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  • the thing abt legend of galactic heroes is that I do unironically believe it belongs on the list of things to get into if you like friends at the table. but also unfortunately it’s 110 episodes and not particularly like. easy to find anywhere. and like. *I* think it’s well worth it but my idea of good television is shows where most of the action is people sitting around talking abt plots & themes. which I realize that plenty of people think is ““boring”” or whatever. however. I am fully (sickos dot jpeg voice) yes!!! hahaha yes!!!! every time there’s another scene of people sitting around a conference table discussing their plans and schemes

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    • #i keep trying to liveblog abt it now that i'm like. back to actually making progress instead of rewatching the same 2 episodes on a loop
    • #for fic reference reasons. to be clear
    • #and also now that i've found another site to watch it on after the first site i was using went down lmao
    • #and then realizing that everything i want to say requires like. too much context to actually work as a post
    • #anyway. it's on the list of 'things i love deeply but cannot bring myself to recommend to anyone
    • #bc if they bounce off of it for many very valid reasons i'll be So sad'
    • #dreaming.txt
  • clementineskesh:

    divorced-tournament:

    Round 2, Side A2: Softboots (Puss in Boots) vs SamSam (FATT)

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    FIGHT

    Softboots

    SamSam

    samsam divorced so hard that millennia later not only did most people not know samot existed a lot of people in the church of samothes confidently argued that samothes had never fucked. this man had a husband and son and got divorced so hard they were wiped from history

    • 2 hours ago
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    • #i forgot abt the virgin!samothes schism
    • #god. what a podcast
    • #what a fucking divorce
    • #friends at the table
    • #polls
  • magnusedom:

    Diego Luna as Cassian Andor 
    ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016) dir. Gareth Edwards

    (via apaladinagain)

    Source: magnusedom
    • 6 hours ago
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    • #rogue one
    • #star wars
    • #q
  • end-otw-racism:

    Timeline of OTW Hiring of a Diversity Consultant

    We have been seeing some claims that OTW has already hired a Diversity Consultant. We wish that were true! At this point all that’s been done is appoint a volunteer to research diversity consultants 

    Here is a timeline, as best we can construct, of this issue. 

    June 2020

    OTW first talked about hiring an external contractor in their June 2020 statement on racism, and said they would start researching options “in the coming months”

    Statement from the OTW Board of Directors, Chairs, & Leads | Organization for Transformative Works
    transformativeworks.org
    From this, we hope to build a long-term strategy that will include specific internal goals and structural improvements, which can be further divided into clear, actionable steps that we can incorporate into our upcoming Strategic Plan. As part of this, we will be considering various avenues including, but not limited to, reaching out to an external contractor or partnering with an advocacy group, and will be actively researching credible resources in the coming months.  We recognize that this careful approach will take time as we need to make sure any steps are taken responsibly and with a clear scope and objective, while also keeping up with the other duties and obligations of OTW governance. However, we believe that it is an important step to take in creating a stronger OTW for all.ALT


    July 2021

    In July 2021, a year later, they announced that they had created two new “officer” roles, including one to start researching diversity consultants. (OTW uses the terms “officers” & “staff”, but those are currently unpaid volunteer roles)

    July 2021 Newsletter, Volume 159 | Organization for Transformative Works
    transformativeworks.org
    III. ELSEWHERE AT THE OTW  The Board of Directors hosted a public meeting on July 11. The main discussion involved the creation of two new officer roles: to aid us in introducing paid staff, and to research options for diversity consultants. Thank you to everyone who came to the meeting and gave their input! As always, if you have any feedback or questions about their work, you can email the Board.ALT


    April 2022

     In April 2022, almost a year after THAT, they appointed one of two Diversity Consultant Research Officers & said they would be starting work. (I guess technically that’s still “coming months” from 2020? lol)

    April 2022 Newsletter, Volume 167 | Organization for Transformative Works
    transformativeworks.org
    The Board of Directors is pleased to announce that it has appointed a Diversity Consultant Research Officer to help the OTW formulate its next steps towards hiring a diversity consultant or firm. The role remains open for internal recruitment as the Board would ideally like it to be held by two people for the sake of redundancy and sharing out the workload. The Board also held its quarterly public meeting at the beginning of the month — thanks to everyone who came and asked questions!ALT


