the fundraiser for Renée Macklin Good’s family has well surpassed its goal and is now closed — if you want to help Minneapolis residents as the city is terrorized by ICE raids, please turn your attention toward this fundraiser for local families, as well as Adelina Olivarez Cardona and Arturo Sanchez Chinos, both of whom are currently being detained.

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This person wrote a manifesto I ain’t reading all that but this is literally the type of behavior im talking about the idea hobbies all cost money is so removed from reality if you have the time to pick up your phone and write 7 paragraphs on how im victimizing you with my offhanded post you have the time to watch a movie on YouTube with your very same phone instead come on now. How is you freaking out on the internet helping any of these issues

things that dont cost money: hiking, walking, birdwatching, identifying plants, drawing (you have a pen, reading (library), collecting rocks, dancing, singing.... etc wtc etc


if you cant find a hobby you can afford, thats a you problem. and if youre posting online, you have a device to do that, get some free games, trawl wikipedia, study something. stop picking fights online and do something else.

if you can write an essay about it on your phone you can write fanfic or poetry or something on your phone also and it will be much nicer for everyone involved, including you

"Rings" by ND Stevenson

My absolute favourite comic journal by Stevenson. Made me cry my eyes out. Even when I can't articulate it, it gets to the core of what I think love is.

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[ID: a comic drawn by ND Stevenson about him and his husband, Lee Ostertag. The first panel reads, "at the beginning I looked like this". A feminine person with short hair, smiling, is illustrated. It continues, "and you looked like this". An androgynous person with short hair and glasses is illustrated. The second panel reads, "and when we got engaged, we looked like this". They are shown as a couple, one with shoulder length hair and the other with short hair, both smiling. It continues, "neither of us wanted a fancy ring". Their left hands are shown together, each wearing an engagement ring. The third panel reads, "yours was a dainty gem that was every colour of the sky, depending on its surroundings - clear blue or sunset or red stormy violet. I knew you would like it, because it was like magic." A drawing of a ring with two bands is shown, sparkling. The fourth panel reads, "and mine you chose because it was masculine, even though it was called a "princess" cut. We laughed abut that. I couldn't imagine anything more perfect." Another ring with two bands is shown gleaming.

The fifth panel reads, "rings are made the same - a symbol of unchanging love. gold doesn't tarnish. sapphires and diamonds don't chip. rings don't change. but we did." Two interlocking rings are shown catching the light. The sixth panel reads, "and change is hard and strange and awkward, but I could do it because I was never afraid of losing you." First they are shown together, both with short hair, then Ostertag kisses Stevenson on the cheek; he has some stubble. The panel continues, "rings don't change - except when they do." The seventh panel reads, "because you had mine reforged. the same stone I loved, in a new band that fit my new hand a little better, but still masculine and feminine all at once. and I still can't imagine anything more perfect." Stevenson's left hand is shown with the new ring.

The eighth panel reads, "now it's your turn to change, and I'm not scared, because you showed me how to do it." Ostertag is drawn in a side profile, smiling, with short hair and smiling. The ninth panel reads, "you will be different, and we will be different together. and I will reforge your ring so it fits your new hand a little better, but still every colour of the sky, and still magic." Ostertag is shown smiling in the mirror, recovering from top surgery, whilst Stevenson grins and takes a photo in the background. Below is a sparkling ring, reforged. The tenth panel reads, "we are creatures in flux, and I don't need to know what shape we'll be to know that it will always be me and it will always be you." An explosion is hastily illustrated, and right at the end, some sparkles are drawn. /end ID]

things that happened between ilya and shane meeting and them officially getting together:

  • harambe’s death
  • all of the twilight movies released
  • 4 olympics games
  • david after dentist
  • the great recession
  • glee
  • snookie arrested on the beach
  • the first ipad
  • kim kardashian’s 72 day marriage
  • minecraft’s release
  • gangnam style
  • one direction’s conception, zayn leaving, and their “hiatus”
  • mars rover tweet
  • the harlem shake
  • vine’s birth and death
  • what’s 9 + 10? 21
  • jay-z and solange elevator incident
  • blue/black or white/gold dress debacle
  • pokemon go craze
  • clowns terrorizing america
  • deez nuts
  • fyre fest
  • la la land was incorrectly announced as the best picture winner at the oscars