#and now what happens

[strawberryblondebutch]

I love my bike. I bought it with cash from a sketchy old man to piss off my parents. It was way too high cc for a beginner. The first time I got on it, it kicked out from under me and I separated the shoulder doctors had tried so hard to put back together.

Every time I drive it, I put on a helmet. I have to replace the helmet if I ever hit my head, because then it's compromised and it could explode. I put on Kevlar high-tops to keep my ankles from breaking. I wear an armored vest and a jacket to keep my organs inside my body. I carry multiple pieces of ID so first responders can identify me in a wreck.

When I brush my teeth or comb my hair, I see a scar under my eye from a piece of broken glass that was embedded in my skin. I'm one of the lucky ones.

Last month, a pediatric oncologist in Philadelphia was thrown off her bike and killed because a drunk man lost control of his car. He was flooring it the wrong way on a narrow city street.

Last night, two men were riding their bikes home in South Jersey to prepare for their sister's wedding. They happened to be hockey players. One car decided to slow down and pull away from them. Another man -- drunk, yes, but fundamentally angry and impatient -- decided to floor it and go around this slow, burdensome car. Killing both.

We get thoughts. We get prayers. We don't get any meaningful change. Because in Philly, on the Main Line, in South Jersey? The convenience of car drivers outweighs the lives of pedestrians. Of cyclists. Of motorcyclists.

I just want to leave my fucking house. I want to do everything right and not end up a splatter on the street.

I'm heartbroken for the Gaudreaus. For the Blue Jackets, who lost another teammate. For Kevin Hayes, who lost his best friend so soon after his brother's death.

But more than that, I'm fucking furious.

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[perrieedwards]

i feel like people are skimming over the uk riots in a way that makes me want to tear my hair out. muslims in the uk are in active danger. immigrants in the uk are in active danger. refugees in the uk are in active danger. people of colour in the uk are in active danger. asian communities in the uk are in active danger. black communities in the uk are in active danger.

there are massive far right riots throughout the country right now and people like fucking elon musk and nigel farage are inciting it and still have a platform to speak. people have used three young girls deaths, people's genuine grief in southport, to try and gain traction for their own racist bullshit and it's working.

a lot of refugee charities have been forced to close leaving many people without support, homes, funding, food, etc. if you aren't able to donate please consider sending a message via the conversation over borders campaign! it will send a hopeful, welcoming letter to a refugee in the uk. there is also a guide to staying safe here.

please do your own research and donate to refugee charities, anti-islamophobia charities, mosques who are trying to rebuild after being destroyed, counter protesters, here are some i've heard positive things about but the list is extensive; southport strong together (support for the southport victims and their families), southport mosque rebuilding, riot repair fund, middlesbrough vulnerable residents, nasir mosque rebuilding, hull help for refugees, bristol welcomes migrants,

[creed-of-cats]

"If voting changed anything they wouldn't let people do it-" grabs your face THEY DIDN'T JUST "LET" PEOPLE DO IT, MOST PEOPLE COULDN'T VOTE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. PEOPLE OF COLOR ONLY GOT THE FULL RIGHT TO VOTE 50 YEARS AGO IN THE US, THATS BARELY A GENERATION.

IF IT DIDNT MATTER AT ALL WHY WOULD THEY SPEND SO MUCH TIME GERRYMANDERING THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYWHERE?? WHY CAN'T FELONS VOTE?? WHY CANT PUERTO RICO VOTE? WHY DO THEY KEEP SWITCHING DATES AND LAWS AND TIMES AND WHATEVER THEY POSSIBLY CAN TO STOP PEOPLE FROM VOTING?? WHY DO THEY MAKE EFFORT AT ALL??

BEING DISILLUSIONED IS A REASONABLE RESPONSE. BUT PEOPLE FOUGHT AND DIED AND ARE STILL FUCKING DYING FOR THAT RIGHT, DONT SPIT IN THEIR FACE.

[wolfythewitch]

i have so much rage in me one day i think i will explode. i dont think i know how to forgive as much as i know how to forget

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[ninjasmudge]

thats a red flag narinder, get that crown back while you still can

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[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[ciderjacks]

dwarven brew

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[xandrikart]

[applebees4prez]

i’m so glad we’re never going to let murph live that down. even in a season that he’s not part of in any way, shape, or form. always remember to honor the cock.

[chloesimaginationthings]

If Vanny is in the digital circus.. where’s Pomni?

[fantasticgothicpeachsludge]

Bernard: i lied. i don’t like sex. put your clothes back on babe and watch my power point presentation about What The Fuck Is Going On Between Batman And Twoface

Tim: …

[bacchuschucklefuck]

summer of junior year 06/11

[thekaiserroll]

Zosan comic inspired by videos of otters holding hands so they won't float away from each other.