Staring at the map for the Texas Democratic Senate Primaries and it's kind of incredible how it's a near perfect latino population heatmap, if you consider the Talarico bits to be latino and the Crockett bits to be not latino. Do you think Crockett is remembering that thing she said insinuating she wants latinos to do slave labor and is throwing up. Like, this was a pretty close race, and yea some part of this loss can be attributed to people preferring a white man over a black woman but I'm willing to bet if she hadn't said that thing about latinos she probably would've scraped out a win. I'm sorry I'm just fascinated, she said that in a state infamous for its giant latino population. If this was, like, idk tennessee or some other sub 10% latino state it probably would've been no biggie but nono she said that in. texas. the 40% latino state. what an unfortunate thing to have on your record when the latino voters in the dem primary get to pick between you and the guy who did not say that
Also, as I type this the republican primary is REALLY close
darkly funny potential future where we get a vote between James "the cries of the children in Palestine is god screaming at us" Talarico and Ken Super Mechahitler. and since it's texas it'll still be a nailbiter
Staring at the map for the Texas Democratic Senate Primaries and it's kind of incredible how it's a near perfect latino population heatmap, if you consider the Talarico bits to be latino and the Crockett bits to be not latino. Do you think Crockett is remembering that thing she said insinuating she wants latinos to do slave labor and is throwing up. Like, this was a pretty close race, and yea some part of this loss can be attributed to people preferring a white man over a black woman but I'm willing to bet if she hadn't said that thing about latinos she probably would've scraped out a win. I'm sorry I'm just fascinated, she said that in a state infamous for its giant latino population. If this was, like, idk tennessee or some other sub 10% latino state it probably would've been no biggie but nono she said that in. texas. the 40% latino state. what an unfortunate thing to have on your record when the latino voters in the dem primary get to pick between you and the guy who did not say that
My Scarlet propoganda is that she's INSANELY evil but also genuinely awesome & possibly the funnest character in the series. Her favorite word is "THRILLING", she murdered her husband, she's middle aged-ish, is a gaslight gatekeep girlqueen and dragons in this universe are about this big compared to humans:
So like. Take that as you will
Bonus: This is the portrait of herself she has hanging in the royal baby dragon nursery. It's there to ensure every tiny baby dragon there knows exactly how much she loathes them from the day they are born.
It is described as big enough to cover an entire wall, and her entire castle is decorated exactly like this
So these are both “Aw Fuck I’m outta real food” meals BUT ALSO: if you’re learning how to cook, these are great “baby steps” meals to learn how to cook basics into something enjoyable without “wasting” anything expensive. Though I maintain that even cooking screw-ups are valuable in terms of lessons learned.
Also they’re great for when you get absorbed in something and you realize your blood sugar is dropping and you need to make something Quick.
I don’t think of myself as a cook at all, but I looked through this list and was like “if you have [center] and [any item on a surrounding ring] how do you sit there thinking you’ve got nothing to eat?” Like, I buy a fair amount of staples knowing that I’ll be able to quickly assemble them into something tasty if I’m hungry and don’t have anything instant (or in a leftovers container because I made it earlier in the week specifically to eat for a week): butter, cheese, noodles, and more.
It still impresses people how I can go into random kitchens with no food in them and emerge with Filling Snacks for Five People. This is the secret: knowing how to assemble Cupboard Meals. And these charts are incredibly well-laid-out too!
If you're in Maine or Philly or wherever the fuck Vance claimed DHS is going next, I BEG you to look at the rapid response and mutual aid networks and how they've been built in Portland, Chicago, and the Twin Cities, and start building your own version NOW.
Download signal if you haven't already. Pick a resistance pseudonym. Make a proton email that has no indicators to your real name. Start buying and printing whistles and whistle zines.
Organize your school patrols and foot patrols NOW. Talk to your community and your mercados and your Hmong and Somali grocery stores, ask them what support they need. Get "ICE are not welcome here" signage for businesses and homes. Familiarize yourself with the difference between an administrative warrant and a judicial warrant.
Learn how to take down a SALUTE report. PRACTICE salute reports. Learn, memorize, and embody radio etiquette for rapid response work.
Pick your lane: rapid response or mutual aid-- you can't do both, because rapid response often puts you in direct contact with ICE. They've been taking down plate numbers and leading responders back to their own homes here in the Twin Cities.
Remember that being under siege is a marathon, not a race. Try to remember that while your neighbors are being kidnapped in their underwear, from their own homes.
Meet your neighbors. Attend your city council meetings and demand separation ordinances NOW. Tell your congress people and representatives not to give ICE more money.
Prepare yourself to see high school children being stopped and harassed. 5 year olds being used as bait for their mothers. Old men being dragged out of their houses in underwear and Crocs simply because all of them are not white.
Be flexible, be ready to pivot on a dime as situations change. Be ready to be paranoid. Be ready to be distrusting of every Texas, New York, California, or Illinois license plate. Be ready to be suspicious of EVERY out of state license plate. Dark sedans and SUVs with extremely illegally tinted windows. Unreadable or missing plates.
No one will save you, save us, or save our neighbors but ourselves. No one is coming to help or protect us but us.
Hey, Angeleno here to add: look for or start mutual aid groups that buy out your vendors, jardineros, tradespeople, helping support the most vulnerable members of your community from making the choice to stay home and safe or provide for family. We’re still doing this here and it helps.
