kami and friend!

December 17th, Day 2

Warmth / Cold

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"Sorry, I went overboard"

Those were Shouto's last words after his victory against Sero Hanta during the U.A. Sports Festival's Fighting Tournament.

He's watching his "frozen" opponent with a defeteated look because the whole "conceal, don't feel" thing about Endeavor didn't work this time.

The tape-user, however, seemed a bit disappointed by the situation and not quite happy for it.

"You can say that...fuking Queen Elsa..."

"Uh? Did you said something?

"Nothing, just wondering when you'll start singing "Let it go" since you already begun to build your ice castle...with me inside of it..."

Todokori approched the other guy in order to set him free from that giant wall using his hated left side.

While he was waiting, Hanta has some time to think over the strange behaviour, so different for this usually distant attitude.

"You kind of set off an eternal winter, everywhere around here" - joked Sero, this time with a more calm and soft voice - "something was definely wrong before our match even started, wasn't it?"

Shouto widely open his eyes: he failed to hide those painful emotions.

"I..." - the boy tried to say sorry but he coudn't- "...went overboard"

"You already told that. TWICE"

Todokori smirked and a small smile appeared on his face once the giant ice Wall was nowhere to be seen anymore.

"You know"- he whispered with a shy voice - "some people are worth melting for"

Those were Shouto's last words before leaving the ring and a sheepish Sero on it

"Good flirting quote, extremely bad timing though"

Hi all, 

Mods Sero (Zoe) and Mina (Ev) here with an update on the state of Sixth Wheel Zine and recent information that has come to light regarding Head Mod Jirou’s (Sydnee) mishandling of zine finances.

We’d like to thank you all again for your support of the zine and your patience during shipping/fulfillment. Given recent events, we feel it is our responsibility to elaborate on some things that have occurred behind the scenes.

Shipping Issues 

 During the shipping period, Zoe and Ev had noticed that the head mod Sydnee was struggling with fulfilling some obligations, primarily shipping. Though we made many offers to help her fulfill shipping responsibilities (such as fixing shipstation issues), Sydnee turned us down, assured us that she had the situation under control, and remained tight-lipped about information we needed in order to update our contributors.

It was only with a lot of pressure from Zoe that shipments went out to contributors, and both Ev and Zoe needed to provide money to pay the costs of some shipments, according to Sydnee — but our access to various accounts was greatly restricted. Some of this was due to privacy/inability to share access (i.e. the bank account that Stripe deposited money into), as well as Sydnee’s unwillingness to give up control.

The majority of the remnants sales were confirmed to have been shipped out on Halloween and then the rest was confirmed to have been shipped on Monday, November 4th.

Finances 

With shipments all fulfilled, on November 4th, Zoe began tracking down payments, receipts, and other zine costs, and she realized that numbers weren’t adding up. After all fees, refunds, and zine expenses were calculated, we discovered that about 80% of the zine’s profit was missing.

On Wednesday, Nov 6th, Sydnee finally came clean to Zoe and Ev. Without their knowledge Sydnee had been dipping into the zine’s profits for her own bills. Sydnee, as of right now, does not have the money to pay back the missing amount. She says that her father will help her pay this deficit back at a rate of $200 a week. Due to this, it will require about 10 weeks for the deficit to be paid back. Sydnee then offered a few payment plans and a promise to keep contributors updated over the course of the 10 weeks she was returning the funds.

However, there remains an issue with Sydnee’s ability to be contacted. Since deleting her Tumblr account nearly a year ago, the main ways of contacting her have been through her accounts on Twitter and Discord. She deleted her Twitter accounts on Thursday, November 7th.

Zoe and Ev gave Sydnee a deadline to explain the situation to the contributors (Nov 11). After making an announcement in the zine’s Discord server and requesting that everyone take 24 hours to cool down, Sydnee logged off. She returned the morning of Nov 12th to say that since no one had any questions for her, she had transferred ownership of the server to Zoe. She then left the server.

Mods are still in contact with her through Discord and will follow up every week about her weekly $200 payments, but it remains that Sydnee has closed down as many avenues to contact her as possible and that there’s only one reliable way left. 

Mods will pay contributors their shares in full as they’re able, based on the order of which contributors need their money asap vs those who don’t mind to wait. At this point in time, we have to hope that she will remain committed to returning what she owes. 

 Thank you again.

You know what, looking back on it, my friends and I survived the Bush Presidency

We would have survived a McCain Presidency

We would have survived a Romney Presidency

I honestly worry that there are some people who would not survive a Trump Presidency

I don’t care how much you love Gary Johnson, or Jill Stein. On November 8, 2016, one of two things will be true: either Hillary Clinton will be elected President, or Donald Trump will be elected President.

Which one, HONESTLY, would be worse?

This isn’t the year to “vote your conscience.”

There’s a fucking dangerous man one election away from being President.

This is the year to vote to survive.

Any other year, this would be an exaggeration. We survived Bush, we could have survived McCain or Romney. This year, Trump’s danger is no exaggeration.

Don’t vote your conscience, vote to survive.

We will not, not, NOT SURVIVE Trump.

The LGBT community will not survive.

The communities of middle eastern descent will not survive.

Women, especially women who want a right to choose, will not survive.

The black community will not survive.

The latino community will not survive.

The disabled community will not survive.

I guarantee that there are more groups.

We as a country will not survive a Trump-Pence Presidency

The poor will not survive

Please understand that Trump plans to not only do what the US did to Japanese Americans in WWII on a massive level with Mexicans and Muslims but also destroy the economy with it

Somehow this post is going around again and it’s appeared on my own dash and I still think Trump is going to kill us all. Y'all’s protest votes did nothing.

Hey look it’s my post from 2016

Now that it’s almost 2020, can you see that this wasn’t a fucking exaggeration

Do you understand now

This is going around again and now that we’re in the Democratic Primaries and y'all are already saying about how you’ll stay home if you’re favorite doesn’t win I’d just like to remind y'all that people are dying in the Trump administration

People are dying in concentration camps at the border

Trump rolled back Obamacare and now millions more people are without insurance

Trump is rolling back environmental regulations and climate change and pollution will kill us

States are banning abortion which will affect millions of poor women and women of color and SCOTUS night overturn Roe v Wade

Hate crimes against Jews and people of color and LGBT people are going up

There are Nazis in the White House and marching in the streets

And Trump has given tax cuts to billionaires and appointed judges that will take away your constitutional rights

Are you happy with your choice to vote third party? To stay home? Was it worth it? Was all of this worth it?

We’re facing the same choice again. We can’t have four more years of this.

Fight like hell for your candidate in the primaries. Then if and when they lose, get in line behind the winner.

We failed in 2016. The life and death stakes in 2020 are even higher.

Vote. For. Democrats.