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For usamericans who may not know how to support decolonization and indigenous people in their every-day lives, may I suggest checking this list of native-owned businesses, curated and maintained by indigenous folks. There's food, candles, cbd pre-rolls, clothes, jewelry, hats, baby things, handicrafts, art, and hundreds of other useful and wonderful things. I check this list before I buy non-native owned as often as I can.

Also check out the native-owned (pulitzer-prize winner Louise Erdrich started it!) bookstore and press Milkweed Editions (dot org) for an amazing selection of books by indigenous authors. I recommend Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (a collection of essays that will change your thinking if your mind is open at all) that's great for sitting down to read for bite-sized chunks. For book recommendations, check out this infographic!

Do you own property and want to support landback but still need a place to live? Odds are good that there's established precedence in your area to transfer its jurisduction to a local tribe and pay your land taxes and etc to them instead of the settler government!

Here is a list of charities and fundraisers for indigenous support.

Other ways to educate yourself and learn what indigenous people are working on nationally and locally is to follow indigenous people online! Many Native peoples on various social medias tag with #indigenous, #native, and by looking at those you will find many other tags and people to follow.

If you have extra cash, consider paying indigenous people's bail, donating to some of the causes linked above, or look for local initiatives to support in your own community!

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you're doing good work internet stranger

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Edit: I will not re-post this to the correct blog, this just lives here as a monument to my glee!

B5 s02e19 Divided Loyalties Table of Contents • previous episode

Delenn: "I find the notion of the press a…fascinating, but sometimes troubling concept."

I find the notion that the Minbari don't have press to be a fascinating but potentially troubling concept!

The machine that dispenses Universe Today but requires that you confirm your identity to get a paper is wild. Does it give different papers to different people?

Delenn: "It is good to know what your people are thinking and saying about my people. And, uh, I often learn things about my own world before I'm told what I need to know and no more."

She is so cute!! And so crafty!! I liked Delenn from The Gathering, but I like her more and more whenever she appears.

A flood on a space station seems like it could get really really bad, really really fast.

I once read a hilarious fanfic where some Star Wars characters traveled to B5 and bought a shitload of data crystals, which turned out to be kyber, and this reminded me of that.

When I was looking up what the episode was called, I saw that Lyta-from-the-Gathering would be coming back and I'm so excited for this! I hope she and Talia get along.

asddkhfsdkfh what was that little shimmy?? Cool alien, hilarious shoulder wiggles.

Sheridan: "oh, I miss trees…." Garibaldi, from Mars: "……" *yeah, so anyway changing the subject now*

Talia: It's hard to believe it's taken us so long to get to this point. Two years. Susan: Well, you didn't exactly make it easy. Talia: Me? how 'bout you? Susan: I'll have you know I've been nothing but compassionate and understanding. I mean, all you had to do was admit that you were wrong and I was right and everything would be fine!

LMAO.

Sleepover? Sleepover!!! GAY GIRLS GO

Susan: "I'd like the company."

Yeah I'd like her company, too. *eyebrow waggle*

Wow, Lyta had a rough arrival! Maybe she can sleep over with Susan and Talia, too. *eyebrow waggle*

Go Lyta Go. I support unhinged women wielding surgical tools.

Poor Lyta has spent years being distrusted and interrogated by psicorps for what she saw in Kosh's mind. I'd be pretty twitchy after that, too! Their tender loving care seems like it would be the exact oppposite.

She is even hotter than she was in the Gathering.

OK, love the exposition about the fucked up things psi corps can do with people's brains. Fucking terrifying. Implant a personality below their personality, that emerges and destroys the original when the right time comes around. Moles that don't know they're moles. Very uncool of PsiCorps.

Lyta is SO paranoid, but I suspect she isn't being paranoid enough. She's shockingly tolerant of being placed in secure holding. I don't think I'd agree to be literally imprisoned that readily. She hasn't done anything but come out of anesthesia swinging surgical tools after being imprisoned by PsiCorps for two years.

Delenn!!!

Sheridan: Why is it every time you finally get things calmed down and everything's going great life decides to kick you in the butt? Delenn: …but what?

That really got me and I lol'ed. Good use of idioms and miscommunication! Love it. She wasn't taught slang because it was considered innapropriate for a member of the religious caste.

Delenn: I butt, you butt, he or she butts… Sheridan: NO. No, it's… Delenn: Butt-butt. Sheridan: you sound like a motorboat. Delenn: Motor butt?

I continue to cackle. OK, I finally ship them. They reeled me in!

Hold her hand back you fucking monkey!!

