Help ArchofImagine become a Foster Mom!

archofimagine:

Hi guys – I know I don’t know a lot of you personally, but over the past few months I’ve taken multiple steps to become a ‘mom’ and help as many foster kids as possible. (Including: training, getting fulltime work, moving to a 3bd house) Now, I’m two weeks from my first inspection and ready for a ‘virtual’ baby/kid shower!

The following link has explanations of where the money will go. Please share as much as possible. I know as writers of fan works we spend a lot of time contemplating ‘what if’ our characters had gone through being a foster kid, and the truth is… hundreds of thousands of kids every year are in the system and just looking for a real home.

FUNDRAISING LINK HERE!!

(Side note: if you’d like to donate a piece of fanwork for a fundraising auction, please message me!)

Help Support Squee the Fangirl Documentary Web Series

onthebanksoftheriverstupid:

Squee the Fangirl Documentary Web Series is an act of love, but love doesn’t pay the bills or provide awesome content. Please help out by supporting or at least giving a signal boost.

Women are an integral part of fandom. If we want to see people like ourselves have our stories told we have to be willing to show support beyond just consuming free content. Any help would be appreciated.

Help Support Squee the Fangirl Documentary Web Series

re: Goodreads

messier51:

ozonecologne:

Hey!! Do you have work up on Goodreads that shouldn’t be there? Fear not, I’ve got some resources that can help you.

@malallory was kind enough to send me some good information earlier: anybody who has at least 50 books in their Goodreads profile can apply to be a “librarian” on the site, which allows them to add, remove, and edit book information.  So ask around, maybe put in the tags here some people you know that have librarian status! They might be able to help remove works from Goodreads that has been added in your name. 

@mystic-majestic is one such kind individual and has given permission to be volunteered for the cause. I’d like to get a bunch more names added here – maybe between all of us working together we can come to solutions that make everybody happy. We both want to make it clear that there was no malicious intent at work here.

(Idealistic to be sure. But there’s got to be respect among content creators and consumers. I think this is a good way to start.)

I love you all, good luck. ❤

So I’m a goodreads librarian but (as I just found out) I don’t have the ability to delete things that have more than a few reviews–you need to be a superlibrarian for that? Which I am not. 

However, from the librarian page: 

* book-length fanfiction which is complete (no WIPs, please), and self-published. Note that we do remove fanfiction at the author’s request.

[source]

(sidenote: I’ve contacted someone that I’m pretty sure IS a superlibrarian to ask about it, but I am happy to try to help in any way I can for now? for example, I know I can delete links to AO3)

So if you contact them they have it in their rules that it will be removed. (https://www.goodreads.com/about/contact_us  or email support@goodreads.com) 

There’s also a whole thread in their forum here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2120086-fanfiction-deletion which I DID NOT read all of but it goes into detail on this topic, probably about the reason why that caveat is included in the librarian instructions page. 

re: Goodreads

ozonecologne:

Hey!! Do you have work up on Goodreads that shouldn’t be there? Fear not, I’ve got some resources that can help you.

@malallory was kind enough to send me some good information earlier: anybody who has at least 50 books in their Goodreads profile can apply to be a “librarian” on the site, which allows them to add, remove, and edit book information.  So ask around, maybe put in the tags here some people you know that have librarian status! They might be able to help remove works from Goodreads that has been added in your name. 

@mystic-majestic is one such kind individual and has given permission to be volunteered for the cause. I’d like to get a bunch more names added here – maybe between all of us working together we can come to solutions that make everybody happy. We both want to make it clear that there was no malicious intent at work here.

(Idealistic to be sure. But there’s got to be respect among content creators and consumers. I think this is a good way to start.)

I love you all, good luck. ❤

Friends of Dani Marzano (warkitt3nz)—please share

bert-and-ernie-are-gay:

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Dear friends and supporters: our beloved Dani’s partner Scott died suddenly and unexpectedly on June 20th of unknown causes. He was the sole breadwinner for their family because Dani has been ill for the last couple of years with an untreatable sleep disorder, severe anxiety, and bipolar depression.

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We want to try to help her pay bills and rent for the next few months, until she can figure out what her next steps will be. She will need as much love and support as we can give her, and we know our #SPNFamily will especially want to help. Thank you for your love for Dani and generosity, and thank you for sharing this with your friends.

https://www.gofundme.com/warkitt3ns

this is awkward but i need your help

hanni-bunny-lecter:

deanirae:

I feel extremely weird doing this
but it seems that I have no other way to sort things out unless a miracle anvil
falls on my head and puts me out of my misery. I have to ask for help because
my dad is poor as hell too and my country’s Healthcare system only makes sense
in theory and sadly things are worse than i thought they would get.

