Post From Tumblr This is what 2018 looks like? (at Torrance, California) - January 01, 2018 at 03:50

This is what 2018 looks like? (at Torrance, California)

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My tweets

• Mon, 12:30: RT @tedlieu: Today is #NewYearsDay. That means we all need to ask again: Why does Jared Kushner still have a security clearance?
• Mon, 15:03: What's very 2018. #LACityVotes https://t.co/pZoeeZxGJG
• Mon, 16:49: This is what 2018 looks like? @ Torrance, California https://t.co/gtZnJtV2zt
• Mon, 21:17: 5 of 5 stars to Knitting with Balls by Michael Del Vecchio https://t.co/oPTGlQPOTf

Post From Tumblr kendrajk: YOU ONLY KEEP ONE BULL

kendrajk:

YOU ONLY KEEP ONE BULL 

(Originally published in Comics For Choice)

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Post From Tumblr Rage Muffins - kyburg - The Defenders (Marvel TV) [Archive of Our Own] - January 02

Rage Muffins - kyburg - The Defenders (Marvel TV) [Archive of Our Own]:

mumblesnscribbles:

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Defenders (Marvel TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Jessica Jones, Trish Walker, Malcolm Ducasse, Claire Temple, Luke Cage, Danny Rand, Colleen Wing, Matt Murdock, Franklin “Foggy” Nelson, Cats - Character, Kittens - Character
Additional Tags: cat rescue, Stuff You Do Because You’re The Only One There, There I Fixed It
Summary:

Jessica Jones is minding her own business, thank you very much and then her sister shows up, and no - it doesn’t matter what the problem is. If it’s something Jessica can do, she will. That’s just the way it works.

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Post From Tumblr Photo - January 02, 2018 at 03:31PM 2018

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Post From Tumblr violist-yamaguchi: This is an apprec

violist-yamaguchi:

This is an appreciation post for the fanfic authors who aren’t included on rec lists

For the fanfic authors who don’t get art of their fics

For the fanfic authors who can’t get to 1000/500/100 hits

For the fanfic authors who don’t get comments/reviews

For the fanfic authors who write for small fandoms

For the fanfic authors who write rarepairs or gen fics

For the fanfic authors who get hate for the ships/characters/fandoms they write

For the fanfic authors who write in English despite it not being their first language

For the fanfic authors who don’t write in English

For the fanfic authors who don’t think anyone reads or likes their work

For the fanfic authors who aren’t big name fans

For the fanfic authors who don’t get requests in their inboxes

For the fanfic authors who can’t write stories that are more than a thousand words

For the fanfic authors who only write one ship

For the fanfic authors who are just starting

For the fanfic authors who have been writing fic for years

For the fanfic authors who use fanfic to practice writing

For the fanfic authors who write self-insert fics

For the fanfic authors who write about their OCs

For the fanfic authors who write to vent or cope

For the fanfic authors who are just waiting for their big break

Keep creating, I love you ❤️

And yes, I want to read that.

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Post From Tumblr "Meals on Wheels programs are stuck

“Meals on Wheels programs are stuck in an appropriations purgatory where many don’t receive enough money to stay at capacity, much less expand, but they’re too adored to be cut much without political reprisal. Better data has emerged in the past five years—and its delivered a compelling case for the programs. In 2013, Kali Thomas, a public health researcher at Brown University, published a paper that found “if all states had increased by 1 percent the number of adults age 65 or older who received home-delivered meals in 209 under title III of the OAA, total annual savings to states’ Medicaid programs could have exceeded $109 million.” Most of the savings would come from keeping seniors in their homes and out of nursing homes, which are more expensive. Ninety-two percent of Meals on Wheels recipients say the service lets them live at home. The Medicaid savings were uneven—some states saved millions while other lost out—but Meals on Wheels likely saves billions in Medicare spending too. In 2016, Thomas found that receiving home-delivered meals was correlated with a 30 percent decrease in falls for seniors who’ve fallen before. Falls—in which seniors can break a hip, or worse—cost Medicare $31 billion in 2015 alone. What’s more, collaboration between MOWA and Brown University found that rates of hospitalization and emergency-room use decreased for patients getting Meals on Wheels compared to those who weren’t. For context, one night in the emergency room costs the same as a year of home-delivered meals. This evidence is in line with macroscopic public health findings that countries that spend more on social services than health services tend to have longer life expectancies and decreased rates of premature mortality. Meals on Wheels could help address the greatest health care and demographic challenge Americans face this century—that is, if it were treated as more than a pet program or hollow political prop. Until then, millions of seniors will starve in the richest country in history.”

