#slawcs

[insecateur]

slawcs shitpost bc i wanted to doodle

[ursamajorgamma]

A short slawcs song comic!! Please read it please read it please read it that fic changed me

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i HATE that i've actually come up with a coleslaw recipe that i like because i am NOTHING if not a serial coleslaw hater but at least i can make fun of it by calling it soy slawce instead of coleslaw

[hemansha-mga2024mi5017]

Assignment

-Creating a character based on the results of the MBTI test, and using a character question sheet to explore their story.

For this assignment, I decided to expand the lore of my Dungeons and Dragons character.

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She was someone I created for fun since my friends and I were having a Percy Jackson inspired campaign. Her lore was very thoroughly discussed, but I didn't even have a name for her. So I used this exercise for the purpose of fleshing out the more shallow details.

First, I used this template to roughly plan it out.

Then, I used the questionnaire provided by the lecturer to further plan her story.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN STORY -Cressida Annesley was born somewhere in Britain to her British father and Sri Lankan mother in 1831 (during the Regency era in Britan, and the British colonial era in Sri lanka). -She was named Cressida (A Greek name that means Golden, a slight foreshadowing to her later pledging herself to the Greek goddess, Artemis). -However, her mother, who missed her motherland and was regretting her marriage to the British Earl by that time, called her by the name "Vihara". I chose this name as a nod to the historical figure "Vihaara Mahaa Devi", a princess who was sacrificed. It is said that she was sacrificed to the ocean to prevent the ocean from flooding inwards; a curse inflicted upon her kingdom due to the sins of her father. She was also the mother of the famous king of Anuradhapura: King Dutugamunu. https://alt.army.lk/slawc/si/si-flag

I wanted to foreshadow an act she commits later on in the story. -Her mother often spoke to her in Sinhala, despite never getting to visit her homeland. She secretly bonded with her mother, who showed her jewelry and articles of clothing she had brought with her to Britain. -Her mother also brought one of her maids with her, who had a newborn child, who befriended Vihara and later became lovers. (This next part is very roughly planned, and extremely plot heavy, so it may have massive plotholes.)

-At the ae of 16 she was betrothed to a wealthy young man, someone who would strengthen their family's wealth and earn them respect. -Although at first she bore with the decision, by the age of 17, and as the marriage got closer, she refused to go through with it. Partly due to her distaste for the young man, and her feelings towards her lover. She values her freedom and choice.

-She ran away from home in an act of rebellion, too young to think of the consequences. Her lover helped her escape, promising to join her later. -Enraged, the family of the boy she was betrothed to wreaks havoc upon her loved ones. The embarrassment of being rejected despite their wealth and status is too much of a dent in their reputation, so they have her family discretely killed, and framed as an unfortunate situation that happened due to a rare illness. -This happens without Vihara knowing. -She finds out through word of mouth during her days in hiding. -This devastates her (obviously), and she blames herself for years, and it drives her to her lowest points. -During a particularly bad day she finds a magic well (We're now entering the lore thoroughly discussed during the dnd campaign. I wanted to stay true to the original ideas added by our game master.) She realises that this well allows her to make wishes, including ones to resurrect people. -Every wish has a cost. -She at first intends to bring her whole family back to life, ending her own in the process. The first wish, however, is to resurrect her lover. -She sacrifices her eyesight, but the process is excruciating. The inability to see sends her into a panic. For days, she spends defeated at the foot of the well, too mentally distraught to go on. -The well speaks to her, telling her what her wish has fulfilled: Her lover is alive, but with no memory of who they are or who Vihara is. Taking pity on her, it also mentions a bit about her lover's future: They will be made immortal due to a turn of events, and face many hardships. -Vihara realises she wants to live, to make sure she can help her lover. She has to let go of her deceased family, but she vows to avenge them. -Timeskip- -Somehow she goes to Greece😂 -Comes across the Hunters of Artemis, and pledges herself to the goddess and becomes immortal. By doing so, she gives hope of ever reuniting with her lover romantically, as the hunters forbit romantic connections. -The main events of the dnd Campeign take place (I don't know what happens, because we haven't finished it yet). ------------------------ I do have an idea of how I want her story to end. -She finds her lover at some point and spends a long time being there for them without revealing who she is. -Eventually during the main plot events, her secret is revealed. -The two have a teary reunion but they part ways temporarily. -After the ending of the main events, Vihaara thanks Artemis, and leaves the Hunters, severing the promise she has made to them. -Finds her lover again, and they LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER YAYYYY. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ More art I did for her a long time ago:

