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Lauren. 26. she/her. Catch all for fics, mainly Pedro things. 18+ Directory Requests open for April Showers Challenge

[nobedofroses]

[ID: picture of an evergreen mountain, bisected by a line of fog with snow covering the top. Green text reads "December." End ID]

On the 3rd day of December (today) I am starting to post my December writing! Each pairing I write for will get a mini series of sorts and I'm writing for Marcus Moreno, Pero Tovar, Din Djarin, Jack Daniels, Joel Miller, and Javier Peña again as always. Happy December 🌨️

December 1st with Pero Tovar: meeting Pero by candlelight

December 2nd with Joel Miller: knitting a sweater for Joel

[petewentzisblack1312]

Reform would deny visas to countries seeking slavery reparations

The party says it wants to put African and Caribbean countries "on notice" after a vote at the UN last month.

i should be allowed to rip white english people apart with my teeth

[petewentzisblack1312]

GO HERE NOW AND YOU BETTER FUCKING REBLOG.

READ BRITAIN'S BLACK DEBT.

READ HOW BRITAIN UNDERDEVELOPED THE CARIBBEAN.

LOOK AT US.

[reedrchards]

PEDRO PASCAL as JAVIER PEÑA Narcos - "La Catedral"

[bijameswilson]

NARCOS | 1.06 EXPLOSIVOS

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The New American Gothic (2017) by Criselda Vasquez

[gracklesong]

From Criselda Vasquez's Instagram (3 April 2026):

Donate to Help Bring My Father Home from ICE Detention, organized by Jorge V

Hi everyone, Thank you for taking the time to read this. On Tuesday, March 31,… Jorge V needs your support for Help Bring My Father Home

[stariteart]

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY 🏳️‍⚧️

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN

[nevershootamockingbird]

[ ID from Alt: a digital illustration in the style of a relief print depicting a black cat in a defensive pose holding a torn and tattered transgender pride flag in its mouth as it looks directly towards the viewer. the background is purple with some specks of blue and pink showing through, and behind the cat is a black midground resembling grass or flames. the top right corner features a box with a caption reading "T.D.O.V." / End ID ]

[terrible-eel]

The entire state of Hawaii has endured 40 inches of rain with no end in sight. There are multiple flood zones. 233 people have had to be rescued. A levee will most likely break and raise the water level to be 40ft high in some places.

If you want to help, please donate to the housing for homeless project Hui Mahi’ai Aina

And to the no kill animal shelter that needs to evacuate animals Oahu SPCA Veterinary Clinic and Animal Shelter

[the-beard-of-edward-teach]

Hawaiʻi is currently in the midst of a natural disaster if you didnt know

Apparently there isn’t much news coverage of this outside of the islands

Towns are flooded, homes destroyed and collapsed, roads collapsed, lives at risk, gas leaks from the flood damage

Haleiwa and Waialua are currently evacuated because the 120 year old dam is at risk of bursting

Mind you that damn is owned by Dole. Theyve known about it needing to be fixed for years and years and years. Despite having more than enough money they refuse

The state has been trying to buy it out from them for years so they can fix it, but the sale hasn’t gone through

Keep in mind that the Dole family were the ones who illegally imprisoned Queen Liliuʻokalani and illegally overthrew the monarchy.

If I see another goddamn person say how sad this is for the tourists whose “trips were ruined” and compare a messed up vacation to people losing their homes, belongings, and livelihoods, I’m going to lose my mind

I am so lucky that my family or friend’s are safe and the few whose houses flooded didnt have it too bad, but so so so many were not as fortunate

If you haven’t heard anything about this until now, I suggest looking into it

The sirens didn’t go off until the flood had been going on for hours. Our state government is spending so much money on a fucking monorail we don’t need rather than fixing the infrastructure.

