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Stop telling people to just orphan their fics.

Orphaning a fic means giving up any and all ownership over it. No way to claim it back, edit it or delete it. Yes it's an archive but an author should still have the right to delete their work if they feel like they don't want it to be up anymore.

Readers always scream for authors to orphan their fics instead of deleting because they feel like they have a right to the fanworks that is shared with them for free. If it's so important to you to not lose a fic, download it. Also comment and encourage the authors, instead of telling them to give up all ownership to their work.

To authors, if you think about deleting your fics, there are other options you should employ first. If you don't want it connected to your name, put it into an anonymous collection. As long as it's in there, noone can see you wrote it, you still can edit ot or delete it and moderate comments on it. You can even move it to anther account, just create another one, add it as co author and then take your main account off. Then you can still edit it from your second account but it's no longer connected to your account.

If you don't want it to show anymore put it in a unrevealed collection, that way, the fic won't show up but it's still there, you can still see it, read comments and make it public again.

If you feel the urge to delete your fic, try one of these options first and see how you feel about it after a while, you can still delete or orphan afterwards, but this hopefully makes your decision easier.

With Tumblr starting to roll out age verification, it feels like a good time to bring this up.

I went to my app store and turned off automatic updates back when the staff tried to roll out their reblogs bullshit last month or whenever that was. The age verification is only in the UK and Brazil for now, but it'll probably spread.

Boy am i glad that the con has a facebook page so i can post this photo:

Please tell me that is because you know who he is and we have reached international coverage on this fiasco please

He's a joke candidate, standing as Independent from main political parties. He used to be one of three people that was Lord Buckethead, but there was disagreements and I think legal disputes, so he split off and became Count Binface instead. He's never won a consituency, or got enough votes to win his deposit back from standing in local elections, but pops up here there and everywhere.

As a joke candidate, he is just there to have a laugh, but also stands for the left and calls out corruption and poor standing from news outlets, other parties, and wherever he sees it.

Currently, to the elation of the nation, he is running in the (unconfirmed) by-election for a constituency ran by the far-right twatface called Nigel Farage.

Good ol Nigel just got flagged by his own bank for transfers so large they thought he was laundering money, and it's spiralled into an investigation into his finances that weren't disclosed and are rather dodgy.

He likes to frame himself as a man of the people (he wants to remove us from the ECHR) standing against the Establishment, so concoted a little scheme that has blown up in his face.

He announced he was going to stand down at MP, triggering a by-election. He then announced he was going to run in the by-election, which (if he won) would frame him as a true man of the people, or (if he lost) confirm the Establishment is out to get him.

But he's also (despite his truly abhorrent tan) utterly transparent, and all the major parties squinted at him and went 'aw fuck off Nigel' and refused to send an MP to stand for Clacton (said constituency).

Except.

For Count Binface.

Which has (exactly as intended) ruined our discount-Donald's plans, and turned him into a national joke.

As as our dear anon has said, Farage is now stuck between rock and hard place.

If he loses... he lost to a bin. He lost to a man with a bin on his head. He lost to a man with three (3) three points on his manifesto.

1. Reduce 99p flakes back to 99p.

2. Build one affordable house.

3. Force cyclists that break the Highway Code to ride unicycles as punishment.

If he wins (which he probably will, Clacton is very far-right) then he won against a bin. It's not hard.

It is the pinnacle of British politics.

We have never been more united #refuseuk

Count Binface for Clacton!

("Why should the people of Clacton vote for you?"

"Well, I'm not Nigel Farage.")

Please, keep an eye out for yourself, your loved ones, and your neighbors. Know what rights you have if you are stopped or even detained, citizen or not, because they don’t care.

here is a link to the Native American Rights Foundation with information about what you can do if you are approached by ICE at home, at work, in your car, in public, if you are under the age of 18, as well as listing some of your rights when you have even when you are detained.

and

here is a link to the ACLU's Immigrant's Rights page with information about your rights and how to express them in multiple scenarios including being stopped by ICE while in transit, if you need a lawyer, what to do if you are detained while your immigration case is underway, and challenging a deportation order.

I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.