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[goldenchildminmin]

A small sigh escaped Minho’s lips, for once not plump and wet with lip-gloss or chapstick as he closed the front door after Rankle, the other fae finally leaving because the town was in distress and perhaps he was needed elsewhere. Also, because he had by now spent far too long in the mortal world, way past his usual quota, a fact that worried Minho. But they would surely see each other again soon, worry about the other plaguing them both in this unexpected emergency state the town was in.

In the past hours, he’d tried to get in touch with anyone and everyone he held dear besides Rankle. Realistically he knew that it would take a while to get to everybody, that some if not most would need time before they could pick up, respond, drop by or in any other way announce and let him know how they were but it still filled him with such fretful anxiety that he could hardly keep still.

And on top of it all, no matter how much they tried, neither could make their glamour come back, conceal how they truly looked like so they could come out into the public not looking too different from the mortals they shared this town with. Minho could see himself even in the glassy, reflective surface of the back of his door. Ashen blonde hair a shade impossible for a human to achieve naturally, pointed ears sticking out of the silken strands of it, twitching involuntarily at the sounds that reached them. Large eyes were entirely black, with no whites showing, pupil hidden in the blackness and with each blink, a transparent film would close over them in a side sweep before the regular lids would follow to actually close Minho’s eyes. Tongue that peeked out to give dry lips a quick lick of moisture was a shade so dark that it looked more purple than anywhere near flesh pink.

And his hands, with the addition of an extra fourth knuckle, curled around the door knob completely, long, thin and alien with their flexibility. No matter how he turned, no matter how much he covered up, if there was light in the room, it reflected off the light dusting of golden freckles littered all over his body, which without glamour even makeup wouldn’t be able to cover - only perhaps dull their shine a little. At least the fact that he could still shrink his wings, make them whither and then fold under the skin of his back made things a little bit easier.

Already missing the man he’d just seen off, Minho closed the front door to his luxurious home with a soft click and beep of an automated smart home system. With this sound, he wished he would never have to leave this house again, at least not until this entire situation was long over and forgotten. He couldn’t bear to be seen. Not like this. Not here, where he was foreign.

[magicvet]

Perhaps people would find it strange, but Corey enjoyed the fact that barely anyone had seen him in the Town Center during the Founders’ Day Faire. He had a cup of ice cream, the first of the season, finally the weather improving just enough for the frozen flavors to not bother him. So he enjoyed it in full, just walking around the Faire grounds, people-watching. A familiar face here and there was spotted. Some noticed him and some did not, some he’d exchanged a word or two with, some he didn’t bother pestering on their fun day out. In the end, he clocked out early, like the old man he was, slipping away among the first few people who had elsewhere to be and couldn’t stay until the end.

He avoided any crowds, he avoided any commotion, he even missed the usual traffic jam common for around this time on the streets and on the way to his home in Dillon. When he got home, he could continue on with his routine. He had a meal, leftovers from yesterday’s lunch, had a cup of tea, had a shower. He vacuumed. He cleared out Bob’s outdoor aviary. The large raven with the wingspan of almost four feet greeted him with an imitation of a few eerily human-like sounds as per usual. Though Corey did find it odd that Bob wasn’t as talkative as he could usually be. He watched a show. Someone recommended to him to watch Vikings. He wasn’t feeling it, but since he hated not finishing what he'd started, he would suffer through all seasons. Maybe it would improve. He really should’ve known, the show was called ‘Vikings’ after all. But he secretly hoped that it was a history-heavy show after all. It wasn’t really.

He went to bed early, none the wiser, not turning the TV on for the news today. In the morning he got up with the roosters, showered again, had breakfast and another cup of dark tea. He fed Marlowe, the elegant gray Norwegian forest cat who wasn’t feeling particularly chatty with him either, another oddity he didn’t think much on. He went to work and only there, upon noticing that a few of the staff had called in and wouldn’t make an appearance for their scheduled shifts, did the news of the previous day surprise him. Everyone at the clinic and shelter had their own version and experience of yesterday to tell, and they did so at every corner and in every room at the clinic - the place was practically buzzing with all the stuff Corey had missed. And all Corey could think about was how he didn’t know what to think of it.

