#I wish I could have known him

[eterniitea]

No one is gonna see this and I think that just kind of proves my point but… Man since I got my new job I started to hate it when people insist your elected officials don’t care about you. Maybe it’s because I’m super progressive working in a progressive environment… but guys… oh my god they care so much.

So fucking much. For every little nonsense law that gets passed, there’s hundreds—thousands more put forward just to try to help you. There were 4000+ bills put forward by my state senate this year, and that’s just the senate! It’s over 5000 from the house iirc. But they do things to help you.

They care so much that they run themselves ragged securing funding for parks, libraries, bike lanes, road improvements, there’s so much and there’s so few of them but they try.

None of them are perfect, far from it really, but they do their fucking best. Yea yea we know about corruption etc. they’re human. I’m in one of the most corrupt states in the fucking United States and fuck man. The amount of running ragged I did this week for just one senator’s press conference was nuts. But you know what? It was small, it wasn’t much, but he secured funding to replace a neighborhood’s lead pipes. It doesn’t effect me, but no matter how many households that is… that’s someone’s kid who’s gonna grow up healthier. That’s someone’s grandparent who won’t be poisoning themselves into an earlier grave. That’s going to help people, not everyone but it’s going to improve lives.

Guys they care so much. It’s just… you can’t always hear them when they do things to help. That’s part of why I do my job, but there’s only so many people I can reach. There’s only so many people who want to hear.

Yea, I’m mega emotional because we lost one of our senators very suddenly yesterday. I never even met him but I sobbed for hours. I still have the tension headache from it. Fuck, I’m crying now. While I may not have known him, I know he fought like hell for his constituents. Everyone at work is mourning him. I’m sad because he won’t be able to be there for his family. I’m sad because people I worked with were friends with him. But part of what makes me so sad is that so many people don’t know how hard he fought for them.

And that there are people who would ever say that he didn’t care about them. He did. He always did.

So I wanted to share the one time I was able to watch him speak on the senate floor, it was the last time he ever did.

I won’t give a direct quote, but during the debate, Republicans were shouting quite incoherently for close to half an hour. He requested the floor, and when granted, he chastised all of them. He called out every single one of the people screaming and reminded them that they are policy makers. If they’re not happy with how things are, they should introduce legislation to fix what they see as being wrong in the world. Then he paused and said, well, actually, now that I’m thinking about it, I know all of your legislative records.

You were a great man, and I’m so sorry that you’re gone.

TL;DR: your elected leaders care about you. Don’t let people tell you otherwise.

[ahwait-no-yes]

mo xuanyu you are sooo underappreciated 💔

[kentopedia]

truthfully i want to back away from jjk but i don’t know how

[s0fter-sin]

metalhead ghost who’s been in moshpits since he was a kid and is now a veteran of the scene and the self appointed look out. he keeps an eye out for anyone falling or passing out, kicks the shit out of anyone crowd killing or putting their hands where they shouldn’t

and he’s been keeping an eye on the punk in the kilt since he saw him throw himself headfirst into the wall of death

he looks like the type to start shit - loud and aggressive as anyone else here but a punk doesn't end up at a metal show for no reason - but there's also something niggling at him that he's gonna end up getting himself hurt. and ghost can’t tell if he’s going to do it on purpose

if he does, ghost needs to know. he uses these places as an escape - the music, the violence, the community - always has and he knows all to well how easily an escape can curdle and become destructive. he’s seen too many people lost to the darker parts of the scene, almost lost himself to it; he doesn’t want it to happen to anyone else if he can help it

so when he sees the punk sweating his mohawk off, his movements becoming looser and uncoordinated, he has no issues with yanking him out of the pit and pulling him away from the crowd; pushing him up against the venue wall and ordering him to open his mouth

the glaze that falls over his eyes concerns him even as he obediently lets his mouth fall open. he was right; the punk’s severely dehydrated, tongue and gums far to pale and along with the look in his eyes, he half-thinks he’s about to drop

he reflexively tightens his hold on his jaw to keep him up and the punk shivers, a flush creeping up his neck. an almost confused arousal joins the haze in his eyes and ghost smirks beneath his mask

looks like metal shows aren’t the only thing the punk is new to

[skitskatdacat63]

2011 British gp Fernando is such a mood...

[blighted-lights]

the absolute worst part of being an idw ravage fan is that there is a version of ravage that lives in my head that is just. not the ravage we see canonically in mtmte. the ravage we have in mtmte fits so oddly into the story, and i've added a lot of extra thoughts/story tweaks to try and make up for it. WHICH MEANS sometimes i catch myself talking about something that makes no sense to other ppl because it Did Not Happen Like That in canon

like i was writing a meta post about ravage on the necroworld (specifically about this scene here-)

AND THEN STOPPED. because i realized i was yapping about a version of ravage that quite literally does not exist outside of my own head.

[seiwas]

my bf is my #1 fan and it’s the sweetest thing 🥺☹️

[sleepy-crypt1d]

going a little insane thinking about that one echo in moxxi's heist that's jack calling his mom on mother's day- a call she very much does not answer- and how much the sadness in his voice when saying goodbye says about him

[emmcfrxst]

ppl who complain abt me writing arthur as the romantic type haven’t read his in-game journal entries for sure >:(

[zodiacsea]

actually obsessed with the way astarion & halsin handled the whole negotiating romancing them both. chef’s kiss

[smilingformoney]

so jealous of people whose favourite actor is still alive

[myriad--starlings]

I've been saying for ages I wished I'd taken screenshots of the conversation in DMs, the July after we broke up (2019), where my ex took full responsibility for hurting me and lashing out at me about my shifting beliefs because of HIS insecurities and today I FOUND THEM I DO HAVE THEM OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

[firefly-sky]

i’m reading the da vinci code because i heard there was a character with albinism and holy shit lmfao

they had me when they said he had ‘translucent white skin and red eyes’ but when i got more into it and found out he’s a fuckinf SHARPSHOOTER?? and he can drive? and READ FINE PRINT?

Also I think this quote from an article is important:

“Michael McGowan, an albino who heads the National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation, said "The Da Vinci Code" will be the 68th movie since 1960 to feature an evil albino.” this article was written in 2006 btw (i love the referring to McGowan as ‘an albino’ too, shit goes hard./s)

god i love the portrayal of albinism in media. it’s so warped.

[ttngummybear]

Why do people on reddit have to fuck around with you and make you feel like an idiot for asking a question instead of just answering the question?

[p-inkbrush]

Save file name entering Rivington: CIRCUS TIME YAAAY

Save file name post-Dribbles: circus didn't go so good--

[boy-above]

hi everyone say hi to this stray cat that's been living in our garage, the neighbors first let us know about him saying there was a sick cat hanging around their yard and wanted our help to catch him so they could "help him" and we thankfully realized a bit later that what they meant by help him was "euthanize him", but they didn't want to say that cause they knew we wouldn't help catch the cat for them if we knew they were just gonna kill it. so we've been nursing him back to health with antibiotics n stuff and he was finally healthy enough that we thought it was okay to let him back outside. he doesn't want to leave the garage though so we leave the door open for him and he comes out every now and again. i don't believe the neighbors Really thought he was beyond saving, they were just tired of having a sick cat in their yard :I i'm glad we were able to save him. here's the handsome man