#stupid fucking lawmakers and their stupid fucking laws

[leniisreallycool]

[archietism]

happy i would have started hormones today if they didn't get fucking banned in my state day to me :) im gonna go cry

[yallemagne]

Everyone talking about the new Dorian Gray taking the fuckin Sailor Moon approach to praying the gay away.

Let's like actually dip our queer little toes into this. If they keep Basil's attraction to Dorian, hey what the fuck? Hey fucking dumb cunt writing this stupid adaptation, let me tell you a little something: you are directly comparing being gay to being incestuous. And let me tell you another thing: a difference between being gay and being incestuous? Being gay is neutral and being incestuous is bad. Wanting to kiss people of your same sex? Perfectly neutral but has a history of being condemned as a sin worse than murder. Wanting a romantic/sexual relationship with your family members? Bad! Immoral, even! Inherently toxic and unhealthy! All "consensual" depictions of incest are blatant examples of childhood sexual grooming.

(if anyone wants to say "it's just a story it's not saying anything about gay people" literally in the book the characters are representative of gayness. Basil is a representation of gay men who pine but never indulge, Dorian is a representation of the boogeyman gay that the lawmakers use to justify imprisoning people for homosexuality. the whole fucking book is a commentary on shit in society, it is an OBNOXIOUS commentary. you cannot make an adaptation without taking your decisions into account.)

This is just like the fucking Dorian Gray musical that gender bent ONLY BASIL because they claimed they needed more female characters. The reason they claimed they needed more female characters? They wanted to show more facets of femininity than Sibyl Vane's femme fatale. WHAT? Yeah they called Sibyl a femme fatale. Bitch, the only person this femme is fatale against is her goddamn self. I think they were genuinely trying to squeeze in a Madonna vs Whore complex and assumed that since Sibyl is an actress she must be a whore. Literally just MAKE THE MAIN TRIO CHICKS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!

Anyhow anyway, bereft of anything to really spice up the Basil/Dorian thing as Forbidden, they aged up woman Basil to be Dorian's art teacher, using her authority over him to force him to model for her. Wuh. Uh. WUGHh. WHahglsh. "THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH WOMEN IN THE OG STORY QUICK MAKE BASIL A PEDOPHILE!!!"

We don't need a modern retelling of Dorian Gray, and modern retellings will aways be trash because the events of that book are moulded by the era is set in. But I suppose if someone has a gun to your head telling you to make a modern retelling, you do know that being gay is still illegal in a lot of places, yeah? So you don't... You don't need to change the story to the point that Basil, one of the only non malicious characters in the story, just flawed the regular human amount and condemned by unjust laws, now deserves to be in prison for a legitimate crime.

This is a ramble.

Netflix stop fucking adapting shit you fucking suck. Every single time you fucking suck. Is this gonna be worse than when they compared vampirism to AIDS and cast people suffering from AIDS in a very predatory light for the Dracula miniseries? Who knows? But I guess there's gonna be an influx of incest kink people in the Dorian Gray tag if that miniseries' popularity is anything to go off of.

[luck-and-larceny]

I've been asked why I can't just behave. Why can't I calm down? Why do I have to act so crazy?

Apart from being a hilarious question, it's a baffling one. Coming from self-important, power hungry, abusive, "nobility" and "guards" is one thing. But coming from the people they abuse? That's an entirely different thing.

Why can't you misbehave?

You should misbehave!

What has "calming down" done for you? It's made you easier to control.

It's only in their benefit to control you. Not yours. If only the wealthy and powerful "misbehave", they won't have to worry about you, with your filthy, "common" hands reaching out and taking your equal share.

They'll break you if you let them.

Don't let them!

You know you can break them right back, don't you?

Fuck with them. Every chance you get! Death by a thousand cuts. Annoy the absolute shit out of them. Maliciously comply with every ridiculous rule they make. And there will be ridiculous rules! The lawmakers don't live by their laws. And your employers don't do the work they "manage". They often have no idea how stupid and unreasonable their rules are. But you can show them!

Trick them. Inconvenience them. They are used to getting their way and they are used to getting it immediately. Apparently they've forgotten that patience is a virtue; remind them! Delay them. Delay them until they're close to imploding from indignation. But do be sure to smile politely the whole time. You don't want to be rude to these very important people, do you?

As for me?

I've got nothing to lose.