[amyinnile]

The Founders’ Day had been an event and a town holiday Amy had been attending her whole life, mostly with family, friends or coworkers. If she were honest, something happening for it at the town’s center was nothing new. She’d therefore missed quite a few in her lifetime, especially when she was out of the country. This one she’d missed for no special reason, mostly for a day off which was to be used to stay in, do chores and then just do nothing. She played loud music while she loaded up the dishwasher and unloaded her laundry. She drank wine out of the fancy glassware, the fine crystal she kept for special guests. She rearranged one of the bookshelves in her office and had a nap, with a quick, pleasant ‘date’ prior with a new little device she’d bought weeks ago but forgotten about, leaving it forgotten in her undergarment drawer. It was a short nap after which she craved a snack her fridge didn’t have.

So out to the store she went, honey blonde-dyed hair tied up in a bun far too messy for her tastes but for a trip to the store, it would have to do. It was a bit of a walk around the block to find someone who hadn’t closed up for Founders’ Day, but there were a few and she was in her running shoes so she didn’t mind the trip, fresh air chasing the remnant doziness of her nap away. Meandering between the stalls and shelves with the shopping basket hanging off the bend of her arm, Amy browsed idly, stopping curiously when she found that they had canned mimosas. That was new. But she really shouldn’t, she’d already had wine today. She had not even noticed a curl of lime green mist rolling over the not-so-clean floors of the store, creeping up at her heels like a wraith reaching for its next victim.

She turned, aiming to go around a corner and slip into the next aisle but her step slowed when she thought she'd smelled something, like passing by someone vaping on a fresh, scentless cloud. It was so strange and Amy gave it one long moment of thought because hardly anyone was in the store with her. In the end, she simply shook her head, continuing on. Until, barely a few steps after, she felt a sort of a scratching feeling in the back of her throat, like that soreness right before you officially realize you’d come down with a cold. But it kept tightening on her, much too fast and sudden to just be a cold. She wasn’t even sure if she could get sick like that anymore, she hadn’t in the past four years even though common cold was a common occurrence before.

Rubbing her sore neck, her hand reached up to run over her face as with this initial discomfort she also felt a migraine building up. Her fingers came off slick with a very fine sheen of sweat. She was starting to burn up. Now, a spark of panic was setting in too. What was happening to her? Her lips parted, dry, no saliva in her mouth, skin over them cracking and the basket she held dropped to the floor with an unceremonious spill of everything she carried inside. To her left, the cold radiating from the fridges felt so good, so inviting. She barely registered this impulse, this undeniable need for water. She tore open a fridge door, grabbed the first bottle of water her greedy hands could find and chugged. Chugged until she downed it. And then she went for another, and another, empty water bottles falling onto the tiled floor with a dull clatter of plastic.

Startled by a noise and delayed only because they took a moment to go fetch a coworker working in the back to come over with them to check what in the world was going on, the few of the staff working at the store found that Amy had ripped out most of the shelving within one of the fridges out so she could squeeze herself in instead, curled up as small as she could get, soaked with the water spilling over while she’d been chugging. Now silent tears of fear and outrage streaked her flushed cheeks, weak arms hugging her knees as she helplessly looked up at the startled people through fogged-up glass, not even daring to utter a weak ‘help me’, lest her breath made her lose even more precious water.

[decemberwinter]

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

[politijohn]

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[sayruq]

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[vro0ms-evil-twin]

I fucking hate that the general response to RFK Jr's eugenist take on autistic people is "autistic people do pay taxes, autistic people do work, autistic people do date!"

Some autistic people don't and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life. Some autistic people do need constant help and support and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life.

Once again we're falling in the right wing trap of :

They make a hateful, fascist statement

Instead of focusing on the fact that it is hateful and fascist we try to show them that they are factually wrong

We throw our own allies and the most vulnerable of us under the bus in the process

We legitimise an only slightly less hateful, fascist view as we go

They have completed their goal of making us accept the still hateful, fascist second version, hurrah. What a victory.

Right now what we're getting to with that is that autistic people who can work and pay taxes are okay, and the others aren't. Fuck this shit.

