#Census Act

[nosweetprinceoflove]

The reason no one ever mentioned the strange closeness and intimacy in Cooper and Truman’s relationship is because they were all focused on the 45 other interconnected relationships happening in this one town

[restinslices]

I swear I'm working on requests but I gotta yap for a second.

I finished episode 2 of the ATLA live action so idk if Kyoshi shows up again and is worse but I find it really weird that people are mad at Kyoshi for being harsh with Aang.

Kyoshi spoke softly with Aang in the original. I get that. But Kyoshi is not bullying or shaming Aang in this version. She's just being stern, which is something Aang needs. Aang does not need someone being all soft with him. He needs someone to tell him how it is and how it needs to be.

When Aang is worried about people getting hurt and Kyoshi says smth like "and how many people have been hurt because you weren't there?" I don't think it's her necessarily blaming him. It's her being frustrated because dude, you were gone 100 years and so many have died. You have to make up for it and accept this power you have.

If Kyoshi was just like "oh take your time Aang", people would get hurt. He needs someone to push him and get this shit moving. Also at some point she calms down and stoops to his level to talk to him. And the complaint about her saying "a mighty merciless warrior" is also weird to me because yeah, the Avatar's job is to maintain balance but there's a good chance you'll have to be a warrior to do that. You can't be worried about injuring a fire nation soldier. You have to be the world's warrior who is willing to do anything to keep the majority safe. I don't see why people are upset over this line. I thought the shit was heat. And I think it makes sense for her to appear instead of Roku because this is her island with her warriors. Of course she'd defend them.

In conclusion, Kyoshi is just fine in the live action. She's not bullying Aang, she's just being stern and telling him that enough lives have been lost and if he keeps denying this power, more will die. Get off her tall ass back.

And before y’all try to tussle, remember this is my opinion on the situation.

[antiquepearlss]

I’m never going to shut up about Esther Jones. She deserves recognition.

[boynextdoors]

I love you younghoon 💘 thank u for being normal

[carbonfiction]

i know the general census is that frank is gentle but how would he handle if his little bunny that seemed all innocent and shy liked it insanely rough? not just spanking and backshots “rough” but face slapping and grabbing, breath play like holding her mouth and nose, intense manhandling like chokeholds and being held in the air to show how small she is in his arms and lowk clit torture. and she likes to act all delicate because she is and can’t even fit him all the way in after training and also squirts from a few touches to her clit but she likes being broken and wants him to use every ounce of his strength to do that and i need him to skullfuck me with my hands tied behind my back with a vibrator assaulting my clit…and then he slaps my cheek over and over and then pulling out to put me in a chokehold until i’m bruised 🐳 glasses anon i need him to break five pairs monthly from how rough he is i need him to CORRUPT MEEE

FIRSTLY!! 🐳ANON HELLOO<33 I have missed you<3

Please you are so real, it’s like actually a carnal needdddd how bad I need frank to hold my jaw and coo filthy filthy things at me while he blows out my back. And you are SO right on the corruption and skull fucking omggggg. Oh and I also wanna add bc of this ask (and my absolutely foul thoughts on born again bearded frank) I ammmm working on a rougher/mean!Frankie piece rn and I am quaking each time I open the draft. I cannot wait to get a sec to get it finished for y’all <3

im praying this is understandable enough though and not complete waffle😭 I struggle trying to get my thoughts out clearly enough sometimes if ya couldn’t already tell🥲 18+smut thoughts below the cut inc themes of rough sex, breath play/choking, Size kink? Doggy/prone? Was the goal anyway😭Overstimulation, bodily fluids and aftercare (pleeeeease lmk if I've missed anything, i always go blank tagging😭)

Buuuuuuut buckle up! in response to this, I feel like if there’s anyone who can offer the rough stuff it’s him yk? Obviously if you were to let him, no mattwr how embarrassed you could be about it, he'd listen openly. But just know there would be SO many conversations beforehand on likes, dislikes, hard limits, safe words, boundary’s ect, and this goes for both of you! Neither of you want to make the other uncomfortable, especially not in a moment that takes such a level of sexual intimacy, trust and even respect. (Even when being deceptively disrespectful sometimes)

Frank strikes me (and im sure many of you guys) as task motivated so if his baby bun wants something a certain way, he’s going to ensure everything is correct for her to get it. He loves you too much to do anything without afformentioned confirmation. This also includes a lot of discussion on what sort of thing you need for aftercare within those moments when things get heavy too-

And I say those moments bc I don’t think he’d always indulge it? like dont get me wrong, he’d do it, but it’s not going to be every single time you fuck yk? He might incorporate bits here and there like a lil hard tap on the cheek for your attention “eyes on me, yeah, there she is, theres my dirty girl” or a hand on the neck “that feelin good sweetheart? That pretty head gettin all fuzzy?”

Perhaps frank even indulges you with licks of overstim outside of those moments, forfilling it with whatever form is within the mood- vibe, his mouth or fingers. “Shhh, You can take it. Taken more than this before, atta girl, you feel it, aint gotta think, just gotta keep cummin”

But the whole shebang? The whole 9 yards of him getting reeeeal rough, properly leaving marks, really manhandling or getting intensely mean would definitely be different; perhaps even almost planned? Like for example those moments are reserved for say arguments sake, ovulation, pent up stress relief or when your headspace is feeling a specific way?

The way he fucks, the way he talks and touches you? All Completely different to how frank would usually operate in the bedroom and that’s not a bad thing in the slightest!! I just personally feel it would take as much out of frank to do it as it would for you to take it yk?

