and that made it a fact

even Oprah called her beautiful

[freedomss0n]

[merelybeing]

yes, academy, wtf is wrong with you?

[love-jk]

Vintage LGBT Badges

[nocorkingfee]

that time Kara’s wedding dress was ruined but she found one dress store still open in time to buy a last minute replacement… aka that time Cat saw Kara in a wedding dress and was so awestruck by the woman of her dreams she didn’t even notice it was a Vera Wang

[gahdamnpunk]

She ain’t lie

[fun-home]

This is Alison Bechdel’s coming out story as featured on the Oberlin College website. 

[theweirdwideweb]

[heringstuff]

[xplodingunicorn]

[michellepsychologist]

😻amazing, pt.1

[winterstar95-deactivated2023110]

Always need good news stories

[growing-up-gay]

Just some positivity, because we could all use some more of this in our lives.

[markwatneyandenesemble]

i was looking for writing prompts and came across what is now the funniest thing ive ever seen

[left-reminders]

[thegirlwiththefro]

It may have taken me a few weeks to stop obsessing over myself, but here’s my redone Peggy cosplay for Animate! (PC: Pedro Hesike)

I’m actually so very happy with the process and the effort put into this costume that I have nothing to critique myself on. I worked hard, and I can finally put this project to rest (though I’ll pull it out for future cons if I need something quick lol).

What are my next projects? Even I don’t know. I have some ideas, though… If you have any questions about this cosplay, feel free to drop me an ask!

[micdotcom]

New study projects a stunning drop in 2018 millennial voter turnout in battleground states

The 2016 presidential election — and its outcome — may have given plenty of Americans a new sense of urgency when it comes to civics.

But a new study projects that 40 million Americans who voted last year will likely not show up at the polls for the 2018 midterms.

And that two-thirds of those “drop-off” voters will be millennials, unmarried women and people of color.

The report, just out from the Voter Participation Center and Lake Research Partners, “Comparing the Voting Electorate in 2012-2016 and Predicting 2018 Drop-off,” notes that many of those expected not to cast a ballot next year live in key battleground states like Arizona, Nevada, Florida and Ohio. Read more (7/21/17)

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Young people in America, REGISTER TO VOTE AND GET TO THE POLLS NEXT YEAR

THIS MATTERS

YOUR VOTE MATTERS SO MUCH OKAY

Just look at the difference young people getting out and voting made in the UK general election this year…young voters CAN make a POSITIVE DIFFERENCE by getting out and voting 

And I know this isn’t a presidential election but it is in some ways EVEN MORE IMPORTANT

Because the president can’t do anything without congress and the senate on his side…but likewise, if the Republicans get a majority it means it will be easier for that disgusting sack of stinking dog-vomit Donald Trump and his party of traitors and criminals to push through the DISGUSTING things they want to try and inflict on the country and its people

Get out and vote democrat next year and keep the Republicans from getting a blank check to try and push through their bigoted, evil bullshit

[mikkeneko]

I’m pretty sure the biggest barrier to young people voting isn’t not caring, it’s not knowing.

Am I registered? Shit, who knows? I’ve moved five times in the last four years. I think I registered, but that was a year ago, did I change districts since then? Where even are the polling places in this town? What are their hours? I know I submitted a registration, but did they get it? I didn’t get a confirmation. Did they lose my form? Am I even eligible? Who knows? Oh well, I’m sure I can always register in the days leading up to the – whoops, there’s a deadline and it’s already gone by.

This is one of those civic skills that you would really think would be taught in high school, and – surprise! – it isn’t.

So here’s how to check which district you’re in and who your rep is.

Here’s how to find out if you’re registered.

Here are the deadlines for when to register.

Here’s how to register, if it turns out you’re not.

Here’s how to find local polling places.

Of course, all of this – in the way of Tumblr, and the internet more generally – will be lost to the vagaries of cyberspace by the time November rolls around. So hey: tag it with “voting reference” and you’ll always be able to find it again.

[elsodex]

Bullshit. The biggest barrier is absolutely people not caring. Or least it is for a rather significant cut of the population. It’s not entirely people’s fault–as stated by the previous poster, we utterly and completely fail to teach our citizens and future voters even the bare bones of how are democracy actually fucking works (vast oligarchy conspiracy? or just plain good ol’ fashioned bureaucratic idiocy? You decide!).

Like I have had full on debates with numerous millennials, men and women of various ethnicities, about the importance of midterm voting.

And you know what they say to me?

“It doesn’t matter anyway.”

“Nothing’s ever gonna change so why bother?”

These are the same people who call me a sheep because I dare to be okay with paying my taxes. That I’m just not ‘woke’ enough to understand. Like if I’m not aware that my taxes go to the military industrial complex. Well, I got news for you motherfucker. It’s also going to roads, and firefighters, teacher’s salaries, and in California it’s going to wildlife conservation better public transportation etc. You want this idealized system where you just fill the potholes yourself (as one of these folks recently suggested to me)? Then put your goddamn money where you mouth is and fill the fucking pothole. Until then? Stop complaining about shit if you’re not gonna drop a ballot. FUCKING VOTE.

“But Deeeeeex, what about gerrymandering?” Fucking vote for people who are going to pass bills that will stop gerrymandering then, jesus fucking christ.

This fucking nihilistic apathy is the fucking reason shit doesn’t motherfucking change, assholes. And because of that attitude we’re gonna lose to the frothing-at-the-mouth Trump supporters who are absolutely gonna show up to the midterm elections.

And if you were one of those goddamn holier-than-thou Bernie bros., I swear to fucking god, if you don’t do your motherfucking part in this, while going on and on about how you’re gonna move to Canada or New Zealand or wherever–you are the fucking problem.

[breelandwalker]

May the Fourth Be With You

Don’t forget to wear glitter, take your meds, and practice self-care in honor of our dear departed Space Mom.

Blessed Be She Who Drowned In Moonlight, Strangled By Her Own Bra

[rubyetc]

gooooood

[tashzky]