#im talking about the US election btw

[messenger-of-stupidity]

It's midnight and I have a test today.

But I can't sleep dude. This is so fucking stressful

Edit: if you could vote and you didn't, fuck you. Eat shit. I hope both sides of your pillow are warm and your charger doesn't work. You're part of the fucking problem.

[thebusylilbee]

a thing I noticed :

if you go to the front page of the New York Times rn, no country other than the US and the UK is mentioned for like 70% of it, you get one news about Russia, 1 about Ukraine, 1 news about the hurricane in Mexico, 1 about Palestine, 1 about France, 1 about Japan and a tiny ass "spend your summer there" article about Turkey and Greece... => so 8 places outside of the UK and the US if we're being very generous, all of them only once except for Russia which is twice, and ZERO proper international news section

on the front page of Time Magazine, you get the US for most of it, the UK too, 1 news about Taïwan, 1 about Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1 about the hurricane in Mexico too, 1 about China... => so 4 places outside of the UK and the US, all of them only once, with ZERO proper international news section either....

on the front page of The Washington Post it's a little better, you get the US, the UK, the hurricane in Mexico, the Vatican, France, Palestine, Ukraine, Iran, Japan, Hungary, Afghanistan. => so 9 places mentioned outside of US/UK. There is a proper international news section.

now for comparison with some big french newspapers :

on the front page of Le Monde you get France, Palestine, Iran, South Africa, Argentina, the UK, Ukraine, the US, China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Italia, Tunisia, Cameroon, Congo, Tchad, Eritrea and the Caribbeans... => so 17 places outside of France and the UK, with BIG international sections for Palestine, the Ukraine and Africa with 7 articles in each section, and then another international section for other news...

on the website of Le Figaro (far right) you get France, Russia, the UK, Greenland, Italy, Ukraine, Greece, the US, China, Palestine, Ecuador, the hurricane in Mexico, Germany, Japan => so 12 places outside of France and the UK, with an international news section at the bottom

on the website Les Echos you get France, the UK, Russia, Ukraine, China, the US, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Argentina. => So 8 places outside of the UK and France, with an international news section

on the front page of Libération you get France, Hungary, Qatar, Brazil, the UK, Palestine, Liban, Ukraine, Italy, Russia, the hurricane in Mexico, the US... => so 12 places outside of the UK and France, a HUGE international section for Palestine with 9 articles, a medium section for Ukraine with 4 articles, and a general international news section at the bottom with 5 articles...

mmmh guys... I think... I think the news in the US might be incredibly self centered.... just a thought

[petewentzssilkpress]

I'm not American, so I'm trying not to say much about what's happening over there re the election, but it's crazy to me how people will shame people for voting third party as if this whole thing isn't a competition???? The whole point is for each party to convince people to vote for them so if a third party convinced me more than the others why wouldnt i vote for them? This is a democracy and they wouldn't have been on the ballot if nobody was supposed to vote for them. Instead of shaming ME tell your party leaders to do more to convince me my vote should go to them!!

[starlooove]

And on another note despite what I’m focusing on I do think it’s abhorrent to assume everyone who voted for or supported Harris is chill with genocide like yeah that’s like. What blew up online that tori maya shit was stupid as fuck but due to the disorganization and lateness of this campaign there was REAL misinformation being spread especially to our elders by ppl misconstruing info and a large number of ppl genuinely RIGHT NOW believe she’s pro Palestine called for a ceasefire etc. Like that’s a big chunk of the issue happening rn - where ppl literally made up policies for her or suddenly fell for “neutral” talking points bc it’s on someone they like and spread that. Like idk I feel like until everyone can be honest and humble nobody’s getting anywhere

[magicalizardboy]

Speaking as someone who was old enough to remember the Bush era panic. As someone who is not a Trump supporters or right wing.

The problem with the 'left' and 'liberals' is that there's no unity or one true goal together. It kinda reminds me of Wallstreet where the idea was absolutely amazing and brilliant, but it completely spiraled into a sad mess. That was because know one could agree on the core reason it happened altogether. By the end of it spiraled where no one was simply there to be together. You had people walking around like they were at a con. It lead to misunderstanding and conflicts.

Now more than ever, you need unity. You need to drive the goals home. You need to stand your ground without an alone and pessimistic mentality. Hold up your fellow man.

[archonofdivinity]

YUUTO THE FAR RIGHT ARE GETTING HUGE VOTE COUNTS AND THE CENTRIST PARTY MIGHT WIN BACK NORTH DEVON IT’S FUCKING ALL OVER THE PLACE AAAAAAA

all my british mutuals are going shinji chair rn are yall ok

[t4transsexual]

yknow i dont love the "youre getting gender affirming surgeries? youre amputating HEALTHY BODY PARTS. what if someone just wanted to cut off their leg?" mostly because in my time working in hospitals, i actually did meet a man who did have an elective amputation of his leg while i worked in the hospital (im a healthcare worker when im not busy being trans online btw)

i cant give any information on him due to HIPAA and i think thatd be disrespectful anyway, but it was over a year ago i worked there. and sometimes in hospitals you have "regulars." which sucked; all my regulars were lovely people and i wish they werent in the hospital

regardless, there was a man there who was over 70, and one day i ask him what hes there for, and he tells me why. since hes gotten his knee replacement surgery some time ago, it keeps getting infected. he told me they keep trying to fix it but it keeps coming back. and he tells me he wants an amputation

