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SIMONE ROCHA Spring/Summer RTW 2022 if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

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SIMONE ROCHA Spring/Summer RTW 2022 if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

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PETER DO Spring/Summer RTW 2022 if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

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LANVIN Spring/Summer RTW 2022 if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

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PHAN HUY Spring/Summer RTW 2025 - Part 1: Grief if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

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PHAN HUY Spring/Summer RTW 2025 - Part 2: Utopia if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

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We need to disband the TSA.

Like, i’m not saying no security at all, but we need to disband the current TSA and go back to like.  A quick x-ray of your bags and a metal detector.

When I was a kid flying alone, my parents knew I was smart and not easily freaked out by planes, so from age 8 when going to visit my grandma (an hour’s plane ride away), they wouldn’t even bother to set me up an an “unaccompanied minor”, they’d just let me fly.

Today that sounds absolutely NUTS, but you know why they could do it when I was 8?

When I was 8, they could walk me to the gate, put me on the gangway, and watch the plane take off, and know that my grandmother would be waiting at the gate on the other side to pick me up when I stepped off the plane.

Shortly after 9/11, my sister went to go visit my grandma.  She was probably 10 or so.  They wouldn’t let anyone go through the metal detectors anymore, you had to have a boarding pass, but if you went to the ticket counter and said, like “I’m picking up/dropping off an unaccompanied child/an elderly person/someone with disabilities” you could get a non-ticket pass to get through security and go to the gate.

Like, people forget sometimes, I think, that the full blown craziness of our current airport “security” (which is a joke and often does more harm than good - hurting or distressing innocent people and missing actual threats going through) took a while to ramp up.  If you told parents in the wake of 9/11 that they would not be able to go with their unaccompanied children through security to make sure they got on the plane safely, or be there to pick them up at the gate when they arrive, there would’ve been fucking RIOTS.  I remember my parents - VERY conservative and pro-Bush and pro-Patriot act and everything - being FRUSTRATED that they had to get a special pass to go with my sister through security if she was flying alone, because shouldn’t the fact that she’s a child and they’re her parent be enough to get them through?

Seriously, I know this is just one issue out of MANY that the current TSA has, but it’s just.  It blows my mind.

You used to be able to go have lunch in the terminal with a friend if they had a layover in your city.  You used to be able to romantically chase someone down to stop them boarding their plane when you realized you’d made a mistake turning down their offer to like.  Get together or whatever.  You used to be able to PUT YOUR GODDAMN CHILD ON A PLANE and be sure that on the other end someone would be right there to pick them up, or that they could just sit down right outside and wait if their pick-up person was running late.

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Hey. So, about that...

Nothing's changed. They will simply be more brazen, and have more open support rather than behind-closed-doors. You're about to find out who your friends are, so be ready for that. We're gonna see some shit, and things are going to be grim on both the international and national fronts. The only way out is through, folks.

Call your friends. Let them know you're thinking of them. That, if needed, your couch is free and your door is open. When you find the ones who are spouting vitriol, you have a choice: try to fix it, or just sever the connection. Either way is hard, either way will make your heart heavy. I'll be doing a mixture of both, with some extremely defensive calculus about who's worth the time.

If I had all the time, they'd all be worth it. But I don't.

Tomorrow, my door will still be open. My couch will still be free. There will still be a plate for you. I'm currently in the Jacksonville, FL suburbs but that might change, depending on what happens vis-a-vis Scott/DeSantis.

In the meantime, and I mean this seriously, please reach out if you need a shoulder, or plate, or bus fare. I don't know how much I'll have of any of the above, but until it's gone, it's given freely.

We're all we've got, kids. To paraphrase a much smarter man:

Welcome to America. It's hot in the summer and warm in the winter. It's scared and loud and crowded. On the outside, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of: "God damn it, you've *got* to be kind."

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Local Rusałka said sapphic rights. Have a good summer this year 💮 💮

> Art blog | Originals tag | Comic tag | Ko-fi 

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The Evil Owl Lady

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A while back I made this comic about how a lot of alt-right nong nongs saw trans folks, and how I saw myself. It was funny how many trans folks actually saw themselves in image that fit more in with the alt-right nong nongs, or at least saw that image as aspirational. While I have NEVER been even close to that cool. But I tell you that (and include that image) so that I can explain my first real attempt at making a paper doll. I decided to use those two outfits as the clothes for my Mary Sue version of myself, and draw some of the accoutrement that went with that image. THE DUCK WAS REVEALED. But I also thought it would be fun to include outfits of characters and things I loved. So you get my human rogue's leather armor and equipment (and little compy) from my D&D campaign. You get my urban fantasy wizard's character's clothes. You get the VR-041 Heavy Cyclone armor (Lancer/Yellow Dancer's cyclone, natch). You get Rogue's X-men outfit from Jim Lee in the 90's. You get post-apocalypse Velma and Scoob. You get creepy pyjamas. It was very fun. If you have the time, I highly recommend making paper dolls.

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Babylon 5 - Ivanova is God

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Humans have finally managed to land on Mars, only to find a locked safe buried in the Martian soil. The key is apparently on Earth, but no one knows where.

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Victorian ingenuity: a mahogany "reading station" crafted by Charles Hindley & Co. circa 1890. It features a double wing-back seat with an arm divider, each seat equipped with an adjustable reading stand, various compartments, drawers, and bookshelves.

Photos courtesy of 1stDibs

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New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

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I am visceral beauty that will welcome you with open arms until you disrespect me; then you'll be obliterated.

i am not a woman… x x

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I hate in the MCU or anything when the aliens or whatever are attacking and everyone’s just ‘oh yeah we be chilling just cowering over here’ as if seventy percent of humanity isn’t really angry all the time like catch these hands motherfucker I’ve bitten people for trying to steal my chips you think you can just steal my whole fucking planet YEET HERE COME MY TEETH film people be using responses to natural disasters but I promise if human sized things came to throw down humanity would be ready to fuck them up like yeah you got laser guns I got this dope ass stick I just found let’s go you ugly fuck