And that's probably the most powerful position to be in. I don't have money for them to steal. I don't have a home for them to kick me out of. I don't have a family for them to threaten. I don't have a job to lose.

And I have all the time those busy, impatient bees lack.

And I've learned some tricks from them!

I love to break things too!

Have you ever heard the sound of expensive glass breaking? If you haven't had the opportunity, I recommend it! No need to go buy your own. The "nobility" have plenty! They keep them as "heirlooms"; that's a fancy word for "expensive things we do not ever want poor people to have an opportunity to own." But, really, material goods are such a burden. They take up so much space that these sad people have to buy bigger and bigger houses to store them! Can you imagine?

So I break them! There's no sound in the world as beautiful as that sound… save maybe the sound of a wealthy abuser howling in rage and despair when they come home to see all their pretty glass sparking like glitter, broken, across their expensive floors.

I won't end this by saying that what I do is a selfless act meant only to help the poor and powerless.

First of all, we're not powerless!

Second, this is very selfish. This is for me. This is for fun! This is because I want to do it and because I like doing it. This is because I'll misbehave a thousand times before I cower before the power and privilege of some asshole with a house full of heirlooms even once!

So, misbehave!

Go crazy!

Break things!

They'll hate it.

And you'll love it.

Promise.

[stars-in-my-damn-eyes]

“constitutional monarchy” my fat dick i hope every one of those “royals” who are good for nothing but dodging taxes and stealing money and pretending it is still the middle FUCKING ages gets shot to death violently asap and every lawmaker who allowed those stupid antiprotest laws spontaneously combusts and i hope every monarchist and patriot dies of preventable disease. and i hope charles specifically takes a leaf out of charles i’s book and gets PUBLICALLY FUCKING EXECUTED

[queen-mihai]

I think they should all be making $25 an hour. $30 even.

The argument against giving poor people more money is so absolutely moronic that it's hard to even believe.

RICH PEOPLE END UP GETTING THE MONEY ANYWAY

Business owners are business owners. They own the business. The money comes to them. When you buy something from the business, the owner gets the money. And as a matter of fact, with more of us having more money, there's a good chance the rich people would have MORE money.

It probably wouldn't even get to them any slower. There's no freaking downside to giving people enough money to thrive.

"But what if they abuse.."

BITCH we've figured out ways around just about every problem mankind has ever faced. The only damn thing that would happen is people who used to not be able to afford treatment could finally afford it. Plus when people can afford to do shit other than sit around the house all day, drugs start to look pretty damn stale and stupid for the most part. As long as some lawmakers "trying to make a point" don't start fucking up the execution on purpose.

"But this has never been tri.."

It's been tried. It's been proven. Name it. Somebody somewhere has shown that good policies work popular policies are popular for a damn reason. Stop listening to whiney politicians who can't keep their job if people actually get out and vote. Those "leaders" don't have your best interest in mind. They don't have you in mind at all. They want to forget you exist, coast on their title, and keep collecting money until they can't anymore.

"But where's the money gonna come from?"

MOST of it is gonna come from capping corporate salaries. Hire a team of economists and accountants and have them come up with just how much any specific executive should ACTUALLY be earning. Then, have the lawmakers make that the law. Then, have the IRS, backed by our overly militarized police force, enforce that law. The rest comes through taxes on the wealthiest people and actually enforcing those taxes instead of just writing loopholes and calling them laws.

"Isn't that 'big government' though?"

Duuuuude you've gotta see. The amount of mental health crises that are tied to fears about money is too damn high. Giving people money will help so many things in so many different ways that you barely need all that much government.

Here's a story for you.

I once ran a group of over 600 people online.

I had like 2 active mods.

We barely ever had to boot anybody. DO YOU KNOW WHY?

Because when a group is run well, when it feels nice PEOPLE WANT TO KEEP IT NICE. You can hire fewer police because people will self police. You can hire fewer IRS agents once rich people get used to the new system because actually paying their taxes made them RICHER. You can give people jobs like inspector of food safety if anything and just like have them making sure everything is running OK. Probably help the businesses they inspect make more money too because safe food is good and good food makes people wanna buy it and people buying more food makes the business more money.

Maybe you wouldn't need so many agencies spying on people if people actually had money cuz then what are they plotting?

Half of the stuff we are used to these days is only a thing BECAUSE of the shitty system we're used to.

You want to shrink the government? Give people money enough to thrive and watch the need for huge expensive government services dwindle.