he says hes reaching the end of his life, and if this is what it took to have a good quality of life so close to the end, hed do it. he didnt want to he in the hospital anymore. he said the nurses and doctors keep trying to talk him out of it, but this is what he wants

before anyone mentions, no, this is not a "crazy person" who is "getting an amputation because he wants to be disabled." he was probably autistic but clearly very mentally stable, he was depressed about being a frequent flier obviously. but this is an elective surgery. under no definition was this medically necessary. he didnt have a tumor, he didnt have cancer, he wasnt going to lose the leg unless he amputated it. he wanted it amputated largely because it would drastically improve the quality of his life

ive been thinking about him a lot since ive been going about the process of getting my gender affirming surgeries later this year. all things considered, he wouldve had more of a chance of having his ailment cured without amputation than i ever will having my gender dysphoria "cured" without surgery. if anything, i hope yall who make this argument understand that there are real people who may choose to get an amputation, and they dont HAVE to be "mentally unstable" to do it. neither of us are or were

and for anyone who cares, one day he greeted me from his bed with a big smile on his face saying he got an amputation, and i never saw him again at the hospital after that

[pumpkinsy0]

What's Going On in Haiti Rn

tldr: barbeque (leader of revolutionary gang, isnt a cannibal btw) says hes trying to liberate Haiti to free the oppressed groups in Haiti from not only the rich ppl who live in Haiti but also from imperialism so Haiti can get better, but moving along from that, theres canals being built in Haiti so Haitians can actually make their own food and won’t rely in others

alright, I’m making this post, not only because I dont see many people talking about it, but also because they just aren't really telling the exact full story and theyre only using what the western media is saying and not really using any haitian sources or anything like that, for this post Im NOT picking sides or anything of the sort, I just want people to be more aware of what's actually going on in haiti

so where all of this gang stuff is going down is in the CAPITAL of Haiti, this isn't going on all across the country, everything really violent is happening in PORT AU PRINCE. As you know, there's this man called Barbecue who is essentially running Port Au Prince with his gang or group or whatever you want to call it, no Barbecue didn't get his name because he's a cannibal or anything like that, he got it because his mom would sell bbq chicken for people in his neighborhood. The cannibal claims that were going all around on social media was spread by alt right twitter users like elon musk and some other famous alt right twitter users.

NOW when it comes to the gangs in Haiti, what Barbecue is trying to do is "liberate this country, once and for all"(in his own words not mines), and he's done that by trying to bring together all the past gangs of Haiti and they've formed this one big group called "Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies" or I'll just call them G9, and now they control 80% of Port Au Prince and many civilians themselves who live in poverty and terrible conditions are with them because they just want a life with rights to healthcare, education, and housing, things that are hard to get because of politicians and rich people oppressing them and taking away their resources and forcing them to live with the scraps. Another group of people who's followed him is this group of men he's broke out of jail. In this jail as far as I know, these people were never actually given trials or anything and they as well were forced into terrible living conditions with, lack of food, space, that kinda thing. When it comes to G9 getting the prime minister, Ariel Henry, to step down, the reason why they wanted him to step down (as far as i remember) was because he just pushing the election for a new president back and back each time, and people were/are under the impression that he just wanted to get more power. On top of that Ariel Henry was NEVER SWORN INTO HIS POSITION. Plus, after the Haitian president's assassination in 2021, INSTEAD of working with Haitian civil society groups that were open to give solutions to fix the situation, the US, Canada, France, and other places, put their trust into Ariel Henry, and saw him as the connection to the Haitian public. Henry is not well liked by the public of Haiti and he is now not in Haiti and is in Puerto Rico, essentially exiled from Haiti. Now dont take this as me putting Barbecue in this shining light, he did use to be a police officer, and he has closed off Port Au Prince from the rest of the country and people are finding it hard to get food, water, go to school, and much much more, Im just laying out what's happening and his goal as he says it. If you want more info, watch some interviews Barbeque has done.

When it come to the US intervening or ANY country for that matter intervening is because in the past, forcing interventions in haiti has only led to worse. There was terrible treatment to the citizens and they stole money, their only way of intervening was literally through weapons against innocent civilians. Many haitians do NOT want any country, especially the US coming near them AT ALL because theyre are scared for what theyre going to do to them and their livelihoods, and you can't blame them one bit, the US is quite literally a genocidal empire who only looks out for itself.

ON SOME MORE BRIGHTER NEWS, idk if you heard, but theres this canal thats close to being finished, that will allow Haitian farmers to grow and make their own foods so Haiti wont have to rely on other places of getting stuff like rice!! The canal gets water from the massacre river however, Dominican politicians dont like that and are claiming that the canal will weaken the water supply of the river, despite the DR having like 11 canals using the river and Haiti has 1 (the one being built rn). To slow down the water flow going into the canal, Dominican officals have these pumps that are constantly flowing to take away water from the canal, however the canal is still able to flow a good amount of water into Haiti, to Haitian farmers :)

on top of that, Haitian farmers in another part of Haiti has gotten inspired to take action to make their OWN canal (that has NOTHING to do with the massacre river before yall start) and are currently making their own canal so they can have water so WOOOO🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹

anyways pls share and make sure to listen to Haitian voices and media to understand whats going on, dont use media from the same niggas that assisted a Dominican dictator that committed a Haitian genocide :P

to learn more about whats going on theres this Haitian news source called Haiti Liberte that discusses whats going on in Haiti and they have a documentary on youtube that goes more in depth with Barbeque and his ideas/wants and some Haitian citizens

as for the canals, on tik tok theres this woman whos been at the forefront of it all, discussing whats going on with the canals, giving updates, and shes actually in Haiti, and you can see the canals for yourself, her @ is @bertrhude

[elis-blawg222]

November 5 - Tuesday

Tuesday was a pretty good day! I had the day off from school because of election day (yikes btw). I got up pretty early probably because of my internal clock. I tried to do some home work when I got up, but I was just feeling super unmotivated. I was also on call with Angel by this point.

