#so america

[jellogram]

On my first day in Germany I got to my hotel and I couldn't get the lights to turn on. And I was like "Eh, fuck it, I'll just take a shower in the dark." And then the shower wouldn't get hot. I waited and waited and it stayed ice cold.

So I go down to the front desk and I'm like "My lights won't turn on and my shower won't get hot" so they send this guy up with me. We get into the room and I flick the switch and nothing happens so I'm like "See?"

And he goes "You must put your card in the slot."

"I... what? I have to put my room card in the light switch?"

"Of course!"

Now I have been in many hotels in the US and never encountered this concept, but apparently it was something most of their guests already knew. So I'm looking like a fool at this point. I feel like an idiot. The dude is fully grinning at me. I put the card in the slot and voila, the light turns on.

Then he's like "Ok, let's see if the shower works. You know you must wait for the hot water?" and I just know he's thinking I'm an idiot who also can't use a shower. This stupid American can't wait for the hot water! She can't even use a light switch or a shower!

And I guess he was distracted by these thoughts of my stupidity, because this dude fully stepped into the shower. In his nice dress shirt and slacks. He just. Gets into the shower.

And turns it on.

Have you ever seen a playing field get leveled instantaneously

[sillyguy-supreme]

white americans when you tell them that the idea of climate change as an impending disaster is a reductive first world perspective because it’s a tangible reality for many in the global south already:

[froody]

countries will be like “nooooo our birth rate is falling exponentially and it’s effecting our economy” and immigrants will be like “hey can you let us in so we can boost your economy and fill your empty jobs and raise our children here” and inevitably the country is like “the only thing worse than a large scale collapse of our population is letting foreigners live here”

[reesiereads]

I need ya’ll to realize running back to TikTok like nothing fucking happened is exactly what this motherfucker wants. He wants you to run back and to be grateful. He wants you to forget that the Supreme Court has just passed something that indicates they can pursue intense censorship and remove our access to free speech and non-propagandized/monitored spaces whenever they want. He wants you to be so focused on all this that you completely forget that he’s about to pass at least a hundred horrific policies stripping us of our rights as soon as this week. He wants you to stop talking about Palestine who is still in danger and is in desperate need of aid despite the ceasefire. He wants you to turn your attention away from all the people in LA suffering thanks to the fires.

I don’t want to say it’s just an app, because it’s not. I was incredibly sad about losing TikTok yesterday. Many of us had a community that meant a great deal to us torn away suddenly and I am not saying we shouldn’t be upset about that. But I am saying that as much as the Supreme Court has more important things they should be focusing on over banning TikTok we have more important things to do then run back to an app that was obviously used for a publicity stunt by Trump and will inevitably be influenced by him and his fascism.

We’ve been discussing boycotting Instagram, Facebook, Twitter/X, and other Meta platforms due to their connections to Trump and his posse of billionaires. TikTok must be treated the same way so long as the CEO and company is in Trump’s pocket.

[mistsofavalon13]

i just checked wikipedia and the 2007-2008 writer’s strike was only 99 days long. the strike that shows up in the wikipedia pages of every show from that era with a blurb on how it affected shooting and release schedules.

we’re on day 113 of the current strike, with no end in sight.

[dontyoufinditstrange]

Guts (Spilled) Lyrics That Alter My Brain Chemistry

all-american bitch:

"i pay attention to things that most people ignore" "i am built like a mother and a total machine" "i feel for your every little issue i know just what you mean" "i make light of the darkness, i've got sun in my motherfucking pocket" "i know my age and i act like it" "i don't get angry when i'm pissed, i'm the eternal optimist" "i scream inside to deal with it"

bad idea right?:

"i know we're done, i know we're through, but god, when i look at you" "fuck it, its fine" "i only see him as a friend, the biggest lie i ever said" "i know i should stop, but i can't" "i'm sure i've seen much hotter men, but i really can't remember when"

vampire:

"how's the castle built off people you pretend to care about?" "i loved you truly, gotta laugh at the stupidity" "i used to think i was smart, but you made me look so naive" "bleed me dry like a goddamn vampire" "you're so convincing, how do you lie without flinching?" "what a mesmerizing, paralyzing, fucked up little thrill, can't figure out just how you do it and god knows i never will" "you can't love anyone cause that would mean you had a heart" "i tried to help you out, now i know that i can't, cause how you think's the kind of thing i'll never understand"

lacy:

"did i ever tell you that i'm not doing well?" "it takes over my life, i see you everywhere, the sweetest torture one could bear" "i'm losing it lately" "i feel your compliments like bullets on skin" "like ribbons in your hair my stomach's all in knots, you've got the one thing that i want" "try to rationalize people are people but its like you're made of angel dust" "you poison every little thing that i do" "i just loathe you lately" "i despise my jealous eyes and how hard they fell for you" "i despise my rotten mind and how much it worships you"

ballad of a homeschooled girl:

"feels like my skin doesn't fit right over my bones" "i made it weird, i made it worse" "each time i step outside, its social suicide" "everything i do is tragic"

making the bed:

"another thing i ruined i used to do for fun" "another perfect moment that doesn't feel like mine" "another thing i forced to be a sign" "sometimes i feel like i don't wanna be where i am" "i'm so tired of being the girl that i am" "i'm playing the victim so well in my head" "i tell someone i love them, just as a distraction" "they're changing my machinery and i just let it happen" "i got the things i wanted, its just not what i imagined"

logical:

