Jakebe T. Drake-Lope @jakebe@awoo.space
A digital jackalope living in a black man's body. Pronouns: he/him/his. I love my blackness, and yours.
Joined Sep 2017
Con staff are *literally* community organizers; as members of the community they're organizing, it's up to us to make the job easier.
As bad as it was to run Megaplex for example, my understanding was it was either that or forfeiting contracts because of FL COVID laws.
One way to help con staff make cons better for everyone is to offer ways to solve the problem you bring to them. Remember: chances are they're normal folks, just like you. You have the same knowledge and resources they do in all likelihood.
...the list goes on and on.
After seeing how con staff gets treated, I decided to back away for my mental health. I have a heap of admiration and respect for those who stick with it. It's so fucking hard, and you're way more likely to get thrashed than thanked for the job you do
I can all but guarantee you most con staff struggle with knowing the legal ramifications of running a con, much less stuff like safety and security, event planning, accessibility and representation, project management, travel logistics, business contracts, marketing....
I understand the desire to hold folks accountable for mistakes and bad situations, but I also think we miss these folks are just normal people likely in over their heads doing a thankless and impossible job.
Call out mistakes, yeah, but extend grace where we can.
As someone who has been on con staff for Further Confusion, I cannot overstate how hard folks work to put on these events. It is. INSANELY. HARD.
Most volunteers are doing this in their free time with no training for any of this on top of very hard normal lives.
RT @happyroadkill@twitter.com
Milo Mouse is not a wimp
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/happyroadkill/status/1425812906852200454
RT @ThePenDrake@twitter.com
Thanks, brain
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ThePenDrake/status/1425836145212985357
OMG, that's why Las Vegas is so exhausting! Sounds definitely overstimulate me, especially voices. Vegas can be kind of a nightmare if you don't know what you're walking into.
RT @blkgirllostkeys@twitter.com
I went to Las Vegas for the first time last month. I was prepared for the visual stimulation. I was prepared for a lot of people, I frequent lots of major cities when I can. I was as prepared as one can be for the heat.
What nobody could prepare me for was the sound.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/blkgirllostkeys/status/1425827791036157953
Medication gives you a fighting chance -- it eases the slope of your uphill fight. But it's still a struggle. You have to unlearn unhealthy coping mechanisms, and dive deep to work on the things that can't be resolved with anything but hard work and persistent effort.
Even with diagnosis and treatment, it's STILL something I'm fighting against. Writing has become exceptionally hard for me to do because there's still so much anxiety wrapped up in it.
The thing about mental illness is that medication is only part of your recovery.
This kind of paralysis is what finally got me to see a doctor about ADHD. It just got to the point where it was causing severe anxiety (especially at work) and really awful self-talk.
RT @JayZero95@twitter.com
Saw this in an adhd group Im a part of
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JayZero95/status/1425508446984617990
RT @richterscale@twitter.com
The Keanu Reeves Three-fold Path:
Bill & Ted: Be excellent to one another.
The Matrix: Step out of your worldview and listen to those doing the work toward revolution.
John Wick: Destroy those who delight in cruelty.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/richterscale/status/1129189641490436096
This is a hilarious deep cut. If you know, you know. :)
RT @AmeriKraut@twitter.com
my fall plans. the delta variant.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AmeriKraut/status/1425468264113655813
Just finished Beastars S2 over lunch and I don't know what to say
I think I've got a handle on how people behave in this world and then THAT happens
WTF WTF WTF
Your friendly reminder that "taking reasonable precautions in the midst of a deadly global pandemic" =/= "living in fear", no matter what some numpty says about it
*dissolves into Thanos dust, blows away oldly in the wind*
RT @lmansley@twitter.com
Just learned there is a YA book coming out soon in which a teen looks for clues about her birth mother in HER DAD’s LIVEJOURNAL. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt older than in this very moment.
RT @Iskaudiir@twitter.com
If less than half of the folks who have seen this tweet were able to donate a few dollars, I'd be in a safe spot for this month no problem. If you can donate anything at all it'd mean the world to me and even if you can't, a retweet or like is just as valuable uvu; https://twitter.com/Iskaudiir/status/1423352355043504128
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Iskaudiir/status/1424086396113874944
RT @ThePenDrake@twitter.com
@jakebe@twitter.com You could follow @ramez@twitter.com -- he provides a lot of positive-focused climate change news
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ThePenDrake/status/1425146335850762240
A digital jackalope living in a black man's body. Pronouns: he/him/his. I love my blackness, and yours.
Joined Sep 2017
