the hacker magazine 2600 has compiled a list of all the customs and border patrol stations in the US, with their addresses, phone and fax numbers, at http://concentrationcamps.us/
Please don’t call pizzas out to these places or send them reams of black faxes! For heaven’s sake, you mustn’t mail them envelopes of glitter and pubic hair! Please don’t use this knowledge to impede or impair the basic functionality of these outposts of fascism!
I certainly won’t. I’m reblogging this so people see what they should definitely not do.
(Do not do that to pizza drivers, they don’t deserve to have to go there and then get shorted for their tips they need to live. and ICE doesn’t deserve Pizza)
don’t send them copies of statements made by survivors of the last concentration camps in this country. Or in Germany and Poland. Or all the other places this kind of thing has been done. Don’t send them giant printed out Bible verses pointing out why imprisoning and terrorizing Children, the needy and the poor and the refugee is a Bad Thing.
(via volcanicsands)
Well.
Vegan leather is made from plastic. It is woven cotton with plastic melted into it. It’s horrendous for the environment, and does not last. By that I mean, the leather that I have sourced is anywhere from 10-25 years old, and it’s still is beautiful shape. False leather with regular use, you will lucky to get one year of use out of it before it’s into a bin and into a landfill. Even the stuff made from pineapple leaves is 20% plastic. Which they don’t hide, it’s on their websites! I also believe strongly in resourcing materials that already exist in this world. In my personal opinion (and I am fully aware of and okay with the fact that not all vegans will agree with this) we as vegans need to learn to work with materials that are ethical and sustainable. For example, there is a leather “farm” in Japan that only collects the leather after the animal as lived a full, cage free life, where it dies naturally. Until mushroom leather is on the market place, unfortunately vegan leather is NOT a good option for the health of our planet. And I’d rather reuse something that already exists, which is, in my opinion, not contributing to the factory farming epidemic that so deeply effects our planet and the living creatures on said planet.
Also did you know that there are places that sell leather that’s meant to be burned because it’s “not perfect.” So there’s loads of leather in existence that were killed for their skins, then deemed imperfect, so they’re just burned. How fucked Up is that? Learning to use what exists, despite its imperfections, age, and life marks, is much more sustainable for the planet. The issue isn’t the recycled leather, the issue is the leather factory made to them be deemed imperfect and then burned. Instead of reusing leather that already exists and has existed for years. Effort. It takes effort.
Just FYI if your first/primary language isn’t English and you A. read one of my stories and then B. put forth the effort to leave a comment, in English, to tell me that you liked it, please NEVER apologize for your grammar or w/e, the fact that you slogged through an English-language story and then COMMENTED on it in the same language is A++++++ and I adore you, I’m honestly incredibly touched and it makes my day every time, OK THANK YOU BYE
DITTO THIS. Y'ALL ARE TALENTED AND BRAVE AND BEAUTIFUL AND GOOD
(via opalhonors)
THINGS THAT YOU DO NOT JOKE ABOUT AND WILL NEVER BE FUNNY
- pedophilia
- the holocaust
- hate crimes
- lynching
- rape/sexual assault
- (human) abuse
- animal abuse
- massacres
- jokes that are racist, transphobic, homophobic, sexist, antisemitic, ableist, etc. (basically any jokes that make fun of marginalized people)
YOU ARE NOT FUNNY OR EDGY, YOU ARE A SHITSTAIN OF A PERSON AND IF YOU MAKE THESE KINDS OF JOKES I HOPE YOU EITHER RE-EVALUATE YOUR LIFE CHOICES OR DROP DEAD.
all i want to do is write that one fic that takes people’s breath away and kinda lingers in the back of their minds. i want to write something that makes people want to make art and play with my versions of characters or in the universe i created. i want to be able to create worlds that feel real enough to walk into and write lines that stick with people until they forget where exactly they heard it because it lives in their bones now.
(via ifridiot)
It’s funny how science fiction universes so often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.
I want to see a sci fi universe where we’re actually considered one of the more hideous and terrifying species.
How do we know our saliva and skin oils wouldn’t be ultra-corrosive to most other sapient races? What if we actually have the strongest vocal chords and can paralyze or kill the inhabitants of other worlds just by screaming at them? What if most sentient life in the universe turns out to be vegetable-like and lives in fear of us rare “animal” races who can move so quickly and chew shit up with our teeth?
