I’m Sure They Said This

REBLOG THIS PHOTOSET AT YOUR OWN RISK.

*plays “Pomp and Circumstance”*

or maybe i’ve always been here

happy not-2016 either way

I regret nothing

tw: abuse and sexual assault mentions

hi everyone. one of my closest friends is in a really, really awful living situation. he has been forced to move back in with his horrifically abusive family where quite literally every day he faces emotional, mental, physical, and sexual abuse. this may sound like an exaggeration but it’s not. i have known him for years now and know the pain he goes through constantly because of the people he is forced to be with every day.

he is trying to save up on his own to leave and get to a safer place, but his family takes almost every cent he makes. if you can donate even one dollar it would make a huge difference. at the very least please share: reblogging, posting to facebook, twitter- anything to get the word out. 

his gofundme is here.

Companies do not experience one day of revenue loss and pull the plug, destroying years of work and firing dozens if not hundreds of employees.

Companies which experience loss in revenue and consumer interest make investments and changes in order to regain their users/customers. That’s why organized protests and boycotts WORK. Tumblr will NOT go down after one bad day or week, but they might be willing to listen to its userbase if we put up an organized protest. (If you don’t believe me, think about how long sites like MySpace and Google+ hang around with fractions of their previous user base, often for years.)

Yahoo paid over one billion dollars for Tumblr, and the website will not go offline because of a one-day event, so in conclusion,

DO log off on December 17th to show Tumblr that you disapprove of its recent content ban and clumsy execution of censorship.

I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:

Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.

Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.

Don’t do more than is expressly asked of you, and do what you are asked with such an intense attention to protocol that not asking you at all becomes more effective than even bothering.

In this case:

“Have you seen an illegal immigrant?”

“Could you describe an illegal immigrant, officer?”

*officer describes a person who is in the country without appropriate paperwork, or who has crossed the border illegally*

“No, sir, I haven’t seen any illegal immigrant.”

and i’ll tell you…

who’s the werewolf and who’s the hunter

who’s the mermaid and who’s the fisherman

who’s the witch and who’s the familiar

who’s the barista and who’s the coffee addict

who’s the professor and who’s the TA

who’s the knight and who’s the prince(ss)

who’s the teacher and who’s the single parent