I’m Sara, 27, and I was born with
cerebral palsy that affects the right side of my body, rendering it more of an
ornament than limbs i could use the way most people do. Until recently I managed
quite well in day to day functioning, putting all the stress and work on my
left side limbs.

In december 2016, on my way from
my amazing minimum wage job, i got hit by a car, unfortunately on my left side.
In the following months, until basically just now, there were wrong diagnoses
involved. My left ankle was sprained and broken, my spine got injured and i
also had a broken elbow. Plus a ripped forehead, minor head injury and general
long lasting pain from the impacts.

Or at least, that was what the
doctor thought bc he wouldn’t listen to me complaining that the arm (and back
and leg too but those aren’t even treatable) keeps getting worse even when i
try to do the most mundane stuff. „The bone healed, u just in pain bc u fat,
stop bein fat,” he kept saying. But I wouldn’t stop complaining bc the pain im
experiencing every waking hour never goes away and sometimes it’s so bad i can’t
compare it with anything and hey i used to write for a living.

Recently he finally gave in and
sent me to an EMG. Turns out I have two nerves damaged, one of them severely. I
got even switched to opioids (tramadol). And I’m in need of further diagnostics
tests and a surgery.

The Beautiful Polish Healthcare
system wants me to wait 9 months to get the MRI i need if I sign up now and 6 years
for the surgery in an okayish hospital. A year or two in a hospital that’s that
kind of a spot where you go to die. And even there they aren’t sure how long
because 1) they have contract issues and just don’t know when they can do a surgery
2) I’d have to wait months to have their doctor see me and tell if they even do
that kind of a surgery.

I don’t have that kind of time.
Basic tasks are taking a toll on me, my boss decided to get rid of me behind my
back and he purposely makes things harder. In my current state I can’t even try
to find a job anywhere. And I need to pay the bills like everyone else, I
already kind of wasn’t getting by on the minimum wage.

The only thing that can
potentially get me back on the job market soon (circa 2 months for the surgery,
around 6 for rehabilitation knowing my luck) is getting the MRI and surgery
done in private facilities. I need 450 zł for the MRI, 150 zł for the
consultation with the clinic’s doctor and 2500 zł for the surgery itself,
assuming they perform it there bc i need to get the MRI first to see if a more
complicated and expensive treatment isn’t necessary.

That’s like 820 $ and I’m like Holy
Crap because my monthly income is 388$, where 206$ is my bills alone so I got
like 182$ to get food, medicine, stuff for home, transportation, anything. So
it’s kind of astronomical for me. And if I get fired soon, I won’t even have
that 388$.

I already have a 1143$ debt from
few years back (i was jobless for months and had to pay for my living) I’m
still not able to pay back. And I also still have 1265$ of the student’s loan
left to pay which my dad is helping me with so it’s really hard for us.

So please, if you could help me
raise the money for the arm surgery (820$/3100zł), I’d be grateful until the
end of my days.  

I can’t offer anything in return
now, but when i get better, I can promise you SPN fics based on your prompts.
Here’s where you can find my stories to check my skills & style.

Here’s my paypal where you can
help me.

You can also help me by
reblogging this post :)).

Thank you in advance,

PS. If you need any proof im not
making this story up for money, let me know and I’ll show you accident/treatment
documentation or sth

– sari adri, the deanirae person

PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST!

curlyhumility:

girlactionfigure:

A.C. Strip has long understood the significance of the diary his older brother kept as they fled the Holocaust with their parents. He turned it into a self-published book that he gave to his brother as a 90th birthday gift.

But Strip never considered the diary to be an important historical document. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is making him rethink that.

Strip’s brother’s journal is one of more than 200 diaries written by Holocaust victims and survivors the museum hopes to digitize and make available to the public with the help of its first crowd-funding campaign. The museum is seeking $250,000 for the project and will begin soliciting donations through Kickstarter on Monday, the birthday of the most famous Holocaust diarist, Anne Frank.

Read More: Here

Donate here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ushmm/save-their-stories-undiscovered-diaries-of-the-hol

If their goal is reached, their entire diary collection will be catalogued, translated, and published online for EVERYONE. They hope to stem holocaust denial by the power of so many readily-available firsthand accounts.

Please signal boost even if you can’t spare $5 to donate!