#the united states makes no sense

[ace-with--a-mace]

they banned ap psych in florida cuz the class ap discusses sexuailty and gender which violates ron desantis' piece of shit dont say gay law so fuck you ron for that

in the college board statement they say it was banned because "teaching foundational content on sexual orientation and gender identity is illegal under state law" which is bullshit because these gov leaders believe anything lgbtq is a brain disease so you'd think theyd keep the brain learning class

they banned ap african american studies because "it lacks educational value and historical accuracy" which is making it easier for them to erase black history that is so intertwined with the history of this country that most everything here is so deeply antiblack

this mf has his head so far up his ass that hes ruining our education system even more than it already was

#fuck you ron desantis i hate you so much I hate you i hate you i hate yoy #and cuz me nd my friends are tryna reach our counselors to see whats up or if theyre rearranging schedules and keep mentioning him #i keep getting ron desantis ads ab if i want to elect him president of the united fucking states of America #and then it was an ap class i was interested in taking cuz i thought itd be cool to learn about so fuck you ron for that too #and THEN it was the only class i knew ppl in. ljke half the class was ppl ive seen before or talked too #im ranting ab missing out on the class nd not seeing my friends but its really a bigger issue than that #like its scary hes using his power to attack lgbtq communities and kids and then he has enough support that hes rallying for head seat #its not safe here at all i cannot fucking wait to leave #ron desantis #us politics #ap psychology #college board #lgbtq #so mad im shaking im so sorry if this doesnt make any sense but school starts in a week exactly nd im tryna figure out the little issue #l speaks #keep talking l #ranting in the tags because i can #black history #racism

[quatregats]

Very funny how neither CS Forester nor Patrick O'Brian were buried in England. Guys really said yeah I'll write about it but I don't like it that much

#it makes sense for both of them they seemed to like their adopted countries better and pob seemed halfhearted about englishness anyway #but it is very funny that they spent a whole lot of their lives in the united states and france respectively #this re: discussion of the guys' graves and whether or not to visit #i'm going to go to cotlliure this summer though my parents refuse to believe me but i'll make it work #french can't stop me it's just badly pronounced catalan and i'll only speak to old people if i have to #perce rambles #percy yells at cecil scott #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense #going to go to sleep before my powers of speech get any further disjointed goodnight

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

The other night I had a dream that there was a hot new parody of the song Lump by Presidents of the United States of America. Tragically, I don't remember any of the parody lyrics beyond the chorus of "she's Lump, she's Lump, she's Lump" being replaced with "he's Trump, he's Trump, he's Trump".

#I know there's a lot of talk about people making dreams up just because they want to invent a meme but genuinely #I just woke up with that stuck in my head and vague memories of annoying my grandma with it in my dream #that said. feel free to get on this. just don't forget to credit ya girl Alfhildr! :) #what an appropriate band name too. I was just like‚ nice one subconscious! haha #ugh if I actually do make this a real meme though my grandma's gonna kill me. she's a pretty big Trump fan unfortunately #I don't think she knows I'm Alfhildr though... #anyways it's a darn catchy song #Lump #Presidents of the United States of America #in more than one sense #Donald Trump #listen there's a Bible verse about rejoicing in the downfall of the wicked is there not? #eh google is giving me mixed messages on that one actually #but I still remember our baptist minister quoting it and cheering when our town palm reader went out of business when I was a kid #feel a touch guilty posting this in case I do start something but I think it's justifiable perhaps #anyways. here you go internet. do what thou wilt with that #parody songs #political satire #dreams #memes from dreams #genuinely feel like this could start something and I both do and don't want the credit #I'm currently living in my grandma's basement you see (in my Gerard Way era) #we had a huge fight yesterday... anyways I've rambled in the tags long enough #I ramble

[transexualbutchfagdyke]

hi!!

Lump sat alone in a boggy marsh,

They call me Dr worm.

