drowning in ellipses...

“Jesus christ man what the FUCK” - my brother

* Kentucky overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to undermine the public education system by offering private school vouchers:

* Delaware has elected a transgender woman to the House of Representatives, the first out trans person of any gender ever elected to congress:

* For the first time in history, two Black women will be serving in the senate at the same time, and they are only the fourth and fifth Black women ever elected to the senate:

* New York State has passed a constitutional amendment enshrining the rights of pregnant people (including the right to an abortion), LGBTQIA+ people, the disabled, immigrants regardless of legal status, and other at-risk groups:

* Democrat Josh Stein has beaten self-avowed Nazi Mark Robinson to become governor of North Carolina:

That's everything I know off the top of my head. It's not many bright spots, but it's not zero. I'm going to try to find more and I'll add them to the post. It's the only thing I can think of to do that isn't sobbing and throwing up or looking up Canadian immigration rules.

* Colorado has passed amendment 79, guaranteeing the right to an abortion, with more than a 20 point spread between the Yes and No vote:

* Maryland Question 1, also focused on reproductive rights and abortion, has passed as well: https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/maryland/issue-1

* Likewise, Amendment 3 has passed in Missouri, overturning a near-total ban to add reproductive rights to the state constitution:

* Arizona Proposition 139 to protect abortion rights also passed:

Every glimmer helps.

⬆️It's ass will not be listening to this statement. Welcome to hell.

I feel that I'm gonna need a full list of these to find anything coherent, so here goes:

Inside cover of Vash, right eye closed, glasses on but not obscuring. Gentle, confident expression, 'action hero' type pose.

Eating food, right eye covered. A happy boi

Vash shit-talking bandits, right eye covered. I feel that he is not taking this very seriously...

Post-July, right eye not closed or covered, but is placed in deeply contrasting shadow.

Head bonk, right eye covered. Pretty sure this is not relevant in any way, but funny (there is no way someone could actually survive something like this lol)

Various other silly chase sequence shenanigans, right eye obscured

Vash gets guns pointed at him, right eye covered, then closed. He doesn't seem particularly threatened here

Vash is threatened, and points his gun at someone, left eye obscured.

Vash talks about Knives, left eye covered. Sudden spark of anger from an otherwise shown to be gentle character

Vash putting on his 'suave gunman' act, left eye covered

Situation interrupted by the approaching Nebraska's, left eye still covered

Vash being an action hero and taunting the Nebraska's, right eye covered again

Vash completely ignoring the Nebraska's to check in on the injured waitress, left eye covered

Vash looking stern and determined, left eye obscured by glasses

Vash saving people from rubble, right eye covered + mini version

Vash turning to face the Nebraska's, right eye covered

Action sequence with the Nebraska's, right eye obscured. Mole is very prominent in the first panel

Father Nebraska calls Vash a hypocrite and says he must have killed somebody, left eye covered. This is technically true, even if July was an accident