A Simple Tumble?

Itachi Uchiha [Naruto] by TsuyaNoUchi

Farai: but you don't like to be touched

Happy Mermay! This year, @ abvj and I did Polin Collab! with Merman!Colin and Penelope. (Thanks so much for going with my shenanigans you're the best)

Read "What Would I Give" over on AO3.

I also posted these early for the patrons who got to see all the WIPS.

Make sure your bag can get you through scenarios where you are part of a mass evacuation, rather than you clandestinely leaving in the middle of the night to escape brownshirts.

I feel like thinking in this context will help folks prepare better and think beyond fleeing to the nearest border as their prime objective.

I don't like giving this regime more power than it actually has, so it is helpful to me to think about what I would do in specific scenarios. Planning for those gives me much more concrete action items, reduces my panic, and ends up preparing me better for unknown situations.

A lot of us have real fear of this regime rn, and escaping a Knock is a realistic concern.

But I feel like a lot of white, cishet, middle class folks are in oppression cosplay mode rn, and their brains aren't in a practical space for what the more likely impact to their lives is going to be.

If preparing for a Knock isn't also going to prepare you for facing sitting in traffic for 12 hours with no hotel plans because you need to evacuate a natural disaster on short notice, you should think a bit more about your risk factors and resiliency.

And yeah, I agree with @so-i-did-this-thing in a lot of ways. A natural disaster (or a man-made one) are A LOT more likely to present an immediate threat to most people right now. Especially because of this administration threatening to dismantle basically every disaster protection we've got from FEMA to NOAA. We are starting down the barrel of, at the very least, a wildfire season with an absolutely crippled wildland firefighting force. (And wildland firefighting resources respond to a lot of other non-fire disasters as well.)

An example of the hi-lo tone:

Which can then of course be modified to whatever your personal needs may be. This list may seem daunting at first, but most of what's on here is probably something you already own and just by shifting where you store it in your house (ie. putting it in The Bag instead of the cabinet), you're making progress towards the go bag

Thinking in chunks like this also helps make sure you're covered in various scenarios. As a trans person, I am going to make sure my HRT is already in a bag that I can move to my go bag.

For one, I figured out the tariff thing doesn't really affect my field too much since art on paper as fine art, even as prints, aren't in an HTS category that generates duties. Yall can get 'em whenevs, they're sent using stamps in envelopes.

anyone can get their own print!

but not only that, @asimovsideburns is not only aware that this is a print I sell, but they get a courtesy cut of every sale I make with these!