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the-queen-of-thedas: growlandpounce: chwhore: sapropel: gayc...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:58:22 -0400

growlandpounce:

chwhore:

sapropel:

gaycism:

I can’t fucking believe my eyes. A man is being sentenced to death because he’s gay and a lifetime in prison would be something he would enjoy. This is sickening. Everyone should know about this.

Oh yes we love our carceral state

what the living fuck

Jesus

WTF is with the USA right now?!?!?

fedswatching: pour one out to the neopets we left for dead

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:57:46 -0400

fedswatching:

pour one out to the neopets we left for dead

steamylester: 2012 dnp: “i feel special” “you are”phandom: AJDJSKAKSKSKS I’M—HDJAKAKAKW...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:56:40 -0400

steamylester:

2012 dnp: “i feel special” “you are”
phandom: AJDJSKAKSKSKS I’M—HDJAKAKAKW OMGOMGOGMOMG
2018: you’re so unique and so amazing that no art could ever capture your essence
phandom: sounds swang dude

charmingsides: could-always-be-gayer: princeanxious: princeanxious: fandomsandanythingelse: fand...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:55:42 -0400

charmingsides:

could-always-be-gayer:

princeanxious:

princeanxious:

fandomsandanythingelse:

fandomsandanythingelse:

You know what I need more of?

Patton with tattoos and different hair colors and piercings because there’s really nothing morally wrong about it, and he enjoys them!

Also Virgil who has absolutely none of those because what if someone judges him for having them? It’s not professional how would he ever get a job? And tattoos are permanent! What if he gets one and doesn’t like it?!

Anyway I’ve been thinking about this stuff a lot

Reblog this you cowards

Im gonna drAW THIS

I DREW IT:

General Arts Taglist: @fandergecko @equipodeleo @221biotchplease @solemn-vow @today-only-happens-once @asterias-confused-writings @fandersideas @raygelkitty @analogical-chaos @panic-at-theeverywhere @ultimate-queen-of-fandoms @midnightcandy @iaminmultiplefandoms @xx-pink-lars-is-best-lars-xx @misstallip @jadedragon1903 @mewmewmika @winglessnymph @confinesofpersonalknowledge @jaxthejoker @planetsanders @queen-of-all-things-snuggly @thekeytohappiness-is-you @shesavampirequeen @allycat31415 @nasayeepo @allfavoritesaside

AWWW I LOVE HIM (also can I use this design for a fic I’m working on rn?) (It’s totally cool if not tho :P)

What cuties! I’d love to use Patton’s character design for a story at some point if that’s alright. Wow, this is perfect!!

the-afro-argonaut: sevenyearsdead: i honest to god was walking through the parking lot of my...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:21:42 -0400

the-afro-argonaut:

sevenyearsdead:

i honest to god was walking through the parking lot of my college’s chick fil a and i witnessed with my own damn eyes two beautiful women, one in a plain dress and the other in a navy uniform, hold hands and then kiss each other goodbye and it was so cute and as i turned to head back to my dorm i saw these two boys staring at them across the parking lot and i was like “oh no” but then the taller one grabbed the shorter one and kissed him really hard and they looked so embarrassed and i realized that sometimes you just gotta have a little courage yknow

Gay culture is kissing your partner on a chick fil a parking lot, making the CEO of Chick FIL A cry.

smudgethistledraws: I finally finished this short comic! I...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:08:02 -0400

smudgethistledraws:

I finally finished this short comic! I meant to get it up last week but I have had many distractions, both good and bad. Anyway… Birthdays in Gravity Falls seem to be sad affairs… I just couldn’t get this out of my head.

I’m pretty happy with how this turned out. It was a lot of work, so comments are very much appreciated! @thestanbros

On DeviantArt!!: http://smudgethistledraws.tumblr.com/

On AO3!!: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15038258

My Instagram!!: https://www.instagram.com/art_of_mar/

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Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:40:19 -0400

sproutson:

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fanaticloser: Do you ever hear a new song through a fan video for your otp and that song is now...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:51:21 -0400

fanaticloser:

Do you ever hear a new song through a fan video for your otp and that song is now associated with that ship and every time you listen to it a montage of your otp just goes through your head and it’s the most emotional thing ever.

infraredarmy: fatpinocchio: It should be socially unacceptable to come to work with a cold or...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:51:11 -0400

infraredarmy:

fatpinocchio:

It should be socially unacceptable to come to work with a cold or similarly contagious disease.

