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When a fic doesnāt fit my head canons but itās well-written

#I donāt think xy OR z happened but damn if this isnāt compelling#āhe would never do that. next chapterā#also itās good to look beyond our own perceived ideas of the narrative and be fascinated by others takes#I��m only reading fanfics from one fandom so#gravity falls#fiddauthor#fan fiction#ao3#old man yaoi#the office#dwight schrute#screencaps
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When I was early on in my transition I got in a Lyft, and the driver was this big country guy. I was a little nervous so I just sat quietly in the back.
After a moment he changed the music on his phone to what sounded like a Hatsune Miku song. Curiosity got the better of me, so I finally spoke up and said āis this Hatsune Miku?ā
And he said āYep. You looked uncomfortable, and I know Transgender women like Hatsune Miku, so I thought it might help.ā
I think about that interaction a lot.
#for the record it did help#like I know itās a stereotype#and stereotyping is bad#but i appreciated that he made the effort#he saw I was uncomfortable and took steps to try and make me feel safer#a little misguided#but still#this is rare in Columbia SC#also#I do like Hatsune Miku
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what i've been up to the past 20 minutes
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There are people ā some in my own Party ā who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, heāll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. Iāll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say ā almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most ā public praise on the Sunday news shows ā in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work ā just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I wonāt be fooled twice.
Iāve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times Iāve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.
As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.
The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population ā so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.
The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis ā contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.
As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case ā but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 ā a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.
I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately ā and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Hereās what Iāve learned ā the root that tears apart your houseās foundation begins as a seed ā a seed of distrust and hate and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didnāt arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
Iām watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac ā and suggests ā without facts or findings ā that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks ā arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too āfemaleā and ānonwhite.ā The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who donāt look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.
I just have one question: What comes next? After weāve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities ā once weāve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends ā After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face ā what comes next.
All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we donāt want to repeat history ā then for Godās sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.
I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincolnās Bible: āI do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.
My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We donāt have kings in America ā and I donāt intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions ā but in deference to my obligations.
If you think Iām overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:
It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All Iām saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.
Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 ā just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the ārally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.ā It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.
Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the ātragic spirit of despairā overcome us when our country needs us the most.
Sources:
⢠NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text
⢠Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)
#he also announced banning phones in schools & a bunch of other good policies for illinois btw!#wish some very blue states in the northeast would take note & do moreā¦!#this is the message btw#(āread the rest of the speech - itās very positive)#jb pritzker#us politics#long post#mine
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#icarus speaks#again as he himself says all this is normal stuff#but still#itās twitter.#containment breach
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itās eunuch Tuckerās adoptiversary and defacto birthday today <3
#cause hes a rescue we dont know his birthday (or age) so his adoption anniversary is also his bday <3#lady normalgirl and her eunuch#cats#10k#20k#my doods#30k#40k#50k#60k
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now that trump has tiktok, twitter, facebook and insta in his pocket, get ready for a massive wave of internet censorship. one of trump's greatest weapons has always been misinformation; it's going to become harder and harder to spread facts and criticism going forward. posts that aren't made invisible will be magically ignored by the algorithm. dissidents will have their accounts deleted and voices erased.
this is a suppression tactic. this is another stage of fascism.
#us politics#tiktok#tiktok ban#not a shitpost#we will look back through the lens of history on how very first thing he did when returning to power#was to seize control of the public's ability to communicate and organize#and it won't be 'lol tiktok'. it won't be funny. it won't be funny at all
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One of my coworkers owns this shirt and wears it to work almost every Saturday and I canāt stay silent about it any longer

#apparently he found it at a thrift store which makes it even funnier#like he didnāt go out of his way to find it he just organically stumbled upon it
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Free bumper sticker design for any Floridians who want it
#if you donāt know who that is I envy you heās like if some kind of groin fungus gained consciousness#we absolutely hate you Ron#politics#Florida#bumper sticker#shitpost#memes#usa politics
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I love that I share my house with one of the most efficient apex predators millions of years of evolution could produce. I love that two of natureās most prolific machines met and were like āhmmm. We should lay around and do nothing togetherā. Now weāre both fat and happy and full of meat. The hedonism of it all
#Ollieposting#he is NOT fat btw I know cat fat is not the same as human fat i work very hard to keep him in cat-luxury#But still#We both eat well and sleep lots#and I love that
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Imagine being JD Vance, who makes such a huge part of his personality being catholic. The pope himself takes time to lecture you on compassion then promptly DIES. The pope uses one of his last hours on earth to tell you that you suck at your religion on EASTER. And then DIES. Anyway RIP Pope Francis
#pope francis#he was one of the most progressive popes weāve seen#and I appreciate his open condemnation of our current administration
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Silco and his terror of a daughter
#my art#sketchy sketch#arcane#silco#jinx#jinx and silco#silco would give jinx everything he owns and more#and that would make things worse#silco the makeup expert because he gotta use good and safe products on his own face#thats my queue to leave#silco is the worst best dad#just like jinx is the worst best daughter
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#classā would erik use reddit? let's discuss#phantom of the opera#poto#poto shitpost#okay but imagine the paris opera house subreddit#there being a pinned thread dedicated to opera ghost sightings#erik having mod access for some reason#(the managers keep trying to ban him but he only stays gone for like 2 days before reappearing somehow)#the ballet girls using burner accounts to spread rumors#someone posts that they saw the vicomte go to christine's dressing room like it's deuxmoi#erik fully just doxxes them in the comments
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not to be a dirty commie or anything but i don't think any one person should have enough money to solve world hunger and then get to decide not to
#he speaks#i hate rich people#ābut preston the rich people EARNED that money they worked so hard to exploit all those poor peopleā I'LL EAT YOU TOO#they're trying to decide what color their third yacht should be#meanwhile your average joe is busy trying to pick between dinner or rent#luigi mangione was right#luigi mangione and tetsuya yamagami legendary collab coming this spring
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major traffic incident
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