It's not big government. Because giving people money would help shrink the government.

It's not fiscal responsibility. Because the best ones to decide what people need to spend money on is the people themselves. Plus these systems pretty quickly pay for themselves.

It's not even "making sure the right people get money and the wrong people don't" because those "wrong people" who may be living in America? Yeah they're spending that money IN AMERICA. So guess who gets it? Americans. Rich Americans.

It's only EVER about suffering. The rich CAN'T STAND for anyone poorer than them to be happy. If they can't monopolize the very concept of "joy" and keep it for themselves, the world is falling apart. I'm not talking Michael Jordan rich. I'm talking jeff bezos rich. Jeff doesn't want people to be happy. If he did, he wouldn't have his workers peeing in bottles.

No. jeff Wants people working for him to suffer because if he creates a hole in them, then the hole he has in himself might not feel as big.

Same with musk

Same with zuck

Same with any of these idiots who can't think of anything better to do with their life than to keep collecting money.

My answer to somebody who doesn't want a barista making $15-20-30 per hour?

Stop drinking the kool-aid. musk ain't about to make you rich. He's lying to you. So are the rest of the billionaires

[notsoevilmagistrate]

A lot of people when they think America are also gonna think guns, which is fair, or red white and blue like France, Russia, and England don’t exist or something, being rude, patriotism: being ride or die for your country, licking its boots, being its bitch. But I reject all those things and I’d rather say the most American thing to ever do is to criticize the government.

Our very roots are breaking away as colonies because we criticized the government that hard, we made our own country. That’s why the constitution has so many things protecting us like the first amendment that allows us to group up and petition, to speak out. So I really think it’s crazy some people tell us to keep our mouths shut or accept things, like I once saw a guy at Wawa wearing some shirt like “America, love it or leave it” with a big fat American flag in the middle. And my first thought was like “no??? change it,” and I blurted it out loud and I admit I probably looked crazy. And that’s the thing about us and many politics, it’s that the climate of our country and its laws are constantly changing. To accept things and let other people be the lawmakers to your law abiding citizen is stupid. There’s so many of us and so many states that there’s no way we’ll all have the same opinion, and I’ve noticed that a lot of people who tell others not to say anything just want to be the only ones doing change, because it’s a lot harder for them if there’s people opposing their control every step of the way.

If we stay around and do nothing, the next thing you know it’s that you’re waking up to a world full of policies you don’t agree with, screaming like it’s a nightmare wondering what the fuck is going on, and for a lot of us that are afab that’s already our reality. Sometimes we gotta realize we’re the majority, us down here, and if I can’t vote then I’m at least gonna mope about it. It’s my god given right, and it’s not gonna seem all like a big deal until we have another “red scare” that repeats itself and those rights become infringed in fear of government spies and, essentially, ourselves(a lot of people mistake being against certain choices as being against the country, and it’s always been a big debate about where to draw the line, the spoken and written word versus active action, but that’s kinda a thing I don’t wanna blabber about right now).

So that’s why I feel some of the teens and young adults aghast about certain policies and decisions stating their discontentment out loud with full written statements, memes, coping with shipping Biden and Trump(I see that shit like our new take on political cartoons to shit on presidents and GOD do I love it), are some of the most American people ever in spirit. And just because they don’t use terminology like politicians to get their opinions across, or can’t vote yet, doesn’t mean their opinion is void because they live here just like you and me, and don’t want to destroy the country: they want to better it.

[celestialdetected]

❛  don't be afraid. i'm a friend.  ❜ (from caleb)

Rexxentrum had never been a safe city. But now...

Well, the war with the dynasty had stopped, but it was like once people realized that Rexxentrum could be breached a floodgate had opened.

Arawn was mostly concerned about the cult activity. Cults had always been present in Rexxentrum, a big city in a country with strict religious laws meant that a lot of people had their beliefs pushed to the fringes of society. Hell, from a lawmaker's point of view Arawn was a member of a cult, having clung to his faith in the Everlight. But they had ramped up in recent years after the whole Angel of Irons fiasco. And this...this felt different, this felt like a held breath, like standing at a cliff's edge and preparing to jump.

Arawn didn't like it. And he didn't like that his current investigation into one of the cults had ended in him tearing down the streets of Rexxentrum, firing blasts of magic behind him, trying desperately to heal himself from the cultist's stupid, fucking, poisoned blades.