But That being said he would be disgustingly good with it when he does use it <3

Wrapping his big bicep beneath your chin as he fucks into you harshly from behind, the other hand pinching and slapping at your tits- the taugt buds of your nipples- sharply enough to make you jerk and gasp. Problem is though, the more you jerk and react the more he tightens his hold, squeezing you in the headlock until he can feel the flutters of your cunt and the heaves of your chest. His massive body completely draped over yours, the weight of him pressing you down toward the mattress, hips pummelling your backside in a brutal fashion, punching deep and fast. "Fuckin tight little hole's squeezin my cock, you like not bein able to breathe? feelin me in your tummy?" the hand at your tits drifting to press at your stomach making you squeak, the pressure intensifying the pleasure coursing through you. "Yeaaah, yeah you love all that cock in there dontcha Bun, greedy fuckin girl. Made for it, just lettin me use that pussy how i want"

That hand (sometimes then reaching for your vibe if the mood so runs that way) will then drift further down to your puffy clit, already oversensitive and abused from prior attention. Frank slaps it once, twice, three times before immediately massaging tight, quick figure eights until you practically end up limp in his grip, eyes rolling back as you cum again with a choked, almost gargled moan. Your cunt squeezing him almost as tight as the grip on your neck before he lets go; letting euphoria take over your body with each gasp of oxygen that fills your lungs.

Frank does not stop until he feels you physically cannot cum anymore (or you Safeword!!). He fucks you through orgasm after orgasm (even his own) until you’re nothing short of a mess, practically trembling like a newborn deer and the slightest brush on your clit has your legs closing with a broken yowl. Panting body absolutely covered with various marks, drying spit, slick and cum.

The aftercare, while hes incredible with it generally, is then a complete 180 however- gone is all the roughness of his movements, the sharpness of his words. Replaced by touchs that are feather light and words careful, quiet grumbles as he checks in on you. "Hey pretty girl.. Heads all hazy huh? I know.. But i gotcha, franks gotcha, your safe."

Once you've had a drink and a little bite to eat, some fruit or something simple, he'll always carry you to the bathroom and only leave you to change the sheets as you sit to pee (bc christ forbid a uti on his watch-) then you can lean back against his chest in the warm water of the bath he left running, his broad body sat behind yours as he gets you clean without you even needing to move.

Whispers of soft praise and gentle shushes filling the echoing bathroom as he ensures every sensitive inch of skin is clean even when your eyes droop. "Shhh, i know.. Know its sore baby, just one more moment. One more swipe n' ill leave it alone yeah?" punctuated with a soft kiss to your temble that an hour ago you wouldn't of been able to even dream of him doing.

Frank dries you off with the softest towl you own, of course warmed by the dryer. soothing your skin with a lotion and/or balm you love. Never forgetting to pay extra gentle attention to the red welts on your ass, thighs and chest as he tells you how gorgeous you are in a moment that sometimes, you can feel anything but.

He'll help you into the pajamas you choose (wether your own or one of his shirts/boxers) and not bat a single eye if wearing panties to bed is too uncomfortable for you to handle.

Once fully comfortable his first mission is to then get you a propper snack or little meal. Insisting food is fuel and you need it after everything he put you through as he treads of to the kitchen. Coming back to then execute mission number 2: laying down with you resting cuddled up on his chest.

Fingers softly running over your arm as he presses kisses anywhere he can with little movement. "Doin okay sweetheart? You tell me if you need anything else alright? Nothins too much for my girl." " so proud of you, ya know that?"

"Gettin sleepy down there? I know..shh, you get some rest. Not goin anywhere i promise, Love you sweetheart"

[communistkenobi]

struggling to reconcile my dislike of the use of “choice” in relation to transgenderism. sex assignment itself is not a choice and I don’t find it meaningful or helpful to think I “chose” to be transgender. in fact there were many things I “chose” to do prior to transitioning to make this feeling go away and it did not. Choice is further wrapped up in intentionally de-politicised ideas about social action and agency, constantly positioned in opposition to “structure” or “social pressure” or what have you. “Choice” is what happens only in the absence of domination, it is the expression of the “individual” trapped within us all. What this leaves you with is a subject who appears to rise above the power of history, making decisions ‘of his own free will’ in spite of all this violence as a result of, um, well that’s not important! Let’s not look at the law or the state or history to see where these ideas of personal individual freedoms come from or how they are themselves enforced through violence. It’s just an individual acting on his desires! To “choose to be trans” in popular consciousness means to be given the privilege of being free from patriarchal social pressures. And this is a line terfs often use - trans people are reinforcing patriarchy by deluding ourselves into thinking we can “simply choose” to be another gender. I think committing to the idea of choice as a concept and all its attendant ideological baggage (overwhelmingly structured by bourgeois legal frameworks in the popular imaginary) forces you into some deeply flawed analyses of power and domination.

And I likewise hate that the other dominant framework is “born this way/born in the wrong body” because of how it naturalises the very political and violent nature of sex assignment and its embeddedness within state census data, administrative architecture, the pathologisation of sex and desire (all of which are not natural or eternal), and so on. furthermore I deeply respect the position other trans people have when they say that they chose to be transgender - outside of conversations of individual validity, I think that is a politically useful and powerful way to position yourself. Even if we were to accept that being transgender is fully a choice, people would still do it, because being trans is not disgusting or shameful. I am not a sick individual, or a tragedy, or a danger to others, I am transgender and that is an incredibly meaningful and fulfilling part of my life. To frame this as a sexual perversion or life-long condition means reinforcing the idea that transgenderism is a shameful deformity (we have much in common with our disabled & intersex comrades in this regard), that the cissexual body is the exclusive site of beauty and authenticity.

And so this is where I find the idea of autonomy much more useful - while ‘choice’ is situated as a thing that individuals do, autonomy is power that is granted to you. I can’t meaningfully demand choice as a political goal, but I can demand autonomy. I don’t want choice, I want the autonomy to act on my desires, and the way that will happen is through the state provision of free hrt, surgery, name and gender marker changes, and so on. Autonomy feels like a much more productive articulation of “choice” because it necessitates that we think about who and what grants autonomy, for what purposes, in which contexts. Who gives a shit about choices! Transgenderism is not a social position an individual can have in society, it is produced through cissexualism, through state and medical sex assignment, through coercion and pathologisation and violence - all of which can be changed.

