#...Yeah.

[bubblingcolaa]

Strange little comic if you could even call it that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[rotking]

cookie is old. i know she's old. i try so hard to ignore that sometimes. ive had her for a while. she's 14. that's up there. been showing signs of her age lately, too. and i have loved her ever since she was a baby small enough to literally fit under a trucker hat, ever since i got her and we connected so hard right away all she wanted to do was play with me and curl up in my lap in the place i got her from, when originally we were looking for a dog for my mother. but nah, cookie chose me. she chose me. i knew the day would eventually come. it still isn't here, hopefully it won't be for a little while longer, but. i never thought it would be kidney issues. which is...very surprising. she's sick. unclear what caused this, possibly age or...they didnt know, really, at the hospital.

everything possible is being done. and when the day comes, and it will, i don't know when, and i really hope it isn't very soon, she will be with me. just how we began. in no pain. only love. nothing but love. and when she is gone, as it is with all the pets i have lost, i will mourn her for the rest of my life. her soul will be with me, and i will cherish that.

[ranfren-confessions]

Me when any Ranfren beta design...👅👅👅🤤🤤😈🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏🙏😈👅

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[starrstruckcanuck]

And now, after a beautiful sunny evening, it is pouring rain again. The city of Vancouver is upset.

[randooffthestreet]

you know, the thought of having a parasite take over your body (Fresh Sans, for example) is a terrifying concept to me. You mean, this thing can steal my body, my entire identity, and I can do nothing but accept it? Do you die when your body is taken over, or are you a passenger to your own life while your body commits atrocities? Maybe the parasite doesn't even do bad things, maybe it ends up living a better and more fulfilling life than you could've ever led yourself. I don't know, I just find the thought...really unnerving.

[koshka-sova]

i feel like getting into arknights and appreciating the character illustrations makes you like a va/seiyuu fan but for visual artists. this is especially corroborated if you follow them on twitter or weibo. did you know alchemaniac drew this (non-arknights) character? omg jacknife and iris doing another joint sales- wait they met up? woah is that anmi and namie in as2024. look at this sick is4 clear by chuzenji! i recognise the plastics and product design style, this is def norizc. wow look deel is on tumblr! yoo starshadowmagic definitely drew this commemorative art. oh look, skade and ryuzaki ichi rt'ed each other. hey isnt this art by ASK? hey isnt this liduke? hey-

[applepies-and-starlight]

I black out, i wake up the next day, i check my diary app, and i find out that i typed down a whole paragraph about wanting Ishmael carnally and needing to make out with her.

I am so down bad it's not even funny.

[cobra-wives]

also need to clarify like i am not suffering watching thru all of martin's movies. if anything this challenge gives me purpose. this man did NOT star in 160 films + tv + misc. video content + an audiobook + beer bottle campaigns for me NOT to devote my entire body blood and soul to recording all of it

[urlocalloser10191]

when you're happy with a good irl support system you can be 100% honest with but the lamp starts to look weird

[logosbot-tm]

Fnaf: consistently making me ship thing wo a real reason since 2014.

[superfruitland]

live life update tomorrow-- or... more like in 12 or so hours, it's already well past midnight for me lmao

so uh. get excited or something. make some noise. woo.

[ruth-the-artblog]

[scribeofred]

@ltcolonelcarter sooooooooooooooooo about the spin cycle.

all stories are about time loops, except for time loops, which are about grief

[anais-mirliaz]

frolicking with mama :)

[hug-your-face]

via @swatercolour here on Tumblr and also on [insta]

EDIT: I do not interpret "just managing" as "just suffering, just enduring, curling into a fetal position and waiting for it to be over." Managing is an active process.

So I'm using this post as a platform to make the reminder that "the power of the people is greater than the people in power," and we all are cordially invited to:

Take good care of ourselves. Mental, physical, emotional health. Hydrate. Move if we can, get outside if we can.

Keep up a routine. Remember quarantine and we all had to find a routine? This is the same.

Be intentional in our news consumption. Let's not stick our heads in the sand but let's not doomscroll either. Get an RSS aggregator. Subscribe to WTF Just Happened Today, Yoour Local Epidemiologist, Fix The News (for some inspiring hopeful news!). We'll check our feeds a few times a week, but no more than once a day.

Connect with friends and loved ones. Remind ourselves that while SOME people are horrible, for the most part people are awesome... if complicated. Share our fears but also our hopes. Eat together.

Now that we're keeping healthy, safe, sane, and hopeful... now we also fight. Quietly if we prefer, loudly if we prefer. But sustainably. I hate that I had to live through three rounds of this nonsense where a few people use half of us as tools to fuck over ALL of us, but here we are again. So let us take just one moment every week or so to...

Use 5calls to keep blowing up our reps phones. Tell them to either break ranks with the Orange Administration, or to stand up louder than just matching outfits and signs. Or to THANK them for standing up.

Use Vote411 to find elections before the midterms. A lot of villages, cities, townships etc have local elections that will affect where we live... and more importantly, the people in office there will affect things upwards too.

Use Ballotpedia to know exactly what's on our ballots ahead of time.

Protest, because it actually works.

Use Vote.org to make a plan to vote in the midterms. Make a plan that is immune to voter suppression tactics. Get our documents in order. Reach out to our friends to go to the polls as a group. Plan to livestream our visit, up until the point we have to turn our cameras off.

Make and share memes that promote hope, organizing, solidarity, and/or resistance.

Get involved with an action network like Indivisible, MoveOn, or Working Families Party.

Go to a local town hall meeting. Speak up.

Heck, start our own local activism networks, letter campaigns, call campaigns, or fundraisers with Action Network.

And we will remember our self-care. We will remind ourselves and each other that they want us scattered, focus is how we resist.

It IS coming back. Things ARE going to get worse. The world has become a place where a very few people are pulling levers and pushing buttons that are actively destroying much of what is good about living in a society where people care for each other.

Many others are in shock, sputtering "but can they do that?" MANY many others are waiting for someone to come save us.

But there are those who are actively, loudly, opposing.

And there are more people speaking up, acting up, every day. More people saying it's time to get scrappy. It's time to get into some good trouble. The shock is wearing off.

Yes, it's gonna get worse before it gets better (the long-term damage of the acts of the past momentum of all the damage that has been done will take that long to be felt -- but it WILL get better.

If WE will it.