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heyy everyone,

i'm looking for this video (genuinely for research purposes)

(embarrassed at my RPF past obviously, i never even use this blog anymore)

it seems to no longer be on the internet, but it's the source of this gif

everyone is asked their thoughts on queen and they all go "nah. ask taylor" and dave calls him a walking queen encyclopedia. i have access to other videos where he talks about his first show and catching the roses, but it would be really great to get my hands on this one since brian may also refers to his stannery as "encyclopedic"

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Various wildflowers

A printable version of this artwork is available here

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fuck all romance except what that traumatized catgirl & glowing 6ft tall lesbian had going on

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Harpers Bazaar US Sept 1990 - Winona Ryder by Matthew Rolston

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http://boudoirbydlish.bigcartel.com

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Hey folks, I live in Seattle and up till a couple years ago I lived on Capitol Hill. I still have friends living there.  So I thought I’d provide some local insight into the CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone).

There is a lot of misinformation out there, especially from Fox News, which photoshopped a gunman into pics, wow.

First, the best resources to find CHAZ info are local to Seattle: The Seattle Times, Capitol Hill Blog, and the CHAZ livestream where you can see the streets for yourself.

Capitol Hill is a very densely populated neighborhood full of apartment buildings and bustling restaurants and bars. If you work there, you live there (because it is hard to navigate by car, like NYC), and if you live there, you are probably super liberal. It’s also the center of counter-culture and LGBTQ culture in Seattle.

Are the protesters terrorizing the locals?

No, the protesters ARE the locals. They live in the many, many apartment buildings on Capitol Hill.  Having lived there for years, believe me when I say “fuck the police” is a prevalent opinion there even when there isn’t a nationwide protest.

Is there looting?  How are businesses protecting themselves?

The local businesses are not being looted; they are open and are doing a booming business.  Also, a lot of workers / business owners ARE protesters.

I saw a picture of Seattle on fire!

Actually you saw a picture of a protest in Minnesota that Fox News pretended was Seattle because they are frauds and shills.

How big is the Autonomous Zone?

Six square blocks.

How did this situation come about?

There was a peaceful march.  The mayor abruptly set a 5 pm curfew.  The protesters ignored it and marched anyway.  Then the police set up barricades to stop the march.  The cops started using tear-gas and flash-bangs and the situation devolved from there. (You can find videos of this on Capitol Hill Blog.)  What prompted the tear-gas was … one of the protesters thrust a pink umbrella over the barrier.  Yes, really.

The situation deteriorated for several days/nights running until the police abandoned the East Precinct on Capitol Hill. The violence was very one-sided: the police attacking the protesters.

Then the police left.  From what I heard the mayor ordered them out due to rumors or fears that the police station would be burned down? Which didn’t happen.  Anyway, they abruptly left.  As in, hired a literal moving truck and emptied out their headquarters, in almost a comedic beat.

Do you have to show your ID to enter the Autonomous Zone?

No.  People come and go freely.  City services are also allowed to come and go (and I presume delivery trucks but I haven’t looked into that.)

What’s with the physical barriers if people can come and go freely?

They’re to keep vehicles out. 

Backstory:  While the protests were ongoing, a guy (whose brother was an East Precinct cop) tried to ram his car into a crowd of protesters.  A brave man eating a hot dog threw himself at the side of the car, grabbed the steering wheel through the open window, and stopped him. Whereupon cop-brother-car-man shot him with a gun.

Personally I think cop-brother-car-man was planning a mass shooting because he had extra ammo taped to his hoodie sleeve. You can see the blue tape on his arm in the pic above. (The protester who was shot thankfully survived.  Check out those brave medics tending him while an ACTIVE SHOOTER is standing feet away!)

But anyway, that’s why there are barriers. I believe they move them aside for approved vehicles, like emergency vehicles or deliveries.

Are there people with guns roaming around?

Not on a regular basis, although I’ve heard a local gun club had some members there one night when it was rumored the Proud Boys (a Nazi group) might show up.  (They didn’t.)  But in general, no.

Is it scary??

No.  The neighborhood is fully on board and overall there is a festive atmosphere.  There are speeches about BLM, about discrimination, about what people want for the neighborhood.  There are first aid stations, medics and counselors, and people offering free pizza.  If you watch the livestreams, you can see people walking their dogs, out with their kids, etc.

Where will this all end?

I don’t know.  The barriers can’t stay up forever and I think everyone knows that.  The “Autonomous Zone” name is tongue-in-cheek, the protesters aren’t actually trying to secede from the United States.  Basically, this is a boiling over of frustration.  The police have never been good-faith neighbors on Capitol Hill.  Also Seattle police have always been pretty racist and had a problem with excessive force.

Look at this whole situation.  All the police had to do was stand back and let the protesters march; they would have marched and gone home and that would be that.  All the police had to do was nothing.  Instead they turned a neighborhood into a warzone.

By the way, did you know that yesterday (6/12) in a different Seattle neighborhood 60,000 people marched to support BLM?  And because the city had learned its lesson about dumbass curfews, they let everyone march and nothing bad happened.