Funny screenshots of my search history for this assignment +my google interface.

2025/01/24

[johnboothus]

South L.A. Wine Clubs Lindsay Williams Is Addressing Social Justice With Wine

Lindsay Williams, a registered nurse (Ph.D.) based in Los Angeles, is at the forefront of two national crises: Covid-19, and an industry-wide reckoning of BIPOC issues in wine. As the founder of South L.A. Wine Club (SLAWC), she organizes wine tasting events that bring together and commemorate BIPOC and other marginalized people in wine. What began as a personal passion pursuit to learn more about viticulture has morphed into a robust platform. SLAWC’s overarching philosophy is to cultivate a community culture around wine tasting that includes enjoyment, education, and engaging dialogue, as well as facilitating connections with winemakers in South L.A., Inglewood, and other neighborhoods.

Williams’ welcoming demeanor and thoughtfully curated events (happening virtually, for now) provide inclusive, accessible spaces for those who are “wine-curious” and haven’t had access to wine education and culture. She recently launched the South L.A. Speaks series pairing local leaders and winemakers, and donated half the proceeds from wine sales to Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. This year, she also co-founded Our Glasses Full, an ongoing non-profit collaborative series that celebrates Black Joy, a collective jubilation, compassion, and call to action for bettering the lives of BIPOC individuals. She believes that Black Joy is at once pleasure and a powerful tool, and an act of resistance to social unrest; and that the act of savoring and sipping (wine) can not only be celebratory, but radically transformative.

“The business and culture of wine cannot be separated from the people that make it on one end, and consume it on the other,” Williams says. “Our Glasses Full and South L.A. Speaks are meant to reconcile this spectrum, and acknowledge the fullness that comes from celebrating all these aspects.”

1. What are you doing right now to shake up the industry to propel it forward?

Working in collaboration with my colleagues and friends in wine, and also focusing on my audience as a significant source of content and guidance in planning wine content. This year, I co-founded Our Glasses Full with some of my closest sisters in wine: Chevonne Ball of Dirty Radish, Alisha Sommer of Somersalt, and Roxy Narvaez. We hosted Juneteenth Saber Celebration this year, our inaugural event celebrating Black Joy through wine and user-submitted sabering videos as a way for wine professionals to contribute to the success of the event. Following this event, we want to commemorate other historic events and commemorations for BIPOC and other marginalized persons in American history through wine — which include Indigenous Peoples’ Day for October, Kwanzaa for December, and Women’s History Month for March.

In addition to this, South L.A. Wine Club celebrates and educates members of the South Los Angeles and Inglewood communities, so I started the South L.A. Speaks series to highlight the contributions of the South L.A. Community and pair our discussions with wine! So far, I have featured community therapists, social justice advocates, and natural healers, and paired our conversations with wines from local winemakers. Moreover, the wines were available for pickup and drop-off in South Los Angeles, and we donated half the proceeds of sales to Black Lives Matter Los Angeles.

Lastly, to celebrate and highlight voices within my community, I recently started the South L.A. Speaks series to connect with South L.A. and Inglewood residents about their work, how we are staying safe and sane, and celebrating each other with wine. I recently featured community therapists and social justice advocates with wine available for purchase from Serenity Farm and Vineyard and Final Girl Wines, both who are local winemakers in Los Alamos. We then donated 50 percent of the profits from the event to Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. It is truly exciting to see how wine can be a venue to connect with people, share our struggles and triumphs, and then support causes that benefit us all.