Instead of doing my homework like I was supposed to, I put a load of laundry in the washer, and now my floor is clear of clothes! yayyyy! I was supposed to go to the mall with my mom, so after that I needed to get ready, but I ended up pushing it off really far.. (because I was talking to Angel) LOL

I did eventually get ready though. I wore this cropped sweater that I used to hate wearing because I didn't like my stomach. It has mushrooms on it, which is cute. Now it looks better I think, but there's definitely room for improvement. I also wore jeans that I just started being able to fit again recently. It was nice, but it was also a reminder that I still need to lose loaads of weight.

When I was in the car on the way to the mall I started drawing in my new sketchbook which was fun. When we got to the mall or like almost to the mall, my mom started talking about how she didn't know if she wanted Chic-fil-a or something else, and then I started getting nervous because I didn't want to eat either of those hello?? I really didn't wanna eat high cal or just fast food period. I used to not care much about eating fast food as long as it was in my calory limit, but now recently it makes me feel really bad, so I decided to rule it out all together. And I am genuinely proud of myself for like not eating fast food too since I did a lotttt.

Anywayss...

While at the mall, I got a t-shirt (what we originally went for), some hello kitty socks that are sooo fluffly! and I got a hello kitty cup. It's like 33 oz, which is so good, and I think it'll definitely help me drink enough water throughout the day.

(ik im fat shh... im working on it..)

My mom ended "up choosing Chic-fil-a, and I just lied and said "ohh I ate before we came, so I'm not that hungry... sorry...." and I got a fruit cup and the whole time she was like teasing me? i guess? like "A fruit cup. A fruit cup really?"

Like... yes really... sorry mrs girl </3

Then, after we got out food we started going home. My mom's car actually started to mess up when we were almost to the mall, and when we were going home it was acting bad the whole time, AND it was pouring raining. It was really worrisome, but we made it home fine.

For dinner I had some grapes and a cheese stick. I used my food scale for the first time to measure the grapes, and that made me really happy!

Total Cals: 230

My cal limit was 250, this day. I'm really proud for eating this high res, I don't think I ever have tbhhh

Total Steps: 3k

Way less than I thought/expected, but what can be done now, the day has passed :)

[bonefall]

WAIT THE RATS ARENT CANONICAL SKYCLANS ANCESTORS?? ive literally read that book so many times and yet a few months of following you and i forget its not canon hdkbdkbs

NOPE! THAT'S ALL BB BABEY

It feels right though, doesn't it?! But no! Canon actually never explains what the hell was going on there! Rat Leader is literally just a talking rat who hates SkyClan so much he has a rat army.

(and btw if you shit talk about rat leader im stealing something out of your hosue. i love him. WC should do weird shit more often. i desperately miss how TNP-era WC just had weird shit happen. Cougar in England? ok lmao what the hell)

Rat Leader fills me with questions

Is this the SAME rat that killed SkyClan in the first place?

If so, how has he lived for like 20 years?

If not, then how do the rat leaders pass on leadership? Rat inheritance?? Rat elections??? Do they have trial-by-combrat???

How do they practice? Are they a Clan?

It seems that they use little tiny movements to work together, how coordinated ARE these rats? How intelligent are rats, generally? Because they have a level of training waaaaay beyond Clan cats

Why is Rat Leader so hateful? Is it because they hunt him and his people? Or are rats just like... born evil gsgsdfgf

Canon!Rat Leader has no explanation. He simply is. The Rat Ancestors are from BB.

I went hunting out of curiosity for where the idea first came from btw, if you'd like to compare the first draft to the new draft, check out this ask I got back in February and watch the gears of my mind turning in real time lmao

[pub-lius]

im lowkey losing count but lafayette pt. 6???

okay this is a little bit embarrassing because this part will have a lot less detail since I'm both uneducated and lazy when it comes to the French Revolution SFHKSJFHSKJ also the details about lafayette in this section are highkey boring sooo here's pt. 5 and lets get moving

In Between Revolutions

Lafayette returned home from the war in December 1781, but no one really cared because Marie Antoinette had just given birth to her first son, so they were like. "ok! anyway" when they saw him.

He didn't spend very long in France, and he returned to America to do a small little tour of the states in 1784. He stayed at Mount Vernon for a little while, which would be the last time he ever saw his adoptive father, George Washington.

I'm going to talk about slavery now. Lafayette never commented on slavery at Mount Vernon, mostly due to his reverence of Washington, however Lafayette was proactive in abolitionism. He created his own plan to purchase an island plantation where the enslaved people would work to earn pay and be able to buy their own freedoms. He and Adrienne both arranged for education programs and career options for the enslaved people so that they would be well-adjusted to society by the time they were awarded their freedom. However, property seizures during the French Revolution would prevent them from ever being freed. So, you could say Lafayette owned slaves, but you have to consider that the only enslaved people he ever purchased were for this specific project.

