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“In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night, We will not be cowed by fright, Let those who choose hate meet my light, - For when it’s darkest - The Good Burn Bright.”

Do you know what a sister is? A sister is someone who sees your sorrow and refuses to stand for it. A sister is someone who sees how unhappy the news and injustices of the world have made you and decides to do something to make you smile. My sister is a phenomenal artist, a fantastic person, and the galaxy’s best sister. I will cherish her art and her spirit long after the pencils have faded and - hopefully- the message has become unnecessary. She reminds me that E Pluribus Unum, Out of Many One, still stands.

My poem is a play on the Lantern’s Oath, my take for this current day. The quote is from Shepard Fairey, the man who designed the latest diversity posters.

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New Heaven and Earth

You said You would help Us make a new

Heaven and earth.

We listened and were anxious with anticipation –

True to your word – we had a new

Heaven and earth.

You showed Us how to water the seeds with

Blood

And how to fertilize the fields with

Flesh.

Recently I visited the S-21 prison and the Killing Fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It was disturbing and gruesome and gut wrenching to see all of the destruction that humankind can do to each other. The problem is that we often don’t seem to learn from our mistakes, no matter how grievous they be. Here’s to hope for a better future and to never repeat the same mistakes.

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Latest edition to my fandom bracelet collection, done just in time for May the 4th! I usually only do heroes, but I kinda felt the need to do these. Special props to anyone who noticed that Kylo Ren’s bracelet is made from several of the same beads that my Leia and Han bracelets are.

(Also, I totally love how Phasma’s came out!)

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I guess I get that special prop. lol :) :) :)

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Let’s Make America Great Again

Let’s Make America Great Again

Never have true words 

been spoken.

Let’s Make America Great Again

And go back to 

One Race

One Religion

One Holy Document.

Let’s Make America Great Again

As AMERICANS

Who practice FREEDOM

Under the CONSTITUTION...

America is great. It never stopped being great. The only problem was that people got caught up in the orange whirlwind of hate that is Donald Trump.

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I Have to Stop Myself

I have to stop myself

I know you are not there;

Yet I know you are.

The room is no one else’s;

It is only yours.

 So why is it that before I

Open the door to that room,

That room I know is occupied,

and empty,

I have to stop myself.

 I have to stop myself from crying,

from opening the baby gate.

I have to stop myself from hoping,

hoping that the piano still has a voice.

From needing you, from depending on your

Existence to justify mine.

 I could walk the halls to your room

In the dark and in the light,

Blindfolded and with no hands for feeling,

I know the path, it is etched in my heart.

 So why is it that before I

Let my feet wander down that path

To the room I know is vacant

And full,

I have to stop myself.

 I have to stop myself from waking

In the night to the sound of your

Breathing.

I have to stop myself and say that

You are fine, and happy, and

Peacefully asleep, always.

That your bed is made of cloud-soft

material, and that your nights are

never painful.

 I often find that even though my

mind knows that you are absent,

my body, my heart, cannot comprehend the

meaning of your passing,

and because of such,

I have to stop myself.

But in truth, I can never stop myself,

From being yours, your companion and

Your sister, always.

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This American Political Season is getting to me. I just had a nightmare where Donald Trump was my organic chemistry professor. I’m not even in organic anymore.

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You’re simply seeing the future where Trumps campaign boils down to a three element reaction: sodium, bromine, and oxygen. #NaBrO

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Hope

I met you in our Prosperous times, people Gathered to learn, with Open minds, and we shared our knowledge. You were kind, and I Thought you could be Trusted.   I found you in our Troubled times, just Lazing about. As if you could not See Or Hear The shifting of the cameras and the speech, in our direction. I wondered, were you just camera shy? It wasn’t long before I learned The truth.   I found you when our Luck ran out, shaking With fear. Then I understood, You were Scared.

