as a woc, it is so frustrating to see white women continuing to majorly show up for republicans, especially after roe was overturned. i really don’t know what it’ll take to progress in places like georgia, where they demonstrate time and again that they will vote red even if that party is actively harming them (especially after georgia went blue in 2020).

I will caveat this only slightly, as white women under 30 (and for that matter, white men) much more closely matched the voting patterns of other non-white demographics, and went 2 to 1 Democratic (the only white age bracket that did, I repeat, when will all these old white Republicans finally die?) But white women 30 to 65+ did go Republican again, albeit by smaller margins than white men (who are still the major problem, because obviously). They are more vulnerable to GOP scaremongering on economy/crime/etc, and have still failed to act in solidarity with marginalised women. Abortion rights did win everywhere they were on the ballot, so white women will vote for it when it is their own rights at stake, but yeah, the amount of ticket splitters who will pick a Democrat at the top of the ticket and Republicans lower down is just... why? WHY???

Anyway, looks we are yet again heading to a runoff in Georgia, so excuse me while I gouge my eyes out. Warnock is in the lead, but he will need to get every one of those votes again, especially if Senate control is at stake. In Arizona, Mark Kelly seems to have a pretty good chance of hanging on against MAGA Blake Masters. In Nevada, it is (yet again) all about the outstanding number of mail-in ballots from deep blue Clark County. If there are 100k or more, Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto can probably make a comeback after losing the Trumpy Election Day vote to MAGA nut Adam Laxalt. The last number I saw was that 77% of the expected Nevada vote was in, so if there is still almost a quarter of heavily blue mail ballots, that should ride to the rescue for Democrats. That, however, is not confirmed. Clark County Elections presser in a few hours will reveal the number they expect to count and how many are outstanding. NEVADA, WHY.

you know what, dare i say it but the x-men movies are kinda camp

Not a day goes by where I do not think about the advent of medicine like PrEP and wonder just what the people - especially queer people - who passed from HIV/AIDs during the AIDs crisis would think

And then, I read this survivor's testimony and it just makes me emotional. I think this is the closest answer we have. HIV has changed, and we must always remember the people who didn't see that change before it happened.

Reverse transmigration bingqiu except instead of Bingge turning up in Shen Yuan's world, it's white lotus disciple Binghe who does.

Shen Yuan, currently in his last year of high school, finds him and thinks he's a troubled homeless kid who has latched onto a character from a web novel as an intense form of escapism. He's initially just going to hand him over to some authorities of some kind but the kid seems so lost and scared, instead he ends up deciding to personally use his family's connections to help him or at least find his actual family or something (of course, doesn't turn anything up).

Baby Binghe is brand new to Qing Jing peak in the timeline he left from, so he doesn't have any idea of cultivating. With his demon blood still locked, he's a normal kid. But he's smart! He figures out basic appliances and picks up other modern facilities pretty quickly, wins over SY's family, and eagerly decides to keep living with him when SY moves out for the first time. SY's almost feeling bad because he definitely got the better end of this deal. His family manages to enroll LBH in school and they get him a bunch of lessons on things he seems interested in, and even so this kid still finds time to do a better job cooking and cleaning than SY, whose schedule is less packed.

A couple years pass. SY is beginning to accept that this is a permanent situation. So is LBH, who is kind of sad that he won't be able to fulfill his mother's dream of him becoming a cultivator, but actually really likes living in the magic shiny future with Shen Yuan and wouldn't change it now even if he could. SY is looking at long-term things for organizing Luo Binghe's further education, travel, etc. He's come out of his shell, is more active in the world and with his family because he needs to make sure his young ward gets proper socialization! (SY's family think LBH is the best thing that ever happened to him, and don't point out that they're actually only a few years apart in age; except Shen Meimei, who is the same age as LBH.) Meanwhile Luo Binghe's life plan is veering towards "housewife" aspirations, but he's still too shy to mention that to the object of his crush. It's okay though, he's got time! He'll get older and then figure out how best to approach the situation! (And in the meanwhile run off anyone else who tries to date his future husband...)

Of course, that's when it turns out that the system sent him here as an emergency measure to get him out of the way while it resolved a major issue with the actual setting. When the issues are repaired, it yanks LBH back. He finds himself returned to the exact same moment he left, in the same physical state, the years he spent living with Shen Yuan seemingly erased.

Going back to Qing Jing Peak after all that is difficult. No, worse, it's almost completely intolerable. Luo Binghe has been treated right and had a good life and now it's just gone. He has no idea how to get back.

But, that's why he has to stay. Because if there is a way to get back, then his best shot at figuring it out is learning how to cultivate, and devouring every single book in Qing Jing Peak's library, and then every other sect's library if need be. It is possible to move between worlds! He knows, because he did it! He just needs to find the way to do it again, permanently. So he stays and he deals with Shen Qingqiu's cruelty and the bullying of his sect mates, but he doesn't hold out any hope for them to improve. Instead he tries his best to hold his own ground, uses things he learned from Shen Yuan's world to steal whatever advantages he can, and pushes his way through any obstacles or competition.

He hates Shen Qingqiu, though. Especially because he has the surname Shen. Shen Yuan's family was good to him, so it seems like a cruel joke of fate that his shizun is so dead set against him. Something that could have been a comfort is instead a bitter twist of the knife.

But then a couple of years into this, Shen Qingqiu... changes?

After suffering a qi deviation, he stops beating Luo Binghe at the slightest provocation. He stops beating any of his students, in fact. He gives Binghe medicine, actually starts teaching classes, rescues Luo Binghe from a malicious skin-stealing demon, takes the blow of an incurable poison to save him from another demon, even gives him the side room of his own house to stay in. The bullying ends and the atmosphere on Qing Jing Peak changes, like night and day. Somehow he goes from being Shen Qingqiu's most hated student to being his clear favorite, even doted on disciple.

Luo Binghe is not going to fall in love with this new reformed Shen Qingqiu, though. He isn't! His heart is not so fickle that he will just fall in love with anyone who is kind to him! His love for Shen Yuan, that was real. And Shen Yuan would tell him that even though Shen Qingqiu seems to have changed, Luo Binghe shouldn't just forget about the past, because what if Shen Qingqiu returns to that behavior? It might not happen, but if it does then Luo Binghe must react accordingly.

But it's difficult, sometimes. This new Shizun, he's... he's really... sometimes he seems just like...

But Luo Binghe won't fall in love with him!

No matter what, he won't stay. He has to figure out how to move between worlds, and get back to Shen Yuan. Who he REALLY loves. Not Shen Qingqiu. He is in love with Shen Yuan and he is not falling in love with Shen Qingqiu.

At all.

you have to love people for real. and that means loving them as people who have flaws, and will annoy you or get on your nerves some times. treating them like a toy or product you can throw away when you get bored or upset is not acceptable. it's what we've been conditioned to do, but it makes the world worse.

i do not trust a single person who thinks lloyd is younger than 20 in dragons rising, mentally and/or physically.

also the people who think arin and sora would be older than lloyd if it weren't for the tea.

that is just so... so factually incorrect.

Prompt in Memes 4

Another prompt, but in memes because trying to gather my thoughts is hard sometimes lol.

My page for @destinytriofanzine! I drew something about kids always dreaming of far off places

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yall wanna guess how many times tumblr kicked me out while reblogging two (2!!!) posts?!?!

Couple of redesigns i had in mind for the Darling that i had to get out of my system 🫣

Au where Batmans "Duplicate" from the animated series freed himself from his programing and found little runaway Danny Fenton.

Danny fixes him up and makes his disguise much more durable. Danny and Robo Bruce live together as Father and son while building a life and reputation as heros in another city in this dimensions version of Illinois.

Things get messy when the original Bruce Wayne runs into them at a gathering in Chicago where Danny shows his inability to convincingly lie and he and his "dad" hurry for the exit.

Yeah, Bruce isn't stupid.

listen. i like a good “hualian adopts wwx” au as much as the next guy. but do y’all ever think abt the fact that appearance wise. xie lian and hua cheng are supposedly like. 17-19

i forget about it until i’m consciously reminded of it but there’s comedic potential in there somewhere

like i imagine they could probably get away with it when wwx was a young child but it’s all fun and games until visibly 34 year old wei wuxian is still calling apparently 17 year old xie lian dad

i found a hatching brush finally yaaaaayyy also i turn 15 tomorrow

Can I request a Childhood Sleepover moodboard? Like ,,, your mom/dad/parental figure(s) let you have a friend over for the night? Lots of pizza and nostalgia movies? And maybe a fort? Thankieee in advance!

Sure!!

i actually drew these last year for my own self-reference and today i wanted to draw something in sai, found that sai was having a rough day, so instead i dug these up in procreate and coloured them. some kings and their fun faces

the winglets/ear wings/whatevers are not lift generating surfaces they're mostly for communication. they can hide their whole face under those things.

some of these expressions are inborn but some must be taught (i.e flinching, hiding the face, etc probably looks the same no matter what, but the more complex expressions conveying social dominance are copied from older harpies). human-raised harpies struggle to express themselves and are considered (ironically) very dangerous to be around because they won't give proper warning when they're about to be violent. and they are often violent; a major struggle of working with an imprinted harpy is their food aggression and resource guarding behaviour. most falconers in the classic tradition [taking and raising eggs] are missing at least one fingertip.

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