It should be socially unacceptable to make your workers come to work with a cold or similarly contagious disease.

samknitchester: dreadedloreenkid: stripedwoolenjumper: liz-squids: sixth-light: theauspolchronic...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:50:34 -0400

samknitchester:

dreadedloreenkid:

stripedwoolenjumper:

liz-squids:

sixth-light:

theauspolchronicles:

nerdtasticami:

theauspolchronicles:

Oh boy if you’re mad about the US separating children from their parents, putting people in camps, and having a zero tolerance policy towards asylum seekers that has led to deliberate extensive cruelty as a futile deterrent wait until you hear about Australia.

…what’s going on in Australia?

Buddy! Strap in because there are two parts to this:

The past 100+ years of ripping kids from their families, racism, and attempted genocide

The past 20+ years of racism, but now island torture prisons! LEVEL UP!

Australia has had a long history of separating children from their parents. The government decided that mixed raced children of Indigenous Australians were not OK so literally kidnapped them and raised them to assimilate into white society and “breed the colour out.” This started about 1905 and ended about 1970. We call them the Stolen Generations. This has had long lasting negative effects on Indigenous Australians as it was a decades long attempt to absolutely destroy their culture and commit genocide. “But that was the past?” Surprise! By “ended in 1970″ I mean “the reasons in which we en masse tear children away from their families now has a different reason” and Indigenous children are now being taken away at even higher rates than during the stolen generations. Australia saw its Indigenous population, thought “how do we destroy their culture?” and when we were done thought “gee, how do we blame them for having all these issues in their communities?”

BUT THAT’S JUST THE BEGINNING!

Fast forward to now: Trump is using kids as political leverage to stop people from coming to the US right? Buddy he’s ripping Australia off. Scott Morrison, Minister for Immigration at the time once did that.

OK so for context: when people try to come to Australia via boat seeking asylum because they’re fleeing war/persecution we do either 2 things: turn them back and let them just… die elsewhere… Or we lock them up in detention centres on Manus/Nauru Island. That’s where we keep them indefinitely in bad conditions, give them dodgy medical care, smear them in the press, and react indifferently when they die from suicide/negligence/assault… and cover up sexual assaults from guards and the incredibly high rate of self harm and depression even in children. The entire idea is to be as cruel as possible so other people hear about it and go “geez, let’s not go to Australia. They’ll literally torture us before they give us a protective visa.” And when I say indefinitely I mean indefinitely. Some refugees have spent 5 years wasting away in these prisons. Some children have spent their entire life in these prisons. And the government openly admits that they’re genuine refugees. They’ve been rigorously vetted and known to be safe people with no intention of harming us but it’s the zero tolerance principle. You tried to come here via boat? You go jail but we call it “detention.”

Well Scott Morrison decided once to tell the Senate that he could release a few kids from detention centres but only if they voted for a bill that increased his powers to send refugees back to where they would suffer persecution and basically told them if they don’t vote for it the kids will continue to suffer. He held children as ransom for his own political power. Our Human Rights Commissioner slammed it as terrible to use kids as bargaining chips. You know what the government did? Personally attack her and ask her to resign over his bias. Our Prime Minister at the time complained that Australia was “sick of being lectured” by the UN over how we keep torturing refugees.

The main line of attack against refugees: “they’re just coming here to take advantage of our welfare.” Oh no! It’ll cost the taxpayer money to subsidise a refugee to live in a safe country! So instead of having them “rip off” the taxpayer with a couple hundred a fortnight we’ll just lock them up on an island where it costs $1 million per person on average over the past 4 years and operational costs have wasted $5 billion in 4 years. Why help someone for barely enough money to survive when you can torture them and keep them imprisoned for several times more!

Scott Morrison, or Sco-Mo as we kids call them, loved the US’s Muslim Ban idea by the way. He said it was proof that the rest of the world was “catching up to Australia.” Yeah. Geez guys. What took you so long to be as bad as Australia?

