#project post

[faraway-fr]

[clever-pennname]

If the red gets annoying lmk . But frankly I think I just am loving how it highlights certain parts better than just giving you guys the plain text, yanno?

I feel like it reads better this way

Also don't think too hard about it <3

[justahumblememefarmer]

Putting some positivity out there about the election

Harris has raised a record amount of money from small donors after Biden dropped out, in addition to being able to access all the funds from their campaign they already had

Trump is deeply unpopular and people have already seen the chaos that 4 years of his presidency would bring. A lot of people have been energized to vote against him, even if they're not fond of Dems

Polling showed a red wave for Republicans in the 2022 midterms, and yet they only barely had control of the House, and couldn't even agree on a Speaker for a historic amount of time. Dems also increased their lead in the Senate. Historically, midterms favor the opposition party and have lower turnout, so this is a good sign for the House in 2024

Dems are fighting back in swing states. PA and GA both put in Democratic senators in the midterms

In my home state of PA, I am from Bucks County, which is a swing county for the state. Moms for Libery took over the school board and used it to attack queer students, enact book bans, and funnel money to themselves and the superintendent. At the most recent election, Dems turned out and took back every single open seat, ousting the board and superintendent. Worry about similar takeovers in surrounding school boards also increased turnout

Abortion rights are on the ballot in many states, which has been a winning issue for Dems and increased turnout

Republicans were prepared to attack a feeble old Biden who isn't the strongest speaker. I don't think they expected him to actually drop out, and they now have to put an 78 year old convicted felon up against a prosecutor

Awareness of Project 2025 and it's contents has entered the public sphere and is being much more openly discussed on the news. While Trump has insisted he has nothing to do with it, most of the authors worked in his administration and Trump has worked closely with the Heritage foundation

Feel free to add more things on this thread, but the most important thing is to get out there and VOTE

Vote for President

Vote for Senators

Vote for Congresspeople

Vote in your local elections

Vote Blue down ballot

[mangozic]

my dead goth son and his friendly neighborhood personified concept of insanity

[kiryuing]

[emberfaye]

You know what?

I love you, fics that take months to update. I click on the newest chapter and have no memory of this place and get to go back some chapters and rediscover how much i love everything about this story.

I love you, fics that take years to update. I think of you fondly, and know your names, go search for you and see an update from this year and scream, diving in uncaring of any missed details (i will finish the update and read you in reverse because this is a treat you have bestowed)

I love you, fics that probably will never update again. Thank you for being a roman empire for my mind, thank you for teaching me about the ephemeral fandom experience, for inspiring a thousand million what if-s, for being a comfort read and a nostalgia read and a reread.

I love you fic writers, who jump into projects and stories with enthusiasm. I love you when you succeed in pumping out those chapters and that love doesn't go away when you stop.

I love you fic writers who post and then get in your own head and never feel confident enough to update, whether it's at all or whether it's just that one story.

I love you fic writers, who have a fandom or media hurt you to the point of abandoning or having a hard time with their WIPs.

I love you fic writers, who lose interest or have life changes or illness or bad memory. Thank you for being part of the fandom, a core part of the fandom. Thank you for the time spent in the fandom.

I love you, fic writers who try out something new and then stop. You're so valid.

I love you, WIP fics that may or may not ever get finished. Thank you for brightening my day in the way only you could have.

[hapuriainen]

Project Voltage Mikus.

Types:

grass, fire, water

rock (x2)

normal, ghost, bug

steel, fairy

flying, electric, psychic

poison, ground, ice

dragon, dark, fighting

[frenchonionsoop]

HUZZAH almost 10 months in the making I present my biggest project so far!! My new bsd stormbringer animatic is UP NOW GO WATCH IT

[panstarry]

heads up: this games charity bundle was finally approved on itch.io! it opens this friday, april 12th, and will run for a week. all proceeds will go to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

you can check out the bundle on itch.io and follow @vgforpalestine on twitter for more updates!

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EDIT: as of april 20th, 2024 this bundle is now live!!

[bananna-threads]

Hand embroidered, self drafted, birch tree inspired buttonup shirt.

