[swoopswoord]

So no one really cares for this account as far as I can tell, but I’m makes a new account. Follow swordsoups if u still wanna follow me

[amatchforyourmadness]

the sad thing about me obsessing over queer characters in every media I find them in is that I live for the gays, but the gays don't live for me

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[lost-my-leeches]

I was wearing my plague doctor mask in the house this morning, and little did my mother know I had a kazoo inside the beak. Now I put this together in like three seconds so I was flipping my head around trying to get the kazoo in my mouth properly, and I probably looked like I was going crazy. But when I got it and was making kazoo noises in a plague doctor mask you can bet your ass I found a new way to disappoint my parents

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

May I offer you a nice Mr. Tumnus in these trying times

[cassandra-counterpart]

Right now, the UK government are trying to run one of the most insidious and disgusting propaganda campaigns. The Department of Health and Social Care were caught creating 128 fake Twitter accounts to defend the Prime Minister, to undermine scientific advice from the WHO, and to deflect from the government’s catastrophic failures in this country.

This is the Britain we live in now; a government propped up by sock puppets and lies. Were we not in lockdown, many of us fighting for our lives then we would need to be in the streets and demanding the arrest and prosecution of a government more interested in securing power than protecting the lives of its people.

[anna-scribbles]

this au got me laying awake at 3am thinking abt steven surviving a job interview

bonus:

[lunah-goodbye]

I know the American healthcare system is already a joke but this is to funny

[animauxing]

soundless love song.

[blackqueerblog]

Exactlyyyyy there are so many aspect to corona virus bruhh. Its crazy. Like also think about the ppl in flint who stilll dont have clean water. And having to deal with the virus. Like how do u even properly wash your hands.

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

damn

[unregardless]

professor: *sends out an email to the entire class about some assignment* 

me:  

[tchaikovskaya]

we really live in a country where anti-quarantine protesters assemble in front of state government offices to yell about how its their god-given right as free-born americans to die of the respiratory plague they contracted working at their menial job that they hate for terrible pay and no benefits

[blackarachnya]

and then turn around and berate people that protest for better pay and working conditions

[transfemininomenon]

i mean OP you do realize the people protesting aren’t protesting that THEY want to go back to work, they’re protesting that they want YOU to go back to work. this is about the privileged literally demanding the blood of the working class so they can go back to living their cushy lives. don’t be fooled.

[legionoftuna]

picket signs that weren’t at those protests: “Let me work”

picket signs that were: “I want a haircut”

[sethenwrites]

My ability to proofread my fics increases by 100000% after I hit the “post” button on the Archive.

[ctnctnctnctnctn]

so my family went to the tulip fields and my little sister didn’t have a good time at all

[bbanditt]

WHY IS THAT ONE FUCKING TULIP A DIFFERENT COLOR I WOULD BE UPSET TOO

[sanjista]

it is the chosen one

[greywardenlisa]

it must be the main character in the anime

[charlesoberonn-deactivated20150]

It got funnier when I realized just how many tulips are in this picture.

[guardgenie]

“In a world where tulips were yellow, one dared to be different…”

[slightly-fanatic]

Every spring this picture comes back around and every spring I crack up

[al-the-stuff-i-like]

at first you just see the row of tulips in the foreground, and it’s funny

then you see the rows stretching back for yards and yards, and it’s even funnier

[ctnctnctnctnctn]

Heyo so I’m throwing a big ol party after quarantine if this hits 1 mill so uh if anyone’s out there pls help embarrass my sister even more 7 years later

[valtsv]

i am the ceo of extremely niche memes

[valtsv]

hall of shame

[valtsv]

[ford-ye-fiji]

I would like to make a counterpoint on behalf of the band. 

In their defense, they never said that there would be actual dragons. All they said was to imagine dragons. 

[valtsv]

i see your point, but they’ve never written a single song about dragons, real or imaginary, despite it being in their band name, therefore my disappointment is still justified

[andreazhangart]

color/light study turned tony stank

[ithelpstodream]

[jonpertwee]

I feel like this would be a slippery slope towards making it illegal for people to choose to not vote.

[hamfistedbunvendor]

that’s already how it is in australia

[jonpertwee]

That’s just so fucked up. :( Do certain medical conditions exempt you?

[sapphicdalliances]

?????? why is it be fucked up to have compulsory voting? that’s the way it is in most democratic countries? it’s a part of being a citizen, like paying taxes and obeying speed limits? the fine for not voting is only like $50 and because of the compulsory voting law, our country bends over backwards to make it accessible: it’s always on a weekend, lasts most of the day, and is set up at schools and community centers so there’s one within easy reach of almost everybody. you can also mail your ballot or vote early if you’ll be out of the country on the day. like, IT’S EASY TO VOTE, and the penalty isn’t even that ridiculous. i don’t understand why the usa doesn’t have this, except obviously it would make it harder to literally stop minorities from voting.

[salparadisewasright-deactivated]

I think we Americans tend to forget that a lot of other countries don’t actively work to make it harder to vote.

[thisdiscontentedwinter]

Adding to this here, in Australia you don’t have to vote. Or, more precisely, there’s no way they can tell if you ruined your ballot. You have to turn up, get your name marked off, but you can put a line through the ballot if you don’t think any of the candidates are worth voting for. Or do this: 

Or this: 

Or this: 

You have get your name crossed off (if you don’t want to wear the fine), but you don’t have to make your vote counted if you’re opposed to it. 

And it is so, so easy to vote. Stuck at work or on holidays? That’s fine. Do a postal vote.  Stuck in hospital? That’s fine. They’ll go to you. Stuck in an old people’s home and can’t get around? Again, they’ll go to you. It’s amazing to me that it’s so hard for so many Americans to actually vote. If you make it compulsory, than at least the government is obligated to provide you with the means to vote. 

And look, I get it. Sometimes I don’t want to vote either. But I suck it up, I walk three minutes down the street, and I hope that this year they’re selling lamingtons again. Oh, and I buy a democracy sausage, which, even if all the candidates suck, makes the effort of turning up pretty worthwhile. 

[julad]

ALSO, you can see even on the fucked up ballots that you NUMBER CANDIDATES IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE. There’s no need to calculate whether I would be throwing away my vote on the candidate that I most agree with if they’re not from a major party. I can say, I want that independent person to get in, but if not them, give me Big Party A, and if not them, that minor party person is still better that Big Party B, and I’m not giving any preference to the Lunatic Fringe Party.

Our system certainly has some issues still, but I can show up to somewhere nearby, line up for a few minutes (if at all), vote exactly in line with my values (on paper, leaving a paper trail that can be recounted), and then buy a sausage and some home made cupcakes on my way out.

A country’s voting system matters a hell of a lot and every citizen deserves one that makes it easy to vote and results in a government that is representational and accountable.

And by the way, one time I had a bad asthma flare-up on Election Day and didn’t make it to my polling station. I got my fine in the mail, I filled out the form explaining why I couldn’t vote, no more fine. I would rather have, you know, expressed my preference for who should run my country, but they were cool with the fact that I couldn’t do it that day.

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

“oh no, what if people actually have to participate in picking the government officials who will impact their lives” jesus christ