Crescent Cookies 🌙

It’s Mormon conference weekend, which happens twice a year, and is when all the Mormons stay in and listen to new talks given by their leaders all day long on Saturday and Sunday. It’s consequently also a very scary time for the gay community in Utah, and the whole weekend we often send and receive lots of texts checking in, making sure everyone’s okay, asking if they’ve heard the latest awful talk condemning us. There’s real world applications to everything that happens there. Parents are “moved” to disown their children, coworkers and friends and neighbors are reminded to Other us and treat us accordingly. Suicide rates increase significantly. I remember the year after they announced children of gay parents would have to formally disown them before they’d be welcome in the church, and for two weeks afterward a group chat updated the gay community in my area almost every day with a handful of names who were not longer with us. A talk just concluded that said confusing both your gender identity and your gender role is the influence of Satan, which is deeply harmful to young trans kids and to young women. This isn’t a fun or sexy post for your timeline it just sucks and I hate Mormons and I can feel how difficult this next week is going to be as a result.

Body Language Cheat Sheet for Writers

As described by Selnick’s article:

Author and doctor of clinical psychology Carolyn Kaufman has released a one-page body language cheat sheet of psychological “tells” (PDF link) fiction writers can use to dress their characters.

I made a Google Sheet/ Website with all of the Star Trek shows and movies with how long it would take to watch everything:

All episode times were sourced from the IMDB page for each episode. All times for movies were also sourced from IMDB. I plan on updating the individual series/ season once all episodes have been released therefore also updating the times of both that individual series and the total Trek run time.

If you see any errors or something I have missed please let me know. This was a project all one by just one individual, me.

Thank you.

Memento Mori 💀⌛️

here are links and websites that you can open to help palestine, may it be for donations, petitions, or what more do you need to know. i am open to adding more links from anyone, so please let me know what can i add. the more, the better.

also, let me know if there are links that are inaccessible.

THE LEAST THAT YOU CAN DO:

do not forget your daily clicks!

DONATIONS:

donate to local relief groups/kitchens so they can alleviate the hunger of 1,000+ people in their area

medical aid for palestinians

urgent support for medical professionals in gaza

emergency relief for gaza

emergency appeal to support gaza emergency medical relief

help support families in sudan impacted by war

Help Asjad and her Family Escape War in Sudan

Help Tala make a future after losing all family

please help noor and her family by donating in to their gfm

please help rawan ahmed and her family escape the war in gaza

CareForGaza: Supporting Displaced Families in Gaza

PETITIONS:

petition to investigate war crimes committed by the israeli military

demand ceasefire

open call for immediate ceasefire

urge the american government to stop funding israeli military

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

a collection of credible sources for anyone who wants to know more about palestine and its history

list of companies that support israel

here is a spreadsheet containing fundraising platforms that help palestine escape the violence of genocide

spreadsheet of more than 500 funding links for supporting families in gaza

FicsForGaza: donate vetted fundraisers who help palestinian people by sponsoring some of tumblr writers’ fics/wips or vice versa! (more details in the link)

FUCKING TRUTH!!!!!

nads (aka nadinewarnerr) over on twitter, a palestinian, has called for a strike from june 16th - june 22nd. if you are unable to miss work or school that is ok and if you have any questions about this strike please message nads or jay (aka blythtism) over on twitter/x as i am not the main person who has called the strike just someone hoping to get the word out to more people.

Changing the Narrative

now more than ever, it is imperative that you spend time with people you love and doing things that you love. be prepared but please please please don't dwell on things that have yet to happen. you have to have hope for a better future in order to build one. it's gonna be okay. we're gonna make it. i love you.

I just did The Morally Correct Thing To Do In A Situation ™️ and now understand why doing the right thing almost made Zuko die