Please Though?

Suck it, you one-eared sad boy.

This exactly. I've heard the argument that if someone wants to go on a mass shooting spree they'll find a way. That's bullshit. Yes if someone is determined to hurt someone bad enough they will but we don't have to make it easier for them to do so. We should have already been making it harder for murderers to murder. The fact that an 18 year old who is not even legally allowed to purchase alcohol can legally purchase an AR-15 should speak for itself. It's about creating roadblocks and deterrents for mass shooters. We should have already done this. Hell humanity is so full of apathy that if you make things difficult enough I'm convinced most people won't bother. Even if that's not the case is what we're doing now working? Has anything been working? Obviously not or this would be a non issue so I ask you, what's the harm in trying something new? The most stricter gun laws could do is not work and since we're already there...

Why not?

Beto O'Rourke was right

More people should tell their governors that they're useless to their face.

On Wednesday afternoon, as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott briefed reporters about the school shooting in the town of Uvalde that left 19 children and two adults dead, he was approached by an unexpected speaker—his Democratic opponent in this fall’s election, Beto O’Rourke. The former El Paso congressman and presidential candidate, who had been waiting silently in an aisle seat in the school auditorium, walked up to the stage and began to challenge the governor.

“You’re doing nothing,” O’Rourke said. “You’re offering us nothing. You said this was not predictable. This was totally predictable.”

He was shouted down by some of the people on stage. One called O’Rourke a “sick son of a bitch.”

“This is not the time or the place to do that,” said another.

“Don’t play this stunt,” Sen. Ted Cruz told him.

Eventually, O’Rourke was escorted away from the stage by police.

Crashing your opponent’s press conference is, as Cruz said, a stunt. Of course it is. But so was the event O’Rourke was crashing, in which the most powerful men in the state assembled at a school auditorium to do…what, do they do, exactly?

We’re all familiar with this routine by now—the elected officials who descend on the scene in their best emergency-response earth tones to bask in their proximity to law enforcement and collectively absolve everyone with power of any responsibility. People like Abbott and Cruz and Ken Paxton and Dan Patrick—the state’s Republican attorney general and lieutenant governor—will emphasize the “tragedy” of what happened and the unpredictability of it all. There were no obvious signs, Abbott said on Wednesday, not long before O’Rourke’s interruption; law enforcement acted quickly, he said, and saved lives; the assault rifles he acquired shortly before the shootings were, of course, purchased legally. They’ll give a few days of defensive interviews about hiring veterans to stand guard at schools. Maybe, in a few weeks, we’ll get “Uvalde Strong” t-shirts.

O’Rourke’s rhetoric on gun control viscerally shifted after the 2019 massacre targeting Mexican and Mexican-American shoppers at an El Paso Walmart. He pushed a mandatory assault-rifle buyback program during that campaign and said at a presidential debate, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15.” He now says he is “not interested in taking anything from anyone,” but he has criticized Abbott for signing a law that allows anyone to carry a handgun without even acquiring a permit.

Ultimately, the question of whether his intervention Wednesday was polite or not is less important than the fact that O’Rourke is right. The effect, if not the outright point, of events like the one he crashed is to ensure that the right time and the place to discuss gun control never comes—to indulge the delusion that the people who are truly doing nothing are actually doing something. The shooting was predictable, if not in the specific sense, then in the broader one: The state’s and the country’s gun laws enable outcomes such as this by design. If it wasn’t predictable, then why can we keep predicting it?

I was around 16 and was watching a collab between Rowan Ellis and Alice Oseman in promotion of Loveless' release. They were going over common misconceptions about asexuality and sharing personal experiences, and it was the first time I had ever really learned anything about the label. Alice was sharing bits of her experience as an ace/aro person and I found myself relating a bit too well. That video sent me down a rabbit hole of other wonderful content creators, including the living legend Yasmin Benoit herself, and it's to them that I credit my aroace awakening.

In honor of pride🏳️‍🌈

Let's talk about our gay/queer awakening moments!

