Welcome Back, Everyone!

Welcome back, everyone!

Thank you to everyone who filled out the Google Form and helped to create such a wonderful prompt list this year!

(transcribed below the cut)

"Once I start, I won't be able to stop, alright?

Left Behind

Left Behind

Facade

Hostage

"Sing to me, please?"

Stumbling

Experimentation

Bedside Vigil

"It's okay, you could never hurt me."

Rules

Forced to Watch

Loneliness

"Did I say you could stop?"

Counting

Back-Alley Medicine

Chase and Catch

"Just keep looking at me. You're doing great."

Sacrifice/Self-Sacrifice

Kidnapped

Fever

"I always wondered how it would feel to make you bleed."

Magical Exhaustion

Forced to Hurt

Accident

"Don't leave me."

Fate Worse Than Death

Bad Luck

Finding Out

"I didn't mean for this to happen."

Bad Caretaker

Alternative Prompts:

Blindfolded

Muzzled

Bruises

Tears

Denial

Betrayal

Bleeding Out

Trauma

Nightmares

"Help me."

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Wait…So the Democrats are in charge and we’re witnessing the overturn of Roe vs Wade??? You’ve got to be kidding me.

I’m just... I’m so speechless. I live in Texas [ugh] and many people I know have been downplaying the Heartbeat Act, ‘you can always go to another state’ [WHY tho, I live here], ‘nothing would happen to you’ [white woman], ‘it’s not that big of a deal’ [it IS], and so much more. No one is taking it seriously, and they won’t until it’s far too late. I got sterilized because of the Heartbeat Act, because I am terrified of bearing children [which should not be mixed with raising children, because I am 100% down for that shit]. I almost broke up with my boyfriend because he thought sterilization was a nuclear-level response to my fear of being/becoming pregnant - literally the only fight I’ve ever had with him, because he just doesn’t get it. He loves me, respects me, but thinks I’m going to regret having my tubes removed -- but fuck it, even if I do regret it, at least I can’t be forced to term in this hellscape.

He and most of the rest of the people in my life [to include my mom, who was ride-or-die for my surgery but still doesn’t understand why I’d be so upset about Roe v Wade, bless her confused heart] just can’t seem to grasp that this is a war on women - and We. Are. Losing. 

Abortion rights allowed women agency over their bodies. It allowed them to relieve financial burdens - because they are still in school [hell, they could be a teenager/minor, not that a middle-aged woman has less of a right than this hypothetical kid] - or emotional burdens - because they are pregnant with their rapists’ child [and sometimes, their familial rapist, for the ‘fun’ incest twist].

They are tired of people not having kids, of not having peons to staff their businesses and slave their lives away, that they are forcing the matter. And I hate it.

Didn’t mean to rant, but fuck if this isn’t my soapbox. I’m down for civil conversation, but don’t attack me - or any other woman - for their choices when it comes to abortion or sterilization. It’s a heavy, hard choice but I made it with both eyes wide open.

Thank you to the brave SCOTUS clerk or staffer that probably committed career suicide to leak the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade when they knew the whole country would be glued to the internet looking for Met Gala looks.

As we watch elite rich people flaunt their wealth, remember that reproductive rights are being chipped away more and more everyday. While abortion remains legal nationwide for two more months, you are witnessing a direct attack on folks who can get pregnant, and specifically on Black, Latines, Asian and Indigenous folks.

And remember that it doesn't stop here. The implications are extreme and next on the list are Lawrence v. Texas (case that legalized sodomy) and Obergefell v. Hodges (case that legalized same-sex marriage). The draft opinion refers to see as phony rights. People are going to die on a large scale because of this.

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[video transcript: (tiktok by user @levertthebassman)

Hey, Good Morning!

We all know the father of modern policing are slave patrols. But did you know that the police force has a brother? With a uniform and everything. We'll call him Kyle; we'll talk about him in a minute.

