#male roe

[fools-of-light]

I kinda just liked the lighting in Buscarron’s and wanted to get a picture of my sweet Roe man, Haeraran <3

[ilovelosermen69]

Girls when they see a man in uniform

[uwumoth]

Made this little diy zine!!! It felt great to go back to my preferred medium, collage

[ahollowgrave]

-- mistletoe. pt ix. (feat. the rakish Captain Styr of @captain-styr!)

[verysmallcyborg]

the smaller fun crimes i've missed:

taco bell bong and ragdoll animation on death (extremely funny in frontlines since i applied it to everyone, enemy players included. it's also how mare friends know when i have the occasional death LOL)

cunty little arms crossed cpose - fem... middie i think? and the default hroth idle (fornax has back problems ok. she canonically has a bit of a hunch. if i knew how to put this one on femroe cpose 2 or 6 i would u__u)

[haggishlyhagging]

“You know how pityingly we have looked at the benighted woman who says, ‘I don't need the Women's Movement. My husband lets me do anything I want.’ But our pity has been hypocritical: Roe v. Wade, the ‘glory’ of the movement, is exactly the same sad phenomenon—our husband the state letting us, and our feeling grateful for it. But, of course, like a husband the men ‘let’ us not because it is good for us but because it is necessary for them. It keeps us colonized, our bodies state property and our destinies in their hands, and it rivets our attention on them.”

-Sonia Johnson, Wildfire Igniting the She/volution

[autistic-alexithymic-female]

[deermouth]

You all are lucky I have my smalltwitter where I can appropriately flag images as "sensitive" so I have an outlet to post images of all the dead salmon on the shore at this mountain lake campsite. Otherwise,,

[ourladyoftheflytrap]

Heartbreaking to think about how many women will miscarry or do at home abortions and then die in the following year because they didn't feel like they could tell their doctor about it, so their doctor didn't know to be looking out for the warning signs of impending maternal death

[haellen-o]

unrelated to my last post

man i love seeing all the roes on my dash. so fucking good i love them all <3

[womenaremypriority]

women worldwide need to unite obviously but speaking as an USAmerican women 🙏🏻 Other US women need to wake up… like we are in a state of passiveness… we have just accepted it’s hopeless like. We know we are second place deep down but have accepted it as natural. We’re waking up more but only because men have shown their hatred again. Need class consciousness and awareness of the horrible parts but also the great parts of women’s history. And to learn that it’s real and pressing. Just LOOK. You know, it’s at the edge of your vision, you can feel it, just turn your head and stare at it, tell the force looking at you that you are looking back, don’t hide from it anymore.

[zaenight]

READ ALL ABOUT IT CH 4

[TW: there are slight mentions of stuff discussed in ch1-2,past Sa and abuse mentions]

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"Luke, Luke, what up dawg?Check this out,You shoot this one , let's see what you got." said Skills , it was late in the afternoon as the boys played basketball as they always do.

Carlo watched as lucas made the basket , thoughts of the other day plaguing his mind as he ate his chips anxiously.

"Come on, lets move!" Mouth exclaimed.

"Time to go, baby." Skills.

"Six-thirty, Luke!" jimmy said as Carlo got up and jumped on Lucas's back.

"Aw , come on guys, you dont gotta come Its just a game." Lucas said as rolling his eyes as he made sure Carlo didn't fall off , the boy light for his age , still the same as they were younger.

"Right,Whitey asked you to play on the team." said skills.

"And Nathan threatens you." junk said to Lucas .

"You tried flirting with his girl, eres todo tipo de desorden ." said Carlo as Lucas glared at the boy who blinked innocently.[your just all kinds of messy]

"You beat him right here one on one, you join the team." Mouth stated with a smile.

"And now its the first game and we aint gotta come?" said Skills.

"To bad this game is for all of us , we're going ." Finished Carlo as Lucas let out a scoff with a smirk.

"Go Luke!"

"Let's go Luke."

"Vamos apurate Lucas." yeah we all know who said that.

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"Karen! , Luisa! , You ready to go?" Keith exclaimed.

"Oh Im not going,I decided to stay open,I could use the business." Stated Karen as Luisa shook her head with an I tried look on her face , Sirena on her hip.

