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date-a-jew-suggestions: prismatic-bell: date-a-jew-suggestions: If you would report an...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:55:55 -0500

prismatic-bell:

date-a-jew-suggestions:

If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you

A note:

I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:

Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.

Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.

And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.

Very good very important addition

sonocomics: sonocomics: tfw you miss out on like 14,000 Bells...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:43:04 -0500

sonocomics:

sonocomics:

tfw you miss out on like 14,000 Bells because a villager wanted to talk about food or somethin

Click HERE to check out other assorted comics, including more Animal Crossing: New Leaf!

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The biggest tragedy in all of Animal Crossing :’(

niggazinmoscow: it’s a big win

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:11:43 -0500

niggazinmoscow:

it’s a big win

thatsthat24:When You Find the One 📒

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:28:46 -0500

thatsthat24:

When You Find the One 📒

foxflightstudios: THE ORIENTATION AND GENDER ARMORY ENAMEL PIN...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:17:54 -0500

foxflightstudios:

THE ORIENTATION AND GENDER ARMORY ENAMEL PIN KICKSTARTER IS NOW LIVE! CLICK HERE TO PLEDGE!

Help me fund all of The Armory and celebrate the end of pride month right!

Thanks so much for your support!

'ICE Is Everywhere': Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:24:02 -0500

'ICE Is Everywhere': Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis:

libraryjournal:

The result of their week of frantic research is Torn Apart / Separados, an interactive web site that visualizes the vast apparatus of immigration enforcement in the US, and broadly maps the shelters where children can be housed. The name is meant to evoke not only the families who have been separated, but the way in which this sundering rips the social fabric of our country.

“It shows that ICE is everywhere,” Gil says. “We ourselves were shocked even though we study this. A lot of America thinks this phenomenon is happening in this limited geographical space along the border. This map is telling a different story: The border is everywhere.”

whointhehell: whointhehell: so today was my first day back at camp and this years basically my...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:37:18 -0500

whointhehell:

whointhehell:

so today was my first day back at camp and this years basically my first year where im like being a full on girl at camp and so like i was with my group today which is mostly kids whove known me for like 3 years at this point and one kid who knows me less well and like this kids 9 right so he asks me if im a boy or a girl like right off the bat cuz well, hes 9. I tell him im a girl and one of the other kids is like What!? no youre not. and im like i sure am. Another kid asks “then why were you a boy last year?” im like getting ready to figure out how the hell im gonna explain this to a kid in like 4 seconds. and then another kid asks “omg was you pretending to be a boy just an elaborate joke you and the other counselors were playing on us?!??” i just kinda stand there and im like………………………… yes. they all get cracked up because they think me pretending to be a boy was like, the funniest, most long term prank that has ever been committed to them and like i gotta say, i wholeheartedly agree that being amab is just a fucking joke.

another kid was like “but wait? you had a girlfriend last year?” as if she thinks shes just seen through me by asking that simple question and i just say “sometimes girls have girlfriends” and she just nods like i just said the wisest fucking thing anyone has ever fucking said

Me: Oh boy, I just got the Wayfaring Strangers zine, all about Stanley and Stanford Pines and their...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:34:34 -0500

Me: Oh boy, I just got the Wayfaring Strangers zine, all about Stanley and Stanford Pines and their travels through the world(s)! I can’t wait to geek out about–

Me: Wait. Jheselbraum’s in this.

Me: Twice.

