Flyin.North

26 | nb | Brown queer that likes to do an art sometimes

[vortexsophia-deactivated2022110]

[veerletakino]

[no-one-offical]

Reblogging thrice for effective reach

[thosemotivationalquotes]

Voting Guide for the 2026 U.S. Midterm Elections

I know the midterm election is not until November 3, 2026, however I want everyone to be prepared and not say that they "didn't know" or "couldn't figure it out". This is a guide for everything you need to know about voting in the U.S. in the next major election - the 2026 midterm. I will be updating as needed. If you have a question about voting, registration, or anything else please send me an ask or message. State specific deadlines and info listed under the cut! Even if you have a super unique situation, I will absolutely research it for you!

Every seat in the House of Representatives is up for election!

What district am I in?

Who is my current rep?

What is the house of reps?

Critical House races

Governor races

Is my state having a governor election?

Senate races

Is there a senate race for my state?

What is the senate?

Who are my current senators?

Critical Senate races

General voting info

REGISTER TO VOTE

Already registered? Double check your registration has been accepted and validated

What are the deadlines for registering to vote for my state?

State specific rules for registering to vote

I need to change something on my registration

Who is eligible to vote? - anyone who is a U.S. citizen and over the age of 18

I have been convicted of a felony, can I vote?

I am a student who attends school a different state than where I am registered to vote -> resource linked here

How do I vote if I am in the military?

How can I vote (by mail, in person, etc)?

How does voting by mail work?

Can I register to vote online, or do I have to register in person?

How does voting in person work?

Where is my polling place?

Does my state offer early voting?

Does my state offer same day voter registration?

Do I need an ID to vote?

How do I vote if I am unhoused?

Will my ballot be invalidated if I take a photo of it, or post a photo of my ballot on social media?

I've mailed in my ballot, how can I check that it's been received?

What are the deadlines for mailing my ballot?

Can I vote if I am living overseas/in another country?

Does my work have to give me time off to allow me to vote?

I have a disability, what accessibility resources are there?

I need to report an issue or abuse regarding my ballot or voting experience

When are the results of the election announced?

Resources for non English speakers

I am homebound, and need assistance with mailing or filling out my ballot

Does it matter what party I put on my voter registration?

I am going through, or have gone through, DV/stalking/harassment, and I am worried about my address showing up on public voter registries

Miscellaneous

School board elections

What is Ranked Choice Voting?

Volunteer opportunities related to the election

What is a provisional ballot?

What is a primary election?

State Specifics

[gwydionmisha]

Do not forget to vote in primaries and special elections.

They tend to be lower turnout, so you and your friends can have a lot of say if you just turn up.

[dykedjarin]

every single person on tumblr dot com should be going crazy over The Red Winter by cameron sullivan and yet i have seen not a soul talk about it. if you want batshit insane werewolf lore, venom-adjacent demons, really interesting mixing of pantheons, and gay middle aged exes forced to interact again then please look no further

[spankerella]

I think we all should.

[lawbreaker13]

YES

[avakining]

hey so Blender announced that AI company Anthropic is now their patron

Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron — Blender

Anthropic is joining the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron.

good news tho: they might reconsider. especially if more 3D modellers and artists tell them to.

Here's the contact information to do so!

Additionally, here are some of Blender's social medias you can contact:

https://mastodon.social/@Blender

https://bsky.app/profile/blender.org

https://instagram.com/blender.official/

[mikahseacole]

Anthropic also works with Palantir, aka the "let's use AI to figure out which children to bomb" company.

[queenanthai]

Blender users, make some noise

[darthmelyanna]

Happy May Day, y’all.

[stoptheantisemitism]

The Jewish right to self-determination means defending against those who want us all dead. Sometimes you have to kill your enemies before they grow up. That is a sad fact, but a true fact.

Full mask off moment for the ZioNazis.

"We have to kill children because we think they might grow up to be our enemies" is such a gross and antisemitic take wow

[capt-sievert]

This is what Nazis believed in btw. This is full on Nazi ideology

Source:

Genocide justification - Wikipedia

Source

Children during the Holocaust | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Children were especially vulnerable to Nazi persecution. Learn more about the fates of Jewish and non-Jewish children.

[stoptheantisemitism]

The Zionist and Nazi parallels are never ending

[buckingfaseball]

here's the story. i know expressvpn has been recommended in some 🏴‍☠️ how-to posts but it is not trustworthy. the parent company, kape technologies, not only used to distribute malate but has ties to multiple state surveillance agencies. and be careful where you look for info about good vpns, because kape technologies owns a bunch of "vpn review" sites too

[hiddensandtrap]

In case anyone can’t read the article for whatever reasons, the VPNs acquired are:

ExpressVPN

Private Internet Access

Zenmate

CyberGhost

And the VPN review sites they purchased are:

vpnMentor

Wizcase

So if you use any of those, time to look for other options.