"You talk to Luke about this?" Keith questioned.

"No,But hell understand." Karen stated .

"Karen..." said Keith.

"She doesnt want to go." Said Hayley by the door.

"Hayley's right I tried talking to her , pero no she wouldn't listen." Said Luisa shaking her head.

"She doesnt want to see her high school sweetheart,slash your brother Dan,slash the jerk who abandoned Lucas slash the father of Nathan, the team's star player slash my wrists , if I hear this story again,Lets go!"said Hayley with a accusing tone and raised brow.

"I think youre making a mistake." Said Keith.

"Mama is Riri gonna play the ball game." Said Sirena as she got buckled into her car seat.

"Not unless Whitey hog ties him and makes him ." Luisa said with snort.

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At the same time the conversation was going down so was this one , oh Luisa how right you where.

"Wh- you can't make me play!" Said Carlo , one minute he was with Jimmy and Mouth , the next he was in the boy's locker room."

"Detention for a week if ya don't." said Whitey.

"What!, your just making up rules , Whitey come on I'm uncoordinated , unfocussed." Carlo rambled.

Whitey thought about it , before throwing the jersey at Carlo.

"You know you father had one of the highest jumps , when we watched ya'll play that night , your jump rivaled his , infact it was higher than Marcelo's." said Whitey.

"Screw him, and screw this , Whitey you want me to play , alright I'll play just this once, but after that I'm done, because to me basketball is just something I do for fun not sport, and you putting Galindo instead of Del'gado on this jersey won't change my mind, and for the record my jump being higher than my father's is because Im just better than he ever will be." Stated Carlo with a clenched jaw and a glare when his so-called father was brought up.

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"Scott!, Galindo!" Whitey exclaimed , after pointing to lucas after Nathan thought he was being called , but what the hell does he want with him now.

"I cant believe the bastard spawns on our team." said Tim to Nathan as the two other boys walked into the office.

"For now,besides maybe we should worry about Del'gado , you know his father would beat him and his mother black and blue, and daddy dearest would take out so much more on his mother , if you know what I mean , and then he was raised by gang members on top of all that , it's trouble waiting to happen." Nathan stated shaking his head with a whistle.

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"You nervous?" said Whitey.

"A little bit." said Lucas.

"I wouldn't be if you didn't force me to play." Carlo grumbled out.

"Good. You ought to be, and watch your tone boy." said Whitey as Carlo rolled his eyes dramatically as Lucas shook his head with a small smile.

"Just do what youve been doing all week in practice,Youll be fine." He continued as he threw a jersey at lucas.

"oh sure but you throw the kid that barely plays into the game." Carlo groaned before walking out, Whitey yelling that he better change his mis matched socks.

"Luke!, Rico!, You mind if we get a few words before your first game?" said Mouth.

"Yeah,Were going to put it on the internet , Ravenshoops.com ." said jimmy with a grin.

"Yeah we're gonna have a web cast and everything." mouth said once again.

Carlo must have really bad memory cause he could have sworn they had one already.

"What the hell is this?" questioned Whitey coming out of his office a few seconds later.

"Well, we have this website."

" Yeah, were sports announcers." tried explaining the boys.

"Not in here, youre not,The locker rooms closed,No media." said Whitey shaking his head.

"Dude, did you hear that? Were media." Mouth said as the two smiled.

"Not just media,Banned media." Said jimmy as Carlo and Lucas just looked at them before shaking their heads.

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"They dont wanna what! Or were gonna what!,Or what! Or what!" the players chanted , besides Carlo and Lucas.

"Alright,Lets take the court." said Whitey.

"Want my world? You and short stack got it." said Nathan as Carlo scrunched his face.

"I'm 5"11 , that's not even short!, you people are just too tall." Carlo exclaimed , he grew a few inches and gained some muscle thank you very much.

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"Keith! Hey, Finally came to see your nephew play, huh, big brother?" Said Dan Scott , Keith's brother , Nathan's dad , and the sperm donor of Lucas.

"Yeah,I guess you can say that." said Keith.

