#i don't like it but i voted harris but i feel like it hardly matters in my state in my family

[socctime]

I'm trying not to be, but I'm getting really scared about the upcoming election.

I'm worried about how much "they're both bad so why does it matter" and "just vote 3rd party" propaganda will affect the outcome. Because it's going to be very close either way.

[madfantasy]

Dear Blogging

Hello, dears, been awhile. Hope this finds you well~

A lot have happened/ still happening, I think it's going to be a long one and probably be all over the place because God I'm sorely tired.

★-I was getting ready to leave drawing for a good chunk of time, a month was what I plan to spend away from everything that had to do with it— including social media. But luckily for drawing I found a mystifying ad that spoke directly to me. " Are you an artist that creates characters and uses digital media? Join this local contest that is looking for talents to support! And guess what! We added extra time just because we believe you can do more, people!". So you can imagine me slumped on my bed, in my worst cases ever, barely awake, eyes sore from lack of sleep raising slowly as I read and reread it to make sure it wasn't a mirage. Suddenly I had a reason to live, apparently.

So I spent the last 10 days drawing like Mad, I wasn't ready, I didn't have ideas and certainly wasn't in any fitting state to do anything. But time was running, alongside it was my motivation, thankfully. I desperately needed a new pc, a reliable one. I have a couple of hundred saved up from commissions but they are hardly enough to buy a better quality than the one I already have.

I even did this excuse of a portfolio that took me ages for the contest:

https://madfantasy.wixsite.com/portfolio

Eventually, I made this; my precious Qarqa'ah and his precious Ghalli.

I sent it and finally breathed deeply. Not until I reread their rules I was a bit concerned. They say the prize is a support plan for the winner, so there aren't any actual specifications. Besides that, by applying I give away the rights for my piece, they can do anything with it basically, and it has to meet their standards, etc. They said the judging will start next month and they'll contact me if I got qualified. If I did, another month of voting than after another to declare the winners. It's a fairly big contest..

Pray for me :'

★-I was feeling detached from Severus, the last drawing of him hugging Harry and crying was a direct junction from how I was feeling in general... And one can possibly say it could have acted as an end to my Sevy art, as a goodbye.. but happy to say it's not going to be. I wasn't able to draw him at all recently. And seeing my older art of him made it worse, to be honest. I was feeling I ruined him and constantly reading around that the fandom is dying, and not seeing my favorite people around anymore was solidifying that feeling. So trying hard to fix him and sharing sketches didn't seem to have a point anymore, considering it takes me so much time to make art and my speed can’t keep up.. not to mention my seemingly unprogressive artistic direction that keeps peering at me from every angle..

But I had a dream of Severus one day, as odd and incomprehensible as dreams can be, it was amazing to see him again. He was chewing gum, that all I can safely say 😹 I can't stress how weird it was, I woke up feeling like Alice in Wonderland. I love it.

I thought maybe I should visit him where I first met him, so I watched a play-through of HP 1 PS1, it was everything I ever loved. I reread the book, & was so happy to have felt exactly the same as the very first time I wanted to get to know Sevy. Even more thrilled that I started to draw him naturally on the side of reading, without even thinking. I have a habit of pausing to draw my reaction on things I read or draw the scene I liked itself. At that moment, nothing seems to matter but putting those wonderful words I just read into a viewable form.

This, this captured moment of timeless pleasure, this what matters to me. To make these little moments to vibrate as candles, lighting in a row, one by one along the pathway, uplifting and even musing the spirit to do anything, even just to dwell in the blissful nothing, away from what heavies the hearts. Even if nobody found it so, even me. I still want to make them.

Just for funsies, I like to show you how much construction lines I need on Sevy compared to the ones on Harrison, alot. Also, you can check those doodles and more I did last night  (here) 🙊

★-On a more silly note; I have matched my medical glasses to sunglass's general shape that I like to wear- round. I don't wear them unless I absolutely have to, so it was a bit of a surprising luxury to do so. I come to quickly find that red glasses frames are unbelievably rare, leaving alone that I wanted them round. So we settled on the lighter shade— pinkish gold.

The minute I wore them, Mother started to call me Harry Potter Harbi* (My last name*), which was amusing considering that I wore round shaped glasses all the time anyway— but not transparent.

The guy who made the lenses must have showered with his perfume before, because I couldn't get the scent out of my glasses, as if it was impeded in the frame. That fondly reminded me of the times I used to make sure to spray my perfume on a tissue and slide it into the file containing my drawings. Because my favorite person at the time did showered with her perfume and every time I got her file— when we secretly switched, and she noted it felt like I was actually there with her, it was nice. (We were in different schools and whatever)

Let us hope for the best, my thoughts always my dears, with you. And thank you.