Do you ever wonder why

Back when I was 17,

Hey I like your bra

send me "hi" and I'll shuffle my playlist and give you the first line of the first 5 songs in a poem

#these r so bad LOL this makes zero sense #songs in order-> #Lump (presidents of tge united states of america). Doctor Worm (they might be giant). Cryptid (Mothman) (by ratwyfe). Anarcho Loser (local #news legend). Born2Run (Penelope scott) #ratt squeaks #squeakers #ask game

[natsmagi]

hi again

#thinking abt deleting the prev rambling i did in the tags #bc i think i got a lil heated and i also feel my point may get misconstrued #the point i was making is i feel like people are coming at the current state of switch from very biased perspectives #and lacking in nuance of said characters aswell as the current state of all other units #a Lot of the !!-era stories have sucked and rehashed old conflicts between charas that had been resolved in !-era #and all in all its just been. Weird. for everyone #but i didnt like seeing people ignore the progress switch have made #which can even be evident in current stories #the charas have also changed since !-era and that shift should be acknowledged when discussing them in current day which i felt it wasnt #in a sense all of them are outcasts. the current state of switch is a very complicated one #i dont wanna talk about this too much #ive just been sad about the way the switch community has formed i guess #i remember when there werent many eng speaking switchPs #its the reason i even started posting about them so much to begin with #i wanted to share my love for them with people who loved them too #but whenever i check twitter its just so much needless discourse........ esp at the expense of tsumugi ?? #or just ntmg in general. its a weird shift that has happened and i know its to be expected but i cant help but feel a little sad #seeing these perceptions of the characters i love deeply be created and skewed in real time #i know i should just ignore it #and i have been for a while #but when nearly every single switch account is talking about the same stuff? i get tired #i dont know #this is very rambly #i was struggling to fall asleep which is why im typing this #this is very venty and i apologize #but yea. i dont know #nat rambles

[freebooter4ever]

btw if anyone is watching the cold war documentary on ntflx? dont bother. lamo this is the dumbest doc i have seen in a while. it leaves out too much stuff, it presents things as true that are blatantly false if you give more information, and it states 'theories' as facts. some facts it just plain gets hilariously wrong. there is an agenda in this documentary that it isnt stating outright, that i am highly suspicious of, and i would be curious to know who is funding it.

#jrnlsht #ah i looked up the producers and now it makes sense -_- #this is a good reminder to always check documentary sources if the documentary itself is almost entirely secondary sources #its also worth nothing that it doesnt look like any reputable history journals reviewed this doc #disclaimer to my own statement: i know very very little ru*ssian history #but i know waaaaaaay too much about us imperialism in south america and the middle east and the doc kept getting that VERY WRONG #which tipped me off to start questioning the rest of it #like seriously every time they would start to explain what was happening in the us and south america i would be like wow red flag red flag #another sentence another red flag something is up #on the surface it all is very believable and there is some valid information but be cautious #i think my biggest fear for the united states right now is that teenagers in school are not taught how to think critically #especially with stuff like this

[carrieway]

i just think ghosting someone should be illegal

#esp if the person has bpd . no this isnt about me (it is) #it's just bad boss #ive slowly gotten better at trying not to think about the person but alas . they're appearing in my nightmares . #not much i can do about that besides feeling awful n just trying not to sleep after #idk ! idk i tried . i tried to not be like a previous friend i had who was rlly gross n manipulative to me #whilst Also being much older (i was seventeen n they were twenty four or twenty six i dont remember) #idk. ethan says i wasnt bad but its still gripping onto my brain yknow #also it just sucks being ghosted sucks this is the second time it's happened from someone i trusted #[united states of whatever voice] whatever #(it's more like . Wuhtevr .) #nothing i can do but cope with random f/n/af videos #im watching a person i like try to be sister l/o/cation blindfolded :] they're doing well even with how hard it is #i cant even beat night four Seeing things (well barely seeing things bc its so dark i genuinely cant see) #so it's rlly neat . also i know how to skip the night now bc of a joke he made >:D #also to anyone reading this i am not trying to come across as like Woe Is Me Feel Bad For Me bc like ew #NDNDNDN my tone is very just flat n matter of fact rather than trying to garner sympathy #but also i dont necessarily think it's bad to want sympathy however i dislike it when people go about it in such a way #where it's like . being down on themselves to such an amount that you Know they're playing it up . does that make sense #idk . im saying nothing <3 n im very tired n doing bad so im not making much sense my apologies #does a ditty before kickflipping my way back to f/n/af video world #blabs

[paddysnuffles]

The #1 most confusing thing about sovereign citizen mentality

"I'm not a US citizen, US laws don't apply to me!"

You still have to follow the rules of places you're visiting even if you're not a citizen. Hell, you need to be even MORE careful because you're not as familiar with the rules and you may not have the same rights as citizens.

In fact, non-citizens of the US do NOT have the same protections as USAmericans while on American soil. It's in the US constitution.

Meanwhile, Canadian SovCits try to use the American constitution in Canada, as if US laws and rights apply to Canada...

