#events!!

[ilyconnie]

zari baby's bday event! @yourrfavzxri

“maybe we could go get coffee…tomorrow?” “yeah, i’d like that.” “you would?!? uh- i mean great, i’ll text you the details.”

levi x fem blk!reader (just a smidge ooc)

ahhh omgg im so honored to be in zari bae's prompt event!! happy birthday mami!! i hope you have an amazing birthday & that you enjoy this!! sol <3s you

levi was the famous ta (teacher's assistant) for your 12:30pm monday, wednesday, friday class on politics and government. he'd caught every girl's eye in the class he even had to sit in the back so they'd pay attention. even though he'd never admit it to anyone but himself, he didn't mind sitting in the back.. cause that's where you happened to sit.

somehow, he always seemed a bit distant..but close at the same time. he would never go out of his way to speak to you (he barely spoke unless through email in your class anyway but yk), but even while he never approached you, his "unassigned assigned" seat was conveniently placed diagonally behind you.

he'd peek over onto your computer to see your notes and make sure you didn't fall behind, when he handed out the scantron bubble tests your professor would assign he'd take his time to personally hand you yours with a quiet almost nonexistent "good luck" to go along with it.

he never directly spoke to you besides you consistently asking him if he happened to have a pen or a spare highlighter so you could annotate your textbook in class. and even then, he never really said anything.. just a quick nod and then he'd rummage through his bag and hand you what you asked for. he even found himself putting together a personal area in his bag just for pens and highlighters and sticky notes for when he knew he'd see you.

even with all this aside, he was never the type to go and approach a girl to ask her out, but he knew with the semester ending if he didn't act now, when was the next time he'd see you? he had to make a move before it was too late and he was just some ta you had for some politics class.

so he mustered up the courage one day to catch you on your way out from class. you were dressed up all cute, like always, and he decided today was the day.

during his normal peek over to you, around the end of class, he leaned a bit over his table and said in his most confident voice he could do.

"hey y/n?"

turning over your shoulder, a bit surprised since this is the first time he'd ever addressed you, let alone used your name. (you lowkey assumed he didn't know it LMAOO).

"hm? yes? did you need something? i have an extra pen if you need it?"

he lightly breathed out in a way that could be perceived as a laugh.. for him i guess.

"oh no.. i didn't need anything.. i was just thinking.. maybe we could go get coffee…tomorrow?”

even while taken aback a bit, you immediately responded, “yeah, i’d like that.” because not only was this THEEE famous ta of your class, but he'd also never spoken to you in a way that wasn't initiated by you first. you'd be lying if you said you weren't attracted to him, and you'd be lying even more if you said this wasn't something you'd at least wanna try

somehow he was even more shocked than you were, “you would?!? uh- i mean great, i’ll text you the details.”

"how are you going to text me when you don't even have my number? you gonna email the details to me?" joking lightly you giggled at the idea of your ta emailing you the specifics of this.. date? yeah i guess it was a date

"i could if that's what you want?"

"here ill give you my number.. actually do you have a sticky note i can write it on?"

[emoprincey]

Hey besties, if you want to stay up-to-date on things in the fandom, pls follow my blog @sanders-sides-events where I'll reblog everything to do with events in the fandom!!

[strawlessandbraless]

What an unsurprising & completely expected turn of events that literally everyone saw coming 😮

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[shamebats]

I think we owe an apology to the Americans, looks like at least some of the issues with their healthcare system can be addressed with guns

[prokopetz]

While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.

Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Onion, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.

(EDIT: Fixed a sentence incorrectly suggesting that Clickhole is still affiliated with the Onion – it totally slipped my mind that they'd sold it back in 2020.)

[sayruq]

Palestinian girls and women are forced to use tents as pads. People boost. Donate if you can

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

Please, spread this for those who might need it right now

U.S. suicide hotline: call or text 988 (available 24 hours)

U.S. trans lifeline: (877) 565-8860 (when you call, you’ll speak to a trans/nonbinary peer operator. full anonymity and confidentiality)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) – provides 24/7 confidential support and referrals for individuals and families facing mental health and substance use disorders, including panic attacks and anxiety.

LGBT National Help Center: (888) 843-4564

Trevor Project: Call (866) 488-7386, text START to 678-678, or chat online.

Take care of yourself and each other. Please stay safe ♡

[beaft]

the little girl i was looking after today was so effortlessly funny and she didn't even know it. she wanted me to play "holidays" with her, which i assumed was a game where you pretend to be going on holiday - and it technically was, except her version mostly consisted of roleplaying being stuck in a traffic jam on the way to the airport

[itz-rainz-world]

OG: https://earthliberationstudio.com/shop/reclaim-revolutionary-queerness/ !!!!!

