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dogs might look like their owners but cat people always have a cat with the same mental illness as them

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those food cat memes always make me think of a kitten wearing a costume that his mommy made him

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sliding down the pole or whatever

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I was thinking about how I have grown to value mandatory voting over a system that allows allegedly more freedom. Because in country, mandatory voting means I just have to send in a ballot. It can be empty or filled with the write in ballot "pickle farts" if I want.

If I go to the voting station all I have to do is get my name checked off. I don't have to vote if I don't want to.

But it means it is much more difficult for the government to try and suppress voters. Because voters have a legal obligation to go to the polls, so you can't restrict them or try tactics to dissuade them.

Voting polls are open long hours with access to food and water being a fairly standard staple. You don't need any form of ID, you have to be given time to go vote in work hours without penalty if you cannot do it after work hours.

Every now and then a politician tries some small way of voter suppression but it isn't as easy. And so I have learned to appreciate it.

But when I googled, out of curiosity, if the USA had ever had anything like that I was met with a barrage of websites talking about freedom and justice and the absolute liberty of Americans. I thought an eagle was going to bust out of the screen.

Going through some of these I noticed they were think tanks connected to billionaires, one of them was funded and created by the Koch brothers.

Gotta love how often the American "freedom" is actually used as a way to further deny actual freedoms, both linguistically and politically.

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This scientist crafts stunning visual art through chemistry.

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i'm sorry i don't know what came inside me. came into me. came over me. sorry.

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OH MY GOD IT’S FINISHED I DID IT!!! I DID IT!!! AND IT’S UNDER 60k!!!

I AM A GOLDEN GOD!!! *collapses*

Thank you to the five people and a cat who were so enthusiastic in all the snippets I was posting. Writing for this tiny rarepair and seeing people fall in love with the characters and read the fics anyway has helped with my confidence a lot regarding my ability to get people to care about and enjoy my original stories and characters. I plan to share snippets from those a lot more regularly on here.

But anyway, here it is! The reason for all my ominous little snippets! A fun silly story about Ben Jones trying and failing to propose. That’s all that happens. Nothing else. Certainly nothing worrisome. :3

Enjoy!

Title: Like a SIA Board Member in Front of ‘Fountain’

Rating: E

Pairing: Ben Jones/Jamie Winter

Words: 56,930

Summary:

In which Ben Jones has a very simple question to ask his boyfriend, and all of Midsomer seems interested in preventing him from getting the opportunity. Up to and including murder.

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🎥 by mayaxs

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Happy pride month to my dad. When I came out as bi to him, this man googled what it ment, look at me and said "ohh. Yeah. You get that from me. You'd have far more siblings of I only shaged women." And went right back to his work emails.

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Next up is DS Jamie Winter..

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i think we should stop calling them baby names so people remember they’re not just naming a baby but also a future twenty seven year old with a resume

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i’m sorry kink fans but i just can’t see the suffix ‘con’ without thinking it means convention

‘dubcon’ will skrillex be there??

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Having a pointless argument about which of us is an outlier here.

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