There is immense silent agony in the world, and the task of man is to be a voice for the plundered poor, to prevent the desecration of the soul and the violation of our dream of honesty ( Read more... )

In addition to the 500-word ficlet and 1500-word fic, I also got the nod from sotto_voice to do the same thing she's doing and offer a cookie-ficlet combination. A dozen cookies (taking into account your tastes as well as allergies/sensitivities) and a ficlet of at least 200 words. Bidding starts at $10, and I'll be doing three sets, so the three highest ( Read more... )

I go back and forth on how I feel about offering fanworks for charity donations, but at the end of the day the important thing is that the aid gets there, and I won't have a lot of money for it until my next paycheck, so I signed up over at help_pakistan. At the moment I'm offering a 500-word fic and a 1500-word one (those are both minimum counts), but I may ( Read more... )

There's been some backlash against rawles's post of the other day, it looks like!
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So there have been some posts on my reading lists that basically say, of the whole discussion going on in SPN fandom (although I think it's expanded by now), something along the lines of "it was two years ago so it's not worth talking about" or "you weren't personally there so you shouldn't be talking about it because you don't know". These are ( Read more... )

Here is an actual conversation that took place during a discussion of victim-blaming. It was several years ago now, but I guess you will be able to see why it's kind of stuck with me. (I talked in this post about what happened to me and my experience with mental illness especially as it relates to my history of sexual abuse; be warned that it is ( Read more... )

Oh lord I can't believe I'm posting this. Okay, so I thought I was done talking about this, but then I read lcsbanana's post here and hit the phrase "victim privilege" in her collection of quotes and holy shit, holy shit.

queenofhell has an excellent, excellent post here on how classic derailing techniques are being used to shut down this discussion ("it's your ( Read more... )