Magical Musings

I'm Elspat. I'm 18 years old, a gay cis girl, a white human, a Fire Mage, and in a committed relationship. (No, I'm not interested in more partners, try my girlfriend?) I like studying magic, reading, and games. Oh! The background matches my hair. My girlfriend's tumblr. ((RP/Character Blog)

[chonce]

#NotMyPresident

The electoral college does not vote until December 19th. We have 40 days.

What does this mean?

Right now, the presidential election results are only a PROJECTION of the election outcome. They are PRELIMINARY RESULTS. A candidate still needs to earn 270 electoral votes to win. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, which means that more than 50% of the voters wanted her for president. The electoral college shouldn’t guarantee an override of the public’s opinion– and it doesn’t have to.

There are 21 states that do NOT restrict which candidate the electors vote for. Out of these 21, Hillary lost the following:

As you can see, these states are worth 166 electoral votes. As it currently stands, Hillary Clinton is projected to receive 232 votes. Trump is projected to win 306. This means that 37 votes need to be taken away from Trump to bring him down to 269. Hillary Clinton needs 38 votes ADDED to win 270. These electoral voters can also abstain, which means that they can refuse to vote for either candidate. If 37 of the voters within these states abstain then no candidate will have reached the required 270. In this case, the vote would be taken to the House.

Trump won Pennsylvania, a state that typically votes blue, by less than 100,000 votes. While it is highly unlikely to get all 20 electoral voters to cross party lines and vote democrat, it also isn’t impossible to convince a few of them to be “faithless electors.” We only need to convince 38 out of the 166. That is 23%. There are SIXTEEN states we need to focus our attention on.

A move like this would be unprecedented. However, as we all saw on November 8th, odds don’t guarantee reality. Trump had a less than 20% winning, yet given the circumstances, enough people came together and made it happen. We can make this happen. 

Ask yourself this: What do we have left to lose? We can stay complacent and accept that this country will be run by a racist, sexist, islamophobic, homophobic, ablest bigot, or we can at least try. 

How?

SPREAD THE WORD. Trend #NotMyPresident to let people know that we do not accept being led by a man who does not care about our wellbeing. Email your professors, email the dean of your colleges. The last thing a university wants is negative press. Millenials can take a stand, but that doesn’t mean we have to be the only ones. Church-led events helped bring a lot of disillusioned voters to the polls. Spread the word in any way possible, whether it be on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or even in person. Stage a peaceful protest. Hand out flyers. Let the people around you know that you don’t accept this man as your leader when he won’t even accept you as a citizen with your designated rights.

These 166 people need to face the consequences of electing this man. 

Do this for the people who couldn’t vote. Do this for the people who live in the very real fear of being deported. Do this for the people who will have to face the rise in hate crimes. Do this for the people who have a very real possibility of losing their rights. Do this for the people who will no longer afford necessities. 

[vortexsophia-deactivated2022110]

If you haven't heard from/seen updates from a trans person you know today, please check on them.

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

Eve’s Medical and Relocation Fund

So. Gods, where to start.

Recently, I’ve had a heavy amount of bad news in a very short period of time. There’s a lot of it, but there’s three big things that have really put me in a bad situation.

Firstly, I’ve developed serious, chronic pain in my arms, legs, hands, and feet. It’s constant at this point, and makes basic functioning difficult. Due to my genetic predisposition, the recent stresses my situation has put on my diet, and the other symptoms I’m experiencing, it’s most likely this is neuropathy due to a diabetic condition. Most likely, as in I don’t know for sure, and that’s the next issue.

I’m currently living in Tennessee. This is, I have learned, a state that opted out of MedicAid expansion and thus unless you’re under 18 or have dependents, or have officially established disability, you’re very unlikely to qualify for MedicAid even though I did qualify in both Indiana and Iowa. And I learned, within a couple days of this pain starting, that I don’t qualify in Tennessee.

On top of all this, I’ve recently learned that my current living situation has a ticking time bomb of unknown length on it. I don’t know when I’ll have to leave. But it will happen and probably not too far off in the future. This was always a plan, eventually, Tennessee is not somewhere I want to stay. But my hand is getting forced by a number of situations. 

So my priorities right now are basically:

1. Get to a local clinic just to make sure I won’t die or start losing fingers or legs too fast. Also figure out how to afford any medications they prescribe on top of what I’m already paying for HRT meds.

2. I’m a trans woman. I’ve gotten my legal name change, but not all of the documents yet. So the next thing is to hopefully get to a doctor I have lined up in Nashville who should be willing to sign off on the paperwork I need for my ID marker changes so that I can hopefully get on a plane with less chance of being sexually assaulted the way I was last time. There’s also processing fees to get this done after I get said sign-off.

