#AFT

[o4ktree]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Christopher Wiggins at The Advocate:

Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, was in Texas for the second time this month on Thursday, where she delivered a speech at the American Federation of Teachers national convention in Houston. The AFT is the second-largest labor union for teachers in the country. In the speech, she reiterated her unwavering support for LGBTQ+ rights, condemned Republican book bans, and called for an assault weapons ban. Harris spoke passionately about the recent surge in anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in red states, particularly the “don’t say gay” laws that have proliferated across the country. She recounted her early advocacy for marriage equality, sharing, “In 2004, on Valentine’s Day weekend, I was one of the first elected officials in the country to perform same-sex marriages.” Harris has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to LGBTQ+ rights.

“It pains me so to think that, 20 years later, there are young teachers in their twenties who are afraid to put up a photograph of themselves and their partner for fear they could lose their job,” Harris said. She promised to fight to protect teachers and students from discrimination, affirming, “Every American should be free from bigotry and hate.” Harris also condemned the wave of Republican-led book bans that have targeted educational materials dealing with LGBTQ+ issues and racial history. She called out the hypocrisy of those who seek to restrict academic freedom while claiming to champion free speech. [...] “While you teach students about our nation’s past, these extremists attack the freedom to learn and acknowledge our nation’s true and full history,” she said. “We want to ban assault weapons, and they want to ban books. Can you imagine?”

Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris spoke at the American Federation of Teachers conference Thursday in which she spoke against censorious book bans, unwaveringly defended LGBTQ+ rights, and called for a renewal of an assault weapons ban.

See Also:

LGBTQ Nation: Kamala Harris centers LGBTQ+ rights in speech to teachers’ union

[xenzfable]

📣This is your reminder to check out All Fall Together: The Musical made by @arwenwenofficial

🎶Demo Voices:

-Cassandra ( @arwenwenofficial ), Andromache (Anna Lea)

🎨Character Design:

-Cassandra ( @mircsy ) Andromache ( @xenzfable + @mircsy )

🎥 Art & Animation:

-Me ( @xenzfable )

[deepdeanvsweston]

AFT memes because I've just read and it's sooooo much worse than I remember

[blablablabla-ur-mom]

Saw this

Googled something

and now my stress levels are at an all time high and I want to kms

[arussmeow]

waiting for the sunshine court in the original edition in your language, but at the same time reading posts on aftg is like walking through a minefield every time you start reading a post and then yell, bumping your eyes into spoilers and nervously scrolling down lol (that’s why I always look at hashtags)

[parasocialqueen]

wtf this fic (the later parade - hoursafterhours) is going to ruin me

Wdym “Jean won’t ask them what they believed about the news coming out of Edgar Allen, but his body is enough to sway an opinion if it’s bendable.

His body is the only proof.”

[fandom-hoarder-official]

Playlist titled Songs Andrew Minyard Would Hate, first song is Please Please Please by Sabrina Carpenter

[gentlemanmotorslifestyle]

[o4ktree]

HEREAFTER REFERENCES - AFT & YORE

Information about both of them:

- Their souls are fused with the save point.

- The circles and lines on their clothing indicate bigger/important events in the timeline that they’re standing in. Places like X-Tale and their own AU’s void will show nothing on their clothing.

- Neither of them can use their future/past vision in the Doodlesphere. This is because it registers as all AUS and timelines all at once and will overwhelm their bodies (causing glitches and pain.)

- They can reverse/forward time on any object up to about a week, allowing for somewhat of a healing power! (This takes a lot of magic and energy though, so it’s not done often/will cause glitching.)

- The handheld clocks (THAT THEY BOTH OWN; i forgot to draw yore’s) can be used to see the past/future of a specific person/object.

- They don’t use eye lights as a force of habit.

SANS/AFTER/AFT

- His ability is future vision.

- Aft uses his abilities constantly, usually feeling almost extreme anxiety when he doesn’t.

- Demiromantic, greysexual + Doesn’t really view flirting, relationships, and sex as a serious thing to do with only certain people.

- Unserious towards… like, everything.

- Doesn’t have much of a direction in life.

PAPYRUS/YORE

- His ability is past vision.

- Unlike Sans, he uses his ability only when he feels unsafe or feels the need to in a dire situation.

- Bisexual + Looking for the “right person.”

- Organized, strict, and tidy… just allows him to navigate things with more ease; easily irritable if things are the opposite.

- Enjoys calming music!

- Originally an “off-duty” solider. Wishes to go into a direction of healing.

