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(and remember to Vote AND! Sometimes I feel bad that I'm not doing enough, but then I remind myself that doing something half-assed is better than doing nothing. Sure, phone calls count for more than emails to my senator, but an email is better than nothing, so I need to get out of my own damn way and send that email instead of feeling bad that I'm not calling. Voting is going to be extra hard this year so good luck!!!)

I commend your body to the stars

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I found this setup because I smelled smoke and followed it across the ice because what the hell

(I suppose it could also be because of them wanting to stay downwind of the fire smoke, but...still? ???? Definitely leaning toward this is a naiad checking out what The Land Folk are up to.)

this setup is sitting on about a foot and a half of lake ice over a couple dozen feet of water. which really puts this whole nonsense into perspective

One more for the collection. Book is Stars at Last by Jessica Jocelyn

Quiet cuddling

[PART 1] [PART 2]

idk if this pic is making the rounds on tumblr yet but its so cute look!!

Obsessed with this tag

[ID 2: tumblr tags that read "Oh! I didn't realise y'all had surgeries, I just thought you were showing off your tube tops." /End ID]

The toddler looks at me. "You are a fascist, auntie. I have seen the light and will now go eat chewing gum from the pavement, unless you can educate me on a rigorous framework on the microbiology of pavement chewing gum this very instant."

The person you're talking to is asking "but isn't it good to give patients more time to think before making irreversible changes?" because they didn't hear the part where you explained that asking patients about their masturbation habits has nothing to do with anyone's safety. They missed it because the Principle Understander was on a tangent about the necessity of abolishing capitalism because paying for medication is bad, which again, yes but this is really not the time or place for that.

Tell all the truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind—

Earl could have gotten an earful about gendered clothing colors being a social construct or how the queer community has its own clothing subculture, and he wouldn't have heard or internalized a word of it. But for the kind of redneck who goes to tractor-pulls? Yeah, "what the fuck do you think freedom means" really only touches the most superficial layer of Mister Pink John Deere Hat, but Earl heard that. And maybe next time he sees a guy dressed like Daisy Duke chilling at a tractor-pull he'll remember it and think "isn't it great to live in a free country" and mind his business. Maybe he'll even ask where the guy got his pink hat and learn something more.

Earl's not ready for the conversation about clothes being a social construct or gender being a social construct, but he can still potentially be an ALLY, because freedom is a value that we share with him, and it's a lot easier to appeal to his love of freedom than it is to successfully teach him a whole new framework of viewing the world that he doesn't even agree with the basic tenets of yet.