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Educate yourself on why you can be turned away.

There are only a few things that you can legally be challenged on.

Not a citizen, felon who hasn't had rights restored, and don't live in the voting precinct are the major ones I would expect.

You CANNOT be challenged as a non-citizen solely based on being an ESL speaker or having an accent and you should immediately call the Voter Protections Hotline if that happens.

If your state does Election Day registration you can't be challenged simply for registering on election day.

If anyone tries to challenge you for something that is not an approved challenge (Look up Poll Watcher rights in your state, this will vary and I don't want to overspeak) call the Voter Protection Hotline, call your county elections office, don't leave without casting a ballot, and insist as much as possible on casting an official ballot. Be calm, be polite, but know your rights and don't back down.

Officials at your polling place should give you a printout or instructions on what you need to do to cure your ballot and the deadline for doing this. DO NOT leave without written directions on exactly what you need to do and where you need to deliver this information by when.

The ONLY thing that can not be cured is voting at the wrong polling place. This may vary by state, but in many you MUST vote at your correct polling place, so double check that before you go, and try to vote early enough that if you do end up at the wrong place you can make it to the correct one before polls close.

growing together

a series

Freshman Year: be gentle as we go (complete)

Sophomore Year: just hold me like you know me (complete)

Junior Year: say you’ll keep these feelings safe

Senior Year:

who would've thought in the year of 2024 that i would be able to write a 6k chapter in one weekend? not me!

chapter three

Bitten

Rated T

I wrote a sequel! It took a bit longer to finish than I'd like, but if you're interested in how life is going for them several months later...

Smitten

Rated E

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I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

Salute to our troops (70s careerwomen who put their hard-earned dollars into homemade gay erotica)

It was women with secretarial jobs doing a lot of the heavy lifting, if memory serves correctly.

They had training in type setting, could churn things out quickly, knew how to organise mailing lists, and had easy access to Expensive High Tech like photocopiers.

Boss make a dollar, she makes a dime. That's why she's printing Kirk X Spock zines on company time.

Tesla is tanking so hard it is dragging the entire EV segment's sales down into the negative. When you omit Tesla from the equation, EV sales are up 13% across the board.

Don't let anyone tell you EV sales are in a slump.

"EV sales are in a slump" is actually a statistical error. Rolling Deathtrap Georg, who lives in South Africa and spends billions of dollars a day trying to convince people he's cool, is an outlier adn should not be counted.

anytime a woman starts talking about the "bonds of sisterhood that inherently exist between all women" you just know they bullied the weird girls in high school

Saying "voting doesn't matter" might reach your younger peers online but it certainly hasn't reached Clangus Hargbarg who was part of the kkk in 1951 and still sends in his ballot. He hasn't missed a one.

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Women supporting women!

Sequences from my finished animation. Inspired by a dog named Teacake.

— James Baldwin in an interview in Amsterdam (1981)

“I see the trap,” […]“I see the lifestyle that is so all-encompassing that you can’t get out of it. I see the systematized denial of agency and options so that you might wake up one day and want to be out of it, but you’ve closed door after door after door so that there’s no one there to help you. There’s not a bank account to turn to. There’s no agency to just start asking questions or to change your life, if you decide you want something different.

“And that really underscores why this is not just an alternative lifestyle choice,” she says. “It is part of a movement.”

“Patriarchy needs women to perpetuate it, so it grooms our participation, and then it holds us there with the guilt of our complicity, and then we become perpetrators. So it’s like the cycle that just keeps going.

“I always call this the cult without walls, and the members are really used to being isolated in plain sight – so they will be your neighbors or someone you see at the grocery store or the park, and they feel alone and separate,” she says, “Try to connect, try to engage in conversation … because if they can trust you, you might be the one they ask for help when it’s time to get out.”

I don’t normally post this kind of stuff and I know it’s kind of off topic for my animal blog but I still think this is a very important article and one that I think really nails the reasons why the tradwife movement is so dangerous. I know farmblr talked about it when ‘cottagecore’ and ‘farmcore’ first became popular, and I know a lot of people also talked about the racist and colonialist roots of a lot of those ‘aesthetics’. It scares me to see how big tradwife stuff has gotten even in the last year, it is huge on Instagram. I hope Tia’s book reaches the people that it will help the most, even the minimal details in this article were absolutely chilling to read.

Oh. Oh that was so so fucking smart. Oh my god. Hell yes. HELL YES.

Anyway stay informed