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[dragonbadgerbooks]

I internally lament that I don't interact with Booklr enough, even though that's on me. So now I'm curious. Is your current read:

If you are inclined, reblog this and tell us about your book! I may add additional polls because why not, but let's start with this for now!

[forgotten-daydreamer]

friendly reminder that you should definitely donate blood if you can!!!

[anaxibiaclark]

I've been watching reactionists on YouTube react to The Last of Us. Most of them have never played the video game so they're going in blind. Which makes it so much better especially when the cold opening occurs in episode 9. At first, some of them didn't realize the lady running in the woods was Anna, Ellie's mom. So, when she gives birth, after being bitten, and coos over her daughter, saying "you fucking tell them, Ellie," they freak. My favorite part about this, a handful of them could not stop talking about how much Ellie looks like Anna or vice versa. And I'm just sitting there laughing my ass off because Ashley Johnson, Ellie herself, birthed this Ellie.

I'm sharing this reaction response because I love that it's pretty much a big FUCK YOU to those who criticized Bella's performance as Ellie. When a group of people can look at Ashley and see Bella, then Craig and Neil did their job. They picked the best person to play an iconic role.

I look forward to seeing Bella Ramsey, as Ellie, leave Washington State a pile of rubble in her wake.

[sparklebootsandvans]

hey honey, if you miss your boy so bad that you have to pull out that sweatshirt and make us all cry, here‘s an idea:

instead of trying every single lime bike in london, get your skinny little ass on a plane and go see louis on tour <3

[diva2007]

ur just a sad song w nothing to say !!! about a lifelong wait for a hospital stay !!! and if u think that im wrong , this never meant nothing to ya !!!!!!! 

[revivify-inn]

Also voting is scary sometimes! GO WITH FRIENDS! Make a hang-out of it! CALL your shy friend who doesn't like to leave the house, call your friend who can't drive or is far from the polling place, make a silly day of it! Afterwords go buy a treat or play a game. It's not so scary or such a mental burden if you have a reward in mind.

No friends in your area? Ok! Play Tamagatchi! Get them on a Discord call in your headphones. That'll get you right up to the doors of the voting location. End the call. Vote. Leave the building. Call them again, and play games! Give yourself treats!

Voting is important! You want to have people ask next week, "You did vote, right?" And you have to go, "No :( I was putting off the inevitable because I don't know how to and it was intimidating."

Relatable. But for Fuck's Sake this is the Biggest Reason I have seen to Give Yourself a Little Treat. HELL, a BIG Treat.

Go. Vote.

Friendly reminder that almost half of the states in the U.S. have same day registration! This means you can go to the polling center for your location, register there, and cast your vote same day. So if you are over 18, are a U.S. citizen, and live in one of the states listed below, it is not too late to register and vote! I’m going to put notes for some of the states where voting is extra important due to the political climate of the state.

California

Colorado

Connecticut

D.C.

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Iowa - recent polls indicate state could flip from red to blue

Maine

Maryland

Michigan

Minnesota

Montana

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina - swing state! Could go red or blue

North Dakota - voter registration not required

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

Wisconsin - swing state! Could go red or blue

Wyoming

You can go here for more info on voter registration

I also have a huge list of voting resources here

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.

[itsscaredycat]

so ok yeah fine i watched gravity falls again and read the book of bill

[pangur-and-grim]

also I got a tattoo partially re-coloured today and they bandaged me in veterinary wrap like I'm a sick horse

[sorryiwasasleep]

Pulp musicals ghosts of antikythera. Just the whole damn thing. This has been me for a whole month.

you ever listen to a song 47 times in a row and every time you’re like wow what a good song. I’m gonna play it again.

[valtsv]

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[pookapufferfish]

[bixels]

As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.