As a direct comparison, I don’t think people should be given the “choice” to have an abortion, but the autonomy to do so - sure you can choose to get one, but unless there is the medical, financial, and social infrastructure available to you to act on that decision, then that is not a meaningful choice you can “make.” Abortion being legal (and therefore an action you are granted the ‘choice’ to take) doesn’t mean it is actually realisable as a decision, it just means that whoever already has the power & resources to act on that legality will, and those that don’t, won’t. Who decides which people have those resources and which don’t? Well let’s not worry about that, the important thing is that people have choices!

[batboyblog]

What Joe Biden has Done for LGBTQ+ People

I wanted to list out everything The Biden Administration has done for Queer people in the last 3 and a half years, but according to GLAAD it'd been 337 moves (and I noticed they missed a few things...) there was just no way to list every ground breaking first Queer person ever nominated to fill this or that job, every ally with a historic LGBT rights record nominated for a top job, every beautiful statement of support, every time he tried to get Congress to pass the Equality Act (support it!) So I've gone through and done my best to pick the ones I think were the most important, but everyone should check out the full list!

Day 1: Signs executive orders banning discrimination and ordering a full review of all federal agencies policies to better include and support LGBT people

Pete Buttigieg becomes the first openly gay person nominated and confirmed for a cabinet level post as Secretary of Transportation

Revokes Trump’s 2018 ban on transgender military personnel

Department of Housing and Urban Development implements LGBTQ protections in housing, becoming first federal agency to implement Pres. Biden’s executive order

First President to recognize and proclaim Trans Day of Visibility

Department of Justice Civil Rights Division issues an official memo that the Supreme Court's Bostock decision against LGBT workplace discrimination also applies to education through Title IX

HUD withdraws a Trump Administration proposed rule change, and reaffirms trans people's rights to seek shelters matching their gender identity

HHS announces the withdrawal of Trump Administration rules that allowed discrimination by healthcare organizations against LGBT people.

The State Department and later Homeland Security announce babies born to Queer couples overseas will be American citizens if one parent is American, in the past the child only qualified if they were genetically related to the American citizen parent.

The Justice Department files against a West Virginia law banning trans students from school athletics

Department of Veterans Affairs announces it will offer gender confirming surgery for transgender veterans. There are an estimated 134,000 transgender veterans in the U.S. and another 15,000 transgender people serving in the armed forces.

President Biden Signs a law making the Pulse Night Club a national memorial

The State Department creates an X gender marker for passports and other documents, allowing gender affirming identification for non-binary and intersex people for the first time.

The Census Bureau for the first time issues a Survey with questions about sexual orientation and gender identity

On the 10th anniversary of the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Veterans Administration announces that soldiers discharged for homosexual conduct, gender identity or HIV status qualify for veterans' benefits

Dr. Rachel Levine becomes the first trans person confirmed by the US Senate when she was nominated to be Assistant Secretary for Health, she also became the first trans flag rank officer when she was sworn in as a 4 star Admiral for her job as head of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, his makes her the highest ranked trans person in government

Holds the first ever vigil in the White House for Transgender Day of Remembrance

HHS announces rule change to reinstate and expand protections against discrimination in the Affordable Care Act, including denying coverage for gender-affirming care.

Social Security Administration reverses a Trump Administration policy and allows benefits claims by surviving partners in same-sex relationships, whose partner died before marriage equality was legal

President Biden signs the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (a bill he helped originally craft in the Senate) which for the first time has grant programs dedicated to expanding and developing initiatives specifically for LGBTQ survivors of domestic violence

The TSA announces new technology and policy shifts to improve the customer experience of transgender travelers who have previously been required to undergo additional screening due to alarms in sensitive areas.

The Social Security Administration allows people to edit their gender and name on records for the first time without legal and medical documentation

The US Air Force announces it'll offer medical and legal aid to any personnel families affected by state level anti-trans youth bills.

Karine Jean-Pierre becomes the first Lesbian to serve as White House Press Secretary

on 50th anniversary of Title IX The Department of Ed strengthens protections for Students against sexual harassment and discrimination

Veterans Affairs announces survivor benefits now extended to partners from relationships before marriage equality was legalized in 2015

President Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act into law enshrining protections for marriage equality for same-sex and interracial couples

The Department of Ed announces new rules around athletic eligibility under Title IX, declaring blanket bans on trans students violate the law and setting up strike standards for schools

The White House announced a suit of new protections for LGBTQ people, including a new job at the Department of Ed to combat book bans, a joint DoJ Homeland Security effort to combat violence and threats and HHS evidence-based guidance to mental health providers for care of transgender kids

President Biden signs an Executive Order directing HHS to protect LGBTQI+ youth in the foster care system, a rule they later passed requiring Queer foster children to be placed in affirming homes

The Biden administration joins families of transgender youth in Tennessee and Kentucky in petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to review and reverse a circuit court ruling allowing a ban on mainstream health care to be enforced

President Biden Signs a EO expanding on past EO on equality and helping underserved communities

The Department of Education's Civil Rights office opens an investigation into the death of Nex Benedict. President Biden in his statement said: "Every young person deserves to have the fundamental right and freedom to be who they are, and feel safe and supported at school and in their communities. Nex Benedict, a kid who just wanted to be accepted, should still be here with us today. Nonbinary and transgender people are some of the bravest Americans I know. But nobody should have to be brave just to be themselves. In memory of Nex, we must all recommit to our work to end discrimination and address the suicide crisis impacting too many nonbinary and transgender children.”

[honeygrahambitch]

Also we should talk more often about how thick skinned Will is compared to Hannibal lmao because Zeller pulling that "let me guess you are an only child because you have zero personality" bullshit would have ended him if Hannibal was in that room. Hannibal has an extremely fragile ego, that's the thing. The insurance guy insinuating he is a liar? The census taker waking him up? Someone else getting recognition for his crimes? For someone who is as self-congratulating as Hannibal, these kind of acts are unforgivable.

