#let the voting continue

[pondpossum]

if you're transgender or you care about transgender people and you live in the US, you need to vote.

all those 1000+ anti trans legislation that have been introduced these past three years have not stopped, and they aren't going to just stop. they might not affect you now, but they will if republicans win the presidency and the majority in the house and senate. federal laws will be passed. that is their goal. their goal is to eradicate us.

it is February of 2024, and there have already been 495 anti trans bills considered. there were 588 total in 2023. this cannot go under the radar.

talk about this. VOTE this November.

do not be complicit in your eradication

#i dont fucking care what brain dead moral high ground youve climbed up to somehow believe NOT voting #will do anything but let this country continue its nose dive into fascism #if you do not vote in these elections come november there will be blood on your hands #anyone who tells you otherwise is a fascist boot licker #i dont care #vote #2024 elections #transgender #anti trans legislation #us politics #possum.txt

[galaxseacreature]

GOP sowing: Haha fuck democracy!!! Yes!!

GOP reaping: Can't run our fucking democracy. What the fuck.

(AKA a tale of two January 6ths)

#us politics #speaker of the house #I shouldn't continue to post about this but maybe coping through humor and note page annihilation is the only way at this point #Cause I really thought this would be like a one day debacle #But it just keeps going huh #Anyway let's give it up for vote 13 everybody #Surely it will work THIS time

[trafalgar-law-ask]

Our dear captain has spent three nights in a row without sleeping due to insomnia. Being exactly 3AM right now, help him decide...

#The most voted option will be where the story continues #It's kind of a low budget mini graphic novel #a little game with everyone #let's see what happens hihi #one piece #trafalgar law #polar tang #(Sleepless Night with Law)

[redwinterroses]

I think I'll just say right now:

Make an effort -- a conscious, deliberate, aware effort -- to not contribute to Mob Vote Discourse.

For one thing, it's a game. We can want certain things or dislike certain aspects but at the end of the day, Minecraft is a fun, silly, sandbox game that we play for fun. For fun.

And for another thing, arguing and getting legitimately upset or worked up over Mob A vs Mob B and Everyone Hates Mob C is damaging to this community that we live in. It's toxic and estranging and divisive. It's a creeper-blast to a beautiful build. Don't be a creeper.

Have your opinions. Champion your faves. But make the effort to be a mature member of the gaming community and don't waste your time ragging on options you dislike or crapping all over the devs for not catering to your specific desires.

...and remember that literally anything can be modded. Whatever mob/function/block you want can be added to the game with a simple visit to curseforge. It's actually not that dire.

#alert now: if i see discourse about the mob vote i can and will unfollow #fandom spaces are so entitled. let's not continue that trend here #minecraft #discourse

[redjennies]

people on this website really want to imagine non-voters as smug white leftists who just hate the system, man, and not like poor and working class people whose schedules don't allow for it, black and latino communities who are intentionally targeted for voter suppression, people who live in heavily gerrymandered areas or states where their vote straight up won't count, people whose politics don't match up with the increasingly partisan party lines, or any other reason and/or combination of aforementioned reasons.

and the reason tumblr continues tilting at these windmills of "leftists are the real problem" (even though everyone was a "leftist" in December) is that all the reasons people don't vote are systemic problems that require intentional and organized solutions. there are real and material ways to put people in poll booths (or mailing their ballots), but they require work. they require making sure polling places are more accessible to voters in ways that range from making sure the polling place is ADA compliant to better signs so drivers know where they're going and better parking so they don't leave. they require voter registration drives and helping eligible felons restore their voting rights. they require educating the community on mail-in ballots and early voting opportunities. they require getting people who maybe disillusioned with federal level candidates excited about local or state level candidates where they could make a difference because if you can get them to polls for something they do feel strongly about they might go ahead and vote for the federal candidate anyway because they're already there. they require holding the fucking democrats accountable for their actions after the election to stop fucking going out of their way to alienate their voting bases, Joseph Goddamn Biden, and not sweeping those concerns under the rug as "not that bad" to make your candidate look better.

