The Election – A Goodbye
Thanks for joining me on this month’s storyline. Chapter Four is over, but Chapter Five starts Tuesday!
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Tomorrow, April 1st 2025, we have a massively important State Supreme Court election here in the state of Wisconsin. It will decide the balance of the state supreme court, and it's vitally important that we get Susan Crawford elected. Elon Musk has literally poured millions of dollars into Brad Schimel's campaign, and we are fighting for our lives here. I've already voted, and if you haven't yet and you live here... make sure you do.
But no matter what happens tomorrow, no matter what the result is, the fight is far from over. ICE agents are grabbing people off the streets, our public institutions are being systematically destroyed, and our international and diplomatic relations with historically close allies are just, honestly, fucked right now. Today is Trans Day of Visibility, and trans and queer rights have been under steady attack by the right. As a nonbinary person and member of the trans community, I'm genuinely scared for a lot of my friends right now.
But we fight. We stand up. We survive.
If we accept defeat, we are handing victory to those who want us dead. By living and fighting, we carry on to the next day and then the day after that. I know I posted it right after the election last November, but there's a pretty famous Joe Hill quote everyone should keep in mind: "Don't waste any time mourning. Organize!"
Go out, hug your friends. Build a local community if you can, and get involved in your local politics. Make sure you call your Reps and Senators every day if you can, and for pete's sake fucking vote.
We can make it as long as we don't stop fighting.
Remember that on April 5th at 11AM Eastern/10AM Central you can join me for the Critical Thinking Witches' Collective's April Brew virtual event! Attendance is free, and you can register here!
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yea she won’t be missed
not even bothering to tell your long time BF you were thinking of leaving town. that cold
door..hit…ass..out.. etc.
I don’t know – “I took the job in Chicago” implies Tara had told Lynn there WAS a job in Chicago she was trying to get. Lynn just didn’t know that Tara had gotten an offer.
bf= boyfriend not best friend sorry if that wasn’t clear
Ah. I guess since that was so long ago I didn’t think about it.
wow… in hindsight she wasn’t with the con very long.
Four years isn’t that long? That’s not atypical for college town cons.
It’s rather interesting how the plot ends with someone who was one of the main cast leaving.
Chicago’s too far to staff a con in Wisconsin? Wow.
(No no, I know most cons are very local. For Anthrocon though, we presently only have one of our ten Directors in the same state as the convention, and he lives a 4.5 hour drive away. We email a lot.)
Bork Con is run in a fictional town in north western Wisconsin, about five to six hours away from Chicago
and since BC holds all their board meetings IRL thats not feasible to do weekly