2. Is there any personal or professional introspection you’d like to share in light of what’s been going on with Black Lives Matter and the coronavirus crisis?

Personally and professionally, I think this is a time of great change and upheaval — and with that, what emerges is the importance of the relationships we’ve cultivated and the interconnectedness of systems. The toxicity of capitalism and the disparities it creates were already an issue (within the U.S. in general), but Covid-19 and the ongoing civil unrest has made it so these issues cannot be ignored. It will be interesting to see, this time next year, if the reckoning that is happening right now in wine continues for lasting and systemic change. As a Black woman, I encounter these issues every day, and as both a nurse and wine professional, I face these issues professionally. The fear that I once had to speak up on these issues has dissipated, so our industry will need to get used to being uncomfortable, empathetic, and recognizing and highlighting marginalized voices that typically have not been heard.

3. Tell me about your journey and involvement with the wine industry.

I developed a curiosity for wine in 2013 as a function of professional networking and social mobility. At the time, I was in graduate school and on the path to receive my Ph.D. in Nursing at UCLA (which I received in 2015). This represented a new social sphere of ivory tower academics, where I did not fit because of my ethnicity and age (I was in my mid-20s; and I observed that the average age of nursing Ph.D. students here were in their mid-50s). I found myself at conferences, mixers, and in classes where people were talking about wine, and I had no idea what they were talking about. Wine was not on my dining room table growing up, so I had no base of knowledge to build on. After a handful of occasions of sheepishly ordering whatever “red” was available, I started googling different wine labels and developed a small lexicon of wine terms that would help me break the ice and have substantive conversations with peers and colleagues.

In 2015, I went on a wine trip to Temecula and tried Leoness Cellars wines. It finally clicked why people loved wine so much. After that “Eureka!” moment, I started asking more and more questions, visiting wine shops and going to wine festivals to try more and more types of wine, which ultimately turned into a hobby, then a passion. I am a person driven by curiosity, harmony, and continuous improvement through acquiring new knowledge, so wine represented all these facets.

In 2016, I moved to South L.A., and sought to have the same growth and experiences with wine, but found there was nothing. In September, I started SLAWC on Meetup as a casual way to connect with like-minded people in my neighborhood. I was delighted to find not only similar minds, but an entire community. In the three years since starting South L.A. Wine Club, I have grown from hosting casual Meetups to offering curated events that bring in winemakers and distributors to this rapt audience.

4. What is the mission you envision for South L.A. Wine Club, and how are you achieving it?

The mission of South L,A, Wine Club is to create community among wine enthusiasts in South L.A. and Inglewood through accessible and affordable wine events, wine tastings, and wine education. I achieve this by building meaningful and substantive relationships with winemakers, distributors, wine brands, and curating events specifically in [these] areas. My events are not just for residents of South L.A., but for everyone who wants to celebrate this community.

Additionally, my community historically only had access to varietals and winemakers that were in grocery stores and liquor stores. Considering food insecurity and the pejorative connotation between liquor stores and communities of color, there are very few ways to access and enjoy wine in the neighborhood without driving across town. Our communities deserve to taste and enjoy these wines right in our areas, and that’s what I endeavor to do.

5. What’s the coolest thing you get to do in your job?

The best part of my work is meeting with new audiences and seeing the delight that comes with them trying something new and loving it! Even when they don’t like something, I use that as an opportunity and teachable moment; and at the end of the experience, they now know more about their palate and tastes than they did before.

6. Due to the pandemic, many individuals have had to pivot to survive and thrive. How has your business and role changed in the last six months?

The transition to virtual events was very difficult for me, particularly because I am also a doctorally-prepared registered nurse working on the frontlines of Covid-19 response. I went radio silent the first few months because I was overwhelmed with this seismic change.