Bless your days⭐

[drbtinglecannon]

Two important things I feel need to be added:

1. There isn't actually a tie in the Senate between Dems & Reps, there's 50 Reps, 48 Dems, & 2 Independents. And while the 2 Independents (Bernie & King) basically always vote with the Dems, there's at least 2 Dems (Manchin & Simena) who hardly ever do themselves, which is why so much shit has been blocked these past two years. It has only come up ONCE for Harris to provide a tie breaking vote, which wouldn't even be needed if the Dems had a Senate majority. We need more than 48-50 Dems, there really needs to be at least 60 to actually get shit done for both the filibuster & to compensate for Dems like Manchin who keep voting against everything. If all the seats listed above that are possible to flip do so, it'll put us at 45 Reps, 53 Dems, and 2 Independents, which is significantly better than the numbers now, there would need to be 6 people to side with the Reps for something to fail as opposed currently only 1 needs to.

2. Roe v Wade was overturned exclusively thanks to Trump winning in 2016. He added 3 batshit conservatives to the SCOTUS during his term (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett) which is what gave the Republicans the votes to overturn it, and Thomas Clarence (appointed by Bush back in fucking 1991) has explicitly stated he plans to go after sodomy laws, gay marriage, and birth control next. SCOTUS are for life appointments. The point I'm making here is voting for every election matters, the explicitly bad shit happening is because republicans keep winning federal & local elections. If you don't want to live in a fascist hellhole you need to turn out for every election possible and vote for Dems -- yes even the ones that aren't nearly progressive enough if they're the only choice left.

Senate 2022: You'd Better Vote!

If you're an American VERY IMPORTANT! elections are coming up on November 8th. Since the 2020 election the US Senate has been tied at 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans with Vice-President Harris casting the tie breaking vote that gives Democrats their majority. Even with such a tight margin Democrats have managed to pass the largest climate action taken by any country so far on earth (yet), lower prescription drug costs, pass the first gun control law since the 1990s , made lynching a federal crime after over 100 years of trying, made Juneteenth a federal holiday, confirmed the first black woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court, passed a trillion dollar infrastructure bill to rebuild our roads, bridges, transportation, better internet, clean water, and support electric cars, saved the US Post Office, passed a renewal of the Violence Against Women Act which had been in limbo since 2019.

Imagine all that the Democrats in the Senate could get done in the next 2 years with a stable majority? On the Flip side if Republicans net just one seat Mitch McConnell has made it clear there will be no progress if he's majority leader again. There are 35 Senate seats up on November 8th, I'm gonna list out the 9 seats with vulnerable Democrats who need re-electing and seats Democrats can flip to expand their majority. Everyone needs to vote, but voting is the start, the most basic thing you need to do, if you live in any of these states PLEASE sign up to volunteer for these candidates, to go talk to voters, to register new voters, to give rides to the polls etc. If you don't live in any of these states, you can still volunteer to make phone calls or text voters it's easy! if you have money to give please please give money campaigns are so expensive. Finally most of these campaigns have merch shops so if you feed more comfortable buying a shirt or a bag or whatever do that lots of them have cool pro-choice things.

Arizona

Mark Kelly (Re-elect)

Senator Mark Kelly was elected in a special election in 2020 and is running for a full term this year. Kelly is a former astronaut and the husband of gun violence survivor and gun control advocate Gabby Giffords. Kelly is a strong supporter of gun control an issue he's worked on with Giffords as an activist for 10 years before Congress. Republicans have nominated Blake Masters, who worked for one of Trump's top supporters, Peter Thiel, Thiel spent 13 million dollars to get Masters nominated. Masters calls himself a "America First Conservative" and a "hard-core nationalist". Masters has embraced the racist "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory, supports Trump's conspiracy theories about the 2020 election being stolen, is against gay marriage, says gun violence is all the fault of black people, and is against aid to Ukraine. Kelly is a good democrat, Masters is a white nationalist and election denier, we need Kelly back in the Senate, and we need to keep Masters far far away

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Florida

Val Demings (Flip)

Congresswoman Val Demings has represented the city of Orlando in the US House since 2017. Before that she served as Orlando's first woman chief of police. In Congress Demings has used her law enforcement background to lend credibility to gun control and police reform. Demings also served as one of the impeachment managers in Trump's first impeachment trial. If elected Val Demings will be Florida's first woman and first black Senator. Demings is running to unseat Republican Senator Marco Rubio. After running against Trump in the 2016 primaries Rubio became one of Trump's biggest supporters in Congress. Rubio reacted to the Parkland shooting in his state by doubling down on opposing any gun control, Val Demings voted to ban assault rifles. Rubio has also been a cheerleader for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' anti-LGBT/anti-Trans policies that bully queer students in Florida, he doesn't believe in the right to same sex marriage and is for banning books. Rubio also wants a total ban on abortion in all cases, Val Demings has a 100% rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America. Florida needs a strong supporter of Gun control, climate action, the right to choose, and LGBT rights in the Senate, Florida needs Demings not Rubio

