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#Vote to End OTW Racism

A Call To Action

Earlier this week the OTW responded to our previous action and reaffirmed their commitment towards combating and preventing racism within its platforms. 

They also thanked us for working to keep holding them accountable to their goals and we intend to keep doing so. 

To that end, Fandom Against OTW Racism is calling for our Second Action!! This action is centered around the upcoming Board Elections set for August 11-14. We want to encourage everyone who can to participate in the election process and spread the word far and wide about these elections! 

Currently, 4 of the 7 Board positions are up for election, which is a majority. Now is the time to get involved. In light of multiple accounts coming forth about the state of the organization, it is clear that fundamental changes need to happen – and those can only happen with a shift in leadership, from what we currently have to one that is capable of supporting and implementing those much-needed changes.

Please join us in calling upon our fellow fans to vote to make things better for all of us!

How to get involved:

With four Board Seats open, now is the perfect time to act and make this issue a key component of this election to select people who demonstrate a commitment to combating racism in our fannish spaces. So if you can, please plan to vote this election cycle!!

• If you already are a member, use your voice and Vote. If you have donated in any of the fundraising drives for AO3 in the last year, you are likely eligible. You can check your eligibility status here by selecting “Is my membership current/Am I eligible to vote?”
• If you are not currently a member or eligible, consider donating $10.00 so that you can gain membership in OTW and be able to vote. In order to vote your donation must be received by June 30th. 
• When donating you can add ‘End OTW Racism’ to the ‘In Honor Of’ field if you feel comfortable doing so.
• If you donate, ensure you select the yes to the ‘Do you want to be an OTW member?’ question

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We understand that many people may not be comfortable doing so or may be unable to and that is perfectly fine! You are under no obligation to spend any money and we do not want to pressure anyone into doing so. There are plenty other ways to get the word out to encourage others to vote as well as continue to show support for this issue.

Other ways to get involved:

• When posting a new fanwork between now and August 14, add ‘Vote to End OTW Racism’ to your title and provide a link to the End OTW Racism blog in your top Author’s Note. Reminder: New fanworks participating in the action are always welcome to join our AO3 collection.
• For those who may not be creating works or who use AO3 just for commenting/ kudosing, create a Pseud named Vote To End OTW Racism. AO3 will automatically append your default name at the end. So it would look like “Vote To End OTW Racism (Your Name)
• Add a link back to this call to action on your profile page, for anyone clicking on your name to see. 
• Update your pfps/avatars/user icons across social media
• Participate in the upcoming Board Meeting between now and the election (August 11-14). The next Board Meeting is scheduled for July 2 and we will post an explainer about how to participate soon!
• Send a letter to the Board encouraging them to be more transparent and to better advertise their Board Meetings. (credit to Punk who allowed us to utilize their work for this template)
• Submit questions during the Q&A period with the Board Nominees. (We will post about this closer to election time)
• Follow us on Tumblr, Twitter or Dreamwidth as we will be reviewing Board Candidates through the lens of our goals and providing more information on how to be involved over the election period. 

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i know she would go absolutely feral making friendship bracelets for the eras tour where her band is opening (she's a speak now girlie she told me) 💜

luke | alex | reggie

play-now-my-lord

Cannot believe I am seeing people getting their tits bent out of joint about a man taking his daughter into a women's room. That shit was like, completely normal when I was a kid. We really have taken a flying leap backwards as a society into the Cootie Zone

play-now-my-lord

"Men don't belong in the women's room" is in fact a subordinate social imperative to "children should be kept an eye on so they don't get hurt" and especially when you're talking about a toddler, most men's rooms don't have changing stations or suchlike. Morons

play-now-my-lord

It should really not go without comment that afaik this is a black man taking care of his daughter, racism is a factor in people making a big stink about this and I'm not really gonna let the ~daughters of the witches you couldn't burn~ forget that their actual grandmothers probably got pissy about integrated washrooms

exit6666

The Dance of a Thousand Hands.

hellenhighwater

This is so surreal for something that includes zero special effects of any kind

nail-bat-lesbian

HOLY SHIT

feared-by-str8-bois

If this is the group I think it is (you can find them by searching Dance of a Thousand Hands on YouTube), the dancers are all hard of hearing and the orchestra is visually impared. The dancers can feel the music through vibrations in their feet and hearing and feeling each other’s breathing. They are the China Disabled Peoples Performing Arts Troupe and have traveled to 100 countries and counting. They aim to prove that anyone can dance, and anyone can play.

secretladyspider

Don’t come at me about the Bible and homosexuality if you’re using it to justify your homophobia. I will demolish you.

itszombiebear

Also, for some cultures including early Christianity, sodomite could very well have ment someone gravely inhospitable, as the sin of Sodom was inhospitality and not anal sex.

secretladyspider

I wanted to talk about that too but I was running out of tweets I could put on a singular thread 😅 thank you so much for this addition!

kue-the-way-for-the-panicked-gay

@louithescribe

not-so-easy-breesy

I’m reblogging this partially because it’s frickin awesome, and partially for future reference, cus yeah the evangelical community is really scary to be in as part of the LGBTQA community

secretladyspider

People keep asking for the links on the thread, so, here’s a link to the thread.

inkypainter15

Whoa this is one of the BEST things I’ve ever seen!! And I learned a lot from it which I can tell my LGBTQ+ friends so that they can also destroy someone with this knowledge! Thank you so much for making a stand!

ninjakasuga

This was some hella good stuff here. I knew there was corruption with Bible verses and such but wow this was supremely informative!

woodelf68

I’ve reblogged this before, but I always feel like someone might need to see this.