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We’re letting meals on wheels, a great program, slowly whither and die.
(via dendroica)

Meals on Wheels is a total LIFESAVER.  And not just for elderly, it’s for anyone who needs eyes (and a hot meal) delivered daily.

That’s all it is.  You ought to see what that does for a life.

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Post From Tumblr Archive your fandom stuff - January 02, 2018 at 03:39PM

helens78:

chujo-hime:

megkips:

thebyrchentwigges:

As we sit on the cusp of changes to the Internet, after your other activities to support Internet freedom, archive your fandom stuff.

Save the electronic files of your favorite online fandom works. Consider print-outs of your favorite online material. And save paper ephemera from fandom events.

Why save? Because you put the effort into a fanwork. Because you may be surprised when a fandom stays alive for years, or gets revived, or when an academic asks to cite your work. Because it’s stupidly hard to find items on Tumblr. Because, lo, in ages past, many fandom archives have risen and fallen, taking favorite fics off the ‘Net. Because it made you happy, makes you remember. Because you never know.

What can you save?

Fanart

Stories you wrote

Epic comments on stories you wrote

Stories you love that other people wrote

Meta and meta-related discussions

Translations others did of your works

Physical items: paper ephemera, clothing, accessories, art prints and drawings.

Behind the cut…saving from Tumblr and AO3, delving into lost web sites, how to save computer files for the long term, and why I’m glad I saved physical fandom items from 10+ years ago.

Keep reading

So I am going to add onto this because there is, in fact, a professional archival interest in preserving fandom as well.  I’ve spoken with some people about this before, but here’s the bottom line: PROFESSIONAL ARCHIVISTS WANT TO PRESERVE YOUR STUFF!  HELP THEM DO THIS!

There are pre-existing fandom archives.  Where are they?

The University of Iowa Special Collections.  U o I is partnered with the Organization for Transformative Works (which runs AO3) to help collect and preserve fandom.  They’re one of the biggests out there.  Here are some of their existing collections   Pete Balestrieri, who curates the collection, is the man to talk to about this.  Please consider giving him your stuff!  

Marquette Archives has all of J.R.R. Tolkien’s materials, which includes a fandom content as well.

The Library of Congress has been archiving select webcomics, and now maintains the Web Cultures Archive which includes sites like Cosplay Paradise.

These are the big institutions doing collecting, but the archival profession and fandom need to start talking more.  Born digital material is always at risk, and at present, it is mostly Western fandoms being preserved!   Moreover, some facets like cosplay are currently overlooked, and that is something that needs better documentation!

Also don’t forget the Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University, the oldest and largest library of its kind in the US! 

And outside of the big active collaborations between between fandom and major special collections libraries, more and more university libraries and archives are offering free workshops on Personal Digital Archiving. If you’re not in school or there’s no local group offering workshops in your area, lots of archives and archival organizations now have guides online sharing strategies, tips, and sometimes even suggested freeware programs you can use to get started. While the guides are typically geared towards archiving/preserving stuff like family digital photos or research papers you wrote in school, you can easily apply the same strategies to preserving your fanworks and other fandom stuff.

Here’s a small sample of resources to get you started:

Personal Digital Archiving Day Kit (Library of Congress)

Personal Digital Archiving: The basics (Purdue University)

Resources for archiving your personal digital data (MIT)

Manage Your Digital Research Files (Cornell University)

Personal Digital Archiving Guide (University of Michigan) 

Preserve Your Personal Heritage (Bowling Green State University)

Personal Digital Archiving (University of Montana)

Also, I know we all wanted to stay off Google’s radar, but if you have your own website, don’t do “noindex, noarchive” – leave off the “noarchive” part. When internet archivists are trying to save your stuff, that makes it possible for them to do it via automation.

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