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White Stain

Somewhere a brass bell laments, its tuneless tongue tolling the folly of another bureaucratic chess match,  as citizen’s sign up to learn of red glory. Somewhere a statesman reads by the light of an explosion.   That somewhere men become stone, names etched in metal, their only form of identification. While somewhere this privilege is revoked, an men must rest together. The ground rejects them.   Somewhere there is a child, emaciated, with fingers that deftly pick apart the dangerous workings of batteries and bombs. They’re paid in unsanitary conditions, and discarded scraps.   Somewhere a mother clings to the unmoving body of her child, tired of cursing the microscopic thieves that silently siphon health every 4th second. Somewhere they’re tired of the silent screaming.   Somewhere earthquakes rumble within vacant stomachs, and shatter islands on grander scales. It is rouge as violence. Angry storms turns  serene waters into all consuming floods, another number in the inconvenient truth.   Somewhere the defiant converse with a gun, hushed, to truth no longer be Assange. Discrimination. The world hides their letters and buries their voices with dirt, and  grass, and stone. How to make a name?   And here we are allowed ignorance for a while longer, yet trapped by this ignorance we are not free. While obesity far more than quenches hunger, rotund, Elsewhere the world suffers clean stomachs-   where naiveté breeds death, where names become numbers, and countries dance to the tune of the wealthiest man.– Elsewhere hatred nurtures division which bears armed nations and revolution, terrorism. A controlled media.    Hanging from frayed black ropes reside the dying voices. And it is here clothing pretentious pumps in overpriced stores, that uncontrolled voices, in newspapers, live, because elsewhere they are silenced before their first breath,   becoming another history book statistic, here. The world is materialistic, two-faced, and at war with itself. To make a career of the truth is to stain a white sheet,   Red tears run the ink.

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If The Man from UNCLE was a manga! I started this sketch page three years ago, and today I finally got around to finishing it! Napoleon Chibis for everyone!!!!!!

(Also, I hate drawing suits!)

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I love the Napolean with the “UNCLE spare shirt”. I think he would really cry if his suit was destroyed. T.T

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I caught this bug today and can’t figure out what it is! Can anyone tell me?

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Statement by the President on the Occasion of Ramadan

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

As the new crescent moon brings in the holy month of Ramadan, Michelle and I send our warmest greetings to all those observing the month of fasting in the United States and around the world.

Ramadan is a time in which families and communities come together for iftars and prayers in festive gatherings that demonstrate the rich and diverse traditions of Muslim societies and cultures.

It is also a deeply spiritual time of reflection and renewal meant to increase thankfulness and consciousness of God’s mercy. Muslims honor each day of Ramadan as a day of patient endurance through fasting, and each night as a night of gratitude through prayers.  It is a time to reinforce faith, compassion and forgiveness, and perseverance through adversity.  In this month of giving, Muslims around the globe reach out to assist those afflicted by conflict, hunger, poverty and disease.  And here in the United States, American Muslims join their fellow citizens to serve the less fortunate, hosting inter-faith activities that build understanding and remind us that we stand together as one American family.  The diversity and patriotism of America’s religious communities give strength to all of us, and our freedom to worship reminds us of the values we share.

I once again look forward to welcoming American Muslims to the White House for our annual White House iftar dinner to honor the month of Ramadan and recognize the service of American Muslims from across the country.  From my family to yours, Ramadan Kareem.

I wonder why more people don’t know about this tradition?

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Some days I feel like I’m held together by nothing more than the music in my ipod and an overgrown sense of ‘I can’t miss class’. 

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I’m watching DS9 on my phone and I have to pause it when the sibs need something. I come back and this is what it paused on . Chill Sisko, I was coming back!

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Well Sisko, I can. Get over it. :0

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Does anyone else really, really wish fictional characters shared their birthday, but none do? 

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I do. Oh pick me!!!!! I really want to share a birthday with every evil character possible!!!

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???

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I would date this!!! It’s what’s on the inside that counts. :) 

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Ramadan Mubarak!

Happy Ramadan Everyone!

Also, an important thought that I think needs to be spread around.

This Ramadan is going to have the longest days a lot of us have seen in a while. I know where I live, the days will last longer than 16 hours, and for me this is the dead of a humid summer. You are no less of a believer if you can’t make it through the day. Yes, I know we compare ourselves to others, but remember that fasting is not meant to be a hardship. Allah (SWT) does not want you to hurt yourself.

Stay safe everyone and let the blessed month begin!

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Nutty for Nutella! 

(Made with real nuts: verified by squirrels)