Aura 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇹🇼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

10 May 2025

My own expanded version of the poem. Ask yourself where you are on the list ... and if you're willing to wait for your turn.

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It should be an 8-year term, not 18, and it should require each Justice to be ELECTED to the seat, with a 1-term limit, period. Expand the court to 13, with 10 seats elected by a district that accounts for 10% of the population. The other 3, elected by a process within the Judiciary Branch, where 🧵

4fuxake@blueheartedly1.bsky.social

Absolutely 👇

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all members of the Judiciary Branch vote from among themselves to choose the most experienced and most qualified three individuals from within their own branch. Rip away Executive influence on the Judiciary. Forever.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #FreeScotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #FreeWales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪 I don't think there is anywhere in Scotland that deserves to be saddled with an 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 name. Every location that bears such name should be renamed to the original name that the Scots gave it. Any other name is invalid - and an insult to Scottish people.

“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺@markrich68.bsky.social

Should the Highland town of Fort William be renamed (possibly Inverlochy) ? As recently as 1874 the town was renamed Fort William, in honour of the sectarian british King William III, the man who sanctioned the Glencoe Massacre ? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #FreeScotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #FreeWales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪 Personally, I think it should return to the name of Kiliwhimin. Firstly, because the true Scottish name is the proper one, in my personal opinion - and it's also a far cooler name, besides that. Tertiarily, never name shit after a genocidal asshole.

“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺@markrich68.bsky.social

Should the Highland town of Fort Augustus revert to its original name Kiliwhimin? 🇬🇧Fort Augustus was named in honour of William Augustus (Butcher Cumberland) by General Wade (‘Rebellious Scots to Crush’) Is it fitting for the town to be named after the man responsible for mass slaughter of Scots?🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#authorsky #booksky #QueerPrompts #writers #writing #WritingCommunity For Omega's Burden ... I want them to feel a mix of different emotions through the course of the story, and Weslea's life.

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social

#QueerPrompts October 27: Media (GIF, song, image, emojis, etc.) of what emotions you expect/want readers to feel

#authorsky #booksky #OctoberWorldbuilders #writers #writing #WritingCommunity Honestly, I just want them to put the story down feeling more empathetic, more patient, and more considerate of everyone different from them, than they were when they began reading. More considerate of the lived truth, 🧵

Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)@kiraofthewind.com

#OctoberWorldbuilders, how you feeling? Or rather, how do you want your readers to feel after they've finished your story? Are you trying to get them to feel a certain way? To think about a certain topic or theme? Or do you just want to entertain them?

least one new character who represents them and people like them in a more favourable, more open-hearted light. We all have our hardships, and our troubles, and we all make mistakes, sometimes interpret things wrong, and overreact or drive ourselves to feelings of outrage and indignation, for one 🧵

reason or another. I just want readers to remember: you matter, your feelings matter, but don't forget that other people have lived truths, too. Be as considerate to them as you'd ask someone to be to you.

Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)@kiraofthewind.com

of the feelings, of the shortcomings, of the trauma and the hardship, of people who are utterly dissimilar from them. For those who see themselves in one of the characters I write, I want them to put the book down feeling like they have been seen, like they have been validated, like they found at 🧵

I have to disagree on the basis that there's no accounting for taste. Taste isn't something you acquire by being wealthier. Simple fact? Donald is too fucking stupid to appreciate beautiful artwork, and lacks the fundamental empathy or humility for comedy. It's unsurprising his taste is “ugly.”

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social

It is genuinely weird that Trump has spent his whole life surrounded by extraordinary wealth and still has the absolute trashiest, tackiest taste imaginable.

#authorsky #booksky #LitHodgepodge #writers #writing #WritingCommunity I can't resist this one. This is a HUGE PART of Weslea's story in my current main project. Weslea, displaced from his father's home by his abusive mom, Elaine, while his father, Donatello, is out of town, is forced into exile 🧵

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The Lincolns assign special protection to underage sex workers, because they're putting themselves into more danger. The Lincolns see themselves as caretakers but NOT authority figures. Your life is yours. We'll make sure you will continue breathing. So Matteo is assigned to protect him, and so, 🧵

the two spend a lot of time together. Matteo quickly adopts him (not legally) as his little brother, calling him fratellino. Weslea eventually starts calling Matteo “grande fratello,” which is basically big brother.