[politijohn]

Source

[batbusiness-schooldropout]

My favorite thing about J. Jonah Jameson is that he just hates Spider-Man. He supports mutants and doesn't hate enhanced people. He's not racist, sexist, homophobic, or transphobic. He just hates Spider-Man. And I'm half convinced that he's faking for the publicity.

He'd probably get pissed if he hears someone hating on Spider-Man for being enhanced.

"Spiderman isn't a menace because he can climb walls! He's a menace because he's climbing walls without a license or safety equipment! He's setting a bad example!"

"I just want you to know that you that your identity as an enhanced person is valid. Your identity as Spiderman is trash."

[illmissyoutiktok]

Musician: Jesse Welles

Posted 11Dec2024

[sturionic]

Activism is not cold-calling.

Activism is not cold-calling, and this is critically important to understand.

I'm seeing a lot of posts on here about 'building bridges' and 'finding community,' and then (extremely valid) response posts saying "BUT HOW??" And I'm going to explain something that can be very counter-intuitive: there is strategy involved in community.

As a longtime volunteer labour organizer, I’ve taken and taught many trainings on the strategy of talking. Something that surprises a lot of people is the very first thing you do in a union campaign. You sit down with your organizing committee, take out pen and paper, and literally map it out. You draw a physical map of the workplace: where are the entrances, exits, break rooms, supervisor offices. Essentially, ‘where is it safe to have a union conversation.’ Then you draw another physical chart of your coworkers. You sort out who is union-friendly, openly hostile to unions, or somewhere in the middle, and then you plan out very deliberately and carefully who talks to whom and in what order.

Consider: If Vocally Leftist Jane walks up to Conservative David and says "hey what do you think about unions," David is going to shut down immediately. He's not inclined to listen to Jane. But if Jane talks to Moderate Jason and brings him into the fold, then Jason is a far more effective strategic choice to talk to David, and David may actually hear him out without an instant reaction.

IMPORTANT CAVEAT: If Conservative David turns out to be Alt-Right David, and could be dangerous to follow organizers, we write him off. We are not trying to reach Alt-Right David. We are trying to reach Conservative David, who may actually be persuaded to find solidarity with other employees as fellow workers. Jason is a safe scout to find out which one he is. It does no one any good if Leftist Jane (or even Moderate Jane who is a visible minority) talks to Alt-Right David and puts herself on his radar. Not only has she done nothing to convince Alt-Right David to join a union - she's probably actively turned him against the idea - but now she's also in danger and the entire campaign is at risk. NOBODY WANTS THIS. Jane was NOT a hero for doing this. The organizing committee was foolish and enacted a terrible strategy to everyone's detriment.

Where you can make a difference is with people who will listen to you. You having a conversation with your well-meaning but clueless Centrist Democrat Auntie, and maybe gently helping her understand some things the media has been glossing over, is way more strategically useful than you marching up to MAGA Neighbour You've Met Once and trying to "build community" or "understand" them. They don't care. They're impervious, dangerous, and cruel. But maybe your beloved auntie will think about what you said, and then talk to her friend Anna who IDs as "fiscally conservative" but didn't vote because she can't bring herself to get on board with Trump. Then perhaps Anna talks to her brother Nic who has MAGA leanings but isn't all the way there yet. Proto-MAGA Nic would not have listened to you, nor would he have listened to Centrist Democrat Auntie, but he might absorb some of what his sister is saying.

This is not a cop-out or an echo chamber. This is you spending your time and energy strategically and safely. You are not a useful activist to anyone if you’re dead. Anyone who is telling you to hurl yourself directly at MAGA assholes like cannon fodder has no understanding of the strategy behind community building, and you should feel comfortable writing them off.

Last point: If you are tired, emotionally devastated, and/or in danger: take a break. This post is for people who would feel better jumping into action, not for people who are too overwhelmed to even think about it right now. You are worth so much even if you’re not actively Doing Activism, and your rest is worth more than “a break period so you can recharge and Do More Activism.” We all deserve the individual dignity of being worthy of comfort, rest & safety just on the basis of being human, outside of whatever we're doing for others' benefit. To deny ourselves that dignity is to devalue ourselves, and that’s the absolute last thing any of us should be doing right now.

[wcdonaldo]

your daily reminder that this is a microblogging website and not every post you see is a sweeping well thought-out hot take for you to consider and many posts are in fact vent posts that blew up on accident

[shamebats]