I knew if they ever found out about me, I’d end up like Johnny Yablonsky. Johnny was soft, he was feminine, he was clearly gay. The neighborhood guys would make him blow them; then beat the shit out of him. He always had a lot of bruises, and absenteeism. He was so defeated. I’ve always assumed he killed himself. And I didn’t want the same thing to happen to me. It was a lot of fear, and shame. The fucking shame. I participated in my own self-negation. I laughed at all the jokes. I tried to tighten up on the masculine stuff. I’d stand in front of the mirror. I’d practice my walk, my diction, the movement of my hands. Somehow I managed to make it out of that town alive. During our first Christmas break at college, I went with my friend Howie to visit his family in Long Island. Afterward he dropped me off at the airport. He thought I was flying home. But I caught the Greyhound Bus to New York City. I put all my stuff in a luggage locker and started walking down 5th Avenue. It was night. It wasn’t lit up like today. All the storefronts were dark; it was like lyric poetry to me. Unopened boxes full of mystery. All I knew was I had to get to Greenwich Village. I kept asking people—is this the village, is this the village? They kept saying: further south, further south. Finally I get to the corner of 8th Street and 6th Avenue, and I’m waiting for the light to change. And this guy starts hitting on me. A few years older than me, good looking. His name was Charlie. And he put a spell on me immediately. From the very first moment, I had a hard-on for Charlie Bacchus. I felt safe with him. He took me to my first gay bar. Then afterward we went to his mom’s loft apartment on Washington Square. She happened to be in Rome. So it was just me and Charlie Bacchus, in this gorgeous apartment, with the door closed, cut off from the rest of the world. There was sex, beautiful sex. First time I’d ever had sex with my shoes off. The next morning I came out of the shower, and wrapped a towel around me. Charlie said: ‘What are you doing? Take that off. You’re beautiful.’ He said it so gently, like someone looking at a painting. And it was my first profound lesson in shedding shame.”

#my fkn heart

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Is Daniel Radcliffe’s girlfriend transgender?

Transphobic social media users have posted an insane number of comments claiming  that Daniel Radcliffe’s pregnant, cisgender girlfriend is actually a trans woman.

This is apparently the only explanation they can come up with to explain his strong support for transgender people.

And no, the actor  Erin Darke is not transgender. 

The ‘Gender-critical’ author Suzanne Seddon did not hesitate to imply this over at twitter, though, and by doing so she revealed to the whole world that this is not only about cis versus trans women. Anti-trans activism is fueled by old fashioned misogynistic stereotypes about how women should look and behave.

Erin is taller than Daniel, so they think she has to be transgender.

Many of the transphobes call themselves feminists, but there is nothing feministic about this kind of harassment.

Screenshot from twitter above:

Gina Martin writes:

Suzanne brilliantly demonstrates here exactly how transphobia is also based in misogyny, how it’s all about unattainable and oppressive standards and actually nothing to do with trans women at all.

The tweet includes a screenshot of a tweet by Suzanne Seddon, where she, under a photo of Erin and Daniel, writes:

This is Daniel Radcliffes (Harry Potter) Girlfriend. Now what do you see?

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Anyone know of an 18+ Johnlock discord server? Most servers seem to be more geared toward BBC Sherlock in general, or are strictly SFW sans a channel or two, but ngl I just wanna talk about kinky Johnlock shit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#bbc sherlock #nsfw #johnlock #helpppp

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Did not even know this is existed, but holy crap, so cool! Thanks for the hard work 💜

FTH 2023 Wrap-Up

Boy has it been a year, guys.

This seemed like the year when anything that could go wrong did, from covid to family emergencies to work obligations to software bugs. We're so grateful to you all for your patience and for coming back year after year to remind us why we do this.

Historically, non-election years have usually seen slumps in both our number of auctions and our donation totals. But this year? You guys blew us away yet again.

We had just as many auctions as last year, which is amazing. But even beyond that: our donation total —just 10% lower than last year's massive record— is 150% higher than our third best year, making it a very close second.

So are you ready for this year's grand total?

This year

thanks to all of you

FTH raised...

$47,361.75!

Which brings our seven-year total to

$239,507.86

Thank you so much to our 616 creators who offered 800+ auctions in over 400 different fandoms and subfandoms, and to everyone who bid! Also a special shoutout to our record 17 crafters who raised over $2500 of this - three times as much as any of our previous craft bazaars!

Your returning mods (@porcupine-girl, @captainbunnicula, @tiltedsyllogism, @anyawen, and @renjunbabygirl) would also like to give our heartfelt thanks to this year's two additions to the mod team, @trickybonmot (who has been a mod before but was returning after several-year absence) and @a-still-small-vox (who is brand new to this whole thing). Given everything that went down this year, the auction literally could not have happened without them. They've been ridiculously awesome.

Creators, be sure you contact your bidders by April 1, and bidders, on your end please respond to their communication by April 15!

