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Harvesting my wheat

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I wish I could function better in the summer but it's just physically impossible... Dx

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When cats lie on their backs and look at you upside down with their little vampire tooth sticking out reblog if you agree

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learning about the Holodomer and interesting the parallels with the Irish famine (genocide). Punishment for "stealing" food. In Palestine they just shoot at people coming to aid centers without really bothering to offer any excuse. And kill aid workers too.

In the same way too, the pattern is that children often die first. Because of course they do. Their bodies have less fat and are weaker. Especially when there is no milk or formula.

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also people seriously are so ableist like people saw a starving child with cerebral palsy and really said it was ok for him to be starving because he already has a "pre-existing condition", like what do yall think is happening to Palestinian diabetics, the elderly, the disabled in general, without adequate medicine, hospitals bombed, with so many medical workers murdered, and now in intensified starvation conditions? Not to mention how disabling having your fuckin leg blown off is. People got mad about a Palestinian toddler amputee being on TV ffs. People really dont care if disabled people die, or if people become disabled to begin with, that's acceptable to them.

Saying Palestinians cant be starving til you could see the bone reminds me a lot of being a fat anorexic. Starving myself still hurt my body even rhough I still looked fat. Body fat actually doesnt instantly melt off easily on every adult body.

Honestly this attitude is part of the entrenched mythology of fatphobia and we are seeing another examplecof how dangerous it is in the genocide now.

The same way a fat person can just never lose enough weight to be forgiven of sin,

a starving Palestinian must lose all body fat and be half naked with visible bones bofore they are worthy of feeding.

Which is basically another way of saying that you have still not satisfied your blood lust. There is still not enough death and suffering to you.

Do yall think that when the Holocaust camps were liberated, all the skeletal figures you saw on those videos survived? No. At that point in starvation, some of them will have died after liberation of the effects of that malnutrition.

Do you think the starvation didnt kill any concentration camp victims before liberators found survivors with skeletal bodies? Of course not. People died of starvation before their bodies looked that way too. Starvation also contributed to the body weakness that prevented them from surviving other causes of death like illnesses.

America is so steeped in a culture of seeing starving oneself as a virtue, and yet never really having to face true threat of forced starvation, of hunger as a punishment for fatness and poverty, and even for misbehaving children, that we're so fucking ready to accept the cruelty of starving people to death for being brown on land we want.

And we blame the parents for their children starving too because obviously these brown people cant be normal human beings who love their children. Obviously the best thing for the parent to do is to forgo all food until they are bones, and hope the infant born to a hungry mother who never had a chance to gain much body fat doesnt become bonier faster than an adult who had some time to grow and gain a slower metabolish over 25 years, because if that happens obviously the child isnt worthy of feeding either.

Yes why are not the starving infants of Gaza lying bony without any adults anywhere near them to prove the adults starved themselves to death first?

Would even that be enough for yall to agree it is acceptable to feed Palestinians?

What was their great crime again?

Ah yes. Some members of the same race as them committed some murders.

Well, obviously no other races have committed murders. So obviously all Palestinians, guilty by their race, deserve every cruelty, are not even deserving of food.

I mean, if any white Christians ever committed murders, surely it would be correct to starve all white people.

So sure, we should wait until its too late. And then say we were always against this. Despite all the evidence. Because why should we not live in a world of depraved cruelty as sick monsters? A world where anyone may be starved as a racial punishment.

After all, to even simply say "Yes they are starving. Yes we should feed them." would be such a fucking sacrifice, right?

No, better the orphans should starve than for us to even acknowledge reality or even to wish they would be fed.

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if you're gonna write that man like a housewife straight out of 1950s ad copy at least go whole hog and give him a valium addiction

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Also, how could I forget, "THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!"

And the pizza delivery in Scare Me is fun.

...been reading more horror since I wrote this but still cant think of any fresh examples, especially since a lot of horror I read takes place pre-phone, but it does make me think of how Frankenstein and Dracula were epistolary works which is not unlike how texting is used in some modern texts including my own work, and in film.

pretty sure irrc Bound In Flesh has texting? Maybe it was videos. It's a trans horror collection. So good. Dont think I finished it yet.

oh you're in a horror film/book and your phone died/has no bars? how boring. I think phones in horror SHOULD work. they should ding only to have the protagonist check and find nothing. they should get calls from somebody you don't know but is still somehow in your contacts. google maps should lead you to one place, no matter what address you type in.

phones are such a big part of our daily lives, removing them from horror removes the horror from our experience. what if the horror felt like it could happen to you, right here, right now? what if it felt like it was already happening?

