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Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

The police ruled it a suicide. The family and local community demanded an investigation. The police refused to change their ruling.

Juliana Nzita, A 16 year old Black girl, was just found hanging from a tree on church grounds in Charlotte, NC. Police have ruled it a suicide, despite hanging ourselves from trees being like the one communally agreed way Black folks ain’t killing ourselves.

Every time I go on Twitter or Facebook I learn about another recent lynching or missing Black person going mostly unreported. Half the reason I keep an active account on either of those sites is because they’re the only place I can find out about the violence happening to Black and Trans people reasonably quickly.

Non-Black and/or non-US based people often wonder why so many left-leaning Black folks in the US try to operate alternate justice systems within smaller community such as restorative justice, transformative justice, etc. when “all over the world, activists and their ancestors have fought for access to legal systems like this” and this is why.

Our legal system is explicitly designed to kill and enslave Black people. Our legal system from the cops to the lawyers and courts (one of the few times we got justice) to the prisons is legalized slavery where prisons are privatized and corporations are encouraged to maximize their profit by incentivizing every part of this system to hold as many people as possible.

Black folks can be proven innocent after years of time in prison or on death row and still killed by the state or dying in prison because the goal was never justice, it was to keep culling and controlling the Black population.

And outside of the system, we are lynched, raped, abused, trafficked, and robbed by those involved in our legal system, lives often irreparably destroyed, entire lives disappeared with no justice because that is the point, not a flaw. It’s almost always those in the legal system or their families and friends doing this, so that it can be ruled a suicide or a runaway or intracommunity issues and swept away.

Five favs that I've written might be hard, considering I haven't posted that much.

Tales Of Little Pit (Kid Icarus)

Lucina’s Late Night (Super Smash Bros.)

Pokémon in: Omori (Pokémon. Omori)

Mega Man: Fully Charged - Season 2 (MegaMan)

Pokémon Sword and Shield rewrite (Pokémon)

Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon rewrite (Pokémon)

May I Have this Dance? (Puyo Puyo, specifically Quest)

Shelter from the Rain (Puyo Puyo)

Morning Grace (Puyo Puyo)

Nothing to Worry About (Professor Layton)

She Could Have Been (Professor Layton) - Kat finds an old photo of Claire and wonders if she was her mother

Ready Now - (Professor Layton) - AU where Layton adopts Arianna and Tony after PL4

How To Save A Layton (Professor Layton) - AU where Randall and Henry rescue Layton and Luke much sooner

Desperate Times (Rhythm Thief) - Marie visits JF in prison in the hopes of finding Raphael.

Trust Earned (The Owl House) - Willow doesn’t trust Darius when he wants to speak to Hunter at Hexside

In your rearview mirror (Professor Layton) – AU where Aurora returns as a ghost that only Flora can interact with

To Blossom (Great Ace Attorney) – A character study of Susato from pre-canon through both games

Cry me a lake to drown you in (OMORI) – A character study of Aubrey in the aftermath of the good ending

Doctor I can’t tell if I’m not me (Sonic the Hedgehog) – AU where Sticks discovers Surge and Kit early

That Sun We Call Hope (Sonic the Hedgehog) - Silver character study

An Angry Heart For Those Millions Defenceless (Sonic the Hedgehog) - Amy whump where she fights Egg Pawns during Sonic Forces.

The Monsters Around Us (Hermitcraft SMP) - Fantasy/Royal AU with ex-assassins Cub and Scar traverse a dangerous forest, seeking shelter.

Joel’s Guide To Make Rational Decisions (and totally not facing the consequences of those decisions) (Life Series SMP) - Apocalypse AU where Joel and Etho survive a zombie attack.

But You Like That I Bite Back - (Sonic the Hedgehog) Scourge/Sonic/Shadow--- lesbian sonadow AU where they're killers and Scourge gets caught up in their hunt for the night by accident (and she has a great time. Mostly. 🔥)

Old Dogs Laughing and Snarling on a Waterbed Floor - (Sonic the Hedgehog) A Mouthwashing AU. Horror story. Unreliable narrator to the extreme. Was really fun to write out even if it was for an audience of two.

Favorite Liar - (Sonic the Hedgehog)- Fiona/Scourge. Exploration of Fiona's pov while she's cheating on Sonic. What can I say—I like a traumatized woman who has to choose between two worlds while she doesn't fit completely into either one.

I Will Show You Fear in a Handful of Dust - (Sonic the Hedgehog)- Sonic/Infinite. 2nd person. Exploration into Infinite's side of things after he captured Sonic and imprisoned him on the Death Egg. One shot from my YCBTV fic series.

A/Better/Offer - (Sonic the Hedgehog) An omegaverse fic where Shadow and Sonic both simultaneously take on undercover roles opposite to their presentations to attempt to de-platform underworld kingpin Infinite. Ensemble cast of Rouge, Knuckles, Amy, Tails appear as well. Multiple POV changes.

