Queen Kura Ai

Companies do not experience one day of revenue loss and pull the plug, destroying years of work and firing dozens if not hundreds of employees.

Companies which experience loss in revenue and consumer interest make investments and changes in order to regain their users/customers. That’s why organized protests and boycotts WORK. Tumblr will NOT go down after one bad day or week, but they might be willing to listen to its userbase if we put up an organized protest. (If you don’t believe me, think about how long sites like MySpace and Google+ hang around with fractions of their previous user base, often for years.)

Yahoo paid over one billion dollars for Tumblr, and the website will not go offline because of a one-day event, so in conclusion,

DO log off on December 17th to show Tumblr that you disapprove of its recent content ban and clumsy execution of censorship.

(I know, I know.)

And part of applying to work for the NSA means taking a lie detector test.

And while I was hooked up to a lie detector, I made the mistake of walking myself into a conversational trap where I had to explain explicit fanfiction to an NSA officer.

(”But Hicku, why didn’t you lie?” you might reasonably ask me. Because I was hooked up to a lie detector, I didn’t properly understand how unreliable they are, and I had already had experience earlier with how good they are at catching moments of uncertainty. Not lies! Just moments of uncertainty. I got asked if I had any foreign national contacts I hadn’t declared, had a second of wondering if the family in Sicily I’d never met counted, and got grilled for five minutes as a result as to why I’d lied.)

And to this day, I can remember the look of confusion and disgust on that woman’s face. And - especially after finally getting my examination paperwork via a Freedom of Information Act request that took three years to process - I can now say that the NSA regards explicit fanfiction as being a greater sign of derangement than having a car with severed doll parts glued to it.

I remember because the person sponsoring me said I was a shoe-in because no way did I have any habits more odious than glueing severed babydoll limbs to a car.

Turns out, writing fanfic is considered worse by our government!

Another note I remember on my paperwork is someone mentioning that “[Hicku]’s intentions in contacting foreign women may be a cause for concern”, since I listed a friend in Canada and Australia. So, have fun with that, literally all my non-US friends. The US government considers you all spies, because our country is run by people who cannot fathom ever wanting to have anything to do with anyone who’s not American.

Seriously, one friend and I laugh to this day about the fact that this proctor asked in all seriousness if my Canadian friend was my “illicit lover.”

And my personal favorite

T H E

It’s nationalist to state facts now?

How is this toxic?

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human freedom

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quality of life

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social progress 

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income equality (america was among the worst)

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healthcare

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gender equality

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Back then there were also MILITANT divides between “boy’s” and “girl’s” entertainment but when he found out He-Man had at least a small following of little girls he pitched the concept of He-Man’s sister She-Ra and was insistent she be as tough a warrior as her brother. He saw that girls actually did like “scary” sword and sorcery and had a WHOLE NEW FUCKING SHOW made so they could feel acknowledged and have a heroine to look up to with her very own series.

This is “Kindled” by Laura K. Cannon, which is part of her portfolio that can be found here: http://navate.com/2wk6im1sartc92iwza7il07bxq2mk5

Pink took Pearl’s hands, crossed them one over the other, and said, “Let’s never speak of this again.” After this, Pearl was literally incapable of talking about what she did.

In The Answer, Rose took Garnet’s hands, crossed them one over the other, and told her, “No more questions.”

I am their fury