Mine was when I was like 16 scrolling through tumblr and saw a joke that said something like "If you used to make all your sims gay then you're queer now" and that just hit me like a ton of bricks lol

Also when Jade started counting in "Take a Hint" on Victorious 🥵

What's yours?

Holy shit!!!! Where's the fic!? I can imagine the angst potential and it is SENDING ME! Like the obvious angst that comes with not actually unrequited love fics and the sacrifice themself for their love trope as well as the will they won't they death thing but also the overall arc of starting by going back to the northern water tribe. The place of so many unresolved issues for especially Sokka but also Zuko given how he's trying so hard to atone for past mistakes he and his people made. He may even take the blame of Yue as it was him and his people that attacked that night. Even though it was ultimately Zhaos fault for how that night turned out it would be in character for Zuko to take the blame on himself especially when directly faced with the loss Yue's death caused. Of course seeing Sokka having a hard time over past memories would make it that much worse and when Sokka throws himself in front of an attack Zuko feels he ultimately deserves? The guilt and self-loathing would be SO much worse. When Sokka is grievously injured by this to the point no one knows if he will survive? That guilt and self-loathing rolls up into an intense ball of pain. There's also the regret of not being brave enough to tell Sokka how he felt before it was possibly too late. All this combined would mean that if Sokka didn't survive, Zuko would have a hard time finding the will to himself. Severely needing someone to confide all of this to and reassuring himself that Sokka couldn't hear him anyway, he starts to talk. After all he can't do anything about the majority of his problems but not being more open with Sokka? That's something he can work on, even if it all falls on deaf ears. However Sokka is much more aware than Zuko knows as we are well aware. While in the spirit world Sokka is able to receive that closure from Yue but is forced to listen to the one he loves unknowingly bare his soul to him and Sokka finds that Zuko is struggling much more than he assumed he would. Now confronted with Zukos pain as well as his own from not being able to fix it, that pining angst would be almost UNBEARABLE! We all know Sokka is a fixer. When he sees the people he loves in pain, he has this urge to make it all go away. Knowing there is nothing he can do, the crushing feelings of helplessness would be nearly overwhelming. However the reassurance from Yue that it's ok to move on and that what happened to her was not his fault would ultimately be very important for Sokka's character. Plus when Sokka and Zuko reunite and we finally get sweet sweet communication and confirmations of "yes, I heard everything. Yes I love you too. Yes I'm okay," it'll just be *chef's kiss*🤌

Ok a zukka fic idea: so after the war Sokka decides to stay in the fire nation with zuko. But first he does have to cover some things in the water tribes. He spends some time in the south trying to make tentative alliances and treaties and such. He also helps oversee the reconstruction effort and migrations from the sister tribe. He takes a short break to spend time in the fire nation (for business only... not because he misses a certain fire lord...). (1) - 🐼

So he goes back to the fire nation before he heads up north, to meet with other nobles that aren’t in the southern water tribe. And zuko comes with him. They are both pining still, because they are both idiots. But one day (either the first day or sometime during their visit) someone tries to attack zuko. Mainly Bc they still blame him for the previous damage or just Bc he’s the from the fire nation or he’s the fire lord. I also think it would make it interesting if it was yue’s fiancé. (2) -🐼

So someone tries to attack zuko, but right before zuko can react or the attack hits him, sokka jumps in the way to protect zuko. And he falls off into the water. When they retrieve him he’s unconscious and barely alive. The healers can only do so much and he remains unconscious. We see zuko promptly break down over this. And he regrets never telling sokka how he feels and stuff. And maybe we sokka is aware of what’s happening around him. Maybe he’s in the spirit world. (3) -🐼

So sokka’s unconscious...... and he’s getting worse. The healers notice this. Zuko notices this. Sokka knows this. But the in the spirit world we see Yue. And she saves him. Kinda like how the moon did that for her before she does that for sokka now. And he wakes up with white hair and maybe a moon marking or something. Then we see the aftermath. Sokka has to deal with Yue saving him and seeing her again. Zuko has to deal with almost losing sokka. (4) -🐼