Mandatory detention has had bipartisan support from the two major parties since its creation by the Keating government in 1992. We have been keeping people in prison for seeking asylum for 26 years.

Oh and the government super doesn’t them to come here. The Abbott government spent $4.1 million on a propaganda movie to be shown overseas to deter refugees.

We also don’t want to get rid of them. There was a deal under the Obama administration to take some of these refugees but this process has carried on into the Trump administration. He was livid the idea that he should uphold this deal because 1) OooOBaMaaaa!! 2) REFUGEES?? In America??? So that’s currently going nowhere. Meanwhile New Zealand, our good ally and close neighbour, has said “I’ll take some of them” and the current PM (Turnbull) has said no. His excuse? We have a deal with the US. We should see where that goes. It’s going nowhere. So he conveniently can just pretend his hands are tied and let refugees continue to be tortured and die under his care.

(And he hasn’t said it but I bet he’ll never let refugees settle in New Zealand because if they become NZ citizens they’ll have travel rights to come to Australia without the same visa restrictions as other countries AND THEN THE REFUGEES WOULD WIN).

Papa New Guinea (Manus Island isn’t Australian, we just have a deal to pay another government to let us keep a torture prison on their land… hmm I feel like there’s a US equivalent somewhere too…) decided a while back “hang on, this is unconstitutional and horrible. You need to close down the detention centre on Manus.” So we “did.” And then made a new building on the same island to keep them in and forced them to go into it despite it not being finished. This was after guards physically beat the refugees to make them go to this new prison.

I could go on but you get the idea.

So let’s top this all off with the icing on the cake: a phone call between Trump and Turnbull when Trump was getting acquainted with all the world leaders last year. Turnbull explained our zero tolerance refugee policy and the cruelty as a deterrent that is employed and Trump said “That is a good idea. We should do that too. You are worse than I am.”

“That is a good idea. We should do that too. You are worse than I am.”

Let that sink in.

And that’s where we’re up to now in modern history. See everyone likes to go to the obvious big example we have of the Nazis and their camps but the truth is… this never stopped. There are similar examples of this abhorrent behaviour happening right now and have been for decades. Governments have been putting people in camps and trying to destroy cultures, or ethnicities, or deny people safe havens from wars, and be utterly heartless and deliberately cruel since forever. This is the ongoing drive of conservatism: keep people out, keep people a certain way, and the current example in the US is just that bubbling over the horribly inescapable surface. We are deluded to think that this cruelty took a 70 year respite when WW2 ended and it’s taken this long to get this strong.

The world has always been racist. Trump just doesn’t bother to filter it. And Australia just wants to keep it on an island so no one can see it.

Also, that Australia/New Zealand immigration deal? Australia has slowly been taking away the rights of New Zealanders resident in Australia - including children born in Australia to Kiwi parents - and making it nigh-impossible for them to actually get Australian citizenship, basically all because of paranoia that brown people will move from NZ to Australia. They’re aggressively deporting Māori and Pasifika New Zealanders, even those who may have come as small children and have no memory of New Zealand, both for things like being convicted of any crime and for things like “being of bad character”. Or, rather, they don’t deport them. They put them in offshore prison camps and tell them they can’t leave until they agree to leave Australia. (It’s not that these things don’t affect Pākehā NZers, it’s that we’re not the real targets.)

During our election campaign last year, the Deputy PM of Australia openly said that if Labour were elected to government it would be bad for Australia because they would encourage refugees to try and get to Australia hoping to be taken by New Zealand. They have an island fortress mentality Trump hasn’t even started to achieve.

And the thing about Australia – there isn’t the coverage that America has. Not even in our own country. It’s hard to find out what’s happening – visas for journalists to visit Nauru are prohibitively expensive – and … no one really cares. It’s so entrenched that it’s the status quo, and when I called my MP and senators to go, WTF guys? the response was like, “…oh yeah, thanks for your feelings, cool, bye”.

I honestly tune out a lot of the coverage because, at this point, I don’t know what to do. Both major parties support these policies, so I vote for the Greens. I contacted my representatives. I walked in protest marches. I donate to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and other charities.