#make it make sense #lol #sovereign citizen #i'm just saying #why are people like this #canada #united states #the united states #americans #canadian #cndpoli

[cynocardia]

hey, I’m fascinated by Sasha and the way you draw them, do you have any stories or info you want to share about them?

;_; i'm really glad you like them

god um. some of this may still be incomprehensible because it's missing context, they have literally so much lore

they're a contract negotiator for a pharmaceutical company, which they've been an employee of since the 1950s, because the company technically (though it now does its best to not be associated with that) started as an organized crime ring, which sasha worked as a cleaner for because they couldn't... get any other job, other employers just kept turning them away, so when a guy asked them if they wanted to do some janitorial work, they went sure! and then found out "janitorial work" really meant "cleaning up bodies"

the thing is that even after this, they didn't leave, because 1 they were scared 2 they were getting paid, which after being cut off by their legal guardians (something something no help for people with congenital disabilities in adulthood) they needed money for medical supplies, because i don't care that the mitrofanoff procedure didn't exist until the 1980s, i'm trying to make a point

eventually they graduate to enforcer due to "no one else left because their boss keeps killing their coworkers" but they're extremely adverse to it, and after their like kind of father figure i guess gets killed their final straw snaps, this aligns with morgan sniffing around, and when they're sent to quiet him they instead ask him for help because like at their heart sasha doesn't want to hurt people themself and doesn't want people to be hurt by others either, they are fucking literally terrified of themself due to both being a violent child and being treated like they're evil their entire life

anyway they never manage to "take walter down", he gets killed which is what puts an end to the group, and his son forms an actual pharmaceutical company out of its skeleton as an "apology to the public", due to the fact that walter was using a pharmacy he bought from small time business owners as a front. so the company becomes the fucking monster it is now, and sasha still needs the money, so they stay

and after a few years this like... leads to sasha and morgan to start clashing over issues of morality, until sasha gets morgan fired, at which point they split completely, because morgan realizes sasha is just... a corporate lap dog now

...... also that's all just pre story but it's the foundation of their character i guess. one foundation. help

whereas the actual story is just, um, "things get worse and worse relentlessly". idk how to do plot summaries. dr colt has been working on what would be a revolutionary heart medication for years with her team, and marie (... current ceo) freezes it for bullshit reasons, but then the company starts to go bankrupt until she picks dr colt's project back up, which secures a bunch of investors, she promises them they'll get their cut of the deal in another like 10 years, but they're not satisfied with that so she gets dr colt to find a way to speed up the process. dr colt discovers this way is dangerous. really bad things happen

like

i'm just using them as a device to rant about medical capitalism, though they're just one facet of it

and i was originally actually writing this but i am just... not well enough so i'm choosing alternate means of telling this story

and i do have so many like written scenes because "writing ahead" was one of the ways that helped me figure out like, sequencing, and i have had a comic sketched since october, i just need my like, hand to work

because writing is still one of the ways i want to do this i think, it's not the easiest but it's easier for me than like, comics

if i /had/ the ability to do so and i definitely don't i really do wish i could do an actual webcomic because i /know/ exactly what happens in this story and there isn't any real ending because it's just... i don't like, like stories where they take down the evil corporation especially when i'm trying to make a point, i like, like, just idk people surviving? because that's how it is irl, but

anyway um. yeah

#also um. sasha morgan and sid are all weird like... anomalies with different relationships to mortality #i hate the fda and also johnson&johnson #and the cdc. am i missing anyone #united states of america healthcare system #the government also #i might... post a snip from the original first chapter if my brain lets me make sense #i have been thinking about it because it introduces like #marie sasha dr colt and mr ferrier specifically. also todd i guess #todd is marie's husband he's a stephen king wannabe and he makes both me and sasha want to eat rocks

[moonch1ld413]

THE AVERAGE AMERICAN DRIVING EXPERIENCE:

You are going down a highway. You take an exit that is marked “Shopping mall.” This is your destination, so you take the exit. The mall in question is quite far to the right of the road this exit has taken you down, so you make a right at the first intersection you see, thinking this will take you directly there. Fool! You are now within an apartment complex that was literally invisible until you arrived to it. You have to navigate through the entire complex thrice before you find the exit, because apartment complexes are allergic to having normal grid systems. You finally exit, and you go back down the road you had originally been taking to the mall. You find another intersection that seems to be leading to the backs of some shops in said mall. You take this right, foolishly assuming that there’s a path from the back lots of the stores to the actual mall roads. There is not. Dumbass. You begrudgingly go back. There are no more intersections leading to the mall, but one far far past it. You take this right because there are no other options. You go down the most ridiculous winding road and it leads you there with what you can only assume is supernatural forces. You are at the mall and three extra dollars of gas have been wasted.