He had a blade in hand and was holding it to the throat of whoever had just spoken before he'd had a chance to think about what he was doing. A red-haired man who looked more like a scholar than a cultist, but one never could be quite sure.

"Yeah?" And if his words were sharp, bitter things, well, he'd had a rough fucking day."Prove it then."

@astravates

[dankusner]

‘THE QUEEN VS. TEXAS’ REVISITS THE BATTLE OVER LONE STAR DRAG

Raemonn James, better known as Hermajestie the Hung, teamed up with a filmmaker to tell a moving story of activism and queer culture.

When the drag queen known as Hermajestie the Hung reached her breaking point, she transformed into the Joker, becoming the scourge of patriarchy, homophobic lawmakers, and anti-transgender bigots everywhere.

“She’s that queen that’s just had enough,” Hermajestie told the Texas Observer.

In reality, The Queen vs. Texas—a new short film recently screened at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival in Austin— isn’t exactly a supervillain origin story, but it does depict the transformation Raemonn James, better known as “Hermajestie,” undergoes as she applies her drag makeup to become a queered-up version of that mischievous comic book character.

She’s dressed up for a performance of Vanguard, the drag troupe she led from 2020 until she left the state in 2023, in the wake of a flood of anti-LGBTQ+ laws passed by the Texas Legislature.

In a way, the 15-minute film also depicts James’ Joker-like political transformation, as the former Texas resident realizes how unbearable and unlivable the cultural landscape has become for her, her child, and her partner.

“The seriousness of not taking anything seriously that is so iconic about the Joker character, that energy resonates with me,” James told us. “Why are we taking these bozos seriously? These politicians, [these] criminals … Why are we taking them seriously? Why are we playing their games? … The character seems to have a very good understanding that the real joke is reality.”

The Queen vs. Texas had its origins when codirector Emil Lozada, who most often creates short films about the environment, became a fan of the weekly drag performances.

One night, he and his wife brought along his father and sister, visiting from his birthplace in England.

“Rae actually picked on us because we were sitting up front,” Lozada recalled with a laugh. “She was drilling us with questions, but I think we passed the test!”

That good-natured heckling helped convince him that there was something special about James which he wanted to capture in a documentary.

In all, he would spend about five months following James in 2023, documenting several drag performances and following her to three protests against anti-drag bills at the Lege.

At one point, James wears a jacket emblazoned with the words “Fuck Fascism” as she chants in the Capitol and marches through the streets of downtown Austin.

“Violence runs our society and fear of violence, fear of being violated, fear of being stripped away from your family and thrown into forced labor (jail or prison)—it is what it is,” she said. “Just because it’s become normal to us doesn’t mean that we should not be outraged.”

We’re also given an intimate glimpse into the home life James shares with her partner and their child—the family that James ultimately moved out of Texas in order to protect, even though it meant the end of the Vanguard drag troupe (other drag queens now manage a weekly performance night instead).

“Whenever legislators are writing laws about how they think drag queens should not be around children, it completely ignores the very real fact that some drag queens have children,” James said. “It showcases how stupid they are but also, I guess it showcases how little they know. People who are trying to ban drag shows have never been to a drag show.”

During our interview, Lozada and James both agreed it took months of building trust before she’d allow him to film these very personal scenes of their day-to-day life, which show heartwarming but prosaic scenes of the family relaxing together on a playground, or James’ child playing backstage.

“Just because you’re a very handsome white man with a sexy accent and a camera doesn’t mean that I’m just gonna let you in my bedroom,” James quipped. “He definitely had to earn his way.”

After SXSW, Lozada plans to circulate the film to other festivals in the hopes of ultimately finding a home for it on a streaming service.

In an email sent after we spoke, Lozada told me he hopes the film inspires people to support nonprofits that fight against anti-LGBTQ+ laws but also to support their local drag shows too.

“Having spent time behind the scenes and witnessed the immense amount of effort poured into each performance, my love and appreciation for this art form has greatly deepened,” Lozada wrote. “Performance art serves as a pivotal medium for conveying messages of love, justice, and activism, with these performers playing a crucial role in shaping a world where everyone is celebrated for being their authentic selves.”

James added, “In all of my artistic endeavors I aim to inform, empower, and emancipate. This 15-minute documentary short film presents the passions, problems, and power of a local queer community determined to make every space a safe space to exist freely.”

