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[constance-mcentee]

Image Descriptions: A pair of Threads posts by user capitalstitchco read as follows:

Unpopular opinion but we should treat someone's sobriety with the seriousness of someone who has an allergy. Your sober friends do not "want a taste," they do not find it funny when you bring unlabeled food with alcohol in it, and they should be made aware when events will center around alcohol so they can make educated decisions about their wellbeing. Be kind.

The same goes for pot, including edibles.

From capitalstitchco on Threads

[bambiraptorx]

[I.D. Four panel digital comic using TMNT 2003 Baxter Stockman. Panel 1: he gestures to the sides angrily and yells "Draxum, you could have died! You idiot! You absolute-" Panel 2: his hands drop, and his expression shifts to something still angry, but almost sad. Panel 3: He turns to the side, now hugging himself. Panel 4: he says "I don't know what I would do if I'd had to watch you die, too." End I.D.]

Post Dark Armor there's a pretty important conversation (read: fight) between Draxum and Stockman regarding everything that went down. aka this guy is Having Emotions about almost losing one of his oldest friends and he is not coping well

[apt-comix]

[Image Descriptions: photos of a quartered, 8-page stapled zine featuring handdrawn pencil sketches on printer paper that has been edited on gimp to enhance all the flaws of the paper in a purpley-red sloppy effect. The cover is just the penciled words "Hopping On The 'People I Think About A Lot' Train (with thanks to tumblr just scramratz for the concept)". There is also the logo on the side, showing a drawn hand holding a power drill with the words "A.P.T. comix" on either side.]

[first page. "Christine, for whom I bought the pregnancy test, and then smuggled the piss-soaked stick in my purse, so her father couldn't find it." A barely-adult blonde girl in a t-shirt and skirt hugs a barely-older adult with too long tangled dark hair wearing black shirt and jeans with a purse hanging from their shoulder. The blonde is crying with her eyes closed but smiling, as one of the hands wrapped around the brunette holds a pregnancy test with just one line on the screen.]

["The lyft driver whose name has been lost to my ride history, who offered to stay with me in the dark when we arrived at the Radiology clinic too early." The drawing shows two adults, one an older and tired version of the first brunette now with shorter hair, smiling and exiting a car driven by an equally-tired man with a mullet. The background has been scribbled in black with the pencil.]

["Kathleen, my grandmother's daughter, who stopped talking to me 5 weeks after we discovered each other." The drawing shows the faint outline of an oldish woman with long, light hair, smiling with her eyes closed as she props her face up with her hand. In the corner it says "(I'm still not entirely sure what she looks like.)

["Britrney W, whom I missed out on a relationship with because I knew our tastes in music were vastly different." It shows the brunette person, now a teenager with short hair that has long strands of hair on the side, holding a backpack and looking dismayed as a teenage girl (also brunette) excitedly holds up a CD with a heart drawn on it.]

["Brittney F, whose death is still never secretly stop feeling guilty for." It shows an empty park bench at the edge of a pathway, a bouquet of flowers on the ground in front of it. Of note, because of the enhanced flaws, it shows the ghosting of the cover's words mirrored on it.]

["Louis, my summer romance, who ghosted me the day they found out their cancer was terminal." It shows the sketched photo of a person with very short, thin hair and wearing glasses. They look tired as they hold a happy cat. On their sleeve it is written "despite everything, it's still you."]

["Cassandra, whom I knew for all of 3 days before she was kicked out of the homeless shelter in the dead of winter, and left me her coat anyway." It shows a woman in her thirties, exhaustion aging her, staring at the reader with a wry smile while wearing a winter coat with the fuzzy hood pulled up. In the background it is penciled dark. End I.D]

The scramratz comic that inspired this can be found here (my reblog with the image description)

Commentary under cut

Some day I'll make a lighthearted comic

Rip my ink levels lmao. The intent until the very last moment was just a plain pencil comic on white printer paper, but while trying to clean up and heighten contrast on one of the panels on GIMP, I clicked a button to see what it would do and it was baller as hell so I did it for the whole thing. It has blue tones on my laptop but printed more red, even tho it's quite clear on my tank printer that I had plenty of blue ink

First comic without Electric Zine Maker bc it doesn't work on my new Linux 😭. Instead I used Scribus Zine Templates by MetaParadox on Itch, then had a hell of a time trying to get my setup to actually print the page and not the individual panels, before I realized I needed to export it as a PDF then print it from my native PDF viewer, not from Scribus directly. So much wasted ink 😭😭

I was originally going to do a comic just on losing Louis twice, but this is all you're going to get about it bc i couldn't get thru editing it and realized it came out more as making their cancer about me than I felt was justifiable anyway

I haven't spoken to any of these people in years, some in a decade or more

[evenlyevi]

Goodnight.

