#I am from Minnesota

[alexzehooman]

foaming at the mouth

are we still drawing miku?

i haven’t seen any minnesota mikus, so here’s my contribution! minnesota (the twin cities specifically) miku!! yeah!!!!!

she’s got the caribou coffee cup, of course. it’s even the same color as her hair.

[bookinit02]

i really do think there’s a huge disconnect on here w/ people who have never used tiktok as to what it actually is and who actually uses it. the number of people i’ve seen call it a “teen dancing app” is actually insane. it has not been a teen dancing app since i was in high school, around 2016 - 2020. the main communities i saw on a daily basis were 1) black history/anti-racism educators, 2) high school & college teachers sharing in-classroom strategies and frustrations with the education system, 3) local/state political leaders giving real-time updates on behind-the-scenes government decisions, & 4) community activism & leadership. like tiktok is an adult platform. almost every person i interacted with was my age or older. and yes it completely depends on your fyp and how you interact with the app, yes there’s still teenagers and dance videos and literally anything else you can think of. but these communities of adults aren’t insubstantial at all, they have literally millions of interactions on a daily basis. there’s about a million other types of communities that i could name just off the top of my head, because the range of users was SO diverse and thriving. it’s a long-distance community tool, just like any other social media—and honestly much better than any other social media, because it relies primarily on the kindness of strangers. i saw at least 5-10 videos today of queer people in rural areas panicking because they don’t have any access to queer community on any other platform or in real life. and before i end this i do want to say i think tiktok is coming back, i think this is a highly orchestrated political move, etc., but i do know it won’t ever be exactly the same. people are panicking about free speech violations because tiktok was a place where people fucking SPEAK. i have never seen mass mobilization and communication in this same way for as long as i’ve been alive. it is the people’s app, not just a silly teenage thing. if you’re not on tiktok and never have been, please stop talking about it like you know anything at all😭

[chaoticprussia]

struggling to finish this drawing cause i erased too many times and it left behind a lot of lines.. but i still like how the unfinished doodle looks.

heres a minnesota! hes got some german heritage in her. hence the smaller then average eyes. which is a german genetic trait linking back to the second german reich. aka reichtangle. he likes space science hockey and canadians! she was a big part in the civil war and the space race.

hes also bipolar! which is a reference to the wether here which SUCKS. it regularly gets to the negatives during the winter and if youre unlucky can get to 100 FUCKING FAHRENHEIT during the summers. which is why i call it the bipolar state. ive been calling it that for YEARS lmao.

[em578]

Further thing about driving in water, this applies if you're evacuating and trying to leave before it gets Bad but after it starts to rain

Hydroplaning bad! if the water is deep enough to make a puddle, your car can do this fun thing where you drive at enough speed to skid on the top of the water, like a rock on a pond. That means you effectivly lose all steering until back on the ground, and it's really scary when it happens for the first time! So if you're going over a big puddle, slow down

if the water is deep enough, it will kill your engine. If you look at some water and it looks deep enough that if you step in it it'll soak over your feet? Be careful (this doesn't apply as much to big trucks, the issue is when water touches the bottom of your car)

Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.

Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.

This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.

[whenthewallfell]

Working on my Everlark-on-the-run fic and trying to plan out their getaway/roadtrip route for ~authenticity~ and it's driving me nuts like

America is so big. IT'S SO BIG. WHY IS IT SO BIG.

It takes me five hours by train to get from Edinburgh to London. That's two whole countries, at almost opposite ends of the UK.

I'M NOT EVEN SURE THAT WOULD GET THEM OUT OF THE COUNTY?????

[cloudbatcave]

Is there a word for not really being in a bad mood but being generally dissatisfied with things you can't change and you know are no one's fault? That's me right now.

[myloveforhergoeson]

worldwide coming up on my playlist when i’m in the airport… hm…

[butchsaint]

tim walz please save this country

[bisexualalienss]

white people from minnesota love to forget how racist they were to somali refugees in the 2000s. don’t get me wrong there’s still are a lot of people like that but a lot of people like to act as if we were and still are such a welcoming and accepting state when that very much was a thing and still is

[lucyvaleheart]

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[bookinit02]

conversations i had at the bar tonight:

nerding out over my favorite book, which also happened to be the guy next to me’s favorite book (that apparently he has been telling people about for YEARS and nobody else has ever read it)

gender politics and microlabels and whether it’s more important to be genuinely trying to be respectful of identity or to be using “correct” language and terms 100% of the time

the decline of young men into alt-right communities and how anger pushes them into isolation and violence

how the guy across from me is building a huge personal library and he has so many books that he can barely even fit them all in his apartment

how trauma and cultural uncertainty shapes writing & the importance of writing hopeful/happy stories

whether the american expectation of monogamy is harmful to relationships and whether it’s more important to be faithful to your long-term partner or to follow new passions

in summary. i fucking love grad school

[museumofbuildings]

304 Washington Ave. North, Battle Lake, Minnesota, USA. Built 1906.

[al-mayriti]

my sister just told us the funniest story i HAVE to tell yall i'm so sorry anita

basically she follows this one usamerican dude on tiktok that plays music and stuff and back when folklore (taylor swift album) released he posted a tiktok asking his followers to say their favourite folklore song.

my sister did not know about the existence of the ts album at the time, so she took the question literally and commented 'me gustas mucho by rocío durcal' (this is the song btw, i think it makes it funnier) 😭😭😭😭😭

[gracelandmp3]

that “on all levels except physical” tmg poll is rly fascinating to me bc i was going through the list and i was like ok in terms of mountain goats song locations metaphysical or otherwise none of these even crack my top ten? and it took me a while to realize thats bc so many of the rly good ones simply do not have a quote u can pull about them . wild. anyways ive been reading tmg lyrics for like an hour and i always forget how insaneeee jds command of meter is. also i’m obsessed w the way he uses really precise details to create a sense of place it’s something i want to work on

[61below]

I am a person who likes to make my own decisions, plan meticulously, but altering on the fly is fine, bc when I plan, I plan for multitudes, and never be dependent on anybody else. I also acknowledge that I have a strong tendency to isolate myself, for ex: I have many friends and family members that live in the cities, but whenever I’m down there, I never want to reach out to anyone to try to meet up. Both bc I hate to be a burden by asking, and also bc I just genuinely get so overstimulated that it’s easier to Be Alone.

(Well ~hello~ childhood trauma. I wonder how YOU got here 😑)

My problem is that right now, I have put myself in a situation where I’m depending on someone else to make plans, I need to ask someone else for permission, and I’m trying to also coordinate plans with ANOTHER someone else, but the main person has. Not. Gotten. Back. To. Me. So now I’m stressing that Person C is going to think I’m flakey and I’m rather invested in making a good impression. All of this is cumulating into a thunderhead of worry that this is going to be Entirely Too Much and that I should just fucking back out now.

But at this rate, if I’m not careful, I’m going to turn into a complete hermit. And while it is tempting, I don’t want to completely isolate myself just bc I’m not brave enough to get out of my comfort zone.

Did I mention that this is all inter-family stuff?? God fucking preserve me.

[alshaverpressbox]

what does the picture of billy g mean? great question! unsure, but I’ll know it when it happens. (original post here)