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Georgia

Raphael Warnock (re-elect)

Senator Raphael Warnock was elected in a special election in 2020 and is running for a full 6 year term this year. Warnock is the first black senator from the State of Georgia and the first Democrat elected in 20 years. Before becoming a senator Warnock was the pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, which was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's church and a center of the 1960s civil rights movement. Warnock used his position to protest and fight against the death penalty, to expand medicare in Georgia, for gun control, and for voting rights. In the Senate, Senator Warnock has been one of the most outspoken on voting rights pushing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act named after his late friend Georgia Congressman John Lewis. Republicans for nominated former football player, and Trump super fan, Herschel Walker to try to unseat Senator Warnock. Walker vocally supported Trump's election lies, posting many times on social media that Biden did not win the 2020 election. Walker declared this week that climate action was "giving money to trees" and "don't we have enough trees?". Walker believes in a total ban on abortion, and is against LGBT rights. Walker is against gun control and floated the idea of the government monitoring all social media and internet usage by Americans instead of gun control. Walker beat his now ex-wife Cindy Grossman, and threatened her with a gun and knives multiple times, after the divorce Grossman feared Walker would kill her and her boyfriend. Walker also is a dead beat dad who has a number of children out of wedlock that he has no contact with, he has criticized black men many times for being absent fathers. The US Senate doesn't need a man who threatens to shoot women, re-elect Senator Warnock.

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Nevada

Catherine Cortez Masto (re-elect)

Senator Catherine Cortez Masto was narrowly elected in 2016 and his running for her second term in the Senate. Senator Cortez Masto is the first women elected to represent Nevada in the Senate and the first and to date ONLY Latina elected to the US Senate. When she was Nevada's attorney general Cortez Masto sued Bank of America for it's predatory lending practices and won nearly a billion dollars against the bank. As a US Senator Cortez Masto has been a major supporter of clean energy jobs and hopes to turn Nevada into the solar energy capital of America. Republicans have nominated former Nevada attorney general Adam Laxalt to try to unseat Cortez Masto. Laxalt spent his time as AG (2015-2019) suing the Obama Administration EPA to fight against strong climate regulations. Laxalt opposed a multi-state law suit against ExxonMobil for it's role in downplaying Climate change. Laxalt also sued the Obama administration to stop DACA, filed briefs supporting radical anti-abortion laws from Texas and Mississippi when they went to court, and sued the Obama Department of Labor to stop certain workers being paid over time. After leaving office Laxalt was the Chairman of Trump's 2020 re-election effort in Nevada. As Chairman Laxalt was the leading figure in the election conspiracy in Nevada claiming the election in his state was fraudulent and Biden hadn't really won Nevada. Laxalt has made many false claims of election fraud in Nevada in the 2020 election. Laxalt launched his 2022 campaign for Senate claiming "woke corporations" "academia" and "the radical left" have taken over America. Nevada has to send Cortez Masto, the only Latina in the Senate, back for another term, Laxalt is dangerously unfit.

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New Hampshire

Maggie Hassan (re-elect)

Senator Maggie Hassan was elected in the closest senate race of 2016 and is running for her second term in the senate. Senator Hassan was a key vote to save Obamacare from repel in 2017. During her time in the US Senate Senator Hassan has helped pass bills to more than double the funding to help treat the opioid crisis as well as banning surprise medical billing. Senator Hassan first ran for office 20 years ago as a way to advocate for her son who has Cerebral palsy, she's been a strong advocate for disability rights and special education through out her time in public service. Because New Hampshire has one of the latest primaries (September 13th) we don't know for sure which Republican will be nominated to face her in November. The front runner is a retired general named Don Bolduc. Bolduc's first foray into into politics was spinning and supporting 2020 election denial conspiracy theories, even after the January 6th riot. Bolduc has closely tied himself to Trump. Bolduc called fellow Republican, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu "Chinese Communist sympathizer" and accused him of "supports terrorism" for not being conservative enough and loyal to Trump enough. New Hampshire should send back a Senator who gets things done and not a wing-nut calling people in his own party communists and terrorists.

