#We are one people this is one fight

[0gl1tch0]

There are people in the world who have decided some lives matter and some lives don’t.

Time after time, serial killers, genocidal leaders, and/or an apathetic public allow the unthinkable to occur because they decide the victims don’t count.

The LGBT community, people of color, women, Muslims, Jewish people, all of them have long horrible histories of getting othered, dehumanized, and having their deaths ignored.

The police are complicit, make no mistake. But until we march together, until we say every life matters, until we stop turning a blind eye when the victimized are those we despise, the perpetrators of injustice are given more opportunities to strike again.

[fly-chicken]

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am

[mychemicalbrromance]

Guys ive been reading peak

[lizzybeeee]

When you spend 20 years attempting to bring down the child slavery, murdering, human trafficking exploitation ring that stole your childhood, murdered your friends, and killed countless innocents only to have them rebrand as 'Noble Freedom Fighters™' off-screen.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Burning Rotten Bridges

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[nientedal]

What progress at home has biden enacted? What policies of his show that he is making progress that prove he is actually different than trump?

I like to pretend I have faith in humanity, so I'll answer as if you're asking this in good faith.

Biden's DEA has lifted restrictions on telehealth prescriptions to make appointments and assistance more accessible.

He put a funding package into place to help unhoused people get access to mental and physical healthcare, as well as short-term and long-term housing.

He has attempted and is still attempting to get student debt relief through - this was blocked by Republican judges appointed by Trump, but he's still working on it.

Infrastructure repair - his administration has budgeted funds to actually fix some severely-damaged and frequently-traveled bridges.

Trying to expand access to healthcare to include undocumented immigrants who came to the USA as children (Dreamers) under the Affordable Care Act. Support for Navigator programs and outreach has also been increased.

He has vetoed Republican-led bills that were attempting to overturn environmental protections - one that would have forbidden investment fund managers to consider climate change in their portfolios (I have two degrees in accounting and this is actually huge), and another that would have overturned restrictions on agricultural runoff into our waterways.

He and his administration worked for ages to get rail workers paid sick days.

This is just some of what he's been doing. Meanwhile, Trump and other Republicans want to criminalize the lives of LGBT people like you and me. They want to eliminate no-fault divorce and force births that will kill parents or devastate them financially. They have stated flat out that they want to install a military dictatorship in the USA. They attempted to put that in motion on January 6th, 2021. They failed once. They will do better next time.

One party wants to house the homeless and expand social safety nets, while the other one wants to criminalize homelessness. One of them wants a future in which I might be able to vote to change how much of a war machine my country is, while the other one wants to eliminate my ability to vote entirely. Those are not the same. Those literally are opposites.

At the end of the day, all you and I can do is choose to do the least amount of harm possible. You and I cannot choose to do no harm. This is the USA, we sell war, you and I cannot choose to do no harm. I wish we could, my god do I wish we could, but that is not an option. So we grieve for the harm we couldn't eliminate and work to minimize the harm that is done. Despite all the crap they support, Democrats are the minimum amount of harm right now. Acting like they aren't is exactly what brought us to an election where our options are a future where we are either wading in blood or drowning in it.

Not voting for Biden will not help Palestine. Not voting for Biden will guarantee a Republican president who will make the situation in Palestine WORSE. AND it'll hurt a lot of other places as well, both at home and abroad, because Republicans are about business and the USA is in the business of war! And I would very much like that to change someday! I would very much like to someday be able to choose to do no harm! And I know what I have to do to try for that future, so what are YOU going to do? There is no standing off to the side in this. If you aren't helping pull, you're the dead weight we're pulling. Are you going to dig your feet into the mud and blood and drown us there? Or are you going to get the fuck off your ass, grit your teeth, and help us pull free?

[arcanegifs]

[kacievvbbbb]

I love how extreme found family is in one piece. Like they took supernatural line of "Family don't end in blood" and actually made good on it. Because it's not just that the crew found each other even before that only really very briefly Robin, Usopp and Luffy could say that anyone biologically related to them raised them.

Like Luffy had Garp and that's his grandpa but he also had Makino and Shanks and the red hair pirates and they were a family unit and he also had Ace, Sabo Dandan and the bandits and they were a family as well and it's never who mattered more to Luffy or who actually raised him cause they all did. It'd be hard to put him in a nuclear family structure because so many people fill the same roles in his life in different ways and that's great like Kung Fu panda said "that doesn't mean less for one parent it just means more for Luffy"

And that's the thing I think sometime fandom can get very obsessive with trying to pin down who is whose surrogate father/mother how do they fit in the nuclear family structure and while that's fun and there's nothing wrong with head cannon characters that way I also think it's important to remember that not every relationship needs a title or definition sometimes you are just family and that's valid too.

Ace had Luffy and Garp but he also had the whitebeard pirates and his pops same with Sabo and the revolutionaries

Zoro with Kuina and his old kendo master, that was maybe more of a rivals, mentor mentee relationship than whatever Mihawk Zoro and Perona had going on but it's all family none the less.

