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Tumblr user daysanddangerousbits:

If you're in Maine or Philly or wherever the fuck Vance claimed DHS is going next, I BEG you to look at the rapid response and mutual aid networks and how they've been built in Portland, Chicago, and the Twin Cities, and start building your own version NOW.

Download signal if you haven't already. Pick a resistance pseudonym. Make a proton email that has no indicators to your real name. Start buying and printing whistles and whistle zines.

Organize your school patrols and foot patrols NOW. Talk to your community and your mercados and your Hmong and Somali grocery stores, ask them what support they need. Get "ICE are not welcome here" signage for businesses and homes. Familiarize yourself with the difference between an administrative warrant and a judicial warrant.

Learn how to take down a SALUTE report. PRACTICE salute reports. Learn, memorize, and embody radio etiquette for rapid response work.

Pick your lane: rapid response or mutual aid-- you can't do both, because rapid response often puts you in direct contact with ICE. They've been taking down plate numbers and leading responders back to their own homes here in the Twin Cities.

Remember that being under siege is a marathon, not a race. ( Explicit talk of dehumanizing ICE tactics )

Tumblr user kawaiiabetic:

Hey, Angeleno here to add: look for or start mutual aid groups that buy out your vendors, jardineros, tradespeople, helping support the most vulnerable members of your community from making the choice to stay home and safe or provide for family. We’re still doing this here and it helps.

“ICE NOT WELCOME” signs are great for solidarity and breaking morale, but please make and help pass out signs stating a home or business is private property. Make sure your business has an area explicitly for employees only. What we’ve seen in the last week makes all this seem like sticking a post-it on a viper and none of us know where we’re headed now, but it’s easy to do and could make a difference. It’s made a difference here.

Stay safe and take care of each other 🫡

This is the bare bones of a post bc I’m not feeling up to much today.

Challenge #12

Make an appreciation post to those who enhance your fandom life. Appreciate them in bullet points, prose, poetry, a moodboard, a song... whatever moves you!

Queen - “You’re My Best Friend”
Pentatonix - “I Just Called To Say I Love You”

*offers hugs and gf cupcakes*

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Challenge #13

TALK ABOUT A COMMUNITY SPACE YOU LIKE. It doesn’t need to be your favorite, or the one where you spend the most time (although it certainly can be). Maybe it’s even one that you’ve barely visited. But talk about that space and how it helps support fannish community.

Is the #Batfamily Crack tag on tumblr a community? I mean we riff off one another enough to possibly qualify?

Challenge #9: Favorite Tropes

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

Curtainfics are so soothing when they're done well. I get that reading things with angst or action or people having giant realizations make for the usual sort of good reading that everyone wants to write. But when writers have the chops to make quiet domestic happiness into something meaningful and interesting - oh yeah. That's the good shit. Like, you see these characters who are used to every kind of violence and rootlessness? They get to go on the journey of being untrusting of their own happiness and slowly relaxing into coming to ground somewhere safe and someone loving and beloved. It appeals to the part of me that knows that Happily Ever After, or even Happy For Now is a lot harder than it looks to put any faith in for a certain kind of person.

And Found Family / Families of Choice are the stories that have taught me so much about how to relate to people I don't really understand. They're a happiness that reaches into my monkey instincts and says that I, too, can have a bigger tribe, that I, too, can fit into a tribe even if I don't understand the Rube Goldberg machine of moving parts in unusual shapes accomplishing amazing things together.

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Challenge #10: Big Mood (Board)

CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

Post your answer to today's challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Also, feel free to entice engagement by giving us a preview of what your post covers.

I'm feeling Star Wars-y today, and I want to share some songs. Unfortunately, these are on Youtube, bc I lack other accessibility that is not equally terrible.

• Obi-Wan Kenobi - Brave - by Sara Bareilles

Nothing's gonna hurt you the way that words do
When they settle 'neath your skin
Kept on the inside and no sunlight
Sometimes a shadow wins
But I wonder what would happen if you
Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

• Anakin Skywalker - Alive - by Sia

I have made every single mistake
That you could ever possibly make
I took and I took and I took what you gave
But you never noticed that I was in pain

• Ghost Company - Start a Riot - by Duckwrth and Shaboozey

Make way (make way)
I'm comin' through with my crew to make 'em pay
I don't need no super suit, I'm feelin' brave
Don't be a hero, turn around and walk away