The debates and counter-intelligence and fact checking is A+. Damn you JMS for making me like Garibaldi via the excellent Garibaldi-Sheridan interactions. :|

Sleepover date!! I am so excited. Susan knows how to woo a woman: with a real, hot-water shower. It would work on me.

More good exposition. Talia knew Lyta, she was six months behind Talia at the academy. She was nice, sweet. They were close at one time. *eyebrow waggle*

It speaks very well of Lyta that she hated her PsiCop internship and went commercial instead.

"So I've come to the decision that there's only one person on this station that I can trust implicitly…" *gets in Susan's personal space and stares at her lips* "…you." *almost touches Susan with bare fingers* me: *goes absolutely fucking feral*

Why tf is Lyta a prisoner?! I ask a-fucking-gain. This is ridiculous, and exposes her and her mission to the goddamn EarthCorps brown shirts!

Yeah, well obviously someone wanted to shoot at her when she was being transferred! This is why she should be having a gay-ass sleepover with Talia and Susan right now!

At least they don't think Lyta instigated the attack on herself. They're ass-backwards about this. She shows up with news of a secret, they imprison her where any security staff could find out, including the goddamn leak she was talking about, and then Sheridan is mad and shocked someone knew she was there with critical info. C'mon, dude.

Also Susan, <3, Sheridan is right about one thing, this isn't a scan to object to, it's just her projecting a code word to see if anyone reacts.

Talia: "I woke up last night and you were gone." Me: [beast shaking toy in mouth.jpeg]

O.o WHAT IS SUSAN LYING ABOUT. Is she telepathic???? It's my long-running headcanon about her! Please be telepathic, please be. If we get to find out that her mom used her telepathy to hide Susan's powers that would be EVERYTHING to me.

If only Na'Toth and Laurel were in this episode also being badasses it would be the greatest of all time.

c'mon telepathic Susan! C'mon!! omfg I'm almost vibrating.

"…and then, every once in awhile, I was the one who touched her mind."

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP FUCK YES I AM WELL FED THIS EPISODE

"…I'm a latent telepath."

FUCKING WINNING

Now Sheridan just needs to not be an idiot about this. Obviously she hid it, who wants to be fucking gangpressed into PsiCorps?!

Good job, Sheridan. Minimal shittiness achieved. And I know I'm completely fucking feral about Susan/Talia but it's so perfect that Susan is so close to Sheridan that he's the first person she tells about her hidden talent.

Smart of Garibaldi to hand over his piece before being not-scanned. What a fucker tho, faking them out. hahah.

also please don't be the mole, Ivanova. I don't want anything bad to have happened to her, ever, but since plenty has, I don't want any more!!

After all these people have been cleared, I think Ivanova will probably just agree to being cleared. She will want to know. Maybe she would let Lyta tell Talia the password and let Talia password her?

I do like Sheridan's theory earlier talking to Garibaldi that the second in command who shot Garibaldi in the back was the mole.

Ahhhh Ivanova did change her mind. And she's clean!

Lyta: I'm sorry Susan: Go to hell.

That's my girl.

Oh man!! I didn't even think to suspect Talia! Fuuuuuuuck, and she's all telekinetic'ed up, too!! Oh, damn it. I don't like this at all.

or do I? There's plenty of whump to be had. hm.

You know what I really don't like, this boys-only confab. Ivanova is the second in command of the entirety of B5 and she's not present for the strategy meeting. Uncool.

Ahhhh it's all coming together for Garibaldi. Wow, they really have been seeding this plotline for the whole show!! Cool Hat Man Mind Empty No Thoughts Only Hat wasn't just fun filler!

The Talia that Susan knew definitely has to be in there! They haven't kissed yet! And I need that!!

Oh, this is chilling!! The angst! The whump!! Susan!!!

I think it would be really funny if the sub-personality didn't understand homosexuality and therefore has no idea real!Talia was in love with Susan and vice versa.

OK now I weirdly ship Lyta/Kosh.

"I never told them, I never told anyone. I hid it all away in the smallest, tiniest corner of my mind. They could have killed me and they still wouldn't have found it. Only at night, alone, would I open that small door in my mind where I kept the memory of you and listened to your voice. Listened to you sing me to sleep. I hope I can come back again, but I don't know. Until then, Kosh, I want to see you again. Just one more time before I go."

Lyta's a bonafide monsterfucker. What a great note to end this on!

My thoughts right now are: "Hnnnnnngggggshshshcsagfjkaldsf yes." Good episode! My favorite of the season so far! I can't wait to see how all this plays out!! I may make some gifs and do a gif-post of this ep later. So many good shots!

this next one is posted to the correct blog, hah.