Once the fanwork is posted, let us know via our form (can you believe six creators have already finished??) and if you're posting it on AO3 be sure to add it to the Fandom Trumps Hate 2023 collection. If you're writing a fic for FTH and need help from our Regiment of Fan Laborers, email us!

As always, we hope that for at least some people, your involvement in FTH will lead to continued action throughout the year. Sign up for our organizations' email lists, check out their volunteer opportunities, and help boost their signals on social media!

And if you'd like to run your own fanworks auction for a good cause, we can help get you started! Contact us at fandomtrumpshate at gmail.com and we can send you our auction playbook, as well as answer any questions you have about our process.

Your mods are going to be going into post-auction hibernation mode (or, for most of us, post-auction deal-with-all-this-other-stuff mode) for a little while. So if you email us, don't panic if we don't get back to you immediately! We will start actively monitoring the inbox again by April 15 at the latest.

Here is a quick snapshot of the donations to individual organizations - see below the cut for all of the totals!

We hope to see you all again next year!

Amounts raised for each of our individual orgs:

TLDEF $8,594.5 (18.15%) DigDeep/Navajo Water Project $7,037 (14.86%) Rainbow Railroad $5,970 (12.61%) Sherlock’s Homes Foundation $3,169.5 (6.69%) Life After Hate $3,069.75 (6.48%) Never Again Action $3,062.75 (6.46%) Citizens’ Climate Education $2,235 (4.72%) Xerces $2,103 (4.44%) Razom $2,101 (4.43%) Violence Policy Center $1327 (2.80%) NNtEDV $1,157.75 (2.44%) The Appeal $935 (1.97%) Other organizations (that aren’t abortion funds) $1,151 (2.43%)

All abortion funds $5,468.50 (11.54%) Indigenous Women Rising $2,073 (4.43%) other abortion funds $1,184.50 (2.50%) Abortion Fund of Ohio $963 (2.03%) KY Health Justice Network $634 (1.34%) New Orleans Abortion Fund $349 (.74%) Buckle Bunnies $240 (.51%)

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Severus Snape.

Always.

#ooooo #gorgeous Victorian Snape #kill my whole ass

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why are you as a man wearing a suit? so other men can pull on your tie to bring you in for a kiss? so you can take off your jacket and loosen your tie and unbutton your shirt like a whore? so the process of undressing is an intricate ritual for you and other men to undergo? gayass.

#not sure why this made me laugh out loud #but it did so #¯\ (ツ) /¯

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You spelled “kiss” wrong.

"Now that I'm working in the education system, if I walked into a classroom and saw someone teaching like Severus Snape, I would kill them."

#I mean #his students generally did well #but yes he’s a whole ass dickhead #still love him tho

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#oh fuck #hot Snape ftw #severus snape #hekskshdkdj

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Tea time.

(´-＿-｀)

Severus in between Potion's classes. I was thinking about him sitting with Minerwa.

/ Oh gosh. Stress is killing me these days. But I still enjoy every minute with Snarry. They are keeping me sane. Also I've managed to finish the stage of planning of Infraction. I can't wait to jump straight into properly writing the story. I already can do it! ( º﹃º ) /

#snape art #😍

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Also this:

I do think AI-generated art has a place in the world; it’s great for inspo (I liken it to studying several different artists’ work at the same time), and for creating amusingly nonsensical prose.

BUT: If it concerns you that people might find out that something you “made” was AI-generated, then clearly it was your intention to lie to your audience. And if you are paid any money for AI-generated art, then you have stolen that money from the original artists.

Frankly, I don’t really understand how people can’t see this. If you wanna dick around with AI art because it’s fun, go for it! If you want to pass it off as something you created yourself, by hand, then you’re a liar and a thief.

So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

#ai #art theft #glaze

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This is literally the only fic I write.

He did spend all those years saving his life. It’s muscle-memory now xD (I’m enjoying this Dada prof. Harry + Snape lives au)

#severus snape #harry potter #gorgeous art #Snape’s hair holy sHIT

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Finishing off the year with an idea I've wanted to paint for a while, a cat in the clouds ☁️

#I hope this is God

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Reblog if you’re over 20 and still read/write fan fiction.

I’m curious!

#yup

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My fucking goddamn hEART THO

Severus' jumper.

(.づ◡﹏◡)づ.

#snarry fanart #holy fuck

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Oh god, the scar kissing I uhnnnnnnn—

Late valentine.

(꒡ᵋ ꒡)

Well, I'm late with my Valentine's Day sketch, but it's only because I was working on finishing Oblivion and its translation. Gosh! And I did it! My first Snarry fic is officially finished (〃ﾉωﾉ) Also with that, I think I'm back on track with writing... so, you know, in the next few days, I suppose we'll be able to finally start the new adventure ( ^◡^) Infraction, here I come!

#snarry #art