[auroraboringaliceinwonderland]

ID: A screenshot showing someone holding a beverage over a bridge, watching running water below. Over this image is text that says, “Sorry I can’t, I’m watching a live stream.” End ID.

[welcometoqueer]

I haven’t really seen any of the more recent U.S. election news hitting tumblr yet so here’s some updates (now edited with sources added):

There’s evidence of Trump cheating and interfering with the election.

Possible Russian interference.

Mail-in ballots are not being counted or “recognized” in multiple (notably swing) states.

30+ bomb threats were called in and shut down polling stations on Election Day.

20+ million votes are still unaccounted for, and that’s just to have the same voter turnout as 2020.

There was record voter turnout and new/first-time voter registration this year. We definitely should be well over the turnout in 2020.

U.S. citizens are using this site to demand, not only a recount, but a complete investigation into election fraud and interference for the reasons stated above:

Here is what I submitted as an example:

An investigation for election interference and fraud is required. We desperately need a recount or even a revote. The American people deserve the right to a free and fair election. There has been evidence unveiled of Trump cheating and committing election fraud which is illegal. There is some evidence of possible Russian interference. At least 30+ bomb threats were called in to polling places. Multiple, notably swing states, have ballots unaccounted for and voting machines not registering votes. Ballots and ballot boxes were tampered with and burned. Over 20 million votes that we know of are unaccounted for. With record turnout and new voter registration this year, there should be no possibility that there are less votes than even in the 2020 election.

Sources (working on finding more links but if anyone wants to add info, it’s appreciated):

FBI addressing Russian interference and bomb threats:

Emails released by Rachael Bellis (private account, can’t share original tweet) confirming Trump committing election fraud:

Pennsylvania's Centre County officials say they are working with their ballot scanner vendor to figure out why the county's mail-in ballot data is "not being recognized when uploaded to the elections software:”

Wisconsin recount:

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Multiple screenshots and images.

The first is a screenshot with a link and information for contacting the White House directly regarding election fraud. The instructions include choosing to leave a comment to President Joe Biden directly and to select election security as the reason.

The screenshot then instructs people to include any or all of the following information in a paragraph as a comment to the president:

32 fake bomb threats were called into Democratic leaning poll places, rendering polling places closed for at least an hour.

A lot of people reporting their ballots were not counted for various reasons.

This all occurred in swing states.

This is too coincidental that these things happen and swing in his favor after months of hinting at foul play.

Directly state that an investigation for tampering, interference, fraud is required, not just a recount.

The second image is from the FBI Twitter account that reads:

The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far. https://t.co/j3YfajVK1m — FBI (@FBI) November 5, 2024

The next four Gmail screenshots of an email sent to Rachael Bellis from Chris T. Spackman that read together as follows:

Dear BELLIS, RACHAEL E., The Dauphin County Board of Elections received a challenge to your absentee ballot you applied for in the November 5, 2024 General Election. The challenge argues that a provision of the Pennsylvania Election Code takes precedence over the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), which requires states and counties to permit U.S. citizens who move overseas to vote by absentee ballot for federal offices based on their last U.S. residential address.

The full text of the challenge that was filed appears below this email.

You may respond to the challenge in any of the following ways:

1. Call the Bureau of Registration and Election at (717) 780-6360;

2. Email a statement to the Bureau at Election election@dauphincounty.gov. Any statement you submit regarding the period during which you lived in Dauphin County, any family or connections that you still have here, and why you are now residing abroad would be read into the record.

3. Appear in person at a Board of Elections hearing scheduled for Friday, November 8 at a time to be determined in the Commissioners Public Hearing Room, 4th floor of Dauphin County Administration Building, 2 S 20d St, Harrisburg, PA 17111. The meeting is also likely to be livestreamed on Facebook on the Dauphin County channel.

Sincerely,

Christopher T Spackman

TEXT OF CHALLENGE BEGINS

Dear Dauphin County Board of Elections,

I am submitting this challenge to an absentee ballot application pursuant to 25 Pa. Stat.

3146.8(f).

25 Pa. Stat. 3146.8(f) Any person challenging an application for an absentee ballot, an absentee ballot, an application for a mail-in ballot or a mail-in ballot for any of the reasons provided in this act shall deposit the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) in cash with the county board, which sum shall only be refunded if the challenge is sustained or if the challenge is withdrawn within five (5) days after the primary or election. If the challenge is dismissed by any lawful order then the deposit shall be forfeited. The county board shall deposit all deposit money in the general fund of the…

The rest of the forwarded email is cut off.

The last image is a screenshot of the official statement from the Centre County, Pennsylvania Board of Commissioners released on November 6, 2024 that states:

Centre County Working with Ballot Scanner Vendor to Export Election Results.