Will is kind of shrugging it off because he has that "I won't even bother to try to have an argument with you" attitude. He sees no point in defending himself in anyway. He knows he is weird and lonely. The one time he speaks up, Jack has a crisis about it. I'm talking about the scene where he threatens Freddie. Point is, he doesn't fight when he knows what is said is true about him. But Freddie calling him those ways bothered him. Being told he was the ripper bothered him as well.

[tooturtly]

Still on my locked tomb and feudalism bullshit, so here’s a discussion of John, and how I think he systematically uses the decentralized nature of the Nine Houses to avoid the realities of being God.

Essentially, what it says on the tin, but first, context. (Can you tell I’m somehow more unhinged now?). Feudalism is a political structure with a fair amount of decentralization of power. It usually came about in the past after a larger government/political system collapsed, such as Rome. Essentially, a King/Emperor cannot feasibly run large amounts of territory, with the citizens of those territories being from diverse backgrounds and customs, without a lot of loyal subordinates helping out. Enter the nobility.

The nobility do the work of running the lands so that the King/Emperor doesn’t have to maintain a large bureaucracy to, let’s say, collect taxes from each individual person, hold a census, or run a court of law. This does not mean the ruler gets to fuck off, they do have responsibilities to the realm, their court, their knights, and the nobles who support them. Some people have to like you to remain in power, otherwise you get assassinated.

So what does all this have to do with John? Well, first, I think it’s safe to say from what we’ve seen that the Nine Houses are very similar to a feudalist system. You have a collection of independent, semiautonomous populations that can generally keep themselves together. They have slightly different takes on religion, loyalty to the empire, and necromancy, but they are all unified under it.

Second, I think we can also say that John has a very specific perception of himself that does not always align with the reality. He wears worn, casual clothes that are not the type of thing anyone else wears, but includes a crown of infant bones. He has a casual, relaxed attitude, but also can pull out a speech about avenging death and fighting for the empire seemingly off the top of his head. He doesn’t want Harrow to treat him like God, yet also constantly quotes works from a world nobody but he can remember. His narration of his actions in Nona paint him as seeing what he did as something anyone would do, as not that bad, as the act of a desperate, passionate man. Yet he also rebuilt the world to make himself God and Emperor above everyone else, the head of a ten thousand year long grudge campaign.

The contradiction is inherent in his title, man who became god, and god who is man. Harrow especially points out moments where he seems mortal, human, calling attention to how he otherwise appears completely separate and divine.

John is a complicated character. People smarter than me have written more with better evidence laid out. What I’m trying to get at though is that, to me, John reads as a man who cannot view himself as having vast amounts of power over others on the regular. To a certain extent he has to view himself as ‘just a little guy’ so he doesn’t have to reconcile with the actions that have caused massive amounts of harm. He wants the Lyctors to be his friends and associates, rather than their boss.

The structure of the Nine Houses helps with that. He doesn’t have to regularly speak to the average citizen, or deal with the daily problems of the people and their Houses, or hell, even the people he’s conquered. Mercymorn says something in Harrow about how the Emperor’s seat is the Mithraeum, the place light years away from the people he is supposed to allegedly rule. The place only realistically accessible by traveling through the River, a feat only possibly by Lyctors (for the most part). And we learn that he’s only been away from that for 80 years, and he assumedly spent most of his previous ten thousand years there.

Because he is at the top of the power structure, he can lose himself in the bigger picture and forget about the reality, which is the fact that he is running a colonial Empire that requires the biological death of planets and people to survive.

[memories-of-ancients]

For the last 14 years, when it rains in Lowndes County, Alabama, contaminated standing water builds up around Annye Burke’s home. When the septic tank breaks down, raw sewage backs up into her toilet, she said. 

Although “frustrated” by the unhealthy and inconvenient conditions, Burke said she doesn’t let it get her down. Human wastewater contaminating homes and yards in these rural parts of central Alabama “has become a way of life,” she said. The problem has existed so long and was so pervasive that a 2017 study determined 1 in every 3 adults in the county had the intestinal parasite hookworm.  

The Biden administration investigated and allocated nearly $26 million to rebuild Lowndes County’s water infrastructure, with the Department of Justice declaring the majority-Black area was suffering from “environmental racism.”   

But earlier this month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to kill the deal, calling it “illegal DEI.” 

The DOJ’s Harmeet K. Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights under Trump, said the agency “will no longer push ‘environmental justice’ as viewed through a distorting, DEI lens,” referring to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. 

A 2023 investigation sparked by environmental activist Catherine Coleman Flowers and conducted by the DOJ found that low-income residents of the county, most of whom are Black, have lacked basic sanitation services for generations. Given the area’s especially hard, impermeable soil and the high cost of installing private wastewater systems, many residents have resorted to straight piping to deal with human wastewater. This method involves guiding human wastewater away from the home into a series of ditches and crude piping systems, according to the DOJ report. That water collects in nearby yards, open areas and woods. 

In more recent years, heavier rainfall related to climate change has meant that contaminated water floods into the home, spills across open areas, and contaminates local vegetation and water, exposing residents to illness.   

And so, Burke and more than 300 other families in Lowndes County — located about 40 miles southwest of Montgomery — are forced to live with a failing water infrastructure that has led to serious health concerns, including hookworm, which at one point had been thought to be eradicated from the United States, according to a 2021 study by the Baylor College of Medicine and the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise. 

Hookworms are mainly contracted by walking barefoot on soil contaminated with infected feces. It can cause abdominal pain, skin rashes, diarrhea, fever and other ailments. 

“We have to be extra sanitary because people getting sick can be a problem,” Burke, 58, said. “The health concerns are real. In 2025 we shouldn’t have to deal with this, but it is what it is.”  