Chopper with Hiririluk and Kureha. Perona and Moria, Usopp with the little village boys and Kaya. Shanks and Buggy with the Roger Pirates. They might not all have had defined roles with each other but it was still family.

Just like Sanji, Nami, Franky and Law and their more defined Surrogate familes

And people like Vivi Robin Usopp and Shirahoshi who had/have their biological parents/family that love them and raised them.

It's nobody that I've just mentioned properly fitting squarely into any of these categories because it's all complicated family is complicated and its messy and it's big and everyone in your family might not have even met but it's family and it doesn't end in blood and for some people it never started there either.

[chialattea]

It’s them….. the girls…

[temporary-tats]

Drew a little comic today!

Viz, let Blake be a little shit to Raven in v10 and my life is yours.

Per usual, do not reupload without credit/permission. Thanks folks!

(My ko-fi, should you wish!)

[unacknowledgeable]

Gothamites calling SK!Reader lil Brucie is now even more solidified now that they took in some random kid even if its not official

They see SK!Reader having some lil kid following them around is gonna make the tabloids go crazy

It doesn’t even occur to you that you probably should have been more secretive about this unceremonious (and not strictly legal) adoption, but things are always clearer in hindsight, huh? 

The kid won’t leave your side for barely a second (you really should try asking for her name, “kid” is only gonna get you so far) so it’s unsurprising when the very next day after taking the kid shopping for new clothes, the internet is flooded with tabloids about it, complete with various pictures of the kid sitting on your shoulders, or the two of you walking around with matching rabbit shirts. (you had seen her eyeing it in the store, getting one for yourself had been the only way the kid would admit that she wanted it) What WAS surprising however, were the headlines.

 “New Bruce Wayne adoptee??” 

“Bruce Wayne's newest ward?” 

“Mr. Wayne's latest addition! Adopted? Or a secret love child?”

Oh this…. This would absolutely not do.

Within the hour, you had rocked up to Vicki Vale’s building, complete with the kid, the matching shirts, smoothies in hand, and promptly walked past the receptionist and into Vicki’s office.

“You need to fix this,” is all you say while tossing your phone onto her desk, her latest article on the screen, “it’s wrong.”

Vicki, of course, was shocked, interrupted on her lunch break, “Excuse me?” was all she could get out as she watched the little girl glance up at you, then turning to face her, mimicking your pose and accusing stare.

Leaning down, you tap the phone screen, “Your article, it’s wrong. The kid isn't Bruce's. She’s never even met him. So,” pointedly taking a sip of your smoothie, you slide your phone to the edge of the desk and into little hands, “you need to change it.”

Glancing between the two of you as the sounds of electric gunfire echo from the device in the girls hands, Vicki quickly puts herself together, smiling as she clasps her hands together, “Oh I’d be happy too,” tilting her head as she adds, "if you would be so kind as to clarify who she is?”

Straightening from where you’d been leaning over her desk, you smile as you turn for the door, “That's a dumb question,” you wave away Vicki's protests as you slide the kid out of the office, 

“She’s my kid, obviously.”

You wait a second after you close the door, listening for the shout of “WHAT!?” from the other side, before tucking the kid under your arm and hightailing it out of the building.

Halfway home, your phone beeps, a new tabloid from Vicki Vale has been published in record time.

“Exclusive interview! Bruce Wayne; Grandfather?”

Ugh, It wasn’t great… but it’d have to do.

~Masterlist~

[fuckimrowan]

hmmmmm not to be back on my jason grace agenda but something about percy, thalia, and nico facing iapetus and barely winning. (between titans curse & battle of the labyrinth, setting percy’s age at 14-15). and jason defeating krios, alone. hand-to-hand combat, aged 15. something about how in the house of hades we even hear that iapetus is, in fact, weaker than krios. this guy is so metal actually

[non-plutonian-druid]

[ID: a doodle of old, Commission-era Five lounging in a bathtub with cucumbers over his eyes and a glass of wine in one hand and a bottle in the other. He has several scars, including one that starts at his collarbones and goes all the way down his torso. End ID.]

i missed old five this season so bad. where was he!!! Where was my old man!!! I took it upon myself to answer with "in the bath, chilling" because he deserves it. old five people, you're welcome

[artharakka]

Beautiful, But Broken

[spacesheeeeeep]

Actually so tired that people mainly focus on the bdsm when they talk about La Pianiste when we literally have this dynamic right here. Like, that's insane.

What if you were a little girl in her 40's who couldn't grow up because of your mother-wife who made you sleep in her bed and forced you to repress every sexual desires and thoughts of becoming your own person just to keep you close to her ? What if you fought back and yearned for dangerous things out of her reach ? But also, what if you let her because it's all you've ever known and been taught to want ?

[motianz]

Why is He Tian here?

Because he wanted to see you so much