"Mommy look Riri!" exclaimed Sirena bouncing up and down joyfully.

"well would you look at that , Whitey threatened him." said Luisa before coming to her conclusion , mostly because she could see the annoyed and dramatic eyeroll her son kept giving to Whitey.

"Well I don't see rope burns from an escape attempt, looks like someone didn't get hogtied after all , shame would've loved to see that." Said Hayley , laughing as Sirena climbed into her lap.

"Tonight, Lucas Scott and Carlo Del- I mean Galindo , plays their first game for the Tree Hill Ravens, however Rico made it known he would only play one game." stated Mouth into the microphone.

"Thats right, Mouth, Now the Ravens are 5 and O,But this is their first game following the suspension of six varsity players, and would you look at that high jump delivered by Carlo Galindo , talk about slam dunk!" Jimmy exclaimed , however on the court Carlo was grumbling to himself that he better get food after this.

"Son!" exclaimed Dan Scott , As Lucas looked at him after he shot his basket.

"Wake up." said Nathan circling Lucas , Carlo then scoffed as Nathan hit his shoulder as Whitey called them over , what a dick .

Looking up he smiled as his mother , sister , and Hayley cheered him on , before he laughed realizing that Grandpa Nero ,Spook,Cookie,and Matches rushed in through the gym doors giving him a nod , they were getting weary looks from people , but a big smirk from Carlo.

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"So that's the boy that beat Nathan?,Well, he's good from behind, and gang boy can get it anytime he wants , those puppy dog eyes are to die for." Said Brooke Davis , Popular girl , head cheerleader , you name it .

Peyton rolled her eyes at her bestfriend , sure Carlo was cute , but her eyes where on the Scott boys.

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"Luke, relax,Destiny has a way of finding you, and keep rolling those eyes Galindo , see what happens." said Whitey as Carlo gave him a deadpan look.

Chanting and cheers filled the gym , oh and Lucas hit Peyton with a basketball.

"Nice hands." said Peyton as she glared lightly at Lucas , Carlo laughed at his bestfriend as he replied to the girl.

"Nice legs." he replied back.

"Nice ass Gang boy." said Brooke towards Carlo , who was a bit overwhelmed by the noise.

"Yeah nice pom poms." Carlo said nodding his head at her ,not realizing what he said as he got back to the game.

"He likes my pom poms." said Brooke with a smirk as Peyton shook her head.

"The ones in your hand or the ones on your chest." Peyton said with a teasing scoff.

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"Lets see some game!"

"Hey, which side you on?" said Nathan as the other team scored , lucas kept missing , Nathan made one getting cheers from the crowd , and Whitey yelled to pass the ball to Carlo who was not interested but didn't wanna risk getting detention via Whitey.

Lucas got pulled out of the game , that lucky bastard.

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"That was something , good thing I won't have to play again , and did you really have to threaten Whitey , It's just gonna make him harder on me Ma." Said Carlo as they were eating dinner.

"Ok for starters I said that I would hog tie him if he ever made you play a sport you didn't want to , Las caras que hiciste a sus espaldas lo dejaron claro." Luisa said before shaking her head as Carlo choked on his water.[the faces you made behind his back made that clear]

"you saw that!, you think he could feel my annoyance , Ma im a goner." Carlo groaned.

"Now your just being dramatic." Cookie said as Spook laughed , Carlo however was in distraught.

Nero shook his head at them , oh how he wishes his son and Polo could be here , then their family would truly be complete.

"Matches stop trying to teach the kids how to put curses on people! look what happened to Martha from the coffee shop , she deserved it but still!" Nero heard Luisa exclaim.

Oh Martha , she decided to be rude when she got served ,the kids then took revenge for their mother, oh she never stood a chance against those seagulls.

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Carlo grabbed his guitar , Sirena tucked into bed as she awaited her new lullaby, Luisa watching her children with a smile as she went to clean up the kitchen.

"Mientras Peter Pan vuela por el cielo oscuro,Su sombra baila con la luna en lo alto.Las estrellas brillantes le susurran secretos al oído, guiándolo más allá de los reinos del miedo.