(Bellefonte, PA) -Centre County Elections Office is working continuously to provide mail-in ballot data in order to post unofficial results.

To this point, all ballots have been scanned, including all mail-in ballots.

Centre County's Election team and IT team have identified that the data are successfully being exported from the mail-in ballot scanners, but that the data is not being recognized when uploaded to the elections software.

Centre County's Administrator, John Franek, Jr. stated, "We have not stopped working, and we will continue to work until unofficial results are posted and reported to the Pennsylvania Department of State."

As a next step, Centre County has begun working with the equipment vendor to adjust configurations to make the two systems-the mail-in ballot scanner and the elections software where data are uploaded -compatible with one another.

We will provide updates as we make progress.

/end ID]

[jesncin]

"Today. Tomorrow." a Superman fan comic about Clark Kent, Lois Lane and relationships.

We wanted to tackle one of the trickiest parts of Superman mythos; and that's the entangled romance between Clark Kent, Lana Lang, Lois Lane and Superman. Often times these more mundane parts of Superman get pushed to the side, when they can give so much insight into the characters and what they're seeking from each other.

[trash-slvt]

Edit: wow this blew up. i dont have anything to promote but i made a response to the most common replies ive gotten to this as well as my thoughts on the direction the web has been heading. you can read it here if you like <3

[Image ID: A screenshot of the youtube popup that appears if you use an ad blocker. It consists of a title, then three bullet points, then two buttons. It has been modified to read: Going to pee during the ad break violates YouTube's Terms of Service

it looks like you selfishly left the room while our ads were playing. Don't you know that by watching youtube you entered into a contract?

We killed the competition by operating at a loss for a decade. we paid good money to be the only game in town.

now that there are no other options, we can start to make that money back however we like. So turn your webcam on so our advertisers know you're paying attention The two buttons read "let us program your brain" and "foot the bill directly" /.End ID]

[wind-and-cloud]

Image description : two tweets, one responding to the other.

The first one by "Bev Daughter" reads : "The trash men wanting a 24% raise for a job they don’t need clearances, certifications or a degree for is crazy🫣everybody else I understand but come on now"

The answer by "Slouching Towards McDonaldland" is a screenshot of the quote : "The person who picks up our garbage, in the final analysis, is as significant as the physician, for if he doesn't do his jod, diseases are rampant. All labor has dignity." by Martin Luther King Jr.

[sewerelk]

Oh goodness this request was so far back but I do plan on doing all requests. Background and no background versions below cut.

[ppeanutz]

happy pride. drops this on your doorstep like a cat with a dead bird

[beansprean]

like shelter cats...

Support me on Patreon!

(ID in alt and under cut)

ID: 1a. Front shot of Mary and Sam in the Impala, Sam driving with one hand on the wheel and the other arm propped casually on the window. Mary peers at him out of the side of her eye, unsure, and asks, "Dean and...the angel. They're...close?" Sam glances over at her curiously, confused. 1b. Repeat. Sam shrugs, eyes returning to the road as he answers, "Um, yeah? They've always been like that. I mean, we've known Cas for like a decade. He's our friend." Mary furrows her brow, looking contemplatively out the window. Sam grimaces at the sudden thought 'Oh, god, she's thinking about ganking him, isn't she?' and jumps to reassert Castiel's importance. "Um. But he and Dean...they're bonded. Like shelter cats. He's like...Dean's most important person." He emphasizes 'most important' pointedly, then adds as an afterthought, "Other than me."

2a. Repeat. Sam pulls a serious face and tightens his grip on the wheel, body tensed. He concludes, "He's family. Simple as that," and nods decisively to himself. No room for argument. Mary glances over at him with a small smile and simply replies, "...Okay." 2b. Repeat. Sam relaxes immediately, letting out a sigh through his nose as his mouth curves up into a proud, relieved smile. He thinks to himself, "Phew. Saved it. Good job, Sam." Beside him, Mary pulls up her shoulders and turns her head fully away to look out the window, brow furrowed. Floating in front of her head is the 1978 7-color pride flag surrounded by question marks. /end ID

[ilicythings]

[ID: A screenshot of a Pinterest post with the comments section over it. The post is greyed out slightly, but a white plush toy sperm cell with blue, plastic eyes and a blue bow on it's head are still visible. A comment by 🌀 MAV reads "My sex Ed teacher had this and throws it at kids who fall asleep in class". The comment has 2993 reactions. End ID.]

[novva]

back to making mini comics in my free time 🤸🏾‍♀️

[raydrawsdaly]

you're perfect.

[sickly-sapphic]

happy pride month to any queer intersex babes 💜💛

[ID: A bright yellow background with purple, shadowed text that reads the "i" is not for invisible. End ID]