Itsdarknightknight - That One Account

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My name is Mikey Peattie and I am a transgender student at Lake Dallas High School in Corinth, Texas. One of my teachers, Dr. Fionn Corcoran, is the first openly transgender teacher in our district, and possibly in the greater Denton/Dallas-Fort Worth area. In the month or so since he came out, he’s faced not only discrimination from students, but from his employers and fellow teachers as well. I made an LGBTQ+ safe space sign for his door, and before his coming out, it got ripped down maybe once or twice. Following his coming out however, the sign was torn down almost daily, and I would just keep making more in the hopes that maybe it would last for more than a day.

When all the smaller posters were torn down time after time, we decided to make a bigger poster, this one with the names and numbers of various suicide and LGBTQ+ hotlines on it, and even this one has been torn twice in the past week, both times by the same two students. Though these students were caught on camera in the act, their behavior was swept under the carpet as them just “having their own views,” and Dr. Corcoran was subsequently told that they may be forced to write an apology note and make a new sign, but that was it. The fact that these kids, and others, repeatedly tore down signs that were intended for nothing else but to make a certain group of people feel safe and accepted clearly shows the atmosphere of hate and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric that is present at Lake Dallas High School.

Earlier this year, the Gay-Straight Alliance that I am Vice President of put up around 20 posters around the school. It was subtle, and simply just had the name of the club and the meeting dates. By the next day, only about 4 remained, and within another day, they were all gone. Even when I saw someone tear one down right in front of me, and reported it, the student was simply required to write an (anonymous) apology letter to the club, one that was clearly scripted and took him maybe 10 minutes.

These occurrences, which could be characterized as hate crimes, show the staff’s indifference towards the safety of its LGBTQ+ staff and student body. Dr. Corcoran, despite being one of the most highly qualified and considerate teachers at the school, has been reprimanded for situations that any other teacher could find themselves in without the administration blinking an eye. They are systematically trying to push him out, without causing a scene that would ruin their image.

I and many others have stood by for too long letting this kind of abuse occur, and have finally had enough. We write to you hoping that media attention will force our admin to provide a safe environment for its LGBTQ+ students and staff, and make our school a better place.

Please please please spread this, without media attention, my school will be able to continue in its patterns of neglect, endangering its LGBTQ+ students, whilst protecting those who would try to put us in danger.

So insignificant

ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ ᵗᵃᵖ

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My favourite things about Scrivener

1. Navigation. You can see all your chapters, scenes, character & setting planning at one glance and switch between them very easily - compared to scrolling up and down in one long word processing document. Every file can also be a folder, so you can have collapsible items underneath it.

2. Word count targets. The “Project Targets” are particularly useful for NaNoWriMo so you don’t have to keep looking back at the website to see how you’re doing for the day, but more so outside of it, when you want to keep yourself working to a target but don’t have Nano’s charts and daily word counts. It also gives you a nice ding when you hit your session target.

3. How many pages? I only recently discovered this, but it’s very nice to be able to see in Project Statistics approximately how big your manuscript would be in pages without worrying about formatting. 

4. Outlining. Scrivener has two methods of outlining - one is Corkboard, which is exactly what it sounds like, a digital corkboard with notes pinned on it that represent your chapters/scenes with their summaries. The screenshot above is called ‘outliner’ and lists collapsible chapters/scenes with various statistics you can select as shown in the tick menu. Generally I prefer Corkboard, but Outliner is useful if you just want to see everything in a clear order. 

5. Full screen. I get distracted very easily when writing, so the full-screen writing mode is wonderful for me to avoid that - but you can still choose certain windows from the normal Scrivener view to show up. I have my targets and my summary, so I can stick to my plan when I’m writing and also see what progress I’m making.

6. Notes. No screenshot, but it’s a simple post-it note style box to the side of every document (chapter, scene, character etc.) that allows you to add notes. This may sound very simple, but it’s far more useful than I’d expected. During NaNoWriMo when I’m not meant to be editing at all, but I know something needs fixing, I will jot down something in the side like ‘Take out the horse’ so that when I go through again to edit I know exactly the things to focus on immediately but which would have taken too much time before. It’s linked to the scene so I don’t just have a pile of notes in one document at the end and then have to work out where it needs fixing.

Overall

I downloaded Scrivener for the first time two years ago, and now I can’t imagine working without it. It’s so nice to have the planning and the writing all combined into one place where I can easily switch between the two. I haven’t yet got as far in a novel created in Scrivener to use the compile features so I can’t comment on those, but so far all my experiences of it have been good.

One thing to note is that if transferring project between a Windows and a Mac version of Scrivener, it’s generally best to zip the file first.

[Screenshots from my current novel Kindling Ashes using the Mac version of Scrivener - some features may not be available in Windows yet.]

“Danger Noodle loves the Fluffy blanket!”

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Updated “this one is for blank”

Taco duck friend

no way no fucking way....

NO fuckifn way