She said she uses various disinfectants multiple times a day to clean her home and protect her family, which includes her children and grandchildren who come to visit. 

This environmental quagmire has persisted for more than 20 years in this rural part of the state, where 72.4% of the population is Black and the median household income is $35,160, according to the latest census; one-third of residents live below the poverty line. Flowers said that much of the problem started back in 1866 with the passage of the Southern Homestead Act, when Black people were first allowed to purchase land there and were offered mostly places that were environmentally unsafe. 

In recent decades, it’s not uncommon for untreated sewage to flow from some residents’ toilets into their yards or back up into their homes through sinks or bathtubs. Drinking water from the tap is out of the question. Some residents have dug ditches in an attempt to drain rainwater away from their homes. 

Flowers, who grew up in Lowndes, has been fighting for 23 years to fix the water infrastructure in the county. Her efforts led to the Biden administration’s $26 million commitment. She said Trump’s cancelation of the agreement did not surprise her. 

“There are some people who are not going to make it a priority to get this work done,” Flowers said. “That’s the way it’s always been.” 

Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell, a Democrat who represents the area, said in a statement that the DOJ’s reason for abandoning the deal was weak.  

“This agreement had nothing to do with DEI,” Sewell said. “It was about addressing a public health crisis that has forced generations of children and families to endure the health hazards of living in proximity to raw sewage, as the DOJ itself documented. By terminating it, the Trump Administration has put its blatant disregard for the health of my constituents on full display.” 

When announcing the results of the 2023 investigation, former Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said the Justice Department found evidence that suggested Alabama’s Department of Public Health showed “a consistent pattern of inaction and/or neglect concerning the health risks associated with exposure to raw sewage.” 

Sewell added that the burden to “remedy this injustice” fell to the Alabama Department of Public Health. But the ADH said in a statement to NBC News that “the installation of sanitation systems and related infrastructure is outside the authority or responsibilities.” 

A second statement from ADH said the department had received $1.5 million of the funds from the Biden agreement and used it in part to pay for three septic tank installations. With the remainder of that money, ADH will pay a contractor to complete more work by May 2026, according to the statement. Trump killed the agreement before any additional funds could be distributed toward fixing the water infrastructure. 

Annye Burke said her daughter, who lives next door, is in a dilemma because she was hoping to receive a new septic tank when hers recently collapsed. She’s lived the last four years with her water issues. 

“Being raised in the country and at one point of having to use outside facilities, I know how to make do,” Burke said. “I just take one day at a time and pray about it and keep moving on. I don’t let it get me down. But my daughter grew up differently, so I worry about how she deals with this stuff.” 

Flowers, the activist, said that while she hopes the agreement will be reinstituted, she has seen communities come together to make change. Last week, she pointed out, she was in Mount Vernon, New York, where sewage issues were resolved with the combined work of the city, county and state government. 

“They fixed it because they should have,” Flowers said. The problem was discovered in 2021  “and it’s fixed five years later. I’ve been working on this in Lowndes County since 2002.” 

Some families have been able to afford to move away, but many cannot. Then the connection to the land is also a factor, said Flowers, who spent her childhood there and whose father was raised in Lowndes County. 

“My family has been in Lowndes County since slavery,” Flowers said. “It’s home for people. Why would we want to move? That’s where our people are buried.” 

Changing homes is not just about occupying another house.  

“We’re talking about giving up a culture,” she said. “So, we will continue this fight.” 

[nanamineedstherapy]

Indisputable Evidence of Baby Girl Behavior

Gojo Satoru x F!Reader

Summary: ✨Welcome to the National Baby Girl Census, where we gather empirical evidence on how quickly Gojo Satoru folds when you say one-just one-magic word. This is a scientific study (real). Read responsibly. Or don’t. I know y’all are feral. As usual, no physical details for the reader—like race, eye/hair color, skin tone, complexion, or body type—have been used. 🎭✨ So enjoy! 🥳📖 Fluff + Suggestive

You barely get one foot through the door before you’re launching yourself at Gojo, limbs wrapping around him like you’re some kind of deranged koala. He doesn't even stumble—just lets out a soft ‘oof’ as you cling to his back, your arms locked around his shoulders, legs dangling behind him.

"Well, hello there," he hums, tilting his head as if he can see you despite the blindfold. "Climbing up my back like a little Axolotl. Aren't you clingy today?"

You tighten your grip, smushing your cheek against the back of his head. "Nooo, I just musssssed you."

He laughs, the sound deep and amused, and shifts his weight so he can support you better. "Missed me? That's adorable." His hands slide under your thighs, effortlessly hoisting you up. "But I'm guessing there's more to it than just missing me, isn't there?"

You don’t respond immediately, just press your face into his shoulder, inhaling the faint lingering scent of his cologne. He’s warm, ridiculously so, and solid beneath your touch.

Then, with a carefully calculated move, you let one hand wander—discreetly, of course—towards his chest.

Gojo stills for half a second before his lips curl into a knowing smirk. "Now, now. What are you up to, baby? You trying to get a feel of something there?"

You blink innocently. "I'm just a baby."

He snorts, finally turning so he can pin you with an amused expression. "Oh, you're a baby, huh? A little innocent thing that can’t control her impulses?"

"Nooo."

His grin sharpens. "Then what are you doing, baby?" His voice drops, low and teasing, his breath fanning over your skin. "Trying to touch me so boldly? You aren’t as innocent as you claim to be, are you?"

"Sorry."

You’re not sorry. You prove that immediately by sneaking another grab and squeezing.

Gojo laughs outright this time, the sound rich and indulgent, and he doesn't bother stopping you. "Still at it, are you?" He tuts, shaking his head. "You're a sly little thing, aren’t you? Trying to act all innocent, but your hands tell a different story."

"Boobies," you mumble shamelessly.

His shoulders shake with laughter. "Boobies, huh? You’re really not holding back, are you?" He shifts his grip on you, hands tightening around your thighs. "Can’t keep your hands to yourself, baby?"

