All I want is the promise of democracy

Sonni. Political Science and History double major. Adventurous, crazy, dog obsessed, politically savvy, foodie, snl cast member wannabe, Improv hopeful, acutal Leslie Knope, 30 rock lover, and overall awesome human being.

[doona-baes]

#mood today

[augusst-deactivated20200928]

#same

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Devi Vishwakumar (Never Have I Ever) | Mindy Lahiri (The Mindy Project)

[believe-in-chemistry]

Is he gonna be okay?

[bearimy-dot]

Brooklyn Nine-Nine Hiatus Creations:

week five → captain raymond holt

“C’mon, sir. The math thing isn’t the problem. Night shift’s keeping you and Kevin apart. You two just need to bone.”— s04.ep08 | Skyfire Cycle

[lledxela]

Finally a gif set that captures holts tone of voice in this scene

[sensicalabsurdities]

i’m not even there yet but i have to reblog this because it’s a work of typographic art.

[love-personal]

[stydixa]

So love and dating? I love to read about it, and it’s fun to write about and to think about in my head, but when it’s real… To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018) Dir. Susan Johnson

[dankmunchkin]

just saw a lecture from a guy whose job is to test industrial food for fraud (i.e. mislabeling, adding fillers, tampering) and the gist of his lecture was that like… food fraud is totally rampant and altho there are laws there’s “no money” in federal budgets to do any enforcement so the literal only recourse is for companies to narc on each other and lab test each others’ products and collectively decide to continue or not continue with specific kinds of fraud. and then small producers who want to be honest and sell actual real food materials at their real cost are deemed “specialty producers” and have to mess with fancy packaging, marketing, or alternative distribution routes (farmers markets, coops) to justify the higher price and have any hope of breaking even bc they’re competing with these big industrial players who couldn’t give less of a shit abt like what percentage of their honey is corn syrup or what percentage of their parmesan is sawdust lmao..

[americas-sass]

How to Write a Michael Schur Lead Romance

Partner 1: Confident, Fun, Slightly Depressed

Partner 2: Anxiety™ 

Partner 1 provides the light atmosphere, Partner 2 provides the level head. Congrats, you have the perfect lead couple.

BONUS:

How to Write a Michael Schur Secondary Romance: Abnormal Dork Meets Equally Abnormal Dork

[tomakeitbeautifultolive]

Husband: Whoa, have you seen young Patrick Stewart?!

Me: I don’t think so. I kind of assumed he’s always been old.

Husband: Turns out he was handsome as fuck.

[screengeniuz]

DAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMN.

[silverstrike]

What the fuck do you mean “was”???

[creative-insomniac-deactivated2]

Him and Magneto were lovers

[dwyer-and-recreation]

[sweetlikecandy]

#relatable

[partialbirthabortion]

We really have harmed a whole generation of trans and gnc children by failing to communicate how serious a decision binding actually is, how there’s no ACTUALLY safe way to bind, how it permeneantly damages the body, how it can make top surgery more difficult in the future. I don’t think we should be keeping trans kids from binding (we let kids do all sorts of things they’re really not old enough to understand the potential consequences of) but we owe them the ability to make informed decisions at LEAST

[arty-ari]

So this is definitely an important conversation to have, but can you point me at some reading about “permanent damage”? I might just be lucky, but I had zero lasting effects from binding. I’d like to at least read up on it so I can have this conversation and be more specific than “be careful.”

[partialbirthabortion]

Of course! I can’t easily source right now but I am more than happy to provide further info when I am not at work and on mobile. Unfortunately, like a lot of trans healthcare, a lot of what we know about binding is anecdotal and word of mouth. BUT permeneant damage can include:

-Musculoskeletal damage. Binders are indiscriminate compression tools; they can’t flatten the chest without applying pressure every other anatomical structure underneath including the spine, ribs, lungs and heart. Many people who bind experience chronic back pain, shoulder pain, sharp stabbing chest pains, permeneantly decreased lung capacity, literal spine deformation, etc etc.

-A continuation of the above but the ribs are actually jointed bones. Their ability to flex is absolutely vital to their ability to withstand trauma and protect your vital organs. Imagine the damage that would be done to your elbow if your bent your arm to full flexion and then tightly bound it closed like that, for six, eight, twelve hours per day, every day, for weeks or months or years. And you don’t NEED a functioning arm to live!

-Tissue atrophy. Forcing chest tissue to lay in an unnatural way can and will change the way that tissue looks, even to risk of atrophy. Some people who bind and only moderately dislike the way their chest looks find that they HATE the way it looks after binding for a period of time. Tissue atrophy can also make top surgery more difficult in the future, and increase the risk of complications like nerve damage.

-Worsened dysphoria. Once someone starts binding and becomes accustomed to seeing themselves with a flat chest, it can be much more difficult to see yourself without one, and dysphoria that much more intolerable. You can imagine the psychological feedback loop of binding more in response.

The typical safety measures passed around about binding are harm REDUCTION measures and should not be advertised as making binding “safe.” Binding is not safe. It is a very serious health decision with long term consequences and should be treated as such. That doesn’t mean it’s the wrong decision, but it should not be considered the DEFAULT decision for chest dysphoria which is frankly how it’s currently treated.

[mikstapes]

gonna drop some links to read more:

Health impact of chest binding among transgender adults: a community-engaged, cross-sectional study Inside the Landmark, Long Overdue Study on Chest Binding  

Binding FAQ

Health Consequences of Chest Binding

[fandompariah-deactivated2021120]

@pooflyperfectprincess

[clothing-references]

Holy shit

[bearimy-dot]

Brooklyn Nine-Nine Hiatus Creations:

week five → captain raymond holt

“C’mon, sir. The math thing isn’t the problem. Night shift’s keeping you and Kevin apart. You two just need to bone.”— s04.ep08 | Skyfire Cycle

[ithelpstodream]

[justhere4coffee]

When people call you a “snowflake” just remember they’re quoting Fight Club, a satire written by a gay man about how male fragility causes men to destroy themselves, resent society, and become radicalized, and that Tyler Durden isn’t the hero but a personification of the main character’s mental illness, and that his “snowflake” speech is a dig at how fascists use dehumanizing language to breed loyalty from insecure people.

So basically people who say “snowflake” as an insult are quoting a domestic terrorist who blows up skyscrapers because he’s insecure about how good he is in bed.

[phroyd]

Thank Your Local Republican!

Phroyd

[ohgodshesloose]

Eat the rich

[phenoniix]

this is why old ppl never realize what they’re saying when they say “when i was your age i payed for my tuition all by myself” yeah well sorry susan my tuition is $35,000 a year and i make $7 an hour