#Jesus Christ don’t read all this

[wastedawayagaininmargaritaville]

I'm just curious, so please don't mind me asking.. why interest in the Green Party? I'm trying to better understand this viewpoint as I've voted democratic in the last 2 elections. I was always told a third party vote wasn't a sure thing.

Thanks for your reply!

Hi! First I don’t mind you asking and I’m sorry if the way I post makes it seem like I’d jump down your throat for a question like this. I use my blog to blow off a lot more steam than I used to but it’s not how I want to approach things in general.

I should mention I’m registered to vote in MO, the last time the dem presidential nominee won was the 90s I believe (McCain won very narrowly over Obama in 2008) and we are a winner take all state. As long as the electoral college exists, I’m “throwing away my vote” unless I vote for the republican nom. The blue cities scattered across the midline of the state don’t have enough weight (at least not in my lifetime they haven’t)

If you mean “wasn’t a sure thing” as in it has been a successful way to elect someone who isn’t one of the two parties, yeah I’d say that’s an understatement. I have little faith in a third party running in our electoral process and actually gaining enough momentum and support to win. People talk all the time about how gen Z is one of the largest and most politically engaged generationsin a while, but we don’t have the electoral organizing experience (nor desire tbh, at least for me and lots of people I know) and certainly not the resources.

The only sort of caveat I guess would be a dem taking on the Green Party nom as their VP, but that requires sacrificing most of what is typically on the Green Party platform and I would consider them compromised anyway.

The pipeline post was what I have done and I was wondering how common it is for people in my general demographic (young adult, raised liberal and middle class) who were brought up being taught the Democrat Party is a beacon of progress and the only thing regular people have to fight for the rights we want for ourselves and the people in our communities is to vote for them once every 4 years.

Then…

To be served the Clinton dynasty for our first chance to vote as 18 year olds, become totally disillusioned by the 2016 election (I was too young to remember the 2000 election), becoming radicalized and opened up to the world throughout late teens/early 20s by going away to school or simply meeting more people and viewpoints that aren’t from your parents/family/immediate community, living through and beginning to organize during the 2020 uprising, feeling a slight pull back into the dem party by Sanders and then seeing how the establishment pushed him out, and then saying fuck it my (albeit still shaky and developing) principles won’t allow me to hold my nose and vote again but I guess I like the green party’s platform. That’s honestly as much thought as I put into voting for the Green Party in 2020, i googled their platform and said ok this sounds nice, I won’t entirely feel gross with myself throwing my hat in with people who want to enact this. Reading that back feels very silly and simply an act of wishful thinking. But I couldn’t bring myself to vote for the champion of segregation and the crime bill after what I learned and witnessed in the streets in 2020.

Now we’ve seen what the democrats can and will do for us (very little) and importantly to the world (destruction, extraction, destabilization) I know too much now to delude myself into thinking these parties are functionally different from each other. I know too many people impacted by BOTH party’s policies to throw them under the bus. I understand more clearly what it means to be a citizen of the United States and what it means to vote in a country with so much influence and presence in other countries that I’m basically casting a vote on behalf of those people too.

But again, it doesn’t matter who I vote for where I live. If I was in a swing state I’d maybe be slightly more engaged with the electoral discourse but I don’t have a dog in the fight.

Hope this answers your question or at least gives you some stuff to think about. I didn’t wake up one day after being raised by Obama-loving liberal white people for most of my life saying “fuck the democrats and fuck voting!” It took time, experience, and pushing myself outside of the ideas that comfort me into denying my (and your) agency and power. We can accomplish so so much more life saving and politically altering work expending our energy the other 1,460 days of the election cycle than any candidate or electoral system in the US will grant us.

[ziracona]

I can’t include them all so here’s a combo of ‘came to mind first,’ ‘talked about positively most often by fans,’ and ‘stuck in my head’.

Public Apology Big Iron isn’t here. There were a lot that didn’t make the cut but that one specifically I stg I put in and only realized after posting had not. It was 100% meant to be on this list and I’ve failed us.

