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gote, plaguesm'n, bull, guitarist, drummer, cryptid ace gay he/him eat my ass

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The light in the woods has been calling you and it's tired of going to voicemail.

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Soon™

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Screaming very loudly, frothing at the mouth, beating down my neighbour's doors, howling at the moon, building a nest in a tree and shrieking at passers by

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The album I've been working on ended up being exactly an hour long.

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Am I being coy?

No.

Don't touch me.

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when your album sounds like

[moonlitmonocerus]

For the ones that need it today

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I wonder if Joann Fabric closing down is a symptom of a larger capitalist conspiracy to prevent people from crafting their own goods and forcing them to buy subpar goods from disreputable companies that make those goods with labour that's either forced, child, or both.

[khvylovy]

dear usamerican high schoolers looking for a way to resist fascism: sit through the pledge of allegiance.

no getting up. no looking at the flag.

everyone will be looking at you. you'll be sweating like a fucking hippopotamus. your teacher will sternly tell you to get up. you'll feel stupid and that maybe its not worth it because you're just a kid in a classroom. but I'm here to remind you that there are no real life consequences to detention. there are however real life consequences to resisting a thoughtless performance of nationalism.

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not to talk tough but i have sat through every pledge of allegiance in my life, and that includes the bush administration's hyper-patriotic war on terror.

you can NOT be compelled to say the pledge, and that also means you can't be given the 'choice' of doing it or taking a punishment. being sent into the hall is a grey area.

if you are punishing for refusing, parents or a more sympathetic teacher (like say a history or english teacher) can step in to intercede with the principal. do not be afraid to escalate.

it is critical now of all times that you PRACTICE civil disobedience, starting small, sticking to it, and working up, this will help you learn how very much disobedience you can actually get away with in this life, which is actually a hell of a lot.

[dragonheart2497]

Also, even if you start off as the only person doing it, you are giving courage to others.

Relevately soon after the 2016 anthem kneeling protests, I and queer friends started sitting through the pledge. We live in a military town, I am from a military family- it felt like a massive deal at first. Fortunately, most of our teachers were up to date on social issues and supportive.

By my last year of high school, the pledge was hardly done once a week, and most of our teachers asked the class verbatim- do you all really want to do the pledge? And on the occasion a student insisted it was done, only about half of the class participated.

By example, you can help others realize they do not need to conform.

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Non cryptid content for a minute but this is important.

When I was in middle and high school, Bush was in office. From the point he was elected, when I was in 7th grade, I sat through the pledge every day, and every homeroom teacher I had until I graduated tried to reprimand me. I was sent to the office at the beginning of every year for "not complying", and the word "compulsory" was thrown around a lot, but the office would just send me back with a call to the teacher to tell them I didn't need to stand and there was nothing they could do, and that they couldn't punish me.

When I was in 11th grade, Bush was re-elected and my math teacher turned on the inauguration speech and told everyone that they had to put everything down and watch and listen. I put on my headphones and started drawing and my teacher tried to single me out to the class. He tried to say that what I was doing was tantamount to treason until I asked him what law said that I had to watch and listen to a murderer in chief talk about all the ways he was going to ruin the country and the future for myself and my classmates. We went back and forth for nearly half an hour, progressively getting louder, until we were nearly shouting at each other. The point is, I went out of my way to be a disruption because he wanted so badly for me to be one, and the other students took note.

Prior to that, nobody really paid attention to me. After that, people talked about me, and the school administration looked for any way they could to expel me because I was a disruption and a bad influence on other students, eventually succeeding on made up grounds that couldn't be verified, but were enough for the paperwork.

I found out several years later that people still talked about me in that school, even though everyone who had been in that school at the time had long graduated, and I think there's a very important lesson here: if they want to make an example of you, it's not the worst idea to make yourself a martyr.

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BEHOLD! An artist!

[were--ralph]

official elon musk hate post reblog to hate like to hate reply to hate

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Cryptid eating an onion.

That is all.

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Candles in the dark, join your hands together.

Candles in the dark, bring your hearts together.

Candles in the dark, sing your songs together.

Candles in the dark, be your strength together.

Candles in the dark, become a bonfire together and light up the night.

Be a beacon together.

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And many tricks were treated

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unyun

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I have discovered, to the surprise of probably no one, that upon looking through stuff I just...happen to have around the house, that I am extremely prepared for Halloween.