Hello! Welcome to my pinned post. I update this as I go, so if you’re seeing it on a reblog, you might find extra fic links in the one on my blog.

FYI, I write a lot of comments and jokes in the tags. I love it when people enjoy them enough to include them in the reblogs (like I cannot express how much), but I’d prefer if you could attach my username to it, whether it’s just adding (via @jackironsides) or whatever. It’s clear to anyone seeing it on your blog, but I’ve seen my tags circulating unattributed on posts that have like six more reblogs after them often enough, and it makes me sad. I toiled hard in the joke mines for those, dammit.

If you’re interested in my fic, the tag is, obscurely enough, #my fic. Also my AO3 is jackironsides. Below the cut at the bottom of this post is the current list of my main WIPs that are being posted here, which are (mostly) not yet on AO3. They’re all Geraskier Witcher fics.

I have chronic pain, chronic fatigue, ADHD and histamine issues, and sometimes I talk about this.

Tags to blacklist

If you have any kind of issues with disordered eating, or you find it upsetting, you might want to blacklist the tag #disordered eating, because that’s what I talk about my difficulties with food sometimes, such as the bad days when making food is hard bc of my chronic fatigue, or ADHD, or both. Or the ways I’ve had to heavily restrict my diet for chronic illness reasons.

I have a tag called #bitch session, which is for when I’m grumpy and probably being petty, or just want to complain about how Hard things are in that moment. Feel free to block it.

Below the cut is my list of WIPs (with links!) and meta. x

wiltkingart:

the lovers

peoniea:

wetwareproblem:

krismichelle429:

brunhiddensmusings:

ordinaryfruitpunch:

‘agreed’. that’s a funny way to spell ‘were forcibly removed with the alternative of painful deaths’. 

tennantbutt:

theweirdwideweb:

propaganda

Your regular reminder that the first example is Canadian. (The clue is “first nations.”)

Much as we like to pretend otherwise, America doesn’t have a monopoly on racism, genocide, or whitewashing.

also a reminder than australian schools do not acknowledge our own history of slavery, or “blackbirding”. i had no idea 60,000 pacific islanders were kidnapped and enslaved in australia until after i graduated, because no one talks about it. and even what we do learn is watered down. the focus was always on white settlers and how they discovered land, their mapping, their dedication and their struggles; only very briefly do we get to focus on the murders they committed, the generational trauma they caused by stealing an entire generation for the sole purpose of breeding the indigenous blood out of them, the indescribable, abhorrent things they did to indigenous people.

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Normally I’d be playing The Witcher 3 today, but I spent four hours with my family and now I’m exhausted. Gonna be playing a few hours of Cassette Beasts if anyone wants to come join

ALT

television-overload:

How do you usually write your fanfiction?

In Microsoft Word

On Google Docs

On Tumblr

In my notes app

On paper

Directly on AO3’s story posting page (what is wrong with you??)

Some other way (explain)

Results

Reblog for sample size!

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fkaluis:

a little sacrifice

devildaisies:

Every poll on this website is like:

I’m asking a question aimed at a specific group?

Yes 🟦

No 🟦

I’m not part of that group 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦

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jewishvitya:

[This post was originally written in response to someone tagging me and claiming that a free Palestine would mean all Israeli Jews will be kicked out and where will I go, and how they can’t understand why I’m so against Israel being our ethnostate. OP blocked me, so I’m reposting with a few edits, because I already wrote this and I might as well.]

Look. I understand your mentality. We’re traumatized by a history of violence against us. We were shown that so many in the world want us dead, and so many others won’t stop them. I get it. But I refuse to let myself silently become the face of similar oppression for other people.

Israel benefits from antisemitism and maintains myths that got Jewish people killed in the past, like double loyalty. It weaponizes it for propaganda reasons. It’s supported by antisemitic Christian zionist organizations with terrifying motivations. It started out with violence not only against Palestinians but against Jews too. Israel isn’t motivated by our safety, it abuses that idea. It manipulates and weaponizes our trauma to make us feel justified in causing so much suffering to innocent people.

You’re right that I’ll have nowhere to go if I’m kicked out of here. This is where I was born. My parents come from other countries that I won’t feel safe in. But all of this is hypothetical. The ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians is not hypothetical, it’s REALITY. It’s happening RIGHT NOW. And I don’t understand how, as a Jewish person who knows what this kind of suffering and loss of life means, you seem unable to prioritize that. I tell you I’m witnessing a genocide happening right next to me and you keep telling me “but what if they hurt you instead.”

The assumption that Palestinians will pull some sort of reverse ethnic cleansing against us is racist. This assumption is the reason Israel feels comfortable calling the carpet bombing of a civilian population “self defense.” Killing them based on a this is not self defense, it’s a racially motivated crime against humanity.

And I’m calling it an assumption because I’m not willing to pull from the Hamas charter that they’ve since replaced. Hamas isn’t Palestinians. The only reason they became this powerful is Israeli funding, and Israeli violence giving Hamas free PR as the only ones who will stand up to the state that will keep them trapped and dying.

We control every aspect of their lives. Israel created a place that breeds radicalization. No group of people, living under the conditions forced on Palestinians, would be peaceful. They would fight back. Because peaceful attempts to have the human rights that Israel denies them got nothing. We stomped on every single one. We blocked all other routes and left them with only violence, which Israeli politicians have been using as an excuse for over 15 years to make a show of force with military campaigns whenever they wanted a boost in popularity. We created living conditions with such low life expectancy that half of the population is children because so few adults survive. They don’t deserve this. No one deserves this.

Palestine was a land with people living in it. One plot of land can create multiple groups of people, especially when we’ve been separated for 2000 years. Our connection to this land does not cancel out theirs. Removing them to create our own country could never be right. It’s not an argument saying that our connection to Israel gives us the right to move here to live ALONGSIDE Palestinians. That’s not what we wanted. We wanted a country that enforces Jewish majority and legally prioritizes Jews. You’re justifying this when I repeatedly state that the only way for it to exist is through ethnic cleansing and genocide. There’s no way to make this concept into a reality without killing, displacing, and oppressing whoever’s left in various different ways, from apartheid to other kinds of discrimination.

I’m not against safety for us. I want to be safe. I want my children to grow in a safe world where we can be openly and joyfully Jewish. I’m not willing to pay for that with the lives and freedoms of other people.

So I will be loud about this: Palestinians deserve to be free in every part of their homeland, even if it’s our ancestral homeland too.

If safety for us means we’re the ones committing the genocide, maybe we should rethink what safety looks like.

I’m terrified for the lives of millions of people in Gaza. Right now, all I can think about is this, and it baffles me to see people so willing to transfer the horrors of our history to other people.

I had a lovely conversation in DMs in response to the first post, about how zionism encourages us to isolate rather than build bridges in the places where we live all over the world. We can’t ignore the way antisemitism saturates culture, but we should also remember the places where Jewish communities thrived for centuries, the places where our neighbors protected us. We’re hated, and we’re loved. Each form of oppression is unique, so no other group experiences what Jewish people do exactly, but we’re not alone. We have a long and rich history of solidarity with other marginalized communities and involvement in liberation movements. We’re actively working to make the world safer, and we have people fighting with us. I’m just participating in this fight where I am. The struggle for liberation is a human struggle. You can’t use the trauma of antisemitism to silence me about other kinds of bigotry.

Never again. To ANYONE.

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kerink:

some great advice from jeffrey cranor

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