everything is terrible and i wish i was dead

the musical

[srirachaiesbian]

‘Devastating' Fire Burns Vietnamese American Community Center in Oakland

A fire destroyed the Vietnamese American Community Center in Oakland’s Eastlake neighborhood Saturday.

Oakland Firefighters: Last night while #thetown slept, #OFD responded to a fire at the Vietnamese American Community Center. The fire started in an encampment and extended into and destroyed the community center. This is a huge loss to the community. This center prepares nearly 10k meals a week.

The cause is still under investigation, fire officials said. No injuries were reported in the fire and it's not clear whether any residents of the homeless camp were displaced, said Oakland fire spokesman Michael Hunt.

"This is obviously a huge loss for the community," Hunt said. "Thousands of residents rely on meals distributed by the center." Oakland City Council President Nikki Bas said the center's loss was "devastating" for the city's Eastlake and Vietnamese community.

Nikki Fortunato Bas: We were planning to come together at Clinton Park Sunday for Lunar New Year and will still come together for support, solidarity and safety for all our communities and in unity. Thank you @OaklandFFs.

https://gofund.me/06c5f638

HELP REBUILD VACCEB!, organized by Joanne Garcia

Want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money to benefit Vietnamese American Community … Joanne Garcia needs your support for HE

[everythingfox]

“Hot Pod Dog”

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[fluffygif]

[animatedamerican]

my name is Snek, and wen its wet, or wen the rayne is fallyng yet, i curle upon my woody shelf – i sip the dropps.

i lik the self.

[shiftythrifting]

I almost bought this ominous box.

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

“And your curse is to be what you already are” is the most threatening thing I’ve heard all week

[genvy]

i haven’t stopped thinking about this since last night

[kitty]

[trlake-deactivated20200421]

what’s the pink they put in pink lemonade that makes it so poppin

[craigzlist]

that’s pussy babe!

[horreurscopes]

some excerpts from commissions for @foxxfae on IG 🖤

commission info / kofi / full pics on patreon / instagram

[poochypups-deactivated20191009]

[nonbinarydave-archived]

I’ve had the time of my life, and I’ve never felt this way before

[oneheadtoanother]

[sendmethesea]

Life Update

It's been a hot minute since I posted here so have a life update:

I MET SOMEONE. BRUH. THIS SHIT HAS ME FUCKED UPPPP. HE IS SO WONDERFUL. HE LEGIT ACTS LIKE THE SUN SHINES OUT MY ASSHOLE. AND YOU KNOW WHAT?!??!?! -EVERYONE- DESERVES SOMEONE WHO THINKS THE SUN SHINES OUT THEY ASSHOLE.

I know we're moving too fast. I know. But we did the "I love yous" already and we're ridiculous and everything about this is dreamlike and i really really really want this joy to last. He wants to take care of me. And not in the way that past exes have said it. Because to them it was a far off vision and I was still not a whole person with poor health but a doll or a prop.

I think he means it? It's frightening. In a good way? I am scared. But it's good? Still good? Idk. He's not my type either but like that's good? Because my type is people who are shit to me so lmao

He's sincere. I think. I hope? We laugh easy, we have a lot of the same interests, likes, dislikes. He has a brain I want to live in. And apparently I spend a lot of time in there already. He is starting to spend a lot of time in mine too...

When IMB left, he did it burning bridges and still asking me to be his friend. I asked him why--when I had given him everything I had--would I possibly give him anything else? I had nothing left. And that door closed for these 5 yrs. My last 4 exes have been revolving doors since then. C almost killed me. P almost made me kill myself. S and the boy-who-tried-to-strangle-me-with-a-kiss had their own issues to deal with that I was lucky to have seen a month in and I ran. But I closed myself off since IMB and I did it mostly unknowingly. All the idealism. All the Ocean poems. All that decent metaphor I wasted on someone who cheated on me and still asked me to stay after telling me I was "too sick and too poor for a relationship" lol

The devastation of having someone you put so much time and energy into rejecting you was something I only had to feel once. So I guess I pulled out my heart and set it somewhere away from me. And now he's digging it up. And I'm still not thrilled about it--the feeling things part, I mean. I fight it the whole way. I criticize and antagonize and pull apart the emotions so they aren't allowed to last but it's getting harder. And harder. And harder.

And now I'm trying to will myself into accepting that maybe, perhaps, possibly... I am allowed to be happy? I can enjoy this? I can just let my guard down, make the sappy poems again, and hope for a future again with someone who doesn't treat me like not-a-whole-person.

But that's terrifying!!!! I am so scared! But I want this! After all the hell of the past 5 yrs, I actually, really, do want this. I want him. Maybe forever. Maybe. Maybe it's time. Maybe I'll be okay. Maybe my cats will have a dad lmao Maybe we're going to be okay?

Thanks for letting me vent, as always, my friends.