So I guess, if I have advice for Americans, it’s to not let this become the status quo. Because you’ll wake up one day and it will have always been like this.

Holy shit, I knew it was bad here but I didn’t know it was that bad. Why don’t we hear about the depth of these things in Australia, how can they keep us so in the dark?

@stripedwoolenjumper

Part of the reason is because the government keeps passing legislation to silence whistleblowers and journalists (they currently have a bill to make possession of any information that might “damage Australia’s reputation” illegal), and the other part is that most of the media won’t or can’t report on it.

What you can do to help the Human Rights crisis in Australia:

If you are Australian:

Keep up to date and informed. The only major media outlets that routinely reports on this issue is The Guardian Australia. They are free online but consider donating if you can to keep it free access.

The Saturday Paper is another independent online news source that reports on this.

Follow or sign up to GetUp!. GetUp! is Australia’s largest progressive grassroots activist group and has lots of campaigns and information about this issue and many others, such as climate change, economic justice, and democratic and civil rights. Donate if you can, sign their peritions, follow their campaigns.

CONTACT YOUR MPs AND SENATORS. This is really important, especially if they are supporters of the policy. Keep public pressure on then, make them feel it. Letter templates are good, but personally written letters/emails are better. Call them if you can. And respond to them with your displeasure if they send you a cookie cutter response of their party’s policy on “stopping the boats”.

SHOW UP TO PROTESTS. Another really important one. Even if you just show up and march, your physical presence counts. They’re not as scary as it might seem.

DONATE. I really cannot stress this enough, if you can afford it, donate.

WHO SHOULD I DONATE TO?

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) provides financial and legal support, as well as counseling and community services, to refugees already in Australia.

Refugee Action Coalition (RAC) are a group of state-based advocacy groups that support refugees in Australia and advocate for those trapped in Australia’s offshore detention regime (link is for the Sydney group but contains links to other states).

GetUp! is one of the best to donate to for political action. They have options to donate to the organisation as a whole, or to specific campaigns.

If you are a member of the Australian Labor Party, please do what you can to bring up this issue and pressure the party leadership to change its policy.

If you are NOT Australian

Do what you can to contact your government and representatives to bring up this issue and pressure Australia to change their policy.

SPREAD THIS POST AND OTHERS LIKE IT. Australians do not have the numbers and influence on his site that Americans and British have. Please spread this information and resources so that other Australians might see it and feel like they have some power to change it or even know about it.

If you are a New Zealander: please continue to keep the pressure on your government to call out Australia and offer to take refugees.

#CloseTheCamps #BringThemHere

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, AUSTRALIA

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twotontwentyone: dongboss: dongboss: that one post that’s like “lacroix tastes like if you drank...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:39:40 -0400

twotontwentyone:

dongboss:

dongboss:

that one post that’s like “lacroix tastes like if you drank carbonated water and someone shouted a fruit name a room over ” is so funny where is it

THIS ONE

punkfaery: punkfaery: punkfaery: punkfaery: so apparently my friend owns a haunted photograph and...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:35:01 -0400

punkfaery:

punkfaery:

punkfaery:

punkfaery:

so apparently my friend owns a haunted photograph and he’s literally just told me this after two fucking years when he KNOWS how much i love haunted artefacts i can’t believe the audacity

i was like “how haunted are we talking here, is it just a vaguely cursed image or does it actually have Demonic Properties”

and he said “well i’ve never seen the actual image because my dad keeps it in a sealed envelope inside a safe, but whenever he takes it out you can hear voices screaming for help and you feel sick and sometimes you see dark figures moving around in your peripherals”

okay so, firstly, how is it that we’ve been friends for 2 years and this information has never come up, and secondly why the fuck do you still have it

according to his dad the image is of a man riding a model train set and it was given to him by a mysterious stranger in a pub who refused to tell anyone his real name

this is. this is literally a horror movie. this is a direct-to-video minimal-budget terribly-acted horror movie made by a bunch of film students in the nineties. i absolutely love it

me: “bring it round here and we can do the ouija board on it"

him: “nah, i try to stay away from that kind of stuff. if i don’t understand it then i don’t fuck with it.”

bold words from a man who stores haunted artefacts in the basement of his goddamn house

littlegothtransboy666: beepbeeprichiexx: ask-henry-yugi-tudor: ...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:33:53 -0400

littlegothtransboy666:

beepbeeprichiexx:

ask-henry-yugi-tudor:

i-draw-andstuff:

findyourpenguin:

bleuberrygliscor:

nawdah:

achievement-b-huntress:

achievement-b-huntress:

ALRIGHT. LISTEN UP.

