Charlie Cox's Birthday Is Next Week!

Charlie Cox's birthday is next week!

This is the 3rd yr Wukky1 (on Twitter) and @dichotomystudios do a charity fundraisers for CharlieCox's birthday! 100% of the proceeds go to Sightsavers, an international charity Charlie loves.

Team #SaveDaredevil love Sightsavers too. They're a wonderful organisation working in some of the poorest countries in the world. Please consider donating to this worthy cause and making this world a better place.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/charlie-coxs-sightsavers-birthday-fundraiser

Sometimes I look at a picture and think...Why haven’t I written a fic where someone has to jump into a pool to perform a brave rescue and then afterwards drinks a beer while sitting with wet clothes clinging to every curve of his body while the rescued person is recovering? Because, of course, he’s trying to look nonchalant about it, even though he’s deeply unsettled by how close he came to losing this person. Why hasn’t that even occurred to me? 

Tom Ellis for "Man's Health"

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stargate Atlantis Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Samantha "Sam" Carter, Jack O'Neill, Original Child Character(s) Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Alternate Universe, Don't copy to another site Series: Part 13 of The Detective and the Woobie 'Verse Summary:

Colonel Sheppard learns once again that life can be surprising, and how his might have gone differently.

PLEASE VOTE. VOTE A STRAIGHT BLUE TICKET. VOTE BIDEN/HARRIS.

You need to vote Democratic in 2020 if you ever want your vote to count in the U.S. again. The Supreme Court’s latest ruling shows GOP intent to steal the 2020 elections and establish ongoing minority rule.

In Sept. 2016, I warned that Trump could win. I wasn’t overreacting then. I’m not overreacting now. We are in real trouble in the U.S.

Short version: the Republican party is openly preparing to steal the 2020 U.S. presidential election through the Supreme Court if it is even remotely close. If their cheating works this year, the United States may never have fair elections again.

The ONLY WAY to stop this now is to vote for Biden in such overwhelming numbers that the election can’t possibly be awarded to Trump. PLEASE vote if you haven’t yet. This isn’t even about who wins anymore: this is about whether you want to continue to live in a democracy or not.

If you can possibly vote in person, do so.

If you can vote safely on Election Day, Nov. 3rd, do so.

If you have to mail in your ballot, mail it NOW, or better yet, drop it off at an official ballot drop box or polling place rather than relying on the overburdened, sabotaged USPS.

If Trump loses, he will sue to throw out mail-in votes, absentee votes, and early votes, because those votes lean Democratic. So if you can vote in person, do– especially if you’re in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Arizona, or Texas.

Longer explanation: The Supreme Court is now packed with 3 judges who, as lawyers, worked on Bush v. Gore in 2000. These 3 judges were on the legal team that used underhanded tricks to throw out Democratic votes and keep the vote count going until Bush was ahead, then they used more tricks to stop the count at that point. The Supreme Court, then conservative-dominated, ruled to give Bush the presidency.

If all the ballots had been counted and held to the same standards, Gore would have won.

Trump has openly stated that he wants Amy Coney Barrett on the Court in time for the election: if he doesn’t win the election, he intends to sue to have votes thrown out until he wins.

Republicans have (receipts in links):

Deliberately sabotaged the US Postal Service to make voting by mail unreliable during the pandemic.

Limited ballot drop boxes to 1 per county in Texas, so that in some counties, millions of voters only had 1 drop box to take their ballots.

Put out fake ballot drop boxes to collect ballots illegally.

Sued to prevent election officials from counting mail-in or absentee votes that arrive after November 3rd.

Fought to allow untrained election officials to throw out mail-in ballots if they don’t think the signatures match the voters’ official signature, which might have been recorded decades before.

On the Supreme Court, the conservatives wrote that state courts don’t have jurisdiction over their elections, in a clear signal that if the election is close, SCOTUS intends to intervene and overrule the states to the benefit of the GOP.

The only way to secure the right to fair elections in the future is to vote Democratic in overwhelming numbers now so that 2020 can’t be stolen. Then we’ll have to keep pushing Democrats to balance the courts and fix the electoral systems to reclaim democracy in the U.S. But first, we have to get the GOP out of power, or they will institutionalize permanent minority rule.

VOTE.

Guh. 

“The Dark Side urged Kylo to fight and destroy, but Rey’s Light was too strong. Attracting him to her. Setting his body on fire. Kylo tried desperately to search the control inside him, but when he closed his eyes, it was Rey who was there. Waiting for him in the darkness behind his eyelids.”  😏

I went through this period where I kept fantasizing about just driving away...in the morning, driving past my office rather than going into work, in the afternoon, leaving work and driving somewhere, anywhere, rather than home. I didn’t know where.

And then I wrote I Dream of Jinn, where Ben (AU Obi-Wan), with a better job than mine, felt that same dissatisfaction, and did it, drove away one day, and found a bottle with a version of Qui-Gon as a genie. It was a very fun fic to write and I only realized months later that I no longer had that desire to drive away. It was gone. Not that my life had become perfect, but somehow writing someone else actually doing the thing and it turning out great for him ended that need for me. 

I use my life and things that happen around me ALL the time in my fics, but that is the clearest I can point to, writing resolved a problem for me. I highly recommend it.  

So I went to my therapist the other day, and later in the appointment I mentioned that I like to write self-insert fiction to cope. I also said that I generally hide it and felt embarrassed mentioning it due to the way people treat the concept online.

She said that self-inserting yourself into art and writing is an incredibly healthy way to feel good about yourself, and that she was appalled when I told her about the way it’s mocked on the internet.

So never feel bad about self-inserting or enjoying reader insert fanfiction, 1/1 professionals agree that it’s good for you and that the jerks who say you’re doing something wrong are just uneducated and don’t understand. Never listen to the anons who try to make you feel bad <3 

Have a really nice day!