Weird how the national news didn’t report on that march, huh?  Almost like they cherrypick the protests that will appear “scary” to their audience.

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i haven't seen any posts about this going around on tumblr yet, and i know theres a lot going on around the world but this is an issue that needs (and has always needed) more coverage tbqh.

Kylie Jenner has recently been under fire for her clothing line in collaboration with Kendall Jenner, Kendall + Kylie, refusing to pay Bangladeshi apparel workers making their products. the company is owned by Global Brands Group, which has decided not to pay the workers due to the lack of sales during the pandemic. people started speaking up about the payment issue on Kylie's instagram, but instead of a proper response comments were being deleted and eventually limited.

however, the issue doesn't begin and end with Kendall + Kylie, the treatment of factory workers in Bangladesh is a problem with a long overdue response. most of these people are women working in gruelling conditions, being paid in dust and recieving little to no benefits. their lives are seen as disposable. during the quarantine, factories continued production but laid off a quarter of the workforce while the rest still face the threat of wage cuts and lack of access to healthcare.

all the fast fashion we consume like Gap, Primark, Forever 21 and C&A comes at the cost of labour exploitation in developing countries like Bangladesh. this is the country where the main source of income is textiles, where the 2013 Rana Plaza incident killed 1,100 factory workers alone, where workers constantly protest for better salaries and safer conditions, and yet they recieve not even an ounce of dignity for their hard labour. change needs to happen, better sooner than later. will reblog with what you can do to help (since tumblr hates posts with links).

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this time next year I could be shirtless

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26-year-old Jamarion Robinson’s grandmother Beverly Nixon said her grandson was bipolar and schizophrenic. Still got shot 76 (!!!) times. Would a white person get the same treatment?

The witness said he saw more than a dozen patrol cars at the complex where US Marshals killed Robinson on August 5, 2016. Why were there no behavioral specialist? Surely one of them would know how to interact with a bipolar schizophrenic better than the police.

I’m absolutely disgusted.

Here’s Jamarion’s mother’s GoFundMe in case anyone is willing to help.

#JusticeForJamarion   #BlackLivesMatter

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Billy Ray Cyrus regretting being on Hannah Montana but then changing his mind bc him being on the show is how Lil Nas knew him and now they're friends is so sweet

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Saw a twitter thread that documents the niche meme community of “gay ford” and i can’t tell if these were made by homophobes or gay people

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Free Black History Library

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just called my tongue my fuck muscle on main oops

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ok so i read good omens yesterday and i rly liked it and all the characters so this isn't a roast or a dislikement since i'm in no position to do that,,,,, I'm just confused abt two things that broke immersion for me a bit and I was wondering if it was like, deliberate like am I missing something?

my first question is: why is "could have" spelt as "could of" all over the dialogue? or not even specifically that but hastur says it, adam says it, the firefighter even uses "of" instead of "have"

like sometimes stuff is spelled for accents like adam saying "din't" (who even says the entire dih dent anyways) but like the same effect can be achieved by using "could've" so im wondering about if it's a weird edition and usually I don't judge grammar and stuff too much since I'm francophone, writing with shit grammar on tumblr dot com and I'm also an entire idiot, and also socioeconomic implications of judging misspelled stuff blah blah blah yes was but kinda surprised to see it in a published book and like it can't have been missed right? is it smth about brit accents that make it necessary or smth..... ignore the caption I Simply Will Not Do Math or truly count so idk the how manyeth time it actually was but just an example okey

also the second thing is this scene

so he says "bugger" right, and it's like the plot twist of the century (centuries? wtv) because he never swore before...

... except however few days ago when he was hammered off his ass

right so my question is:

1) was he too drunk to remember?? he's smart as all fuck though and he can just Un Drunk himself right so like does the sobering up work just on the spot or is it kinda just instant hangover so it makes u still a bit weird?

2) was he trying to act cool in front of the metatron???? which is kinda self contradictory I feel like anyone would be sweaty as balls in that situation, and also the metatron can't read minds or else he would have just kinda Known what was going on right?

3) did he just Not Remember? is aziraphale a squishy adhd icon (yes I KNOW they can't have adhd or be gay which 👀👀 personally if they're being something there's defs some kind of cool supernatural equivalent like instead of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder it's called like Amnesia Discouraging Heavenly Dexterity I am SURE there is a tone-equivalent solution to explain a blanc de mémoire here)

4) is the drunk scene just crowley's memory of it, making it a swear heavy paraphrase? like is that his sleazy mental translation of whatever aziraphale is puttering on about in distinguished English or smth

5) maybe it's just a Two People Wrote It Bruh Moment and I'm like the thousandth person to bring this up???? who the heck knows.

anyways i can't get arrested for this so I'm gonna just go ahead and tag the entire remaining half of authorship @neil-gaiman and @disappointing-pineapple who convinced me to make a post because it distracted me from watching b99 when it popped into my head (the second thing, first thing just confused me) and its been stressing me out which is rude tbh so I need answers tyvm