[blackcharacterpolls]

Masterlist Of Black Focused Resources: Art And Writing Addition (1)

Good Skintone Coloring Tip More Skintone Tips Skintones And What To Do For Black Characters Coloring Scars On Dark Skin Skintone Sheets How To Draw More Accurate Blush On Dark Skin Coloring Tips On Palms Skintone Tutorial Lighting Dark Skin, Part One: Color and Identity Lighting Dark Skin, Part Two: Lighting a Flat World Skintone Coloring Tips Coloring Skintone Skintone And Black Features Humanae How To Paint Dark Skin Naylissah The Mightyz0 Tip For Picking Darker Skintones How To Draw Dark Skin Tip For Drawing Vitiligo On Dark Skin Tips To Get Facial Features To Pop On Darker Skin Kupa's Guide To Skintone When Using a 3D reference How To Avoid Whitewashing Undead Characters Of Color Lips Tutorial Guide On Drawing Biracial Characters Creating Black Characters Tips On Drawing Black Lips How I Draw Lips Drawing Black People 101 How To Draw Black People Important ideas to consider when creating characters who are Black and Indigenous people of color Rendering Dark Skin Anti-Whitewashing Tutorial For Pale & Pastel GIFs How Not To Whitewash Screencaps A Guide On Coloring Poc In Edits How I draw Black Hairstyles! Five tips On Drawing Black People’s Noses How to Draw Black People Part 1 (Intro) | All of the Basics Tips For Coloring Black People | How to Draw Black People How to Draw Curly Hair | How to Draw Black People Why Black Artists and Creators are Important How to Draw Black People with Copics/Alcohol Based Markers How to Draw Black People Part 5 | Nose and Lips How to Draw Headwraps | How to Draw Black People Part 6 Whitewashing In Art And How Colors Work Quick guide on coloring deeper skin tones Coloring palms Let's not have history repeat itself | Skin Tutorial 2025 [Tutorial] How to Draw Black Anime People - Part 1 What is Racial Caricature? How To Design Black Hair How To Critize A Black Character While Avoiding Racism\Bias Why The Disposable Black Girlfriend Is A Problem How the “Angry Minority” Trope Gaslights People of Color The "Undateable" BIPOC Co-Star Black Hair Pack! | Black Hair! 2 | Black Hair! 3 - CLIP STUDIO ASSETS How to Render Dark Skin Oil painting process Dont be afraid of Dark Skin Painting Dark Skin Tones Anatomy: Skin Skintones for POC companions in Dragon Age How to draw lips for Black/Dark Skinned people This is what colorism in media looks like white authors….can we stop the bad POC rep in fiction Why Black Villains Matter The Sassy Black Woman Trope

[lost-where-the-forest-would-grow]

I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

[daovihi]

reblog if you are an ad hating commie

[littlestpersimmon]

Wanted to remake my post! Hello everyone, I am an indigenous trans man from the global south; I have a life-limiting disease that will end my life within weeks if i am not medicated :P I do not have a thyroid, and this severe hypothyroidism is exacerbated by insulin resistant type II diabetes that has already deformed my heart 🥹 . My condition has severely impacted my appearance, my physical and cognitive abilities.. I would like to keep living, and I am the only person in my family who works!

I have around 400+ drawings on my patreon! Exclusive and found nowhere else online. I have three other jobs, but they are all very unstable and I could lose it at any moment! I would deeply appreciate any boost! Thank you so much!!

Get more from Caleb on Patreon

creating eerie crests, and other things.

I also have a print store here.!

Shop gallery quality Art Prints by Caleb.

[edgebug]

happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!

though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!

thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!

@joe-spookyy Ben and Socrates

@gooseontheinternet Chamomile and Beefy

@runawayy-rat Bartholomäus and Emo

@theunholystromboli Macrogryphosaurus, Xenoceratops, and Graciliraptor

@techlecticwtch Solas and Dorian

@merlyn-bane Roslyn and Rizzoli

@logictoinsanity Luna and Buttercup

@hagsthehag Orphie, Psyche, Calypso, Ariadne, and Eury

my sweet ladies Bonnie, Mira, An, and Tula

and of course, the irreplaceable

Neil,

who banged out the tunes

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

hello fellow non-Black tumblr users. welcome to my saw trap. if you'd like to leave, please name one (1) Black woman author who is not Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Octavia Butler, or N.K. Jemisin. bonus points if she's published a book in the last five years.

[evegoldenwoods]

For my own future reference, and for anyone else who wants it, a list of authors mentioned in the notes. (I cannot promise this is comprehensive, there are a lot of reblogs and I might have missed some.) I've included a link for each author, where possible I've tried to find one that leads you to their books, prioritising own websites/publishers, falling back on wikipedia otherwise.