They end up together ofc. But yeah idk. What do you think? - 🐼

this is SUCH A GOOD IDEA and it’s a really clever way to incorporate @peachieflame’s moon spirit sokka into a post-canon zukka au! i seriously love everything about this.

maybe seeing yue again would really cement in sokka’s brain how much his love for her was mostly infatuation, and how what he feels for zuko goes so, so much deeper than that. her and sokka would have many a beautiful conversation during their time together, i think.

she’d do something that would allow them to visit sokka’s room where he’s been healing. they’d be able to see zuko sitting at his bedside, holding one of sokka’s hands between both of his, knuckles against his lips.

in the spirit world, yue and sokka would talk about deep stuff, but i think they’d also have a lot of fun, too. finally yue would be able to show someone all the fun spots in the spirit world that she’d never been able to share with anyone else. she kind of wants sokka to stay with her forever, but she knows that ultimately, it’s not his time yet. i think deep in her heart, she’d know that it’s her duty to give some of the moon spirit life energy to sokka, and bring him back to the land of the living.

(i like to think sokka would wake up with a massive mark/tattoo because of the time he spent in the spirit world - a koi fish across the expanse of his back and flowing water that would curl over one shoulder and down his arm, and stretch down his opposite leg, to remind him what saved his life.)

throughout his time in the spirit world, sokka would have checked up on zuko SO MUCH that he’d be pretty damn sure that his feelings are returned. he’d have overheard so many conversations and little snippets that zuko would whisper to him. (maybe when zuko is specifically speaking to him, sokka can hear him no matter where in the spirit world he is. he’ll be sitting on a tree stump with yue and he’ll just hear zuko’s quiet rasp of “please, sokka. please come back to me.”) sokka would want to get back right then and there, but yue holds his wrist so he can’t get very far, and says, “not yet.”

one day, yue will press a hand to sokka’s heart, and say, “it’s time.” she presses harder, and oh, that kind of hurts. he feels a prickling sensation across his back and arm and leg, and a burning across his whole body that he hasn’t felt since the ice water dragged him into its depths.

but then he’s blinking his eyes open and zuko’s right there, and then they kiss and talk about how head over heels in love they are and live happily ever after 😌

OH MY GOD, WHAT!? Did not expect to see myself pop up on my dash as soon as I logged in! That's crazy! Thank you for the shout-out, my lovely reader!❤️!

Read this Klaroline fic you will love it, the klaroline relationship is so cute😳🥺🥹💜.

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Chronic pain and illness really do skew what you consider to be normal.

I'm complaining to a friend about two separate pains I've got going on right now, pains which I would categorize as "annoying," and "distracting," and she's freaking out, like, "Go to the ER!!!!" and it's like, oh, that's right. Normal people go to the ER when it hurts to breathe.

Anyway...

(Just to clarify, I'm, like, 90% sure it's costochondritis, and I'm not actually struggling to breathe. It just feels blegh. The other pain is more distracting and potentially an issue but we'll cross that bridge if we get to it.)

I'm mister spine twister. I'm mister curves. I'm mister scoliosis. I'm mister Sitting Hurts

Kalijah moodboards for a fic I'm writing!

These are kinda bad but I've got brain rot so...

I'm usually more of a Haylijah shipper, but the fic I'm writing has caused me to go back and take another look at this pairing.

There was so much potential there!

In a lot of ways, I feel like they are better suited for each other than Haylijah. Hayley tended to put Elijah on a pedestal, which did nothing to help him accept his repressed, darker nature.

If he and Katherine had been in a longer relationship, I think they could have balanced each other nicely. He could provide her with the stability, love, and loyalty that she's always wanted, and she wouldn't be afraid of the darker parts of him and could help him accept that side of himself.

They are a very evenly matched pairing, and could have been good for each other.

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