Oh Wendy Darling, con los ojos muy abiertos por el asombro,Mientras observa desde su ventana y sueña con Neverland, donde el tiempo se detiene,Y los Niños Perdidos riéndose junto al riachuelo de la Sirena.Vuela, vuela, Peter, por caminos llenos de estrellas, Persiguiendo cometas, mientras cabalga rayos de luna, liberándose de todas sus cadenas.

sus alas cubiertas de polvo de duendecillo lo llevan lejos, a una tierra donde los sueños y la magia son nuestra Estrella del Norte. El barco del Capitán Garfio navega por el mar a medianoche, mientras el reloj del Cocodrilo emite una inquietante súplica. Sin embargo, Peter se eleva, libre del peso del tiempo, riendo con las hadas, tejiendo cuentos en rima.

Oh, Tinker Bell revolotea, un duende ardiente, iluminando el camino a través de la noche de Nunca Jamás.Las sirenas cantan canciones de cuna de la espuma del océano, y los niños perdidos encuentran consuelo en el hogar de la luz de las estrellas mientras Peter toca su flauta, y ahora termina esta melodía." Carlo finished the short but simple lullaby as his baby sister fell asleep , going to help his mother in the kitchen.

[As Peter Pan flies throughout the dark sky,His shadow dances with the moon up high.

The bright stars whisper secrets in his ear, Guiding him beyond the realms of fear.

Oh Wendy Darling, eyes wide with wonder, As she watches from her window, and dreams of Neverland, where time stands still,And the Lost Boys laughing by the Mermaid's rill.Fly, fly, Peter, through star-strewn lanes,Chasing comets, as he rides moonbeams, breaking free from all his chains.

his pixie-dusted wings carry him far, To a land where dreams and magic are our Northern Star. Captain Hook's ship sails the midnight sea, as the Crocodile's clock gives a haunting plea. Yet Peter soars, unburdened by time, Laughing with fairies, weaving tales in rhyme.Oh Tinker Bell flits, a fiery sprite, Lighting the way through Neverland's night.The Mermaids sing lullabies of ocean foam, And the Lost Boys find solace in starlight's home As Peter plays his flute , and now he ends this tune.]

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"Early in his career, Hemingway was frustrated,He was a good writer who wanted to be great,and eventually, he discovered that less was more." Mr. Kelly , their teacher spoke the next day at school.

"Peyton,Describe Lucas using just one word." he continued as he called upon Peyton.

"Choke." she said as the class laughed.

Carlo and Lucas glanced at eachother , this girl.

"Okay, be quiet please,Thank you,Lucas, care to respond and describe Peyton?" He said.

"Lonely." Lucas replied.

"Okay, be quiet please,Yes? Nathan?" Mr. Kelly asked .

"I can describe Lucas AND Carlo in one word,Bastard and Gang banger." Nathan said with a smirk as the class got riled up.

"That's three words jackass." Carlo replied glaring , he's heard it all before , now if he said something about his mother that would be different.

Lucas however did not take this lightly as he launched at Nathan before delivering a punch.

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"I'd stand up but every time I do, somebody kicks me in the ass for putting you on the team,Sit down,and you why are you here!" Whitey said to Lucas and then glared at Carlo who raised his hands up in surrender.

"Emotional support, alright jeez I got banned from the classroom for cheering him on." Carlo said until the man glared again.

"Get the hell out of my office before I make you play on the team!" Whitey exclaimed.

"Sorry Luke your on your own , I ain't playin'." Carlo said smacking his shoulder before rushing out,hitting a locker.

"IM OKAY!" the boy exclaimed, leaving Lucas to get lectured.

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"Any side effects?" Hayley questioned Lucas as her and Carlo played gulf on their rooftop.

"From what?" Lucas said in the same tone , Glancing at Carlo who whistled.

"Your amnesia." She said.

"What are you talking about?" Lucas questioned.

"Im talking about how you mustve gotten amnesia because I know that you would've mentioned that you got into a fight today,Are you okay, Luke?,." Hayley said to him .

"Don't look at me like that , she forced it out of me!" Carlo replied as Lucas glanced at him.

After that was over , Carlo and Hayley continued their own small chat as lucas left.

