#8 goddamn years

[donald-trump-official]

Just wanna say how glad I am somebody who DESPISES trump is the one to have this URL

First come, first serve. I claimed this url over 8 years ago, just days after he announced his candidacy with the “Mexicans are rapists” speech. I saw the potential and I jumped on it. And here we are.

By now, Donald trump himself could offer me a small payment of a million dollars to delete/hand over this blog, and I would probably reject the offer.

[dont-leafmealone]

Something to commemorate the downfall

[wecalleverythinglove]

yuri on ice: we were born to make history

[marzipanandminutiae]

“How can you be sleepy right now?”

Well it’s a simple little thing I like to call “total and full-body despair exhaustion” :) :) :)

[shithowdy]

realized a drawing i'm doing rn is almost identically posed to one i did 8.5 years ago of a different oc, except the old drawing was instantly tainted by one of the players featured messaging me asking if i could take it down because their abusive, possessive rp partner saw it and got jealous of them "roleplaying behind their back" and i said "nah" and it became a whole Thing that i should have walked away from at that exact moment but didn't and the 6 months that followed contained some of the most truly condensed batshit i have ever witnessed in an rp community already well-known for its batshittery.

... anyway i love my friends. so happy to accidentally redeem the pose.

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

Fun fact: At the end of the special novel, Sky is going to a race to cheer on Prapai as usual.

What he fails to notice is that the street that is closed down for it is the same street as in this episode.

Because Prapai got Pakin to repeat the location for the race in order to propose to Sky in the same place that they met.

[nonconstories]

Someone pissed me off a couple of days ago

So! Below are several links to programs and foundations that promote adult literacy! Hundreds of millions of adults world wide were failed by their education system and now must fend for themselves while trying to read contracts and hospital bills and infographics from the CDC. But they don't have to be alone, and it is never too late to learn!

ProLiteracy: A network of educators, researchers, and advocates which provides research reports, learning materials, and other support to adult education programs. They assist with connecting volunteers to local programs and provide guidance and support to community leaders trying to use their programs' findings to advocate for social and political change.

Adult Literacy League: An adult education program in Central Florida, which aims to provide students with one on one attention to foster growth and confidence. It also offers English Second Language courses and job skills training, and each new student receives a comprehensive assessment to determine the best plan for them.

Saint Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center's Foundational Skills Program: A 100% free adult education program aimed at adults reading below a fifth grade level. It operates year round and is either in person or remote, and they now have a GED testing center that is open to students and the public alike.

Washtenaw Literacy: A free network of trained tutors for adults in Washtenaw County, Michigan.

Adult Learning Program (Las Vegas/Clark County): Free education classes to those lacking a high school diploma, those seeking to learn ESL, and adults who read below an eighth grade level. Also assists in students' search for gainful employment. Nevada got so fucked by COVID and the education/literacy numbers in the South West are grim. Please help these guys.

Hawaii Literacy: In addition to helping adult residents of Hawaii Island learn to read and write AND bridging the education gap in Hawaii's underserved children, they offer computer literacy classes, ESL classes, and a bookmobile. 1 in 6 Hawaiian adults struggle to read and write.

[arctic-hands]

I also don't mind the aesthetics of the early new millennium coming back (it's literally only been three years since I was finally able to get my hair to part down the center in a straight line and not the zigzag I had since I was ten, and that was only because I buzzed my hair off) but like goddamn the most important thing young people need to know about those years after:

post-Nine Eleven hysteria and the rampant Islamophobia that bled into general xenophobia for anyone not a white immigrant from non-France western Europe

on that note, "freedom fries"

the begining of a twenty year war and bush enacting the "Invade The Hague" Act to cover his ass weeks before the unlawful invasion of Iraq

the designated "free speech zones" that to my knowledge the adults at the time didn't protest against and just let happen

The avoidable deaths by neglect during Katrina and the flat out eugenics at Memorial Hospital that went unpunished (this was mentioned by @penis-keeper before me, but it needs to be repeated and the knowledge spread around)

Queerphobia so normalized that PSA's had to go out to stop people from saying "that's gay" at every inconvenience or bad things that happened to them

is that bush's vice president dick cheney (sp? I've completely forgotten how to spell his last name) while in office once shot a guy in the face and then the guy he shot in the face apologized to dick for it and dick went unpenalized

[belladonnaprice]

I realize it's been like, half a century since a lot of these people took middle school civics, but they do know...that a VP can't really do shit, right?

Like 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Without 2/3 majority in Senate (which a lot of the big policy changes Democrats want to make are achievement locked behind), a majority of House, a Dem president, AND a liberal leaning Supreme court (bc checks and balances, again, literally 6th grade civics) they can't do whatever the shit they want.

They're working within the limits of their power and literal /hundreds/ of peoples differing agendas.

[19catsncounting]

Mary Winchester being the world's first 33 year old failmom who is also in her 60's was revolutionary. But I feel like Supernatural really missed the mark on her also being a Country Mom when she's not committing spree killings with her imported sociopathic boytoy.

She should have been obsessed with phone apps. Candy Crush and Words with Friends knockoffs, not even the real app because she thinks it's just like getting the generic brand at the grocery store to save a few cents.

She checks a Daily Devotional website every morning and despite having a literal Angel of God sitting next to her at the breakfast table, sometimes she reads a scripture and mutter "Oh that's nice," thinking it's God's way of communicating with her. Instead of asking his wholeass son to pass along the message.

She reads the cowboy romance novels, the ones that are So Straight And Christian that it's crossed the threshold into kink material. Widower Derrick with his 3,000 acre ranch, his three sons named Ezekiel and a daughter who loves pink and misses her mama, asks Annette Mae to pray with him because he's tempted by the devil to hold her hand without her father's permission, and Mary is eating that shit up with a spoon. Since she's been scooped out of the early 80's into the 2010's, she also has no immunity to cringe Hallmark movies.

As a product of the 70's as well as Kansas, Mary Winchester Is Not Immune To Big Silver-Laid Turquoise Bangles.

Chicken Soup for the Soul, a publication that has not actually been in print since 2012, magically appears on gas station reading racks when she and Cas are on the road. When she reads an emotional testimonial in them, she just tells the nearest person about it then says "It really makes you think," instead of crying.

She never said "Bless your heart" in the show because it would have been more potent than an F-bomb. It's basically the fastest demon-killing spell in the universe.

All I'm saying is that she could still be totally inept at being emotionally available with her grown-ass sons and still have a stronger personal connection to the Pioneer Woman than Sam and Dean combined.

[pvppyjawn]

[n3ongold3n]

I just wished Maurice (i guess it's him but who knows at this point) would not have pissed into my drawer. Even with the enzyme spray it still reeks of cat piss because it soaked in there for a good couple of days i assume :') Oh well. Maybe another coating will do the trick.

[charmcoin]

does anyone remember falsettos.

[whoneedsgenderanyway]

NEW CRANE WIVES DECEMBER 5????????????

[argentum-fae]

Old Art Redraw

[gayamulet]

The problem is...Alien Resurrection (alongside Event Horizon, which came out the same year) was one of the first sci-fi movies I’d ever seen and it was so formative it shaped how I generally prefer sci-fi to look...earthy browns and grays, rivetheaded, Brad Dourif is there, and so so wet (while also still looking like an EBM music video and introducing me to the worlds of Jeunet with City of Lost Children and Delicatessen)