#help i hate planes

[bitchfitch]

I had a shrink appointment today and while I could not see it I knew my doc was going through the five stages of grief while I explained my fool proof strategy for doing my t shots despite a crippling fear of needles: By abusing my vastly more crippling fear of being an inconvenience.

My mother and I play phasmophobia together every week. she usually has a pretty limited time to do this bc she's like. a doctor and a college professor whos always busy. So I asked her to just. hold me to doing them. We don't start playing until the shot is done. so my needle fear doesn't matter because now it's Wasting™ her time and I have to do it quick. Using one neurosis to defeat another.

It's a horrible coping mechanism because it's feeding the inconvenience fear, but it is definitionally a coping mechanism.

[chilei-the-hotsauce]

so this happened

[the-crow-binary]

Hi everyone! So! Things are not going well for me here!

My mom's currently at the hospital with many health problems, one of them being cancer (and we don't even know wich one), basically paralyzed because of the severe pain she's in. Apparently we're not even sure she's treatable (the doctors are a bit lost, from what i understand). I really want to go see her, the problem is that she lives oversea and plane tickets aren't cheap.

So I made a ko-fi page. Not only you can donate to me there (even the littlest bit of money will be greatly appreciated!!), but I also made a commission page if you'd like to receive a drawing in exchange of your money! And if you can't spare a penny, then please consider sharing this post in exchange of my eternal gratefulness!

Thanks to everyone reading this and who are willing to help, no matter the way, shape or form!

EDIT because I see people are still reblogging this (wich i really appreciate!): I reached my goal, guys! And my tickets are bought! I'm keeping the kofi page up for now but there's no urgent need of money anymore, thanks!

[vonlipvig]

a little gift for my friend eleanor @bagadew who wanted to see thee girlboss of the skies herself, carolyn knapp-shappey from cabin pressure! i had a lot of fun drawing her and reminiscing about this great radio show (man, i should really relisten to it!), i really hope you like it!

[violetta-frogg-drifter]

Everyone shut up and lock in to help me find this Hamilton animatic that I swear to god existed because I watched it in middle school. I woke up in a cold sweat last night thinking about it and I cannot for the life of me find it

OK take everything with a grain of salt because this was so long ago but from what I remember;

-it was a modern au Hamilton and Lawrence

-about the song it’s a woman singer she describes accidentally running into a guy who helps her pick up all the groceries she dropped and then the guy ends up saying “I’ll be here next Thursday 8:00 if you wanna stop by” or something like that anyway she goes on to say like they fell in love got married (or possibly just engaged) and the she’s in the home that they share and the phone rings and she picks it up and then out of nowhere you figure out the dude was in the goddamn north tower???…as in 9/11…as in he dies in the attack

-I also feel like the dude‘s name was John but that might be the lams talking

- anyway the animatic played out the same way and I think ended with Hamilton at Lawrence’s funeral??

Anyway, this was ripped from the deep recesses of my brain, and I would really like if anyone had any clue that this existed or if I just made this up (also I’m not entirely sure at this point if it was lams or not I don’t care I just need to find it )

[behindnightmaresanddreams]

They're gonna have to make a new 9/11 after I get done with this woman I swear to god

[neonvqmpire]

im seeing blink tomorrow and the day after??? i have such massive fomo i feel like i missed so much on blinkblr the last month because i was too busy/sick to keep up with everything. all i know is that they polycule truthed on stage last night and seemingly brought a very *interesting* energy to europe. ((if theres anything that happend that i should know would be cool if anyone can fill me in lol)).

i'll try my best to record the banter and some songs (dont think i can stream while im there because i'll need mobile data for when i go to denmark next week). be warned i have shit seats both nights but they were all i could find. the venue has week wifi so i might pop on tumblr every now and then to give updates. <33

ready to see those old men

[ashenmoonchild]

[pumpkinpaix]

also. travel planning. terrible. awful. large amounts of money and logistics all at once. horrid. I’m doing it bc I’ve done it a million times before but I wish it sucked less

[yourheartinyourmouth]

just need to win the lottery. not even the big one!!! i only need like…idk……30K??? 40??? to the lottery, that’s fuckin nothing! i just want out ;__;

it makes me sick that there are people in this world who could be like “oh you need 40k? here’s 50, go buy yourself something nice” and in two days they’d have made that money back+interest but nope instead they spend millions of dollars on houses and boats and cars and other stupid shit and then they have the fucking gall to try and justify why they deserve a 2 million dollar house in the worst housing crisis in american history

[marvelsmostwanted]

There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — 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 — public praise on the Sunday news shows — 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 – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve 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 I’ve 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I 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 don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m 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 I’m 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 – 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 “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” 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 “tragic spirit of despair” 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)

[frankie-the-bad-guy-lupelli]

Planes, trains, or automobiles?

Planes, trains, AND automobiles.

[passerinesoncaffeine]

76 days is not enough time actually. I am going to tear off my limbs and eat them.

anyways! I might be desperate enough to open commissions soon.

[skywalker-swift]

I have had the most annoying period nausea on this flight and I can’t wait to get off

[sunny-sainz]

attempting to fly during this whole outage thing is a literal nightmare…my flight got delayed at least 10 times (ive been here for hours) but when we finally get a proper time and everything is finally looking up the flight is canceled?!? (only a few minutes from when we were supposed to board) and all other flights to our destination are canceled-the plane is literally at the gate-this is nuts

[truthundressing]

absolutely crazy disconnect btwn hearing typhoon fgr4's flying over my area and the protest my city held only last wknd...