Same thing happens with the people who are being deported ("they have a visa!", "they didn't even have a criminal record!" -> even if they didn't have a visa, even if they did have a criminal record, deporting them and detaining them in what's essentially a concentration camp wouldn't be okay, you absolute tools of fascism.)

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

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ETA more options since the phone line is back down (WOOT):

The digital tip line:

And this:

(From a source I will not link.)

[sadbicth]

elon musk did a nazi salute twice at the inauguration, and republicans are defending him.

trump revoked executive order 11246, which prohibited discrimination.

trump put all dei employees on leave to be fired.

trump blamed the dc plane crash on dei.

trump banned all lgbtq+ flags from being hung in government buildings.

trump ordered the pentagon to cancel celebration of mlk jr. day, black history month, women's history month, holocaust remembrance day, asian american pacific islander heritage month, lgbtq+ pride month, juneteenth, women's equality day, national hispanic heritage month, national disability employment awarenessmonth, and national american indian heritage month.

trump proposed removing all palestinians from gaza, turning the area into a vacation resort called “riviera of the middle east”.

trump posted an ai generated video showing what he hopes to turn palestine into, with a large golden statue of himself in the middle of it.

trump rolled back biden’s executive order to lower prescription drug costs for people using medicare and medicaid.

trump rescinded the $35 cap on insulin, and prices are expected to rise to $1500 a month.

trump ordered the national institutes of health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.

trump ended the guidelines to prevent ai misuse. the guidelines prevent many things, but notably it prevents production of ai child pornography.

when sean hannity asked trump about the economy, he said “i don’t care”, after campaigning with the economy as his main talking point.

trump has withdrawn the us from the world health organization.

trump is ordering health agencies to stop reporting on bird flu and halt publications of scientific reports.

trump has pardoned over 1500 people who stormed the capitol on january 6th.

trump changed denali back to mount mckinley.

trump signed an executive order to rename the gulf of mexico to gulf of america.

trump shut down cbp one, an app which granted legal entry to 1 million+ immigrants.

trump has discussed introducing a “gold card”, which would allow the wealthiest people to buy us citizenship for $5 million usd.

trump is allowing ice raids at churches and elementary schools.

trump announced plans to declare a national emergency at the us-mexico border.

trump signed an executive order to expand the use of the death penalty.

trump disbanded the school safety board that works to prevent school shootings. it was comprised of survivors, educators, and gun violence prevention advocates and formed after the school shooting in parkland.

trump has threatened to invade panama to claim the panama canal.

trump withdrew from the paris climate act.

trump revoked all protections for transgender troops in the us military.

trump rescinded executive orders made by biden that benefited and protected women, lgbtq+ people, black americans, hispanic americans, asian americans, native hawaiians, and pacific islanders.

trump is attempting to make it legal to refuse to hire or fire pregnant women.

multiple state legislators are drafting bills to allow the punishment for abortion to be the death penalty.

trump pardoned 23 individuals convicted under the freedom of access to clinic entrances (FACE) act for their anti-abortion activism, including oftentimes violent protests at abortion clinics.

trump signed an executive order allowing deportation of foreign students who they believe express support for hamas or hezbollah.

trump announced that the us government will from here on out only recognize male and female as sexes. intersex is not legally recognized anymore.

trump has told all schools and universities that they have two weeks to end all diversity initiatives, or he will cut federal funding. (as of feb 19, 2025)

trump fired the staff of the federal aviation association after a deadly plane crash in dc.

trump has fired the heads of the tsa and coast guard, and gutted a key aviation safety advisory committee.

the supreme court weakened the clean water act's limitations on raw sewage discharge into our water in a 5-4 ruling.

the official white house twitter account posted an “illegal alien deportation” asmr video where they did closeups of chains and the sound of ankle chains hitting the metal stairs of the airplanes deportees were being loaded onto.

on truth social, trump posted, “LONG LIVE THE KING!”.

at CPAC, a republican group called the “third term project” held a rally to support changing the constitution so trump can run for a third term. on their posters, they’re photoshopping his face onto julius caesar’s, seemingly forgetting what happened to julius caesar.