[faraway-fr]

I want this dragon!!! (Or a pair)

[chiptrillino-art]

something stranger and more wonderful

(ID in ALT text)

my art for @faux-fires (ao3 Link) fic "something stranger and more wonderful"

beta red by @ranilla-bean (ao3 Link) for this years @zukkabigbang2024 event. its truly a beautiful fic. Keeping you on your toes while reading. making you worry about sokka exposed to the whims of nature and zuko, all alone.

big thank you to reikah and rana for all the handholding during this project! And stoping me form overthinking details.

[clever-pennname]

Memory Recall

Limbo Prompt first draft! Prompt from [post link]

Summary: Sidney is having troubles remembering somebody important.

Content warnings: Amnesia and memory loss, minor (accidental) self harm, distressing thought patterns, repetitive thinking/phrasing

Sidney trailed off from her diary entry, something she had been struggling to keep up with for the last few months. It was supposed to help her memory recall, her therapist said, though he still didn't understand the fact that her memory issues weren't, normal ones. Sure she was traumatized, deeply, but he didn't understand when she tried to explain the first dozen times that it is impossible to remember somebody who doesn't exist anymore, no matter how hard she tried.

OCT 27th - 2053

“Daniel had another episode about him today, much to his credit though he handled it a lot better than the last few times. I couldn't quite figure out what set him off again, though I usually never can anymore. God knows what he's seen, I probably couldn't begin to understand it all even though I was there…”

Remember someone who…

She felt something in her brain zap again, her eyesight going blurry as she stared down at the page in front of her, her right hand twitching and dropping the ballpoint pen. She couldn't hear as it rolled on the white desk, nor could she hear as it hit the floor with a clink.

What was she writing about again? She blinked rapidly, urging her eyes to focus, knowing the signs of what was happening before it even fully started. She picked at the skin on the side of her thumb with her index finger, a habit she had been trying to break but just couldn't seem to in her worst moments. The pain grounded her a touch.

As she leaned in and zeroed in on the page, she reread her entry over and over. An episode, right, Daniel had a flashback. She could recall that just fine, as much as it hurt her to. She hated seeing him in pain, especially over this- What was this? What was it he had an episode over again? She reread again: “Him”. Who is him? She bit her lip hard, wringing it through her teeth methodically as she attempted every memory recall strategy she could remember at the moment. Everything her therapist taught her.

What were the facts of the situation? Daniel lost something, somebody, she knows that. She sees it every day. He misses them- Him- So much it hurts just to watch. He says his name a lot- Why could she never remember his name? Daniel says she knew him, knew him well, too. 

She sighed loudly in frustration, balling up her fists so tight her nails dug into her palms before she got an idea. She started flipping back through past entries, trying to see if she had left any clues for herself. Dates flew by her eyes, she could remember remembering, that's what was making her so angry. She knew it was in here, somewhere. Somewhere in her diary, somewhere in her mind, so why couldn't she just- 

“Fuck..!” She cussed as if forcing out a gust of air, her arm swiping the book off her desk to the ground. She had to relax, but it was on the tip of her tongue. His name, she just wanted his name. She squeezed her eyes shut, her hands grabbing at the hair that fell down by her temples and tugging just hard enough for her eye to start watering. 

Everytime she tried to think, she drew a blank. She could just barely see it- See him- But his face was just a smear, the details about his appearance fuzzy. Who even were they to her? Were they important? Were they friends? 

It was like a shadow lurked in her memory, an outline of a stranger at her side throughout the worst parts of her life, she could feel the ghost of a gaze, their gaze, his gaze? When they were beside Daniel, when she met him, when she… She trailed off, the train in her mind derailing as she remembered meeting Daniel. Was there actually anyone else there? Was it just the two of them? Had it always just been them?

Her eyes slowly opened, her vision fuzzy from how hard she had been squeezing her eyes shut. She let out a slow breath, one she didn't know she had been holding. 

Why was her heart racing again? She unclenched her fists, the hair that had been balled up came out in crinkled clumps, slightly damp from the sweat of her palms. She smoothed it out methodically, trying to think back to the last few minutes of her life. She had been writing a diary entry, yeah? That's what she told Daniel she had been doing. So then where was her…? Oh, huh. She glanced around, spotting the notebook open on the floor, spine upwards, the pages bending awkwardly. Shoot… She grabbed it, swiping up the abandoned pen in the process. She flipped through the pages, scanning for todays date to see if she had already written. Once her eyes landed on it, she skimmed the passage. 

