#ablackberrywinter

It’s a Tumblr replacement. It works like Tumblr with likes and reblogs and tags, but like Livejournal, it has nested comment threads under each post and a feature to turn off reblogs/comments for each post you make in case you want to keep it private or available only to your followers. (I think they will eventually make settings that only certain friend groups can see, but there are only 3 tiers now.)

It’s in beta, so everyone who’s using it now is hunting for bugs and making suggestions on how to improve it. And right now they’re only letting in people who donate to the kickstarter, which they’re running to hire a few more developers. But I donated to the kickstarter after already having an account, so I’ve got a few accounts to give away for any friends I have who want to join. :) It’s pretty cool and chill. There are also communities that you can reblog to that are based around fandoms/interests, so it’s pretty easy to find people. There’s just not a ton of active people on there now!

I just baked me some cookies, how y’all doing?

just went to Mrs Fields and bought a bunch of cookies!!

So to add onto that, I wish that the games, and video games/media in general, were more inclusive.

I definitely think that it’s beyond important to have physically disabled people in the games. I want children (or anyone of any age) playing these games and saying, “Hey, that character has to sign just like I do” or “That character uses a cane or a wheelchair just like I do.” “That character is capable of so many things even though they’re missing a hand” or “That character has come to terms with the fact that they probably will never be able to walk again and they’re still as happy as can be; maybe I can be like that someday!” I want people to be inspired and realize that they aren’t alone.

I want characters who have depression, anxiety, OCD, ADHD, or something else who admit to having mental illness(es) and who reference therapy or exercises they do to help themselves or how they’ve come to terms with these things or how they have overcome these things.

I want characters who have a learning disability and can’t read very well or just can’t do math for the life of them. Not because they haven’t tried, but because they just aren’t mentally able to.

I want characters who are dating or married who are both the same gender. I want a character who is transgender or nonbinary. I want a character who has a gender neutral name and could be seen as any gender and Nancy and other characters are respectful of them and don’t ask because it doesn’t pertain to the case/the conversation/it just isn’t any of their concern. I want a character who is bisexual who isn’t seen as greedy or indecisive.

I want a character who is a feminist or humanist or womanist, and talks about the injustices that are going on in the world, or at least in the town/city they’re in, and who stand up for the rights of others. Or have a character who is organizing a Women’s March.

I want more woc and even just poc, too!

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