3. Get myself to somewhere safer, more secure, and in a state that didn’t decide to harm its poor in medical need just to make some political grandstanding gesture.

I’ve got some leads on where exactly I’ll be going that I’ll hopefully have more info and a clearer plan on soon. In the meantime, this is all way beyond what I can financially handle without help. 

Any help at all that anyone can offer would be appreciated. Since I haven’t gotten enough new ID papers to update my paypal info and even if I could the delays in getting it fixed might cause other problems, my long distance girlfriend Alvhild will be handling the donations as I really don’t want my dead name out there, even if it’s no longer my legal name.

Donations Can Be Done Here

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer, even if it’s just boosting.

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

Going to give this another go-round. We’ve made some progress to about $50, but there’s quite a bit of a way to go. Thanks to everyone who’s helped out donating or boosting so far. 

[consultingwives]

i hope all autistic wlw find a girlfriend who loves how excited they get about their special interests and who tells them they don’t have to apologize for them

[talkgentlytome]

France is screwed.

For my English-Speaking followers: so basically, the FN has won the first part of our regional elections. Broadly : Marine LePen is our French equivalent of Donald Trump. Her party is implicitly xenophobic, overtly anti-gay marriage and pro-life, and most of its members are sexist, racist and islamophobic idiots. So we are basically about to be a Fascist country in theory, how beautiful is that? 

As a good example of the mentality of this party, its former president, Marine LePen’s father Jean-Marie, was accused to have said that ‘the Jewish genocide’ was only a ‘minor detail’ of WW II and on another occasion, that it hadn’t even taken place at all. He is also said to have claimed that his ‘daughter was born in the good race’. Another horrible example: a little girl whose family is pro-FN was interviewed in the street, and when journalists asked her what she knew about the FN, she replied, most certainly following what she’d heard at home: that ‘they aimed at exporting people who aren’t white’. So her parents are overtly racist at home and probably wouldn’t have said that on TV, but a little can never understand such thing so she wasn’t afraid to say it out loud, thus clearly expressing what the party’s members are trying to hide between a hardcore patriotic facade. There are a lot of other examples but I will stop there.

The Attack of Paris have something to do with this, it’s obvious. People are afraid, they think it’s going to solve terrorism if innocent illegal immigrants and Syrian refugees are sent back to their countries of origin. People CANNOT understand that this is precisely what terrorists from ISIS want: to divide us, to create fear and racism within us all.

 This triumph of a fascist party in France is ISIS’s triumph as well. We screwed up hard, and I’m concerned for the future. The Presidential elections take place in 2017, and if we keep going that way, this country is going downhill… Edit : If you are a French citizen, please go and vote next Sunday. There was a huge level of abstention for the first round and this passivity partly led to that nightmare./ Si vous êtes un citoyen français, je vous supplie d'aller voter dimanche prochain pour le second tour. Il y avait un niveau démesuré d'abstention pour ce premier tour et c'est en parti pour cela qu'on s'est retrouvé dans le caca.

[thecheshirecass-deactivated2018]

This is a global problem, not just an America thing. I’ve been saying for a while that the current political situation reminds me of the period between WWI and WWII and that feeling is only growing strong.

Shit’s getting real kids, it’s time to buckle up.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

If you live in France, USE YOUR VOTE and keep this scumbag Nazi piece of TRASH and her vile scumbag party of hateful vermin OUT of power

DO NOT let this Nazi piece of SHIT ruin your country

[noitarumpusymposium]

Fear me I am the sea!

Original fusion here

[micdotcom]

Donald Trump names Reince Priebus chief of staff and Steve Bannon as counselor

Donald Trump made one of the most significant initial choices regarding the composition of his future presidential administration choosing Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus as his future chief of staff and appointing former Breitbart chief executive Stephen Bannon as special counselor. Trump’s statement regarding the appointment is chilling.

[lesbiancatsnakedancer]

… We can’t let this shit happen. Whatever it takes. Things are bad for us now, but with this shitfucker that high up…

[vengeful-daughter]

people are like “sexism had nothing to do with the election results” but you don’t understand. we can’t even WEAR GLASSES without making men feel like they have to belittle us and remind us how stupid and powerless we are. the day after trump was elected i got stopped on the street by some guy who told me i “looked like the hot teacher he had a crush on in middle school” and then another guy sat next to me on the bus and told me he liked my “sexy librarian” look. you can’t tell me that the election results had nothing to do with people being uncomfortable with the idea of a female president

[xxmasterandmargaritaxx]

Anyone who says sexism had nothing to do with the election results is willfully blind. There is no question. There were other factors, too, of course but even the mere fact that people are feeling the need to assert that sexism had nothing to do with it proves that sexism had something to do with it.

