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Taken by the East Wind

@leliest / leliest.tumblr.com

-beware, whatever you encounter here may consist of multiple fandoms-
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What they don’t tell you about speaking multiple languages is that your brain does not in fact have a box labeled Spanish and another one labeled German. Instead it has a box labeled “Not English” and sometimes when you’re talking or writing in one of the languages you speak it will just start pulling random words from that box.

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For some reason, my brain loves mixing up exactly the languages I'm still learning. German and English mix occasionally, too, but I blame that on the increasing amount of anglicisms in German. But five sentences into speaking Spanish I will literally just start talking in Korean for some reason like???

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Listening to music with earbuds for a while and then taking them out again is actually such an experience

Like whoa why is it suddenly so quiet, where's my blasting music

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"i was a transtrender" no you werent. you were just questioning your identity and then you decided that wasn't for you. that's a fucking healthy thing to do. fuck off lmao

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Questioning is:

-healthy

-common

-normal

Questioning isn't:

-an excuse to be transphobic towards often young individuals

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I once thought I was asexual and it turned out I actually wasn’t ready to have sex before I had transitioned to a point where I was more comfortable with my body. 

And in that time, the asexual community welcomed me, supported me, helped me feel good about who I was, protected me from the harm I would have done to myself if I had pushed myself to have sex. That made a huge difference.

If I see an opportunity to support asexual organizations, I do so not just because it’s good but also because they were there for me in a difficult part of my life without judgement. I owe them for that.

If you at one point identified as transgender or questioned your gender identity, maybe you too sought a home in the wrong place because you were struggling with something else. And it is very likely that the people in that home, the transgender community, believed you and welcomed you and listened to you.

And then when it turns out that you were searching for the wrong thing, you don’t just leave that community behind but you turn around and shit on them? Shame on you. What a shitty thing to do.

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Anyway I am this close to making a whole ass list about why I chose a whole bunch of songs for my five hours long Johnlock playlist, this close🤏🏼

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Rewatching Castle and remembering how hard I was crushing on Kate Beckett when I first saw the show- and, well, apparently that crush has resurfaced lmao

#castle#caskett
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relapsed on bbc's sherlock. unfortunately, it's even gayer than i remember. johnlock comes for us all in the end.

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When they make Sherlock Holmes and Irene Norton née Adler have sexual tension I get so angry that steam comes out of my ears. First of all that woman has a lovely husband whom she risked her well-being and outsmarted royalty for. Second of all, she’s like Lana Del Rey to Sherlock Holmes. He keeps a photo of her in the way stan twitter has screenshots of their fav artists. This is not a heterosexual dynamic.

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THIS

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This is why every vote matters. YOUR vote matters. Please vote!

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Actually that’s exactly how it works. Here, lemme break down the numbers. I’ll be using the 2020 presidential election voter turnout.

  • In 2020, the total U.S. population was about 332,450,000.
  • Of that number, about 240,000,000 were eligible to vote.
  • Of eligible voters, only about 66.1% actually voted. And that’s a high turnout, historically speaking.
  • Of the 158,427,986 eligible voters who actually voted,
  • 81,283,501 voted for Biden. That’s 24.5% of the overall U.S. population.
  • 74,223,975 voted for Trump. That’s 22% of the overall U.S. population.
  • (I’m guessing the graphic used updated number from 2024 for population size.)
  • But yes, that’s exactly how it all works. Not everyone in the U.S. is eligible to vote (sometimes due to voter suppression, but also due to being too young).
  • Of those who ARE eligible to vote, as many didn’t vote as voted for either Biden or Trump.
  • Who wins is determined by who fucking shows up to vote.
  • Democracy works exactly as well as how much you participate in it.
  • Trump voters are only 22% of the general population.
  • They’re only 31% of eligible voters.
  • They’ll be easy to defeat.
  • IF PEOPLE ACTUALLY FUCKING VOTE.
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Which is why it's important to pair posts like this with actual resources on, for example:

See, the thing a lot of people don't get is, the US system is designed to SUPPRESS AND DENY votes. Fun fact for those who went to school elsewhere: none of the stuff I linked is actually required learning in our schools. Followup fact: the reason I mention financial assistance for ID cards is, our free ID (social security card) is not valid for voting in half of states; expensive photo IDs are required.

For the Americans, you must understand: Most places with elections take the exact opposite approach. Do you know how fucked up it is that in the US you can't even get a whole day off work, despite voter queues often being several hours long due to lack of polling places? How absolutely pigshit bonkers it is that people have to PAY to vote (via ID fees)?

The international folks are appalled because that's fucked up! 18% picking your president is unhinged! It actually truly does represent a broken system!

In other words this is a real, systemic issue that can take years to overcome IF you even have the ability to do it at all.

If you're lucky enough not to face any of the hurdles, stay informed on the subject so you can help the rest of us out.

Voter suppression is not caused by personal moral failing.

It's caused by the broken system.

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Not American but this is so important!!

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