Also, I'm begging you to look into James Lafayette and Peter Ostiquette (Otchikeita) because I don't have time to get into their stories here but they are really interesting POC figures in early US history. send me an ask if you want, i just don't have enough patience to do the research along with all this lafayette shit

While he was in America, he helped negotiate a treaty with the Six Nations/Iroquois with James Madison, since he already had particularly good relations with the Oneida tribe. The Oneidas gave him the name Kayewla, which was the name of one of their former warriors.

He returned to France after his short visit and helped negotiate trade agreements between his mother country and the United States along with Thomas Jefferson. Technically on paper, Lafayette was only supposed to have an advisory role in these international affairs, but he just. started doing it. and this pissed off a special someone.

That special someone was, of course, John fucking "I'm a bitch to everyone and wonder why they don't like me" Adams. Btw Lafayette did NOTHING WRONG to him, he was just butthurt. Lafayette would continue to press for an official representative of France (which wasn't allowed since he was allied to both France and America) while John Adams was fired <3

Lafayette was also a little involved in the Society of Cincinnati controversy, but he followed Washington's lead by not getting too involved. He was also a part of the Republic of Letters and the American Philosophical Society. With all that along with being a Freemason, he was basically admitting to being in the Illuminati

Could you imagine if I was just like a really intense conspiracy theorist and this is how you found out? I'm not but like. that's pretty funny

French Pre-Revolution

When Lafayette reestablished himself in Paris, he was a much richer, much more confident guy, which allowed for all kinds of rich guy shenanigans. These shenanigans included, two affairs, being a karen, getting into debt, and politics! Let's talk about the politics part, because I don't get paid enough to talk about all of it.

Lafayette was elected to the Second Estate of the Assembly of Notables, which has a french name thats almost exactly the same but I'm too lazy to type accents. He had very ambitious goals that aligned with his very liberal morals, which caused him to be closely allied with the men of the Third Estate aka the rich poor people.

Lafayette would end up having a crucial role in the writing of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, and a more minor role in organizing the Constitution, since he was too busy with the actual revolution!

The French Revolution Revolution

I just want to preface that, in the French Revolution, Lafayette was considered one of the leaders of the moderate party. "But pub-lius, I thought he was super radical because of his behavior during the American Revolution!" Yeah, well, little richie, you're fucking wrong. There are always bigger fish and there are always more liberal white men. Lafayette would get out-liberaled and out-conservatived by almost everyone during the Revolution, and that's why he didn't last. Basically. Pretty much.

Lafayette was named Commander of the National Guard in 178 which made his name even longer by the National Assembly, which was the first Revolutionary French government! There would be fifty million fucking more governments from now until 1792 i swear to fucking god-

If I sound stress to you, it's because this is literally the most stressful part of Lafayette's life, and actually I don't think it gets more stressful than this. I'd say Lafayette was more stressed as Commander of the NG than Washington was as Commander of the Continental Army. He was basically always running back and forth across Paris, putting down rebellions, and starting massacres because he's stupid, and organizing the Fête de Fédération, and constantly being threatened with lampposts and pikes. It stresses me out just reading about that.

After the more liberal white men took over the French government in 1792, Lafayette fled the country expecting more friendly faces outside France's borders. He was fucking wrong, he got arrested by Austrians immediately. He remained in prison for like five years or something.

What had happen was Lafayette was viewed by the powers of Europe as the motherfucker responsible for bringing the revolution to France, and they decided they needed to take the bitch out back, except not really, they just took his clothes and put him in a dirty cell for a while. Eventually, Adrienne and the girls joined him, while Georges Washington de Lafayette escaped to America to live with Alexander Hamilton. Which that is just a really American thing to happen.

This imprisonment had severe consequences for Adrienne, who would be permanently injured by the illness she and the others suffered while in prison, which would eventually cause her death in 1807, but we're not done with her yet.

Womp Womp Napoleon is in charge, and he doesn't like Lafayette, because Lafayette said he was a dictator, and that hurt his feelings, so he exiled Lafayette and his son and sons in law. So, while Lafayette was gardening in exile, Adrienne stepped up to the mother fucking plate and went into Paris every day to absolutely girlboss her way into reclaiming her family's citizenships and fortunes and KICKED ABSOLUTE ASS YOU GO GIRL I LOVE YOU.

Also I'm fairly sure it was during this time that Lafayette fucked up his leg by slipping on ice and breaking it and then it was improperly treated so his hip. rotted???? and he was in severe pain for the rest of his life. Nice going, fuckface.

Retirement and DEATH :'(

Lafayette did manage to scrap together a bit of a career after reentering France. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and had minor political roles along with his son, but he was more like an antique vase at this point.

He did go on a tour in 1824 and I highly recommend checking out The Lafayette Trail, where they track every place he went during this Farewell Tour!! It's so cool and I love them. I looked into if and when Lafayette came to Louisiana, and found out his fucking ship sunk on his way here FKSJFHSJ so he was stranded in the Mississippi river for a little bit which is silly.

While Lafayette was managing his estate, La Grange, he made many young friends, to whom he served as a mentor. In return, they kept him appraised of all the political and scientific developments which he was very interested in. La Grange is very interesting, since it was largely based on Mount Vernon, which if I think about that too much I'll cry.

And then... Lafayette died on May 20, 1834 at... 4:20 am. Historians won't tell you that. They don't want you to know that he died at 4:20. But I'll tell you. I'm a beacon of truth.