Me: Anyways I love this Jheselbraum fanzine don’t you guys just love Jheselbraum? Jheselbraum’s great I’m so glad she was in this fanzine twice isn’t that neat! Twice!

soldatka:Some of y'all don’t want fandom to be fun at all you want it to be like some kind of gd AP...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:29:58 -0500

soldatka:

Some of y'all don’t want fandom to be fun at all you want it to be like some kind of gd AP Lit class where all we do is have pointed debates over the most Correct interpretation of media like NO get fucked I will project onto my favorite character and write whatever shitty nonsense fic for whatever illogical pairing I want die mad about it

straightouttacybertron: straightouttacybertron: Help Me Leave A Horrible, Terrifying Home Hey as...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:24:26 -0500

straightouttacybertron:

straightouttacybertron:

Help Me Leave A Horrible, Terrifying Home
Hey as y'all know I’ve been living in a bad home, with two roommates who treat me Iike shit and one who physically threatens me. The home is infested with roaches and absolutely disgusting, not to mention a health hazard. I finally found a new place to live and it’s a good one but there’s a catch.
I have to move in by the 1st of July (Sunday) and I won’t get paid till the Tuesday after that (I talked to my boss and she agreed to pay me early but it still has to be on a Tuesday). If I can’t move in and pay the landlord on that Sunday I don’t get the place which means I’ll be homeless.
I’m have $450 right now and I need $675 to move in. So I only need $225! However I also have to pay a moving company to move my stuff and that could be anywhere from $150-$200. So I really need all the help I can get! Even $5!
If anyone wants to commission me, please send me a message! If anyone is willing to donate, my PayPal is: paypal.me/amalily
I know y'all have helped me out so much already and it means the world. Life keeps kicking me in the gut but I keep getting back up. Thank you all for the support, I hope I can make it through this too.
-Lily

And just so nobody thinks I’m full of shit, this is what I have in my account.

It might seem like a lot but it’s not. I’ll use another $100 this week to get to work which I forgot to put in my earlier post.
I need $675 to move in and get out of this place.

gay-physicist: Me: okay, I’m totally gonna go to bed early tonight Me, reading fanfics at 3 AM:

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 02:52:39 -0500

gay-physicist:

Me: okay, I’m totally gonna go to bed early tonight
Me, reading fanfics at 3 AM:

allthingslinguistic: kurisquare: This is part of my webcomic...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:15:42 -0500

allthingslinguistic:

kurisquare:

This is part of my webcomic Postcards in Braille, which you can read on ComicFury or Tapastic. Updates on Mondays!

This comic/guide works well enough on its own, so I thought it’d be nice to post it here as well :D Braille is really cool and you don’t need to be blind or visually impaired to learn it - and spreading the use of Braille can help us build a more inclusive society! everyone wins!

Bonus fun fact: Braille is originally based on Night writing (or sonography), a tactile reading/writing system created for soldiers to communicate silently at night. Louis Braille adapted it into easier to read cells, creating the Braille system. Good to know it evolved into something so useful!

I’m guessing that W being an exception in Braille may have been because Louis Braille was French, and French doesn’t really use the W except in loanwords (for example, French pangrams virtually always contain a loanword to get the W in).

daffydithcourthe: gayhex: gayhex: we talk a lot about how cis lesbians dont wanna date trans...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:47:34 -0500

daffydithcourthe:

gayhex:

gayhex:

we talk a lot about how cis lesbians dont wanna date trans girls but why dont we unpack how yall cis gays wouldnt even be caught in a mile radius near a trans dude

lets revisit this ladies

yes, let’s talk about this because i’m sick of cis gay dudes asking my boyfriend if he minds or say he’s only okay with it cause he’s bi. i’m sick of them saying shit like “i’d never be able to do that to myself” and “even if he’s a boy he has, you know…girl parts…” or whatever. not to mention the amount of gay dudes who hit on me when i was passing only to find out i’m trans and laugh it off like they were joking or, worse, react with utter disgust. cis gays are just as capable of being transphobic as cis lesbians and the fact that people are only calling out women is kind of telling. a lot of gay men won’t even entertain the possibility of dating a trans man and their “reasons” are just excuses wrapped up in transphobia and, at times, misogyny. the community gives cis gay men a lot of free passes for their bigotry and i’m sick of it. we should really talk about this.

Photo

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:40:45 -0500

friendraichu: black aro/ace people are good and cool.

