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Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

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THE ENTIRE WEST IS BEING PUT UP FOR SALE AND I AM BEGGING YOU TO CALL YOUR SENATORS

Trump’s budget bill has many, many things in it, but buried amongst it is the MILLIONS OF ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND FOR SALE.

This is the entirety of the Arizona state forests, the entire Cascades mountain range. Swathes of pristine desert around the national parks in Utah. On the doorstep of Jackson Hole.

THIS BILL IS BIG, BUT IT CAN BE AMENDED AND ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT PASS AS IS please.

If you have ever enjoyed the wilderness, we stand to lose it all forever.

CALLING your senators - NOT JUST IN THE WEST. ALL SENATORS, is CRUCIAL.

Outdoor alliance has a great resource for reaching out.

I don’t have a huge following but please, everywhere I have ever loved, the forests I grew up playing in, the land I got married on, is all at risk and I am begging.

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half and half

Let me pose you a hypothetical. Suppose you are known by everybody in the world―and I mean everybody. For the sake of the argument, let's ignore how hundred year olds and literal infants knew your name and seen your face, the point is that everybody knows you. A person's publicity is varied between soul to soul. Some yearn for their life stories to be thrown to fame, while others prefer to be perceived by nobody. But everybody to a degree is public. Your age, your gender, your appearance, your hobbies, the things that make you you, have at some point been public. A lot of mental gymnastics to get to this point, but the point I want to make is that, half the world would like you, and half the world would hate you. There are lots of reasons involved. Some people like you for the arts you've made, or the personality you hold, or your appearance. Some people hate you for your opinions, for certain traits of yours, or intrinsically hate you. But the point I want to make is EVERYBODY has this. Half and half, the world divisive in you. So, I posit you this: if you have some anxiety thoughts that your friends hate you all along, then where is the other half? Surely, from an entirely logical statistical standpoint, the chances that everybody secretly hates you is unlikely. If there are bigots who want you dead, there are equally people who want you alive. If there are enemies who despise you, there are friends who will love you dearly. Half, and half! Love and hate requires no reasons. One can love and hate from a misguided reason, or none whatsoever. You are allowed to love and hate without any pretense. And... as much as I want a world where we can all love, such an absolute is fundamentally impossible. Abolishing bigotry is impossible. But, for everybody that hates you for who you are, there are equally everybody who love you for who you are. Take care.

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HELL YEAH

Matching your freak is beautiful and all but what you really need is a boy who's infatuated with your freak. Down bad for your freak. Deeply intrigued by your freak. Eager to see more of your freak. Supportive of your freak. Gets bricked up witnessing your freak, even.

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a trans woman expressing love freely and openly to everyone in her life. a beautiful thing

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Compilation of all my Homestuck character art things

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Stolen from reddit kjjjj

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siffrin finally makes a joke that gets odile to laugh really hard

they will be riding this high for weeks

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Cedric.

Am I right chat?

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It’s finally happened.

After almost a decade on this site, I found another Tumblr user in the wild. I stopped to tie my shoe with rainbow laces this morning outside the silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, and I heard it.

“I like your shoelaces.”

Oh. Oh no.

I responded the only way I could. “Thanks.” And then I reluctantly added, “I stole them from the president…and if that makes sense to you, I’m very sorry.”

The poor man, in full Colonial dress, stared at me for a long moment. And then burst into laughter. And said, “I haven’t thought about that in YEARS and this has never happened to me before.”

Yeah. Me neither. Not until today.

Tumblr rite of passage. Achievement unlocked.