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find the only place he knows homeless minors can be safe in any proximity to where he lives, without being forced to trade agency for safety. This takes the form of, most centrally, Matteo, a Lincoln who is known as a Slater - because he's a sniper who uses the H&K SL8, and is assigned to protect 🧵

Weslea, in particular. This is because Weslea, like around 25% of all homeless teens, is forced to make the hard decision to accept sex work so that he can make money and, therefore, survive. (The sex work is not eroticised, not shown graphically on screen. Weslea's sixteen. I won't write that.) 🧵

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sit under a bridge in the park reading books and holding hands, for *literal years.*) In Lincoln Park, Weslea's found family experience broadens to include a host of Lincolns - submissive-inclined male sex workers who monitor and run the Park, who are armed and trained in combat, and who have for 🧵

the last few decades promoted an environment in Lincoln Park where there've been no rapes and no murders at all. They particularly protect children and teenagers, and most particularly they protect the homeless ones who are there. This is how Weslea comes to meet them, coming to Lincoln Park, to 🧵

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Omega for the first time in his life who isn't related to him, and very animated. Darius and Alexander become like found family to Weslea, over the course of the story, taking a shine to him because he's kind and gentle, and because Jayden becomes rapidly enamoured with him and starts to formally 🧵

pursue/court Weslea, so all the more reason to form a bond because he's clearly gonna be part of their lives for a while, since Weslea is very receptive to Jayden's courtship, since Jayden is 13, Weslea is 16, and Jayden is very respectful, & it's an innocent courtship. (Seriously, all they do, is 🧵

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(after a fashion, it's present-day 🇺🇸), and travels from New Canaan, Connecticut, to NYC (not a long trip, New Canaan is basically an NYC suburb in Connecticut). On his first night in the abandoned subway tunnels he uses to get to his destination, Lincoln Park, he meets a family he can trust for a 🧵

stay overnight: a strong, wise, black male Alpha named Darius, his fair-skinned pretty-boy Omega husband, Alexander, their 2 kids (aged 5, Talisa, and aged 1 month, Miles), and Alexander's younger brother, a nascent Alpha named Jayden, who is extraordinarily excited and energetic about meeting an 🧵

#authorsky #booksky #Conlangity #writers #writing #WritingCommunity I am/my name is » mi:car/i-ye:a'lun bathroom/water closet » du:a'yat/mu:a'ra-nu'um “where is the” » ye:o ne:tan “I am lost.” » mi:car na'mir “I am hungry.” » mi:car na'al-a “I need help.” » mi a'she ni:nai. 🧵

🕷️🎃Profmare on Em Street🎃🕷️@professoremily.bsky.social

#Conlangity Day 27 Hello, I'm planning a vacation to a place where they speak your conlang! What are some useful words or phrases I would need to know in order to get around safely & have a good time? Think "beginner's crash course" for your conlang. I want to see some weirdly specific things! 😂

“where is the bathroom?” » ye:o ne:tan du:a'yat? “where is the hotel?” » ye:o ne:tan ki:a-yir “I would like the” » mi una dar:tan fish » juuk shellfish » hal:juuk beef » u:ma'i venison » o:gui'at pork » ze:a'nut duck » re:ama goose » re:aza chicken » re:uta pheasant » re:fir stew » du:um'ari 🧵

soup » ki:ag'a-ti hot » xuf cold » twa iced » ku:am frozen » twa:hi cream » ye:an milk » fiil hare/rabbit » ki'un/ki'un-gai tea » po:a coffee » yu-mei Example: “I would like the iced coffee.” » “Mi una dar:tan ku:am yu-mei.”

#authorsky #AwesomeCharacters #booksky #writers #writing #WritingCommunity I think, for me, characters that I “love to hate,” need to be ones I can understand, but more than that, whom I could see myself in. An antagonist whose motivations are exceptionally relatable, to me, on a personal level. 🧵

💀🫜 Count Charlie (Chelizabeth) Deltula 🦊🧛‍♂️@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social

Tell me about your #AwesomeCharacters Today feels like a technical question day! What separates a character you love to hate, from one you just hate? A villain you may not feel sympathy for, but enjoy nonetheless? Which do you like to write? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

in the wrong about something, or did something that was bad. As for which I like to write ... I'd say it's both, or rather that I don't really have a preference. I feel like for me it's what the story needs and what feels more organic on a character-to-character basis. Weslea's mother, Elaine, is 🧵

who she is because it's who Weslea told me she is, I didn't really design her that way, not consciously, it's more simply Weslea emerged from my subconscious fully formed, ready to tell me his story. I'm just the scribe writing down what he tells me, basically.

