Our hearts will shake but hands relaxed.

The name's Rachel, and I'm just here to blog.

[dollface-and-adance]

us: please renew the get down and sense8. these shows deserve it. they have a really diverse and talented cast, lgbt representation, amazing plot. minorities deserve this. we need more shows like these! representation matters.

netflix: here's 13 reasons why season 2 even though there is no more story to tell left but we're gonna make something up and oh we're cancelled the get down and sense8 k bye

[matt-daddario-deactivated201803]

sense8 just got cancelled. 

a show about 8 people who are so dynamic, two women of colour, a transgender female character, a man of colour, a gay man who struggled with his sexuality, issues of mental illness and a show just filled with such incredible issues got cancelled. 

I’ve lost all hope in this world. Netflix I hope you burn. I can’t believe shit white shows run for soooo many seasons, but a complex show like sense8 fails to get a third season. I AM SO FUCKING PISSED OFF. I finally got to see an indian girl that I could look up to, that I could somehow identify with and I can’t believe it’s taken away from me. Do you know how hard it is to find good desi representation? do you?! I am so upset right now.

[petrxsolano]

the get down appreciation week: (day 7) free choice - Mylene, Regina & Yolanda

“I can’t do it without Regina and Yolanda. I can’t do this without my girls.”

[jedilost]

the get down appreciation week » day five (favorite quote)

[theoldbaccarinmorena-deactivate]

The Get Down Appreciation Week Day 5: Favorite quote → “You know, life is short. And if you an alien, you gotta not apologize for being an alien. You gotta join with the universe and just be.” — Dizzee Kipling

[dykearthurmorgan]

and i can’t begin to imagine how black and latinx fans are feeling like this was such a loss of not only an amazing show but such an important one as well

like losing dizzee has been such a blow to me as bi person and just as someone who related to him so much but i will have more representation

[thegetdowndestroyedme]

So Shao’s story ends with him going back to Annie with no indication of what happens later

[vildethewinemom]

It haunts me that we’ll never truly know what happened to Dizzee in that tunnel. 

[pyronaut]

My villain origin story is The Get Down getting cancelled

[driftoftherain]

anyway im so fucking mad

[snapgif]

[smaug-official]

My man Joe don’t give a fuck

[nevaehtyler]

If you disagree, you’re probably a privileged one.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

New York: Emergency Protest – Communities United to Confront Donald Trump at the Plaza Hotel, December 11, 2015.

Photos by Farhad Ebrahimi

[chonce]

#NotMyPresident

The electoral college does not vote until December 19th. We have 40 days.

What does this mean?

Right now, the presidential election results are only a PROJECTION of the election outcome. They are PRELIMINARY RESULTS. A candidate still needs to earn 270 electoral votes to win. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, which means that more than 50% of the voters wanted her for president. The electoral college shouldn’t guarantee an override of the public’s opinion– and it doesn’t have to.

There are 21 states that do NOT restrict which candidate the electors vote for. Out of these 21, Hillary lost the following:

As you can see, these states are worth 166 electoral votes. As it currently stands, Hillary Clinton is projected to receive 232 votes. Trump is projected to win 306. This means that 37 votes need to be taken away from Trump to bring him down to 269. Hillary Clinton needs 38 votes ADDED to win 270. These electoral voters can also abstain, which means that they can refuse to vote for either candidate. If 37 of the voters within these states abstain then no candidate will have reached the required 270. In this case, the vote would be taken to the House.

Trump won Pennsylvania, a state that typically votes blue, by less than 100,000 votes. While it is highly unlikely to get all 20 electoral voters to cross party lines and vote democrat, it also isn’t impossible to convince a few of them to be “faithless electors.” We only need to convince 38 out of the 166. That is 23%. There are SIXTEEN states we need to focus our attention on.

A move like this would be unprecedented. However, as we all saw on November 8th, odds don’t guarantee reality. Trump had a less than 20% winning, yet given the circumstances, enough people came together and made it happen. We can make this happen. 

Ask yourself this: What do we have left to lose? We can stay complacent and accept that this country will be run by a racist, sexist, islamophobic, homophobic, ablest bigot, or we can at least try. 

How?

SPREAD THE WORD. Trend #NotMyPresident to let people know that we do not accept being led by a man who does not care about our wellbeing. Email your professors, email the dean of your colleges. The last thing a university wants is negative press. Millenials can take a stand, but that doesn’t mean we have to be the only ones. Church-led events helped bring a lot of disillusioned voters to the polls. Spread the word in any way possible, whether it be on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or even in person. Stage a peaceful protest. Hand out flyers. Let the people around you know that you don’t accept this man as your leader when he won’t even accept you as a citizen with your designated rights.

These 166 people need to face the consequences of electing this man. 

Do this for the people who couldn’t vote. Do this for the people who live in the very real fear of being deported. Do this for the people who will have to face the rise in hate crimes. Do this for the people who have a very real possibility of losing their rights. Do this for the people who will no longer afford necessities. 

[forkanna]

And here are the people you need to convince. LIGHT THEIR SHIT UP.

[pinkyoungk]

1st Latina senator in US history. I like her already

[revysprite-deactivated20170502]

U BETTER

[ambelle]

I’m stanning you girl

[marvelsmostwanted]

I just want to thank Hillary Clinton for standing up for women, children, and families; I just want to thank her for fighting so hard to be what this country needs right now.

I just want to acknowledge Hillary for being the first woman to accept a presidential nomination, the first woman to vote for herself for president, and the first woman to win electoral votes in the U.S.

I just want to thank her because I woke up this morning thinking that I would have a female president and that’s not something I’ve ever had the chance to think before. Thank you for giving me that hope, for making me believe that it could happen, and for showing me that it CAN happen, and that someday, hopefully very, very soon, this country will be ready for it.

[kweendestiny]