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:18:11 -0500

friendraichu:

black aro/ace people are good and cool.

queensryche: thunderboltsortofapenny: lilacbreastedroller: BIG...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:17:39 -0500

queensryche:

thunderboltsortofapenny:

lilacbreastedroller:

BIG DISCLAIMER: i was 9 when 9/11 happened, so this might be more about my own crystalizing tastes than anything else. i think it’s a pretty darn good theory tho and other people have validated it.

BIGGER DISCLAIMER: i am not saying that country music prior to 9/11 was free from nationalist, racist, misogynist undertones - i just think that these themes became more the norm!

MY HOT TAKE:

with very few exceptions, including goodbye earl, before he cheats, and daddy Iessons (side note - all women!) 9/11 ruined country music. around 2014 onward we’ve got margo price, sturgill simpson, jason isbell etc., who are making country music great again (wink), but those folks are mostly considered “alternative” country. the mainstream country music for well over a decade now is a glut of trash performative patriotic / working-class-but-not-really lab-crafted budweiser-sponsored nonsense that has managed to sound rebellious (or has convinced its fans that it sounds rebellious) without ever actually questioning any power structure. so much so that artists who ACTUALLY criticized the government were literally blacklisted for nearly a decade (the dixie chicks)

pre-9/11 country music, though not perfect or ideologically pure by any stretch, did not have the raging american flag painted truck boner that comes to mind for a lot of people who say “i like everything except rap and country”

SPECIFICALLY, toby keith’s “courtesy of the red, white, and blue (the angry american)” (2002) literally destroyed country music. it was a direct answer to the 9/11 attacks and war song in support of the invasion of afghanistan. the lyrics read like a disjointed feverish email chain letter forwarded from your great uncle sprinkled with glittering american flag gifs and heavily saturated pictures of bald eagles. the entire song is lifted from an estimated 248 peeling bumper stickers collected from rusted trucks on cinder blocks in overgrown yards, cut up and arranged to fit a catchy, formulaic tune that is almost certainly the background music playing in george w. bush’s head at all times.

“we’ll put a boot in your ass, it’s the american way
and uncle sam put your name at the top of his list
and the statue of liberty started shakin’ her fist
and the eagle will fly, and it’s gonna be hell, when you hear mother freedom start a'ringin’ her bell”

country music and the new country musicians that toby keith paved the way for became so pro establishment and so unquestioningly nationalistic that, again, the dixie chicks who went against this grain were blacklisted by the industry and received death threats from country music fans. hell, there are folks who STILL froth at the mouth at the mere mention of the dixie chicks.

9/11 killed outlaw country - how can you sing the praises of law breakers when your main circuit consists of singing to troops? there are some great classic country songs critiquing the police state - especially from johnny cash and merle haggard - now country music artists hold fundraisers for FOPs. new country music is basically in-law country music.

you don’t have to write a pro-bush patriotic anthem to be part of this post-9/11 ruination. playing meaningless songs about living in the heart of (read: white) america, eschewing the city (read: not white), and cracking open a cold one with the boys for “authentic” country music is also important to the war effort.

there’s a progression of themes here:

post 9/11 top tier: war anthem, vocally patriotic, directly used as pro war propaganda;
which paved the way for: “things used to be so much better” thinly veiled racist laments, good for campaign ads;
which paved the way for meaningless party anthems - attempts to make things “like they used to be” and craft a reality that neither the artist nor listener likely ever experience.

that brings us to what most people think of today when they say they hate country music: the country party anthem - “tiny hot gal in tight jean shorts who can drink beer like the guys, she doesn’t like beyoncé Like Other Girls, oh she’s so into me and my truck, i’m gonna take her fishing after i finish sowing my corn - sung by a guy who’s never touched a tractor” - has overtaken the tragic, done me wrong, despairing country ballads of tammy wynette, george jones, and even up into pre-9/11 contemporaries like reba mcentire and george strait. you didn’t necessarily have to be country to relate to their pain. now you have to perform suburban redneckness to enjoy luke bryan.