The Cowboy and His Knight - (Sonic the Hedgehog) Lancelot suddenly finds himself on a quest with a stranger that looks like his king. Sheriff Sonic tries to find his way home with a man that looks like his sworn nemesis, Erizo Sombrío. World expansion on SatBK and doppelganger tropes.

Burning Both Ends of the Night - (Sonic the Hedgehog) Side story following Sheriff Sonic's life before Camelot and how he came to meet Shadow the Hedgehog - notorious thief and outlaw. Kind of a passion project as I wanted to expound on Sheriff Sonic's backstory that I breadcrumb in TC&HK.

Spanish 101 - (Sonic the Hedgehog) Nicky has trouble keeping up with the material in his college sophomore Spanish class. Luckily, his TA Shadow offers private tutoring hours. A shorter one but it kicks off my series ' Hot for (kind of) Teacher' and was the first smut for smut's sake fic I've ever written.

The Devil and the Dead Sea - Pokemon, Hardenshipping (Archie/Maxie). This was the first fic I ever wrote so it's very special to me! Team Aqua and Team Magma must team up to reach the seafloor cavern and in the process Maxie must face his ~true feelings~ and they kissy and fall in love. Except Maxie is also super anggy and repressed and wants to deny that's happening. Neither Team Magma nor Team Aqua are very happy about this and antics ensue.

Exile//Vilify - Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, Astor gen fic. Astor is raised in a cult that worships Fate and grapples with a prophecy that states one day he will face exile and devote his life to Calamity Ganon. He becomes the royal seer and there's definitely some underlying romantic tension between him and Zelda's mom, the queen of Hyrule. It's basically Astor's origin story, and I made a lot of friends though it. (Astor cult rise up).

Ophelia and the King's Madness - Pokemon, Colress/Concordia. This one is basically done but I've posted very little of it, so all I have is the little preview. (I should really get to posting it soon). Colress helps deprogram Concordia out of her cult by smuggling her candies and little treats (and also seducing her). It's part sexual awakening, part religious trauma, very many parts just Colress being a scumbag piece of shit and eating fruit. it's a wake-up-call, loss-of-innocence story as Concordia slowly discovers who he really is.

Prophecies to Waterfowl - Gen fic, Astor & King Rhoam. I don't know I just really like this fic, okay? It takes place during the unwritten portions of Exile//Vilify in which King Rhoam awkwardly tries to extend an olive branch to Astor (at the encouragement of his wife). I think I like it because they're so antagonistic to each other in E//V, but this fic shows there were attempts to be amicable, and some of those attempts were semi-successful. It also kind of plays with Astor and King Rhoam's very different ideas of prophecy.

Trouble Will Find Me - Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity/Breath of the Wild/Exile//Vilify universe. Gen fic, slightly-romantic-undertones prequel to Exile//Vilify that focuses on two of Astor's mentors from E//V and how they got to where they were. Especially because one of them knows he's doomed to die from the start. It's the backstory for Thelem, Astor's mentor, my favorite OC ever, and that one too I really need to start posting more of.

This was a good check-in. I need to start posting more again 😅 get these things outta my drafts folder

1. Breath of the Wild: Equinox - Also my first fic, at least the first one I ever posted on Ao3. It’s a sequel to Breath of the Wild turned ambiguous interquel to Tears of the Kingdom wherein an original villain tries to aggressively “fix” Hyrule by magically rewriting history, heedless of the world-ending consequences, so Link and Zelda have to stop her with help from past villains who are very confused how they got here and would like to go home, please. It’s part attempt to tie every game together in a coherent timeline (including spin-offs because fuck Nintendo Hyrule Warriors is canon damn it), part attempt to capture the magic I felt when I first played BotW. It’s also just an excuse to let my favourite Zelda villains do more than stand around being evil lol 🌗

2. Sapphire Moonlight - Canon-divergent BotW wherein Link saves Master Kohga from falling into the pit at the end of their fight and they catch feelings for each other. I legit didn’t think I was good at writing romance until I started writing this fic, now every time I go back and reread I’m literally giggling and kicking my feet. And ig others agree because the sheer amount of hits it has for a rarepair is AMAZING :D I love watching the stats go up after every update, seriously tysm to everyone who’s ever left a comment or kudos because I cook for YOU 💙

3. Non Obiecta - AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, this is a WIP (hopefully) longfic for my serious crack mega-crossover series Into the Sexyverse. Y’know all those famous “Tumblr sexymen” like the Once-ler, Sans Undertale, Bill Cipher, and Alastor? Well, they’re all self-aware and have existential angst about it. Non Obiecta is the (currently) second entry in the series, following Bill Cipher after his humiliating loss in the 2022 Ultimate Sexyman Twitter poll. In an attempt to reclaim his identity, he teams up with Once-ler (Once) and Alastor to start a cover band. But it’s not just rabid fans they have to deal with... ⚠️

4. Monster Night - Alright back to Zelda, this is a fun Skyward Sword Halloween fic about Link and Ghirahim bein frens :3 I loved worldbuilding for this one, Ghirahim they could never make me hate you 🎃