If you find any mistakes in the links let me know and I'll edit. This post will be in two parts, because I literally broke tumblr with how many authors there were. I think it's about a hundred and fifty.

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé - speculative fiction

Marguerite Abouet - graphic novels

Elizabeth Acevedo - fiction, poetry

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - fiction

Tomi Adeyemi - young adult fantasy

K Ancrum - speculative contemporary young adult

Lily Anderson - fiction

Ashley Antoinette - fiction

Ama Ata Aidoo - poetry, fiction, plays

Kemi Ashing Giwa - speculative fiction

Kalynn Bayron - young adult, fantasy

Malorie Blackman - childrens' books, young adult

Natasha Bowen - fantasy

Gwendolyn Brooks - poetry

Natasha Brown - fiction

NoViolet Bulawayo - fiction

Constance Burris - speculative fiction

CL Clark - fantasy, speculative fiction

Wahida Clark - urban fiction

Lucille Clifton - poetry, fiction

Alyssa Cole - romance, thrillers, graphic novels

Kamilah Cole - fiction

Claire Coleman - fiction, essays, poetry

Maryse Condé - fiction, non-fiction, plays

Emma Dabiri - non-fiction

Edwidge Danticat - fiction

Angela Davis - philosophy

Carolina Maria De Jesus - memoir

Hayley Dennings - fiction

Tracy Deonn - fiction

Nicky Drayden - speculative fiction

Tananarive Due - horror, comics

Camille Dungy - memoir, poetry

Esi Edugyan - fiction

Zetta Elliot - childrens' books, teen fiction, adult fiction

Bernardine Evaristo - fiction

Conceição Evaristo - fiction, non-fiction

Eve Ewing - poetry, fiction, non-fiction, comics

Radna Fabias - poetry

Namina Forna - young adult fantasy

Latoya Ruby Frazier - non-fiction

Stella Gaitano - fiction

Camryn Garrett - fiction, middle grade

Roxane Gay - fiction, non-fiction, comics

Nicole Glover - fantasy, speculative fiction

Nikki Giovanni - poetry, essays

Jewelle Gomez - fiction, plays

Annette Gordon-Reed - non-fiction (history)

Pumla Dineo Gqola - non-fiction

Deanna Grey - romance

Yaa Gyasi - fiction

Andrea Hairston - fiction

Lorraine Hansberry - plays

Saidiya Hartman - non-fiction, theory

Alexis Henderson - dark speculative fiction

Adriana Herrera - romance

Talia Hibbert - romance

bell hooks - fiction, non-fiction, poetry

Pauline Hopkins - fiction, non-fiction, plays

Nalo Hopkinson - speculative fiction

Jordan Ifueko - comics, fantasy, young adult

Samantha Irby - non-fiction

Justina Ireland - science fiction, fantasy, comics

Meka James - contemporary and erotic romance

Tiffany D Jackson - young adult

Beverly Jenkins - romance

Alaya Dawn Johnson - speculative fiction

Micaiah Johnson - science fiction

Mariame Kaba - non-fiction

Petals Kalulé - fiction, poetry [Petals is noted as using she/they, I'm not 100% sure of their gender identity and past a certain point it feels weird to investigate too much]

Mikki Kendall - fiction, non-fiction

Jamaica Kincaid - fiction, non-fiction

Zaire Krieger - poetry

Nella Larsen - fiction

Karmen Lee - romance

Kirsten R. Lee - young adult

Margot Lee Shetterly - non-fiction

Audre Lourde - poetry, non-fiction

[evegoldenwoods]

And here's part two:

Terry Macmillen - fiction

Robin Maynard - non-fiction

Amber Mcbride - poetry, young adult

Janet Mock - non-fiction, screenwriting

Brittney Moris - comics, young adult, fantasy

Bethany C Morrow - fiction, science fiction, young adult

Leila Mottley - fiction, poetry

Beatriz Nascimento - non-fiction

Leticia Nascimento - I think non-fiction primarily

Gloria Naylor - fiction

Zora Neale Hurston - fiction, non-fiction

Grace Nichols - poetry

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu - fiction

Trifonia Melibea Obono - fiction

Shirlene Obuobi - comics, fiction

Nnendi Okorafor - science fiction

Melatu Uche Okorie - fiction

Chinelo Okparanta - fiction

Helen Oyeyemi - fiction

Nell Painter - non-fiction

Morgan Parker - poetry, non-fiction

Nikki Payne - romance

Koleka Putuma - plays, poetry

Claudia Rankine - poetry, plays, non-fiction

Sarah Raughley - young adult

Dia Reeves - fantasy, horror, science fiction

Kiley Reid - fiction

Stacy Reid - romance

Djamila Ribero - philosophy

Legacy Russell - fiction, non-fiction, poetry

Layla F. Saad - non-fiction

Sofia Samatar - fiction, non-fiction

Liselle Sambury - fantasy

Analeigh Sbrana - romance, fantasy

Namwali Serpell - fiction

Ntozake Shange - plays, poetry

Christina Sharpe - non-fiction

Nisi Shawl - fiction, alternate history

Jamison Shea - dark fantasy/horror

Patricia Smith - poet

Tracy K Smith - poet

Zadie Smith - fiction

Sister Souljah - fiction

Kiki Swinson - fiction

Mildred D Taylor - young adult/children's lit

Katerina Teaiwa - non-fiction

Teresia Teaiwa - poetry

Angie Thomas - young adult, middle grade

Leah Thomas - non-fiction

Spike Trotman - comics

Tloto Tsamaase - science fiction

Nikki Turner - urban fiction

Maxine Tynes - poetry

Ngozi Ukazu - comics

Shola von Reinhold - fiction

Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ - fiction

Jasmine Walls - graphic novels

Alice Walker - fiction, non-fiction, poetry

Jesmyn Ward - fiction

Monica West - fiction

Phyllis Wheatley-Peters - poetry

Rita Williams-Garcia - young adult, middle grade

Stephanie Williams - comics, non-fiction

Tia Williams - fiction, romance

Raquel Willis - non-fiction

Jamila Woods - poetry

Jacqueline Woodson - childrens' books, young adult, fiction, poetry

Alexis Wright - fiction, non-fiction

Zane - erotic fiction

Fiona Zedde - fiction

[bespectacledbunnys]

Attica Locke - Mystery/Thriller Fiction

Oyinkan Braithwaite - Fiction

Isabel Wilkerson - Non-fiction

[leebrontide]

Hell yeah!!!

[ahundredhundredheartbeats]

Hey non-Black people this is not an ally test! You don’t win an ally badge if you can name another author! It’s a reminder to seek out more diverse reading material AND a reminder to acknowledge the underrepresentation of Black women in the publishing industry!

[tawghasa]

Living in the wrong timezone to notice when the hellsite is down - just like old times 🥹

[fandom-trash-goblin]

we've got a life to love living.

[teaboot]

advice that has literally saved and improved my life

[nijuukoo]

To my Canadian followers, here is a petition on the House of Commons website aiming to revoke permissions that would allow ICE offices to operate on Canadian soil, and to cancel funding and subsidies to Canadian companies who are arming ICE agencies with services, goods, and surveillance technologies that would further enable the lawlessness and abuses that ICE has committed. When you sign, you must click on the confirmation email link that will be sent to the email you sign with in order to verify your signature, otherwise it will not be counted.

For my non-Canadian followers, please share this petition and hopefully this will further the reach to other Canadian users on this platform. It is abominable that any company in this country help or in any way facilitate the unconstitutional and dehumanising acts that ICE has done.

In my city of Vancouver, we have been protesting and boycotting Hootsuite, a social media platform that has a $2M USD contract with DHS providing them with social media services from 2024 to 2029. Hootsuite claims they don't use tracking or surveillance with their tools, but the mere fact that they have chosen to work with the violent group in whatever social media capacity, despite previously *turning down* a contract with them back in 2020, is egregious.

Jim Pattison Group is a enormous conglomerate also based in Vancouver, owned and run by one man, Jim Pattison. Pattison previously considered selling an industrial building in Virginia to ICE for them to use as another "holding and processing facility," or more accurately, a goddamn concentration camp, but because of backlash he reversed that decision. Thank fucking god for that, but that does not mean he won't consider it again in the future.

In Ontario, ICE ordered 20 armoured vehicles from a Brampton firm called Roshel to the tune of $7.3M USD. Canada should not be arming a violent group that has shown itself to be nothing more than a racist group of masked kidnappers and power-tripping thugs that has violated the rights of US citizens and immigrants and violated numerous court orders.

I'm disgusted that there are Canadian companies that are willingly partnering with DHS and ICE despite the carnage that has been documented over the last year. It is exactly why I've signed this petition and am sharing it with you. Do not let any Canadian companies think they can rest easy by choosing to work with a violent group that is terrorising, abusing, and murdering US citizens of all walks of life, all at the orders of a fascist government run by abusers and tyrants.

[were--ralph]

[X]

we live in the worst times

[greater-than-the-sword]

My exact thoughts. Couldn't leave this in the tags.

[cesarescabinet]

To send a message, write a complaint and boycott the company behind Burger King and the other franchises it owns.

This includes Popeyes and Tim Hortons.