I have a few more medical appointments coming up in the next couple of weeks, which I have to travel a far distance to get to. I also have to pay my phone bill, but only have a few dollars until the end of the month. So, I’m putting out my tin cup, hoping for some small donations. One Ko-Fi donation is one bus trip.
Another fantastic story by BeautifulFiction, aka @the-pen-pot. Thank you for permission, you kindly thing, you! (And Good Luck in your plant identification endeavours!)
Every queer person I know over the age of 30 is fucking appalled by the state of the queer community, and I have heard some absolutely stellar anti-gatekeeping tirades from queer grandparents. I had a long conversation with a 43 year old pansexual who told me the infighting is almost certainly because we’ve collectively forgotten our joint history and have become more interested in individual social clout than actually advancing the movement for across the board queer equality.
So this is a reminder, I guess, that our elders are on our side. The gatekeeping and the exclusionary behavior is crap.
Stop👏calling👏us👏queer
If you don’t identify as queer then I’m not fucking talking about you, am I.
This TERFy “stop saying queer!” horse shit is exactly one of those appalling things, by the fucking way.
Six Ways to Support Fan Fiction Authors – The Lallybroch Library
I would add that rebloggingfics (if you read them on tumblr) is a great way to support fic writers. Oftentimes you’ll see that fics have far more likes than reblogs, and likes are great, but reblogs help spread someone’s work so more people can read it. If a work has 100 likes and 10 reblogs, that means only a tenth of the people that enjoyed the story thought it was worth sharing.
I second that. If you’re a new writer reblogs are the only way for anyone to see your work. Always reblog if you’re especially impressed by a work.
Beltainefaerie's Flights of Fancy 