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Aktion Freiheit statt AngstYoutube AGB im Stillen geändert Der Ton wird schärfer werden Mehr dazu bei <a href="https://netzpolitik.org/2025/diskriminierung-youtube-weicht-richtlinien-gegen-hassrede-auf/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://netzpolitik.org/2025/diskriminierung-youtube-weicht-richtlinien-gegen-hassrede-auf/</a> a-fsa.de/d/3Gz Link zu dieser Seite: <a href="https://www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/de/articles/9123-20250415-youtube-agb-im-stillen-geaendert.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/de/articles/9123-20250415-youtube-agb-im-stillen-geaendert.html</a> Link im Tor-Netzwerk: <a href="http://a6pdp5vmmw4zm5tifrc3qo2pyz7mvnk4zzimpesnckvzinubzmioddad.onion/de/articles/9123-20250415-youtube-agb-im-stillen-geaendert.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://a6pdp5vmmw4zm5tifrc3qo2pyz7mvnk4zzimpesnckvzinubzmioddad.onion/de/articles/9123-20250415-youtube-agb-im-stillen-geaendert.html</a> Tags: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AGB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AGB</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Youtube</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Twitter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hassreden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hassreden</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Anbiederung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anbiederung</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politik</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gleichberechtigung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gleichberechtigung</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gender</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Diskriminierung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Diskriminierung</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ungleichbehandlung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ungleichbehandlung</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zensur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zensur</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PennedPossibilities</a> 643 — How does your SC respond to the quiet? Do they take comfort in silence, or seek to fill the void with noise? </blockquote>Bolt, from the Reluctance Series during the Interstellar era, was blackmailed (framed for a murder) by the mob into being a messenger for a decade. She has wings. She had to be silent, sometimes a detective. It's not like she hung around mobsters, or wanted to be pulled in deeper. Nor could she confide in anyone, lest they get targeted by association. Worse, she never got paid much. Eventually, she found a camera that fell off the back of a wagon. She got into street photography. One time, when she happened to be where news happened (too often in her profession), she had taken a few photos when a reporter's camera got slammed into a wall.He asked if she'd sell him photos. Turned out she's pretty good.She often gets her photos into her world's version of The New Yorker and The New York Times and is also a part time stringer. As you can guess, she wanders the cold dank unfriendly streets when she can be free (makes it harder to be given "assignments"), and dispels the dangerous depressing quiet that might otherwise seep in.Her love affair with B&W street photography does not wane when she is freed from the mob, pardoned, and begins train to become a praetorian. Sure her subjects are different, and her wandering happens between trainings and bodyguard duties, but she has the knack of using a rangefinder without being noticed (think Leica).Edit: This actually gave me detective noir story idea...[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mystery</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thriller</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#romance</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sf</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sff</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSstory</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSReluctanceStory</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 2504.14 — Who is your kindest character and how do they show it?</blockquote>Of my recent works, Wintereyes from Inklings (now on composition hiatus) is likely my kindest. She lives in my Townships and Wands universe, which is full of various magicks. I've a few sample stories posted in my pinned samples post. Her magic is… well, it's rather peculiar.She's is a very naïve girl when it comes to humans, and as a result is suddenly shy (like her author). She wants to be helpful and she likes to listen, and not be seen (like her author). She's quite kind; her demeanor. She wants to be friends, but raised on a farm at the edge of the Fell Forest, her opportunities for friends were… well, rather peculiar.But not limited! She befriends wolves, is adopted by them, and lives with the pack, running with them, hunting with them, and healing them. This did not make her cruel, even when she also befriends prey animals, too. Her ethics are… interesting.Oh, about befriending. Befriending is her sacrificing part of herself to become more like her new friend. For example, her most recent mess started when she befriended a wyvern (bat-dragon) because it had a cold and was burning up the forest sneezing. She wanted to find out how to treat its cold! How did she become more like the creature? Besides learning how to converse with it, when she concentrates on its language, she can