"You remember that one time we accidently ate a plate full of weed brownies and your mom chased spook with her broom?" Hayley said , their thing was bringing up past memories , it was the way they bonded , it was their special thing.

"Yeah , never seen Spook so Spooked." Carlo laughed.

"Oh my god , remember the time I sprained my wrist when I Jumped off that swing , so you did the same thing so we could be sprain buddies." Hayley laughed as Carlo let out a smirk before wincing.

"Yeah only difference was that I broke it , cried more getting the damn cast on, than when i broke it." Carlo said raising a brow.

"The power of Adrenaline." Hayley said as they Laughed.

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"You know, its really too bad Lucas is poor and he can't play because he is fine, and that Carlo , a bit more muscle and my god , Hey you think he talks you through it." Brooke said before getting a pillow thrown at her face.

"You disgust me." Peyton groaned as they hung out in her room.

"Hey, I think its really good that youre fighting with Nathan again." Brooke stated.

"You do?" Peyton questioned.

"Yeah,Every time you guys fight I get to hear new music,Hey, what's his story, Carlo's , I've heard things, about his dad." Brooke said before changing tune of the conversation.

"I know I've heard all about it , that man is pure evil , apparently he would go around cheating , and if Carlo's mom brought it up... , he would rape her, they say that Carlo is a rape baby because his dad was in Dan Scott's year , guess around eighteen , and she was only sixteen,then he started taking it out on him , they said that he was way smaller and lighter than other kids because he would be starved, that's why he's always seen eating." Peyton started saying as Brooke had a solemn look upon her face.

"That he would pay off cops and everything , They say that Carlo has an even higher jump than his father , it's why Whitey forced him to play , and then one day he left , then Carlo's mother fell in love with a gang member , she had his baby sister , but the dude got killed in a shoot out or something...all in all , the poor dude was doomed from the start." Peyton finished as Brooke grabbed a music disk , changing the topic, the conversation lingering in her mind.

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"So, you gonna tell me about the fight or you wanna just assume I know about it while I yell at you?" Karen said , Luisa already cursed Carlo out , not for the fight , but for pissing of Whitey , other than that he was scotch free.

"Is that the phone? I'll get it." said Hayley.

"Yeah I hear it too." Carlo said making an Escape, his mother had went to pick up Sirena from daycare, leaving him stranded with an angry mother.

Him and Hayley totally weren't eavesdropping , ok maybe they were.

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"Look, I want to talk about whats happening with the team,I know you think I've been hard on you, but thats because I see the big picture here,Whiteys not going to bench this kid just because of one bad game, and we're lucky Marcelo's boy doesn't like playing the game, because scouts need to look at you , not him." Said Dan Scott as he walked with Nathan.

"So what? Let him humiliate himself, and all Del'gado has is a high jump , nothing else." said Nathan with a scoff.

"No,Its more than that,Back when I played for Whitey, his word was law,He was always right,Even when he was wrong,So eventually I called him on it, and those Jumps are no joke , his father won three championships when he went off for college , Then he screwed up his arm when he went in for a slam dunk." Dan explained.

The two Scotts then continued their conversation as they exercised.

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"Okay, were going to try our little Hemingway project again,But in order to avoid a bar fight, were going to do it on paper,Now you dont have to put your names on these,Simply write one word, one single word,to describe what you want most in your life right now." Mr. Kelly said to them.

DETERMINATION.

his determination to prove everyone wrong.

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"Please tell me you hit him." Said Carlo.

"I missed , I just keep missing man." Lucas said.

"Want me curse him , you saw what happened to Martha from the coffee shop , El Brujo is ready to cast the dead on him." Carlo said , huffing when Lucas said no , as amusing as it would be.

"Uh oh , I'm gonna let you talk to your girl , well your brothers girl, ow!" Carlo said hopping off the desk , totally not listening to the conversation, occasionally bumping into stuff , and Keith who scared the crap out of him.

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"Did you ever figure out your porn name?" Hayley said randomly.

"what are you talking about?" asked Lucas.

"Jesus Hayley." Carlo laughed.

"Your porn name,you know, you take the name of your first pet and your mothers maiden name and you put them together,What was the name of your first pet?" She replied.