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North Carolina

Cheri Beasley (flip)

Former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court Cheri Beasley is running to fill a Senate seat opened up by the retirement of Republican Senator Richard Burr. In 2008 Beasley became the first black women to win a state wide election in North Carolina when she was elected to the Court of Appeals. In 2012 she was appointed to the state Supreme Court and won election in 2014. She was appointed the Chief Justice in 2019 the first black woman to serve as the State's Chief Justice. Beasley lost by less than 500 votes her run for a full term as Chief Justice in 2020. In her time as a public defender and elected Judge and Justice Beasley has stressed fairness and equity. If elected she'd be the first black Senator from North Carolina. She's stressed health care and abortion rights as key issues of her campaign. Republicans have nominated Congressman Ted Budd to try to fill the seat. Congressman Budd is a member of the radical "House Freedom Caucus". He voted to repeal Obamacare in 2017. Budd was also a major support of Trump's attempt to over throw the result of the 2020 election. Congressman Budd voted against certifying the election result on January 6th, even after the capital had been stormed by violent Trump supporters. Budd is Trump's hand picked candidate for the North Carolina Senate seat, Budd only launched his campaign after meeting with Trump in Mar-a-Lago. North Carolina doesn't need an election denying Trump toady for Senator, send Cheri Beasley to Congress.

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Ohio

Tim Ryan (flip)

Congressman Tim Ryan is running to fill a Senate seat being opened up by the retirement of Republican Senator Rob Portman. Congressman Ryan has represented the Youngstown area of Ohio since 2003. In his time in Congress Ryan has been a champion of unions and American workers. His Senate run is focused on protecting American manufacturing jobs and bring well paying union jobs back to the American heart land. Ryan is strongly pro-choice. Republicans have nominated author and venture capitalist JD Vance. Vance is closely tied to Trump money man Peter Thiel as well as Arizona candidate and white nationalist Blake Masters. Vance has publicly said that women should stay in abusive marriages. Vance is against abortion in all cases even rape or health of the mother. Vance has also publicly stated he sees the populist, antisemitic, anti-LGBT dictatorship of Hungarian Prime Minster Viktor Orbán as a model for America. Vance talked about how he hopes in a second Trump term to purge all civil servants who don't agree with Trumpism and replace them with "our people". America does not need a pro-fascist who supports wife beating in the Senate, send Tim Ryan to the Senate instead.

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Pennsylvania

John Fetterman (flip)

Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman is running to fill a seat opened by the retirement of Republican Senator Pat Toomey. First elected Lt Governor in 2018 Fetterman has used his platform to advocate the legalization of marijuana. Fetterman also is a vocal supporter of the LGBT community clashing with the Republican state legislature repeatedly about the display of a pride flag off the balcony of his official office at the state capital. Fetterman is running a campaign that is strongly pro-choice, supportive of criminal justice reform, and calls healthcare a human right. Republicans have nominated Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr. Oz. As a reality TV star "physician" Oz was criticized repeatedly for advocating fake cures and dangerous weight loss pills. During the Covid-19 pandemic Oz pushed Trump's favorite fake cure, Hydroxychloroquine, which is not a treatment for Covid. While running for the senate Oz has endorsed banning trans people from sports by law, and that trans youth are based on "false science". Oz is also says he'd vote to repeal Obamacare and strongly supports fracking. Pennsylvania doesn't need a flip flopping TV huckster from New Jersey as its Senator, election Fetterman.

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Wisconsin

Mandela Barnes (flip)

Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes is running to unseat Republican Senator Ron Johnson. Barnes served in the state legislature from 2013 till 2017 before being elected Lt Governor in 2018, he is the first black person to win state wide office in Wisconsin. As Lt Governor Barnes served as the chair of the Climate Task Force putting forward a 55 point plan to combat climate change. Barnes has been a vocal supporter of policies like Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and marijuana legalization. If elected Barnes would be the first black Senator from Wisconsin and one of only two Senators in their 30s. Incumbent Republican Senator Ron Johnson has been Wisconsin's Senator since 2010 and is running for his 3rd term in office. In the Senate Johnson was one of Trump's strongest allies. Johnson was one of the main congressional pushers of the 2020 election conspiracy theories to the point his home town paper the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel called him a member of the "Sedition Caucus". Johnson also has pushed conspiracy theories that the January 6th riot was the fault of Nancy Pelosi or the FBI, and said he didn't think it was a big deal and felt safe during the attack because they were Trump supporters. Johnson has also pushed Covid misinformation, such as mouthwash as a treatment for Covid-19 or that "thousands" of deaths had been linked to the vaccine. Johnson has blamed mass shootings on a failure to teach "values" and is against gun control. in resent weeks Johnson has floated the idea of privatizing Social Security and Medicare. Protect Social Security, send Barnes to Congress.

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If you're one of the 85 million Americans who live in one of these States please PLEASE PLEASE remember to VOTE November 8th

Everyone remember to VOTE NOVEMBER 8th! vote in EVERY election from School Board on up to Governor and Senate, now more than ever all these elections matter and they matter a lot.

if you have $10, $5, even $1 to spare please please please think about giving it to one of these candidates, Democrats are passing big things and are running against the worst of the worst.

If you live in one of these states please please PLEASE think about giving just one weekend between now and Election Day to talk to voters and help turn out the vote. Even if you don't live in any of these states you can call or text voters in these states and help these campaigns