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part of the problem with it too is that the porn industry is terrible. Last time I watched porn on a free site like porn hub I saw abuse of a performer so obvious that when I reported it the site actually took it down. That was upsetting. I feel ashamed and complicit to have even clicked on it even though I personally got it removed. Me going on those sites is a lack of self control because I know it's sketchy and unethical, it's like if I binge ate some nestle knowing how fucked up that company is, it hurts me too. Because while they can be regulated through that reporting system, they are not WELL regulated.

And that's the problem with porn, when it isnt well regulated to treat performers well. When they are abused, when their work is stolen, when they are underpaid, when people dont have other income sources so its coerced, when people are enslaved - that shit is fucked up.

You know what the ethical alternative is?

Welp, abstinence has never worked well. Some people just read stories and comics. Others directly pay consenting independent sex workers. Sometimes sex work we perceive as ethical and consensual turns out to not be, especially in the industry. It's fucked up!

And the way to make it better includes keeping it legal.

Making sex work illegal has always, always always made sex workers less safe.

Liberating consenting, coerced, and forced sex workers and trafficking victims also includes things like free food, universal healthcare etc so no one is coerced or forced into unwanted sex work, it also includes taking down traffickers not making them fucking president. Since a lot of cops are rapists and/or uphold rape culture, many of whom rape criminalized sex workers, it also includes police abolition.

What does not and never will help is criminalizing consensual porn.

Porn actors should be able to press charges if they get fucking raped on set and if you make it illegal that's a lot fucking harder. They need to be able to unionize and demand better conditions. They need to be able to speak freely about abuses. None of that is really possible or barely so if you make it fucking illegal.

And yes its bad for free speech, for sexual freedom, for healthy sexuality, for people enjoying their lives and all that matters too.

It's also not gonna fuckin help people who consider themselves porn addicts and want better control over it because speaking as an addict to substances, addictions being illegal doesnt help addicts. The "war on drugs" has been a fucking disaster. Especially when marijuana was made equivalently demonized. Lacing heroin with fentanyl should be illegal, and to do that would be easier if heroin was at least decriminalized.

It doesnt help protect people, especially children, from being victims of sexual abuse material distribution to just make all porn illegal. It gives child abusers more cover. More excuses.

Just like some cultures demonizing all sex has made sexual abusers feel more excused, made it easier for them to blame victims and obfuscated. That's how I felt as a kid raised Catholic, like sex and looking sexy was bad so I was to blame. Demonizing consensual sex, and blaming victims, hurts victims and creates rape culture.

And now you will be using law enforcement resources against Only Fans when you need to fucking release the goddamn Epstein files.

The purpose of making porn illegal is for Christians to control and punish sexuality, especially women and girls. Which only creates misery.

It also absolutely will expand beyond actual porn. They are already banning sex ed, which theyve worked to ban for - well always, they're just countering recent progress now - and HAVE SPECIFICALLY TRIED TO BAN TEACHING CONSENT.

They have also sexualized and pornified queer people and tried to ban us from like existing as inherently sexually deviant.

So... no. We should not be supporting them banning porn.

And I think every fucking time they propose it we should tell them to RELEASE THE FUCKIN EPSTEIN FILE and prosecute every motherfucker on it starting with the presidents on it.

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I hate the term "behavioral health." Me feeling depressed or anxious or whatever and wanting to feel better. is not about how someone else feels about my behavior. It's mental health.

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I just saw a beautiful male cardinal land on a deck chair, like stunningly red, perfectly lit in the sun with a proud crest, and then it took a shit on the chair and flew away. And they'll never know the beauty of the bird that shat on their chair.

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imagine having that much hate in your heart for the most suffering and thinking its virtuoudcfunny and no one would be disgusted by you for it because you dont have any decent friends and most people wont even talk to you more than they have to

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Saying Palestinians cant be starving til you could see the bone reminds me a lot of being a fat anorexic. Starving myself still hurt my body even rhough I still looked fat. Body fat actually doesnt instantly melt off easily on every adult body.

Honestly this attitude is part of the entrenched mythology of fatphobia and we are seeing another examplecof how dangerous it is in the genocide now.