So recently, I got calls from the phone number, (937) 353-8319. They claim to be a job service, and one of their “employees”, Carrigan, is friends with whoever the call recipient is, and that Carrigan has recommended you for this $15.00/h “job”. I also got a text message from (937) 607-1493, claiming to be Carrigan, and that they need stuff to “win a scholarship”. I do not know anyone by the name of Carrigan and I know very well that this is a very dangerous scam.
If you receive a call from a number, and they ask you if you would like a job for $15.00/h, HANG UP IMMEDIATELY. If you accept the “job” offer, and you go in for an interview, they will give you a drugged bottle of water and you will wake up somewhere you don’t want to be.
These phone calls & texts are from a human trafficking service, and if you oblige to them, you will be sold to people and you will be raped, no doubt about it. So PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT ANSWER THESE CALLS OR TEXTS. I have listened to the voicemails, and allowed my dad to do the same, and he learned that anyone offering a $15.00/h “job” is a human trafficker.
PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST THIS ALL OVER TUMBLR

Okay, I am reblogging this because it is relevant again. I got another call from a 353 number. Not the exact same number, but I know that it is a trafficker because it’s 353 just like the last one. I also want this to signal boost so PLEASE REBLOG THIS.

Why are people deleting the captions though I had to search for what the pictures meant don’t do that

a side note, because theyre very popular around the DMV, If you ever see a sign with something akin to ‘free debt erasure’ ‘15/h job’ etc and ONLY A PHONE NUMBER, ignore it. tear it down if you can, because those are well known scams and sex-trafficking baits.do not, by any means, call or respond to these messages. do not let your friends do it. do not.

THIS IS IMPORTANT AF THANK Y’ALL HOLY SHIT

Oklahoma is one of the worst states as far as human trafficking, so thank y’all so fucking much. That’s literally my life and the lives of everyone I know that y’all just saved. Thank you. Thank you thank you thank you

*FUCKING SPAMS REBLOG*

guys pls this needs more reblogs

please. please reblog. save someone’s future before it’s too late

Warning: talks about trafficking, but I’m re blogging to help people be safey qwq

spatziline: Ladrien (This was posted two weeks ago on Patreon!...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:44:46 -0400

spatziline:

Ladrien
(This was posted two weeks ago on Patreon! Thanks for your support)

inkskinned: you know what? fuck it, man. the world is held in the fists of people who like to break...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:44:07 -0400

inkskinned:

you know what? fuck it, man. the world is held in the fists of people who like to break things. at this point i’m saying who gives a shit. wear that victorian dress you don’t have an excuse for. dress up like a witch, pointed hat and all. who cares anymore. why worry about it when there’s bigger stuff to worry on. i’m saying. yeah, this lipstick is too dark, wanna share? i’m saying go talk to her, tell her that you like her hair. i’m saying she’s out of my league but i’m still swinging, i’m saying yeah i’m in a ballgown and it’s a pta meeting. what about it. eat the extra brownie, tell her your feelings. i’m saying if nothing matters than we might as well give nothing meaning.

kinkstertime: This whole bit is made all the funnier by knowing...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:39:25 -0400

kinkstertime:

This whole bit is made all the funnier by knowing that all of the guards were just random extras who weren’t told what was going to happen only that they weren’t allowed laugh at any cost as they wouldn’t be payed if they did.

EDIT: for everyone worried about the extras actually not being payed, this film was made in the late 70s when capitalism wasn’t as awful as it is now, *of corse* they were payed.

The idea was to get them to try not to laugh. They wanted genuine reactions and they got them and it was totally worth it. It’s also worth noting that the extra in this shot actually went on to do more with them.

It’s ok to enjoy this scene. They weren’t employed by someone like trump, they got payed, the directors just wanted people to genuinely try not to laugh cuz it’s funny af.