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HOW TO PASSPORT: GROWN ASS ADULT EDITION PART TWO (UNITED STATES)

HOW TO FUCKING RENEW EDITION

HAVE A PASSPORT ALREADY? NEED TO RENEW IT? LUCKY FOR YOU, THERE ARE SEVERAL DIFFERENT OPTIONS AVAILABLE. HOWEVER, THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT NEED TO BE CHECKED FIRST

GET YOUR HANDS ON YOUR PASSPORT. (if you can't find it, that means you're going to have to apply all over again as if you were a first timer, and fill out a lost passport form! [HOW TO APPLY FOR PASSPORT FIRST TIME CLICK HERE]

ONCE YOU HAVE PASSPORT IN YOUR HANDS, LOOK AT THE EXPIRATION DATE.

ADULT PASSPORTS ARE GOOD FOR TEN YEARS. AND WHILE YOU CAN RENEW IT AT ANY TIME, IF IT'S 2-5 YEARS INTO IT'S TEN YEAR CYCLE, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU CONTACT THE STATE DEPARTMENT.

(877 487-2778)

IF HOWEVER, YOUR PASSPORT EXPIRES WITHIN THE NEXT 2-3 YEARS, THEN YOU CAN GIVE IT A GO! (personal experience talking, mine expired in 2027. I included a little note saying that I knew it wasn't up for expiration yet, but I wanted to get it out of the way now)

NOW.

VERY IMPORTANT.

IF YOUR PASSPORT HAS ALREADY EXPIRED, HAVE NO FEAR. THE STATE DEPARTMENT GIVES YOU FIVE YEARS FROM THE EXPIRATION DATE TO GET IT RENEWED.

EXAMPLE:

MARTHA'S PASSPORT EXPIRED JAN 2020. SHE HAS UNTIL JAN 2025 TO RENEW IT BY MAIL/ONLINE.

HOWEVER, IF MARTHA DECIDES TO RENEW HER PASSPORT IN FEB 2025, SHE WILL HAVE TO START THE PASSPORT APPLICATION PROCESS ALL OVER AS IF SHE WAS DOING IT FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.

CONTINUING ON.

YOU HAVE THREE OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL

MAKE AN APPOINTMENT AND DO IT IN PERSON (again, and it also means you have to pay the $35 processing fee again)

RENEW ONLINE (HERE)

RENEW BY MAIL

IF YOU RENEW ONLINE, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE YOUR OWN PICTURE TO UPLOAD. FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES:

You must be in a well lit area, against a white or off white wall. No shadows of any sort, nothing must be on the wall. Your head and shoulders must be seen. No glasses. If you wear head covering for religious purposes you may have it on. Anything else no. Photo must be high quality--so if you using your cellphone it should be fine. You can upload the photo.

(state should do the cropping themselves, I think. If not they do have guidelines!)

HAVE PAYMENT READY:

(a review of the prices!)

CURRENT PROCESSING TIME FOR ROUTINE IS 4-6 WEEKS. EXPEDITED IS 2-3 WEEKS. (AS OF THIS DAY, 02/02/2025)

(however keep in mind this is a renewal, not a first time passport. There is a chance that you will get it back fairly quickly, 2-3 weeks!)

IF YOU ARE GOING TO RENEW BY MAIL

YOU WILL ACQUIRE THIS FORM:

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YOU ARE GOING TO FILL IT OUT WITH A BLACK INK PEN.

YOU ARE GOING TO GET A PHOTOGRAPH (Walmart/CVS/Walgreens)

YOU WILL GET A PERSONAL CHECK OR MONEY ORDER (you can get money orders from the post office)

YOU WILL TAKE YOUR CURRENT PASSPORT

YOU WILL ADD A NOTE SAYING THAT YOU JUST WANTED TO RENEW IT EARLY, YOU ARE AWARE IT STILL HAS TIME LEFT ON IT.

YOU WILL GO TO THE POST OFFICE AND PUT THESE THINGS IN A PRIORITY MAIL ENVELOPE, AND DEPENDING ON HOW FAST YOU WANT THE PASSPORT BACK AND WHAT STATE YOU LIVE IN, WILL SEND IT TO ONE OF THESE ADDRESSES.

CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE RENEWED YOUR PASSPORT. ONCE YOUR APPLICATION HAS BEEN PROCESSED, YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR NEW PASSPORT/PASSPORT CARD/BOTH IN THE MAIL FIRST.

YOU WILL THEN RECEIVE YOUR OLD PASSPORT/PASSPORT CARD/BOTH IN THE MAIL. THEY WILL HAVE HOLES PUNCHED IN THEM, WHICH MAKES THEM INVALID, BUT HOLD ONTO THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE A STILL A VALID FORM OF ID.

'...But I don't want to send in my passport!'

If you don't want to send in your passport you're going to have to make an appointment and treat it like you're getting a brand new passport all over again, which means you have to send in your original birth certificate. Plus also paying the $35 dollars for processing.

'i...uh, lost my passport.'

FILL OUT THIS FORM AND SEND IT IN WITH THE APPLICATION.

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'...my passport got...rekt.'

ON A SEPARATE PIECE OF PAPER, SIGNED AND DATED BY YOU, EXPLAIN HOW THE PASSPORT GOT REKT AND INCLUDE THAT WITH EVERYTHING ELSE.

CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE RENEWED PASSPORT.

NEXT POST WILL BE HOW TO GET YOUR CHILD THEIR FIRST PASSPORT

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Last Reblog: Lalafell, NSFW, Adult Characters

I am going to come right out and say it: I do not give any shits if they get drawn or written into something NSFW/lewd.

Hells, I follow a few Lalafall artists that draw some damned dirty smut. Good stuff, too.

Not *once* has it ever crossed my mind that they look like children.

Because they don't.

Even if the artists get creative and draw boobs on the fems, more muscle, chest hair, veiny cocks on the male identified ones, it never fucking crosses my mind.

Every major Lalafell character we have met and interacted with (and lots of side/one offs) are adults. Adults who can get rather raunchy sometimes.

Momodi asking after other ladies trysts? Implications that Tataru uses EVERYTHING at her disposal to gather info while they're forced into sanctuary in Ishgard? That asshole who owns Costa del Sol ffs?

All the dwarves talking about drinking and partying in ShB? We all know partying is layered there.

If you accuse anyone of being a pedo for treating their Lalafell oc as a gods damned sexual adult, you need help and you will be blocked.

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Last Reblog: Lalafell, NSFW, Adult Characters

I am going to come right out and say it: I do not give any shits if they get drawn or written into something NSFW/lewd.

Hells, I follow a few Lalafall artists that draw some damned dirty smut. Good stuff, too.

Not *once* has it ever crossed my mind that they look like children.

Because they don't.

Even if the artists get creative and draw boobs on the fems, more muscle, chest hair, veiny cocks on the male identified ones, it never fucking crosses my mind.

Every major Lalafell character we have met and interacted with (and lots of side/one offs) are adults. Adults who can get rather raunchy sometimes.

Momodi asking after other ladies trysts? Implications that Tataru uses EVERYTHING at her disposal to gather info while they're forced into sanctuary in Ishgard? That asshole who owns Costa del Sol ffs?

All the dwarves talking about drinking and partying in ShB? We all know partying is layered there.

If you accuse anyone of being a pedo for treating their Lalafell oc as a gods damned sexual adult, you need help and you will be blocked.

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Last Reblog: Lalafell, NSFW, Adult Characters

I am going to come right out and say it: I do not give any shits if they get drawn or written into something NSFW/lewd.

Hells, I follow a few Lalafall artists that draw some damned dirty smut. Good stuff, too.

Not *once* has it ever crossed my mind that they look like children.

Because they don't.

Even if the artists get creative and draw boobs on the fems, more muscle, chest hair, veiny cocks on the male identified ones, it never fucking crosses my mind.

Every major Lalafell character we have met and interacted with (and lots of side/one offs) are adults. Adults who can get rather raunchy sometimes.

