im here, im queer, i want to take a nap

It's a good time/opportunity to volunteer at or donate to your local food banks to help them out, or if you're active at a church or community, ask if they have food drives and are in need of volunteers.

texas tech's quartback, brendan sorsby, was investigated for sports gambling. i know sports betting is all the rage right now, but athletes themselves are not allowed to do it. it is Rule Number 1 and it is the highest priority rule for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), who governs all athletic programs at about 1,100 colleges in the US.

the invesitagetion of sorsby revealed that, not only did he place more than 9,000 sports bets when he himself was a collegiate athlete, but 40 of those bets were AGAINST HIS OWN TEAM when he was playing at indiana university. immediately, this threatens the integrity of the sport, and especially because indiana is the hottest team right now as the defending national champion.

the NCAA, which is largely a sham organization these days (they've truly lost their grasp and college athletics are the wild west now) actually enforced their Number 1 Rule and told sorsby his career is over, that he would never play college football again (and, subsequently, that he would never get drafted into the NFL because his college career was cut short).

well, because the NCAA is a husk of its former self, sorsby and texad tech immediately took this to court. MANY athletes have learned these past few seasons that if you can find a judge who's a fan of your team, you can get any NCAA ruling overturned. that's exactly what texas tech did. they filed a suit in Lubbock, where the university is located and where every judge is an alum of texas tech. so sorsby was granted an injunction and will now only be suspended for the first 2 games od the 2026 season (which are alwayd against no-name teams that will be destroyed regardless of who's suspended).

every other school in the country immediately went on the defensive because this is a very clear integretiy issue. so nebraska and georgia (sic em dawgs) released statements saying that all currently-scheduled competitions witb Texas Tech in ANY sport will be canceled and there will be no future schedulings. at least 3 of the major conferences (SEC, Big 10, Big 12) , who account for almost all division 1 sports teams in the country, are also in discussions about cancelling comtests. Texas Tech is part of the Big 12, and there is serious talk of all other teams in the conference shutting texas tech out.

now would probably be time where i say that texas tech is one of the wealthiest programs in college football becaise there is a single billionaire alumnus pouring money into the program with hopes of essentially buying a championship. so texas techs integrity has always been questionable. anyway, the university president put oit a statement that he doesnt care that sorseby violated regulation and that texas tech will sue any school that refuses to play them because it jeopardizes their championship prospects if they're umable to play any games.

but: consider. if u genuinely like analyzing writing.. do u know ur just allowed to go through and quote your favorite parts and ramble abt what they mean to u and the author will LOSE IT WITH HYPE?

genuinely. i felt SO WEIRD the first time i did it.. but like. holy shit authors love it. its crack for authors. the first time i did it, it was on a fic that hadnt updated in half a year, give or take, and the author made 3 updates that month BECAUSE OF MY COMMENT.

He's got a gift!

- the traditional Orcish wedding is held so that the formal ceremony occurs precisely at midnight. however there are a number of festivities both before and after, which means the wedding event itself lasts typically sundown to sunup. this DOES lead to some confusion from people not familiar with Orcish custom about which day anniversaries are celebrated, often to the baffled response: "you only celebrate one day?"

- this means it's common to choose an autumn or winter night as the period for celebration is longer. getting married on the summer solstice with the shortest night of the year would be an ill omen and suggest a lack of investment in the success of the marriage. the winter solstice's LONGEST night of the year however is a very coveted choice. many a dramatic falling-out has occurred over someone setting their wedding date ahead of another pair

- the traditional wedding color is red, though other bright vivid hues are occasionally worn as well. contrary to the general assumption by non-Orcs that the red is meant to evoke the blood of battle, it's actually representative of the vitality, new life, and prosperity wished upon the union. and also it's pretty :)

- the ceremony itself involves handfasting with a three-stranded cloth that is then braided to represent the strengthening of everyone involved by the act of joining together, with one strand each representing half of the couple and the third strand representing the community. the braided cloth might be kept on for anywhere from a few minutes to the rest of the night - for a while it was popular to see how long you could go without unbinding, but usually at some point in the night it comes off... and it's better when it's intentionally unbound so that you don't lose track of it 😬

- because the festivities take place at night, it's common to have outdoor weddings situated around a large bonfire. clever use of a screen and elaborate hand gestures = shadow puppet storytelling, generally tales about the newlyweds by close family members or friends which are highly exaggerated for comedic effect (though wealthier couples may hire professional storytelling actors to perform a favorite folktale or two)

- DANCING... so much dancing!! the musicians typically change through the night so one group is not performing for hours and hours on end, and so everybody gets to join the rest of the festivities if they so choose. it's considered bad luck for the wedding couple to participate in the dancing until after the ceremony, when they lead the first dance post-midnight together

- and the food!!! wedding food is lavish and there's a lot of it - slow-roasted meat and seasonal vegetables, plenty of cheeses, dense cakes, and so on. the wedding couple may fast during the day; this makes the food taste that much better once sundown hits, and also allows them to partake of a little bit of everything: it's considered a minor faux pas for the guests to eat a dish the wedding couple hasn't had first

And now, when I find myself making the mistake of going on Instagram, I get to see trans men themselves talking about how historically, trans men didn't do anything for the community, and so we need to step up now. Which, first of all, that isn't true, but second of all, if trans men's contributions are lesser, that makes a lot of sense if we listen to that trans woman talking about the trans men she was in community with back in the day. It's very hard to advance the trans cause if you're not alive.

They pretend that if there were no gender roles no one would transition and trans people would cease to exist.

What's more accurate is that "trans" as a category would become incoherent but people would still have preferences about their bodies and would benefit from modifying them in ways that our current world considers to be heavily gendered.

Turtle Quilt by Laurraine Yuyama