The Adventures of Captain Kit.

From a reverse image search, I found the website Show Your Stripes, run by the University of Reading in the UK, which is likely where the above graph originated. It provides temperature data for various regions of the world from approximately 1900-2025. For example, here are graphs for Canada, India, and Papua New Guinea:

My sister took more photos of my dress. I am very happy with how this turned out :)))))

(for people who don’t know kathleen stock is an infamous British terf who triggered a whole “free speech” university row over her views)

this is what people mean when they say that transphobia and ableism are interlinked. because *of course* the same person who refuses to believe people when they assert their gender also refuses to believe them when they assert a disability. because who knows their bodies better than a random british upper-class white woman!

Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default.

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Something to keep in mind with 85 days until the midterms.

If something has a big fandom, publishers and studios know they can make money off it. This is why we see publishers openly acquiring and selling things that were originally posted as fanfic, like Alchemised, Heated Rivalry, etc. It’s why the horrid wizard woman considers people participating in her fandom to be supporting her political causes.

What I mean by that is this: it is a fact that there are significant representation gaps and problems for virtually every marginalized group, which are significantly worse in certain genres and media.

But "there are no good stories about x marginalized group" is not true for virtually every marginalized group, and it is especially true for large marginalized groups like women and Black people.

So you as a reader don't get to blame authors for the fact that you don't read stories about women, or about Black people, or about disabled people, or about asexual people, etc. You may not consciously be avoiding those stories, you may not be spontaneously running into them in the wild, but you are also not making an honest effort to find those stories. Because if you were, you would be finding them.

It's not the fault of capitalism that you don't read about women or Black people. It's not the fault of the publishing industry or TV broadcasters or fanfiction writers.

We talk a lot in fandom about how readers are responsible for what they read in the context of not getting mad at authors for writing something that you don't want them to be writing--but it's also true when it comes to choosing what to read or not read.

Text Weaving (10,506 Seed Beads)

Young Haytham was dissociating hard to make his circumstances bearable. He had no choice from the start, really, this cut dialogue illustrating that.

"Death is who I am."