The same way a fat person can just never lose enough weight to be forgiven of sin,

a starving Palestinian must lose all body fat and be half naked with visible bones bofore they are worthy of feeding.

Which is basically another way of saying that you have still not satisfied your blood lust. There is still not enough death and suffering to you.

Do yall think that when the Holocaust camps were liberated, all the skeletal figures you saw on those videos survived? No. At that point in starvation, some of them will have died after liberation of the effects of that malnutrition.

Do you think the starvation didnt kill any concentration camp victims before liberators found survivors with skeletal bodies? Of course not. People died of starvation before their bodies looked that way too. Starvation also contributed to the body weakness that prevented them from surviving other causes of death like illnesses.

America is so steeped in a culture of seeing starving oneself as a virtue, and yet never really having to face true threat of forced starvation, of hunger as a punishment for fatness and poverty, and even for misbehaving children, that we're so fucking ready to accept the cruelty of starving people to death for being brown on land we want.

And we blame the parents for their children starving too because obviously these brown people cant be normal human beings who love their children. Obviously the best thing for the parent to do is to forgo all food until they are bones, and hope the infant born to a hungry mother who never had a chance to gain much body fat doesnt become bonier faster than an adult who had some time to grow and gain a slower metabolish over 25 years, because if that happens obviously the child isnt worthy of feeding either.

Yes why are not the starving infants of Gaza lying bony without any adults anywhere near them to prove the adults starved themselves to death first?

Would even that be enough for yall to agree it is acceptable to feed Palestinians?

What was their great crime again?

Ah yes. Some members of the same race as them committed some murders.

Well, obviously no other races have committed murders. So obviously all Palestinians, guilty by their race, deserve every cruelty, are not even deserving of food.

I mean, if any white Christians ever committed murders, surely it would be correct to starve all white people.

So sure, we should wait until its too late. And then say we were always against this. Despite all the evidence. Because why should we not live in a world of depraved cruelty as sick monsters? A world where anyone may be starved as a racial punishment.

After all, to even simply say "Yes they are starving. Yes we should feed them." would be such a fucking sacrifice, right?

No, better the orphans should starve than for us to even acknowledge reality or even to wish they would be fed.

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10 Things You Should Know

About reporting sexual harassment...

1. Your employer is supposed to investigate If you report harassment, your employer is generally required, by law or internal policy, to assign someone to investigate whether you were sexually harassed. That person shouldn’t be involved in the situation, and definitely shouldn’t be the harasser.

2. Your employer has an obligation to try to keep you safe If the investigation confirms harassment happened, your employer is required to do what they can to stop the behaviour and prevent it from happening again. A good employer will talk with you to learn how to make you feel safe at work - and then take concrete steps to curb the problem, like reprimanding the harasser, moving them to a different location, or firing them.

3. That’s true even if the harasser is your boss Even if the person who harassed you is in a position of power, like a manager, executive, or the CEO, your employer is still required to investigate. The investigator should be independent and not someone who reports to the harasser.

4. Many employers ignore reports or do very little In reality, only about half of employers conduct proper investigations. Some flat-out ignore you or don’t even pretend to care, while others may express care but not actually intervene in any concrete or helpful way.

5. Punishing someone for reporting is illegal but also very common Even though it’s illegal, about one in three people who report harassment are punished afterward. Reprisals can range from being left out of meetings or losing responsibilities, to being reassigned, passed over for promotions, demoted, or even fired.

6. The reporting process can be disempowering and traumatising Reporting often involves repeating what happened, sometimes many times, to different people, and reliving an experience that may have been humiliating, frightening, or traumatising. Your identity might be shared and decisions might be made without your input. You may end up feeling like you’ve completely lost control over what happens.

7. Most people don’t report -- because they understand the risks Most people don’t report workplace sexual harassment. It’s usually because they assume the harassment wasn’t serious enough, nothing will be done, or they’ll be punished for coming forward. They are correct - there are decades of social science research proving exactly that.

8. The strongest sign your employer will shut down harassment: they’ve done it before If you’ve seen people behave badly and get held accountable, that’s a good sign. If you’ve seen people harass others and face no consequences, that’s a warning.

*Based on the incredible fount of knowledge at Aftermetoo, built after years talking with people who've experienced workplace sexual harassment, and working with lawyers, counsellors, and researchers to create clear, useful information.