[probably-an-opossum]

Part of the reason that the NRA can say that all gun legislation is a bad thing is because the existing gun law is stupid as shit. FTA rules say that adding an arm brace to a pistol or rifle (something that makes using a gun possible for certain disabled people) makes that weapon somehow 'more deadly' (a support brace cannot change the ballistic attributes of a firearm) and in a single day made owning such 'modified firearms' a felony. This rule change, instituted by the FTA made about 1/4 of all gun owners in the US felons, instantly. And stuff like this does get enforced, but arbitrarily (read: used on poc, the poor, the disabled). Felons can't be in the same home as a firearm, especially if they are firearm related felonies so, one stupid rule change can remove a families ability to eat for half a year.

These aren't even gun laws. Laws have to be legislated by the government. These are rule changes instituted by the FTA. Alot of them are incredibly arbitrary (like the ban on internally suppressed guns, but no ban on subsonic ammo or gun suppressors. Bans on certain kinds of round like armor pen, but not dragons breath. No bans on calibers with inherently functional armor pen, like. 50 bmg. Bans on weapon category changes, such that if you take a pistol that fires 12 Guage rounds and put a stock on it, it becomes a shotgun and you have now committed 3 felonies (illegal modification of a firearms category, owning a shotgun below the legal minimum size, owning a shotgun below the minimum barrel size) etc). The FTA is part of the executive branch. They shouldn't be able to change rules like this, but they do, and every time they do, it hurts poc, poor, and disabled Americans.

When real legislation passes that is made by lawmakers it's generally a little better but not like, a lot. The California assault weapons ban caught a lot of flack for banning anything with a magazine larger than 10 rounds, anything that has a pistol grip, and anything with the capacity of having a flash hider/suppressor. That catches nearly every gun manufactured after world War 2, in one way or another. It didn't actually ban assault weapons because that term is meaningless. It didn't slow gun violence, it didn't stop school shootings, because simply limiting the type of guns available to people (legally acquiring firearms) doesn't limit those things. Bad actors are just gonna hop state lines, buy their gun and ammo in Nevada or wherever, and do what their gonna do regardless. A mugger who is gonna pull a gun on you doesn't care if his gun has a 10 round mag as opposed to a 12 round. 1 bullet is enough for him to get what he wants. An abusive husband doesn't even need bullets for the threat of lethal force to carry substantial weight. The only people hurt by the assault weapon bans were law abiding citizens.

Could gun control laws actually benefit the US? Potentially, if they are written by people who know what they are doing. But the venn diagram of people who know fuck all about guns and lawmakers is nearly 2 separate circles.

What would actually help Americans, lowering gun crimes? Free Healthcare including mental and dental. Free housing. Abused family shelters (including men's shelters). A higher minimum wage. Universal basic income. Civil infrastructure that isn't actively hostile to life like fucking functional Streetlights.

like you really aren't allowed to say shit about southerners until you have firsthand seen how people live deep in the appalachian hollers because it is fucking tragic. the poverty and the food desert and the lack of resources in general is so bad. the drugs. yall dont understand

[generallyunskilled]

I wanna know what fucking psycho lawmaker made the primaries closed elections in New York. It’s such fucking bullshit. For the unaware, a closed primary means you can only vote in the primary of whatever party you registered with. Which is fucking nuts because it basically forces you to be loyal to a party, which is like the lamest shit on the planet, and basically forces a partisan divide amongst voters.

Also, say you didn’t register with a party. Because you don’t believe you should be beholden to those things. Well guess fucking what? You CAN’T vote in any primaries held in NY. Which is honestly the most fucked up thing about the whole law. Like that’s so wrong. I can’t participate in the PROCESS OF DEMOCRACY because I won’t tell the government which set of politicians I’m besties with? (None of them, which is why I didn’t register with a party to begin with, btw). Anything that says “uhhh you can’t vote because X” is like automatically stupid. I fucking LIVE here. I should be able to pick who’s on the ballot, not just vote in the end in someone else’s pick.

[automatismoateo]

I'm a trans teenage boy and religious lawmakers fucking terrify me via /r/atheism

I'm a trans teenage boy and religious lawmakers fucking terrify me

I just want to be able to transition. I'm tired of presenting as a girl, because I'm not a fucking girl. I'm so tired of seeing hyper-religious maniacs advocate for my parents to get prosecuted or even taken away from me for supporting me. I don't give a shit if "God made me a girl", he made a fucking mistake. I'm not meant to be in a girl's body.