[bamboozled-distress]

Alfred ready to fuck up nightwings kneecaps so that he can’t leave till hes healed properly is probably one of the only good things that came out from war games 😭 and this is probably the most in character thing that’s come from anyone in the entire event

[ciderjacks]

argh. This comic writing is taking me way longer than usual. I keep editing things and it doesn’t feel right.

[maximoff-forevermore]

just like a little reminder for everyone that if you don’t like something, especially a fanfiction, stop fucking reading it☺️

you choose how you decide to spend your time on the internet, and i have no sympathy for you little shits who waste your own time reading things you don’t fucking like!! if you hated something that much, hire a therapist because no one else wants to hear your whining<3

[clawsextended]

on a note to all: my plotting style is something i like to call i have adhd and if i see you on the dash and have an idea chances are i’ll im you about it. i’m an anxious little dude who isn’t always active in a broad scope, and it’s always been my nature to reach out to people. that doesn’t make me even remotely anxious. not even remotely expected to answer me — i totally get it, sometimes you don’t feel the vibe — but a general psa about how i work. i come from the dinosaur era where the only way to communicate with one another on any level was to directly talk to them and frankly i don’t even know how else you’re ever supposed to plot with a person otherwise. like… how do you write if you never talk????

[bisexuallsokka]

this isn’t a joke anymore zuko and sokka have done irreversible damage to my mental and emotional state i want to be fucking free

[maespri]

(eye twitching, white-knuckling the bathroom sink after reading a tumblr post misinterpreting the actions of a fictional character) correlation does not equal causation correlation does not equal causation correlation does not equal cau

[shrekyaoi]

inviting you to speak about russian prison tattoos ooooo ~('-'~)

alright i‘m gonna set down the caveat that i am in no way an expert and i won‘t go into all of the ones i know of simply because we would be here for a long time. i‘m also going based off several sources that do come into conflict sometimes and it‘s difficult to know which is more reliable. if you want to know more (and in more depth) see if your library has the russian criminal tattoo series. yes that‘s what it‘s called. easy enough to remember

alright the historical background i‘m gonna give will be pretty brief. the practice has been going on since tsarist times but really evolved in the 30‘s to, among other things, make it clear who was a political prisoner and who was a thief. then the tattoos began to develop their own meanings (and then the bitch wars happened but i am Not going into that here). it‘s kind of like a closed code, but we know some things (assuming the sources we‘ve got aren‘t lying or making shit up. which is possible). a person’s set of tattoos is referred to as “a tailcoat with decorations” and you can get an idea of their entire life just from looking at them. the more tattoos someone has the more experience they have. similar with scars. there’s a whole shitload of connotations and symbology/dehumanisation going on with them but that is a discussion for later.

they sorta fell out of favour in the 90‘s for a few reasons, one being tattoo parlours. typically the only way to get these tattoos was in prison so they would be legitimate and it also loops back into the symbology thing but now any fucker can get the stars so like. what‘s the point. but, you can tell the difference between professional and prison tattoos if you know what to look for. i won’t get into punishments for wearing the wrong tattoos but i’m sure you can imagine it gets pretty gruesome.

cw off the bat for briefly mentioned SA

here‘s a few definitions, especially ones relevant to what i use for strzygoń.

stars - usually eight-pointed, on the knees to indicate “i kneel for no one.” can also be on the collarbones/front of shoulders to indicate authority

skull - varies. can signify rank but i’ve also seen it mean murderer. could be both depending on how it’s depicted

rings (wrapping around fingers) - can indicate how you got to prison, how many convictions you have, your loyalties, your rank, all kinds of shit. apparently the cross on yuri’s index finger means he’s been in prison at least seven years but i can’t find a single source other than the cod wiki to corroborate that

cat - usually kind of a puss in boots deal. represents a thief, plus the russian for cat (КОТ) stands for “native prison inhabitant.” there’s a lot of these abbreviations when it comes to these tattoos

