★proud&strange&so hopelessly hopeful★

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

I bet you thought you'd seen the last of me, eh? WELL TOUGH!

The Lion and the Adder Kickstarter is now accepting late pledges! as a team of people with chronic "oh that looks nice I will make sure to do that thing later on"-itis, we know how annoying it is when you miss the boat because your brain insists that you've already done it simply because you've thought about it, so here! have some extra time to support us!

also from a slightly-less-altruistic approach we are SO close to our next stretch goal of £6k which means a Q&A with our producers Hero, Eira and Sophie, and speaking as one (or more! i'll never tell) of those people, I think that would be just SUPER fun to do

Dakota Gold Mysteries, Series 2: Murder at 1.28 Hertz

UNPAID hobby project

The Dakota Gold Mysteries are stand-alone, short-run stories about Jupiter's finest private investigator.

In Murder at 1.28 Hertz, Dakota's deliberately-forgotten past returns to him in the shape of the daughter of an old friend from his time in the military. Her father has been accused of murder, she wants to hire Dakota to prove him innocent. Predictably, things turn out to be significantly more complicated.

We are open to voice actors of all genders, accents, vocal types, and experience levels.

Call open from June 1, 2026 - 8am Pacific June 15, 2026

Full details and audition information can be found here:

https://writer.zoho.com/writer/open/w60qycafdc4bfa75543f5a8c0af7344be3056

a) i forgot how fun this is

b) it's really hard not to like, re-write for them and stick to just "hey add descriptions here, change this grammar, really cool ideas!" bc i'm an adult and not trying to talk over/railroad these kids, but i'm just so excited for their ideas!!!

c) little boys write cool stuff like "what if we went to mars but it sucked so we left, but left behind all our technology and the technology rose up and created its own society and then went to war with us for abandoning them? what if transformers had 100x the war crimes? what if the earth blew up. what if we were the robots all along?"

teacher: little girls have really rich inner lives to combat the way they're puppeted by society in real life. they'll learn to censor it out in a couple years, but it doesn't go away.

With such great hits as

Our Flag Means Death

Fawx & Stallion

With such great hits as

Our Flag Means Death

Fawx & Stallion

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Like

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.

He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.

And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"

Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.

Scientists are now pretty sure the scribbles were made by kids ages 3-6, more or less on their own. The adult cave artists were probably doing what any modern parent might do when they want to keep small children out of their hair for awhile: they gave the kids some drawing tools of their own and a small section of wall to work on, out of the way but still close enough to keep an eye on them, and let them have at it.

The team compared the ancient art with the developmental stages exhibited by modern children: the furiously scribbled circles and push-pull lines typical of 3-year-olds just learning to control their bodies, for example, or the wobbly, right-angled figures of slightly older kids beginning to master fine motor skills.

Both are apparent in the cave, superimposed on each other as though two or more kids were drawing at once. That’s a clue the Las Monedas marks were likely made by “siblings or a mixed-age play group within the sphere of safety around adults, but also within their own space,” says co-author Felix Riede, an Aarhus archaeologist.

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And us horrid young adults would ask her why she still worked at Taco Bell, because it was starter job and who would want to stay there forever? Her response?

“I make enough money to make sure I always have roses in my bedroom.”

This answer changed me as a person. It changed the way I thought about what makes someone successful, and made me step back and realize that I was so caught up in what I thought success and happiness should mean that I didn’t know what I wanted them to mean.