Love, Sarah

[sendmethesea]

A small white girl in my line at work couldn't open her big pink unicorn wallet/pocketbook and she asked for a pocket knife. The large black man behind her handed her this giant folding knife so big it looked like a machete in her hands as she wielded it--and she sliced open the pink unicorn wallet. Everyone was in shock. She looked at me sheepishly and I smiled and she finished paying for her groceries and smiled again at me before leaving. I honestly fell mildly in love lmao

[ovopack]

番兵さん

[brbgensokyo]

we really dont fuck around and wake ancient gods enough 

[heyheyrenay]

I am going to tell everyone a secret, especially people in rural areas. 

You…can do a slow social progressive takeover of your local Democratic party, probably. You just need to carve out some time for it.

“Renay”, you say, exasperated, “that sounds fake, but okay.” But I’m here to tell you that if you’re in a rural/red state (or even blue states), you have an excellent chance of infecting the Democratic Party in your area with some straight up radical empathy. And you can do it in sneaky ways. It’s a long game. Here is a list:

1. Find your county Democrats. You may have to start at state level, but eventually you should be able to track down the chair of the county party and find out where and when they meet. Start attending meetings. If they’re not having meetings, hoooooboy. That’s a totally different thing. I spent two years fighting that battle, but if you want help, ping me. 

2. At the very first meeting, if the group isn’t using a microphone, bring it up. Ask if the committee can invest in a portable PA system to bring to meetings to help people who have trouble hearing. If they balk (ables often will), don’t worry. Make the request once, and then make the request at every subsequent meeting, kindly, until they get so sick of you they cave and/or start empathizing with you. My position here: who cares why it gets done. Just get it done.

3. Keep going to meetings. Generally county parties meet every month.

4. If there are nametags at meetings, always use them and put your pronouns on them. Yes, even you, cis people. ESPECIALLY YOU.

5. At your third meeting, if the group is using sign in sheets, ask the secretary, or meeting chair if the former is unclear, if the sign in sheets could have a field for pronouns. It’s not about getting people to use it yet—that’s later—we just want it on the template so YOU can use it and set an example. Yes, you can make this request even as a cis person. In fact, it’s probably better that you do because it will cost you less. You can do the emotional labor instead of making trans and enby friends do the labor. This goes back to nametags: if you do it, you create a safe bubble for others to do it, or a social pressure situation for people to do it. Social pressure is sometimes toxic, but we can use it for positive things!

These are Very Simple things you can do to Increase Inclusion in local Democratic spaces and shove them left. This is just the start, too. There’s language scrubbing (kind of advanced because you need to have relationships with the people), requesting the committee invite guest speakers from marginalized communities, and becoming a delegate to the state party annual convention. This is Very Advanced because it generally means travel, but I plan to do it myself because in two years I’m going to make the Arkansas DPA adopt gender neutral language in their platform instead of this “he or she” business.

I mean, maybe you think of going to county meetings and go, “ugh I would rather eat glass” but you can always take an ebook on your phone or something (I do this…soon I will have time to knit again and I’ll be doing that). Take 3-4 hours out of your month and invest it.

What shoves the Democratic Party left? We do. A bunch of people taking small steps in their local communities. And then the candidates coming out of those committees get more progressive and thoughtful, too.

The world doesn’t change just because we want it to. We make it change.

Go do the work.

[sixth-light]

Additionally: show up to enough meetings and there’s a non-zero chance you could be running things, which is also helpful for the whole slow radicalisation process.

(in NZ if you show up to enough local meetings of a major political party you basically get elected to Parliament if that’s a thing you’re into, you think I’m joking but I’m not really, so I figure for the US ‘running things on a local level’ is totes achievable)

[the-daughters-of-eve]

All of this. I started showing up to the meetings and a few months later they put me charge of communications (social media, website, email). It was two years of an infuriating clusterf*** but I dragged them left. Now there’s a trans woman and a gay teenager on the DCC (county party governance) and I pissed off all the old dixiecrat guard so much that they all quit in protest.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

[spaceasianmillennial]

There are varying ways to go about this. I did it in the social media space since the Texas 2018 midterms. I started sharing information about downballot elections and news about voter suppression. The admin of a Flip the House page was so impressed by my commitment that she asked if I could become a Mod. At first, I refused, but then I realize I could make a wider impact with that position–besides, it was a very loose commitment.

Let’s just say that I am now the Mod of at least two groups that are comprised of middle-aged or elderly voters, those kinds of old white liberal spaces that have certain blind spots in progressive matters. When I become a Mod, I had an easier time keeping certain members’ vocal prejudices in check.

I must note that many of said middle-aged or elderly voters are happy to get new information or new angles out of me and have been receptive to my input. They’re keen on learning. 

The advantage is that I get to share donation links and voting rights grassroots and toolkits to their spaces so they can learn things they wanted to learn but haven’t done so.