Also, by the way, he died of fucking pneumonia. And I'm not judging him for dying of pneumonia, I almost died of pneumonia, but i am ABSOLUTELY judging him for GETTING pneumonia. He got pneumonia from being outside in the rain repeatedly and refusing to go inside or take shelter. I got it from the same thing but I was like TEN YEARS OLD AND IT WAS HALLOWEEN, and he was a GROWN MAN WHO JUST NEEDED AN OUNCE OF COMMON SENSE. So, anyway, yeah, he's fucking dead.

this last half of his life is very rushed, I admit, but things should go a bit better with the last person on our list here. Which, by the way, prepare your ass for that. He's rapidly approaching.

[lilgayforg]

Fuck Project 2025 Essay

Soooo, I'm writing this essay on how Project 2025 sucks ass and it is homophobic, racist, transphobic, classist, ableist, and just terrible among other things. So if I could get some tips on how to reach more peeps with my essay once its done i would love to see ideas/feedback.

I'm going to paste the rough draft so far under here so you get a feel for what im going for plus give me feedback if you want :)

thanks!

btw- this is formatted as a message to conservatives especially ones i know personally so i'm trying to be a bit nice at the beginning. and things that are asterisked (*) are notes to me to write more lol

TW: homophobia, transphobia, bigotry

Why You Shouldn't Support Republicans in the 2024 Election

Now, I try to be an open person. I like to hear other people’s perspectives and if I disagree, I accept it as their opinion and move on. I have quite a few conservative family members and I love them and respect them. I understand if we have different points of views on gun rights, taxes, etc. Yet, there is a line. It’s when it becomes a human rights issue when I’m more judgmental of people’s opinions. If you have strong, negative opinions about things like gender, sexuality, sexual assault, race, equality, and censoring topics, then we are going to have issues. This is when I begin seeing those people less as conservatives and republicans and more as bigots. And unfortunately, there is an overlap. I want non-bigots to be able to vote for the policies they want in this country without it also taking people’s rights away. However, that is getting increasingly difficult. This is where Project 2025 comes in. Project 2025 is a “Presidential Transition Project” funded by conservative organizations that is looking to “rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left” (Project 2025 Website). They have created a website and 920 page step-by-step outline of how they are going to change this country. Initially, it doesn’t sound too bad. They outline some of their main goals:

“1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.

2. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.

3. Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.

4. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution calls ‘the Blessings of Liberty.’”

First of all, they want to protect children and restore families. That does not sound too bad, right? Well, we have different definitions of such. First, they talk about how we need to get children fathers because 40-70% of children do not have a father in their life. They do not provide a solution to fix this so I’ll move on. Then they move on to the goal to “delete terms” such as sexual orientation, gender identity, gender, gender equality, diversity, equity, inclusion, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and “any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights” (pdf). Let’s tackle these topics one at a time.

First, sexuality or sexual orientation. I’m not going to super into the details, but sexuality exists. In fact, heterosexuality is one, so if these conservatives are implying that sexual orientation does not exist then they must not be heterosexual and have no preference. Pettiness aside, homosexuality has existed and still exists and it has for many, many years. There is evidence of it since the Greeks and Romans and also in animals like penguins, lions, dolphins, monkeys, and ducks. I recommend just looking up homosexual animals, there is quite a list! So maybe you do recognize that sexuality or gay animals exist, but you are against all of those liberals that are trying to force it onto the children. As a person that proudly is part of the LGBTQ+ community and also as a person that went to public school, this is not what is happening, and this applies to gender and gender identity as well. LGBTQ people just want to live their lives being their true selves without worrying about people openly hating them or stopping them from loving who they love or being who they are. When LGBTQ topics are brought up in school (and frankly it is not often), it is to educate people that children may have two parents of the same gender or a classmate that may be changing their name or pronouns. It is not telling tom-boy girls that they are boys or saying that being gay is better. It is just simply educating them on how some people may be different and that’s why they may do certain things. And if that “turns” your child gay or trans, it is only because they were given awareness that those things exist in other people and they are not broken, weird, or different. If your kid is gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary, or whatever- they will figure it out eventually, and before they do, they are going to go through a cycle of mental anguish, self-hatred, and confusion if they do not know about these topics or have a bad connotation attached to it. So, please, if you love your children, save them from the pain they may endure inside and possibly save their life.

The Trevor Project found that “LGBTQ youth are more than four times as likely to attempt suicide than their peers” and that “The Trevor Project’s 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health found that 45% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, including more than half of transgender and nonbinary youth”. Again, if you care about your children, it doesn’t hurt to educate them to possibly save their life or their classmates’ life. The cons of a child’s death outweighs the conservatives’ pro of eradicating the words sexuality and gender.

Now you may be thinking to yourself a few different things after reading this. 1. This would never happen, it is all empty promises. (*don't say gay, panic response)

2. Nobody I know is LGBTQ+ so I don’t care / they’ll figure it out. (*straight lady killed) 3. Well, once they graduate they will be okay and they can do whatever they want. And those are valid thoughts, but you’re unfortunately wrong.

*talk about going further than children with marriage equality, and rights to hurt these people- “gay panic response” and that one straight lady that was killed for pride flag

So if any of this resonated with you at all, please consider not voting republican or do significant research to make sure the people you are supporting are against Project 2025.

