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Hey so my blog that I use for DB/Z/S related shitposting is on @mozarteffect
but it's a secondary blog so if people get a follow from this blog, it's me, sorry, tumblr sucks and doesn't let you switch primary blogs, also past me was stupid and didn't consider that I should have made it an entire separate blog at the jump
Wasn’t this episode banned in the UK for that specific reason?
like to charge reblog to cast
One more year.
Election results are looking promising.
I really wish fandom would distinguish more between found family and … y’know, having friends.
Venn diagram that’s overlapping circles of “found family”, “having friends” and “oh no this is a cult”.
hello! i am an autistic trans person who has recently been in the hospital for muscle damage in my foot. i really need some help with money since i keep having to miss work to go to see doctor's. i am also dealing with issues of my work not complying with my doctor's orders. any amount really helps!
p.aypal: gothicchick
c.ashapp: $rioyoung729
after doing the numbers, i will be -600$ at the start of the month. my job only puts me at 20 hours a week now. I'm really struggling. i don't eat unless I'm working and I'm straving at this point.
if you come into my inbox claiming you're not a bot I'm gonna flag and report you as a bot, just fyi
I got one just now claiming to be in need of mutual aid and I'm like...right so you did that by coming into an individual's inbox instead of making a post, definitely not a bot (it's bot behavior)
if capitalism didn’t exist what would your dream job be. btw if you say something like ‘engineer’ i’ll kill you
Hang on, you guys. I’ve got a crazy idea.
This is the most horrible thing I’ve seen all week and at the same time I can’t stop laughing.
explaining the joke: there's ribbon reels in cassettes, people stuck pencils in the holes/openings to wind the ribbon for various reasons but esp if the ribbon became unwound and it needed to be corrected, you could manually rewind a cassette tape this way too.
Need to know your opinion on this like….. This is so hard
ok, legitimately, this is some east coast brainrot
hmmm no notes, jiyu is right
I tried to put them roughly in order of existence (except for IRL haha). Also I realize that ao3 technically is also a "multifandom website" like wattpad/ffn, but it just Feels Different. Also no shade to the other poll. I know I'm not the only crotchety old person in those notes.
It's missing Usenet. Usenet was very, very, very important at one point.
jesus the lack of people that learned thru angelfire, i am...old...
Adding him to my list of men who have never possessed a singular thought in their lives ever.
My wife was trying to hot glue something and the cat decided she wanted to be able to eat a hot glue stick.
I got this great photo of the intense battle over it
Right now it's a victim of DNS (Domain Name Service) spoofing. This means that a malicious party is trying to steal traffic from FFn by purchasing a very similar domain.
*web/software designer voice* hello today we are going to be making our product more intuitive by removing useful features, making it more annoying to use, and not listening to any feedback about this 😊😁 also we changed how the ui looks again for no reason
you can say windows it's okay
We need a digital archive of LGBTQ+ works of art, science, and every other conceivable work we can share between each other because we are beyond the genocide warning level in most countries in the west and they're already trying to purge us from libraries.
If other people are interested I'll make this a priority
Speaking as someone with a background in archives, stuff like this does already exist. No need to reinvent the wheel. Creating an archive and making sure it's accessible and searchable and actually preserves things for the long time (especially digital things) is actually a huge undertaking. Show some love to these already existing collections and maybe even consider contributing. There's the Digital Transgender Archive off the top of my head. I know more I just have to think.
The History Project, based in Boston, is an LGBTQ+ community archive that's existed for decades. Many of their collections are digitized.
The Lesbian Herstory Archives, based in Brooklyn, is similar.
The Digital Public Library of America covers a great many topics, but they also have LGBTQ+ stuff.
I'd also recommend searching "lgbtq+" and "libguide" in your preferred search engine. Many universities list helpful resources and databases, some of which are freely accessible.
Many public and academic libraries in the US and Canada (not sure where you're writing from) subscribe to the Gale Archives of Sexuality and Gender. If you have a library card or are a student at a given library, you can access it for free.
In general, I'd really recommend searching around to see how you can support existing museums, community archives, college and university archives, etc that specialize in LGBTQ+ history and media local to you, whether that's in your same town or regionally.
You are not alone! People are working on this and some of them have institutional budgets!
But also kind of looping back to the first post: you personally might have relevant records. Photos of Pride or protests you've been to, journals, a blog full of trans headcanons even. That's all part of queer history and that's the stuff these archives and museums are made of.
Label your stuff carefully, make backup copies, and get to know your local organizations!
We're also working on building an open access archive and actively looking for content contributions! https://about.jstor.org/revealdigital/hiv-aids-the-arts/
University and community archives both are doing so much important work in curating and preserving queer history! And even the academic collections are generally still open to the public, whether that looks like you coming into the reading room at a local university to look at their materials or emailing the librarians to ask for photos or scans of them.
Also, like, even if they're affiliated with institutions, queer archives at universities and museums are generally still curated and cared for by queer folks. I work in a queer history archive at my university, and all of us who regularly work with the collections are queer, the curator is even another trans person, and we have strong connections with other queer people and organizations in the surrounding community.
Academic and cultural institutions like historical societies, libraries, and universities have facilities built to preserve archival materials -- everything from books and zines to pins, banners, t-shirts, and etc -- and people trained in curation and conservation. And often we want to connect with the local community so we can house and preserve their stories and materials for a long time!
All the archives that have been added to this post are great, but here's a few more to look at if you're interested in finding a queer archive near you -- or one further away with materials that interest you. Australia: The Australian Queer Archives
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Kvir Arhiv
Canada: The ArQuives (formerly the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives)
Germany: Das Lila Archiv
Spinnboden Archiv (focused on lesbian history)
Forum Queeres Archiv München (focused on queer history in Bavaria and Munich)
The Netherlands: LGBT Heritage Collection at the Internationaal Homo/Lesbisch Informatiecentrum en Archief
South Africa: GALA Queer Archive
Switzerland: Verein Schwulenarchiv Schweiz (focused on the history of gay men in Switzerland)
The United Kingdom: LGBTQ Collections at the Glasgow Women's Library
The United States: The Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University
OutLoud Collection at StoryCorps (an oral history project)
The Rainbow History Project (focusing on queer history in Washington D.C. and the surrounding area)
The Invisible History Project (focusing on queer history in Alabama and the American South)
The Gerber/Hart Library and Archive (focusing on Midwestern queer history and culture)
Also -- I know what's happening today is incredibly scary, but there are so many archives all over the world documenting our history, and so many people devoting their lives to preserving everything from groundbreaking political manifestos to kitschy ephemera. And supporting queer archives is more important than ever. My first day of work in the collections, the curator handed me a charred book that had been rescued from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft book burnings, and nothing has ever driven home more that the work of archivists is both critical and powerful, especially in this day and age. Support queer archivists and queer archives, save materials and find one to house your own collections no matter how random they might seem, and go out and learn about our history!
