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He’s made America vile. He’s got angel-voiced children yelling “bitch” and flipping the bird at rallies. He’s got young athletes chanting “build a wall” at Latino kids on the other side. He’s made it O.K. to bully and fat-shame. He’s normalized perversion, bragging about how an aging man with his sense of entitlement can walk in on naked women.

Here’s his lesson for young minds: If you’re rich and boorish enough, you can get away with anything. Get away with sexual assault. Get away with not paying taxes. Get away with never telling the truth. Get away flirting with treason. Get away with stiffing people who work for you, while you take yours. Get away with mocking the disabled, veterans and families of war heroes.

[N]ow, in the final days of a horrid campaign, an unshackled Trump is more national threat than punch line. He’s determined to cause lasting damage.

Is there one sector of society he has yet to maul? Until this week, it was the denial wing of his own party, those “leaders” who looked the other way while their leader walked all over the Constitution.

But those who take pleasure in watching Trump destroy the Republican Party are missing the bigger picture. He’s trying to destroy the country, as well. Civility, always a tenuous thing, cannot be quickly restored in a society that has learned to hate in public, at full throttle.

A wounded bear is a dangerous thing. Detested and defeated, Donald Trump is now in a tear-the-country-down rage. 

The Republicans who sat silently while Trump was vile, until they suddenly discovered their patriotism and conscience last weekend, do not get a pass. They built him, starting in 1968 with the Southern Strategy, and they strengthened and empowered him with the rise of right-wing hate radio and Fox “news”.

Donald Trump will lose this election, but he needs to lose in a landslide. He needs to lose by huge margins, so that he is humiliated and unambiguously rejected by the decent people in our country. 

Donald Trump, and everything he represents, must be repudiated on November 8th, so talk to your friends and neighbors, get involved in your community, and get as many people out to vote for Secretary Clinton as you can. We must show Donald Trump and everyone who empowered him that we reject everything he stands for, and that we know we are stronger together

(via wilwheaton)

Petition for fandom to start using the term “squick/squicky” again

lemonsharks:

peroxidepirate:

captainofthenx02:

This loosely translates as “there is no fundamental problem with this and I have no issue with the people who enjoy it but it makes me personally deeply uncomfortable”

“It’s not a trigger so I don’t want to appropriate that terminology; but I really don’t like it and don’t want to read/see/hear it.”  

“it will not give me psychological distress but HOT DAMN I will die happy if I never see it again”

malecsecretsanta:

HO HO HO

This upcoming Holiday season there will be a Malec Secret Santa gift exchange, to make Christmas a little extra special for us all, and it of course results in more wonderful Malec stories and other creations that’ll enrichen the fandom even more 🙂

How it works

  • You MUST have a Tumblr
  • Sign up with what you want to make ( e.g. fic or fanmix)
  • Also list what you’d like to receive (e.g. gifsets, drawings)
  • Sign ups are done by email

»» Sign Up here! ««

SIGN UP DEADLINE: FRIDAY OCTOBER 21ST – 8PM EST (1AM GMT, OCT. 22ND)

After that assignments will be send out to everyone by email on October 22nd, and then you’ll have seven weeks to make gifts for the person assigned to you 🙂

Gift Giving Guidelines

Just in case it isn’t clear to anyone, all the gifts have to be MALEC-related!

You can sign up to create & receive one or several of the following options:

  • Fic/Drabbles
  • Drawings/Digital Graphics
  • Gifsets
  • Fanmixes

>> Read the full guidelines here <<

GIFT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SUNDAY DECEMBER 11TH (no specific time, just submit on the Saturday or any day prior to that!)

On Christmas Eve/Day all the gifts will be posted for everyone! On Boxing Day it will be revealed who made gifts for whom, then after that you’re of course free to post the gifts you made to your own Tumblr 🙂

If you still have questions, don’t hesitate to ask them!

So what are you waiting for? Sign up now! Gift someone a Very Malec-y Christmas this year!

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phantomrose96:

Prompt-based fandom events are when you really learn everyone’s colors like you’ll find the people who take the prompt “death” and come up with some smarmy ship-art of character A and character B walking over dead leaves while wearing scarves and drinking hot cider and then you’ll find the people who take the prompt “sunshine” and write how a bright glint of sunshine reflected off the barrel of a gun is the absolute last thing character A sees before taking a bullet to the chest

you can lead a content creator to water but you sure as fuck can’t make him drink

lardo4lyfe:

Ok. So. First watch this video. See all the Tols throw the Smol. Then tell me this isn’t THE PERFECT sport for a Check Please! AU. I’m obsessed and I need to bring everyone else down with me. 

Obviously Bitty is the Smol. The Smol who gets thrown around by the rest of the team, who encourages them to go with more upbeat/dance music (all the other teams have super srs ~dramatic~ music). Rans & Holster are the other “bases”, along with Jack. Who maybe had to help Bitty overcome a fear of getting dropped?? 

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And THEN! The hair ruffle! And the kiss & cry reaction! 

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I JUST!!! If any sport deserves a Check Please! AU, it’s this one. Please someone write it for me. And don’t worry, I found niche gymnastics sports for the rest of the team too. 

Dex & Nursey originally each had their own trampoline routines, but when the coaches saw their similar builds, they asked them to try synchro. Neither Dex or Nursey was thrilled about this, but they both had to admit their timing was impeccable. Even if practices were a nightmare. But over time they got over their differences, and damn if they weren’t some of the best in the world. 

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Shitty puts all of his focus into two jumps on the DMT (double mini trampoline.) He’s all about the quick & dirty.

And of course Chowder, my sweet little bundle of bouncing, terrifyingly focused energy. He does tumbling runs, and it’s honestly unbelievable what he accomplishes on those runs.

So in this sport it’s plausible that Lardo would participate? Honestly I don’t think she would though. I think her parents pressured her into gymnastics and while she was decent, she was never interested in pushing herself as hard as her parents wanted to. So she’s still involved with the sport through managing the team, to please her family, but she’s much more passionate about her art.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)