"you know that I had a dog named rocket." Lucas said.

"Rosie the yorkie." Carlo said remembering the small yorkie that terrified him as a child ended up being his best friend after Toni and Polo died , Polo would be proud of all the spiritual terror,Rosie and him rained upon the compound.

"Oh, Rocket! Ah! I loved Rocket, and Rosie , I loved them so much." Hayley started to say.

"So your mothers maiden name is Roe, Rocket Roe!, and Galindo , Rosie Galindo!" She Said , Carlo laughed at the thought.

"And yours?" The boys smirked.

"Oh, I had a bunny, named Bunny." Hayley smiled in memory.

"You had a Bunny named Bunny?" Lucas questioned.

"Real original Hayley Bayley." Carlo snorted bringing back up his old childhood nickname for the girl.

"Yes I did,And my mothers maiden name is Beaugard, so Bunny Beaugard." She said with a laugh.

"Dawsons Freak,Starring Rocket Roe, Rosie Galindo,and Bunny Beaugard." As the three laughed Carlo went on his way , leaving Hayley to speak to Lucas about the game.

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"Check it out , looks like he'll play afterall." Carlo smirked as they looked out the window of the cafe.

Sirena laughed as Carlo gave her a piggyback ride to the car as the all loaded up to go support Lucas.

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"Lets go, lets go! Ravens on three! One, two, three! Ravens!" the cheerleaders cheered.

"Come on Lucas!" Carlo Exclaimed , catching Brooke's stare.

You know maybe cheerleaders aren't so bad afterall.

[trashbag-baby666]

Put That PSL Down!-Baberoe/Graham

October prompts day one by @almost-a-class-act

Summary: Character A tries to convince Character B that it's too early to put the Halloween decorations up OR that it's too early to get the house ready for winter.

W/C: 245.

T/W: None.

BofB Masterlist!

Halloween Prompt 23’ Masterlist!

“Babe Heffron put the pumpkin spice latte down now,” Gene huffed as he came into the shared apartment at yet a too long pushed out day at the hospital.

“Are you gonna yell at him too?” Babe pointed to Graham who held his PSL too.

“Both of you where did you even get those? The house?” Gene looked around a stupid smile on his face. It was September first and his boyfriends had already decorated for Halloween.

“Doesn’t it look nice?” Graham smirked as Gene came into the kitchen setting his lunch bag down to unpack.

“Yes it looks very nice but summer ain’t even over yet.” Gene looked at the both as they sat at the table. A bright orange table cloth with little black bats on that staring back at him.

“Yeah, yeah, in the bayou you don’t do your Halloween voodoo till the 31st.” Babe poked fun at Gene and his odd Pagan traditions.

“Makin’ my sweet old grandmother roll around in her grave.” Gene chuckled as he put away his lunch mess.

“We made dinner too it’s just in the oven still.” Graham said.

“Pumpkin flavored pancakes?” Gene raised an eyebrow half hoping it was.

“No! But I wish!” Babe pouted, “Tomorrow.”

“Now are we gonna have pumpkin flavored everything and plastic skeletons in our apartment till Thanksgiving?” Gene asked as he sat at the table.

“You bet,” Graham nodded.

“Should we tell him about the 12 foot skeleton George bought?”

[impossible-rat-babies]

caveat here of how none of this really matters and it’s my opinion, but I’m kinda just. :standing-man: about how divorced m!viera are from masculinity in fandom spaces. like how they’re always referred to as “cute” and “adorable” and even the term bunboy kinda just makes me feel ick. there’s always this stereotypical box of feminine/gay man that they get shoved into—cutesy and demure and pretty. like express gender and such in your own way and find freedom in that—I’m not gonna be upset about that. it’s the overall opinion that these characters—and by extension their players—are only part of this stereotype

[tomorrowusa]

Reproductive rights activists in Ohio have gathered way more than enough signatures to put a reproductive freedom amendment to the Ohio constitution on the ballot in November. The measure would need only a simple majority to go into effect.

However the heavily gerrymandered GOP legislature is conducting a special election in August to try to pass a measure to raise the threshold to pass constitutional amendments from 50%+1 to 60%. So if the August amendment passes, the November reproductive protection amendment would then require 60% to pass.

