Please Please PLEASE Watch This Christmas Spot We Got In Spain

one of my final college assignments! we were given a small excerpt of The Circus of Dr. Lao to let it inspire a totally new story. i wrote a short story about a young boy and an ancient water serpent! 💧

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The 2022 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The ninth annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2022.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, retweet this tweet, boost this Mastodon post, check out this post on Reddit, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks like Facebook. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 44,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

The Middle

I wrote and illustrated this story as a birthday present for my partner, I hope you enjoy it!

Gail and Holly

Gail: Hey! What are you doing here?

Holly: Oh I just had to drop of a report. It's a murder case from a couple of weeks ago.

Gail: Isn't the courier usually bringing that stuff over?

Holly: Yeah. He was... sick or something. Hey come here.

(They go in a empty room)

Holly: Is it true? I just heard a rumor that there's some freak out there hunting you guys.

Gail: Yeah, Holly I'm not allowed to talk about this.

(Holly looks at her and begs her with her eyes)

Gail: There's an officer that was shot she's in the hospital and a few other officers took fire.

Holly: You mean you. Someone shot at you? Ar... well you're gonna go back out there?

Gail: Yeah Holly I'm a police officer...

Holly: That doesn't mean you have to go out there and put yourself in danger.

Gail: Yeah it kind of does.

Holly: Oh okay well fine (Doesn't seem like anything would be fine). But lis listen that girl last night I barley know her okay it was it was a stupid setup. Well anyway I just I just thought you should know. I don't know why I didn't tell you I mean I mean we tell each other stuff right. This was so great about us hanging out I I guess that's why when I heard what was happening I just thought I should come down here and I don't know. Just make sure you're okay or something.

Gail: (stops her from talking by pulling her fast closer and kiss her)

Gail: I'm sorry you you just had to stop talking

Holly: I say an other word. (whispers)

Gail: (Is slowly kissing her again)

(Gail comes out of the room)

Oliver: Hey gonna roll out here in about ten minutes so you cool with that?

Gail: Yeah. Sure.

Oliver: Okay

(Holly comes out of the same room he sees her)

?: Hey.

Holly: Hi.

Oliver: Hey. That's your friend from the forensics lab...

(Gail interrupts)

Gail: The courier was sick Oliver! If you really must know!

(Oliver stands there and doesn't get what is going on)

Elise and Eryka

Elise: My boyfriend left.

Eryka: Oh.

Elise: It's good I think.

Eryka: I'm sorry. Why?

Elise: Because he knows I'm not in love with him.

(Pause, they make eye contact.

Elise: I've never really... eh... been in love befor.

(as she talks she stands up and goes near to Eryka)

Eryka: You should try it, it's nice.

Elise: No I hate it. It's like a virus.

Eryka: Well how can you know if you never you

(she comes near too)

Elise: Well because when he left he was very angry but I wasn't (pause) I wasn't thinking about him.

Eryka: What were you thinking about?

(she is silence, they make eye contact, Eryka comes even near now they stand just some centimeters away from each other)

Eryka: You can say it. (whispering)

Elise: Eh, you?! I was thinking about you it's not particularly physical or anything it's just

(Eryka touches her cheek and Elise stops abruptly)

Eryka: It's not physical? Are you quite sure about that?

(she sounds like she is going to cry)

Elise: (replies with a kiss)

im like... once spilt cup of tea away from chopping my hair off, running into the forest naked, eating raw meat off the bone and becoming an urban legend who bites your toes off at night if you chant my name three times in the mirror

guess who made a horror-themed uquiz!!! How Easy Would You Be To Kill?