I usually never make this sort of posts because I’m in no way adept at them, but this time, I have to.

Kerala is a tiny state in the south of India. And it’s currently going under - literally. The yearly monsoon has yet to stop, there’s been heavy rainfall for weeks, and the entire state is flooding. That’s not an exaggeration. It’s not a city or a district that’s suffering - all of Kerala is.

The central government isn’t doing much because of political differences, and Kerala is sorely lacking in funds for rescuing those affected and setting up food and shelter.

If you can, please, please help. Even if it’s just by signal boosting this post.

Details of the Kerala Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF) are given below:

Account Number: 67319948232

Bank: State Bank of India

Branch: City Branch, Thiruvananthapuram

IFS Code: SBIN0070028

Website for direct online payment

to @eternalsunshine13, from @iwritebetterthanispeak:

I joke now because I know the actual movie is going to make me bawl my eyes out 😭

(I am awkward Victor btw)

A CONCEPT: After spending 8 months experiencing Life and Love for the first time in his life, after having to go back to work, not unlike my abject depression when I have to go back to work after a vacation and deal with all the work that piled up, Victor Nikiforov throws his hands up after about five minutes and dramatically announces to the world, “JUST KIDDING, I WILL BE A TROPHY HUSBAND AFTER ALL. IF YOU WILL EXCUSE ME, INSTEAD OF WORLDS, I WILL BE PLANNING THE MOST SUMPTUOUS OF WEDDINGS.”

Except Victor, who turns out to be really good at all this wedding stuff, gets in deep. TOO DEEP. So deep that the next phase of his life turns into Victor Nikiforov: The World’s Best and Most In Demand Wedding Planner 

BECAUSE HE OBVIOUSLY UNDERSTANDS LOVE!!11!11

Also his contract stipulates that you need to fly his husband out to attend to him

He must plan and pull off the world’s most extravagant and amazing 5 weddings because for some reason he got obsessed with that number

At at least one wedding Victor excitedly says “Here Comes the Husband!!” and everyone turns because they think it’s the newlywed, but it is just Yuri Katsuki, who he has already seen 20 times that day but loves very much ok

Victor’s new career is actually Yuri’s compromise because he wouldn’t let Victor remarry him 800 times a year in new locales, so Victor is basically just planning every single dream wedding he’s ever thought of for him and Yuri except getting paid extravagantly to do it and he still gets to enjoy multiple Katsuki-Nikiforov wedding nights if you know what we mean

Victor often forgets he isn’t planning his 900th wedding to Yuri Katsuki. This is called out in the Yelp reviews for him. “Amazing wedding planner, but we had to remind him at least once a day that he wasn’t planning another wedding to that pretty husband of his he forced us to fly out along with him.” 

We are desperate. We are starving

Please let it also be known that, though it’s not often seen, Yuuri’s job is not just to attend to his marvelous, wedding-planning husband. He throws in that extra spice. Viktor plans weddings in extensive, bridezilla detail. But when it comes to the honeymoon one spouse will often come to him for ~romantic advice~, and he just beams. “Spontaneity is good,” he says brightly, again and again. Yuuri is the one who fields panicked calls from newlyweds.

“Help,” one bride begs, “it’s raining, the hotel caught on fire, our wedding was perfect but this is a disaster and she can’t break up with me now–”

“Oh,” says Yuuri, blindly googling the location. “Um, kissing in the rain is good? I think there’s an Airbnb near there, this cozy little cottage with big windows, and a bakery ten minutes away has great pastries. They have cakes shaped like his mouth.”

“What?”

“A heart, a heart! You can get cakes shaped like a heart. And you should absolutely get under an umbrella together and walk around the nearby castle gardens and kiss in the gazebo–”

“Is this,” the bride says slowly, “all things you two do together?”

“No,” Yuuri squeaks, even though it is. In his panic he blurts out three more things he wants to do with Vitya but hadn’t managed to ask for yet. 

Recently, it has come to my attention that one of our contributors submitted a piece that has been revealed to be traced from another fandom creator’s work. We’re incredibly disappointed to hear this new and are working to reach out to the fandom creator whose work was traced to see what we can do to make this situation right. 

Our team operated on the trust that our contributors would not trace or copy existing works, so being told about this issue was a horrible shock to us. We do not support intellectual property theft and are saddened to hear that we have contributed to the distribution and sale of a zine that contained such work.

The artist whose work was copied has asked that we keep all names out of the situation for now as they do not wish for any drama publicly. As such, we will not be answering any asks asking for specigics about this matter. If you have any concerns, however, please feel free to reach out and we will answer those asks privatey. We apologize profusely for our part in this situation, even unknowing, and thought we should be transparent in what is going on.

We will be updating on the situation if anything comes up that we feel we must address. 

Thank you,

Dear purchasers and potential buyers:

You may have noticed that you are no longer able to access the page to purchase the first issue of Shall We Read. This is because we are temporarily pulling the issue in light of recent notifications that one of our contributors for the first issue has been tracing other fandom artists’ art. While their work for the Litmag has not been definitively marked as stolen, we still felt that it was best that we parted ways with that contributor and have done so. They are no longer a participant, and we are working on replacing their art from the issue. 

We take plagiarism very seriously in this publication, and will not condone it from future contributors. This contributor’s share will be donated to charity, or —if we are able to establish a link between their piece and the work of another fandom artist — offered to the original artist. Please bear with us in the next two weeks as we redo the issue and accompanying graphics. Once we have published the re-issue, if you have already bought a copy of Issue One you will be able to access the re-issue without needing to make a second purchase.

We greatly appreciate your cooperation and understanding! 

Love,

what else I can’t have when I write: too much angst cause I can’t focus

SHALL WE READ: LIGHT IS NOW LIVE!

We are thrilled to announce the release of Shall We Read’s Issue 1: Light!

For the past week and a half, we’ve teased you with the content tucked away in our #issue 1 previews tag. If you’ve enjoyed what you’ve seen there, you can now experience those works in their entirety for a minimum of 1 USD! 

1 USD grants you the SFW edition of Issue 1

A minimum of 10 USD is required to unlock the secrets of purchase the NSFW Appendicks

You can head over to our itch.io page through this link, which is also where details about the specific bundles are also located.

Of course, we can’t end the announcement post without thanking the people who made this possible. This issue would not be here if it were not for Issue 1′s talented contributors, so thank you to them and all of the hard work they put into creating their pieces. Proceeds from the issue’s sales go directly towards compensating them, so if you’re interested in supporting them in this way, it’s greatly appreciated!

by Lena_レナ