(quick cut)

The history of policing in the United States got its start in the North as the Nights Watch. It was created to keep white thieves safe from Native Americans who simply wanted their lands back. In the South, the Nights Watch evolved into Slave Patrols that were used to keel white thieves safe from the Africans they stole, enslaved, and forced to work stolen lands.

(quick cut)

According to historian Gary Potter, slave patrols served three main functions:

(cut to greenscreen of article excerpt)

(1) to chase down, apprehend, and return Black people to their enslavement;

(2) to provide a form of organized terror to deter slave revolts; [(cut back to narrator) that's right, slave patrols and modern policing are forms of state sponsored terror. That's why Ray Kelly and Michael Bloomberg fought so hard for Stop-And -Frisk; they wanted people to "think twice" before leaving their homes. (cut back to excerpt graphic)

and (3) to maintain a form of discipline for slave-workers who were subject to summary justice, outside the law, if they violated any plantation rules.

(cut back to narrator)

This is when Kyle was born. You see, back then organized policing was violent, and much like they do today, they utilized physical and psychological violence to keep the enslaved in line. Because the primary function of the police is not to protect and serve; they even went to court to prove that. (cut to greenscreen of article excerpt that reads:

"..."Neither the Constitution, nor state law, impose a general duty on police officers or other governmental officials to protect individual persons from harm, even when they know the harm will occur," said Darren L. Hutchinson, professor and associate dean at the Florida School of Law. "Police can watch someone attack you, refuse to intervene, and not violate the Constitution."

The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government has only a duty to protect persons who are 'in custody'," he pointed out.

(cut back to narrator)

The primary function of police is to control labor. Yeah. Everything they've done since their creation, has been to control labor. Which is why I find it funny now that the police are overworked and underpaid, but have spent the majority of their institution preventing people from protesting for better pay.

Don't believe me? In Chicago**, from 1975 to 1990, nearly a million people were arrested for protesting for better pay. If all Walmart workers went on strike right now, and protested in front of Walmart headquarters, who would the police be there to protect? If teachers right now across the country, left out of the class and went on strike, who would the police be there to protect? It can't be the people they're facing, because they're pointing guns at them. And you can't protect somebody if you're pointing a gun at them.

(quick cut)

Now, even though the police were physically and psychologically violent, there were things legally they couldn't do, or shouldn't do, but they did anyway. So those members of the slave patrols who didn't get into organized policing gave birth to Kyle Kevin Kirpatrick, KKK for short.

(quick cut)

According to historian Sally Hadden,

(cut to greenscreen of article excerpt)

"..."The history of police work in the South grows out of this early fascination, by white patrollers, with what Black people were doing." Most law enforcement was, by definition, white patrolmen watching, catching, or beating enslaved Black people."..."

(cut back to narrator)

That same mentality exists today in 2022. You see, "...when you're Black, you're never really lonely. Cause there will always be a white person all up in your business."

(red text graphic text indicating a Part 2)

:end video transcript]

** - the Haymarket "Affair" is another example of police controlling labor and preventing labor protest.

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Holy shit I did not expect to love this as much as I do. This is ridiculously well written.

✨ You guys, I have found the best piece of fanfiction ever written ✨

@definedareasofuncertainty knows of my habit of reading totally random fics from fandoms I know absolutely nothing about and sent me a link that is possibly the weirdest thing I have ever seen.

I thought I wouldn't make it past the first paragraph, but oh! Oh! It's so well written, the language is so smart. The story is gripping and the plot twist is genius, and the way the fic incorporates totally ridiculous aspects of this - I don't wanna say fandom, but I guess? - is just *chef's kiss*.

Istg I'm not even joking, it's just that good.

What fandom is this from, you ask? Well. 🥲 Here's where it gets funky.

💖 Barbie/Dracula 💖

Yes, that Barbie (whose last name is apparently Roberts??? Is this real?), and yes, that Dracula. 🥲 I know. I know. But do not discriminate, ok. Take a chance. Just click and read it and come thank me later.

If you read just one thing today, may it be la petit mort by howlingmoonrise.