Jack's Fannish Blog

Use the medications properly to prevent interactions with healthcare providers. The pills are very effective, but they have to be used right. Carefully follow the instructions provided on the How to Use Abortion Pill website. Note that misoprostol tablets should always be taken by dissolving them under the tongue. Do NOT insert misoprostol vaginally if you are self-managing an abortion. While this is medically safe, it can leave incriminating pill remnants that can be detected in the vagina during a pelvic exam if you end up needing to seek medical care. 

If it’s not an emergency but you need expert health advice, use a free calling service like Google Voice to call or text the Miscarriage + Abortion Hotline at 1-833-246-2632. Medical complications are very uncommon with abortion pills, but they’re not impossible. The M+A Hotline is safe to use and is staffed by trustworthy clinicians who volunteer their time to help those who choose SMA. Do not use your own phone number to call as this will create a record that is visible to your cell service provider. 

Don’t disclose any information about SMA to emergency room staff if you do need to seek medical care. This is how most people who are arrested for SMA are reported. Healthcare providers are almost always who calls the police in cases of SMA criminalization. Contrary to popular belief, HIPAA does not protect your private health information from being shared with police if you are suspected of doing something that could be considered a crime. If you believe you need to seek urgent medical care, do not hesitate to go. Say “I think I’m having a miscarriage” and provide your symptoms. Do not mention any use of or purchase of abortion pills. There is no widely available test to detect misoprostol in your bloodstream. If you do not disclose it, there is no way for a medical provider to tell the difference between a medication abortion and a spontaneous miscarriage.

Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6

Reposting: when you screenshot, download, or otherwise save someone else's work and then make a post on your own blog about it (uploading it like it's your own) and don't give the creator (artist, author, gif maker, etc.) any credit. not only is this generally considered bad manners and poor fandom ettiquette, but it's also a fast track to showing creators their work isn't valued and leading to a decline of fanworks. boo! we don't want this in our fan spaces!

Reblogging: sharing op's work with the reblog button on tumblr so they get the acknowledgement for their work. 10/10 behavior! gold stars for you!! this also works if you add to the op (original post) with a (positive) comment or anecdote underneath it.

and if you're sharing a work from outside tumblr (so you can't just reblog) you can link to it easily on mobile and desktop:

Mobile: highlight the text where you want the link to go and long hold on it and choose the chain link icon

Desktop: highlight the text where you want the link to go and all the formatting options will pop up including the chain link icon

Content source: if adding a hyperlink to the text won't work you can also add a source to a post. on mobile choose the hamburger icon or on desktop the gear icon (both top right corner on tumblr) and look for the Content source box and then you can copy+paste the link from your clipboard

Easy! now you've shared where you've gotten the post from and helped to make our fan communities a better place!

This also applies to yt videos and episodes of shows btw! not only does it inform people who might find the post years from now and want to know context, but it's also helpful for fandom historians and archivists to know when/where a blorbo did something for those meta and comparisions posts that y'all love so much!

note: make sure you delete everything including and after the ? in links from places like ig and yt - that's their web trackers and we don't like those

#I have a suspicion that a lot of people think aotearoa is a lot smaller than it actually is #I think there's a tendency especially for europeans and east-coast americans to think of it as 'a small island off of australia' #which like #it's small compared to australia #but most countries are small compared to australia #aotearoa has a greater area than the entire united kingdom #it also spans about 15° of latitude #which is 50% more than england #and also more than any US state except Alaska

"off of australia" is also a bit misleading; the distance looks small on a map, but that's because your brain is comparing it to the entire pacific ocean on the other side.

Ok, it's taken me SIX YEARS to make this. But I did it! It's done! Please watch it!

(No AI used fuck AI)

It's my first animation project, which is why it took so long. I had to learn to animate to make it. It's only a bit over 2 minutes, but I made it the best I possibly could. Please please please watch it. I am so proud of it.

It's a trailer for my first novel- a late YA scifi/superhero book.

Is it absurd to make a fully animated book "trailer" for a book that's been out for 6 years, with voice acting and commissioned music (by the fantastic @plottwiststudios) ? I mean yes. Of course. I'm not even doing this for real marketing purposes because this is a ridiculous thing to do. I don't even really think it'll sell books but the process of making it made me really really happy.

I love my fictional disaster queers, and I love my book, and when I was a kid I thought I'd grow up to be an animator. I've always loved animation, and I really, really enjoyed making something animated myself. I'm really proud of how it turned out.

Please watch it. Please share it.

If it does make you actually want to read the story, you can get it as an ebook, paperback, or audiobook. (the ebook is currently free)

I start my next animation project- a fake anime opening credits for book 3 in this series, starting next month.

Just in time!

My beloved Dynamic Duo for my (late) Batman Day contribution!

‘Fox! Open your eyes! Wake up, brother! That’s an order Commander!’