#ban repeal

[justaz]

merlin’s secret being a visual thing. when he is around arthur or gwen or leon or morgana or [insert whatever character here] merlin seems pale and thin, almost like a ghost or an apparition. when the sun lands on him he reflects it like a corpse, he eyes seem dark and dull. he has this ethereal beauty to him, this otherworldly visage that leads many to believe he is of fae blood. he just doesn’t seem to be 100% human. but when he is ONLY with lancelot or gaius (cough or gwaine bc gwaine DEFINITELY knew) merlin is heartachingly human. merlin shines in the sunlight, colors are brighter and more vibrant around him, and his smiles are wide and his laughs are boisterous. he takes on color and leaves everyone wanting to know him. but when other join in or interact with the two, merlin shifts before their eyes so quickly and suddenly that they aren’t sure whether or not what they saw was a trick of the light. the idea still leaves them wanting more and wanting to see the merlin who is just so full of life but that merlin only appears for a small select group of people. merlin who has a guard so high that it has an effect of other’s perception of him.

[084thoughts]

Don’t think about Micheal Grant attending the Henren wedding, married to Athena with two kids, thinking he could never have the same thing for himself. Imagine if they had May be their flower girl, standing up at the alter with best man Chimney. Before the ceremony, Athena’s reminiscing on their wedding. They’ve been together for over decade. Harry is little, only 3 years old. May is beaming at Hen and Karen in their wedding outfits, holding her little bouquet. And Micheal feels like a fraud.

[caulifiya]

old msi art ...

[jomiddlemarch]

[nananarc]

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[sailoreuterpe]

I think that my main issue with the insult “puriteen” is the implication that being a teenager is the problem and/or that their age is worth mocking. The kids with problems with sex and violence (and calling for more censorship) aren’t springing fully formed from the ether. Someone is teaching them to be scared and uncomfortable. They’re learning from their bigoted parents, their conservative relatives, their repressed teachers. And these adults are Gen Xers and Millennials more and more. Someone is brainwashing these teenagers and they’re not doing it to themselves--at least not initially.

Everyone learns from those who came before: who’s teaching them?

[muddypolitics]

(via AZ House has voted to repeal the 1864 abortion ban upheld by the Supreme Court)

Republicans who supported the 1864 ban denounced the repeal during a litany of floor speeches.

“Stop calling it archaic to ban abortions. It’s archaic to do abortions,” Rep. Barbara Parker, R-Mesa, said, adding that abortion is “murder.”

Rep. Alexander Kolodin, a Scottsdale Republican, blasted his colleagues and other Republicans who have said that failing to repeal the Civil War-era law will lead to GOP losses at the ballot this November — and could mean Democrats take control of the Legislature for the first time in decades.

“We’re willing to kill infants to win an election. Put in that context, it’s a little harder to stomach” Kolodin said. “Politics is important, but it’s not worth our souls.”

abortion is not “killing infants”

GOP = EVIL

[excelsior9173]

okay i am in pain and watching movies and feeling incredibly stupid so-

i wanna hear sleep token cover “money for nothing” by dire straits for shits and giggles

ii could go the fuck off with that intro- could have a wicked solo and just go buck wild with fills

iv would crush that lick and have so much fun with it- you just know he’d be groovin like nobodies business

vessel’s falsetto on the “i want my mtv” part?? delectable. and he could have so much fun rearranging the verses to have some melody- make it less spoken if he wanted to

there’s a nice solid bass line iii could play around with- it’s very simple but he could absolutely add some flair to it and it would be sick as hell

[garthnadermemestash]

And just like that, nobody is talking about eating the dogs & cats

[rosaacicularis]

hmmmm….. thinking about my bbc merlin scarian au

[justaz]

au where arthurs death only lasted like 20 mins bc merlin spent time setting up his little boat to send him out into the lake but before he could part with him, he gently kissed arthurs forehead and it was actually true loves kiss and they lived happily ever after

[us-the-voices-and-more-voices-2]

thanks everyone for coming back!

a lot of people will be lost in the sauce of this extremely sudden blog move due to the other account being terminated LOL

well if you see any other moots of ours that are like “??? What happened???” Just direct them here

@us-the-voices-and-more-voices

is gone, Idk WHAT happened but I just am being way more careful this time round. If anything happens to this one I’ll just make another one, don’t worry I’ll come find you guys!

but sadly it’s happened and we just are going to have to restart everything AGAIN!

this time we are going to have a better tagging system so let’s go!

