I haven’t been on tumblr since like the 14th and in that time like 12 porn bots followed me, including 8 in the past week, so, you know, good job, idiots.
Anyway! I’m always available on discord if you want a chat, as well as twitter and IG, and ao3 of course. Lemme know if you want a link to any of those, friendos.
see the reason i absolutely care not for mainstream internet white american feminism is that my approach to feminism is derived from extensive talks with working class women from some of the poorest areas in santiago, the capital of chile, as well as growing up until the age of like, 16? in an impoverished environment and things like “sex work” or “family members going to jail for theft” being more or less always just a figurative stone’s throw away from me. whereas half of white girl american internet feminism is derived from thinking male tears mugs were really fucking funny to get back when people in 2010s twitter were trying to sell them to you
the recent shit with sex workers in this website made me realize that like, a lot of the cis girl feminists on social media Literally Don’t Know Any Sex Workers, like, to a lot of cis women feminists, specially cis white women, sex workers are like… an abstraction, a distant social group which you may speculate about, whereas like, when you’re a trans woman, when so much of your interaction online is with trans women of so many different social backgrounds… sex work is not some distant abstraction, its often something your friends do to survive, its something you yourself might do, might have done, or might consider doing to survive! you can’t simply abstract it way, it’s real and always present for you even when you yourself have never done sex work.
Just as an FYI tumblr your fucken algorithm which flagged a puppy made out of ice cream, a wholesome warriormale reblog about respecting your mother, and a baby chameleon gifset the other day?? Doesn’t seem to work as the last 3 new followers I’ve gotten since monday were all three porn bots
oh wow
so to celebrate me making this post, another goddamn porn bot followed me
gracias, tumblr. you’re really making this place fuckin safe for the children
I haven’t had the mental fortitude to update any fic in the past…… two and a bit months… but I do regularly pop on there to look at comments and reread stuff I need to refer back to. And I am still working on two One Sword related pieces, plus the next chapter of Karma Police!
Just as an FYI tumblr your fucken algorithm which flagged a puppy made out of ice cream, a wholesome warriormale reblog about respecting your mother, and a baby chameleon gifset the other day?? Doesn’t seem to work as the last 3 new followers I’ve gotten since monday were all three porn bots
In the lush green mountain town of Lares, Puerto Rico, even the dead and buried were scarred by Hurricane Maria.
The September 2017 storm dumped so much rain onto the town’s only cemetery that it triggered a landslide. The flow of mud and water was so powerful that it damaged nearly 1,800 tombs — expelling caskets from their graves and sending some of them tumbling down a hillside.
The damage was so extensive — and so horrifying — that health officials locked the cemetery gates. They haven’t been reopened in the 14 months since. And so, for the families and friends of those buried in the Lares Municipal Cemetery, every day has only brought more heartache.
“My father is in there. My grandmother is in there,” said Giovanni Ramirez Santiago. “The town can’t take this anymore.”
Now, the town’s residents are furious that officials have yet to make any repairs. And the longer they’ve been kept out, the more desperate they’ve grown to get in. They want to see the damage to their family members’ tombs but are also fearful of what they’ll find.
“We want to fix them up, take them flowers,” said José Luis Rivera López, whose parents and sister are buried there. “But we can’t. If we cross the fence, they’ll arrest us.”
Across Puerto Rico, people are trying to leave the traumas of Hurricane Maria behind. But doing so has been impossible because the pace of the island’s reconstruction has been so slow. In Lares, the unrepaired destruction in the town’s cemetery has been an especially brutal reminder of everything the storm took.
The yearning for closure — for peace of mind — has led many residents to take drastic measures. Since the start of the year, more than 50 people have gotten permits to exhume the cadavers of their loved ones and take them away, according to figures provided by Puerto Rico’s health department.
