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Inbox PSA

this is a sideblog. I cultivate it pretty stringently. meaning, I go through old posts and clip out ones that I don’t plan to interact with again or don’t think contribute anything to the overall conversation, are an early part of a thread that’s since gained more-meaningful contributions, or things that just don’t have any artistic value I need to preserve. if you’re looking for an old post and you can’t find it anymore, it probably doesn’t exist here. that doesn’t mean that I don’t still believe whatever the message was (I can’t think of any times I’ve changed my mind enough to retract something I’ve said)- just that the post was clogging up my blog and I cut it to streamline and make the more-useful posts easier to find.

I say all this to say- there’s ~1300 posts on this blog. read them. search through them for your answers.

if you send me an ask and you never see it posted, it means that conversation’s already been had and I deleted it. it says so on my page before you ever submit an ask. I delete repeats.

also if half the text of your question is apologies for asking…just don’t ask! 

look- real talk, I hate that shit.  if it’s a bad question or a repeat, I’ll just delete it or snark at you a bit in my answer. if you’ve done me the courtesy of reading through my blog (which-again- I’d hope you do before going into my inbox), you should already know to expect that. you should already know it’s not a malicious thing I do (it’s the individual’s responsibility not to get emotionally-invested in expecting some specific kind of reaction to their prods for attention.) what you’re actually apologizing for almost always boils down to wasting my time, and apologizing for wasting my time is wasting even more of my time and subtly trying to guilt me into reassuring you that you’re not, like I ~love~ getting the same generic opinion-based questions eighty times. except I don’t care about your fears or insecurities around interacting with a stranger online, I don’t know you. I feel no obligation to you and therefore no guilt in being honest that yes- you are wasting my time. when you spend most of your ask apologizing for existing in my inbox. when you repeat a question instead of just putting in the legwork to actually read my blog and engage with what I’ve said and still actively choose to present. if you’re asking something that could be answered by a simple google search or picking up a book yourself for once. if you truly feel like your question has already been answered or is one you could answer by doing a little research yourself- don’t ask it. if you genuinely feel like my thoughts would contribute something new or valuable- ask it! and don’t apologize first. ask your damn question. I will answer (or I won’t). everyone’s happy. we all move on with our day!

we are on the side of art. and if you’re not, you have no business making it. we are on the side of art, and if the art flourishes under my reign I will take the reins and be the star and do the best I can. we are on the side of art and if I’m a side character, if that’s what I’m destined to be, if that’s where I’m best utilized, if the art is at it’s most-optimal when I am in a supportive role than I will be the best supporting role that I can be. we are on the side of art…

rowark:

For anyone who doesn’t know what’s going on in Canada right now (which, let’s be real, is probably everyone who’s not in Canada):

This week, a mass grave was discovered at a former Indian Residential School, in Kamloops, BC. The grave contained the bodies of 215 Indigenous children.

For people outside of North America, residential schools were places that Indigenous children were sent to, to have their language and culture stripped away from them. They were literally stolen from their families, and scattered across Canada, to ensure that they would be surrounded by children who didn’t speak their language. They were given Christian names and forced to speak English. They were horrendously abused, and the survivors have been traumatized.

Hundreds of children never returned. The assumption has always been that they died. This has now been confirmed.

The school in Kamloops closed in 1978. They are now trying to identify bodies to inform family members. The last residential school closed in the 1990s. There is growing demand to search all of them, but the government hasn’t responded to that, as of yet. Ottawa JUST gave in to pressure to fly the Canada flag at half mast. They weren’t even going to do that.

This is the reality if anti-Indigenous racism in Canada. The residential schools may be closed, but that hasn’t stopped the abduction of Indigenous children, let alone the hundreds of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

nextstepcake:

If anyone would care to help update it, I’ve set up a new google doc for Ace POC resources, since the other resource lists I”m aware of aren’t actively updating.

We’re currently trying to work on the section for resources for Black aces first.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D-hEueVjziJoK9lIpbOQXzEJjmImRGGQXdzHFlFWf18/edit#

pierregasly:

I suppose it’s my turn to speak on the Nikita to Haas situation. In my years involved with F1 I’ve never been so disgusted by a choice of driver. There have already been numerous posts about his violence, obvious disregard for women and rich-boy mentality. While all these are horrendous, I want to speak on something that enrages most of all. Please reblog. 

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