loisfreakinglane

My Fake Boyfriend (2022, dir. Rose Troche)

secretladyspider

Don’t come at me about the Bible and homosexuality if you’re using it to justify your homophobia. I will demolish you.

itszombiebear

Also, for some cultures including early Christianity, sodomite could very well have ment someone gravely inhospitable, as the sin of Sodom was inhospitality and not anal sex.

secretladyspider

I wanted to talk about that too but I was running out of tweets I could put on a singular thread 😅 thank you so much for this addition!

kue-the-way-for-the-panicked-gay

@louithescribe

not-so-easy-breesy

I’m reblogging this partially because it’s frickin awesome, and partially for future reference, cus yeah the evangelical community is really scary to be in as part of the LGBTQA community

secretladyspider

People keep asking for the links on the thread, so, here’s a link to the thread.

inkypainter15

Whoa this is one of the BEST things I’ve ever seen!! And I learned a lot from it which I can tell my LGBTQ+ friends so that they can also destroy someone with this knowledge! Thank you so much for making a stand!

ninjakasuga

This was some hella good stuff here. I knew there was corruption with Bible verses and such but wow this was supremely informative!

woodelf68

I’ve reblogged this before, but I always feel like someone might need to see this.

dreadfuldevotee

Ayo Edebiri as Stella in Hello, Goodbye, And Everything In Between

asha-the-confused-lolita

I just had a discussion with my friend about fanfiction and how we tend to assume that women are the writers without any actual proof. Then I said, hey, I know fanfiction written by gay and trans dudes. But then I remembered, wait, I think I know one writer who just must be cis het based on his work. Anyway, all writers, be honest, who are you?

Please reblog if you're interested in the results.

hellallamerican

a grad student at NYU, Alía Warsco, has created a free and open-source library of Quechua and Andean-related materials (and other global indigenous resources), called Runakunaq Bibliotecanku (The People's Library). i highly suggest checking it out

metadata-uber-alles

To be clear, this is a sort of simplified catalog for materials at NYU's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The full text of the books is not up on the website ready to go. However, you can request scans of the items, and a lot of them have WorldCat links so you can check if a library near you has them.
(Even if they had decided to provide the full content, and had already worked out a way to be fair to the authors/copyright holders, scanning everything would be a massive undertaking! It's not surprising that a project by a single grad student, started just this year, does not have that).

The free and open source part is the interface itself and all the metadata, which anyone can download on the Data page.)

bettercallgerri

LEAH HARVEY as SALVOR HARDIN

Weird place to build a Second Foundation. Well, you would say that.

dwreader

Claudia's Hair & Growing Up

I've written previously about how Claudia's wardrobe signals a shift from her childhood self to her adult self but the most clear and obvious marker of her self-perceived adulthood is her hair. In the early 1900s, a girl was allowed to have her hair down or in a half up do until about age 17-18 or when she made her debut into society. After that, when appearing in public spaces, she would be expected to have her done up (and also wearing a hat).

As you can see in episode 4, she has her done in the typical style of a young girl in the 1910s, ornamented with a bow or some other decorative ribbon. In fact, this is one of the clearest indicators to people like Charlie and the guy at the university that she's really young even if she claims to be older. This is a childhood/early adolescent hairstyle and an adult woman would not have worn it out and about.

In the first photo above are the Romanov children with the girls between childhood and early adolescence. Below that, you have adult women in the 1910s with their hair done up and on the right wearing a large hat when out of the house.

However, an interesting shift happens in the 1920s that coincides with Claudia's coming of age and while it's not explicitly explored in the show, it likely compounded Claudia's frustration at her inert physical state. The 1920s was the beginning of VERY short hair becoming popular with women, so instead of marking your adulthood by putting your hair up, many would simply chop off their hair into a flapper bob.

But Claudia CAN'T cut her hair. It would just grow back so not only is her body in arrested development but she can't even style her hair to the adult woman trends of the era. She's not only stuck in a 14 year old's body but she's stuck with a 14 year old's hair length from the year 1917. So what does she do? After episode 5, she almost always wears her hair up especially when out in public and when she is trying to project maturity (anatonizing Lestat, buying things at the pharmacy, meeting with Tom Anderson). While she may not be able to cut her hair to match the trends of the 1930s woman, she CAN at least put her hair up like a 1917 woman. It's literally her one way of controlling her appearance beyond how she dresses.

Final note: while the show in general has pretty accurate and well developed styling choices, the one glaring exception is Antoinette. She's really not styled properly for any era she appears in and I know her looking 35 years old for 30 years is a bit of a joke in fandom but truly her hair is just NOT it. It's way too short for 1917 (needs to be updo capable!!) and kinda too long for the 20s-30s. They really just did not care about styling her accurately at all and ykw that's okay cause she doesn't really matter lmao.

Like look at these from the years 1917 and 1937 and then look at the styles I posted above of the 1910s vs. the 1930s and like????? what is going on here lady!!! You're just not trendy in any era hon.

mcufandomhatespeopleofcolor

Ms. Marvel is airing on television for the first time TODAY!

It starts at 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on ABC

palettesofrenaissance

so I’m watching Ms Marvel for the first time (finally!) and I have a question:

would the Avengerscon be the equivalent of a con that hosted figures like B Dylan Hollis, the Chocolate Guy, Shiadanni (of Glam Kitchen), and mndiaye_97 (the animal guy)?

I say this because in real life there aren’t public facing government figures, kings, or tech mongrels who’s intentions are to do good. The first that come to mind are non gov and non official people

I know it isn’t the same but it’s the first that comes to mind