[gossipgirloff1]

we're all reading completely different women, // im more inclined to believe the readings that say his fs will be similar to his exes (physical appearance and creative skills) because it's more likely charles will marry a girl like that. this isn't a dig at you btw. im sure you're a great tarot reader!

i just think if he had a different type, we'd know by now. like lando for example where luisa is very different to magui appearance wise. putting the relationship details aside, you can't say those girls look alike. but charles has had three (including alex) girlfriends that look very similar. i know three isn't a lot, but it is an obvious pattern.

the majority of readings say that charles' fs will suit that type, but with slight differences (curly hair, unique style, respectable values, not being an influencer, self made wealth).

that being said, it's also possible that there is more than one future spouse. i used to read posts on chris evans (marvel actor) and his future spouse. it had similar vibes. some readers would describe the girl he is married to now (an actress) and some would describe a non celebrity. so it's very possible the universe has two choices for charles and he either gets married twice or life (right place, right time) will decide who gets to be with him. ///

that's a super interesting take, I get where you're coming from. I like possibilities concerning tarot so let me go over a bunch of them rn.

I do want to mention that future spouses can change, our readings are all based off someone's current trajectory, and things can and will change, so his fs will change as these changes take place. I would like to stress this, your fs changes over time, nothing in tarot is set in stone, and anyone who says otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about. my own fs readings are different to what I got 5 months ago, nothing's changed in my life apart from me, i've grown a bit, i'm different, I like slightly different things, and maybe some decisions I've made have changed the outcome of people i'm more likely to marry (also, i'd like to add that there's no absolute you will marry this exact person, the cards cannot ever tell you that, it'll just tell you the sort of person who'd be more inclined to marry out of all the other people you know/have met. Also, free will exists). If you're doing fs readings and then stressing out about a major decision in your life, wondering which one will lead to this person, don't worry, because tarot is only telling you what sort of person you're more inclined to marry if you make the choice you're more likely to make (you'll obviously know which choice you suppose you're more likely to make). in short, your fs changes, there's absolutely nothing you can do about that. there's a bunch of differing fs readings I got for celebrities, so I know that as time progresses and as they make different decisions, the person they're more likely to meet and marry changes, and a reading done, like 2 years ago wouldn't give the same results as now.

2. Personal bias as a tarot reader can affect the outcome of your reading. If you strongly feel a certain way about something, you're more inclined to get a reading reflecting what you want to see. That's why sometimes some readers don't do reading on big events like elections and stuff, because their own personal convictions (and especially fears) can show up in the reading. I feel my fs readings about these f1 men are more likely to be accurate because I'm lesbian, I have no interest in who they date or marry, i'm only curious about my intuitive abilities, and I have no inclination towards readings about men's fs reflecting a certain type of girl, because I definitely don't care what particular type of girl they date, I have no, I suppose, 'vested interest'. It's hard to know whether these tarot readings have the reader's personal bias or not. It's not like personal bias shows up in every reading, but it CAN be present, and we have no way of knowing, because it's someone else's reading. I would like to mention when it comes to topics like this, it's harder for readers to get more accurate results, because it turns subjective very quickly. That's why readings for race results are more likely to be accurate than readings for a person's f1 future or their fs; if you want a certain thing to happen, or (consciously or subconsciously) expect a certain thing to happen, or even fear a certain thing happening, you can end up having your reading become slightly inaccurate due you subjectivity. We can't guarantee that any tarot reader isn't just reading this certain look onto charles' fs because they want it or they expect he'll date this sort of person.

3. Some readers are more intuitive than others, and we have no way of measuring it. Some readers are more inclined to read more accurate readings, while others are less inclined, and some readers are more inclined to read accurately about certain topics or in that certain instance they're doing a reading, whereas other times it's less accurate. For e.g., I did a reading on Max Verstappen's fs three weeks ago, and my cards just spewed bullshit, there was no coherency with the cards that came out, the deck was just spewing shit and wasn't intuitive at all, but I did it again today, and this time I got more of a reading. Three weeks ago, it was still the summer holidays, and Max had totally different energy back then, and then today, Max had a quali he's definitely not used to (it was disasterous compared to what he can achieve), so his energy is more "oh no, everything's terrible", and so when I did my reading (asking how he will meet his fs) I got the tower, the star, temperance, the empress, and the 6 of cups, which means he might meet her after some upheaval, and so he's going back to a place he loves and is familair with so that he can rest and re-cooperate, and he happens to strike a relationship there. This sort of reading is happening because of Max's current energy, and how redbull is turning out to be more and more of a disaster after every race, and so he feels a 'tower' moment, and he might deal with tower moments by going back home and resting among loved ones. Anyway, the point of that was that different readings can give you different results, and there's no way of knowing whether a tarot reader is presenting to you an intuitive reading, or whether their deck might've spewed complete shit. they might not even know that their cards was giving them random shit, they might not be intuitive enough to know, or they might not even know their deck can do this.

