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i will do my best to post things here but i am used to not posting anymore so i can't promise anything. also...so much has changed here i don't quite know how to navigate my dash anymore rip.

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well i came back here because i saw some people talking about how there's ads and you can pay to get rid of them which made me go 0_o but i guess my adblocker is aces because i don't see any.

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How it feels to read a really good fic and find the author has dozens more like it 

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20 years. Ugh.  And you?

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Normal people on Twitter are having an absolutely normal one over muppet babies letting gonzo wear a dress

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If you live and vote in California, I hope by now you've heard that there is an election happening on September 14th. You may have even gotten your ballot in the mail already.

An election? In September? Yes. A stupid one.

You see, some Republicans got Big Mad at Governor Gavin Newsom when he made the decision to lockdown the state last year at the beginning of the pandemic. They decided to start a petition to remove (recall) him from office. California's state constitution allows voters to remove the governor via recall election if they get enough signatures.

How many signatures, you ask? 12% of the total votes cast in the previous election for the office of the person being recalled, or in this case, 1.5 million.

Yeah. That's all. Out of a state of nearly 40 million people. A state that is the 5th largest economy in the world.

Just 1.5 million people need to sign an official recall petition for a statewide vote to remove the governor from office.

(If you didn't know, a recall election is how California got Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor in 2003.)

If a simple majority (50% + 1 vote) of voters choose YES on their ballots, Gavin Newsom will be removed from office and whomever of the 46 candidates on the ballot gets more votes than anyone else (not even a majority vote, just more than the other candidates) will become California's new governor.

The current (as of today, August 20th) frontrunners are a very right-wing talk radio host named Larry Elder, and a real estate broker/YouTube personality named Kevin Paffrath. Neither have what you would call "political experience."

(Caitlin Jenner is also running. Just in case you were wondering.)

How do you get on a recall ballot in California? To replace the governor, the highest office in the state? Well, you need to complete the arduous task of forking over about $4000 and getting 7500 signatures of real Californians saying they back you as a candidate.

Yeah. That's all.

Oh, and just having this election is costing CA taxpayers over $250 million dollars.

So what's at stake if Newsom gets recalled?

Majority control of the US Senate.

You see, Senator Dianne Feinstein is 88 years old this year. She's been Senator since 1992. If she falls too ill to continue her duties, if she resigns, if she dies while in office, California does not hold a Senatorial election.

The governor appoints a replacement.

This is how we got our current junior Senator, Alex Padilla, after Kamala Harris was inaugurated as Vice President.

Let me say that again.

The governor appoints a replacement Senator if Dianne Feinstein cannot complete her term.

If enough people vote to recall Gavin Newsom, and a Republican, or Libertarian, or, let's be honest, any inexperienced wet sack that can be bought off by the highest bidder, takes his place, they will very possibly appoint a Republican Senator to replace Dianne Feinstein and put that fuckface Mitch McConnell back in control of the US Senate.

So please, please, if you're a Californian, make sure you're registered to vote, get your ballot, and vote NO on this stupid waste of money recall election.

More info:

www.sfgate.com/gavin-newsom-recall/amp/Gavin-Newsom-recall-poll-support-Elder-Paffrath-16390077.php

Voter guide:

https://www.kqed.org/recall

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wow that reblog fucked up my tags

for the record

i do not think horses are awful creatures

i am tired, have had some booze with my tea and it is 2am and i generally don’t know how to tumblr anymore so like, yeah  

but my point was that for actors, their whole schtick requires them to lie to people basically

and you cannot lie to horses, if you try they will find you out and then fuck you up. 

and that this process either quickly humbles an actor, or makes the actor decide that horses are the devil incarnate for daring to fuck with their ego and call them on their shit so easily. which is why you either get actors saying things in interviews like- horses are amazing creatures OR horses are awful, i do not like them. you can easily tell imho which actors are ...not necessarily the better ones,  but yeah like....USUALLY the ones that are humbled by they horses tend to be.....of a different caliber, let’s say. 

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Horses know, Dev Patel told me.

“A horse can tell if you’ve only slept two hours the night before,” he said. “If you’re anxious, the horse can feel it. Armani definitely could.”

Armani is one of Patel’s most significant co-stars in the new medieval fantasy “The Green Knight,” in which the 31-year-old actor plays Sir Gawain, a would-be warrior who embarks on something of a suicide mission. Parts of his quest take place on horseback and Patel, who’d never ridden before, tried to win Armani’s favor by sneaking him apples pilfered from the hotel lobby in Dublin.

Dev Patel for The New York Times (2021)

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What is your dad’s weird hyperfixation??? They all have one

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THE MUMMY (1999) + letterboxd reviews ↳ insp. & insp.

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i’m never going to ride you, am i? and no one ever should.

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just the two of us against the rest of the world | Word of Honor Ep. 32

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for anyone that’s having a bad day, here are pictures of animals sniffing flowers