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[r4w13y]

Follow me at TheButterscotchQueen

Hey everyone - during the great password change of 2016 I was unable to sign into this account anymore on desktop as I was using my .edu email address that is no longer accessible. I'm tired of only being able to use mobile so please follow me at TheButterscotchQueen.tumblr.com! I'm going to sign out of this account soon and won't be able to sign in again once I do that. I love you all and want to make sure I keep my mutuals!⭐️

[figsandnewtons]

But emails!!

[incorrectblacksailsquotes]

Jack Rackham: Okay, I need everyone to be completely straight with me.

 Anne Bonny: I’m always straight. 

Max: Oh man, that’s the biggest lie you’ve ever told.

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[sugarplumharry-deactivated20170]

how could we forget

[profmeowmers]

[klingoff]

hell is right-clicking to save an image and accidentally clicking ‘email image’ and having to wait forty years for some email program you didn’t even know existed to rise from its slumber like some lovecraftian ancient god, meanwhile the fans on your laptop are preparing for takeoff and you stare dead-eyed as the rainbow spirals, spirals, spirals. you wait and suffer this cosmic karma. days pass. “just a few more seconds” you slur. your laptop freezes and the concept of time is no longer comprehensible. your family and friends forget your name and you fade from existence.

[mexicanist-deactivated20151125]

[niconiconiko]

[animacia]

We each need to find our own inspiration, Kiki. Sometimes it’s not easy.

[professorcapybara]

Man Who Lost Arm By Plunging It Into Lava Smugly Refuses To Describe What Lava Feels Like

[professorcapybara]

so i was running a fever the other day and have no memory of writing this

[andrewbelami]

[jamieclaire]

Does it ever stop? the wanting you?

[malicenthightower]

@r4w13y has literally changed my life and continues to amaze me every day and I absolutely love her to bits 

[r4w13y]

Listen, Michelle, you incredible goddess, you. You deserve to feel loved and supported and beautiful. You deserve the world. You're an amazingly special person. Your warmth, kindness, wit, intelligence, compassion, and beauty are all unparalleled. And honestly, you have changed my life for the better as well, and I'm so grateful and can never thank you enough for that. There aren't words to properly express my love for you⭐️

[wordsnquotes]

How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.

Unknown (via laynemorgan) @r4w13y according to this you’re amazing (via aprilmacleans) I would also say the same about you @aprilmacleans 💖

[deflare]

Time for another political essay. If you’re not an American citizen or able to vote in this upcoming election, my apologies.

I make no secret that I fucking despise Donald Trump. I actually like Hillary Clinton, which seems to be a weird rarity considering the amount of good work she’s done and the fact that all of the bad press about her is the result of the Republicans trying (and failing) to tear her and her husband down for thirty years.

Trump is now trailing far behind Clinton, which I consider a cause for celebration. But it is NOT a cause for complacency.

The biggest landslide election in US history was the election of Warren G. Harding in 1920, when Harding won with about 60% of the vote to his opponent’s 34.2%.

Some polls are reporting Trump with as little as 35% of the popular vote right now.

If turnout is large enough and loud enough, we can make Donald Trump the least supported major candidate in US history. Since the recording of him bragging about sexual assault came out, he has turned to dragging the whole election into the mud by striking back at Bill Clinton’s affairs; the usual goal of that kind of tactic is to drive down voter turnout. Trump’s band of Redcaps is pretty much guaranteed to vote, so they figure if they reduce turnout enough, they’ll win.

I want their plan to fail. I want their plan to fail so fucking spectacularly that NO ONE will dare to run for President on a platform of thinly-veiled fascism again.

The Republicans thought the House of Representatives was safe this year. In 2010, they gerrymandered the shit out of district lines to keep the House safe for them for at least ten years. But there’s a problem with gerrymandering: if the demographics shift unexpectedly between censuses, then suddenly a lot of districts wind up flipping against the party that the gerrymandering was meant to support. And Donald Trump is driving away the Republicans’ most secure core of voters, the evangelicals. And as I’ve said before: Congress is MORE important than the presidency.

If turnout is strong enough, and if people vote down ballot, the possibility exists for a massive upset. A Democratic presidency, a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate. They’re within our grasp. All you need to do, voters, is show up.

Motherfuckers don’t want you to vote. Young people, people of color, women, LGBTQ+ folks–they want you to be scared away, or to be convinced that voting doesn’t matter. They want your voice silenced. Don’t give the fuckers the satisfaction of letting it happen.

GO VOTE. VOTE DOWN-BALLOT. MAKE TRUMP THE BIGGEST LOSER IN US HISTORY.

IF YOU CAN’T BE BOTHERED TO VOTE OUT OF CONVICTION, THEN DO IT OUT OF SPITE.

[kavan30013]

Americans need to vote ASAP. Don’t wait for November. Early vote.

[npr]

It’s easy to believe in a definitive American immigration story. So much of this country’s mythos is built on that idea. (“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free …”) It foretells a fairy tale ending where parents have worked hard, sacrificed much, and settled their children into the new country. The family has assimilated, and the life that came before is a distant memory.

But it’s more complicated than that. The telling of immigration stories exposes a rich array of experiences: loss, longing, duality, triumph and contradiction.

When Latino colleagues from across NPR shared their families’ immigration stories for Hispanic Heritage Month, their essays were full of things achieved and things surrendered; cultures celebrated and cultures lost; decisions made by choice and by coercion. Camille Salas, a librarian, wrote about her grandfather’s decision to join the Navy in exchange for U.S. citizenship. Cecily Meza-Martinez, of News Operations, wrote about her family’s hardships and achievements, which included a role in building Disneyland. Producer Ana Lucia Murillo wrote about how her father crossed the border from Mexico to the U.S. in the bottom of a van marked “Laundromat.”

Every family came to U.S. with an idea in mind of what its experience might be. But what shines through in these stories is the stark difference between expectation and reality.

We’ll share some of their immigration stories here with you. Then, if you have one, we’ll ask you to tell us yours.

When These Latinos Tell Immigration Stories, They Push Beyond Fairy Tales

Illustrations: Chelsea Beck/NPR

[frolicingintheforest]

I’m almost certain that the forest is most beautiful in the rain. <3