4. Also, this is a major, major thing. Tarot does not actively give you readings about people's looks in the way that some readers think they do. There are a lot of newer readers in f1tarot, and they might not know that there are actually certain things that tarot can and can't do. Tarot loves to describe 'energies', 'vibes', 'personalities', whatever you want to call it. If you ask for a appearance reading, and you get your cards, they'll describe the 'energy' around that person, rather than their actual looks. You can't describe someone's hair color and eye color from readings you get, even if you specifically ask your cards to describe the color, because that's not how tarot works. I rebelled against this when I was new to tarot, I love possibilities and refused to believe that tarot had preferences like this, I thought it was boxy and cagey. I soon realised that it's actually true, because the more appearance readings I did, the more I realised it's describing the vibe of the person's appearance, and that I couldn't draw colors out of the cards. For e.g., I had done a reading on my appearance (using traditional rider-waith tarot), and I got the king of wands, king of swords, and the emperor, five of cups, and the hanged man. The king of wands/swords, and the emperor reflected quite heavily on my personality, coz I am quite strongly a masculine sort of person (despite being a girl). The five of cups represented that I neglect my appearance (true, I don't care much about how I look, I don't take much time prepping my outfits), and the hanged man represented how I haven't really changed my style, and have had the same haircut since I was a teen. As you can see here, the 'personality' of my appearance was being described more than my actual appearance. I'm not a man, I don't have a beard like the emperor, I don't have light brown hair like the king of wands, my outfits aren't loose fitting and flowy like all 4 of characters in the cards, I don't dress in black like the five of cups. Some people think that the actual colors and images on your cards represent ow someone will look when you do an appearance reading, but that's really not the case. You cannot look at the images and figure out what color hair, eyes, skin, etc. someone has, even if you say to the cards "give me an appearance reading", tarot absolutely does not work like that, I didn't like it when I first realised, but that doesn't change that it's true. If you look at my reading, according to some, the king of wands would mean I have light brown hair (I have black hair), and the king of swords would mean I have paler skin (as swords is sharp and cold) (I am indian and have dark brown skin), and the some people would say that the king of swords could also mean I look grumpy and cold, but I actually a happy-go-lucky person who smiles a lot. The king of swords was just describing that i'm really logically minded (yk how some ppl are more emotional or logical (head or heart?), i'm more head-inclined than heart). You cannot get the tower or the devil card and say that a person has black hair, it's more likely that the cards are describing their striking and incredibly good looking appearance. Also, different decks have different images on the cards. My traditional rider-waith deck has the star being blonde, and another tarot reader's modern witch deck has their star having black hair. We both get the star to describe someone's appearance, but our stars look different. 😱 oh no. Fear not, the cards aren't telling us the person's hair color, it's telling us that the person in question is insanely beautiful and captures everyone's attention with their beauty (hence, 'the star'), and not that the person has black hair or blonde hair. Many new tarot readers, and especially ones in f1tarot, don't know that the cards can't describe someone's hair/eye/skin color, even if you ask for the person's appearance, tarot will always describe vibes.

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[shiftingtomydrs]

I've never read the Shatter Me series despite my friend telling me to so what's your dr like?

thanks so much for asking <3

i already made an introduction post for the dr which you can find here

spoiler alert under the cut for prolly all the books since my head likes to mix up what info is in which book

the shatter me series is set in a dystopian world, basically humans fucked the world up enough to more or less make it unliveable in (food was poisoned cos animals ate trash and shit e.g., illnesses like cancer were very common etc.) and then the re-establishment takes over. the re-establishment was elected by the people, promising to re-establish life as they knew it (spoiler alert: they didnt) and then took over the world, turning it into district 12 from the hunger games more or less, except its more technologically advanced (the technology is used to monitor civilians tho not to help them) while the psychopaths (really theres no better word, i dont even think that word is strong enough) at the top enjoy life

now more on my backstory (its basically just juliettes backstory from the books cos i dont have a creative bone in my body):

i was created by evie sommers (juliettes mother) whos also the supreme commander (kinda like president) of oceania in a petri dish out of her dna and maybe someone elses? idk but she modified the dna to basically make me the perfect specimen for her little project. my memories of all this are erased regularly btw so i dont talk about it to other people i coincidentally meet (this is before the re-establishment took over completely, which happens when im around 13-16?) bcs what shes doing is obviously lowkey illegal. anyway at some point (in my head when im around 4-5) she starts letting me play with the kids from the other future surpreme commanders (theres one for each continent) which is also where i get my name (as a project i dont need a name so evie never gave me one) which is juliette (its a bit complicated but basically juliette in the book is really called ella so for the sake of logic ill call her ella from now on and im juliette) and was given to me by aaron cos he likes shakespear and thought it fit me soo juliette it was. after evie discovers emmalines (ellas sister) abilities she decides to abandon me and puts me into a foster family similar to ella in the u.s. (for plots aka aaron and my love stories sake) and since theres this whole plot no-matter-how-many-times-they-erase-my-and-aarons-memories-we-always-fall-in-love-again anderson (aarons dad) thought itd be funny to make ellas undercover name juliette ferrars to see if itd make aaron change his mind (he does these fucked up little experiments for fun) or smth idk i dont understand that guy. anyway my powers (also in the introduction post) start manifesting when im like 10 or so and we have to move a lot after cos i cant control my powers yet. when im 14 it all escalates when i accidentally kill a classmate with my powers (he was an ass tho not to excuse my behavior but just wanted to add that) and after that my parents decide its best for them to give up guardianship for me and hand me over to the re-establishment / government. ella at this point already escaped her family to omega point before she ever touches that little boy in the grocery store. anyway the next few years are a lot of moving in between facilities and rehabilitation centers which ends with them locking me away in an asylum when im 16 and thats the point i shift to.

after that its mostly just the plot of the books which is i get pulled out of the asylum after a little less than a year on aarons orders, he wants to use me as a weapon for the re-establishment (but secretly not), i escape with adam (temporary love interest) and get to omega point along with kenji and then anderson takes 2 hostages from omega point and wants me as an exchange, i shoot him, we kidnap aaron, bla bla adam and i break up, aaron and i have this denial thing (from my side), aaron escapes, omega point fights against the re-establishment and gets defeated, anderson shoots me to teach aaron a lesson, i survive cos aaron saves me, we find the survivors of omega point, aaron gets them on base, we kill anderson and take over north america and then after that its the other books which are a bit more complicated but i can get into that too if anyone would like me to :)

now that i read it back its a tiny little bit confusing soo if you have any questions feel free to ask <3

[solar-sunnyside-up]

Im pretty sure thats the post that other anon was talking about. They didn't put it real well but they are kinda right.