#you’d think for a country so car-centric the roads would at least make more sense #i hate it here #united states

[variablejabberwocky]

wake me up when everything stops going to shit

#i'm not having a good time rn #got confirmation the water damage is back and NEW and coming from probably the neighbor's unit #strong possibility that we'll have to redo at least a third of the repair we just fucking finished #which we can't afford #and im just... #i'm a camel waiting for that last final straw because i can FEEL that the next bs that hits is gonna break me #i have negative resiliency rn #have for a while #and in context that makes sense #but it also sucks ass because right as i get out of my own personal hellscape the entire world goes further into global ones #and i have no capacity to cope because i used it all up already #i don't even know if i have the ABILITY to regain resiliency anymore or if i used that all up too #and none of it is the kind of shit therapy will help with #because the problems hitting me now are all *waves at the state of the world rn* #economic political environmental #not even getting into the shit going on with my health lately #like yes the hospital saved my life but i picked up AT LEAST two new infections that have LINGERED while i was there

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

Me, looking at a map of the Caribbean for Reasons TM: Why do we own Puerto Rico? Yeah yeah colonialism, but there's like 5 whole countries in between the mainland US and Puerto Rico.

Me: Wait hold on....

Me: *looks and Hawaii* *Looks at Alaska*

Me: hm.

#the united states is a geographic nightmare #independence for all three of these locations. #I don't know if Alaska wants independence but it would make more geographical sense if they had it #next I'm gonna look at the British commonwealth and have a hernia

[moonshinemagpie]

I don't know how to tell people in America this but I live in a five room apartment and I pay $400 a month.

#literally every time I consider moving back #I just do the math and it never ever makes sense #life in Japan #I'm embarrassed to tell Americans how easy it is to live outside of the United States #it's almost like I have survivor's guilt #none of this is meant to be funny btw

[vampirologist]

angel as a shortened form of angelus OR viewing it as an anglicized version of angelus

#like the latter fits in conforming to American society as an Irish immigrant who is also a vampire! #obviously the name isn’t Irish but it’s going for an anglicized version of his vampiric name to conform to to anglicism of the United States #if this makes sense. I’m a lil drunk lol

[lovelesslittleloser]

I would legitimately pay forty dollars ($40) to get someone to write a decent song fic with the song Peaches by The Presidents Of The United States Of America. This isn’t even a joke I am being serious

#but it has to make sense within the story so it’d probably have to be like the fourth chapter or later #fanfic #fanfic prompt #fanfic prompts #fanfiction #songfic #peaches #the presidents of the united states of america #it’s such a good song #good take or bad it is one I will stand by #also I don’t have $40 to spare

[rebelarc]

@loserarc​​ asked: ❛ well , i’m glad to hear that i’m cool . ❜

It was another weekend that she decided to spend at his place, it was much quieter than her own home and it felt nice to sleep in better beds than her own. She also spent the time rummaging his wardrobe, just in case she liked anything. It was almost like a ritual, she took his clothes while at the Harrington’s --- he took hers when they spent time at her house.  “You won’t let me live this down, will you?” Robin scoffed, hands shifted between hangers as she looked around trying to see if anything would catch her attention.  Surely, she spent most of her time trying to keep Steve from having an inflated ego. But most times, she really appreciated having him around. Whenever she was around him not only she could be her own self with no worries of being judged, she could also simply be a teenager. Whenever they ordered pizza and watched movies, she stopped feeling like she was someone who had to grow up soon to take care of herself. She had someone that actually and actively cared for her.  Robin turned around to look at him, shirt on hand as she placed it in front of her. Wondering if he’d approve it’d look good on her. “I just said you had cool clothes, Steve. You can’t just assume you’re cool. Don’t put such words in my mouth.” A small smile crept in as she turned to the mirror. “You’re above coolness, anyway.”

#i will format this when i have the energy i am really sorry #answered meme. #answered: loserarc. #the other tags are the fancy tags heh #does this make sense? they're kind of really cute methinks. like is that her family? yes #[tbt.] #took three months but we did it joe; you're going to be the president of the united states