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https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/irs-complaint-process-tax-exempt-organizations

3. Nature of violation

Directors/Officers/Persons are using income/assets for personal gain

Organization is engaged in commercial, for-profit business activities

Income/Assets are being used to support illegal or terrorist activities

Organization is involved in a political campaign

Organization is engaged in excessive lobbying activities

Organization refused to disclose or provide a copy of Form 990

Organization failed to report employment, income or excise tax liability properly

Organization failed to file required federal tax returns and forms

Organization engaged in deceptive or improper fundraising practices

Other (describe)

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fuck it. be creative even if you never really *make* anything. write out plot synopses of stories and then move on. design OCs you’ll never use. make mood boards and concept art and don’t do anything with them. life’s too short to forget everything that inspired you and creation doesn’t have to be “complete” to be worth the time you put into it.

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Okay, now I’m REALLY pissed

https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/z9apih/sudowrites_scraping_and_mining_ao3_for_its/

The Elongated Muskrat is scraping works on AO3 for profit.

Hate to do it, but my works are now locked to registered AO3 users only, and will remain that way until and unless we get word that the site administrators (who I’m told ARE already aware of this, please don’t flood them with reports) have figured out a way to prevent it.

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@giftober 2022 | Day 24: A Duo/Dynamic

You know, I wish I'd known you in Click's class. Yeah? Really, I do. Maybe you could've helped me pass the class. Maybe instead of being here, I'd be on my way to college right now. And I would have no idea that there were evil Russians beneath our feet, and I would be happily slinging ice cream with some other schmuck. Gotta say, though, I liked being your schmuck. It was fun while it lasted. It was.

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HAPPY RONANCETOBER! I prolly won’t do all prompts but i will try my best to keep up ! Oct 1: Upside Down ( This is a challenge started by the splendid: https://lionydoorin.tumblr.com/post/696675180069666816/ronancetober ! and is for all kinds of fan creation)

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I have a few thoughts about nudity in the first season of Interview with the Vampire to share.  One of the refreshing things about this series is that the sex scenes were filmed with an audience that is attracted to men in mind.  That’s a fairly big departure from mainstream queer representation historically.  For example, in 2004′s Brokeback Mountain there is more nudity in Ennis and Jack’s sex scenes with their respective wives than in their scene together, and it’s the wives’ bodies that are on display.  It was not unusual in that respect.  Sex scenes were shot with straight male audiences in mind, even when the main relationship was between two men.

The sex scenes involving women in IwtV show the women’s breasts for a couple of seconds, but the nudity the camera lingers on is Sam Reid’s.  A lot of it. Often.  In the scene where Louis catches him in bed with Antoinette, she covers up immediately while Lestat just sits there, a sheet draped between his legs to hide his penis (This is AMC. after all, not A24).  There is no doubt Lestat is naked in that bed; his bare hip and thigh are an invitation to desire, not only for Louis but the audience.  Even so, Lestat is not objectified. He is a subject of desire here and elsewhere, and his nudity is not accompanied by disempowerment. Even as this scene continues, and an angry, horny Louis throws him around like a rag doll, it seems to be going exactly according to Lestat’s plans. 

This is one of two scenes where Lestat is completely naked while Louis is mostly or fully clothed.  We never see the reverse, and in scenes where both men are naked we see more of Reid’s body than Jacob Anderson’s.  The levitation/making scene is shot in such a way that Anderson’s body is mostly hidden by Reid’s.  This choice is not simply practical. There is a long, painful history of naked Black bodies being objectified, both in filmmaking and in Western culture generally.  Adding to these the racism Louis experience in the series and the fact that he is frequently abused by Lestat, Anderson’s nudity would carry  baggage that Reid’s does not.  It would be difficult to not make it objectifying or exploitative. Instead, Louis’s sexiness is presented through other means, such as Lestat’s insatiable, maddening desire for him.

It’s clear from these and other representational choices that there were Black and queer people in the writers’ room.  There is such thought and care put not only into making these characters compelling but also showing consideration to minority audiences that have often been ignored.  This is what sensitive, nuanced diversity in television looks like.

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#when life imitates art

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Y’all, the balcony scene sc1 ep7 is the exact same as the dinner scene in Mizumono.

Change my mind

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022- ) In Throes of Increasing Wonder… (1.01) || The Thing Lay Still (1.07)

I had planned to make a new life for myself in St. Louis. That was to be my destiny. And now I know I was right. Only it turns out the saint is not a city, but a handsome man with a most agreeable disposition.

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Devastatingly accurate

#Every Steddie fanfic… (insp x/x)

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We always talk about Eddie’s bullet belt, but we never talk about where it came from. We always talk about Eddie’s bullet belt and throw around headcanons that Steve got it for him, or Robin, since he didn’t go inside War Zone and couldn’t have got it for himself. We always talk about Eddie’s bullet belt, but we never talk about the fact that it was Erica who got it for him. Erica, who had known Eddie all of five days. Erica, who had only really spent three of those five actually interacting with Eddie. Erica, who, despite everything— Vecna curse, upside down nonsense, false murder charges, the general ‘Freak’ rep —not only really comes to like Eddie and wants to help clear his name, but also comes to know him well enough to take one look at a bullet belt while shopping for the quote-unquote necessities to say, “Yeah, no, that long-haired little metal dude is gonna eat this shit up. Gotta get it. Steve’s wallet can cry later,” and be absolutely right when she did. They might be going to war, but they can at least accessorize… Erica Sinclair, you are a genius, and we bow to you. 

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sh- sh- shotgun 🚬

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Louis bringing Lestat to his family functions like:

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Yes.

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Had to draw Storm's soon to be new punk costume. Designed by the amazing Russell Dauterman.

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‘Hello, Steve. Miss me?.’

Tell me, tell me the lies you’re telling him when you Run away ‘cause I wanna know Cause I, I’m sure it’s killing him to find That you run to me when he lets you go 'Cause I’m burning, burning, burning up with fire So - come turn me on and turn the flames up higher - Wild Child W.A.S.P