Momodi asking after other ladies trysts? Implications that Tataru uses EVERYTHING at her disposal to gather info while they're forced into sanctuary in Ishgard? That asshole who owns Costa del Sol ffs?

All the dwarves talking about drinking and partying in ShB? We all know partying is layered there.

If you accuse anyone of being a pedo for treating their Lalafell oc as a gods damned sexual adult, you need help and you will be blocked.

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We usually are. Bluesky, Tumblr, twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal, a million different forums and mailing lists... We were there first, and eventually chased out by bigots with brooms.

I think it says everything about how much the average Tumblr user really cares about queer people when the site has openly banned blogs that dared to discuss and share queer content and Tumblr users did not care.

Or we cared, talked about it, set up off site ways to keep in contact with friends, and wait for the hammer to come down, as it always does. This ain't our first rodeo kid.

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Everyone in The White House had time today

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Hey you, yes you.

If you are thinking about hurting yourself or worse, this is your sign to not do it.

Feel like the world is broken and there's nothing to live for?

I want you to think about something coming up in the next few weeks or months. It doesn't matter how minor it is. A new show coming out? A movie? A new book? A friend's birthday? The return of a seasonal item that is really tasty?

Have something in mind?

Now, your mission is to stay alive so you can experience that thing.

And once you've made it that far, I want you to pick a new Thing to Look Forward To.

And I want you to keep doing that.

I want you to keep moving forward, picking something that you can be excited about. It doesn't matter what it is. As long as whatever it is keeps you here and alive.

I love you all.

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This is… extraordinary. You think it’s going to be a quick gag, but no, more and more examples until it’s… actually rather unsettling.

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new reason to stay alive: outlive the trump presidency. In fact, outlive Trump. He isn’t immortal. We can live to see the day he's guaranteed to never be in office ever again and we can make sure he knows that he'll never have enough power to kill you

stay strong, friends, this isn't your fault

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I’m so glad that things like survivorship bias and statistical outliers became memes I wish more critical thinking skills would become widely-understood this way, I’m not kidding let’s get on this

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One of the things I actually really like about the Fall of Anakin Skywalker was how it showed the true horror of a popular romance trope.

Over the years, in numerous books and countless fanfics, we've all seen some variation or another of the infamous "I'd burn the world down for you." And fans always swoon over this line because it's framed as this noble or romantic gesture where the character puts their love over everything else.

What I particularly loved about the prequels was that it showed what happened when the character, in this case, Anakin, actually did burn the world down "for Padmé" and we saw how terrifying and horrendous such a thing actually is.

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Btw, this is how conservatives keep getting to claim that trans people are a new thing no one has ever heard, because our history and existences have continually been erased or obscured systematically through out history.

The most famous example was 92 years when the Nazis raided the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, the medical practice where the term transsexual was first coined and the first gender affirming surgery was performed in in 1931.

What did the Nazis do after raiding the library on May 6th, 1933? You may be familiar with these images

It is happening again.

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Anons forgetting you need a Tumblr account to send anon hate now, so as to make anon hate easier to counter.

They're a Puritan, hypocrisy is expected.

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I think it says everything about how much the average Tumblr user really cares about queer people when the site has openly banned blogs that dared to discuss and share queer content and Tumblr users did not care.

Or we cared, talked about it, set up off site ways to keep in contact with friends, and wait for the hammer to come down, as it always does. This ain't our first rodeo kid.

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I think it says everything about how much the average Tumblr user really cares about queer people when the site has openly banned blogs that dared to discuss and share queer content and Tumblr users did not care.

Or we cared, talked about it, set up off site ways to keep in contact with friends, and wait for the hammer to come down, as it always does. This ain't our first rodeo kid.

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While I'm in a ranting mood, I'll drop one more. People who attack Blake and Yang being a couple are the flat-earthers of the RWBY fandom.

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It definitely feels like a lot of people who started watching RWBY were expecting something similar to My Hero Academia or Soul Eater, something that had an over arching story but more or less would stay close to the school.

It's such a silly assumption.

You can't save the world while going to school. They had to leave the nest.

Not to mention how that loss of innocence changed who these girls are, while still allowing them to try to hold on to their hope and ideals.