breathe fire. (It's like a glottal stop.)But she'd never hurt anybody with it!The Warlord of the closest Township (actually a woman) takes a serious interest in Wintereyes, and her story begins. See image: This is how I imagine the wyvern. A face only a mother, or Wintereyes, could love. <a href="https://de.pinterest.com/pin/342344009165649564/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://de.pinterest.com/pin/342344009165649564/</a>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mystery</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/erotic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#erotic</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#romance</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasy</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSstory</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSInklingsStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSInklingsStory</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScribesAndMakers</a> 2504.14 — Would you enjoy living in a creative village/house/shared accommodation? Or do you already?</blockquote>The question did not ask if I had enjoyed living in a creative space (past tense). I did. I attended the Clarion Writers Workshop (Clarion West). It's for Speculative, SF, Fantasy, and (I think) Horror Genre writing. It's for professionals or professional wannabes. You have to submit work to qualify.It was literally (pun intended) the best six weeks of my life as an author.Don't get me wrong, selling is fabulous, but the feeling lasts only a moment (like sex). The sense of community and actually living the life of an author while attending the workshop cannot be beat. We lived together (except for a few locals) in the dorms of a college in downtown Seattle, cooked together, used the showers together, had our own floor to ourselves. We spent many hours in the common areas gabbing and blue-skying. Mostly, however, we wrote. Then read what others wrote. Then critiqued. Learned how to do that well, learned how to anticipate certain critiques from specific authors and to fix our stuff (assuming we thought we need to), learned how to have a hard shell by accepting criticism that helped us, and rejecting what didn't. Largely, we also helped each other through our fears. Week days we had a guest lecturer who was a professional writer or editor. One day a week, we attended readings, usually at Powell's, by a local writer, though once at an author's place (I think that was for Octavia Butler).The feeling of community and support was amazing. One time I wrote a 15,000 word novella in 15 hours for critique the next day. That was my max output per hour or per day ever. I never felt burnt out. Those six weeks seemed to compact six months of life into a short span. When I returned home, I barely recognized my surroundings or old life. Ask my spouse!Highly RecommendedPS: After reading other responses I want to qualify that I am cripplingly shy, introverted, and write fiction that doesn't go much with my persona. Nobody knew my gender despite an enormous email thread until I arrived, and I got the nickname Ambiguous Spice (and Oblivious Spice) for a reason. I warmed quickly because these were people like me. Kinda weird, some introverted, some extroverted. All in love with words and stories. 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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PennedPossibilities</a> 0.044 — What is the most altruistic thing your MC has ever done?</blockquote>May Ri is neither altruistic nor is she transactional. For a woman who is always fighting against the paternalistic rules placed upon her, she pretty much does what she is told (but not always!). Her choice of friends and her prior decisions shaped her actions, which greatly helped the initial generations of native martians. She's great at engineering design and is especially talented at reverse engineering tech if given plenty of electronic and optical scopes, and other tools.What she did for Mars will be noted as foundational as much as it was politically ancillary, except for the last thing. She often volunteered in the crèche domes taking care of 3-6 year olds, but she liked that. Having been oppressed and mistrusted as a girl, she let her five daughters make their own choices, which is arguably how they grew up to be a force in their own right. She mentored and apprenticed hundreds of young martian women (and a few boys) in engineering and design.[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sf</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sff</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSstory</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSMarsNeededWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSMarsNeededWomen</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"This has led to all sorts of ongoing devastating consequences for human relationships including the persistence of racism, sexism, classism, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia. …It's indisputable at this point that men and boys are both in trouble and also themselves the direct cause of many of their problems”.~ Ibid.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christianity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#race</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#masculinity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/whitechristiannationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitechristiannationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AngelaDenker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AngelaDenker</a> /5

