#take note

[redpinkwine]

When Eddie saw the clipboard Buck

[thats-marshal-commander-caf]

[crmsnmth]

Taking Stock of the Damages

My legs shake and give out and I drive my knees down onto the gravel little stones now embedded in my skin The will to fight left me curled up on the sidewalk outside of a punk bar angry faces stare down at me She won her hand when I didn’t even know that we were playing a game

I can’t tell if it’s a puddle of water or a puddle of blood that’s trickling down the curb and into the street And maybe I’m just trying to convince myself that I don’t need to go the hospital for a boot to the face concussion I guess I did have it coming

I spit and it’s still red and I’m wondering how much had raced down my throat When he left, I just laid there waiting to die and I finally find the strength to roll and sit on the curb my nose is weird in peripheral vision and I’m only guessing that it’s broken

I’m no doctor and I’ve never played on on TV

Heavy breathing ribs are sore take note of all the damages and when they’re all cataloged

only then can I find the strength to walk home

[local-gun-witch]

Lorena Bobbitt, patron saint of enough is enough

[whats-in-a-sentence]

11 October, evening. – Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept.

"Dracula" - Bram Stoker

[regressedlilbee]

Your helpless whimpering in the "Oh no.. it leaked" video was absolutely slaying me! Hope to see more of you struggling and failing to be a big girl who can keep herself dry.

i would have replied 2 this sooner but i keep getting so drippy wet and flustered when i read it that i cant come up with words 🫣

[bearpillowmonster]

Remember the end of Chicken Little where they make a movie about him, call him Ace and it's all serious and action movie-like, completely exaggerating events. The more realistic movie is actually the in-universe parody, yeah, that's how they should've handled Lightyear.

[callmeanxietygirl]

PARA RECORDAR

Elle Fanning será la protagonista de la nueva película de Depredador que se llamará 'BADLANDS'. Este evento estará situada en algún futuro. Dan Trachtenberg ('PREY') será el director.

Y por otro lado, la secuela de 'PREY' sigue en desarrollo. La actriz Amber Midthunder volvería a retomar su papel como Naru.

[kuwagotheowl]

Animated Emotes set for a client from last year! Also posted on my Twitter.

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[wittywallflower]

PSA!

[thefaultinoursprinkles]

@zoethebitch

advanced tip: while driving, you can use your turn signal to warn other drivers that you intend to turn.

[marvelsmostwanted]

There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)

[salvadorbonaparte]

"tiktok has massive problems that even if you don't agree with a complete ban have to be addressed for all social media platforms" and "the Chinese government is doing pretty awful things" and "there is a lot of sinophobic fearmongering and double standards in the conversation about tiktok" and "people should exercise basic caution signing up to foreign or domestic social media" and "most Chinese citizens like US citizens are just people living their life and cultural exchange between them can be beneficial for both sides" and "some people being on the same social media site isn't going to solve everything " and "I want to study the linguistics happening there under a microscope" are opinions that can coexist

[kuwagotheowl]

Animated Emotes set for a client from last year! Also posted on my Twitter.

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[devilscheck]

@depictedmorada sent grabs her face and kisses her, no qualms. leggo.

RANDOM IC ASKS !

The first move was one that JENNIFER was all the more familiar with. Time and time again, it ALWAYS felt as though it was expected of her. Perhaps that was why the pressed lips of Maddy's against hers brought and immediate smile to her lips; no need to make ANY more whatsoever, she was putty in the other girl's hands as she leaned in further.

Her head cants ever so slightly to the side, the urge to deepen the kiss as hands find comfort on her hips. The blush that's ignited her own features brightened with each passing second, showcasing the usually well hidden freckles across the bridge of her nose. There's a want to let the kiss linger, to not pull back, not yet. Her teeth go to nip lightly at her bottom lip, a small pull before her gaze is drawn back.

"How long have you wanted to do that, Perez?"