evan fuller's tumblr

And also because as a woman stories about women dealing with and maybe even sometimes being totally fucked over by oppressive shit is cathartic and validating for me. And thus valuable to me. 

And generally this is where people say something like “oh but I didn’t mean YOU I meant [insert male author they hate here]”, but here’s the thing, kids: 

Shit like this inhibited my writing and exacerbated my anxiety-depression related to it for fucking years, and I’ve watched it destroy other writers. 

Now maybe that’s viewed as a positive, and, you know, fair enough. Your goals are clearly very different than mine, but that’s fair enough. 

But that guy author you hate doesn’t give a shit you think this. On the other hand, some girl starting to write out there who happens to be starting with a fantasy story, a secondary world story, that resonates with her because in fundamental ways the society it’s existing in does mirror the same oppressive shit she has to deal with? 

What she hears is “you’re bad; your art is harmful; you should shut up.” 

It took me a very long time to hit “fuck you I can write about bad shit happening to my own identity categories to explore what goes horribly wrong and how it changes us and what it does to us if I FUCKING. WANT. it’s MY FUCKING IDENTITY”, and I know a lot of people who literally can’t get there and who to this day cannot create what they want to create - and what would have value for them, and others who need the same thing - because it’s “not allowed.” 

Because imagining a secondary world that has dragons but also sexism is “boring” and “lazy”. 

Now if that’s not the kinda story you want to read, fair enough! Don’t read it! There’s lots of stuff I don’t want to read. 

That doesn’t invalidate the queer people who want to write stories where queer characters survive and overcome shit that they’ve gone through.

I’m a disabled writer who prefers, on the whole, to write stories where people are disabled and have accessibility but still struggle with the world sometimes, because there are no magic cures and not everyone is great at dealing with disabled people. Because it’s empowering to me to see people still struggling but ultimately being supported for the most part.

That doesn’t discount disabled people who would rather write stories with more realistic attitudes and struggles, OR disabled people who want to just have tech or magic or whatever that essentially compensates perfectly for their disability.

earlier this month it was 120 degrees in Australia , but yeah lets continue to mock those trying to save us in the 12 years we have left to slow climate change’s effects. 

What is the worst thing that could happen if we listen to scientists and change our ways, and then it turns out they were lying? 

because these dense motherfuckers couldn’t get it through their heads that an increase in the average global temperature is, has, and will lead to an increase in extreme weather events including goddamn polar vortexes.

“Fner ner ner, look at all the snow outside, what of your global warming now?? CHECK AND MATE SCIENTISTS so much for your fancy degrees and decades of research” of fucking course you’re still gonna get a winter you goddamn dingdongs! The Earth still has a fucking axial tilt – there is always going to be a portion of the year that is colder because that’s when you’re further away from the sun! 

This rise in polar temperatures is the reason the polar vortex is currently above the US and making Day After Tomorrow a reality

For those who don’t know, a polar vortex is an area of low pressure that likes to chill around the poles (both north and south but the north is more relevant here). These areas of cold, dense air are usually kept in check by jet streams: long, narrow, fast flowing air currents caused by two masses of air that are different in density/pressure/temperature etc. meeting. 

The polar jet streams in particular are caused by the meeting of cold, dense low pressure polar air and warm high pressure air from the tropics. It’s usually pretty strong, especially during winter, as the temperature gradient between the poles and the tropics is rather large. The bigger the difference, the stronger the wind, and the less likely that polar air escapes southwards.

However, due to the warming around the north pole thanks to the melting sea ice and warming oceans, this gradient is decreasing.

This results in a weaker polar jet stream, which allows the vortex to meander all over the place, such as down south into the US, bringing the cold dense air with it.

Boston says: Honor Indigenous Peoples Day – Abolish Columbus Day! October 7, 2017.

At my startup, we have a software development workflow that goes something like this: Create a flowchart that shows how the user will interact with the app, write documentation describing how the app works, write tests to evaluate whether the app is working, and finally develop the app itself. 

As I look toward NaNoWriMo and the hope of finally making some headway on my next novel, I’m going to try to mirror that workflow in the context of fiction. First I’ll write the query letter and back-of-cover copy that cofounded me back when I was trying to find an agent for Mutt. Then I’ll write my short and long plot descriptions, which will do double duty as an outline for the book. After that, I’ll do character dossiers and all the other typically novel prep prior to writing the first proper sentence on Nov. 1. 

Okay guys this is kinda important. GQ just came in the mail and for the first time in a long while it had a really important article…

I just sat here for like the last half hour reading this and I’m incredibly appalled at our justice system in regards to the military. The article interviews about 23 men who have all been sexually assaulted in some branch of the military. The PTSD from sexual assault in the military is more prevalent than PTSD from combat…

“The moment a man enlists in the United States armed forces, his chances of being sexually assaulted increase by a factor of ten. Women, of course, are much more likely to be victims of military sexual trauma (MST), but far fewer of them enlist. In fact, more military men are assaulted than women— nearly 14,000 in 2012 alone.”

“Military culture is built upon a tenuous balance of aggression and obedience. The potential for sexual violence exists whenever there is too much of either.”

“Trent Smith, Air Force, enlisted 2011: “He was a senior aide— he had a direct line to the top. Being invited voer to his house, I just took it as I should go. Looking back, I as myself, Why didn’t you do anything? It wasn’t like he held me down or tied me up. I didn’t want to cross him. I really didn’t feel like I had any choice. I had just turned 19. It could be my career. I froze and went along with it.”“

“Rsearch suggests that the military brass may have conspired to illegally discharge MST victims by falsely diagnosing them with personality disorders. “The military has a systemic personality disorder discharge problem,” write the authors of a 2012 Yale Law School white paper. Between 2001 and 2010, some 31,000 servicepersons were involuntarily discharged for personality disorders. It is likely that in many cases these were sham diagnoses meant to rid the ranks of MST victims.”

“Jeremy Robinson [name changed], Army, 1970-1972: “I have very little memory of my time in the psychiatric ward, because I was so heavily drugged. I stopped eating. I became suicidal, and I made three attempts. They gave me shock treatments against my will. The diagnosis was paranoid schizophrenia. I bore that label for forty years before the VA finally admitted they had misdiagnosed me.”“

“Above all, MST victins keep quiet because they do not believe their attackers will be punished. And they’re almost certainly right. The conviction rate in MST cases that go to trial is just 7 percent. An estimated 81% of male MST victims never report being attacked. Perhaps it should astonish us that any of them do.”

“Mike Thomson, Marines, 1997-1999: ”I wasn’t “afraid” to report it— I was ashamed and disgusted. Guys aren’t supposed to be raped. I didn’t want to tell anybody about it. I didn’t want to say anything.”“