there are so many different ways to help increase voter turn-out, but they all require reaching out to your community and finding the way you can help to the best of your personal abilities. I know this because the examples I've listed above are things I've either personally done or my friends, who have different skills than I do, have done. what does not help voter turnout in the fucking slightest is taking the easy out of whining on the internet about how leftists are a threat to democracy like a goddamn conservative because you think the anarchists you see online are annoying. it's not only internet activism at its fucking laziest, and as i've said many times before, it actively stokes reactionary sentiments among moderate liberals. you are not being the measured and nuanced voice of reason for contributing to this shit. you are being lazy in hopes to sound like the smartest voice in the room and giving credence to something that is more inherently dangerous to long-term progress than the tiktok teens joking about terrorism or whatever you've decided to froth at the mouth about because you're falling for inflammatory Fox News-level propaganda tactics.

#election year blues #like bitch about smug and annoying leftists all you want #but the most infuriatingly self-righteous and self-satisfied do-nothings will always be internet liberals on an election year #it's why there's so many posts that are like 'um voting is the only real political power you have' LIKE PLEASE CONTINUE TELLING ON YOURSELF #PLEASE CONTINUE LETTING EVERYONE KNOW THE ONLY POLITICAL ACTION YOU ENGAGE WITH IS VOTING EVERY FOUR YEARS FOR PRESIDENT #AND SHAMING PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET #fuck it i'm so done it's still only march

[butcherbacterium]

thank you for the tag @fruityindividual! I haven't written anything for close to a month but maybe this will knock something loose.

Make a 24-hour poll with the names of your WIPs and then for whichever wins, write one sentence for every vote it gets.

no pressure tagging @tortoisebore @plecotusauritus @thisliminalspace-on-ao3 and @greenvlvetcouch

#tag game #lets see if I can make anything work #or there are no votes and i continue to not write #i cannot lose

[supersymmetries]

sometimes i think about how the revolt music video was released in 2016 and depicted the worst-case scenario matt could dream of for 2020, and then 2020 proceeded to look exactly like that. and then i have to stop thinking about it or else i will explode into a thousand tiny bits of shrapnel

#i post #2016-2021 was a horrible 5 year stretch and i will continue to acknowledge that forever #it's continued to be terrible but we be in that boiling pot and people are 'tired' of activism/covid/whatever issue people cannot simply #ignore once tr*mp is out of office #this is why we motivate ourselves out of love friends because it's looking like we've got an interesting 4 years ahead of us yet again #usamericans pls vote and pls look into reporting labor violations at work and pls feed a neighbor and pls let yourself be fed #we all need each other & i think we're all tired of being alone. we all need to act & i think we're all tired of just posting and not doing

[wearelatinamericanrockers]

after going through the current submissions, these are the ones with the highest amount of votes currently! i think ill let it still be open until nov 5th

#just letting you all know which ones are the ones winning #btw dont consider this them automatically getting in they can be easily taken off if different bands come through with even more votes #so continue!

[magnoliamyrrh]

its been insane witnessing the full force of propaganda and american imperialism with my own two eyes as an adult these past few years. obviously ive known abt it plenty and seen it before, but witnessing it at this age with this much force is... dystopian and crazy