when was the last time you heard a sad country song?

after 9/11, cowboys (whether or not they had ever been near a cow) weren’t allowed to be sad anymore (no more done me wrong country), and they certainly weren’t allowed to question authority (no more outlaw country). partying hardy became the most important American Thing and if you don’t sing about that, our Enemies Will Win.

so - understanding that country music has always had bad stuff, and that like any genre it suffers from commercialization, 9/11 DESTROYED COUNTRY MUSIC. and toby keith gleefully helped destroy it.

for some further evidence of the decline of country music, please listen to the dixie chicks’ “long time gone” which is an indictment of the industry (i believe it was written before 9/11 but my point still stands - the genre was on the decline and 9/11 was the major cultural event that hastened the decline).

maybe i am a curmudgeon - almost every generation of country music has had its own “country music is not what it used to be” anthem, but i really think something distinct happened with 9/11.

Can confirm. Alan Jackson and Toby Keith, the blacklisting of Dixie Chicks, literally the only singer I can think of that ever spoke out against anything from 2001-2010 was Johnny Cash. I’d also say that the uber-patriotic stance lead to the shiny, vapid County Boy® nonsense that lead to so many of the solo artists all sounding and looking the same.

Johnny cash wrote an entire album about the destruction of Indigenous lands and of Indigenous people, Kris Kristofferson has been an activist most of his career working closely with the UFM, Woody Guthrie was a social justice advocate and union activist, Dolly Parton has tackled explicitly feminist issues even in the 60s and has been an avid supporter of her lgbt fans, Willie Nelson made Farm Aid to try and help farmers in danger of losing their farms due to mortgages keep them and is also an avid supporter of LGBT rights as well as marijuana legalization, Lorettea Lynn wrote about birth control in the 70s and had her song banned, i could go on!

When in the correct hands, country music is a powerful medium, but post 9/11 it’s been handed off to apathetic white men who have turned it into the most useless genre of music out there.

A mood

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:15:38 -0500

A mood

jheselbraum: I think??? Some guys just tried to catcall me???? I say think because. I’m in my car....

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:08:46 -0500

jheselbraum:

I think??? Some guys just tried to catcall me???? I say think because. I’m in my car. I’d just pulled in and the engine was still running. One of them waved and said something that at least rhymed with “hey baby” but again, I was in my car and the engine was still running, I’d just pulled in. So right before I cut the engine I look in the rear view to see if anyone’s behind me. Nope. And once I cut my engine I very clearly hear them say “[he] didn’t even wave” “bitch” like
A lack of respect for women (or in this case, people who aren’t women but you think are women) aside I DID NOT HEAR A WORD YOU SAID, MAN. GET OVER YOURSELF.

like they WATCHED ME PULL IN. THEY WATCHED ME TURN TO LOOK BEHIND ME. WHAT ABOUT ANY OF THAT SUGGESTS ANYTHING OTHER THAN THAT I DIDN’T FUCKING HEAR YOU.

I think??? Some guys just tried to catcall me???? I say think because. I’m in my car....

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:07:44 -0500

I think??? Some guys just tried to catcall me???? I say think because. I’m in my car. I’d just pulled in and the engine was still running. One of them waved and said something that at least rhymed with “hey baby” but again, I was in my car and the engine was still running, I’d just pulled in. So right before I cut the engine I look in the rear view to see if anyone’s behind me. Nope. And once I cut my engine I very clearly hear them say “[he] didn’t even wave” “bitch” like

A lack of respect for women (or in this case, people who aren’t women but you think are women) aside I DID NOT HEAR A WORD YOU SAID, MAN. GET OVER YOURSELF.

redbeardace: Ace sightings at Seattle Pride! (And there were...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:18:12 -0500

redbeardace:

Ace sightings at Seattle Pride!

(And there were more that I just didn’t manage to get pictures of!)