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It is no good situation when you have to choose between two shitty candidates. But you have a two-party system.

russia has previously aided trump during elections, and they will do so again. A call to boycott the elections = a call to support trump

Also, a lot of his goons have been filling a LOT of important spots in the military and civilian fields to have positions available for trump to fill in with his loyalists and to easier do a hostile takeover if he wins the election.

Trump's presidency already gave cart blanche for the international far right rise, and I don't think we need to spell out to people that the state of the world today is directly credited to Trump's presidency, his incompetence, him being Russian puppet, etc etc.

As much as I am actually an opponent of the whole idea that USA is responsible of everything in the world, it does have a huge influence on international politics scene.

SO GO VOTE.

Biden is a leader too moderate for my tastes, who I really really wish wasn't so old. The things he has done have been unexpectedly good despite being hamstrung by the opposition. Love him? Nope. But Biden is making sucky choices from an array of sucky choices, domestic and foreign.

Trump is calling his opponents Vermin, outright explaining that he is 'retribution' and cracking jokes about victims of political and racial violence. He brags about being the one to kill Roe v Wade. In 2020 he asked why the cops didn't just shoot the protesters in the legs. He wants to deport immigrants, including all dreamers, and his plan starts with 'put them in camps.'

I know most people don't track political news. I get it. Its nauseating. But this idiot's gotten stupider, and he's gotten more hateful.

I'm probably preaching to the choir, but if you vote for Donald Trump, or you *don't* vote for Biden, you are choosing all of these things, but on a more personal level, you are voting for a rapist whose election will result in the abuse and deaths of queer and genderqueer women, and I am one of those, so if you've ever liked my writing or considered yourself a friend or follower or fan or whatever "that's an okay person on the internet" category of choice, and you are an American who does not vote for Biden, you have sanctioned my harm. If you allow friends and loved ones to espouse this pseudo-liberal bullshit about voting, you have sanctioned harm to me or to someone like me. And of the populations at risk there are even more who have it so much worse that having this discussion (again) is honestly un-fucking-thinkable but here we are.

This election is personal and it is mathematical - brutally so - and there is definitively more harm on one side of the equation than the other.

My first finished ficbinding! This is we have loved the stars too fondly, a Yuri!!! On Ice fic by the talented @handsingsweapon​, as a gift for @rhythmelia​. The fic is all about astronomy, and as soon as I saw this decorative paper I knew what I wanted to do with it.

This was a relatively small work for a cased-in binding (48 pages) but I was able to cut the spine board thin enough to make it work.

The end pages are a Dramatic wine color in approximate tribute to the costumes Yuuri and Viktor wear at the end. 💙💖

The typesetting was really fun - there are a number of beautiful space-related quotes throughout the fic, as well as a few text messages.

this anger in me, this hate is me

Trump systematically rolled back EVERY major climate regulation Obama and Biden enacted, from increasing fuel standards for cars to limits on methane. He backed out of Paris. He dismantled the pandemic response team.

Republicans don't believe climate change is a thing at all. Biden has a $2 trillion dollars climate plan based on the Green New Deal. Biden has said multiple times that climate change is one of the greatest existential crises the next President must face.

This isn't "vote for Biden because he's not Trump." The parties could not be farther apart. Biden heard y'all in the Primaries and MOVED LEFT.

If y'all think that Biden is just as bad as Trump, or that he doesn't want anything to fundamentally change, you didn't pay attention the entire time under the Obama administration. You aren't paying attention now.

Trump is a literal fucking fascist. Not to be the Jew that tells you all the signs of Nazi Germany are already fucking here. But they are.

Biden at least fucking believes in Democratic norms and not being a fucking fascist

Even if you think Biden is some kind of boring centrist who doesn't want to change a thing. If you can't tell the fucking difference between that and a fucking fascist. Fuck you.

Also, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 87 and has cancer for the fifth time and Trump just announced that he wants to replace her with Ted Cruz. Things like Roe v Wade, climate regulation, voting rights, and criminal rights are all hanging by a 5-4 thread on the Supreme Court that depends on one of the five Republican Justices having a spasm of conscience. If Ted Cruz replaces RBG and solidifies a 6-3 Republican majority for the next forty years, it won't matter how progressive your President or Congress is because SCOTUS will strike down every fucking law and regulation they pass, in addition to overturning Roe v Wade, marriage equality, and other fundamental rights.

Teasers of my illustrations for @yoidreadfulzine , aka the Yuri On Ice zine in Victorian Gothic sauce :D.

- The first pic is a fic by @paintingwithwords + art collab loosely inspired by Elizabeth Gaskell’s Old Nurses’s Tale and it’s featured in the ghost stories bonus booklet, which was the zine 1st stretch goal and it’s now included with all physical zine/merch orders btw 8D. - 2nd and 3rd pic teasers are Penny Dreadful-inspired and based on @handsingsweapon‘s concept which she kindly allowed me to use <3  - 4th pic is a Sara/Emil spin on Hawthorne’s Rappaccini’s Sister Daughter (aka star-crossed lovers amidst botany craze, poisonous beauty archetypes, mad science and the evils of patriarchy >3). —

The zine + merch feature a lot of period romance, mystery, horror, adventure and supernatural art, cosplay and fics. It also comes with the option of a full 78 tarot deck cards and we have dedicated giveaways for followers and buyers >D As both contributor and moderator I’m really happy and proud of all our collective work :,3

Myth/Legend Day 3 theme art for @yuuriweek2020​!  I couldn’t pick which halo to use so…

Theme-wise… we’re in Eros wounded by his own Love arrow / Saint Sebastian aka the great Gay Icon classic territory :P.