With that challenge came the great opportunity to think strategically about what events could be in the future. For one thing, I wanted to keep virtual content short and digestible — that is, what could keep peoples’ attention and still be educational? Moreover, I had to consider, what is a potential format that holds space for the myriad of thoughts and experiences that we are all having right now? We are all struggling in some way, so for me, there was no point in hiding that from my audience. In my Instagram Live series and interviews, we talk about wine, but also social justice, creating harmony in our lives, self-care, and many other things.

7. What’s a significant shift your business has made in the last six months that you had never considered before?

How SLAWC can connect to other wine professionals nationally, through features in Black Wine Professionals, Our Glasses Full, and other collaborations with other wine professionals. I recently co-hosted an event with Amy Atwood Selections, Pinkies Up L.A., Zafa Wines, and Swift Cafe, a local Black-owned restaurant in the Crenshaw District. We collaborated to bring Zafa Wines to South L.A. paired with dinner, and an Instagram Live conversation with Krista Scruggs (the owner and winemaker) and I. It was an incredible event that brought these wines and the spirit of the event close to home and benefitted Black-owned businesses.

8. What about [changes that] you had thought were not possible before, but have become “standard” in this “new normal”?

That a virtual conversation can feel as enriching and fulfilling as an in-person tasting or visit. After months of attending virtual classes and tastings, I find I am now able to connect to more people than before.

9. How are you using your position to push forward on racial equity and respective issues in the industry?

I don’t take the name South L.A. Wine Club lightly — I know that with this name, I not only represent [myself], but also my community and its residents. Wine culture and the systems that maintain it are inextricably linked to systemic racism, injustice, and harm. So I am constantly questioning these practices in the work I do.

In addition, I bring my 10-plus years of health care experience into this work, and I see the startling disparity in health care access in hospitality workers. I am developing projects as an advocate for hospitality workers that no longer have access to health care or are underinsured with costly healthcare plans like COBRA.

10. What do you envision is next for yourself and South L.A. Wine Club?

Continuing to craft a caring and uplifting culture through our virtual content and collaborations with people nationwide. South L.A. Wine Club endeavors to be a pillar of strength within our community and a catalyst for positive change. With this in mind, I hope to have an operational base to host classes and curate more virtual events which speak to important issues that affect marginalized people/communities. Historically, much of our understanding of wine practices stems from elitist European “traditions.” SLAWC challenges these social constructs and offers insightful discussions that welcome all people into the fold, where they can feel a part of the wine-culture tapestry. Since it’s fluid and ever-evolving, we also ask what and how that looks and feels; wine sparks these vital discussions.

Additionally, with all of my initiatives and in being a small business (owner), I’m applying for grant funding as well as constantly seeking out new ways and opportunities to partner with like-minded wine professionals and brands that serve my community’s best interests. Lastly, I’m excited to be working on creating a wine club box; and although operational details haven’t been finalized yet, it will include curated varieties from local winemakers I want to spotlight. For instance, just last week I had an event that showcased 2018 Brut Rosé from Loubud Winery and the 2019 Passetoutgrain from Blue Ox winery that I would want included. The idea is that pickup of these wine boxes would be from my home (for the time being) and/or from South Los Angeles restaurants and businesses, such as with Swift Cafe where I did an event with them a few months ago.

The article South L.A. Wine Club’s Lindsay Williams Is Addressing Social Justice With Wine appeared first on VinePair.

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[insecateur]

last batch of kofi sketches!! thank you as always to everyone who donated, it helped a ton and means a lot. i am no longer taking these but might open a similar option later in the month (alongside other stuff i'm very slowly getting to planning as well)

leaf & beedrill for @thethrillof

slawcs sycamore for @cargoteeth

minato for @rosemirmir

oc for @rexterjettster

[ursamajorgamma]

Thinking about @insecateur ‘s ghost sycamore 🥹💕

[insecateur]

did you know that it's slawcs's 10 years anniversary in two weeks. you should read slawcs.