    January 2023

    In January 2023, when asked about the timeline for working with a diversity consultant, OTW said they hoped to “conclude the project” in 5 years. Also they had not yet appointed a second officer. 

    runpunkrun | Notes from the January 7 OTW Quarterly Public Board Meeting
    runpunkrun.dreamwidth.org
    I asked my usual question of how the diversity consultant research officer's work is going and if they've encountered any difficulties in looking to hire a paid consultant, and Nat said: The research is still on its early stages. Our officer has shared their ideas with us and we are debating together what our roadmap, so to speak, should look like. They haven't encountered any difficulties so far, but we aren't yet at the stage of contacting potential hires. They also haven't appointed a second research officer yet, though still hope to do so.ALT
    Satsuma then asked, "Any general ideas about what the timeline for said roadmap will look like? Would appreciate even very broad figures here — unclear if we're talking one year, five, or ten."  To which Nat replied: Because the research relies on volunteer work, it can be difficult for us to provide a realistic timeline for large projects in the OTW. Speaking very broadly, our goal is definitely to conclude this project in the next 5 years - hopefully less, if we don't find any meaningful difficulties and are able to carry our work as planned. But being more specific than this just wouldn't be based on any concrete prediction we're able to make. Which is very frustrating indeed. So I asked if there was a way to pay someone to do that work, and Nat said, "That is definitely an option, punk, and we haven't entirely discarded it. However, there are many advantages by having the research being made by someone who knows the OTW well from the inside, and that's not something we can pay for.ALT


    March 2023

    Which brings us to the most recent OTW Board meeting in March 2023, almost another year after the officer had been appointed, when we received the first update on what they had been working on.

    runpunkrun | Notes from the March 26 OTW Quarterly Public Board Meeting
    runpunkrun.dreamwidth.org
    kcdayton: Today, we would like to share an update about the OTW's work on anti-racism and diversity in our organization. This section will be a permanent addition to all Board of Directors public meetings going forward, as we realize the OTW needs to be more transparent and proactive with regards to keeping fans in the loop with regards to what we have been able to do so far to make our organization and projects safer and more welcoming to fans of color. We know we have not historically been efficient enough when sharing updates - we hope this will be a step in the right direction, and are committed to continue sharing as much as we can on a regular basis. We are also studying whether any other communications paths could be feasible for our organization. We appreciate the feedback and suggestions fans continue to share with us, and we consider every idea carefully.ALT
    In our first update, we'd like to talk a bit about the work our Diversity Consultant Research Officer has been doing. As a reminder, the role of this officer is to liaise with the organization in order to assess our specific needs for an external diversity consultant, and also to look into available consultants who could work within our organization and our specific challenges, such as a fully online environment, international workforce, the full anonymity of most of our volunteers, and so on. In the first quarter of 2023, Zoë has presented the Board with a plan to contact different stakeholders in our organization, so she can get a clearer picture of what OTW leadership and volunteers expect from a consultant, what concerns they have, and what they see as priorities for this work. She will be reaching out to the organization gradually, to make sure she can dedicate proper time and attention to each person who wishes to communicate with her.ALT
    Additionally, she has begun some preliminary research into potential hires, and while it is still too soon for us to determine whether specific companies would be suitable and able to work with us, we are hopeful that we will find a company to that can contribute in a meaningful manner towards making the OTW a more diverse and anti-racist space. Board has also met with the Strategic Planning committee this month in order to discuss, among other things, the Diversity section of the upcoming plan. We know that many people are anxious for updates on this area since the OTW's Vision Statement got published last year, and we would like to reassure you that discussions and feedback are ongoing, in order to help us create a plan that is helpful, efficient, and has achievable steps for our organization.ALT
    When two people asked if there was a timeline for this work, kcdayton replied: Zoë expects the first round of interviews, focusing on OTW leadership, should last about two months, in between asynchronous and live chats. Once that part of the work is reaching conclusion, she'll begin planning for a wider round of feedback and discussion with OTW volunteers, which will likely take a few months, depending on how much response there is.ALT


    OTW was asked about the five year timeline, & this time we were told that they hoped the project would be concluded OR have “made great progress” in five years, again moving the goalposts.

