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come get your wretched DinahBabs

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i need to be knee deep in the passenger seat eating her out tbh

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beautiful aesthetic post with lush greenery and warm light

is it kudzu

it's fucking kudzu

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Orth rides the subway home, letting himself unwind after a long day at the office with some undone buttons and his favourite tunes.

Steal His Look:

Rumpled Suit Purchased from Nearest Retailer Ten Years Ago

Gifted Tie

Seasons of Hieron, The Interlude Official Anime Merch: Marielda Burns T-Shirt

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🍂❄️🌸Applications Announcement!🌸❄️🍂

Hello Friends at the Table fans! We are very excited to announce:

A Chaotic Cataloging: A Seasons of Hieron Fanzine

Applications for #HieronZine contributors will be open from Saturday May 4th until Saturday June 1st.

Introducing the Mod Team:

🌸Muna🌙 @peacereturnedtothevalley - Head Mod + Socials

🥐Katie✒️ @KatieDiek - Production

🍷Lee🐇 @imperialhare - Finance

🎭Avi🗡️ @oziads - Design & Art

🎨Annie🐭 @dancy-nrew - Art

🍊Julian📚 @burins - Writing

🦉Danny✨ @suedeuxnim - Writing

We're super excited to get this project going, hope you are too!

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when palisade zine happens someday there will be a page that kills you

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this is the hardest any single image has ever gone

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drawings from Manhattan beach botanical garden

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thinking about superbat confession where Clark has known for years, because he can literally hear Bruce's heartbeat, but he's been waiting for Bruce to say something. he knows. he's known the whole time, but he also knows Bruce doesn't want him to know, that Bruce is constantly turning away from and shoving down the evidence of his own desire. and maybe it's selfish to keep this to himself, not just to want to be wanted, but to wish that Bruce wanted to want him. to wait for Bruce to tell Clark not as an admission of some shameful secret but as something that brings him joy.

Clark (despite being an alien from outer space who can fly and shoot lasers from his eyes) has a streak of pragmatism. he knows the man he fell in love with. he keeps his own counsel, and he waits. he listens to the triphammer of Bruce's heart. Bruce will come to him when he's ready.

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i think about this comic at least once a week

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Happy Birthday, Clark Kent (my best friend, Clark Kent!!!)

Inspired by @januariat ‘s incredibly tender art of Clark in his apartment. It’s stuck with me for a year- something about him allowing himself to be soft and human. To take the time for himself to care for his plants, to make a home cooked meal, to stand in a golden patch of light while humming along to the radio. It’s just… him.

So, to pay homage to his birthday (found-in-the-corn-day?), I give you a little tender moment as Clark, in his shitty Metropolis shoebox apartment!

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being a dyke is one of the most beautiful things this world has to offer. has anyone heard of this

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saw a post the other day full of people complaining about helping older people use computers, about how clueless they can be, how frustrating it is to have to tell them basics like where to click, exactly what to type, how some people just never seem to get it. then an addition was someone who works in a library sharing a story of a ninety-something woman who picked it up instantly. it’s not difficult, this elderly woman said! wow heartwarming.

i’m here to say that plenty of older and disabled and otherwise marginalised people do not know how to use computers and in some cases will find it very difficult if not impossible to learn to use them. for many people it is difficult. it can be insurmountable. we should be fighting for a world where vulnerable people who are not computer literate can use computers with assistance when they want to, but where they do not need to use computers, ever. this is a serious access issue as so much government paperwork is moving to being online only. your frustration at working a job that likely overworks and underpays you to help people use these computers - please think before turning it on the disenfranchised and vulnerable people who rely on you for assistance and resources.

it’s an annoyance for you? then think about why is it that governments habitually move the resources that vulnerable people need to live to online-only when they know as well as you and i do that the digital divide is real. think about how intentionally difficult governments and agencies make it to access forms and paperwork and everything else that is needed to claim such a small amount of money as people currently get when they are out of work and trying to claim benefits, or on allowances for refugees, etc. how much are governments dedicated to taking away people’s dignity and autonomy by swapping to a system that millions of people do not have access to without going into a public library and asking for help, if there’s even anyone there who is able to or allowed to help? i can get people set up with email and find websites for them but im not even allowed to help with sensitive forms - i can only do what i can, you know. i wish it was more.

before i started this job i thought of myself as impatient. i’m not going to tell you any stories in detail because my library patrons didn’t consent to being A Teaching Moment. but i have requests from “difficult” patrons every day. i take a deep breath and if i don’t have a queue, i try to help. i smile and say “don’t worry” when someone is apologising over and over because they were never taught this and they are stressed out and it doesn’t make sense to them. not everyone grew up with neopets and Hotmail. it makes you no better than them if you did.

i’m not perfect but i’m trying. just… think about it, next time you roll your eyes because another old lady doesn’t know how to use gmail, even though you’ve already shown her what to click. ask if your library has thought about seeing up dedicated sessions for helping people use computers if they need assistance (maybe it’ll take some of the work away from you and give you more breathing space). make leaflets telling people where they can go nearby for help with computers - maybe some local charities or non-profits have drop-in sessions. join campaigns for easier access, for letting people who can’t use computers do what they need to without needing to find some way to get online. all of these are more useful in holding solidarity than in just being frustrated that another person in their seventies, eighties, nineties, struggles to use a computer.

a couple more notes of things that i think about a lot when it comes to computer access at the library that might not occur to people who don’t routinely help people out with basic computer stuff:

2-factor authentication is the devil. i understand the intention behind it and cyber security is important and difficult! but 2-factor authentication in practice locks out and disenfranchises vulnerable people every day, makes them unable to access their emails and everything else on the web that depends on their email, makes them unable to access their data and government portals, and makes them even more vulnerable than governments already conspire to make them. plenty of people just do not understand how 2FA works. it doesn’t matter how many times the google website says : look at your phone and click on this number. or whatever. if somebody else is not there to tell them what to do — if they haven’t recently had to change their phone number, as many vulnerable people might have had to do — they will not be able to do it.

google have recently been selling chromeboxes to public libraries (and schools) cheap. chromeboxes in public libraries are also the devil. on a windows PC loaded with word, lots of people are happy and able to do what they need to do. the problem comes when they have to log in to a google account just to access a fucking word processor. it’s a scandal how many people are locked out of access to something as simple as a word processor unless they have a google or Microsoft account. we are talking people who don’t want email accounts, who just want to type up a letter to send in the post. Every time I ask online for a good alternative I get something extremely tech-y or like fucking online textpad. we just need a good accessible word clone that runs in a web browser like Word XP. It would make a lot much easier. And yet!

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if nobody got me i know @Friends_Table got me