Concept: Tarvek and Anevka as a sibling ice dance duo. They compete against Gil and Zeetha, who have the added bonus of being twins.
The Sturmvoraus kids are good at spins and flexibility, known for their amazing costumes and flair for drama, while the Wulfenbach twins are known for their lifts and absurdly powerful skating.
Agatha’s a commentator who is very much crushing on both boys and Very Obvious About It, and an old friend of Zeetha’s.
I love this because Agatha’s obvious thirst would. Quickly go viral. Like, one side of this is a sports story about the actual characters, but the other side is absolutely an outsider POV social media comedy where Agatha accidentally rises from a gainfully employed no-name to somebody dominating two knowyourmeme articles because she once went unf out loud on international television after Gil finished a spin in a pose that just…really showed off his…general…torso…qualities. She’s mortified. Lilith was watching that. Lilith was watching right after when she tried to play down her Gil thirst and accidentally played up her Tarvek thirst in the ensuing rant instead and didn’t catch on to what she was doing until she’d dug a grave-deep hole.
(But they probably all end up together at the end, so at least there’s some payoff.)
Brookhill Village in Charlotte, NC, is being demolished. Hundreds of African-American families are going to be evicted, and their are no plans to offer them any sort of affordable alternative to their homes, which are now being demolished.
Developers like Shook Kelley are actively demolishing the neighborhood and replacing it with higher-end housing that will “attract millenials” without a second thought of what will become of Brookhill’s current residents.
In other words, this is another step in the process of gentrifying Charlotte, making it essentially unlivable for all of the communities that have lived here throughout its entire history.
The developers and architects of this project to displace an entire community have continued shamelessly and unchallenged, what little publicity this event has received has been glamorous news reels, talking of plans to “revitalize” a working-class community.
This Thursday, December 13th, I hope that I can help change that.
A small organization has gathered around the purpose of offering some kind of meaningful resistance – I am proud to say that I have been doing what I can to aid in these efforts.
The main goal of everyone involved has been to organize a community meeting this Thursday in order to rally the community to defend their homes.
However, as you can imagine, this is not as simple as handing out flyers and expecting everyone to be there – I must once again stress that the residents of Brookhill are working class families who work long hours, and need a material reason to show up in opposition to a developer who is literally burning down flyers and posters that mention the event.
The organization, STP Charlotte, has vowed to do their best to
provide transportation to and from the meeting as well as provide food
and child care at the meeting itself.
As you can imagine, this costs money.
If you have the money to spare, I ask that you send what you can to help organize this meeting. This really means a lot to me, but it would certainly mean a whole lot more to the families living in such a precarious housing situation.
Google Pay: ServeThePeopleCLT@Gmail.com
Venmo: @STP-CLT
If you can’t spare any money, consider reblogging this post, and if you know anyone in the area, be sure to let them know.
I would love to move back to Dreamwidth, but my primary internet device is my phone. I have a very long, cramped commute so I do everything handheld.
Dreamwidth SUUUUUUCKS on mobile. Font too small, doesn’t scale, etc etc. Does anyone have any tricks to make it usable? Suggestion of browsers?
My username is “basingstoke” btw. I’ll try to post more.
As someone who’s spent a lot of time on Dreamwidth on her phone, I’ve found that turning it sideways makes everything a very reasonable size again. I know some people hate browsing sideways so much they have their phones locked to always stay upright, but give it a try.
I also think you can change your site skin to make it better for mobile: looking just now, there’s one called Lynx that says it’s better for mobile users. I haven’t personally tried this (I like the purple one too much!) but now I’m curious how it goes!
I actually took this as just a general “badass picture” thing at first but you meant from this post, I think? If not then I apologise, but if yea then here you go.
This was a journey in trying to find a way to draw Uraraka properly. I think I still failed.
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