"i'd put myself though hell for you" "i fell for you like water falls from the february sky" "cause id rain don't pour and sun don't shine, then changing you is possible" "you lied, you lied, you lied" "i know i'm half responsible and that makes me feel horrible" "i know i could've stopped it all, god why didn't i stop it all?"

get him back!:

"do i love him, do i hate him? i guess its up and down" "i wanna get him back, i wanna make him really jealous, wanna make him feel bad" "cause then again i really miss him and it makes me real sad" "i want sweet revenge and i want him again" "when i told him how he hurt me, he told me i was trippin" "i wanna meet his mom just to tell her her son sucks"

love is embarrassing:

"now it doesn't mean a thing god love's fucking embarrassing" "just watch as i crucify myself for some weird second string loser who's not worth mentioning" "my god how could i be so stupid?"

the grudge:

"took everything i loved and crushed it in between your fingers" "my undying love, now i hold you like a grudge" "and i hear your voice every time i think i'm not enough" "i try to be tough, but i wanna scream" "i say i don't care, i say that i'm fine, but you know i can't let it go i've tried, i've tried, i've tried, for so long" "it takes strength to forgive but i don't feel strong" "i fantasize about a time you're a little fucking sorry" "i try to understand why you would do this all to me, you must be insecure, you must be so unhappy" "i know in my heart, hurt people hurt people, and we both drew blood but man those cuts were never equal" "i try to be tough, i try to be mean, but eve after all this you're still everything to me"

pretty isn't pretty:

"there's always something in the mirror that i think looks wrong" "when pretty isn't pretty enough, what do you do?" "i try to ignore it, but its everything i see. its in the poster on the wall, its in the shitty magazines, its in my phone, its in my head, its in the boys i bring to bed, its all around, its all the time, i don't know why i even try"

teenage dream:

"got your whole life ahead of you, you're only nineteen" "but i fear they already got all the best parts of me" "they all say that it gets better, it gets better, but what if i don't?"

obsessed:

"i'm starin at her like i wanna get hurt" "i can't help it, i got issues, i can't help it" "oh god she makes me so upset"

girl i've always been:

"i have captors i call friends" "i got panic rooms inside my head" "i get down with crooked men" "but i am the girl i've always been" "you say i'm cruel beyond my years" "i got wrapped up in the game again"

scared of my guitar:

"so why's there a pit in my gut in the shape of you?" "maybe i'm just overwhelmed, maybe i'm confused" "once you let the thought in then its already done" "so i'll lay in your arms and pretend its love" "i make excuses, my friends know the truth is i'm not as alright as i claim. i say that i'm fine, i tell them all the time as they watch all the light fade away" "what if i never find anything better?"

stranger:

"i was half myself without you, now i feel so complete" "i can't even remember what made me lose all that sleep" "you're just a stranger i know everything about" "you know i'll always think of you, i'll love you til the end of time, you are the best thing i'll ever keep so far out of my life" "there's nothing left for me to sing, i screamed, i cried, i did the whole thing, and i loved you mad but it doesn't matter anymore" "and if i'm not enough for you, you're not enough for me"

so american:

"he's like a poem i wish i wrote" "oh god its just not fair of him to make me feel this much" "i'm gonna marry him if he keeps this shit up"

[theoptia]

Clementine von Radics, from “Letter from Anaïs Nin to Clementine von Radics”

Text ID: For women who are tied to the moon, love alone is not enough.

[sully-s]

Just a little young rev America because I've been making pumpkin scones and it's cold in the morning so basically it's fall and I always get rev war feels in the fall.

[egirlbutternubs]

Given the events of the new chainsaw man chapter, now seems like a good time to repost Tatsuki Fujimoto's take on captain america

[gay-david-tennant]

and

EDIT:

sure why not:

tags via @littleredplanetnumberfour

EDIT 2:

someone asked for a sag-aftra one:

[rollaroundincompliments]

[biathelstan]

☆postage stamps

[chongoblog]

Being in America is super fun because you get to see Trump going up against Biden in a presidential election with both of them being dogshit options, mass protests against what should very obviously be seen as an injustice that spits in the face of what you were told your country stands for, except the government disagrees, using the power of the militarized state to brutalize protestors, all the while people spread malicious lies regularly with millions believing their every word(a lot of it being thanks to some rich freak on Twitter). Also, the economy is doing pretty damn poor and you see media sources tell you to sacrifice your well-being all while the ultra rich get richer and richer.

And then after you're done with 2020, you get to do it again four years later

[sharkface]

[reasonsforhope]

"Colombia’s congress has voted to change a law that allowed minors to get married with parental consent.

The proposal would make the minimum age for marriage 18, and seeks to protect the rights and development opportunities for minors. It still must be signed into law by President Gustavo Petro.

Currently, the country’s civil code allows person as young as 14 years old to get married with parental consent.

The initial proposal to reform the law – presented in 2023 – used the slogan “they’re girls, not wives” and aimed to prevent young girls from being forced to marry, to be subject to different forms of violence and to miss out on education and development opportunities.

“Minors are not sexual objects, they’re girls,” congresswoman Clara López Obregón said in a statement after the proposal was greenlit.

Child marriage remains a widespread practice worldwide and affects around 12 million girls per year, according to the UN’s agency for children, UNICEF.

But there’s been a global drop in child marriages over the past few years, according to the agency’s statistics. “Ten years ago, one in four young women aged 20 to 24 was married as a child. Today that number has fallen to one in five,” UNICEF said.

In Latin America, poverty is the main factor leading to minors getting married, according to UNICEF."

[renif]

a haunting legacy