#it's a start

[coochiequeens]

Good news for Women’s sports!

By WDTV News Staff Published: May. 2, 2024

CLARKSBURG, W.Va (WDTV) - Judge Thomas A. Bedell has granted a preliminary injunction, allowing the four students who sued the Harrison County Board of Education to continue playing after their protest on April 18th.

The ruling came after more than three hours of testimony from school officials, a parent, and two of the five girls who participated in the protest.

Judge Bedell addressed the court to specify this hearing was not addressing the issue of transgender athletes in sports. Instead, it was focused on whether there was a violation of due process and if the school prohibited free speech.

Much of the plaintiffs’ case hinged on whether an unwritten rule could be enforced. According to Lincoln Middle School Track Coach Dawn Riestenberg, she adopted the “scratch rule” four years ago, one year after taking on coaching the team.

According to Riestenberg, if a student opted out of participating in an event voluntarily, they wouldn’t be allowed to compete in that same event at the next meet. Importantly, that rule was never written down, nor given to the student athletes in writing.

Instead, Riestenberg testified that she tells the student athletes of her scratch rule at the beginning of the season. The two students testifying disputed that claim.

A lawyer with the Harrison County Board of Education claimed that the students’ free speech rights were not infringed upon by following the scratch rule. Multiple people testified that there were other forms of protesting the issue of transgender athletes in sports throughout the season.

Riestenberg, LMS Principal Lori Scott, and a student all testified that multiple students wore “SWS” shirts -- short for “save women’s sports” -- at meets and were not reprimanded. They only reason, the BOE’s lawyer argued, that the students were not allowed to participate in the next meet was because they violated their coach’s scratch rule.

In the end, Judge Bedell said that both sides made good points, but was going to grant the plaintiff’s preliminary injunction motion.

That means the students will be allowed to compete in their next (and final) two matches of the season, regardless of whether they protest by violating Coach Riestenberg’s scratch rule.

All parties agreed that should the scratch rule want to be enforced in the future, it would need to be in writing.

Riestenberg and Scott committed to making that happen for next season.

Attorney General Patrick Morrisey issued the following response on Judge Bedell’s ruling.

“I want to say to these students and their parents: I have your backs. You saw unfairness and you expressed your disappointment and sacrificed your personal performances in a sport that you love; exercised your constitutionally protected freedom of speech and expression. These girls didn’t disrupt anything when they protested. They should be commended, not punished. We need to teach them that it is noble to stand firm in their beliefs and address their grievances within the protections guaranteed by our constitution. They need not to be silent. They have won by having their voices heard. So glad we were able to weigh in on behalf of these courageous young girls and that they are able to play.”

[naomiknight-17]

Day One of Pekoe's exposure therapy

She hid under the bed in the guest room, so I chilled on the bed and talked to her gently. Figured it would be a few days before she was brave enough to come out

But after 30 minutes or so, she slunk out from under the bed and trotted over to the game room where Duck was chillin.

I sat up just now and she retreated to Duck's bedroom across the hall

See the lump?

That's Pekoe

[omegamagus]

BLENDER GREASE PENCIL LET'S GOOOOOOOO I followed a tutorial on youtube and made a thing! Tutorial was by Kevandram and can be found here!

[nanocupcakes]

Midnight Grace doodle to join Alanna in my sketchbook <3

[gumbuk9]

have a alien seal

i can't draw.

but this might've helped

i think i should take this opportunity to ask people to send me more images to study, that would be pretty cool, iv'e been trying to get more comfortable with drawing lately.

[twinsoulvisionary]

A list of all my fan fics and other stuff.. so far.

Welcome!

If you have landed here, be prepared to have some fun!

Letting everyone know, for now I only post my written fan fics on AO3, so if your into Star War Rebels / Kalluzeb & Art / Rebel’s Jedi Temple Guard Art  / Cosplay Builds and a wee bit of Star Trek TOS Art - see fan fic links in the pinned post below and the rest in the Tumblr feed thread... more coming soon.