“Daniel had another episode about [][][][][] today, much to his credit though he handled it a lot better than the last few times. I couldn't quite figure out what set him off again, though I usually never can anymore. God knows what he's seen, I probably couldn't begin to understand it all even though I was there…”

Huh, weird. 

She closed the notebook and stood up, shaking her head a little as if to physically clear the fog from her brain. She better go find Daniel to make sure he's still doing alright. The smudge on the page in her diary already leaving her mind as she left the room. She needs to stop getting so sidetracked, she thought with a huff and a small smile. She can't keep doing this to Daniel. 

[iknityounot]

(Long post, sorry y'all)

A little more than two years ago now, my grandmother passed away. She and my grandpa had moved down to my home town a few years before so we could take care of them. I brought them groceries once a week, helped them write checks, fixed tvs, and found lost things. I was really close with my grandma.

In addition to her hilarious personality and dry wit, one of my favorite things about her was that she was a painter and a crafter like me! She used to crochet, and I took her to the craft store a couple of times so she could get more yarn and books on crochet. But her arthritis and the shaking in her hands kept getting worse, so she eventually had to stop.

She kept her most recent project, a granny square blanket, safely packed away in a plastic bin. She told all of us she was going to finish it one day.

Her hands never got better, and when she got sick, and we found out it was cancer, she rapidly deteriorated.

After she passed, I went to work helping my mom clean out my grandparents apartment so we could move my grandpa in with her. In our frantic cleaning, I found that bin again:

DOZENS of granny squares, dozens of half used skeins. I asked my mom what she wanted me to do with it, and she said she didn't care. I set it aside and later took it home.

Maybe a month later, that tumblr post about the Loose Ends Project was going around. It felt like a sign--I was never going to learn to crochet in order to finish my grandmother's blanket. But they might be able to help!

So I filled out the interest form. They got back to me SUPER quick. And maybe 2 weeks later, I was paired with volunteer in my state (only 2 hours away!) and the box of yarn, granny squares, and my grandmother's crochet hook were in the mail. That was at the end of January this year.

Over the next couple of months, my "finisher" emailed me regular updates on her progress, and asked me questions on my preferences for how she constructed the final blanket.

At the end of August, the blanket was done!

I had always intended the blanket to be a gift for my mother. So I cleaned it up, put it in the only bag I had big enough to fit it, and drove to my mom's. I gave the blanket to her and she was gobsmacked. I explained to her all about Loose Ends, and how someone volunteered to finish the piece for us. She was speechless. (I was quite pleased with this, because I am not the best at giving gifts, so this was a pretty exciting reaction!)

She said that it was the most thoughtful gift she had ever been given. She said "your grandma would love this". To which I replied, "yeah, I know she really wanted to finish it a couple of years ago". But that was when my mom dropped the bomb of a century on me--she told me that my grandma had started making those granny squares OVER 30 YEARS AGO. She had started the blanket when my grandpa was staying in the hospital, but that was back when my mom was younger than I am now! My grandma had packed them all away, planning on finishing it, when my grandpa was sent home from the hospital. Then it went from house to house, from condo in Chicago to their apartment in my hometown. All that time and my grandma had wanted to finish it, but couldn't. First because she was busy, then because she forgot how to do it, then because of her arthritis, and then because of the cancer. My mom said she had given up on expecting my grandma to finish it. 

She said I brought a piece of her childhood with her mom out of the past.

And really, all of this is to say, if you have seen or heard about the Loose Ends Project and have an uncompleted project or piece from a loved one who has passed away--these are your people. They were so kind and treated my project with such care. That box probably would have been found by my own grandkids one day if I hadn't heard about Loose Ends.

Five stars, absolutely worth it!

(From what I understand, you can sign up to volunteer too! If you have time to share, it might be worth checking out!)

[reasonsforhope]

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

[factual-fantasy]

Ever since I posted my FNAF 10th Anniversary drawing, I've been thinking about drawing the OG gang in some incorrect quote prompts. Just for the fun of it! :0 I was bored and in some pain tonight so I thought hey, why not give it a go now? <XD

For context, this quote comes from a Sky: Children of the light play session with two friends of mine. Freddy and Foxy's lines are quotes from me. My phone isn't super great at picking up my speech-to-text.. 😅