It’s been the locals and Kanaka doing the most to help get people to safety from the start

I don’t really know how to end this

I just need to know people are aware

I need to know people are seeing whats happening

[the-beard-of-edward-teach]

Dole the fruit company started the dole plantation in 1901 in Hawaʻi as the “hawaiian pineapple company”

Dole the fruit company got big from plantations, colonialism, and exploitation in Hawaiʻi

Dole the fruit company monopolized land for their plantations, exploited local labor as well as immigrant labor from the people they shipped in to work, and depleted the soil and introduced toxic pesticides

Dole the fruit company was the cousin of Sanford B Dole who helped overthrow the monarchy and became the governor of hawaiʻi afterwards

Dole purchased the island of Lānaʻi and made it tbe largest pineapple plantation in the world

Lānaʻi is now 98% owned by larry ellison, cofounder and chairman of oracle

Dole the fruit company had sugarcane plantations across hawaiʻi as well as pineapple

For over 150 years, millions of gallons of water were diverted daily from natural streams to sugarcane plantations on Maui

This caused irreparable damage to the ecosystem and is largely if not wholly responsible for how dry Maui is to this day

The dryness of Maui played a huge factor into the severity of the Lahaina fires

That control over water shifted political power to colonizers which aided them in overthrowing the monarchy

yes, dole the fruit company owns a dam in Hawaiʻi

they still have massive pineapple farms in hawaiʻi

The dole plantation on Oahu is now a tourist attraction where they’ll take you on the “pineapple express train tour” or the “plantation garden tour”

They turned it into a tourist attraction

[the-beard-of-edward-teach]

Also: the dam is no longer at imminent risk of failure

BUT

that in no way means it isn’t still an issue

this is an earthen dam, not a concrete one

it was not meant to last this long

Earthen dams are weakened every time it rains. So even though it’s no longer at imminent risk of failure, the danger is still there

Earthen damns begin to erode once water runs over them

Here’s a good, local news article on this that @proustianrevelry linked in the rbs

‘We’re Screwed’: Dole Did Little To Fix Dangerous Wahiawā Dam

Hawaiʻi's proposal to acquire the dam, and have taxpayers foot the bill for repairs, let the company off the hook.

[torchbearess]

A link to the Lāhui Foundation which is helping folk who are affected by the flooding:

Hawaii Nonprofit | Lāhui Foundation

The Lāhui Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serve the communities of Hawai'i.

[museeeuuuum]

Did you know they're removing all librarians from federal prisons in Canada

[museeeuuuum]

Read more:

Correctional service cutting librarians at federal prisons, in move criticized by advocates | CBC News

The Correctional Service of Canada is finalizing plans to cut all prison librarian positions at federal institutions, in a move that advocat

There is an open letter that you can sign here if you're a resident of Canada:

Open Letter - CSC Elimination of Librarians & CEGEP Education

Book Clubs for Inmates 400-192 Spadina Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C2 OPEN LETTER The Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Sa

[awishturnedwell]

@teaboot

[isuggestlandback]

Indigenous people make up 1/3 of the prison population of Canada, and HALF the population of women's prisons, despite making up only 5% of the population.

[wickedsnack]

so as long as tumblr keeps this, here's the tumblr version of etiquette that was maintained when twitter's quote-retweets affected artist visibility/notes:

for art that someone has added reblog commentary to (or removed the caption from), reblog from the source

otherwise, avoid adding reblog comments to art (as this will affect the artist's notes/visibility)—utilize tags and replies to provide commentary (which artists will absolutely appreciate)

reblog comments are comments added to the body of a post, not the tags and not replies.

[chestharrington]

PSA: For fan works, reblog and like from OP

Tumblr is rolling out a new reblog/notes system that completely disregards creators. In their new system, they're taking a twitter-style approach where reblogs will have their own notes that DO NOT contribute to the original post's notes.

Because of this, creators will no longer be able to see an accurate display of likes/reblogs/etc. This is completely altering the way feedback and responses to works are going to be received on this website.

If you come across a fan work that you enjoy, please take the extra step to go to OPs original post, and leave your comment/like/reblog there. Or go one step further and send an ask to OP directly to tell them what you liked!

I really hope Tumblr staff reverses course and reverts to the original reblog system for the sake of the large base of creators who use this site to share their works, but until then, please be considerate and make sure the creators here see/feel the love.

[hranmere]

This is insane what is happening in Kansas.

They just—took away an entire population’s valid IDs. With a stroke of a pen. No grace period. No chance for anyone to get their IDs “fixed” in time, not that they should have had to in the first place. They even made it illegal for people to drive themselves to the DMV to get a new ID. That’s insane y’all. That is dystopian level madness. It is petty and cruel and literally dehumanizing.