spider - crawling up means active criminal. crawling down means leaving the life. can also indicate drug addiction if depicted with a web

snake around neck - usually some form of substance abuser, typically alcohol but not always

church - i’ve heard it several ways—either the cupolas (domes) indicates number of convictions, or the number of crosses at the top does and the number of cupolas indicates years served. could vary from person to person

madonna w/ child - varies. can indicate allegiance, “born in prison” or something similar, or having been a criminal since a child

eyes - on stomach, often (but not always) mean a homosexual, especially if looking down. on chest, “watching over you.” on the back or ass, receives anal sex (same for a snake entwined with a woman, and really a whole bunch of things that get increasingly unpleasant). this is often a forced tattoo

eppaulettes - indicate criminal authority or great achievement. they gave these to makarov in the reboot but idk how they managed it, they look fucking stupid on him

rose - ruined youth

knife through neck - basically, will kill for other people OR got backstabbed (or probably a million other things as with all of these)

“made in ussr” - sign of quality. usually on erogenous zones

wolf - if accompanied by “homo homini lupus est” means “man is a wolf to man” but can also on its own mean “a wolf is a friend and brother to a wolf” depending on context

lenin/stalin - almost always on chest or back with the idea that guards will not shoot the image of either of those men as they were sacred OR lenin specifically indicates the owner a thief

shackles around wrists/ankles - one represents five years served, so if someone has three shackles then that’s fifteen years and so on

this isn’t even close to comprehensive (that may very well be impossible) but they’re most of the relevant ones i can think of with some exceptions

[laegolas]

If I had literally any spare time to dedicate to a big project I would be very tempted to write an essay linking together Capitalist Realism (Mark Fisher) and McLuhan’s Medium is the Message because I think both add very interesting points to the broader discussion I’m seeing come up a lot re: content, consumption, and capital. Fisher explains the kind of socioeconomic conditions that lead to how we shape and consume our cultural artifacts (music, stories, film, etc) - with an emphasis on consumption. These creative works are squashed down into content and regurgitated over and over again for an audience that ultimately doesn’t exist. Meanwhile, McLuhan speaks to the epistemological influences of mediums like YouTube and TikTok (or, more accurately, implicates the epistemology as he predates them by. Well. Quite a few years). Like Hbomberguy mentions at one point - YouTube is ‘scrappy’, and self-uploaded. There is an implied ‘do your own research and don’t believe anything’ on the tin except that’s obviously not what people think or believe.

Idk I think we’ve just come to a very interesting point culturally and economically where scams and content farms are the norm and the point of our internet use is to just consume (information, ads, art) stuff that is fed to us by maths that presumes to know us better than ourselves. Anyway go watch the hbomberguy vid and while you’re at it read this medium is the message chapter or watch some mark fisher presentations

[theprestigegirly]

when my mother gives me unsolicited criticism on everything i say for no reason

[fingertipsmp3]

No one:

Person writing an introduction for a well-known novel: I am going to spoil the vital plot points and twists of this book for anyone who has not read it

[whereismyhat5678]

I FINALLY FOUND UR HAT!!!!! HERE YA GO!!! *Gives back ur hat*

Fun fact: You have saved my hat! I’m eternally grateful! 🥹💗💖💕🫶

(Also other random fun fact- My username is based off of a children’s book I read when I was little “I want my hat back”, I fricken loved that book 💕💕💕💕 <x])

[yogurtlid10000]

collection of old unfinished link arts-except the tp link one, that’s new-THAT ARE SO FIRE TBH ‼️‼️🎉 how did I conjure this up last year what was I ON😕 yippe

I love how it’s a different facial structure every time. 😞

Tomatoes

LA la la La I’d like to draw Cyclonus next but also I Magnus cuz I missed his birthday ( secretly Magnus is my favorite transformers charcater )

[pumpking64]

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[act-more-like-a-dog-sirius]

I swear to god it is impossible to exist for more than 3 consecutive minutes in this fandom these days without wanting to murder someone