So apparently, some people find that me having my official Sonic color guide pinned is too clumsy, so to save space, I'm posting the link in this post and pinning this post instead. Have a nice day!
In other random news, I learned that Elwood Edwards - the guy who recorded the "you've got mail" sound file for AOL - died last Tuesday, November 5.
On Wikipedia, I found out about an old political strategy used by the Irish Republican Army called the "Armalite and ballot box strategy", and directly from that article, I discovered an article about an American concept called the "Four Boxes of Liberty". In short, it states that there are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and cartridge, in that order. Think about that.
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bearfoottruck reblogged
I have some much less nice posts currently saved in my drafts that I am clinging on to my self control enough not to post, but I will say this:
This is why you show up and you vote. This is why you show up even when you don't agree with every policy, when you think both candidates are too far to the right, when you think your vote doesn't matter.
We will be spending the next 4+ years living with the consequences of people's decision not to vote or to vote for a third party or to vote for the racist authoritarian rapist felon over an extremely qualified Black/S. Asian woman.
Want a better candidate? Start working on finding and supporting them tomorrow. But in two years, and in four, and in every election in between and after, show up, fulfill your civic responsibility as an American citizen, and vote.
I would vote, but the problem is 1. I live in a state where pretty much everybody and their mother votes for the Democrats anyways, and 2. I don't feel there's much of a point in voting in presidential elections anymore if they're just gonna be decided by a bunch of dickheads in a handful of swing states. Oh, and don't get me started on the assholes in my town who voted for all Rethuglicans for the town council.
I promise that this is not an attack on you, but I want to say a couple of things:
- The way that states become swing states is that reliably blue voters in a blue state stop voting blue, or reliably red voters in a red state stop voting red. A Democrat won Pennsylvania in every election from 1992-2012, and the smallest winning margin during that time was 2.5% in 2004. Pennsylvania now is a swing state at best, leaning red at worst. On the other hand, Virginia and Ohio both used to be swing states only a few elections ago, and now one is pretty reliably blue and the other is pretty reliably red. All it takes it one or two elections of left-of-center people not bothering to vote Dem because they think their state is going to be safe no matter what, and you've got yourself a swing state. I would have argued before this week that NJ was a blue-no-matter-what state, but it swung somewhere in the realm of 5-6 points rightward this election. Still blue, but much less so.
- If you're somewhere that everyone votes Democrat but your town voted Republicans into power locally, showing up to vote seems like a pretty good way that help keep your local area blue, too.
Voting is one of the most low-cost ways that you can express yourself politically. My entire voting experience was somewhere around an hour, and I walk to my polling station. If yours is too far away or election day isn't convenient for you, vote early! Vote by mail! Do whatever is most convenient for you.
But an hour or two of your time (or even four or five) seems like a pretty low cost to have a say in your political representation at the local, state, and federal level.
I get what you're trying to say, but I've been voting since 2008, me having been eligible since 2007, and nothing ever changes. How can I possibly make real change when I'm just one fly in a larger tub of ointment, short of killing Trump supporters?
bearfoottruck reblogged
To all the trans people who see this tonight, no matter what happens, we will survive. Trans people will still be here 4 years from now and 10 years from now and 100 years from now and tomorrow. We have always existed and we always will. The world cannot unlearn about us; we are too public, too loud, too beloved, too present. Ill be here tomorrow. Please stay here with me.
Amen!
FANFIC UPDATE 11-8-2024:
Anyways, enough politics for now. I don't have much for fanfics this week except for updates for Gonna Kiss You On the Boulevard (Fanfiction, AO3), A Rebel Finds His Gloria (Fanfiction, AO3) and Russian Winter, Broken Hearts.
#Fanfiction#fanfic#Archive of Our Own#AO3#fanfiction update#fanfic update#Sonic the Hedgehog#Sonic#Shadamy#Shadow the Hedgehog#Shadow#Amy Rose#Amy#My Hero Academia#MHA#Boku no Hero Academia#BNHA#TodoDeku#Izuku Midoriya#Midoriya#Deku#Shoto Todoroki#Todoroki#Shoto#Fem!Todoroki#genderbend#genderswap#Rule 63
bearfoottruck reblogged
I have some much less nice posts currently saved in my drafts that I am clinging on to my self control enough not to post, but I will say this:
This is why you show up and you vote. This is why you show up even when you don't agree with every policy, when you think both candidates are too far to the right, when you think your vote doesn't matter.
We will be spending the next 4+ years living with the consequences of people's decision not to vote or to vote for a third party or to vote for the racist authoritarian rapist felon over an extremely qualified Black/S. Asian woman.