Like that old story “they’re made of meat,” only we’re scarier.
More seriously, humans do have a number of advantages even among Terrestrial life. Our endurance, shock resistance, and ability to recover from injury is absurdly high compared to almost any other animal. We often use the phrase “healthy as a horse” to connote heartiness - but compared to a human, a horse is as fragile as spun glass. There’s mounting evidence that our primitive ancestors would hunt large prey simply by following it at a walking pace, without sleep or rest, until it died of exhaustion; it’s called pursuit predation. Basically, we’re the Terminator.
(The only other animal that can sort of keep up with us? Dogs. That’s why we use them for hunting. And even then, it’s only “sort of”.)
Now extrapolate that to a galaxy in which most sapient life did not evolve from hyper-specialised pursuit predators:
- Our strength and speed is nothing to write home about, but we don’t need to overpower or outrun you. We just need to outlast you - and by any other species’ standards, we just plain don’t get tired.
- Where a simple broken leg will cause most species to go into shock and die, we can recover from virtually any injury that’s not immediately fatal. Even traumatic dismemberment isn’t necessarily a career-ending injury for a human.
- We heal from injuries with extreme rapidity, recovering in weeks from wounds that would take others months or years to heal. The results aren’t pretty - humans have hyperactive scar tissue, among our other survival-oriented traits - but they’re highly functional.
- Speaking of scarring, look at our medical science. We developed surgery centuries before developing even the most rudimentary anesthetics or life support. In extermis, humans have been known to perform surgery on themselves - and survive. Thanks to our extreme heartiness, we regard as routine medical procedures what most other species would regard as inventive forms of murder. We even perform radical surgery on ourselves for purely cosmetic reasons.
In essence, we’d be Space Orcs.
Our jaws have too many TEETH in them, so we developed a way to WELD METAL TO OUR TEETH and FORCE THE BONES IN OUR JAW to restructure over the course of years to fit them back into shape, and then we continue to wear metal in out mouths to keep them in place.
We formed cohabitative relationships with tiny mammals and insects we keep at bay from bothering us by death, often using little analouge traps.
And by god, we will eat anything.
- We use borderline toxic peppers to season our food.
- We expose ourselves to potentially lethal solar radiation in the pursuit of darkening our skin.
- We risk hearing loss for the opportunity to see our favorite musicians live.
- We have a game where two people get into an enclosed area and hit each other until time runs out/one of them pass out
- We willingly jump out of planes with only a flimsy piece of cloth to prevent us from splattering against the ground.
- Our response to natural disasters is to just rebuild our buildings in the exact same places.
- We climb mountains and risk freezing to death for bragging rights
- We invented dogs. We took our one time predators and completely domesticated them.
- On a planet full of lions, tigers and bears, we managed to advance further and faster than any other species on the planet.
Klingons and Krogan and Orcs ain’t got shit on us
We drink ethanol (in concentrations high enough to be used as an effective as microbicide or a solvent!) for the express purpose of achieving blood toxicity and disrupting normal brain function… AS A RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY!
On the same subject, we also deliberately incinerate assorted substances and then inhale the particulate-heavy smoke and vapor resulting for the same effect. EVEN IN THE FACE OF SAID SUBSTANCES BEING CARCINOGENIC, BECAUSE WE JUST DON’T GIVE A FUCK.
Humans do not have biological castes. Kill their commander and another will take its place. Soldiers left alone on a planet will start farming and manufacturing to survive. Farmers and manufacturers will take up arms and kill you if pressed. Just because two humans look different doesn’t mean they cannot do each other’s jobs.
Breeding does not kill them. A single human can mate dozens or hundreds of times in a lifetime. They often do so as recreation. Xenobiology team six believes they do not have a mating season but this is too strange to be true.
Their appendages are not designed for hitting, so they developed special training to make them very good at hitting anyhow.
The proteins making up their bodies are toxic and cause prion disease. Do not touch anything humans have touched. Do not consume earth foods. Fire does not adequately remove this contamination.
Humans perceive sixteen times the colors we do. Do not hide in bushes or vines from humans. They can distinguish your pelt from the foliage with ease.
We tried venting waste gas into the tunnels to kill the humans when they attacked. Turns out they breathe it.
Everything on their planet came from a single biological strain. They developed comprehensive genetics BEFORE they developed space travel.
