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My dear lgbt+ kids, 

I'm compiling some safety tips here for people in the US here that I found online. Some things you may want to do before January: 

Make an appointment with your doctor to talk about a long-term birth control plan, such as an IUD or vasectomy. 

Make an appointment with your doctor to make sure your vaccinations are up to date and to get a Covid booster. 

Check in, and stay in contact with, your queer friends. There’s strength in numbers. Community is important. 

Consider renewing your passport if necessary. 

Consider stocking up on fluoride toothpaste, pregnancy tests or other health products you worry about not (safely) having access to in the future. 

Rest up. Hydrate. Eat. Take care of yourself. The best act of rebellion is staying alive. You don’t need to feel strong or brave or even optimistic, just be kind to yourself. 

With all my love, 

Your Tumblr Dad 

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4 year prediction

More women die of preventable shit

LGBT rights gets worse

schools become worse

things get harder financially for the bottom 99%

Ukraine loses

Palestine dissapears

Extreme industrial pollution.

Rising cancer rates due to lower regulations on food and water quality.

and maybe Taiwan becomes China

And if america is lucky.... thats all that happens.

The possibilities?

20million deportation of americans destroying the american economy.

Alien enemies act.

Closing all borders even to legitimate asylum seekers.

Project 2025.

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Husband got us a new bed companion.

Meet Snoozie. She is very comfy.

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Imagined scenario -

Me: "We need a Leafeon!"

Husband: "I don't think they have one."

Me: *looks at Eevee* "Then we need a Leafstone!"

Husband: *thinking... goes outside, finds a rock. Finds a leaf. Sellotapes the leaf to the rock. Comes back inside and throws rock at Eevee plush.* "EVOLVE!!!"

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:/

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Does anybody have that image of what cyberpunk dialogue is like. "to crack a cyber lemon this nasty" or whatever

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Reading Comprehension/Effort

https://youtube.com/shorts/t0QqrgWVvWw?si=VDWN6M2PGHheJuuv i feel like something needs to be said about the lack of reading comprehension in majority of people these days; but there also seems to be an even larger issue with 'reading effort' in the first place.

Im gonna be 'old man yelling at cloud' here for a moment, but I agree with piratesoftware on the problem with shorts and short-form content. For clarification: his position is that shorts should not be their own content, that shorts should in-fact be a 'cold open', a starting of a conversation to entice people into the longer form of content about that subject. His reasoning? Shorts don't allow for context, and majority of discussions and issues require context, and as such shorts provide an innacurate view of any and all subjects they discuss regardless of topic because they physically do not have the space to explain nuance. So he doesnt use his shorts for pithy gotcha shit, he uses it to entice people into longer videos of said subject where he can actually discuss the topic in proper depth.

But now, people are so horrendously addicted to immediate easy to consume dopamine content in shorts and tiktok and all that shit, that it's legitimately destroying their attention spans and not just fucking with their reading comprehension, but actively negating their ability to engage with ANY media in ANY capacity in the first place.

Guys... please... ACTUALLY ENGAGE IN FUCKING MEDIA.

You use the arts to mindlessly dissasociate but there won't be any of the arts left if you don't engage in it.

And maybe, just maybe, if you try engaging in the arts with some level of good faith, maybe you'll stop dissaociating when doing so and actually finding nuance, philosophy, and expanding your mind and education a little.

Grow up and stop expecting dopamine to be flooding your veins within the first 30 seconds.

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My take on unicorns! I'd really love to make a mythical creature field guide someday, since the Spiderwick Field Guide is what inspired me to start drawing in the first place 🥰

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Lilo and Stitch.

mine is definitely either metropolis, twister, the good dinosaur, or nosferatu

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Broke:

Belle has Stockholm syndrome because she falls in love with the Beast, her kidnapper.

Woke:

Stockholm syndrome was coined to slander a woman who had been in a hostage situation but openly criticized the poor police response which recklessly put her in more danger and escalated the violence. She was then belittled and discredited publically by the police for this.

So. Yeah. Maybe Belle does have Stockholm syndrome actually.

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reposting this from twitter bc it's making me lose my mind

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Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you don’t like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lol