I'm terrified that when I do get to transition I'll have to stop because of some new stupid law or that I'll be taken away from my parents because apparently supporting my transition is "child abuse". Teenagers shouldn't have to be worried about this. Please just let me exist in peace.

Sorry for the messy rant and the cussing, I have a lot of feelings about this topic. It's just so frustrating to see my rights constantly debated.

Submitted February 21, 2023 at 06:06AM by justyourshytransguy (From Reddit https://ift.tt/Z04re9I)

[faendan]

I hate this trope. "If YoU kIlL mE, yOu'lL bE aS bAd As I aM!"

There are only two logical responses to this argument, depending on the character in question. To demonstrate:

Case 1:

Jan wiped blood from his mouth. The moment's respite gave him the space he needed to draw his gun, cock it, and level it at Shena's head. "Last words?"

"You can't kill me." Shena spoke with a quick desperation, hand hovering at her belt. Jan blinked.

"What? I have a gun aimed straight at your forehead. What's stopping me?"

Shena licked her lips. "If you kill me, you'll be just as bad as me. You won't have the moral high ground you tout so much. Hell, if you kill me, you should be killed by logical process!"

Jan blinked again. "Are you fucking deranged?! You killed four children and their parents today! Your body count is numbered in the hundreds, and your explicit reasons for these unconscionable murders are as follows: 'I needed to let off some steam, and They were asking for it --- they should know not to walk around the city at night.' Hell, I killed three people trying to get to you; why would I stop now?!"

Case 2:

Jan wiped blood from his mouth. The moment's respite gave him the space he needed to draw his gun, cock it, and level it at Shena's head. "Last words?"

"You can't kill me." Shena spoke with a quick desperation, hand hovering at her belt. Jan blinked.

"What? I have a gun aimed straight at your forehead. What's stopping me?"

Shena licked her lips. "If you kill me, you'll be just as bad as me. You won't have the moral high ground you tout so much. Hell, if you kill me, you should be killed by logical process!"

Jan blinked again. "If I kill you, I'll be just as bad as you?"

Shena grinned a nervous grin. "Yes."

Jan shrugged. "Okay."

He pulled the trigger.

The idea of it is ridiculous. I don't know if it was born from the equation of mercy to justice, or the equation of the law and justice, but both are flawed.

Mercy is, in and of itself, a withholding of justice. It is the decision to refrain from meting out justice in favour of a second chance or something similar. The law's purpose in an idealistic world where the lawmakers stand to gain nothing by skewing it, is to make a set of rules that gets as close as possible to consistent justice. Life is too complicated for any law system to properly anticipate every case, but the law's purpose on paper is to get as close an approximation of justice as generally possible. Either way, the argument is stupid, and bugs me.

“if you kill me, you’ll be just as bad as me.” The villain says, not knowing that the “hero” is so, so much worse than them.

[dbnightingale24]

This country is truly so fucking frustrating! What the fuck else needs to happen??? They were children. CHILDREN! These assholes are more worried about controlling women than making stricter gun laws, and this is what happens! I’m so fucking tired of pointless shootings! If they’re so fucking pro-life they would’ve done something by now! This needs to STOP! Lawmakers need to do their fucking jobs and protect this country!! I’m so fucking sick and tired of this shit! I’m tired of not feeling safe, I’m tired of constantly worrying about my friends and family, and I’m tired of worrying that when my friends and family members send their kids to school, they may not come home! Fucking fix this shit or get your ass out of office & let someone in who will actually do something to help this stupid, backwards ass country!!

[endreal]

How do you feel about the possibility of going permanently daylight savings next year?

ABSOLUTELY fucking incensed. Like don't get me wrong, I am a huge proponent of abolishing the fiasco that is the semi-annual time change, but as the number of medical, scientific, and educational organizations that endorse permanent standard time (including SO MANY national and state level sleep medicine associations and safety associations!) versus the number of...I dunno, business associations?... that endorse permanent DST seems absolutely telling.

PLUS in an easily overlooked moment in American history (and this came up in a conversation with a friend yesterday!) the US has already attempted permanent DST and it crashed and burned most dramatically. As a response to the 1973 energy crisis, Richard Nixon signed the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act into law which enacted permanent DST (I assume under the rationale that it would reduce energy costs if there was more sunlight in the evening) on a trial basis. It was meant to run from Jan 1974 to Apr 1975 but caused so many problems and was so unpopular that lawmakers axed it in October, a full 6 months before it was meant to end.