[insecateur]

actually, speaking of slawcs's anniversary, this seems like a good time to say that my friend peasina on AO3 made a full podfic of the first fic in the series! it's basically an 8 hours+ audiobook lol so if you'd like to experience slawcs in new and exciting ways in the year 2024, here it is!

pea is an amazing podficcer so if listening is your thing i definitely recommend it! 💗🙏

[insecateur]

Hello!! I wanted to ask, it be ok if I were to make art based off of slawcs if I credited you? I’ve recently fallen into the prfr rabbit hole and your works (both art and fic) are really amazing !!! I keep coming back to them, and I wanted to make something to express my appreciation 🥹

oh, of course!!!! i would absolutely love that 🥺🥺🥺 please tag me so i can see!

[insecateur]

another repostober indulgence, here's some slawcs art from 2016.

i think it's from when i was first trying to work on it again. might have even been around then that i came up with the new title. it will always kill me that i can't remember how i stumbled upon the quote for it btw. i'm SO glad past me thought to write it down so i could find it later bc it truly is the perfect title for it and having that title probably is a huge part of what motivated me to finally see it to its end in 2021

[insecateur]

barely ever read fanfic before but I needed perfworld content . started reading SLAWCS . I think that I am changed as a man and that I will never recover from this actually . what the fuck . cried /pos

😊😊😊

i'm so glad you enjoyed it!!!!! sorry about the crying (not rly .)

i'd rly like to get back to it as soon as i can... hearing that people enjoy it is always very motivating ngl 🙏

[insecateur]

fantasme

[insecateur]

hiii how are the boys sycamore and birch doing?? :-)

unfortunately i wrote like 200 words TOTAL of anything at all in march and then all i wrote this month has been stuff for exchanges...... h

but!!! things have been looking up a little lately so i'm hoping to get back into it. i actually want to try to write a little today. i want to work on super effuktive and also make progress on this bc i'm so close to being done...

HOWEVER i can provide some of what i last wrote. which is them having the beginning of a discussion about things that have gone down between them. putting it under a cut bc it has sexual mentions

Forty-five minutes later, he sat on Augustine's futon and tried to act like he wasn't stalling. Augustine made them tea and joined him, their knees brushing together. For some unfathomable reason, he was wearing shorts. He hadn't even bothered to put pants on to take out the trash. "Aren't you cold?" Birch asked. He felt stupid immediately after.  Augustine took a sip of his tea. He was looking to the side, at the corner of the futon, right next to where Birch was sitting.  "Can we talk?" he said, sidestepping Birch's question entirely. Not that it was very important. It took an absurd amount of self-control for Birch to resist the urge to reply with, "Isn't that what we've been doing?" He bent forward, squared his shoulders, and held on to his cup for dear life. "Look, I'm sorry," he mumbled. Following Augustine's example, he kept his gaze fixed on the bit of futon he could see between his crossed legs. "I haven't been totally honest with you about, huh..." He didn't even know how to phrase it. Everything that came to mind was either too upfront – the time you sucked me off, the blowjob incident, the day you vacuumed everything I thought I knew about my sexuality through my cock – or too clinical. The word encounter, for some bizarre reason, kept coming back, like they'd been having some illicit affair unbeknown to everybody, including Birch, apparently. "I figured," Augustine said before Birch could find the right words. When Birch glanced at him, just for a few seconds, he was smiling a little, though he didn't seem happy. "Don't apologize. I'm the one who made things awkward."

[insecateur]

to the anon who sent me an ask about other prfr songs: i do have some!! i can't answer you rn bc i don't have access to my playlist but i'll try to share some more as soon as i can thank u for complimenting my tastes 💗

also i wanted to say when i got the notification for your ask it was cut off like this

and i legit thought it was gonna be anon hate about how i put too many straight people songs in my gay ship playlist. so that was hilarious

[insecateur]

Do you still have the comic ?

yes! it's kind of ugly (it's from 2016) and rushed tho, but there you go: