a watery time

remaining alive

learning

being a fighty bitch

spite

being kind, when you can

Additionally, due to their small size in even smaller environments like lakes and rivers, freshwater mermaids prefer human speech for communication over the whale-like humming used by their ocean relatives to speak. 

things to include

flapper dresses

jazz music

sex positivity

women’s rights

renewal of arts & culture

increased immigration & cultural sharing

sequins

eyeliner

things to leave behind

racism & nativism

consumerist culture

black/jewish solidarity

short hair of all textures

suspenders

beaded & embroidered dresses

subtly homoerotic advertising

masculine women, feminine men

things to leave behind

ineffective prohibition laws

Unless….

This dude just called himself out in his own footnotes???

“Notoriously complacent in this regard is Freudenberg (1993).”

The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began

thank you for those who made it out in the rain and the cold, who organized and canvassed and took on the onerous task of working with non-voting & conservative friends/family to change their stance if at least just this once. thank you for those who stood in line for hours, who had to travel because your voting place was moved, who had to jump through ridiculous fucking hoops to register, who weren’t inspired but showed up anyway for the disenfranchised and the greater good. thank you as well to everyone who voted early, absentee, and provisional. 

DEMOCRATS WHO STAY HOME ELECT REPUBLICANS

THIS IS HOW 45 GOT IN DESPITE THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY BEING AGAINST HIM, AND LOOK HOW THAT WORKED OUT

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