You pout, your fingers curling into the fabric of his shirt. "You are so, so cute and..." You swallow, feeling your face heat up. "Hot."

Gojo chuckles, clearly reveling in your flustered state. "You think I’m cute and hot, huh? Well, I can’t blame you for being attracted to all this." He gestures to himself grandly, like he’s presenting a gift to the world.

You make the mistake of looking at him—the smirk, the tousled white hair, the sheer Gojo-ness of him—and immediately combust. Die blushing.

His laughter is immediate—the kind of unrestrained joy that makes your heart flip. "You're so easy to tease, you know that?" He nudges your forehead playfully with his own. "All it takes is a few words, and you're blushing like a schoolgirl."

"Aaaah," you wail, shoving your face into his chest, pretending it can somehow shield you from his relentless teasing.

"Aww, hiding your face now?" Gojo coos, tilting his head to try and peek at you. "Too flustered to look me in the eye?"

You grumble into his boobies. "Y… yes."

He hums, clearly savoring the moment. "That’s adorable, baby. You’re so cute when you're all flustered like this." His lips brush against your temple, a whisper of warmth. "It just makes me want to tease you even more."

You groan, smacking your forehead against his chest. "You're the worst."

"Mm, but I'm your worst," he purrs.

You hate that he’s right.

---

Dinner had been eventful—mostly because Gojo had spent half of it going on a tangent about some new cursed technique theory, and the other half stealing food off your plate like he was entitled to it. Now, you were both sprawled out in bed, full and content, except Gojo was still talking.

He was lying on his back, gesturing as he rambled about something you stopped following ten minutes ago. You were curled up beside him, facing his chest, blinking sleepily as his words blurred into white noise.

"—and then I told Jogo, 'Please, do you really think you can outmaneuver me?' Like, the audacity of some people, right, baby?" He huffed, as if personally offended. "Honestly, I think I should start charging people just to be in my presence—"

"Daddy."

You said it absentmindedly—mostly an intrusive word, stretching slightly against the sheets, your voice soft and lazy. It wasn’t meant to be anything special—just a single word slipping past your lips in the middle of his monologue.

“Hm, yes baby?” He always paid attention to whatever you said, no matter how much he was busy rambling.

But then Gojo froze.

Mid-sentence. Mid-breath. Mid-existence.

His entire body tensed as if you had just activated some forbidden cheat code.

Slowly, so slowly, his head turned toward you, his bright blue eyes piercing through the dim lighting of the bedroom.

"...What did you just say?"

You blinked up at him, confused. "Huh?"

His smirk was gone. This was new territory now.

"You called me Daddy," he murmured, voice dropping an octave.

Oh.

Oh.

You had expected him to barely notice; maybe hum in acknowledgment and keep talking.

Not this. Not the intensity that was suddenly crackling in the air like static electricity.

You swallowed. "I—uh, yeah?"

Gojo propped himself up on one elbow, his full attention now locked onto you like a moth to a flame. The lazy amusement that was always in his expression had shifted into something… different. His fingers brushed against your jaw, tilting your face up.

"You do realize what you just did, right?" His voice was smoother now, quieter—like he was savoring the moment.

You squirmed under his gaze. "I mean… I just said it…"

He let out a slow chuckle. "Oh, baby," he drawled, his fingers trailing down your arm, featherlight. "You can't just drop that on me and not expect a reaction."

Your heart did an embarrassing little flip. "I didn't think you'd—"

"Pay attention?" He smirked, leaning down until his lips hovered just over yours. "Oh no, sweetheart. Now you have my full, undivided attention."

You could feel the warmth radiating off him, the weight of his gaze, the way his hand lazily traced patterns on your hip like he was waiting for you to make a move.

It was unfair how fast he could flip the script.

"...Oops?" You tried, voice smaller than you intended.

Gojo grinned, his free hand slipping under your chin, tilting it up further. "Oops?" he echoed. "That’s all you have to say?"

You bit your lip, trying to play innocent. "I'm just a baby."

His smirk widened. "Oh, you are playing dangerous tonight, huh?" His fingers trailed lower, teasing, deliberate. "You think you can just say that and not face the consequences?"

You had severely underestimated the power of that single word.

And now you were at Gojo Satoru’s mercy.

The air—now thick with warmth, the kind that settled deep into your bones, making your body sink further into the plush mattress. The room was quiet now, except for the faint hum of the city beyond the windows and the sound of Gojo shifting beside you.

You could feel him still watching, eyes lingering, fingers tracing mindless patterns against the sliver of skin exposed beneath your shirt. There was something undeniably smug about the way he held you—loose enough to let you breathe, but firm enough to remind you exactly who had the upper hand.

You swallowed, willing your pulse to slow. "I—"

"Shhh," Gojo cut in smoothly, pressing a single finger to your lips. "You seem nervous, baby."

"I'm not…?"

He grinned. "Lying already? You do know I can hear your heartbeat, right?"

You glared, but it lacked real heat in the dark, especially when his hand dragged lazily over the hem of your bra.

The silence stretched, thick with unspoken words, until your mouth moved before your brain could catch up.

"Daddy."

It wasn’t calculated this time—like hadn’t been before. Not a tease. Just a quiet, automatic murmur as you shifted against him, stretching your limbs.

And without hesitation—without even thinking—Gojo responded.

"Yes, baby?"

Your breath caught.

He hadn’t paused. Hadn’t even blinked. The words had slipped from his lips like second nature, like it was the most normal thing in the world.

His hand was still tracing your bra, fingers curling slightly, and when you lifted your head to look at him, he was already smirking.

"Something wrong?" he asked, tilting his head like he didn’t just casually obliterate your entire sense of composure.

"You—" You blinked, heat rising to your face. "You responded so fast."