[vengeful-daughter]

[doctoralphys]

these are all from within the last 2 days

[azispaz-deactivated20180606]

New theory that Donald Trump is a host for several demonic entities all at odds with each other

[evilelitest2]

That…makes a lot of sense honestly, like the fact that makes that much sense to me is kinda fucked up, i mean can you get more chaotic evil.

[hechodeoro-deactivated20180924]

read the caption, hits the nail on the head

How NOT to be an ally part 2

[theblasianbarbie]

i was at an anti-trump protest yesterday and someone who was part of the protest told the crowd to give it up for the NYPD for “doing a good job keeping the protest under control” and then he overheard me say “dont they kill black people for fun” and literally was running after me yelling wanting to start a fight

and the protest i was at the day before there was a VERY BRIEF chant of “black lives matter” that a group of white women, around my age (20), interrupted and turned into “all lives matter!” and were aggressively shouting that 

oh yeah at that same protest the police were threatening to arrest any protesters that were walking on the street and me being black i had to fucking abide bc i didnt wanna end up dead and this white woman pulled me back into the street and told me “dont let them win” like….girl….im trying not to die like…

SO yeah, these anti-trump rallies are wack and are only safe spaces for oppressed white people (aka white women and poor white men)

[fullten-deactivated20240430]

There’s nothing wrong with fear.

Like a lot of people are like, “Don’t be afraid!” “It’s not that bad!”

Like, no. Fuck you. Pence is literally anti science, anti woman, anti poc… basically if you aren’t a wealthy white cis straight man who jerks it to jesus and jizzes on a carl sagan book before burning it along with the cross on someone elses lawn, you’re fucked.

And trump looks like an deflated orange balloon whose in over his head so I’m p sure he’s just going to do what he always does when it comes to his businesses, fuck everyone over, get money, and fucking bail.

And I’m scared of that.

And my fear makes me more cautious It makes me weary of everything they say I keeps me from trusting them From letting down my guard From letting me feel comfortable, because this is not the time to be comfortable This is the time be afraid, and cautious of what’s coming next.

Cause it’s gonna be a lot of fucked ludicrous bullshit

And fear and courage and the only emotions that are gonna get me through it

[vore-goblin]

People are going to WANT you to normalize this, people are going to do everything they can to get you to normalize this, because when you start to feel even slightly safe you will become complacent.

We are not safe. You are not safe. Do not normalize this.

[image: screencap of a tumblr comment made by youngbadmanbrown that says: This is called managing democracy

It gives some people hope things won’t be so bad and keeps them off guard when the shit starts happening

“But he said-” will turn into “Congress won’t let him!” Will turn into “Maybe he’s right”]

[bonkai-diaries]

It’s official. White nationalist and antisemite Steve Bannon will be White House Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to Trump. 

[shadysadie]

Electoral College: Make Hillary Clinton President on December 19

On December 19, the Electors of the Electoral College will cast their ballots. If they all vote the way their states voted, Donald Trump will win. However, they can vote for Hillary Clinton if they choose. Even in states where that is not allowed, their vote would still be counted, they would simply pay a small fine - which we can be sure Clinton supporters will be glad to pay!

 We are calling on the Electors to ignore their states’ votes and cast their ballots for Secretary Clinton. 

Why?

 Mr. Trump is unfit to serve. His scapegoating of so many Americans, and his impulsivity, bullying, lying, admitted history of sexual assault, and utter lack of experience make him a danger to the Republic. 

 Secretary Clinton WON THE POPULAR VOTE and should be President.

 Hillary won the popular vote. The only reason Trump “won” is because of the Electoral College. But the Electoral College can actually give the White House to either candidate. So why not use this most undemocratic of our institutions to ensure a democratic result? SHE WON THE POPULAR VOTE. There is no reason Trump should be President. 

“It’s the ‘People’s Will’”

 No. She won the popular vote. 

“Our system of government under our Constitution says he wins" 

No. Our Constitution says the Electors choose.

 "Too many states prohibit ‘Faithless Electors’" 

24 states bind electors. If electors vote against their party, they usually pay a fine. And people get mad. But they can vote however they want and there is no legal means to stop them in most states.

