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alek(sander)

@alextearex

•he/him• •no idea what I'm doing•

consider this: young royals neighbours au where all the characters live in the same apartment block, simon is a singer trying to get by and sings/does vocal warm ups during random hours of the day and, while he does have a beautiful voice, he does cause a bit of a nuisance, which leads to... august? vincent? maddie for variety? to change their wifi name to "ShutTheFuckUpApt302" or something along those lines idk how apartments are numbered in sweden

it prompts the neighbours to rise to simon's defense though and they also change their wifi names to like, "DontListen2ThoseDickheads@/202" or "302YouAreAmazing" or "DoUTakeSongReqsApt302?" y'all get the gist

it starts a war between those who are all for simon singing randomly whenever and those who aren't and everyone has a stance... everyone except this one apartment, though, and wille – the new guy who very much wanted to join in on the banter but didn't know if he could/should – gets bullied by the others to either declare if he's for or against simon's singing

LOL we all know he's a simp for Simon that's not a plot twist

the twist is this: wille just doesn't know how to change his wifi name! he accidentally became neutral in the neighbourhood wifi war because he's a very, very privileged dude who has never had the opportunity to set up a wifi router before? idk, choose whatever canon-based personality/character history you want for reasoning

anyway, turns out he and simon know each other outside of being neighbours (maybe wille is upper level management at a record company, though ultimately not the one simon ends up signing a deal with, and they hit it off pretty well and they start dating? like seriously, engaged within six months kind of dating) and The Reveal happens when Simon's wifi name disappears and everyone's like "FuckU202ForGetting302Evicted" and there's a riot until

wille's wifi name changes from "403" to

uh so i never do this but maui is quite literally on fire and there isn't nearly enough care or consideration for. you know. Native Hawaiians who live here being displaced and the land (and cultural relevance) that's being eaten up by the fire. so if ya'll wanna help, here's some links:

center for native hawaiian advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

please reblog and spread the word if you can't donate.

Just learning about this (!), and reblogging for visibility.

Also sending worried love to all my friends and all the people I don't know in Maui.

a little more information regarding the maui wildfires:

  • medical workers on the ground are describing finding hundreds of bodies. the current death toll in the media is, unfortunately, only a fraction of the reality
  • hospital workers are describing injuries and trauma as if survivors had come out of a warzone
  • thousands are still missing
  • an apartment complex for the elderly was lost. not everyone could get out. people were saying goodbye to loved ones over the phone
  • people who did get out of lahaina were leaving with ashes covering their faces and nothing but the clothes on their backs. people are losing everything.

hotels are still operating. hotels are still operating. they are not the ones offering shelters or housing or food. even bowling alleys are offering shelter, but hotels have the audacity to build on burial sites but not open their doors to local families who have lost everything.

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Hey if you work for a major company that you fucking hate, but they also have a Diversity, Inclusion, Culture Department… check if they offer donation matching.

Your $10 donation can turn into $20

Your $50 donation can turn into $100

I completely forgot until an org put it at the bottom.

if you cannot afford to donate, writing a google review is free.

write a review for the four seasons and the grand wailea giving them 1 star while detailing their refusal to house displaced locals and speak up on the maui fires. contact them. email them. call them. these are only two of the many hotels still operating on maui, but it is especially nefarious since the grand wailea is built on a hawaiian burial site.

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no but, remus actually will not accept sirius at his worst and that's why it's wolfstar for me babe. like he won't. you want someone to pat you on the head and tell you what a good boy you are you go to james for that shit. because i have been hurt too and i have been broken too and im not interested in your fucking bullshit. you pick yourself up and you deal with it. the same way i pick myself up after every full moon. i will love you deeply but i will not love you blindly. that's why it's wolfstar for me.

YOU GET IT.

Wylan, in the shower: YOU CALLED ME UP AGAIN JUST TO BREAK ME LIKE A PROMISE! SO CASUALLY CRUEL IN THE NAME OF BEING HONEST-
Nina: who hurt Wylan? Jesper, i swear to god if you broke his heart—
Jesper: don’t worry about it. he wanted me to break up with him for ten minutes so he could sing the song
Nina: Fair enough. continue on then.
Matthias: I don’t understand you people

Crows are swifties and nothing can convince me it's not true

(First year) James: I'm an only child but Sirius is like a brother to me
(Third year) James: Sirius is basically my brother
(Fifth year) James: Sirius is my brother, here's the legal paperwork
(Seventh year) James: I can't believe I'm dating my brother's brother, this almost feels illegal
(Just after the wedding) James: Omg Sirius is my brother and my brother-in-law

and thus, the black family tree continues to be made of circles

It's tradition

DDoS Attack Against AO3: Correcting Misinformation

Normally I don't make any posts like this, but I have an interest in cybersecurity and sadly I've seen people are being really ignorant about this recent DDoS attack against the site AO3 (Archive of Our Own), so I thought I'd remind people of a few things:

  1. Anonymous Sudan appears to have no actual link to Sudan at all, or to any previous hacktivist groups that once operated there. This masquerade is probably based in anti-immigration and other racist sentiments, and utilizing those sentiments in other people to scare people and set up Muslims and Sudanese people as a target. This should be obvious from the language used in their note, but this was already known prior to this particular attack.
  2. This so-called Anonymous Sudan has actually been very active recently—remember that they claimed to attack Reddit, Flickr, Riot Games, a huge number of Microsoft web portals like OneDrive and Outlook, etc. before AO3, so AO3 was totally a logical target for them since they've gone after smaller entities before. DDoS attacks like this are easy for any script kiddie to set up, so it's not weird that they'd go for a smaller target like this.
  3. Honestly this group of posers probably just wants money, everybody. They sent AO3 a ransom note asking for Bitcoin (and just in case people don't know, do not pay a ransom if at all possible if this ever happens to you).

My advice to people who've noticed this attack is two-fold: calm down since this is part of a larger pattern that has literally resulted in basically no loss for the end-user of any of the sites, and... I don't really know a better way to put this, but don't believe everything you read. A religiously-motivated hate group wouldn't use terms like "LGBTQ+" and "smuts," and it's so blatantly obvious that the timing of every single one of these attacks is being used to smear Muslims and Sudanese people if you think about current events for like. One second. And if you look up Anonymous Sudan, you'll see their string of attacks and how all experts know that they have nothing to do with Sudan at all. Even AO3 itself told everybody that the group is lying about their motivations... though I think I'd go further than that personally because even their name itself is almost certainly a total sham.

To be clear: this post isn't targeted at anyone in particular. I've just seen a lot of people falling for this overall or not realizing this is part of a pattern, and I also wanted to remind everyone that this isn't anything to be concerned about. What is something to be concerned about is not doing research or thinking critically and then unwittingly spreading racist ideas.