    Currently

    Looking at this timeline, this could make it eight years before we see anything substantial (3 til now +5 more) in significantly addressing this issue. This is unacceptable. We know they have the funds to hire consultants.

    This is why we’re demanding that OTW make good on their commitment and hire someone in the next 3-6 months. It’s not an unreasonable ask given that the officer has already had more than a year to work on this and we are 3 years out since we were told this was a priority. 

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    • #fandom
    • #long post
  • lustrecannon:

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    listened to the first two seasons of hieron (plus marielda) and doodled along to some of it. my life has been ruined and ive never been happier

    (via clementineskesh)

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    • #oh these are so cute
    • #friends at the table
    • #seasons of hieron
  • spindy:

    Since I finally got it on camera, here’s a yawn and a flop for you guys

    (via mikkeneko)

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    • #bunnies
    • #video
    • #cute animals
    • #q
  • applecoded:

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    literally where the FUCK are his t’gallants!!!!!

    (via omnipah)

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    • #happy main and mizzen monday
    • #black sails
  • queelez:

    partywithponies:

    johannesviii:

    greatcomets:

    aziraphalesbian:

    doctor who is like heres one of the most complicated and tragic friends-to-enemies-to-friends-to-lovers stories youll ever experience about two very tormented people finding and losing each other again and again and again across time and space and wanting each other without reaching for each other and caring for each other without wanting to admit it and crying for each other without the other knowing but one of their names is ‘the master’ and one of their names is ‘the doctor’ so you cant take any of it seriously at all

    love this post bc it reminded me that the master literally ages the doctor into a shitty 2000s cgi raisin and pushes him around singing scissor sisters’ “i can’t decide” and then later in the SAME ARC dies in the doctor’s arms ON PURPOSE just to spite him as he screams and sobs for him 2 stay alive so he’s not left alone in the universe

    What do you mean “the same arc”, it happens in the same episode

    They also wax lyrical about how they need each other but they also constantly destroy each other, and once had the baller line “if we fight like animals, we’ll die like animals” while the two of them rolled around on the ground, but unfortunately that happened in the same episode as The Master was physically metamorphosing into a catboy.

    I fail to see how that’s unfortunate.

    (via humandisastersquad)

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    • #doctor who
    • #q
  • swarnpert:

    swarnpert:

    i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside

    ok because apparently i’m wrong about this, reblog with where you live and whether you got to eat lunch outside during school or not

    (via duckswithwings)

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    • #mid-atlantic us and no
    • #we were allowed to leave for lunch in high school but that meant like
    • #going to the nearby pizza place (or home if you lived close enough)
    • #not like. tables outside
    • #about me
  • choose violence: 6, 24, 25 👀

    omnipah

    6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

    objectively the correct answer here is r*ylo but that’s low hanging fruit that’s no fun many of them (or at least the most vocal of them) *are* very annoying but I can think of something spicier. I mean. this isn’t a specific ship (although this is more prevalent in some m/f ships than others) but there sure is a trend that I notice of. when someone is An M/F Ship Fan as opposed to just like, a fan of an m/f ship, and I’m reading fic for the one main ship but then literally every background character in the fic is paired up into other m/f ships and I’m like. was that really necessary? did we have to pair everyone off? could we not have made anyone single or gay? no? (my other specific answer, which is one of the ship fandoms where I see a lot of this, is f!b*leth/d*miti of ‘pegging is hardcore bdsm’ fame) (which is nothing against people who like that ship and aren’t Like That abt it, it’s not for me but I’m glad they’re having a good time and I’m sorry that they are known by the most obnoxious of their number)

    24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

    the top/bottom discourse. the 'is wwx the worst person ever’ discourse. the discourse that ensues anytime anyone makes even the mildest critique of the ways in which fandom trends might even slightly be influenced by or reflective of real world biases.

    25. common fandom complaint that you’re sick of hearing

    if I hear one (1) more person say that all f/f fic (or art. or fiction in general) is all cutesy and boring and sanitized I am going to start biting

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    • #dreaming.txt
    • #omnipah
    • #thanks!
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