#i rly think its accurate to say were living through a second post nine eleven #......... #whats been terrifying too is seeing how.... the things done have only done so much #protests All Over the world including the imperial core So Many cracked down on so hard or seemingly without doing fuck all at #a systemic level. like i couldn't tell u if me or anyone else spending hours calling representatives and writing emails did a single thint #if all the protests in america did anything systemically. the government is doing the same exact shit its been doing despite it #all the un resolutions and calls and anything seem to also have been useless. no matter how many countries voted for a ceasefire in #whichever meeting?? just bc america and israel voted against and bc the un is clearly the lapdog on a leash of the american empire #... i know bolivia and colombia (?) cut diplomatic ties with israel and yamen threathened to declare war and several countries have #threathened several things... and yet. #god sake america has send fucking navy and soldiers to help in the genocide its fucking vile 🤢 #and israel (+ us) have fucking bombed and killed civilians in other Fucking Countries Than Palestine and this shit is still going on #.... . i guess were seeing some of the effects of boycotting which is good for sure but that dont stop the actual thing #its just so fucked. our generation has caught a lot of wild shit but i dont know if ive ever seen such great international outcry globally #from populations as i have seen for palestine #AND YET. and yet it continues. and yet it goes on #its fucking horrifying #..... i was thinking too like. in a theoretical scenario lets say everyone in america could get on board with refusing to pay taxes. like #just fuck it. no more funding of this. #but the american government has so much money and power that it wouldnt rly stop them for at least a good while. also. i doubt they wouldn't #commit atrocities on a population that would refuse that hard. and what then? revolution in the streets? in the country made up of 51 #countries? where sure the civilians have guns but the government has shit we cant even dream of? #. #all of this is so deeply dystopian and pained #and im not saying this in some sort of nothing matters so dont do anything way dont speak abt it dont call dont protest dont boycott etc #even when there is 0 hope we have to try #............ but its deeply horrifying

[sonknuxadow]

why are people saying that adopted siblings aren't real siblings because they're mad that their favorite characters are losing a tumblr poll....

#jusr saw a siblings tournament where sonic and tails were winning against a pair of biological siblings #and some people who were voting for the other guys were saying that sonic and tails should lose because theyre. ''not real siblings'' #going ''um. since when are sonic and tails siblings'' or ''come on guys dont let the ACTUAL siblings lose'' #first of all its just. awful to imply adopted siblings arent real siblings you dont need to be related by blood to be family #second of all sonic and tails Are siblings? maybe you guys just dont know anything about sonic actually #its not even a headcanon. in every continuity its either strongly implied or outright confirmed that theyre brothers #wheres the ian flynn quote about how sonic and tails will always find eachother in every universe #and they need eachother and thats a cosmic truth #also some people were just being weirdly mean about the whole thing there was somebody who was like #''Dont let these stupid hedgehogs from a game nobody likes beat my guys'' my friend it is a tumblr poll #i hope sonic and tails win that whole thing. not just because they deserve it but to make people mad

[cutiecatsub]

should I shower? I should shower

#or i could continue posting my every thought on here #let’s take a vote #maybe I’ll post a pic from in there #Or maybe I’ll drop my phone in the water and be sad #hope the suspense doesn’t kill anybody #kitten's posts

[bluemoonrabbit]

Feeling really bad about the US tonight friends. Between dealing with the healthcare system and our continued baffling support for ongoing genocide, I feel so deeply hopeless and angry toward this country.

#the insurance thing is not just that it's personally inconveniencing me #though it SURE is #it's that it could be so easy #we could have a great healthcare system like other countries #but so many people hate the very idea #especially those who could benefit from it most! #and that breaks my heart #reading about rural poor who cling to the 'no government handouts!' rhetoric #and continue to vote for people who won't help them #makes me want to cry #they don't have to suffer but they can't let it go #and as a result we all suffer!!! #really want to move abroad again #but... I like all my stuff here... #(that's it that's literally all that's keeping me here) #(that and lacking the kind of specialized job skills that most visa-sponsoring companies want)

[brookheimer]

jesus christ i am incapable of being concise. but yall asked for a long shiv take so really this one's on you >:)