Want a better candidate? Start working on finding and supporting them tomorrow. But in two years, and in four, and in every election in between and after, show up, fulfill your civic responsibility as an American citizen, and vote.
I would vote, but the problem is 1. I live in a state where pretty much everybody and their mother votes for the Democrats anyways, and 2. I don't feel there's much of a point in voting in presidential elections anymore if they're just gonna be decided by a bunch of dickheads in a handful of swing states. Oh, and don't get me started on the assholes in my town who voted for all Rethuglicans for the town council.
Hey, if you need additional reason not to watch sports, here's an article from The Guardian about how the majority of major league sports owners made donations to Republican political causes in the past few years.
A couple of takeaways:
- The majority of New England team owners - barring Boston Bruins owner Jeremy M. Jacobs - either made donations to bipartisan causes or Democratic causes.
- Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt made some donations to the NFL's bipartisan GRIDIRON PAC plus some Republican causes.
#politics#US politics#political donations#sports#major league sports#major leagues#MLB#Major League Baseball#NBA#National Basketball Association#NFL#National Football League#NHL#National Hockey League#MLS#Major League Soccer#baseball#basketball#football#American football#NFL football#hockey#soccer#bet Taylor Swift feels silly dating Travis Kelce now huh?
Just a reminder, the Declaration of Independence contains this little gem:
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Think about that.
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FANFIC UPDATE 11-6-2024:
First of all, I just wanted to say that I'm as angry as - if not angrier than - you right now at the election results, but I PROMISE you, retribution will be swifter than Taylor.
Anyways, that aside, today is National Saxophone Day, so I wrote a Sonic fic about it titled Mindless Sax (Fanfiction, AO3).
FANFIC UPDATE 11-3-2024:
Again, it's unlike me to post fics outside of my usual Friday time slot, but today is National Sandwich Day, and I felt like celebrating with a Sonic one-shot, titled Two Couples, Eight Slices of Bread (Fanfiction, AO3).
Hey, I have a question: I finished writing a novel, which is now in the editing stage, and since AO3 allows posting original fic, I've been thinking of posting some original short stories featuring the protagonists to gin up excitement for the novel. Do you folks think I should do this?
Hey, I just wanted to give a shout-out to all the Shadamy fans out there, especially those of you who took the time to check out my fics and art. It's because of people like you that I'm encouraged to keep writing and drawing about them. Granted, Sonouge is still my #1 favorite pairing in the Sonic franchise, but I think there's just something indescribably special about a tough guy like Shadow being in love with a cute pink girl like Amy. Rock on!
Also, thank my girlfriend KagamiPINKAgreste on Fanfiction.net for all my Shadamy works. It was because of a review she left on one that I got more into the pairing. She's written SEVERAL fics, mainly Miraculous, and mainly bite-size one-shots, but she's also done her fair share of Shadamy, too. Also, she responds to every review you leave in the next update of her works. Go check her stuff out!
FANFIC UPDATE 11-1-2024:
I may write a lot of fanfics, but I do original fics as well, and it was because of something that my best friend said that made me feel depressed that I wrote an original one shot titled Chicken Soup For the Soulmate's Soul (Fictionpress, AO3).
Other than that, on the fanfic front, I have updates for Gonna Kiss You On the Boulevard (Fanfiction, AO3), A Rebel Finds His Gloria (Fanfiction, AO3) and Russian Winter, Broken Hearts, but that's it.
#Fanfiction#fanfic#Archive of Our Own#AO3#fanfiction update#fanfic update#original fiction#original fic#short story#Sonic the Hedgehog#Sonic#My Hero Academia#MHA#Boku no Hero Academia#BNHA#Shadow the Hedgehog#Shadow#Amy Rose#Amy#Shadamy#Izuku Midoriya#Midoriya#Deku#Shoto Todoroki#Todoroki#Shoto#Fem!Todoroki#TodoDeku#genderbend#genderswap
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So I went to sleep after a spooktacular Halloween, went to take an assessment for a job I applied to, logged on and out of nowhere, my post about Sally Field having an illegal abortion has like a billion reblogs!
First of all, I just want to tell all of you who liked and/or reblogged it how much I love you! Women's rights are super important to me, and knowing that I'm having an appreciable impact on the matter means SO much to me!
Second of all, as a reward...well, I can't hand you any of my surplus Halloween candy through the computer screen, but I can reward you with a video of "East Bound and Down" by the late great Jerry Reed. Cheers!
FANFIC UPDATE 10-31-2024:
Boo! I've posted a spooktacular Sonic fic for today, titled The Opposite Point of the Wheel (Fanfiction, AO3). Also, to tie in with it, here's some fan art I did of Rouge, Cream and Cheese. Happy Halloween!
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