The Musings

A lovely lady with a few lovely faces, That appear inside my brain's spaces. (Just a little place for me to post inspirations for my creativity and funny things that I come across while here.)

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

Please, spread this for those who might need it right now

U.S. suicide hotline: call or text 988 (available 24 hours)

U.S. trans lifeline: [phone] (when you call, you’ll speak to a trans/nonbinary peer operator. full anonymity and confidentiality)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) – provides 24/7 confidential support and referrals for individuals and families facing mental health and substance use disorders, including panic attacks and anxiety.

LGBT National Help Center: [phone]

Trevor Project: Call [phone], text START to 678-678, or chat online.

Take care of yourself and each other. Please stay safe ♡

[unforth]

Everything feels awful right now but it isn't really. We still don't officially have a winner, but regardless of how the presidential election ends up, I wanted to take a minute and find what lights I can in the 3 a.m. darkness. Here's what I know:

* Kentucky overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to undermine the public education system by offering private school vouchers:

Kentucky rejects Amendment 2 to allow private education funding, passes Amendment 1

Amendment 2 to allow public funds to go to private and charter school education was rejected universally in Kentucky counties when the Assoc

* Delaware has elected a transgender woman to the House of Representatives, the first out trans person of any gender ever elected to congress:

Sarah McBride becomes first out trans person elected to US House

McBride wins Delaware’s at-large House seat against Republican candidate John Whalen III, a former state police officer

* For the first time in history, two Black women will be serving in the senate at the same time, and they are only the fourth and fifth Black women ever elected to the senate:

US will have two Black women serving as senators for first time in history

Democrats Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland both saw victories

* New York State has passed a constitutional amendment enshrining the rights of pregnant people (including the right to an abortion), LGBTQIA+ people, the disabled, immigrants regardless of legal status, and other at-risk groups:

New York voters pass Prop 1, enshrine abortion rights into state constitution

The constitutional amendment faced a tougher-than-expected fight after a right-wing campaign against anti-discrimination protections.

* Democrat Josh Stein has beaten self-avowed Nazi Mark Robinson to become governor of North Carolina:

North Carolina’s Josh Stein wins race for governor over Mark Robinson

 Stein is the current attorney general and he noted his work winning opioid settlements. But it was controversy over Robinson’s inflammatory

That's everything I know off the top of my head. It's not many bright spots, but it's not zero. I'm going to try to find more and I'll add them to the post. It's the only thing I can think of to do that isn't sobbing and throwing up or looking up Canadian immigration rules.

If you know more good news, I encourage you to add it in reblogs.

[unforth]

* Nevada has amended their constitution to guarantee abortion rights, overturning a state ban:

Nevada Question 6 Election Results 2024: Right to Abortion

Get live results and maps from the 2024 Nevada general election.

* Colorado has passed amendment 79, guaranteeing the right to an abortion, with more than a 20 point spread between the Yes and No vote:

Colorado voters approve constitutional amendment on abortion access

This means that now, the right to an abortion is codified into the state constitution and a future state legislature cannot restrict it.

* Maryland Question 1, also focused on reproductive rights and abortion, has passed as well: https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/maryland/issue-1

Maryland Question 1 results 2024 | CNN Politics

Question 1 on the Maryland ballot offers voters the choice to enshrine reproductive rights in the state’s constitution. View the 2024 ballot

* Likewise, Amendment 3 has passed in Missouri, overturning a near-total ban to add reproductive rights to the state constitution:

Missourians vote to pass Amendment 3, enshrining abortion rights into the state constitution

Missourians voted to enshrine reproductive health rights into the state’s constitution Tuesday by voting yes on Amendment 3.

* Arizona Proposition 139 to protect abortion rights also passed:

Arizona Proposition 139 Election Results 2024: Right to Abortion

Get live results and maps from the 2024 Arizona general election.

Every glimmer helps.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[unforth]

* New Jersey has elected the first Korean-American senator in history:

Democrat Andy Kim wins open New Jersey Senate seat, defeating Republican Curtis Bashaw

Democratic U.S. Rep. Andy Kim was elected Tuesday to the U.S. Senate, defeating Republican businessman Curtis Bashaw for the seat that opene

And adding a couple from the reblogs...

* Missouri voters have raised the state minimum wage to $15/hour:

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article294530839.html

* Proposition 3 in California, which adds protection for all marriages to the constitution, is projected to pass:

Prop 3: Californians pass measure to protect marriage rights for all, ABC News projects

California's Proposition 3, the path to legalizing marriage for same-sex couples, will pass, ABC News projects.

* Colorado has passed Amendment J, overturning a previous amendment that banned same-sex marriage:

Colorado voters repeal state Constitution’s 2006 same-sex marriage ban

A defunct ban on same-sex marriage added to the Colorado Constitution in 2006 has now been repealed by voters. Amendment J, referred to the

[hooleidoscope-deactivated202510]

What state will my concentration camp be in and am I allowed to bring a sweater

[nb-nightwing-deactivated2022111]

they posted a full version lol it's mr Stacy's dad for me

[babyanimalgifs]

[vrgnmry]

WHY DID THIS HAVE TO END

[saysomethingsurreal]

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDD

[memeuplift]

[mrbrojangles]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[blondekidwithgatoradebottle]

Oh my god I have it in my 1946 Lily Wallace New American Cookbook too I’m screaming

[mybabymylatte]

This is it! This is the white culture we’ve been looking for!