the trump administration paused health communications to prevent the fda from announcing food recalls.

republicans on tiktok are recreating elon’s salute to prove that it “wasn’t a nazi salute”, and they’re either doing it completely wrong because they know if they replicate it then it will actually be a salute, or they’re doing the proper salute and posting it online.

google and apple maps now display the gulf of mexico as “gulf of america”.

rfk jr. wants to ban SSRIs and put everyone on them into labor camps.

andy ogles drafted a constitutional amendment to allow trump to be president for a third term.

the us senate confirmed russell vought, one of the main authors of project 2025, will lead the white house budget office.

nancy mace repeatedly used the t-slur during a congressional meeting, three times were out of spite.

andy biggs introduced a bill to abolish osha and completely eliminate federal workplace safety protections.

georgia republican congressman mike collins called for the deportation of new jersey born mariann budde, the bishop who urged trump to “have mercy” on the lgbtq+ community and immigrants during a service at the national cathedral.

florida republican anna paulina luna has introduced a bill to add trump to mount rushmore.

new york republican claudia tenney introduced a bill to make trump’s birthday a federal holiday.

west virginia republican delegate lisa white has introduced house bill 2712, which would remove rape and incest as exceptions for abortion, even for minors. you can call her at (304) 340- 3274 or email her at lisa.white@wvhouse.gov and let her know your opinion on that.

there is a bill named the SAVE act which would require americans to provide their birth certificate, passport, or other citizenship documents every time they vote, and would require the last name on their driver’s license to match that of their birth certificate. this would prevent married women who have changed their last name from voting.

bill h.r.1161, which is available publicly on congress.gov, would authorize trump to enter into negotiations to acquire greenland and to rename it to "red, white, and blueland".

six states (arizona, idaho, iowa, kansas, mississippi, and north dakota) are planning on challenging obergefell v. hodges, which would end same-sex marriage nationwide. about a dozen more states have representatives are also considering filing similar resolutions.

a bill to ban the mRNA vaccine has passed out of the house committee.

amazon revoked protections for lgbtq+ and black employees.

the cdc has removed their hiv prevention page.

the united states state department has officially changed its “travelers with special conditions” page which previously said “lgbtqi+ travelers” to “lgb travelers”, completely getting rid of the tqi+.

every single republican told us we were overreacting. trump swore he had nothing to do with project 2025 yet continues implementing details outlined in it. not a single person has the right to tell us we’re being dramatic anymore.

hope “cheaper eggs and gas” was worth it.

EDIT: i removed the “trump refused to swear on the bible” point because it was being taken as me being an offended christian. i’m not christian, im agnostic. the reason i included it in the first place is because he’s the first president in history to ever refuse to swear on ANYTHING. meanwhile his “conservative christian” followers had no issue with this, and decided to continue to scramble for excuses instead of admitting he may not be as religious as he claims he is. i figured taking that point out entirely is probably better than filling this with an explanation in the middle of the other important issues.

[strawlessandbraless]

What an unsurprising & completely expected turn of events that literally everyone saw coming 😮

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[johnny-depp-is-loved]

Please, spread this for those who might need it right now

U.S. suicide hotline: call or text 988 (available 24 hours)

U.S. trans lifeline: (877) 565-8860 (when you call, you’ll speak to a trans/nonbinary peer operator. full anonymity and confidentiality)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) – provides 24/7 confidential support and referrals for individuals and families facing mental health and substance use disorders, including panic attacks and anxiety.

LGBT National Help Center: (888) 843-4564

Trevor Project: Call (866) 488-7386, text START to 678-678, or chat online.

Take care of yourself and each other. Please stay safe ♡

[illmissyoutiktok]

Musician: Jesse Welles

Posted 11Dec2024

[penissuperfluous]

You all disappoint me. Not one (1) drawing of a personified tumblr mourning the lifeless corpse of 4chan? Not ome? They were our rivals you sick fucks. Nary a whiff of 1 (one) fix-it AU? Im going to hibernate now..youve pirssed me off

[shamebats]

I think we owe an apology to the Americans, looks like at least some of the issues with their healthcare system can be addressed with guns

[mismaxx]

Clean it up hiro….