[avfwdrugec]

*swings by on mobile* Partial and updating list of unbound elector contact information: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10AryvqfMtw521H22yoE5SjscGVM2exdto9sFGgQNtWs/pubhtml

*swings out*

[avfwdrugec]

*slides in on mobile* Oh my god I actually talked with an elector just now.

It was… surprisingly civil. She asked where the list of elector information was and I told her it was just a spreadsheet that had been going around. She asked some stuff about me, where I was calling from, and I told her where I was calling out of, where I’d gone to school, etc. We talked some about policy and I expressed my concerns, she said she thought things would be okay due to the Reince Priebus pick, mentioned she understood due to her granddaughter being for Hillary, etc. She said she wasn’t going to change her vote but I was a bright young woman and she encouraged me to call again and keep in touch. It was… a little nervewracking, but informative - I feel like if I’d been better prepared I might have done better, but as “cold calls” go it went well.

I was a little hesitant to make this post, since I know the comfort of an answering machine is what best helps a lot of people psych themselves up for a call. I can definitely reassure you that the vast majority of numbers you call will dump you off into an answering machine, and even if someone does pick up, they’re more likely to be relaying a message. But I also made this post to say - well, we’re getting somewhere. The electors have been getting our calls, and they can be reached. We can do this. Call. Tell your stories. Tell them why you’re worried. Listen to their concerns and counter them, if you can. They are not falling on closed ears.

If you wish to make more calls, the script I was using was “The script I’ve been using is:

Hello, my name is [name]. [If from the state whose electors you’re calling, add that you’re from that state.] I am one of the majority of Americans who voted for Hillary Clinton in the recent presidential election. My understanding is that you will be serving as a member of the [state] electoral college this December. Right now, I’m calling upon you, as an elector, to vote for Hillary Clinton in the upcoming electoral college. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by a margin of almost 2 million votes, with more votes for her being tallied every day. Estimates suggest she will win the popular vote by a full 2% of the margin when the results are in. It is unprecedented in our history to have this sort of margin in the popular vote and still lose the Electoral College. What’s more, evidence that Trump may have grounds for impeachment is accruing at an alarming rate, with his upcoming trial for fraud looming large and Russia publicly admitting to colluding with him during the campaign. I have been told again and again that the Electoral College was used instead of the popular vote in order to provide a check in the event a wildly unfit candidate is elected - not to hand the election to a candidate who is not only wildly unfit, but seems to be foreign agent, in defiance of a popular vote difference of nearly two million. [State] allows for faithless electors, and I’m calling on you to be one of them. Our country is counting on you - don’t let us down.

But I do encourage you to use your own twist on it. I chose not to bring up my personal fears and focus on the points that your garden-variety Republican may find more objectionable, but ymmv, and there’s definitely something to be said for telling your own story. If you can’t do the phone, there are email, social media and snail mail forms of contact in that spreadsheet I linked above. I suggest trying to have a list of concerns in front of you to make it easier to make our case.

This will be hard. But my talk with that elector earlier did give me hope that we can reach them, story by story and conversation by conversation. If you are able to help, I ask you to please do so for the sake of those who can’t.

He’s not my President. Let’s stop him from becoming one at all.

[lesbiancatsnakedancer]

(via [Aside] Watch This Space. | Last Res0rt)

[theatrhythm]

This, this is what you tell any Trump voters who insist that they’re worried about being judged for the choice they made to elect this man. 

You will be judged. The outcome is not upsetting people based on some philosophical difference. It’s upsetting people because it will have a death toll. This is the disconnect, the divide, that the “well-intentioned Trump voter” fundamentally does not seem to grasp.

Don’t ask people to be pleasant towards you after what you’ve condemned millions of Americans to suffer for the next four years. If the worst that has happened to you is being called a bigot, a racist, a misogynist, understand that you have nothing on the rest of your fellow American minorities who experience more verbal and physical backlash every day of their lives for existing, and will now experience even more. They don’t owe you a handshake, a smile, a “let’s agree to disagree”. They don’t owe you anything.

[amultitudeofsins]

Can I stop seeing posts like the top image please. If making posts about assassinating the president was a class e felony that was going to land us in jail for 5 years a lot of us would have been in prison years ago. Everyone’s freaked out enough without this scare mongering shit.

[virtualadept]

If ur arabic ur great If ur arabic and muslim ur great If ur arabic and queer ur great If ur arabic and muslim and queer ur great I know it seems hard to believe but you’re not bad you’re not awful

[virtualadept]

Hey if you’re not arabic can you reblog this? I hardly ever see any positivity towards us and I just wanna spread love to my Arab siblings