Gojo chuckled, shifting in a way that he was hovering too close to your body. His hand trailed under your bra, playing with your left breast, kneeding the soft skin with a touch so gentle that it made your stomach drop as you bit your lower lip to stifle a moan.

"Of course, I did." He leaned in just enough for his breath to ghost against your lips. "What, you think I’d ignore my baby when she calls for me?"

The words coiled around your spine, pooling low in your stomach, and you had to physically stop yourself from squirming.

His fingers slid to your nipple, warm against your skin, slow and deliberate. "You sound so sweet when you say it, too," he mused, voice dropping to that dangerously smooth tone. "Like you don't even realize what you're doing to me."

You swallowed hard. "I—"

He tutted, fingers flexing against your hard nipple. "Don't back down now, baby."

Your throat went dry.

It was impossible to argue when his hands were on you like this, lazy and teasing, like he had all the time in the world to unravel you.

---

A/N: Congratulations. You have successfully witnessed Gojo Satoru’s immediate and catastrophic shutdown. 🎉 I left the ending ambiguous on purpose. Feel free to hallucinate that you either A) topped like a menace to society or B) got backshots so violent, with Gojo's hand around your throat, that you briefly entered the astral plane and shook hands with God. (Totally not because I think I write smut like an AI trying to generate Shakespearean erotica.)

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[serpentface]

Wardin provincial tax magistrate on the annual Apomalo Tlinya (phrase close in meaning to 'journey of the late (autumn) sun'), which is a tax collection tour.

His station is marked by his white cloak, royal blue belt, gullfeather khattanocuy, the ability to bear a sword, and a scroll containing documents stamped with the Usoma's seal confirming his identity and authority. He does not travel alone, but is accompanied by a large retinue of scribes, soldiers, advisors, and servants.

All citizens have tax obligations regardless of class, and these are owed primarily in grain and livestock. This is based in this internal economy being predominantly a barter system (with its coin currency having direct value as precious metals and serving as a means of establishing fixed values for various trade goods) and heavily reliant on agricultural goods. It is significantly more difficult to evade or cheat on taxes when what you owe can be established by sight, measured in hard to miss livestock and fields of crops.

As such, taxes are collected via annual tours in which these magistrates (personally appointed by the Usoma and collecting in his name) tour their lands in person. The Apomalo Tlinya serves multiple purposes. It is primarily a method of collecting tax, but also doubles as a way to assess a province's agricultural wealth and well-being as a whole and to take an official census of the population.

This routine act of taxation has been integrated into official religious practice, being looped in with the bounty of the harvest season and thanksgiving to the face Inyamache for having provided the necessary long summer sunlight as the days grow shorter. The actual Apomalo Tlinya begins upon the official celebrations of the New Maize day in each capital city (usually observed on a separate day at the actual end of the harvest for each village), where the festival ends with the tax party leaving the city in procession. The magistrate always ceremonially rides a red bull khait, bearing a solar disk framed by royal dual-viper insignia on its horns. The bull's journey is compared to the ideal seasonal behavior of the sun, generating new life out of rain-fertile earth and then 'dying' after the harvest to allow for the rains to come. Villages who host the Apomalo Tlinya entourage each night experience a fringe benefit via permission to introduce any receptive mares to the bull and possibly get some (very valuable) calves out of it. The bull will be sacrificed at the end of the journey in a final act of thanksgiving, in hopes this offering will help ensure the next year is bountiful.

The attempted veneer of solar thanksgiving and harvest cheer aside, the Apomalo Tlinya visit is enjoyed by just about no one (except for perhaps the people lucky enough to get a pretty khait calf out of it), as it entails the personal loss of some of this aforementioned harvest. Nobility owe SUBSTANTIALLY higher taxes than commoners (given that they are considered to Own the majority of the crops/livestock, which is only Tended by their land's peasants), though the actual tax burden is proportionately steeper on the peasantry (whose tax obligations will come primarily out of their allotted share of the harvest, and/or any livestock they raise on the side). Taxes don't tend to be outright devastating in years with average crop yields, but an already bad year can be made ruinous by this visit. The timing also coincides with seasonal harvest festivities. A few unlucky villages every year may have their New Maize feast day interrupted by the sound of horns and a small legion of white-clad taxmen bearing down to collect.

Each province has only one tax magistrate, making this a lengthy and logistically complicated undertaking. It begins at the end of the harvest season (late summer), and the rounds may not finish until early winter. While it might be easier to divide these duties among a greater number of less-powerful officials, this allows taxation to remain Relatively centralized and performed by trusted appointees (often friends or relatives of the Usoma himself). This has had side effects of these officials becoming especially powerful individuals within each province, with very little checks in place to prevent corruption (beyond hope for sustained loyalty, often reinforced with special privileges and favors). Flagrant abuse of this system is rare, but more unpopular magistrates are commonly suspected to leverage additional off-the-books taxes for their own personal gain.

[murky-tannin]

Tubbo's questions to Cucurucho

Why was I frozen?

Classified.

Who can override that classification?

Classified

When was the wall built? Who built it?

Classified

Who built the election building?

The Federation

Who constructs buildings for the Federation?

The Federation

How many workers are in the federation?

Classified

Who runs the feds??

Classified

Is your fav word classified?

Hahaha yes

Anything I should know about island?

No. I hope you enjoy the island

do the eggs ever hatch?

Maybe

You dont know?

hahaha

Where do the eggs go when they die?

hahaha

Can the eggs get their lives back?

Classified.

(after some pushing)

No

Has there ever been a case of an egg getting a life back?

Yes. (went on to specify Juanaflippa)

Are there more eggs then the ones we know?

Hahaha. Classified

Why was the wall built? What was the point?

hahaha

Are we on good, bad or neutral terms?

Yes. I want all island residents to enjoy the island

Are there any residents who are not enjoying the island?

The island is perfect

Have you ever seen stranger things?

No

Do you think the island is perfect for you?

The island is perfect for me

Are you in charge of the island? Do you run this place?

