unsure but moving forward

Hollis/Anasten | they/them | hella queer | artist on @anastenlights-art | technically not a hxh blog

[lakemojave]

If you are currently sitting or laying down this moment ask yourself if you are resting or rotting. Change your behavior accordingly

[lakemojave]

There is no romance in decay when the decaying is easy

[lakemojave]

You are naught but pawns in my game

[b00tlegf4g]

I hope some of y'all take this as a sign to rest intentionally too.

if you're "resting" but thinking of all the things you have to do, that's not resting, that's rotting. Even if you haven't done anything all day, give yourself some time to rest and truly relax. When you let yourself relax guilt free, you actually regain energy for your responsibilities.

[kaijuno]

[vaspider]

Look. This isn't about policy, or anything, but the thing that makes me like Walz the most right now is that he will stop a speech mid-sentence and call for a medic if he sees someone staggering in the heat, then thank the people nearby the ailing person for looking after their neighbor.

It's happened twice, and he just brings things to a halt until he knows the person is okay and being looked after.

He's actually looking at the people in the crowd. Not past them, not through them, not counting bodies so he can brag about the size of his... crowd. He notices when people aren't doing okay, and he stops what he's doing to call for help.

It's such basic fucking human decency, and it's been a while since I've seen someone in politics be so reflexively decent that it really shook me (complimentary) the first time I saw it.

טים וואלז איז א מענטש.

[missroserose]

Honestly, this underscores something that really strikes me about Walz as a VP pick:

He appears to be a decent human being.

Some of it is almost certainly the DNC’s propaganda machine highlighting electorate-friendly aspects of his past (he was a schoolteacher! he helped low-income kids get food! he likes hunting and fishing!) but the fact that the current Republican candidates, masters of name-calling and mud-dragging, haven’t been able to pin anything worse on him than “Tampon Tim” (because he *gasp* signed legislation mandating that menstrual products be made available in school bathrooms) really speaks volumes. As does the outpouring of people, many of whom are lifelong politicians from both sides of the aisle, standing up to vouch for his character.

What’s more, it’s not something the campaign has to highlight, because it’s clearly so internalized he doesn’t even think about it.

And on the one hand, it seems like such a low bar? But on the other…while I don’t know if this was an intentional move, it’s frankly genius strategy. Populism has been on the rise globally for years, and the Republican ticket is doing their best to take advantage by stoking the dark side of crowd mentality: fear, anger, suspicion, resentment. Which only serves to highlight the brighter side that Walz is inadvertently representing: fundamental human respect and care.

In a very real way, the Democratic ticket this year has morphed into a personification of the infamous rebuke that halted a similar era of suspicion and division: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”

[justcatposts]

Deceptive floof…

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[justcatposts]

Deceptive floof…

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[loveendlesslyhopelessly]

Have a snoozing baby kitty on your dash

[littlealienproducts]

I Care About Everything Button by WolfBoyGirl

[status-quo-hater]

This version of the progress flag legitimately looks so nice

Gilbert baker rainbow, huge intersex circle, the design is cluttered but in a good way 10/10

[ID: A version of the progress pride flag with a large purple intersex ring outlined in gold, looping through pink, blue, brown, and black chevrons on the side, which have a base of white. The horizontal stripes are: pink, red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, and purple. End ID.]

[kira-serialfaggot]

It's happening the morphing into Ohio

[the-lumpfish-queen]

[yuriwinged]

[autistic-af]

[jam-does-audio]

Girls. That's the original image. We've come full circle. It's always just been the state of Ohio

[blignick]

[prinnay]

l u n a

[dry-gold]

Hey in middle earth is there any ecological consequences for those big fuckin eagles

[astercrash]

Goblins and hobbits both make their homes underground

[progeny-ex-machina]

This is the worst thing I’ve ever made. It will get 2 or 3 notes at most, but in my heart, I’ve unleashed it on the world.

[fluff-e-boy]

Graphic design is my passion

[batmantaking-hobbits2gallifrey]

Actually the worst thing in the world is alphabetical lists that put titles begining with "The" under the "T" section

[yugirimistwalker]

you can reblog this any day that you want to :)

[allmyplants]

Pterodactyl and monstera adansonii round form 🌿

[pteren]

hey my besties who live in red states: id like you to go out and vote anyway.

yeah, the electoral college means your vote doesn't count unless you win your state. it's a terrible undemocratic bullshit system. it's not going to change before this election,* so there isn't much point in complaining about it right now.

if you hold the belief that there's no point in voting because your voice will just be downed out by a chorus of bigotry- chances are other people in your state feel the same way. and because those people are not voting, it's impossible to know how many of you there are. the reason it's important to vote EVEN WHEN YOU KNOW YOU ARE GOING TO LOSE is to make this number public.

when the minority in a state still goes out to vote:

- other members of the minority party know they aren't alone in their state. this encourages MORE people to vote in the next election

- the majority candidates are forced to divert some of their campaign resources away from swing states to secure a state they were already going to win

- the minority candidates are encouraged to spend some time campaigning in your state instead of abandoning it as a lost cause

- assuming you also vote in local elections, the minority is more likely to win representatives in the house

- who knows there might be so many of you that you fucking flip it by mistake

there has been a 700% increase in new daily voter registrations in the few days since Biden dropped out of the race.

thousands of people are deciding, right now, that voting is worth it. some of them live in your state. there is going to be a spike in blue votes across the country. this election is going to have the youngest voter turnout in history. this is the best possible time to join them. join us.

what have you got to lose? one afternoon?