“ICE NOT WELCOME” signs are great for solidarity and breaking morale, but please make and help pass out signs stating a home or business is private property. Make sure your business has an area explicitly for employees only. What we’ve seen in the last week makes all this seem like sticking a post-it on a viper and none of us know where we’re headed now, but it’s easy to do and could make a difference. It’s made a difference here.
as someone who would be considered an Homestuck "oldhead" (not here since the beginning but started reading around 2014-2015 and has been in the fandom space for just as long) I will say I've kind of #noticed this phenomena where I never really saw John hced as a tboy, like I'm sure it existed but it truly was never rlly something I saw. DAVE was the fandom-designated tboy that allllll the tboys flocked to, and by extension Dirk also got this same treatment (and they still kind of are to this day!). But, then, the SECOND June was canonized, I suddenly saw tons and tons of people going "ohhhh but what about john tboy hcs :(" or "ohh but actually I kinda hced him as a tboy". No you didn't. I mean I'm sure some of you did, every character has a small subset of people who hcs them as trans in some form! But I guarantee the vast majority of you never even thought about it much less had all these strong feelings about it UNTIL June. I used to kind of sympathize with people expressing this bc I wanted to believe it was all in good faith. But the more I see people talking about why they dislike June, the more I realize 90% of the time it is more or less (mostly subconsciously) just plain transmisogyny and I'm tired of pretending it isn't or that most of you even had any strong thoughts at all about tboy John until June came into the picture and turned your yaoi boy into yuri woman. None of you even ACTUALLY care about seeing John as a tboy and are blatantly just using it as a shield so you can be weird about tgirls and that fucking sucks almost as much as you being really really weird about tgirls. Please stop pretending to be a tboy warrior and just say that seeing a character transition made you feel weird and threatened your preconceptions about them or whatever
I just keep thinking about this. Like, the ONLY time (or at the very least, the vast vast vast majority of the time) I ever see tboy John brought up is SPECIFICALLY in response to June, now that I think about it.
as someone who would be considered an Homestuck "oldhead" (not here since the beginning but started reading around 2014-2015 and has been in the fandom space for just as long) I will say I've kind of #noticed this phenomena where I never really saw John hced as a tboy, like I'm sure it existed but it truly was never rlly something I saw. DAVE was the fandom-designated tboy that allllll the tboys flocked to, and by extension Dirk also got this same treatment (and they still kind of are to this day!). But, then, the SECOND June was canonized, I suddenly saw tons and tons of people going "ohhhh but what about john tboy hcs :(" or "ohh but actually I kinda hced him as a tboy". No you didn't. I mean I'm sure some of you did, every character has a small subset of people who hcs them as trans in some form! But I guarantee the vast majority of you never even thought about it much less had all these strong feelings about it UNTIL June. I used to kind of sympathize with people expressing this bc I wanted to believe it was all in good faith. But the more I see people talking about why they dislike June, the more I realize 90% of the time it is more or less (mostly subconsciously) just plain transmisogyny and I'm tired of pretending it isn't or that most of you even had any strong thoughts at all about tboy John until June came into the picture and turned your yaoi boy into yuri woman. None of you even ACTUALLY care about seeing John as a tboy and are blatantly just using it as a shield so you can be weird about tgirls and that fucking sucks almost as much as you being really really weird about tgirls. Please stop pretending to be a tboy warrior and just say that seeing a character transition made you feel weird and threatened your preconceptions about them or whatever
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)
✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈
As more and more people are being forced to switch to Windows 11, Microsoft's most AI-malware-ridden OS yet, I've been putting together articles and links for how to undo the damage and save your battery, your RAM, your disk space, your privacy, and your sanity from this bullshit.
FIRST:
The easiest way to get rid of the majority of the bullshit that Windows is forcing on us, as of October 2025, is this one-stop-one-click debloat solution from a modern day hero:
A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customi
It's very easy, even if you're not tech savvy or get scared of pop up windows saying "ARE YOU SURE?" Yes, you are sure, I promise. This program takes maybe two minutes and will save you SO MUCH pain, time, and money (and exploitation).
Now that you've done that, here's the cleanup, to catch the little shit that the debloat might have missed (most of this will already be done by debloat, but hey, it's good to double check).
Microsoft wants to put AI everywhere on your PC, but you can take back control.
Even just reading about some of these features makes me angry. Fucking Copilot and "Discover" AI scrapers are in Notepad. NOTEPAD. And then there's this uncanny valley garbage:
No uncanny valley video calls for me, thanks! (Also, what else is it doing while it scans your face and listens to your calls? What else, microsoft? Because there was a lot of memory being assigned to this program for a simple "smooths your skin" add on).
Tired of Microsoft pushing ads throughout Windows 11? Here are the settings you can tweak to turn them off and reclaim some privacy.
The truly insane number of places they have stuck ads on your own home computer is sickening. Become Unmarketable.
Bonus:
Some background programs you probably don't need that are taking up space and how to remove them (Microsoft forums, 2024)
Your Samsung Galaxy Phone comes with 22 apps you don't need (Android Police, 2025)
How to disable the AI in firefox (still the only browser that lets you do this permanently) (Windows Report, 2025)
Here's where I'll be posting my Class and Aspect analyses as I finish them. I'm linking the individual Classpect analyses on their respective Class and Aspect pages, both because of the 100 link limit, and because I feel like they aren't meant to stand on their own. Instead, they're meant to expand on the themes discussed in the Class/Aspect articles.
TL;DR: Want to find out about Heir of Breath, click on Heir or Breath first.
Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on here—- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! There’s more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hair—-cause it’s a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG thread from when I made these a year ago were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but I’ve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them here😭🙏🏾 I’ll upload them all in parts!
Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades
💬 2 🔁 715 ❤️ 1008 · Part 2: shape, style, and length with femme styles!