William Lindsey :toad:"This second choice, only to address that men and boys are in trouble but not to address the ways in which they're part of the problem, again often favored by conservatives, also makes a common historical era of privileging the emotional and physical needs of white Christian men and boys ahead of the emotional and physical needs of other human beings."~ Ibid.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christianity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#race</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#masculinity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/whitechristiannationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitechristiannationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AngelaDenker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AngelaDenker</a> /4

William Lindsey :toad:"We want to help them make the healthier and more fruitful, but difficult, choice to relinquish some status, power, and wealth in favor of improved relationships and more equitable and loving communities."~ Ibid.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christianity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#race</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#masculinity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/whitechristiannationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitechristiannationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AngelaDenker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AngelaDenker</a> /3

William Lindsey :toad:"If we only see that men and boys are in trouble, but don't address their roles in the problem, we risk infantilizing them and under-emphasizing the role of choice and agency among men and boys in choosing to step away from radicalization, violence, and brittle masculinity."~ Ibid., p. 80<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christianity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#race</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#masculinity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/whitechristiannationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitechristiannationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AngelaDenker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AngelaDenker</a> /2

William Lindsey :toad:This thread is a continuation of a previous one (linked below) featuring excerpts from Angela Denker's Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood (Minneapolis: Broadleaf, 2025). I'm starting a new thread now rather than linking to the old one, as I offer new excerpts from Denker's book.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christianity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#race</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#masculinity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/whitechristiannationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitechristiannationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AngelaDenker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AngelaDenker</a> /1<a href="https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/114327053623993929" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/114327053623993929</a><a href="https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889830757/Disciples-of-White-Jesus" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889830757/Disciples-of-White-Jesus</a>

Stanisław KrawczykOpen Call for Case Studies on Women and Minorities in Creative Computing, submission deadline on April 17: <a href="https://costgrade.eu/news/open-call-for-case-studies/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://costgrade.eu/news/open-call-for-case-studies/</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#women</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/minorities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#minorities</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computing</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#games</a>

Nat OleanderTrump is using the white supremacy playbook of "protecting women" and "protecting children" to uphold the colonizing, patriarchal notion of the gender binary.“Using the language of ‘child protection’ to justify the oppression of trans youth betrays the very values this month is meant to uphold.”<a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/04/devotes-truly-horrific-child-awareness-decree-to-slandering-parents-of-trans-youth" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/04/devotes-truly-horrific-child-awareness-decree-to-slandering-parents-of-trans-youth</a><a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transgender</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transphobia</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/genderbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genderbinary</a>

Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/1994286/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/1994286/</a> As Hungary votes on a ban of LGBTQ+ Pride, what does it mean for other basic rights? <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#europe</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EuropeanUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EuropeanUnion</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GeneralNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneralNews</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/hungary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hungary</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HungaryGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HungaryGovernment</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ViktorOrb%C3%A1n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ViktorOrbán</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/VladimirPutin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VladimirPutin</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#world</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WorldNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorldNews</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WorldTopics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorldTopics</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, ProsaistIn celebration of 900 followers, I've created a new masthead for my profile. The photo is one I took of Catalina Harbor, showing the town, the Casino, the docks, and a cruise ship.Thank you everyone for following. I'll work to keep on providing interesting and entertaining writing related content!<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sf</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feminist</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasy</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingCommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PennedPossibilities</a> 642 — How old are some of your characters?</blockquote>I'm glad this isn't just MCs or SCs. I'll go with the last written story point or idea that isn't written.Devil-girl: ~19 Bolt/Streak: 27 Streak and Thorn: 18 Emeraline: 31 Marigold: 26 Triplets Cloud Dancer, Meadow Dancer, and Fire Dancer: 35 The Hawk: 26 Chrome: 31 Rainy Days: > 3,000May Ri: 45 Mari: 22 Manette: 19 Twins Miriam and Maurine 17 Moria: 13 Reina Īto: 35 Randy: 55[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sf</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sff</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSstory</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSReluctanceStory</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSMarsNeededWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSMarsNeededWomen</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microfiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/flashfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flashfiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tootfic</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/smallstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#smallstory</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WCC</a> 2504.14 — International Moment of Laughter Day! What’s the funniest thing you’ve ever written? Read?</blockquote>Offhand, there was that time were a serious MC came down with singing and dancing mania. It's a real thing, by the way. Look it up. Nevertheless, very embarrassing! If I remember something else, I'll post a part two.I've read a lot of Terry Pratchett's books. I'd certainly vote him number one. Jack Vance also comes to mind, but heck if I remember why…[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 2504.13 — How dangerous is your MC? CW: Definite Background Spoilers.</blockquote>The Reluctance Series stories MCs by danger score least to most:<ul><li>0: Devil-girl — Give her a book and leave her alone.</li><li>1: Streak — He's a sweetie. He'll have your back if you are mobbed by bullies. His danger score is multiplied by Thorn's as he's protective of her. He did charm the pants off of Rainy Days, so there's that wild card.</li><li>2: Thorn Rose — She's capable, just not very antagonistic. Pushed into a corner, watch out. Her danger score is divided by Streak's because she realizes he has more common sense than she does and listens to him when he's around to advise her. She loves him.</li><li>3: Rainy Days — She's a lot less capable then most people think, but she has experience. Her inclination is to fight for others. First it was family, then it was for women. After millennia of bearing children, all of humanity is related to her—except the dragons. She's very sweet, caring, supportive, and she'll teach you lessons if she thinks you'll benefit from it. You don't want to cross her, however. She's lived through the fall of two civilizations, and ended up being rebuilt from parts at the end of the last fall. She's technologically immortal and always 24 years old.</li><li>4: Devil-girl — Told you to give her a book and leave her alone, didn't I? Nobody listens! She's very capable (unlike Rainy Days) and self-taught. People keep using her as their sharp tool. She'll try the dangerous, impossible, and taboo things anyway because, Well, that's Interesting! The character was conceived as a study in how evil isn't born but is created through interaction with others and their environment. Each story is, Which side of the knife edge will she tumble? Will she end up saving people or suddenly be so frustrated she ceases to give a damn? Recently she discovered love, and got that used against her—not by her lovers, thank goodness! Well, we'll see.</li></ul>BTW: Streak and Thorn live 200 years before the Devil-girl. Roughly 1960 vs 2160.[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mystery</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thriller</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#romance</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sf</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sff</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSstory</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSReluctanceStory</a>

Ada :v_trans: :v_pan:Gender Dysphoria isn't one simple thing like "being born in the wrong body". That is, at best, a gross over-simplification of reality. It's closer to a complex composite of emotions felt from everything from a broken self-image caused by having lived through years of body dysmorphia......to the conflicting gender roles and expectations imposed by patriarchal, societal and religious beliefs ...to the sexualization and fetishization of us, equally done by people in public and private ...to the skin/hair problems endemic with hormonal imbalances and desperate efforts at managing them ...to the limbo felt from being stuck on medical waiting lists for years without relief and with no end in sight ...to the othering and perpetual ignorance, fear and prejudice from society's ...to the denial and discrimination in both work and social services ...to the absolute dread felt every time we are clocked as trans, never knowing if they will react by ignoring, mocking or harming us.<a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/dysphoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dysphoria</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a>

William Lindsey :toad:“The misleading depiction of Jesus as warrior, man's man—as unsympathetic, lonely, and harsh was always a caricature. That White Jesus is always eventually exposed as a straw man, an Oz shouting behind the curtain, a president reliant on spray tan and tax fraud. Jesus as he was and is offers something much more powerful and relatable." ~ Ibid., p. 78<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christianity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#race</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#masculinity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/whitechristiannationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitechristiannationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AngelaDenker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AngelaDenker</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> /16

William Lindsey :toad:"By offering young boys and men a window into a nonmilitant, peaceful, loving, caring, friendly, hopeful, vulnerable, needy, well-adjusted, occasionally tearful Jesus—we can offer young, white Christian boys and men a much fuller, healthier, and more accessible vision of masculinity: one that's more reflective of the wide spectrum of masculinity and femininity occupied by both boys and girls.” ~ Ibid., p. 78<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christianity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#race</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#masculinity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/whitechristiannationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whitechristiannationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AngelaDenker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AngelaDenker</a> /15

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