[professorsparklepants]

I’m sorry are we just not gonna mention “Beef Tea” “Raw Beef Tea” and “Cooked Raw Beef Tea” one after the other

[fluffmugger]

#WHY

Because the majority of human existence has not been to the knowledge and supply level we are at now.  You can’t just give someone electrolytes in the 19th century, you have no idea what the fuck they are. Someone is sick, and can only keep weak liquids down, but you know enough at this point to realise that man cannot live on water alone.   So you work out really weird ways to infuse foodstuffs into liquids they can handle to try and keep food into them. A lot of these also come from a way to stretch nutrient sources in times of poverty and scarcity. 

[tuulikki]

Thank you for this addition. People are curiously comfortable assuming everyone in the past was stupid and illogical, and it’s always struck me as showing a sad lack of empathy for fellow human beings. It’s like people in the past aren’t seen as, you know, people

[aylwyyn228]

Your local 19th century PhD researcher popping in here to add to this. Toast water is 100% a drink for treating illness. It turns up listed in several household medicine guides in the 19th century, and is listed as for treating people with fever, diarrhoea and vomiting, who can’t keep anything down. It’s essentially oral rehydration therapy. 

It interestingly starts turning up in literature in the period covering five major cholera outbreaks in the UK and US (this was obviously an English language Ngram search).

And peaks several times at epidemic peak points (1830s, 1850, 1880s), including its first peak in 1831/2, which corresponds with the first cholera epidemic in the UK. 

It also corresponds with the year William Brooke O’Shaughnessy discovered that a lot of people who were dying of cholera were severely lacking water and salts in their blood and urine. Dehydration was found to be a major cause of death in cholera patients. “Toast water” was suggested in the Lancet medical journal in 1832 as an initial treatment for cholera patients. 

Most of the recipes in household medicine guides I found suggest sweetening or flavouring the toast water with something if the patient could keep it down in order to cover the terrible taste.

People in the past were just people. And in this particular case, they were trying to keep their loved ones from dying of cholera. 

[actuallynotautomated]

And here is a link to possibly my fave ever book, with some modern recipes to do the same job , including the water you cooked rice in with the water you cooked rice in plus half a teaspoon of salt - so really toast water was pretty smart - https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/New_Where_There_Is_No_Doctor:Dehydration#Rehydration_drinks

[catsoverloaded]

Poor girl broke her favorite sitting basket.

[kitten-cab00dle]

I’m sorry but this is the funniest thing I have ever seen ever in my fucking life her PEETS are STICKING OUT

[animation-s]

[221cbakerstreet]

lion roars are not as powerful as some guy named frank with a trash can

[satandotgov]

how can you post that and not include the video

[moved--306389]

I’M FUCKING WHEEZING

[guardianbastard]

*several seconds of feral snarls*

“great, great yeah that was good”

[transm3d]

I liTERaLLY CAnT BTeAtHE

[heckin-good-memes]

WATCH THE VIDEO

[link-the-feral-anon]

Thanks Freddie

[existential-eva]

for anyone wondering, this man, frank welker, is scooby doo and fred jones

[hrefnatheravenqueen]

Being a supportive parent to your trans daughter AND standing up to her trolls and mocking them openly. Good parenting.

[siilkeye]

How could you leave these out?

[tdwhisperer]

In this house we respect Colin Mochrie

[thewiglesswonder]

[squashfolded]

[0rki3]

[oonajaeadira]

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[fiddlepickdouglas]

[plaidbees]

i always forget my grandma used to be a clown so it caught me the fuck off guard when she saw this

and no hesitation saying “oh it’s that creepy clown- oh he’s drinking that’s against clown code”

[aggressiveflyingpizza]

1. ARE YOU NOT GOING TO EXPLAIN YOUR GRANDMA’S PAST CLOWN CAREER? 2. WHAT’S CLOWN CODE??????????????

[rose-the-emo-cryptid]

Clown code.

[rift-master]

I call a lot of y'all clowns but it turns out that’s too good for you since even they live by a code.

[thisanimatedphantom]

So today I learned about clown code…

[trekkiemage]

[headspace-hotel]

I was about to reblog this, and then I saw the picture and I got the joke, in that order.

like this is just what a normal D&D session is like

[luxlightly]

If I hadn’t seen this caption I literally would never have gotten the joke. This is just a perfect representation of a normal D&D session. 

[funny-tik-toks]

[lumerianlotus]

@queenofthetemplars

Your perfect cosplay.

[elftwink]

want to be clear that if i ever talk about a headcanon and then later discuss a headcanon that is directly contradictory to the first one, that’s because headcanons exist in a quantum state where they are all simultaneously true and not true up until the point where i discuss it in detail, in which case that is the one that is true in that instance. schroedinger’s headcanons

[emmiejo-blog]

This is Important!!!!

[pomrania]

For me, my most common use of “headcanon” is “idea that I think is cool, in this particular context”; it’s similar to “plot bunny” except instead of “story”, it’s “setting” or “characterization”.

[memewhore]

[wittlecritter]

I’ve been thinking about Howl’s Moving Castle and how Sophie’s curse is a physical symbol of her self belief of being romantically unlovable (especially after growing up with beautiful, sought after women in her family.) How Howl tries to undo the curse the moment she steps into his castle but he *cant* because Sophie doesn’t want it to be broken. How, in the film, Sophie gets so close to breaking the curse in the field, but hearing Howl call her beautiful went against her self views, so she reinforces her sense of self by turning 90 again.

And the way that her love and kindness make her younger again and again. How film Sophie sacrifices her long hair, perhaps what past Sophie would have seen as her only beauty, for Howl but she’s grown so much that she still remains young, perhaps even confident about her grey hair, showing that Sophie no longer links her appearance to her lovability or worth and she learned to accept herself as she is. In this essay I-

[wittlecritter]

This essay is a group project now and y’all are pulling your weight

[doriandangerous]

@thebibliosphere