[nyamadermont]

9 people you'd like to get to know better

Thanks go out to both @blackberrywars and @wishingforatypewriter for the tags!

1. Three ships: Lin Beifong/Kya, Lin Beifong/Lightning Bolt Zolt, Pema/Lin Beifong/Tenzin

2. First ever ship: Reading: Xena/Gabrielle; writing: Lin Beifong/Tenzin

3. Last song: Hope in the Air (Laura Marling)

4. Last film: The Marvels

5. Currently reading: Winter’s Gifts (Ben Aaronovitch)

6. Currently watching: The Dragon Prince / Mystery of Aaravos

7. Currently consuming: Coke Zero

8. Currently craving: Something the flavor and consistency of ice cream that isn’t either frozen or a half-baked brownie

Sending the fun out to:

@linnorabeifong @grapefruitflavoured @woodsfae @owqiowp @boadiceaforspiritssake @ellsss @rotschopf-thedrow @dollvix @i-put-the-ass-into-sass

along with anyone else who wants to play along!

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Commission for @woodsfae !

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Would you consider rbing my paired polls: fave and least fave st series? https://www.tumblr.com/woodsfae/744881782323838976/which-star-trek-series-is-your-least-favorite-the?source=share

xoxo

For sure!

Crew, incoming polls very soon. Tag #polls

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@staff I absolutely fucking hate snoozing tumblrlive every 7 days and it negatively impacts my user experience and pisses me off every time.

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Around a year ago I started an embroidery project which I had no fucking clue what I was getting myself into. "Van Gogh-inspired Halloween-y Cat In The Moon" as a surprise for @theintrovertinthetower (who has a magnificent black cat)..."if I can draw it, how how hard could it be?" i asked myself, incorrectly.

well. It took me a long fuckin time. But it turned out!?! well, even??

I went so insane over this that I even braided the cord for the border. I think the whole thing took me around 90 hours. If I had known the needle eye size I used for most of it was a terrible decision any earlier it might have only taken me around 30 hours! The last two thirds took me significantly less time than the first third. Super fun, and I learned so much!

I'm gonna do something easier next

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I was inspired to memery by the stunningly idiotic phrase “fic intended to cause a sexual response on the parts of the viewers” paired with the seemingly-honest belief that this is illegal. 

more fandom memes: here

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I hope Rashida Tlaib know that America stands with her. That the majority of Americans support Palestinian freedom. I'm going to put a postcard of support in the mail for her today. Don't want to tangle any email or phone lines as I'm not her constituent.

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Star Trek the original series: blessed, the mother of fandom, better and worse than you remembered

The Animated Series: what?

The Next Generation: iconic, set up much of what people think of as quintessentially Star Trek, better than my childhood memories.

Deep Space 9: most interesting premise and characters I didn't appreciate till my mid twenties. Excellent use of war criminals.

Voyager: has permanent custody of my single brain cell. Everything I love is because it's perfect. Everything I hate is Rick Berman's fault.

Enterprise: the Enterprise in my head is not the Enterprise that plays on the television.

Discovery: the best live action NuTrek, fight me. I would die for Michael Burnham. TARDIGRADES

The Orville: TNG's bastard lovechild, more Trek than Trek.

Picard: fanfiction I don't like.

Lower Decks: So good I can only assume CBS forgot about it. Please please please keep letting them do their thing.

Prodigy: CBS's redheaded stepchild whom I have adopted.

Strange New Worlds: fanfiction I do like.

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Youtube video essayist Alexander Avila has opened my eyes to the best use of generative AI I have ever seen or heard of: using USA presidents' voices to read Nietzche quotes.

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hot tip for my followers with phone anxiety:

call your reps to tell them to stop supporting the israeli occupation and genocide of palestinian people after their office has closed.

Jewish Voice For Peace has easy scripts to follow, and will connect with you your reps one after another. I just left three voicemails that way with no concern about having a real person pick up the phone.

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So I was re-watching Good Omens s02e01 and noticed something really cool!

Beautiful, huh? But...I recognize part of this nebula!

That's a real nebula! That's the Pillars of Creation!

What a cool, real life easter egg!

[woodsfae]

Susan Blane: now that my decrepit husband is dead, I'm having my Hot Girl Summer. This is a fling of convenience because you are very cute and also in my house all day. Larry Russell: 🥰 🎶There goes my baby!! There goes my destiny onliest one for me there goes my BABY!🎶 Susan Blane: Seriously, being married was a nightmare. I always wanted to be a merry widow and now that my husband finally died I'm just going to have fun. Larry Russell: 🥰 🎶There goes my baby! She could be the one, we could fall in love, we're gonna have some babies!🎶