💀🫜 Count Charlie (Chelizabeth) Deltula 🦊🧛‍♂️@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social

Villains who aren't necessarily overlord types, but more like villains in a collective sense. The best example of this that I can offer is the recent Cornell case where those 7 students gang-raped a female classmate, and TOLD 50 OTHER men, and none of those men called the fucking police, EITHER. 🧵

Those are the kinds of antagonists and villains I JUST hate. Individuals who are bad on an absolute level, that I can not feel sorry for, because they do bad things, and then simply manufacture outrage and scour the world for justifications, afterwards, rather than considering they were, possibly, 🧵

💀🫜 Count Charlie (Chelizabeth) Deltula 🦊🧛‍♂️@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social

Someone I hate because I know exactly how they got there, whom I could see myself becoming in similar circumstances. The characters I JUST hate, are the ones I can't enjoy at all, like Weslea's mother, because there's a trauma connection, and people who manufacture outrage in an act of tribalism. 🧵

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🇭🇺 defeated fascism. 🇷🇸 defeated fascism. 🇧🇷 defeated fascism. I doubt that 🇺🇸 can. Those countries are not unexceptional stains that have spent 250 years lying to the entire world how exceptional they are.

4fuxake@blueheartedly1.bsky.social

Democracy in action 👇

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#authorsky #booksky #Octember #writers #writing #WritingCommunity This time, I have an answer absolutely ready for Weslea. He'd be a stuffed dragon that sings a lullaby when you squeeze it. Whenever the twins (Jake & Lily) couldn't sleep, Weslea was the one who would sing them a lullaby to help. 🧵

Zed Prospero@zprospero.bsky.social

Please try to remember the 26th of #Octember! TODAY'S QUESTION: What would your character be if they were a children's toy? A teddy, a jack-in-the-box, or a dolly? A cursed furby monster that's supposed to be "jolly"? AND, who would want to play with them? 1/2 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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He also red them bedtime stories, so he'd be a stuffed dragon that also tells you a bedtime story OR sings lullaby.

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If you support 🇮🇱 over 🇵🇸 & 🇱🇧, that alone tells me all I need to know about you. You don't get to police how people fight for freedom, or survival, against someone seeking their erasure. You don't get to decide how someone deals with the terrible intersection of poverty and trauma, either, frankly.

JeffTrnka@jefftrnka.bsky.social

Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank of Palestine are nothing new. They have been going on for years; but recently, the frequency & violence of the attacks have increased. Especially, as Palestinians attempt to harvest their crops during olive harvest season. youtu.be/-QpBFD6uh8U?...

Aura 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇹🇼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 reposted

Karen Sue Waters

@karensuew.bsky.social

Almost unbelievable that people as evil as this "person" roam the earth. Remember Hind. Never forget Hind.

Aura 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇹🇼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 reposted

Xela Hart

@xelahart.bsky.social

#authorsky #booksky #LItHodgepodge #writers #writing #WritingCommunity Okay, I don't usually participate in this one (don't ask me why, I don't even know, I'm always interested in reading it), but this is one that hits me really close to home, basically. I'm autistic. I've learned not to ATTEMPT 🧵

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to lie because I'm so bad at it that people immediately know when I'm trying to lie, in person or otherwise, so there's just really not a point, and honesty's the best policy, ANYWAY - because if you lie, you have to remember which lie you told which person and keep your stories straight. Easier, 🧵

I've learnt, to keep your story straight when the story is just the truth as you understand it and you admit that your story might change if your understanding of the truth changes - meaning not usually, but you're open to new evidence.

#authorsky #booksky #Conlangity #writers #writing #WritingCommunity animal » yu:ul machine » yu:ke mushroom » yu:ma plant » yu:le animate/animated: yu: fauna » en:ta'i flora » bu:rai fungi » ma:id The first three relate to the mobile ones. The latter relate only to the sessile ones.

🕷️🎃Profmare on Em Street🎃🕷️@professoremily.bsky.social

#Conlangity Day 26 The theme of this vocab day is plants/animals, or any other nonhuman life form that doesn't fit into those categories 😅 Think of a few that would be common or important in this culture, and come up with names for them. Do as many as you can, and explain the names if you want!

#authorsky #booksky #OctoberWorldbuilders #writers #writing #WritingCommunity This is basically the entire story in Omega's Burden. Weslea: experiences Omega Presentation and spontaneously transitions during an early Chapter, suddenly going from his AMAB anatomy to essentially having a fully and 🧵

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social

#QueerPrompts October 26: National Transgender Children Day & Intersex Awareness Day: Intersex or trans youth rep

naturally functioning vagina and womb. Lily, his little sister, Jake's twin: intersex fem, born with breasts, penis, testicles, instead of vagina and womb. Also an Alpha, so would've really gained the penis and testicles eventually anyway. Weslea's clients and the Janes in Janesdale are just all 🧵