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leaning from the steep slope

@noswordinourlake / noswordinourlake.tumblr.com

Without fear of wind or vertigo. See pinned post for info & tags.
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SO WHAT'S ALL THIS THEN: • Ev | she/they | mid-30s • tracking #noswordinourlake • I try to tag for common triggers but a blanket 'follower beware' as my tagging is. Erratic • generally posting from the queue • this blog is multifandom, eclectic and has no organizing principle. This is unlikely to change • I do not take art commissions but am open to requests, if you're kind about it (and understand I do work full time not on art so they will not be fast)! I also sometimes do color palette challenges which you can find here • since I'm apparently writing fic again, you can find me at florilegia on AO3 • ask box is open! TAGS: • My art — #my art • My fic — #my fic • WIPs — #wip • My edits — #my edits • My photos — #my photos • Talk tag — #i'm back on my bullshit • Reading tag — #i guess this is my reading tag

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LIVE NOW: Sen. Booker will go as long as he can in marathon Senate speech to protest Trump
Senator Cory Booker, D-NJ, is speaking and planning to hold the Senate floor for as long as he can. "Tonight, I rise with the intention of g
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NJ Democrat senator Cory Booker takes the floor in protest of Trump/Musk, "saying that he will keep going “'as long as I am physically able'.”

“I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able,” Booker said at the outset of his remarks. “I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis.”

“In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety; financial stability; the core foundations of our democracy. “These are not normal times in America. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.” -source

I am posting this at 2:30am EST. He has been speaking since 7PM EST. This link (at this moment) is to a live stream.

FUCK YEAH, JERSEY!

So very proud of my state at the moment.

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Reblogging and adding the livestream link from Senator Booker's YouTube (the other one was glitching) . It is almost 4am. He is still going STRONG. If you are watching and plan to go to sleep, turn the volume down and leave it up so that the "watching" number reflects the involvement of people supporting him.

If he can LITERALLY stand and protest as a single voice, we can keep it playing and symbolically stand with him.

Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has taken the Senate floor and is speaking as long as he is physically able to lift the voices of Americans who a
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Senator Booker is on Hour 13 and going STRONG

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Yeah! That’s what I’m talking about. No business as usual! Slow the Fascists down! He should get some Democrat colleagues to join him so they can periodically cede to each other and spell each other off to keep it up longer!

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STILL GOING! If you can open up the livestream to show support.

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Folks, he's still going - and importantly, he's talking about his own shortcomings, his own failures and the things he wants to do better because he knows he fucked up the last time.

If your disdain for Democrats has been rooted largely in their reluctance to meet the moment, then I heartily encourage you to watch the livestream — other Democratic senators are asking long-winded "questions (which is part of the rules and allows Booker to take the occasional break for a drink of water or to rest his feet or whatnot) and helping however they can.

Booker's going to hit 24 hours at 7 pm and it's worth watching a few minutes, don't you think?

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He finished at just over 25 hours, breaking segregationist Strom Thurmond's record.

Here's his closer: https://youtu.be/stFxmjUy5Y8?si=ElT9TRldtymNfD4O

#us politics
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Reblogged absolmon
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MOSHANG JUMPSCARE GRRRAAAH

Also I made a side Twitter (@chen7249) where I RT and post art related exclusively to novels/animations(mostly novels tbh)

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Reblogged owldork1998
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Are you an American? Do you love our nation's national parks, our libraries, affordable health care, and essential checks and balances? DO YOU NOT WANT TO GO TO WAR WITH CANADA?

Fuck, are you just a European and you're highly emotionally invested in what's going on?

Well good news, help spread the news. Special elections April 1st and this is going to help break down the narrow majority Republicans hold on Congress.

Florida has two congressional seats up for election April 1st, and Wisconsin has a highly televised race for their supreme court Court that Elon Musk has invested millions into.

If you're Floridian, check to see if you're eligible to vote in either of the elections listed here.

If you're a Wisconsinite, for some ungodly reasons about half of your election information is buried in Google and hidden amongst government websites but, find your polling place now.

#us politics#special elections#current events
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Reblogged muffinlance
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ohkhaleesimykhaleesi
“Dogs don’t know what they look like. Dogs don’t even know what size they are. No doubt it’s our fault, for breeding them into such weird shapes and sizes. My brother’s dachshund, standing tall at eight inches, would attack a Great Dane in the full conviction that she could tear it apart. When a little dog is assaulting its ankles the big dog often stands there looking confused — “Should I eat it? Will it eat me? I am bigger than it, aren’t I?” But then the Great Dane will come and try to sit in your lap and mash you flat, under the impression that it is a Peke-a-poo… Cats know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open. That is why their tail is there. It is a cat’s way of maintaining a relationship. Housecats know that they are small, and that it matters. When a cat meets a threatening dog and can’t make either a horizontal or a vertical escape, it’ll suddenly triple its size, inflating itself into a sort of weird fur blowfish, and it may work, because the dog gets confused again — “I thought that was a cat. Aren’t I bigger than cats? Will it eat me?” … A lot of us humans are like dogs: we really don’t know what size we are, how we’re shaped, what we look like. The most extreme example of this ignorance must be the people who design the seats on airplanes. At the other extreme, the people who have the most accurate, vivid sense of their own appearance may be dancers. What dancers look like is, after all, what they do.”

— Ursula Le Guin, in The Wave in the Mind (via fortooate)

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This paragraph went in so many different directions before it ended. What the fuck Ursula

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Reblogged sunderwight
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Shen yuan is so funny to me bc he keeps trying to assert the fact that he’s a “poser” and has no idea what he’s doing but in reality is a VERY GOOD teacher. Like by the second book his students have all turned out to be intelligent and capable and he just is flabbergasted like “wow who taught you that”….sir…you did

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Reblogged nyoomerr
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“Does jiejie find this meimei pleasing to the eye?” “It is unbecoming for a maiden to fish for compliments,” Shen Qingqiu retorted, watching their reflection, the rose-tinted women it returned to them; he felt a frisson of emotion that was neither pleasure nor anxiety, hovering somewhere in-between, and shifted his attention onto his husband instead, setting it aside. “Silly child. Who else would this master look at, if not you?”

My new fic, Empress Shizun and the case of too many fucking children, is up!

#👀👀👀👀👀👀#SO HERE FOR THIS#gorgeous art as always op
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I had been sitting on this for a while, but with the news of today it seemed timely to finish it. So.

The reference for the hands in this image are my own! It's always really pissed me off whenever I see someone pulling out the "AI 'art' will help people with disabilities create" strawman for so many reasons, not least the vibe that they're picturing someone like me. I have almost total paralysis in my hands and have pretty much my whole adult life. I think it's a failure of imagination if all these folks think I (and all the other amazing disabled artists out there) can do to create is steal other folks' work.

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Seeing a bunch of posts going around suddenly with additions from strawman blogs claiming not supporting genAI is ableist so it felt like a good time to bring this back

#art#digital art#anti ai#anti generative ai#disability#i don't know what else to tag this#got mad drew a bunch about it
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Reblogged absolmon
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Mystery Inc. but it’s the 1890s

Who had late Victorian Scooby Doo on their 2024 bingo card? Hmm?

The idea came to me when I was thinking about Sherlock Holmes and then remembered the iconic mystery solving gang hehe

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