The federation runs the island

Who runs the federation is classified right?

Yes

Do you have autonomy? Or do you just do what the Federation says?

Hahaha (refused to answer when Tubbo pushed before changing topics to Tubbo's illegal act)

So do you have free will? If you wanted to could you build a dirt penis?

Maybe

How do you maybe have free will? Is someone controlling you sometimes?

Maybe

so someone controls you sometimes?

No

You're always controlled then?

No

You're never controlled, you do what you want?

I am from the federation island census bureau. I'm an employee of the federation.

Is there more then 1 island?

Classified

How many questions are you going to ask :)

How many will you let me ask?

Cucurucho leaves after Tubbo asks this

[aceoffangirls]

Really disappointed in my country rn. Australia likes to act like its better than the rest of the world sometimes, compare ourselves to the shit politics in countries like the USA and UK but we are not. Australia is a very racist country, a lot of may not see but the truth came out during this referendum. My heart goes out to all First Nations Australians, you should not have to put up this.

There are some reminders for everyone:

Australia was only colonised in 1788 and we only became one nation in 1901. The First Nations people of Australia have been here for over 65,000 years. They have been here longer than some of the great wonders of the world like the pyramids.

The First Nations people of Australia where not included in the census and be counted in the constitution in 1967

The Stolen Generation only ended around 1969 with the continuing impacts being felt today.

The government only apologised for their actions in 2008

We continue to not listen to the First Nations people and destroy their sacred sites,

[mariacallous]

Tens of thousands of people joined the Pride march in Bucharest on Saturday in the largest-ever such parade to take place in Romania.

About 30,000 people, many waving rainbow flags and chanting slogans calling for solidarity and tolerance, took to the streets of Bucharest on Saturday in a march to celebrate the diversity and visibility of the LGBTQ community in Romania.

It was the biggest such march in the 20 years since the LGBTQ Pride march was first organised in the country, according to the organisers.

The first Pride in Bucharest emerged in 2005 as a defiant gesture following the decriminalization of homosexuality. But only a few hundred participants then braved the threats and hostility.

Over the next two decades, the event has been transformed into an annual cultural festival featuring more than just the parade but also films, debates, art shows and sports events.

On Saturday, attendees marched from the government building to a park in front of parliament. Rainbow flags waved, music played, and banners called for civil union rights, transgender healthcare access and legal protections

The mood mixed festivity with advocacy: dance, cheers, and determined slogans, like “Love is the worst feeling you could hate”, and “Equality in love, equality in inheritance. Civil partnership for all”.

“This year’s Pride, regardless of how many people attended, shows that our protest has taken root in the public consciousness. We are now a strong presence in public life, and our visibility can no longer be ignored or downplayed,” said Victor Ciobanu, director of the Accept Association, one of the march’s organisers.

While the event itself was peaceful, a few protesters carrying cartons of eggs were forcibly removed from the route.

A small counter-demonstration, calling itself “The March for Normality”, was held earlier in another part of Bucharest, where participants carrying religious icons and crosses called for an Orthodox Christian nation.

The influential Romanian Orthodox Church, to which more than 85 per cent of Romanians belong, according to census data, has repeatedly spoken out against homosexuality as a sin, and against civil partnerships.

On Thursday, it expressed disapproval of the Bucharest Pride march, which fell on the eve of the major religious feast of Pentecost. The Church called the event “a provocative and entirely inappropriate act”, which was harmful mainly to children and young people.

Romania decriminalised homosexuality in 2001, decades later than other parts of the EU. It remains one of the most restrictive countries regarding LGBT relationships in the European Union.

Recent attempts to introduce civil partnership have stalled in parliament, blocked by opposition from religious groups and conservative lawmakers. The Romanian Constitution defines the family as a freely consented marriage between spouses, without specifying gender.

The European Court of Human Rights in 2023 told Romania to provide legal recognition to same-sex couples but implementation has yet to begin.

Surveys show younger Romanians are more supportive of equal rights, suggesting a slow cultural change. But the political class remains cautious, wary of a backlash from a largely Orthodox Christian electorate.

[natequarter]

the doctor's christmas gifts to (some of) his companions:

ian and barbara: a book of baby names and a collection of census records from the seventeenth century. this was not, as was commonly believed at the time, a gesture of goodwill or matchmaking, but rather a misguided attempt to get ian to change his surname to (quote) "a better one"

jamie: a scottish flag, the first gift to be greeted with any enthusiasm

victoria: a swiss army flamethrower (it was supposed to be delivered to vicki, but the doctor and the tardis postal service got confused) (she was horrified) (never again)

liz: a chemistry kit from the year 9763. the doctor had to take it off her when she accidentally made several scientific discoveries millennia before humanity was supposed to

benton: socks (matching). stop laughing, the unit secret santa is no joke

the brigadier: socks (not matching). an act of vicious personal revenge for which the brigadier has not yet forgiven the doctor

jo: socks (fluffy)

yates: socks (with dinosaurs on them, awww) (apparently this was "insensitive")

sarah: he's not bowing down to your petty whims, brigadier, he's a time lord. he doesn't celebrate christmas this time round. however, in the spirit of cultural exchange, he did get sarah a traditional otherstide gift, or the closest thing to it: a sonic calculator (harry got a physics textbook, for the enlightening of his tragically limited mind)

romana: he's changed his mind, as it happens, and wishes to introduce romana to traditional christmas gifts. to fully encapsulate the spirit of christmas, the gift in question was a hand-knitted ugly and itchy sweater that doesn't fit (and bears a strong resemblance to his scarf). curiously, it has never been seen again

nyssa: that's right, it's socks again

tegan: tickets to the ashes... in 2083. it was a mistake, okay? it was a mistake! anyone could make it! oh, alright, i'll give you a lift...

peri: a lifetime supply of burgers

ace: homemade explosives kit. appreciated, but not by her neighbours.

benny: socks (with question marks on them)