Why 60%? This Ohio poll from last autumn just may provide an answer.

If the August rightwing GOP amendment passes with a simple majority, that would make it harder to pass the reproductive freedom amendment in November.

Summer elections usually have poor turnouts. That's why the Republican legislature broke one of its own rules about August elections to place it there.

Ohio Abortion Protection Amendment Gets Signatures Necessary for Ballot Access With 710,141 signatures, the movement surpassed the 413,000 signature threshold to appear on the ballot in November

In practical terms, this is a two-stage ballot measure. So save these dates...

Support Reproductive Freedom in OHIO:

+ On August 8th – Vote No (on GOP blocker) + On November 7th – Vote Yes

If you are a legal resident of Ohio who will be 18 by August 8th, you have until 30 days before the election to register. July 10th is the registration deadline for the August election. It's usually best to register in person in case you need to sort out any issues. But if that's not possible, the Ohio Secretary of State lets you register online. Read the instructions carefully and assemble the necessary information before beginning the process.

Online Voter Registration – Ohio Secretary of State

A perennial reminder: If you have moved since the last election (even next door), you need to register at your new address. Voting is geographic.

If you're not in Ohio but have friends there, feel free to forward this information to them.

If the reproductive freedom measure passes in November then that may pave the way for other reforms such as a badly needed one on gerrymandering. It will certainly scare Republicans. 😁

[haggishlyhagging]

Friends often remind me of Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that guarantees the right to legal abortion. "You see?" they say, "It proves that change can come from within the system." I remind them that it took half a century and millions of deaths among members of the Society of the Outsiders to bring that about.

Or did we really buy it with our living blood? What if those deaths were actually meaningless, what if they didn't accomplish anything at all? The possibility that this is true is almost too awful to contemplate. But it has often occurred to me that the real reason abortion was legalized was to give men more access to women's bodies, to give impetus to the "sexual revolution," which has been another revolution for men only. By relieving women of the burdens of pregnancy from increased and indiscriminate intercourse, men encouraged us to feel as if we should "put out" more often. The Supreme Court decision, insofar as it helped make us more available as sexual objects for men, was very much against us, not for us.

Evidence for this point of view is that now that cultural mores have changed and women are expected, and conditioned, to be sexually available to men all the time under all circumstances, the right to abortion is being seriously threatened. In the long haul, patriarchy wants all women to be mother-slaves, far off center stage, producing the other slaves and the cannon fodder and the heroes necessary for its continuation. All around us in the women's movement even ardent feminists are having babies with a zeal unequaled for decades. And each of them is perfectly convinced that hers was a choice uninfluenced by the system's brilliant and truly massive "biological time clock" campaign of the past dozen years.

Roe vs. Wade has won another victory for patriarchy: it has kept women focused upon and deeply emotionally invested in the system. Since the moment the decision was handed down, men have forced feminists in dozens of states to spend among them millions of hours trying desperately not to lose it piece by piece. Now, regardless of which party is in power, the groundwork has been laid: the most radical women are being subsumed into and consumed by the state function of motherhood, and their hopes for help are bound firmly once more to the state. The Supreme Court will continue, now that the decision has accomplished its purposes, to gut Roe vs. Wade, perhaps retaining as much as is necessary to keep feminists still trusting the system, still under control.

Ultimately, where will all this trusting have got us? A dozen years further away from trusting ourselves and from finding a lasting, non-male-approval-based solution to the problem of our physical colonization.

When will we learn that, since they depend for their very existence upon keeping us colonized, we cannot depend on patriarchal institutions to give us self rule? When will we learn that as long as men have privilege at our expense — and every man alive does — we cannot trust them? (This doesn't mean we can hate them, or that we can wish or do them harm without damaging our own spirits and defeating our cause. Nor does it mean that we can't love them, since many of us can't help loving them, regardless of their corruption. It simply means that we cannot and must not trust them.) When will we learn that we must take our bodies back completely, get them out of men's laws and hands altogether, back into our own hands and those of our sisters?

-Sonia Johnson, Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation