Lauren DeStefano Always Seems To Find And Share These Little Gems...

Finally reading PJO… and HOO… and TOA. Can you guess who my favourite character is?

Ireland is the only country in Europe without legal accessible abortion. Now a woman has been sentenced to jail for self-induced abortion

Two years ago a 21-year-old woman used drugs she bought on the internet to self-induce an abortion when she couldn’t get one legally. Her roommates turned her in. Here’s what happened (are you listening, Donald Trump fans?)

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Me, too! And you can't convince me otherwise.

So I’ve seen a lot of great TRC posts on my dash lately and the numbers are rising, but I haven’t seen any networks for these wonderful books! So I figured we should try and start one. 

Edit:The first wave of applications will close at midnight tonight (Eastern Standard Time). I will post the list of all those accepted tomorrow! Thanks everyone What is trcnetwork?

The Raven Cycle Network will be a place for all the fans of trc to get together and share head canons, fan art, fics, poetry, edits, etc and just have fun discussing the books we all love!

How to join

Please reblog this to spread the word! The more people that join the better this network will be. 

Message me introducing yourself! I’d love to get to know you, but you don’t have to be following me. You can tell me your age, name, favorite character in trc, or whatever else you might want to add (like if you’re a writer or an artist or an avid poetry enthusiast, whatever)

I’ll open the network up after I get 5-10 members, but I won’t cap it at that. More people are welcome to join, I just have to see how many people are actually interested first. 

What will we do?

Talk to other fans! This network will be a great way to make friends in a safe and open environment. This will be a hate free network. It will be a place to throw around ideas and have fun, not put down ships/characters/users etc. No wars. period. 

Support each other and build the fandom. We’ll tag our trc posts with the network tag, which will be #trcnetwork so that other members can see them and reblog them.

help with beta reading, graphic making, fic/art ideas etc. If this gets big enough it could really be a great place to get help with any of these things. We can bounce ideas off of each other!

Anyone is welcome to join! It doesn’t matter if you don’t make edits or tics or art. You matter and you are a part of this fandom and we want you! 

Please reblog this to spread the word! As soon as I see there’s interest for a network, I’ll start setting everything up. 

This is a huge deal. Don’t sugarcoat it. 

School system today

Earlier this month a guy at my school got caught with weed and was expelled. A week ago a guy raped a girl during school hours on school property and all he got was a warning.

Our islands are not a playground for your little "intrepid soul search". Pull up or fuck off

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Oh my goodness, I never realized how many dang characters there are in these series...

Herondale boys and their parabati!! 

Granted, I have no clue if Shadowhunter is related to the Herondales, but he’s the first shadowhunter anyway so he gets to go in there as the earliest generation of everything. 

Super sketchy sorry >< got a stomach ache

“What can I do to help Syria?”

Well, after educating yourself and advocating for the rights of the Syrian people in their fight for freedom against a brutal dictatorship as well as naming and holding accountable those who aid the Assad regime such as Iran, Hezbollah and Russia among others, *breathes*, you can help by donating to any of the organisations/groups listed below. 

These groups mainly help on the ground in Syria providing aid; be it medical or psychological as well as food and clothes to those in need.

SAMS Foundation: the foundation works with Syrian American health care professionals and operates 106 medical facilities throughout Syria

Doctors Without Borders (also known as MSF): the organisation provides front-line medical treatment as well as providing drugs, medical supplies and equipment

Questscope: the organisation’s work is mostly centered on providing immediate trauma support and psychosocial counseling

Save the Children: the organisation is on the ground in Syria and in refugee communities providing children and their families with warm clothes, shelters, clean water and emergency care

Syrian Civil Defense (also known as The White Helmets): they are about 3,000 neutral, impartial and humanitarian Syrian volunteers who operate as first responders in rebel-held areas across the country. They were recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Karam Foundation: the organisations is focused on educational opportunities for Syrian children, currently raising funds to rebuild schools in Syria.

NuDay Syria: the organisation’s mission focuses on bringing housing and food to displaced families with single mothers or wounded family members. They are especially concerned with the lack of safe shelter and living for single mothers with daughters.

Hand in Hand for Syria: the organisation provides aid including food, clothing, water, sanitation and crucial medical assistance 

According to the United Nations, there are almost 14 million Syrian refugees around the world (so far) in need of humanitarian aid. The groups below are mainly focused on helping Syrian refugees:

Migrant Offshore Aid Station: this charity exists to save children like Alan Kurdi, with a fleet of rescue boats patrolling the Mediterranean to save migrants lost at sea.

Refugees Welcome: dubbed as a kind of “Airbnb for refugees” this German nonprofit matches people with spare rooms with refugees in need of housing. If you don’t have a spare bed in Germany.

The Worldwide Tribe in Calais: a group of social activists documenting stories in the Calais migrant camp, they also raise relief funds.  

Small Projects Istanbul: the initiative provides classes and cultural enrichment and scholarships to Syrian children in Turkey.

International Medical Corps: they run a service center for Syrian refugees that provides medical care, classes and job training.

Medical Teams International: the organisation focuses on health and dental care for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. 

Mercy Corps: the group provides direct aid to Syrian refugees in the form of food and supplies, and by increasing access to clean water and sanitation, shelters, and safe spaces and activities for children

Shelterbox: the group has been providing emergency shelter and supplies to families affected by the Syrian crisis in Iraq Kurdistan, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, including clothing, stoves and, water filters.

UNICEF: the UN agency focuses on assisting Syrian children by providing healthcare, nutrition, immunization, water and sanitation, and classes.

Oxfam: the nonprofit provides aid to Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan such as clean water, sanitation services, and hygiene education to help ward of cholera and other intestinal diseases.

Yes, donating won’t stop barrel bombs from falling on besieged civilian areas (that comes by being vocal about Assad’s crimes) but it can definitely help create a start.