And, like, let's face it - across the geographical majority of the US during the warm months the difference between "is last light at 9.30pm or 10.30pm?" is not materially significant to the lifestyles of most people. But in the middle of winter, the difference between "is sunrise at 7.30am or 8.30am" can mean everything, especially to morning commuters and students.

In short, if it does get implemented it's the stupidest solution to solve an even stupider problem

~Send me anons and asks for TMI Tuesday fun and prophet!~

[apolloloki97]

“The Angry Guy” Mickey Milkovich x Ian Gallagher

IMAGE CREDIT: SHOWTIME

Summary: The one where Trevor witnesses an angry Mickey after someone tries to hurt one of his family members. However, Trevor doesn't know right away that he's seeing his ex's new husband.

Word Count: 1460

Warning: Swearing

Song I Wrote To: “Chosen One” by Valley of Wolves

Note: Summary kind of sucks, but we'll go with it. This is my first time writing Shameless! I'll need a few to get my groove with it, but God I love GALLAVICH.

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Trevor was sad to be out of Washington D.C., but being back to walking around the streets of the South Side felt as if he had never left.

After spending time on Capitol Hill trying to convince lawmakers to propose new bills to protect LGBTQ youth, he was exhausted. However, there was something about being back in Chicago that put his mind at ease. The bustling sounds of people, the harsh clanking of the L, and even the blaring sirens that never seemed to stop made it...home.

Then there were the people. He had missed his kids the most and even with daily phone calls and texts, it wasn’t enough. He had to get back to them and continue his work. As Trevor headed towards the Youth Center, he passed by a commotion on the corner. A cop car was half on the sidewalk as a suspect was being pinned down while a shorter man was yelling obscenities at him.

“You fuckin’ go near him again, I ain’t gonna be callin’ the fuckin’ cops, asshole!” the short, dark-haired man was yelling as a tall cop with glasses hauled a handcuffed man into the back of the squad vehicle.

“Fuck you!” the bleeding man yelled as the cop slammed the door shut behind him. The other man simply flipped him off with a smirk.

“Did you need to beat him over the head with a beer bottle?” a familiar voice said, drawing Trevor’s attention.

“Look, I didn’t fuckin’ kill the guy, Gallagher,” the dark-haired man said with a shrug. Another cop, one Trevor instantly recognized as Carl Gallagher came into view from the shop behind the altercation. He was looking at the man in front of him with an exasperated look on his face.

Trevor was surprised to see Carl with a badge. From everything Ian had told him about his younger brother, Trevor figured Carl would be the one in handcuffs rather than doing the arresting. “Gallagher!” the other cop yelled, “you coming or what?”

“Nah, man, I already called Rollins for a ride, gotta take this one’s statement,” Carl said with a point at the fuming man beside him. The other cop nodded and then got behind the wheel to take their prisoner away. Carl then turned back to the dark-haired man.

“You’re on parole, idiot,” Carl said.

“Hence the beer bottle, moron,” angry guy said, as Trevor had come to call him in the short moment of observation.

“Who the fuck says ‘hence’?” Carl asked.

“Me, bitch.”

“Whatever, just don’t do anything else stupid,” Carl continued. “I don’t want to have to arrest you.”

“The fuck did I do?!” angry guy exclaimed. “He was the one who swung first! Motherfucker nearly took Liam’s head off!” Trevor jolted at the sound of the youngest Gallagher sibling’s name. Someone had tried to hurt him and angry guy was clearly upset about it. Carl, however, didn’t seem to be that concerned.

“He ducked,” Carl reminded angry guy.

“You’re a real fuckin’ asshole sometimes,” angry guy said.

“Ah, I love you, too,” Carl said with a roll of his eyes.

“Whatever, I’m goin’ home. Try not to corrupt the fuckin’ city, will ya?”

“You gotta go meet Ian at the hospital!” Carl called as angry guy began walking down the sidewalk towards Trevor. “Debbie texted me, they’re gonna be there a bit longer.”

“I thought you said he was fuckin’ fine!” angry guy said.

“Liam hit his head when he fell,” Carl said.

“Fuck! Alright, I’m goin’. See you at home?”

“Yeah man,” Carl said. “Oh, and Mick!” Angry guy, or rather, Mick, turned one more time and stared at Carl expectantly. It was then that Trevor finally realized who ��Mick’ was and why he seemed familiar.