They have also invalidated their birth certificates, thus jeopardizing their ability to prove citizenship and vote. It’s voter suppression on top of everything else.

They wanted to make an entire population into criminals with a stroke of a pen and that’s what they did.

And the rest of the country just… hasn’t noticed. No one cares. There’s no headlines. Nothing on the news. Because it’s Kansas. Because it’s trans people.

But if it can happen somewhere in this country, it can happen anywhere. And if it can happen to trans people, it can happen to you.

[kokoluwie]

[zadzunny]

God Bless America:🇲🇽🇬🇹 🇧🇿🇭🇳 🇸🇻🇳🇮🇨🇷🇵🇦🇨🇺🇩🇴🇭🇹🇯🇲🇧🇸🇧🇧🇹🇹🇦🇬🇩🇲 🇬🇩🇰🇳🇱🇨🇻🇨🇨🇴🇻🇪🇬🇾🇸🇷🇪🇨🇵🇪🇧🇴 🇧🇷🇵🇾🇺🇾🇦🇷🇨🇱🇨🇦🇺🇸

[botheryourreps]

In California, there is currently a ballot initiative (this is where the public works to create legislation and gather signatures on it, if enough signatures are gathered it can then be put onto a ballot for a vote) that would create a tax against any billionaires currently residing in California, to create a fund to replace money lost to federal funding cuts, and attempts by the Trump Administration to manipulate state legislation by controlling funding. This initiative is the first of its kind, but it is built on the framework of similar legislation in various states that has previous worked. Despite the successes of so many similar tax changes, many politicians and "analytics experts" are throwing a fit about this one. That includes California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has stated that he will do everything he can to kill this initiative before it can become law. For California residents, I am going to be providing two courses of action. One is to support the initiative. Please only endorse the initiative if you are a California resident, doing so otherwise could skew their numbers and jeopardize the initiative. The next is to contact Governor Newsom's office and voice your displeasure with the lack of support he has shown for the initiative

Maryland’s Tax Reform Likely Won’t Cause Millionaire Migration

The moment Gov. Wes Moore announced his proposal to reform Maryland’s tax system, in part, by raising income tax rates on high-income househ

Endorse the Initiative:

Endorse — California Billionaire Tax

Below, I will provide a call script that can double as an email template demanding Governor Gavin Newsom stop backing down from his promises to the people of California, starting with changing his tune about this initiative

Gavin Newsom:

Email

Office Number: [phone]

Script/Template:

[If calling] Hello, my name is [blank] and I am a constituent calling from [address]. [If you want to hear back from their office, you may also provide your email address. Not all offices will email you back]

I am reaching out today to demand that Governor Newsom stop trying to sacrifice actual gain and progress in California for his own image. The 2026 Billionaire Tax Act would be a game changer for our state, but the Governor can't look far enough past his own needs to see that. This isn't the first time Governor Newsom has turned his back on California, and I know it won't be the last at this rate. If he doesn't want to lose his supporters, he will stop this two-faced game. He will, at the very least, stop fighting the progress he is too cowardly to make himself by no longer trying to kill the 2026 Billionaire Tax Act.

[If calling] Thank you for your time and consideration. Have a good day.

End script.

Added to the Queue January 28th, 2026

[humanerrers]

x

[humanerrers]

stop spreading despair and nihilism

stop buying into the idea that nonviolent activism is useless, rather than (by far) the most effective form of protest

stop falsely claiming that BLM accomplished nothing and that most citizens “don’t care” when people are murdered by the state

start understanding that most of your neighbors care about your rights, and their own

start noticing that most people are moved by injustice, including against people who look nothing like them

[crafting-and-tea]

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong

The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

[crafting-and-tea]

Wed. Jan 28, 2026

Masked, armored, and armed to the teeth, and they're afraid of people blowing whistles at them. link to post

[isuggestlandback]

hi, sorry I'm not sure if this is the best place to go with this but I posted it on my blog a month ago and it's still at 0 notes and I don't know any other Native American blogs with larger followings but I still want to at least try and help spread awareness

it's not stated in the poster but he is Navajo. here's a link to the most recent news about him, although it's not much

Absolutely the kind of thing I'm happy to share!