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kink shaming is dead. I respect people with foot fetishes more than the president of the united states of America

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Watching TikTok try and rewrite fandom history by saying fandom culture was created by teenage girls makes me eye twitch to an extent I’ve never felt it twitch before. The middle aged women printing out Spirk erotica to share with each other in the 1900s did not die for this!!!! How dare you erase our important historic moments!!! You would be nowhere without the 30 year old women who dedicated their free time to making these spaces happen. Put some respect on their names!!!!

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For those who aren't aware, UK/Canada/Australia are pushing anti-pornography, whorephobia and increased internet surveillance really hard right now because the US opened the doors for that.

Sex workers in particular tried and are still trying very hard to fight this shit by the US government (with SESTA/FOSTA and currently with KOSA, SCREEN, and IODA) but this is exactly why they've been sounding the alarm.

Settler colonies in particular are desperately trying to thrust themselves as far into fascism as possible and all they need is one of them to make a big enough move to open the doors and make an example for the rest of them to further that goal. (Much like the UK and transphobia!)

This is why, in order to successfully keep up with the issue of payment processors trying to control what you're allowed to buy and censoring porn, sex work, and LGBTQ+ people in general, you also want to be keeping an eye on different bills, organizations and settler colonies.

(And keep in mind how they use their power as settler colonies to push colonies and even "ex" colonies into doing it first and/or following their lead!)

It's actually the US/UK governments in particular that have pushed payment processors into believing they could so blatantly and easily censor and control people's payments. So targeting them hard is a good idea.

Especially if you live in any of those places and have the opportunity to make calls, go to protests, organize, spread information, etc, do it! Not just for the mastercard stuff but for whatever fascist bullshit you can.

Link with more info and resources on the topic.

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I almost felt a little relieved, but more than ten large rockets shook Gaza, as Netanyahu said, he will penetrate

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"They go to SEX CLUBS and pretend to be DOGS!"

Yeah well you go to church every Sunday and pretend to be a good person

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every year i beg the month of august to bring the change it usually does in a less gut punching way and every year it delivers another gut punch

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After the game.

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genuinely regret not committing to the full 2014 soft grunge at Dashcon 2

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seeing a group of cool alt queer people chilling together in public feels like this

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Merch: Tariffs, Tracking, Transfers, Oh My!

Hi all,

To start off this email I want to say how grateful I am for your patience in all of this. Merch shipment has been delayed much more than I wanted it to be, and I’m very thankful to say that things have finally made some progress. Here’s a little update for you on what’s been going on.

Before we start: VODs!

I know some of you clicked in here because you didn’t order merch but want to know when you’re getting VOD access. My best answer is before September. Initially we wanted to remain committed to our accessibility mandate and offer closed captioning of all the videos upon release, but oh my god that takes so much time. The goal now is to release all the videos unlisted to our YouTube channel with or without captioning by the end of the month and update captions as soon as they are available. We will indicate whether or not CCs are available in the video titles.

Want to help out with captioning? Click here to sign up via Google Form!

Tracking Numbers

So far we’ve mailed out a few hundred orders, and more have been packed but not yet stamped. Some of you may have already received your orders. Tracking numbers are a little finicky with our shipping provider, but we hope to have those rolled out by the end of this week.

If your order contains only some combination of buttons and/or stickers, then we opted to use Canada Post (see explanation below under tariffs) which does not offer tracking services. You should receive your order via a standard envelope in ~1 week within Canada, 2-3 weeks USA, and 3-4 weeks internationally. If you do not receive your order within this standard time frame after this email was sent, please email us at organizers@dashcontwo.com.

Address Changes

We are capable of changing addresses for shipping labels right up until they are printed. There may be an extra cost leveed if you move farther away from Canada; i.e. Canada —> USA, USA —> EU, or EU —> international non-EU. We will work out a solution via email; message us at organizers@dashcontwo.com.

Timeline

We want all of our orders shipped before Sept 1st, so that is the timeline we can promise. In future our estimates should be a lot more accurate, and we sincerely apologize for the delays. Currently, we are still waiting on a fresh batch of shoelaces to finish production (the turn around time is 4 weeks!) and anticipate a lot of orders being processed this weekend, so if you have any changes that need to be made to your order, make them before Saturday Aug 9!

Refunds

We completely understand being unsatisfied with our production given the heavy delays. If you would like to refund your order, please message organizers@dashcontwo.com with your order number. We will refund the merchandise as well as the shipping cost.

Refunds can be processed right up until a shipping label is printed (and therefore paid for). If we cannot process a refund but you are still unsatisfied, we can work something out via email. We sincerely appreciate your patience with us :)

Tariffs

You may know already, but Trump has recently upped tariffs on non-CUSMA Canadian goods from 25% to 35% and, more importantly, has issued an executive order dismantling the De Minimus exemption. All DashCon 2 merchandise qualifies for tariff exemption under CUSMA and is well under the de minimus threshold, but given the United State’s current relationship to law, the DashCon 2 team has chosen to err on the side of caution.

As such, we are working hard to have everything shipped before the De Minimus exemption ends on August 29th. However, we expect most items to ship out weeks before that. Additonally, in order to be as secure as possible, we have opted to use Canada Post lettermail whenever we can. Lettermail is small and (fiscally) insignificant enough that it should arrive at its destination without incident.

Lexicon CUSMA: Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement. Renegotiated free trade agreement that replaced NAFTA. Called USMCA in America. De Minimus Exemption: imported goods valued under $800 USD are exempt from duties. Limited to one package per person per day.

Thank you for continuing to support and believe in us. We couldn’t do this without you.

One more thing. DashCon 3?

Stay tuned...

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me when my disabilities disable me:

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What tumblr fails to grasp is that I’m not interested in community groups for the things I like because fans of my favorite things are often very wrong about them

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— Mary Lambert, Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across; "You Are with the Wrong Person" (via lunamonchtuna)

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I wonder how the dashcon 2 organizers feel knowing that they've like, permanently changed the legacy of dashcon