Things are not as they were. Unless major reform is enacted a third party will never win in the usa. Not as it is. And any hope of reform will disappear if we get another red prez. Between gerrymandering and the electoral college and the pearl clutching moderates who get scared of progressives, to Republicans with no morals who will 100% vote red without hesitation. We effectively only have 2 parties. At least for now.

A Republican candidate hasn't won the popular vote in decades yet they somehow keep running things.

Everyone I know is scared. Scared this will be our last election next year. But no one is more scared than the disabled. We are terrified. Theres a lot of chatter from the right about "dealing" with us and other "freeloaders" we are legitimately scared for our lives.

Protest votes is what gave us that disaster in 2016 and why roe vs wade is gone now. If they win again they are going to push the rest of their agenda through. These posts about refusing to vote or voting third party are exactly like they were in 2016. We've been down this road once already.

If given the choice of neglect vs active homicidal intent we all have at least a chance to survive neglect.

And neglect gives us time to do something. Work locally. Try and push for reform. It's horrible but it's what we have. And for most disabled it's ALL we have. We can't run, other countries won't take us.

I've even seen some scream about revolution but with zero plans for us. What will their revolution do with us? Will we still have our medical access? Will we still be taken care of? Or will the wheels of the revolution be greased with our blood?

K so this is a lot for first in the morning, and I'm glad that someone has explained it a bit more detail bc I cannot stress this enough IM CANADIAN we live with a mutli party system. We, like most of democracies in the world, function with multiple parties at play. And tbh? They still use "splitting the vote is dangerous" talking point here. Here, it's used to prevent ppl from voting for actual reform in government. It's used to say "Green party will never win in they're trying to do rent caps and UBI!" Despite these being popular standing points with many many ppl and honestly the only reason ppl haven't voted them in is bc of this fear tactic. And yet this year, they've come in 3rd place if not 1st in several towns, cities, and providences. They've made headway, and also a lot of liberal ideals and NDP talking points are just old green party ones so ppl want those policies. But if it wasn't for those tree huggers 10 yrs ago fighting, and losing and being made fun of, as a seperate party and forcing them to move that direction they never would.

And let's be clear, Trump won bc of electoral collage he did not win popular vote in 2016 you where overruled the vote didnt matter. Just like Bush did against Al Gore in 2000

That doesn't mean its hopeless or that you shluldnt vote particularlly on local levels. More ppl then ever in history are voting!! Turn outs are the highest they've been since 1950s!! (Also the last peak in union reforms btw) It's scary flipping parties, you might loose to Democrats or Republicans. It will be horrible. But yall are on the cusp of a civil war and fascism anyway, as an outsider who should hold little say over what you choose in this election, I'd still endorse the 3rd party. idk yall your system seems fucked and legit doesn't seem to care how you vote so scare them into using your vote for someone else and make them admit they're not actually counting your votes.

If there's so many ppl like a different policy and candidate it forms another party then you NEED a different party to have a voice anyway. Even if it's in defeat it must exist and I'll happily be on the loosing side.

These are talking points that are used to stagnate progress and to (rightfully) scare ppl into voting for someone they don't like. So if it scares you too much, i wont be upset with however you vote. Its yours. It's scary out here no matter the outcome rn. But I can't let myself be shaken when there is hope and I will personally work for that hope so it's no longer a scary option for those who can't afford the choice.

[guttercaster]

Republicans havent won the popular vote in decades lmao im not trying to be a curmudgeon but chanting vote in the year of our lord 2023 is hilarious. Republicans havent won a popular vote in decades. Locally ive seen 2 democrats and 1 independent have their elections straight up stolen. My cities uniquely complicated voting formula btw was designed in the sixties to restrict black voting power. The gerrymandering in my state is nationally famous as well.

So when you talk about my vote "counting" i can only imagine you mean in some abstract moral sense, and not in any sense that matters to me. Because everything i said is what comes up before we even get a dem elected, and they turn coat to republicans or sell us out in a million other ways like just happened in north carolina.

I have lost rights as a trans woman the last 4 years in a row. This isnt even me trying to find a candidate who would take me an inch, this is me asking if any of em can do anything at all.

And the answer is sometimes yes voting will help!! Sometimes it 100% matters!! I have personally helped get local legends elected who still help me and others. But come on

Posts like this are just disinformation at this point. Go read some WEB Du Bois and learn about reconstruction for the love of God

With so many elections coming up worldwide it’s probably a good time to remind everyone that tumblr once got infested with agents trying to convince everyone not to vote, or not to vote left because the candidates weren’t morally pure enough.

Also a reminder that they were better at tumblr than most of us, comrade interloper was great at memeing. Like, the talent!

Anyway don’t fall for it. There is no morally pure option.