Mick. Mickey. Mickey Milkovich.

Ian’s ex.

When Ian and Trevor had heard the news that Mickey had escaped prison, Trevor had watched as Ian’s world was pulled out from under his feet. Trevor had asked around after that, learning as much about the infamous Mickey as he possibly could. Lip was the one who gave him the best answer. Apparently, the two had known each other since Ian was fifteen and had been together on and off. From the way the eldest Gallagher brother explained, Trevor didn’t think they had the healthiest relationship.

However, whenever he heard things from Debbie or even on the off chance, Frank, Trevor realized that Mickey Milkovich was Ian’s, first epic love. That was part of the reason that Trevor hadn’t been surprised when Ian had run off to get him to Mexico to avoid prison. However, considering Mickey was standing in front of him and Carl was yelling about parole, Trevor figured that Milkovich had somehow worked the system and was a free man. Also, he was clearly back in Ian’s life.

“What!” Mickey yelled, answering Carl.

“Ian needs you to pick up Franny on the way,” said Carl.

“Why is nobody just texting me instead of you?” Mickey asked.

“Because you used your phone to smash that asshole’s face the first time, remember?” Carl said and Mickey paused before nodding.

“Right, got it,” Mickey said. “Well, why can’t Ian have you pick up Little Red?”

“I gotta work!” Carl said as another squad car pulled up, Rollins, Trevor figured.

“You’re his brother!” Mickey argued.

“And you’re his husband, start acting like it!” Carl shot back as he got in the car and flipped Mickey off as he sped off toward the station. Trevor was staring at Mickey in shock then.

Husband.

Mickey Milkovich married Ian Gallagher.

“The fuck you gawkin’ at,” Mickey suddenly said, breaking Trevor out of his trance. Trevor hadn’t realized he had been staring.

“Nothin’, man,” Trevor said. Mickey looked at him for a second before rolling his eyes and walking the other way. Trevor watched after Milkovich for a second before hastily pulling out his phone. He had unfriended all of the Gallaghers after Ian and he broke up, but he knew Debbie’s social media were still public.

It didn’t take him long to find what he was looking for. Halfway down the feed on her Instagram was a photo of Ian and Mickey in black and white tuxes, holding hands, as rice was thrown into the air. Ian had the biggest smile Trevor had ever seen on his face. Mickey, who was not only sporting a black eye, but a grin of his own, was looking into the camera Debbie held, but Ian’s gaze was somewhere else. Ian Gallagher was staring at his new husband as if Mickey hung the stars and Trevor felt a pang in his heart because he knew that Ian had never looked at him like that. Two matching wedding bands were on their fingers as they walked towards the car at the end of the walkway filled with friends and family.

Trevor continued to scroll after the wedding photos to see even more photos of Mickey Milkovich around the Gallagher family. There was a photo of Mickey spraying Franny with the hose as she tried to hide behind her Uncle Carl. Another was Mickey holding a small baby as Lip looked on with adoration for the infant. The caption read: Uncle Mickey holding Baby Fred for the first time. Already giving Lip fatherly advice.

More and more, there were photos of the ex-con surrounded by his in-laws. However, there also seemed to be an overwhelming amount of photos taken of him and Ian before and after the wedding. It seemed that Ian and Mickey were Debbie’s favourite subjects to take photos of. There were ones of them laying together on the couch during family movie night, a few taken at the traditional South Side bonfires, and even one of the newlyweds each holding one of Kev and V’s twin girls. Gemma and Amy both beaming up at their newly-married uncles.

There was one photo, however, that Trevor couldn’t stop looking at. It wasn’t anything out of the normal for social media, but for Mickey Milkovich it was historic. The photo was of Ian, Mickey, Debbie, and a girl that Trevor didn’t know. Debbie was kissing the girl in her arms while Ian had his arms around Mickey as the latter kissed him firmly. In the background, a large pride flag flew from the parade that was going on behind them.

“Mickey Milkovich at a Pride parade,” Trevor muttered as he stared at the photo in awe. With a smile, Trevor looked back at a retreating Milkovich, now Milkovich-Gallagher, and shook his head in amusement at the thought of Mickey being protective of Liam, joking with Carl, and kissing his husband at Pride.  “Damn Gallagher,” Trevor said with a sigh, “guess he wasn't that nuts after all.”