5. Forced Capture - Ghirahim They Could Never Make Me Hate You 2: Electric Boogaloo, I love the trope where Link becomes his new master and then they just chill, they deserve to chill 🧩

and all of you bond so closely over the trials this server puts you through and you meet up and party and have never felt so alive and full. you are family, you and each other and these tamagotchi admins. now what hammers do we have. ok *hits you with an election arc designed to try and tear you apart, which the fandom never fully recovers from* *takes the tamagotchis you see as your children away for six months* *introduces several plotlines for no reason that go nowhere* *sends you all to purgatory* *while theoretically it's a mystery server it's also meant to last three years so You can't actually solve anything and every chance you get to try turns out to be a red herring, and the Admins' twitch channel is where all the plot progression happens, your characters rendered helpless*

and then uh oh two of the server's most beloved members turn out to be jackasses and get banned. and then uh oh ! turns out one of the head admins - above the ones who play your kids - has been embezzling funds and oh almost no funds were going to your kids for their 4-8 hours of work a day the last ten months anyway and uh oh a head admin has also been banning your kids' admins and replacing them for no reason other than a power trip. and apparently the guy running this just didn't know any of that was happening because he had no role in the behind the scenes work other than by name

and then the server ends. and it fucks y'all up for ages because your jokes about needing therapy for the server stopped being jokes around month three. and you still care for these people and you still care for your kids but they're not your kids and the home the server was is gone in a way you can't get back

With QSMP 2 just around the corner, there's a lot of confusion and misinformation going around in regards to the infamous "QSMP admins scandal" of 2024, and there hasn't been a convenient and accessible way to familiarize yourself with the situation... until today.

How Quackity Studios Got Away With Workplace Abuse provides a timeline of the events that transpired between March 3, 2024 and May 24, 2024, a detailed description of the issues revealed by the ex-admins, and addresses some discourse concerns that I’d seen floating around.

You can read it as a Google document, or watch it as a YouTube video. (Though please note that the video version will not contain any information or changes added to the document post initial release and might have different wording to accommodate for the different format.)

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Minneapolis Minnesota

The following text is being shared, and the writer is asking for it to be spread far and wide. It’s a much longer and more detailed description of what’s going on. The good, the bad, the ugly.

“Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:

- ICE agents are cruising areas with immigrant-owned businesses, and kidnapping patrons and employees alike. Yesterday they abducted two US citizen employees at a suburban Target, one who was begging them to allow him to go get his passport to show them.

- ICE is going door to door in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, asking residents where their immigrant neighbors live. Read that again. If it sounds like something out of your high school history textbook, that’s because it is.

- ICE is targeting schools and school buses. They pepper sprayed teenagers and abducted two school staff members at the high school up the street from me on Weds. Police are literally escorting school buses to ensure children can get to school and home safely. The Minneapolis Public Schools have moved to virtual learning for the next 4 weeks because it’s unsafe for children or teachers to physically come to school.

- They are targeting hospitals and clinics. Patients are scared and are canceling their appointments or just not showing up. Kids are missing their checkups and vaccines, folks aren’t getting their cancer care, etc.

- They are smashing windows in cars and homes.

- ICE is increasingly picking up Native Americans—again, targeting folks based on skin color alone.

- They are arresting and beating legal observers. A friend of a friend had her arm broken yesterday. Folks are showing up at local hospitals, brought in in ICE custody, with severe injuries that are absolutely inconsistent with mechanism of injury reported by ICE. (Think: patient appears to have been beaten unconscious, while ICE agent says he slipped and fell.)

I can’t emphasize enough that these ICE agents do not have warrants. There are 2,000+ agents here and they are simply hunting for anyone that’s not white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or a green card holder, they will kidnap you first and ask questions later.

But the community is fighting back.

- Protests are happening every day.

- Community groups have been leading know-your-rights sessions for months, often to packed venues.

- Whistles are being distributed by the thousands, carried on keychains and worn on coat zippers, always at the ready to be blown in warning if ICE is spotted.

- Drivers are following ICE vehicles, blaring their horns in warning.

- Businesses are locking their doors even while open to keep employees and customers safe. As I type this, I’m standing guard at the locked door of our neighborhood burrito joint while I wait for my takeout order, so the employees can focus on their jobs. The place is packed with neighbors supporting this small business.

- Anti-ICE signs are posted everywhere. The community is making it crystal clear that ICE is not welcome here.

- Parents and neighbors are standing guard outside schools, organizing carpools, and escorting kids to and from school on foot.

- Parents of kids in Spanish-immersion daycare (there are a LOT of these daycares here!) are keeping their kids home so the teachers don’t have to take the risk of coming to work.

- Churches and community groups are holding fundraisers to buy and deliver groceries to families who don’t feel safe leaving home.

- Mutual aid money is going out to folks who can’t make rent because they can’t work or because a breadwinner was abducted, or who need a warm place to stay after their home’s windows were smashed.