So show up to those meetings. In-person meetings are the best, but getting involved in the virtual can also have an effective reach.

TIPS

If you are posting bad news, ALWAYS have a “What Can You Do About It.” Have donation link(s) to organizations that are fighting this bad news. 

For example, if you’re posting about the Ohio voter purge, give a donation link to an Ohio voting grassroots.

Even if it’s GOOD news you are sharing, give them a link to an organization fighting for those kinds of rights and urge them to join or donate.

Because there’s so much hype and focus on the presidential elections remind the group of any downballot elections coming up, be it seats for legislative, judicial, council, etc, since downballot seats do impact the elections of larger seats. Plus, downballot candidates can bring about immediate change to a small community.

If you have a presidential candidate who signed this 2020 Down-Ballot Pledge, then share down-ballot elections on group pages related to your presidential candidate and remind people to watch out for local elections in the spirit of the Down Ballot Pledge.

Share LOCALLY-WRITTEN articles, over nationally distributed sources like CNN. This is to help local news, since the growing local news deserts can actually stoke fascism.

Share sources that white liberal spaces don’t tend to circulate, like LGBTQ-focused outlets or climate crisis-focused outlets like Grist.

Learn how to register voters and build your voting literacy since a lot of erroneous paperwork gets votes thrown out. Your nearest nonpartisan League of Women Voters chapter tends to have free boot camps on registering voters.

Try to encourage sustainability action within your groups.

You might want to delve into the subject of gerrymandering, the act of redrawing district line to gain electoral advantage, and how to fight it.

Join a social media group pertaining to a location you have an intimate connection to. For example, I no longer reside in Texas but I still join Texas political groups online and circulate useful information.

Lastly, these are voting rights organizations you can share around.

League of Voters (@LWV) - They might have a local chapter nearby to join. You can volunteer without official membership at most chapters. Paying for membership can get you into leadership positions to decide pivotal organization choices.

Common Cause (@CommonCause) - This organization has been doing a lot of work fighting gerrymandering.

Spread the Vote (@SpreadTheVoteUS) - an organization dedicated to helping people get IDs ahead of Election Day.

ACLU - The American Civil Liberties Union

TRANSform the Vote (@NCTEActionFund), an org that fights transphobic ID voter laws.

Apia Vote (@APIAVote) - Bridges language gaps for marginalized communities.

Rock the Vote (@RocktheVote)

Black Voters Matter (@BlackVotersMtr)

Fair Fight Action (@fairfightaction) - Founded after Brian Kemp’s rampant voter suppression during the Georgia 2018 gubernatorial election.

Jolt Initiative (@JoltInitiative) - To motivate the Hispanic vote as well as fight language barriers.

TN Black Voter Project (@TN_VoterProject) -  A Tennessee org that turned in more than 90,000 voter registration applications and they’re now fighting a load of voter suppression by Republican bills criminalizing voting registration.   Tirrc Votes (@TIRRCVotes)

Four Directions (@4directionsvote) - Fighting for Native Americans’ voting accessibility.

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (@KFTC) - KY voting rights, which is big for the battleground to unseat Mitch McConnell.

[codenamecesare]

@cygnaut: #this is how republicans took over local politics

Decisions are made by those who show up.

[trans-axolotl]

people need to stop leaving intersex people out of conversations about reproductive justice. 

intersex people are routinely sterilized at birth, and the choice of whether or not we want to have children is taken from us before we even can reach an age where we would be ready to make that choice. 

intersex people and their families are lied to about surgeries that have no medical benefit, because doctors are so worried about making sure that they uphold the binary system and create people who look “normal” instead of preserving our right to consent to what happens to our bodies. 

intersex people are often denied access to fertility treatment, or have many barriers to accessing infertility treatment because it is believed that we will not want to have children, or that we should not want to have children. 

yet, intersex issues are rarely, if ever, brought up in the context of reproductive rights, despite the fact that bodily autonomy and reproductive justice is a huge issue for the intersex community. 

if you’re fighting for reproductive justice, please consider fighting for our rights to choose as well.

[cripdeaf]

This includes putting a stop to people spouting bullshit that intersex people are all or mostly inherently sterile.

Our variants aren’t what make us sterile in most cases, it’s the fucking doctors.

[glitchlight]

nintendo protagonist motivations

mario: bowser stole-a the princess, this keeps-a happening-a

donkey kong: someone stole my bananas

yoshi: someone stole my baby

zelda: link is the chosen hero who will bring balance to the world after ganon destabilized it

pokemon: be the best and/or catch them all

fox: andross is attacking again gotta go stop that

metroid: samus is a bounty hunter and traumatized orphan, the sole survivor of a massacre who was raised by a gay couple from a now extinct race, and is constantly on the outskirts of society, always falling into impossible situations and fighting her way out of them, yet not without further traumas along the way

kirby: not even god himself could stop me from eating this cake