They lack radio receptors and cannot be brought into compliance with right-thought simply by broadcasting to them. Even after we learned how to translate it into sound-waves one of their hatchlings drove the Great Authority mad by responding to every demand with a single question: “Why?”
#an individual human being is actually a microbiome in its own right—you are dealing with a legion each time you approach them #they carry pathological agents inside their deep tissues and this is advantageous to their health #one of the most widespread and resilient viruses on their planet is treated as mildly hazardous—even though it causes #massive disruption to the body’s homeostasis #(their young offspring endure multiple rhinovirus infections EACH YEAR yet they seem unperturbed by this) #they have developed such long lifespans that now their primary threat is their own body’s degeneration #humanity has literally figured out how to survive so long that their body gives out under them #and they are not satisfied with that #stupid willful vengeful survivalists who treat mortality like a challenge
I am speechless
Reblogging so I can reread in the morning
I think I’ve reblogged this before, but it’s well worth doing again.
This post is AWESOME. Nice to see it on my dash again in 2016.
IT’S BAAAAAAAACK
(via andarthas-web)
ATTENTION: For anyone who reads fanfiction without leaving feedback
Here’s a few things you should know:
Fanfiction is a gift.
Fic writers don’t have to share their works with you. They don’t have to write them at all. They do it and they share it because they’re fans of the show/book/movie etc. just like you, and they want to contribute to everyone’s enjoyment of fandom.
Fanfiction is hard to write.
You need a lot of creativity and passion to write fic. You need a ton of motivation and drive to write a complete fic, let alone a good one. Fic authors write for hours and hours and hours, often staying up late into the night just to write. They write through job struggles and personal issues, resorting to phones and tablets when their computers are on the fritz, tapping away on public buses and trains just because they can’t find any other time to write.
Fanfiction is free.
Fic writers give away thousands and thousands of words of pure fandom magic, and you get to consume all of it for the wonderful price of nothing. The only reward writers receive for themselves (besides a sense of accomplishment) is the response they get from you, the reader. Some don’t even feel that accomplishment until they see kudos and comments telling them how much their work was enjoyed.
Please.
No matter how much time you have, even just clicking the kudos button takes less than a second. And if you have time to read 5k words at one go, it’s no stretch at all to take a few more seconds to type ‘good job!’ or ‘i loved this!’ in the comment box and hit send.
Still not convinced?
1. IF YOU’RE EMBARRASSED / SHY,
Fic authors LOVE hearing from you. Don’t worry about whether you think you’re going to phrase your response well. That’s literally the last thing we care about. Just knowing that you had a good time with something we made is EVERYTHING to us.
2. IF YOU STILL JUST DON’T SEE THE POINT,
I have a very special challenge for you, my friend.
Write a fic.
Go forth, and write a complete, well-structured, well-characterised fic with organic, stimulating dialogue interwoven into a proper, fully fleshed-out storyline.
Publish your work for all the Internet to see.
And then get back to me.
A thousand times, this.
in addition, please comment respectfully always 💖 fic writers are the life blood of fandom!
Yesterday while talking to @skyler10fic, I did some math to get a very rough estimate of how much time I’ve spent on TISAF. At 15-20 hours per chapter, I’ve clocked well over 750 hours–probably closer to 1000. That means I’ve spent over 2000 hours on the series, and possibly as much as 2500.
My shorter works generally take 5-15 hours per chapter, depending on how elaborate the story is and how much prep work I have to do. I’d say that to date, I’ve probably spent 4000 hours writing Doctor/Rose fics. Well-written fanfic takes a huge amount of effort. Please leave feedback.
I spent a year writing a fic (I don’t have the brain to break it down into hours, but a year is a long time) and by the end of the fic I was getting minimal feedback and it was the most discouraging thing in the world.
Writers will literally stop writing without feedback. Remember that next time you say “this person is my favorite” and then proceed not to leave them a review.
(Source: scifibi, via dragonsatmidnight)
art takes hours to produce and seconds to consume so dont act suprised when artists get upset when their posts only get likes and no reblogs
similarly a piece of writing that takes a few minutes to read could have weeks of work behind it… dont take creativity for granted when ur getting it for free
AT LONG LAST
SOMEONE SAID IT
(Source: princeloki-isdead, via mahanawhonahan)
