Brandon O'Brien @therisingtithes@wandering.shop

Plain Talk, Bad Manners™ #poetry #poetsofinstagram

I just wanna say I am kinda excited about something that comes out very soon. hinthint. @FiresideFiction@twitter.com

This @Kurz_Gesagt@twitter.com video on Loneliness was, in a lot of ways, something I terribly needed, methinks. | https://youtu.be/n3Xv_g3g-mA

I will never be able to tell whether that was the line's intent, but on a bilingual and an aural level that shit is POTENT, not only in the song's context but in general, and I want to bottle that feeling so badly

Today's tunes, not only because 'Shoujo S' was one of my fav Bleach OPs, but because rediscovering it meant rediscovering the poetry of 'Aijō, yūjō, shiritai koto wa nandemo' that drew me to it the first time: https://youtu.be/WYl6WRELkYw

Equilibrium has been hard this week. I’m tired. If my friend wasn’t depending on me I’d be hiding right now and the fact that I know that and know I don’t deserve that makes me want to self-destruct. But I’m saying it because I deserve, and owe myself, better than this feeling.

and I'm fucking tired of it at this point.

they make it sound like people just don't get how much of an ally they are, and how this person actually just wants them to fail! (that fucking beat angers me the most because you know which way that's really pointing). 'how could it be me? look at what I'm doing!'

they defend one, they know the whole time what's up, but before it could get sticky for them they latch on to a name, point out how important it is for people to join in the fight against it. then, when it's their turn, the denial tactics start.

lrt:

what really does my head in is seeing in clear definition the trend of shitty people creating an entire personal identity out of rallying with survivors against the latest abuser as a smokescreen to hide their own cruelties behind.

If anyone says that poetry is hard to write,

tell them that a NASA scientist’s transliteration of Opportunity’s last, presumably pure-data reply to them was “my battery is low and it is getting dark”.

Like, damn. A perfect line. Expect all the nerds to put it in something.

Like, part of me is like, 'you shouldn't have had to kill him in one of the jankiest plots in the literal universe in the first place, and resurrecting him is even worse for narrative catharsis', and the rest of me is like 'YEAH YOU BETTA BRING THAT BOY HOME MOTHERFUCKER'

I have... feelings about the latest episode of [show], but not only was it still far above mediocre to me, it's undeniably quite a motherfucking relief to have what I feel is one of a single-digit set of examples of the trope of Gay Men Rising From The Grave, for good or ill.

anyway buy @DungeonCommandr@twitter.com's Mutants In The Night allyuh

http://dungeoncommandr.itch.io/mutants-in-the-night

If you’re not willing to give a clear and reassuring statement regarding your verdict—and therefore your mandate to create a safe space for your attendees—then you must me similarly unwilling to keep those attendees present. Having a CoC means not having it any other way.

Things like this look too familiar in fandom spaces. Even I have tended to be too generous in the face of them. But when it’s undeniable that harm has been done, at least say more than ‘we looked into it privately, don’t worry’. The safety & self-care of others is at stake.

See, I don’t believe a con has the duty to tell me what the investigation found. But it should not only make a clear verdict decision and argue what supports it, they should do so always in defense of victims and attendees at risk.

If you can’t prove that enforcement, then the CoC exists to defend the con from critique, not attendees from harm.

see, the copout here is that any decision can be called a CoC decision if you say you made one without considering the community that will be present. making a decisive statement about the verdict was the right call—it isn’t like the news is or should be discreet.

I kinda see what’s happening here, and a part of me wants to be generous because again, new here, but consider exactly what not saying something does and means for a community asking for safety.