[xenzfable]

ITS THE PRINCE OF HELLA RIZZ- 👑🔥🔥🔥(from "All Fall Together: The Musical" by @arwenwenofficial )

Concept Design: Helenus ( @piedrawscandles ), The Crown he's wearing which is actually his dad's crown Priam- ( @xenzfable )

[deepdeanvsweston]

Bertie Wells and Which Witch by Florence + the Machine <3

Stephen is/was Bertie's whole heart, and obviously his actions are being weighed up in The Trial. But also Bertie is thinking inside in his head if Stephen's actions are terrible enough for Bertie to stop loving him. Also just the whole thing about his heart probably feels heavy because of what Stephen's done.

Again, Stephen is Bertie's 'my whole heart' who has obviously committed a crime. Pretty self explanatory. But also Bertie's on about his own heart, who fell in love with a man, which at the time was a crime too.

One definition of heretic is a person whose opinions are at odds with everyone else and so (possibly a mild stretch) Stephen's thinking Mr Curtis deserved it doesn't align with a general view of 'murder is bad' which Daisy and Hazel held particularly strongly.

"Who's a heretic, child?" > obvious reminder that Stephen's a boy but I also think Bertie was asking himself 'what makes something bad? Has Stephen really done something that terrible?'

"And I'm on trial" > something something Bertie feels like he's on trial too because Stephen's so connected to him something something

"Waiting till the beat comes out" > waiting for the judge to bang the gavel for the verdict. Also a reference to 'beat' in journalism? It's undoubtedly going to end up in the news, sordid tales of Fallingford on the front page. Also also: later in the song it mentions 'not beaten by this yet' - mildly talking cross purposes but he's on about not being defeated by the emotional blow that Stephen's dealt him.

Miles away is referring how Bertie is away at Cambridge and Stephen is in prison. Really drives home the point that Stephen should have been at Cambridge alongside him. I feel 'hes on my mind' is pretty self explanatory again - Bertie can't stop thinking about him.

"I'm getting tired of crawling all the way" > on the surface, a reference to how it's emotionally exhausting for Bertie to keep going to visit him. But also, I think Bertie in his head keeps making up excuses in his head for Stephen, and it's getting tiring and more difficult to 'crawl' to these conclusions.

See previous reference to 'beat'! But also maybe it hasn't fully hit Bertie, even, what Stephen has done and the consequences are > he hasn't yet fully realised the extent of Fallingford.

The regret line is talking I think about how Bertie still doesn't regret being in love with Stephen, even when Daisy and his family and the whole world are telling him 'oh what a shame you were friends with that murderous boy'

Also it's Bertie talking to Stephen and Stephen trying to justify the murder, being like 'do you still regret letting me be locked up once you've known what Mr Curtis did to me' and Bertie is telling him back that Stephen can't tell him what his feelings are on this.

"Been in the dark since the day we met" Bertie can finally finally see who Stephen really is, or who he was all along - he's been kept in the dark about it.

"Fire, help me to forget" - fire is a form of light ofc so Stephen's traits have been illuminated, and now, maybe, Bertie can move on.

First line could be referring to Stephen's handcuffs, and being locked up. But also how Bertie feels tied to the events of Fallingford, they follow him everywhere, he's trapped.

"it's a pity, never to return" talking about Fallingford, but also in regards to visiting Stephen

"but I never learn" > continues to visit Stephen anyway. And also, back to Fallingford, Bertie 'never learns' as it were, that horrible things (ie. Daisy's 'death') happen no matter where he is.

[olawaleshuencry]

“This move sends a clear message that, in Trump’s America, only kids from wealthy families are entitled to opportunity. How does that help make America great?”

[collinthenychudson]

From April 1st 1975 to December 31st 1976, the American Freedom Train would go on a tour across the United States for the country's bicentennial celebration. With 26 cars making up the consist, the train would be pulled by three steam locomotives, Reading Company T-1 No. 2101 (which was temporarily renumbered to No. 1), Southern Pacific GS-4 No. 4449, and Texas & Pacific I-1AR No. 610. In the span of those two dates, over seven million people had passed through the train's display cars to view the artifacts and exhibits of America's heritage.

A documentary made by Peter Drible that talks about the train can be watched on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rZlooVmv5w

To learn about the locomotives, rolling stock, and other equipment used, here's the link: https://www.freedomtrain.org/american-freedom-train-consist-main.htm

Models and Route by: K&L Trainz, Trainz-Forge, Denver & Burlington Trainz Works, Jointed Rail, TrainzItalia, Auran, and Download Station

#aft #americanfreedomtrain #freedomtrain #readingcompany2101 #southernpacific4449 #texasandpacific610 #steamlocomotives #trains #trainzsimulator

[eternal--returned]

Paul Cupido ֍ Treasure (2024)