#someone: what did you think about ___? me: glad you asked. so basically [500000 word essay] #tl;dr did not like the shiv ending but i WOULD have liked it were it better built up to and developed but as it is it just feels forced and #rushed -- forgoing realistic character development/continuity in characterization in order to get shiv to the place they wanted her to #which COULDVE BEEN DONE AND DONE WELL had there been more time allotted to ya know. getting her there. not just woop! shiv now is able to #subject herself to indignity when it means future potential for power! even tho her fatal flaw has literally always been her inability to d #that! #like ok ideally there would've been some time in between ken vote and shiv return to tom. she would not ever NEVER be able to #stifle her anger that quickly and play the good wife so immediately. she would take a few days THEN maybe come back to access his power -- #and that's a MAYBE #she would need to find a way that worked for her ie wouldn't make her look as pathetic and weak and humiliated and Woman as the current #outcome does. she would neeever willingly let herself look that vulnerable and pathetic and failed esp when it's related to men #ok i've talked enough about this for now i need to shut up LOL #succession #succession spoilers #casey shut the fuck up about shiv roy

[sandeulscheeks]

listen, I get it. I understand all the reasoning and disappointment about more "deserving" or talented trainees and all that but you can pry the my house boys from my cold dead hands I dont care

#boys planet #mnet boys planet #bak doha #jung mingyu #i say as i don't vote lmao #also i don't want them in the final line up let's be clear #but i get it i do #if mnet weren't wasn't mnet we could've at least seen more of some of the other trainees #but alas #for now i will continue to lurk #and hope jiwoong zhanghao and haruto survive

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

Hey, what are your thoughts on the Wave of Madness event in tgrailwar?

the main aim seems to be to get gogh in second to last place to minimize the harm she does on other servants. whoever is on the bottom who isnt her automatically gets 3 wounds and destroyed, but even if they arent on the bottom if theyre under her on the poll they take a wound. this means to keep arjuna alive he'd have to get right above her which...

im gonna be honest i dont think we can coordinate that. between trying to make sure another servant wins and making sure van gogh stays low enough to not cripple everyone else it seems like the general agreement has been to let arjuna be the one to lose to her as he has no ability to heal anyway-even if he had a command spell (he doesnt) he would need gae bolg destroyed to use it, and its unlikely that the other teams would ever agree to destroy a noble phantasm that could turn the tide of the war for a servant who hasnt won shit since the first round and cant even use his own np in return (except once against foreigner-not that it actually ever helped him, huh)

if he dies in void space he doesnt get independent action either, so we dont even get the one more turn we had thought we had to try and accomplish something

that being said, i truly and in good faith cant say that voting for him makes sense. what can we do? it would just prolong the inevitable before another bizarre event tailor made to fuck him over crops up. the narrative wants arjuna to die. it would be far better to let izou survive over him because izou can live longer

tldr:

i wish i could say team archer had a good run but i dont really believe that. and now, i think the smartest choice for the sake of everyone else is probably letting him die. i hate that. i hate that so much. but even if he lives, we wont be able to do anything.

#my asks #trying not to be a downer but unless a grail war miracle does something for the (former?) team lasar we honestly should just let him die #no one else wants him! fuck! #like it doesnt matter what we vote bc someone else's choice will always get precedence. so we may as well let the story continue?

[monstermoviedean]

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#just a personal vent here #i already saw an insta post saying now it's time for all of us to fight like hell #and i'm so tired of hearing it. #because how? how am i supposed to fight this? #i vote. i donate to pro-choice orgs. i have absolutely no power to decide the makeup of the supreme court. #and I'm so tired of hearing vote vote vote vote vote vote vote as if it fixes anything on a systemic scale #i believe in the power of voting to influence local and occasionally state elections. but on a national scale? #to be clear i always have voted and will continue to vote but #I'm sick of voting being propped up as the solution to everything when it does not impact the most intentionally corrupt and harmful parts #of the american government #'they want you to feel powerless don't let them win' ok well. i do feel powerless. show me where I have meaningful power that can actually #effect systemic change. #i know people talking about fighting have their hearts in the right place but i'm sick of being told that it's on me to change things #when there are some things i can't change #it shifts the blame off the system and onto individuals #happy to talk if anyone wants to I just had to get this out