also to anyone who sent asks on the “bad advice blog” sadly they are GONE I had some replies in the drafts but I can’t access them anymore, I will be remaking the bad advice blog soon but until then it’s defunct and should be treated as such!

and maybe this time we WILL have alter intros who knows!!!

anyway sorry for this inconvenience, it’s heartbreaking on my side too. But I kinda was expecting that account to get deleted/suspended/deactivated so it’s not that big of a surprise for me.

spread the word I’ve moved blog, and we will be back to normal by tomorrow evening!

thanks for your continued support and just dealing with this shit, so yeah! See you all again soon while I fix our pinned post that I also have to do all the stuff AGAIN oh well it happens!

[1929crash]

Ambushing Germany, January 1931

Besides enforcing felony beer, the Hoover Admin. also funded exportation of drug laws worldwide Did you know that in February 1931 President Herbert Hoover pardoned a prohibition law violator? That same month he signed a bill to deport “drug violators” and later an Executive Order making it difficult for women to become citizens by marriage? Do you believe that making beer an asset-forfeiture…

[readandwriteclub]

Breaking: ATF's New Pistol Brace Rule Interpretation: Seriously?

[vaspider]

Listen to me. Listen very carefully:

They are trying to wear you out.

They are trying to wear you out, and they own most major social media now, along with many major media outlets. The disinformation machine is cranking along. You are going to have to slow the fuck down and read things before you help them wear out other people, too.

So you just saw a post about a real scary bill, hunh? Republicans want to make it a capital offense to pet dogs and repeal The Sky Is Blue Act of 1793, declaring the new official color of the sky to be squant? Damn, that sounds scary.

Let's go look up this fictitious "Make The Sky Squant Again Act" on GovTracker* & on the official legislative tracker on congress.gov!

Well, let's see... GovTracker estimates it has a 1% chance of even getting out of committee and a 0% chance of being enacted, while congress.gov says this bill has 2 cosponsors who have been in the House and combined total of less than a month. The bill doesn't have any actual text, and it was referred to 5 different committees.

That fictitious bill and a hundred others like it are quite literally not worth your time, and more than that, continuing to wring your hands about it and tell other people about the scary scary squant sky bill only does their work for them. It scares people, it makes them spend time and energy on it, and it wears them out. It is a legislative Gish Gallop, meant to throw so many things at people that we can't keep up.

Even calling or messaging your Rep in this case means their staffer has to waste time responding to you and letting you know that Representative Buttzonheads definitely won't support making petting dogs a capital offense, a thing that will never, ever happen regardless.

Staying engaged in this environment is going to require protecting your heart and protecting your energy, yes, but also protecting the energy of others. This is why WWII propaganda posters also included ones taking people to task for spreading panicky rumors and undermining morale.

Do you know why most observant Jews don't eat chicken and dairy together, even though the ban is on red meat and dairy together bc you're not supposed to cook the calf in the milk of its mother?** It's not because we think that chicken might secretly lactate or Just Because. It's because the rabbis decided that if I'm sitting out in public and eating turkey and cheese together, someone might glance at the turkey and mistake it for red meat and think, "oh, well, I know that Spider is a good Jew, there must have been a change, or maybe I can just justify it to myself that if Spider does it, it must be permissible to bend the rules just that much." And I would then be accidentally leading my fellow Jew astray. We are responsible for being even more careful for the sake of others than we are for ourselves.

It's the same principle here. We need to really be careful about the information we are spreading and check things past reading a news site. Is it true? Is it relevant? Is it meaningful? Is the news site one I recognize? Can I find meaningful independent corroboration on another site, which is to say, if I find an article about it on a second site, is it just quoting or rephrasing this site?

Yeah, that is a lot. But that's how we keep them from using us to lead our fellows astray.

*GovTracker is an independent site. They explain their methodology in their About section.

**I cannot say enough how I am not at this time interested in going on a Jewish Side Quest About Dietary Laws on this post. Usually, I love it, but hold off this time, please, y'all. Let's stay on target this once.

[thateclecticbitch]

Sending my condolences. I'm sorry people are being idiots in your notes

hi if ur unaware georgia 🇬🇪 (where i live) has officially banned gay marriage, gay ‘propaganda’, gender reassignment surgery and anything ’promoting’ it. a trans model, kesaria abramidze, has been murdered as a direct consequence of this legislation. if you have a queer georgian in your life pls let them know they are loved and let this solidify why we Need pride and hope cause jesus fuck man