1) The Last Fear / SWR’s Kalluzeb / AU / Human Zeb

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37543219/chapters/93705748

2)  The Hunter and Healer Series - Part 1:  

A Destiny Stolen / SWR’s Kalluzeb / AU / Human Zeb

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43352232/chapters/108977013

3 ) The Hunter and Healer Series - Part 2: 

For You I Shall Wait An Eternity - The Hunter and The Healer / SWR’s Kalluzeb / AU / Human Zeb

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41377473/chapters/103760076

4 ) The Hunter and Healer Series - Part 3:

 A Descension Into Misery / SWR’s Kalluzeb / AU / Human Zeb

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42781161/chapters/107469918

 5 ) A one shot up and coming! / SWR’s Kalluzeb / Canon

Yes, there is much MORE.. I will add and format better as I go along.

[theblackestofsuns]

"It's A Start"

Perla La Loca (2007)

Jaime Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books

[anonymergremlin]

Good morning from Germany.

I finally had a really really really good sleep and the solution was...

Taking my anti allergy pills before bed.

...

Well, I am finally feeling fit for once!

[possibly-bees]

Underwear pics anyone?

[adamparrishdyke]

category 9 bus encounter

[naomiknight-17]

I gave Tim a little bowl of water and he lapped at it a bit and I have never been so relieved to see a cat drink water I stg

[androidcharles]

I'm going to go ahead and VOMIT as much as of this story idea out of my head as possible because if I don't it's gonna rattle in my head forever and ever and I'm not gonna be able to rest easy.

ANYWAY, remember the Valiant Hero ending... wait don't touch that dial! OK, so I always go on and on about my Charles is an android AU, but what about this? Charles barely survives the explosion, his body is pretty badly damaged, but what isn't damage is easily repairs. He ends up spending one whole week repairing himself with wrecked parts that have somehow made their way to the moon...

AND SO for like one and a half months, after trying to repair a very OBVIOUSLY broken transmission device, he uses it as a video journal to collect his thoughts and hopefully leave it as a memoriam for him in case no one EVER finds him and he just ends up completely and utterly dying.

BUT SURPRISE! He's not alone! Amelia is there! And literally pissed off because wow, you don't remember me, wtf the fuck? She just as badly damaged as he is, but he ends up helping her repair herself because she didn't do such a good job. A for about a week or so, there's a sort of awkward and malicious air around them until Amelia finds out that Charles is the one who wrecked the Toppat Space Station. SURPRISE! She's pissed off because HALF OF HER FAMILY was killed in that explosion and she's like "here's a line in the floor if you cross it, I'm going to kill you."

One mental breakdown later though, they're best friends! And they start to work together to hopefully get a proper rocket up in the air so they can possibly go home and see their friends and family members when they run into ANOTHER GUY who was abandoned on the moon. He was actually a CCC test subject/intern that very unfortunately got caught in a horrible accident that left the crew that was taking care of him dead. He was helping with a CCC project on the moon, but I'm not going into details about here, all that matter is they HAVE A NEW FRIEND!

And also Jaques is there because his painting is magic and managed to reassemble itself after the crash and the CCC intern is actually magic too and manages to "half break" the seal on Jaques' painting, so he can move around, it's just his torso and stuff.

And they all work together to try to get off the moon and back home and shenanigans ensue and such and there's a lot of heartwarming junk.

Yeah...

[jacegem]

Hold the phone I'm actually learning, this is unprecedented.

At least., I'm kinda learning. I'll learn to draw different angles eventually. But cloth fold practice!

[boobpancakes]

hold on lemme cook

[grey-viridian]

[wordnerdworld]

Getting Stuff Done List (where I list the stuff I get done)

Booked my shuttle

Updated my account info

Did household laundry

Pulled out Fall/Halloween decor tubs

Put out Halloween clothes and towels