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melanie (mel) | 30 | she/they.
this is my side blog where i keep all the miscellany and side-fandom stuff (including sonic πŸ’™). melatovnik is where you'll find all the wangxian and good omens stuff.

my mom is playin fuckn animal crossing in real life

she got this painting for $75 in an old case at an antique market shes been going to for years, and she thought it looks really beautiful, so she sent an email to a local art center to have it appraised

and now she has an art conservator in her emails making a plan to have her come bring it in to be appraised as a genuine Hokusai wood block print from over a hundred of years ago

thats so fucked up to me. my mom went fuckin shopping at Crazy Redd's

no joke, she got it at an antique market. but she didnt even buy the painting. she bought a bag that the painting was in, cuz she's an artist.

when she got home, the bag fell over, and the painting fell out. into the lap of an unsuspecting small town idaho girl (my ma) (that's how she described it).

movie shit.

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting β€œthe normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.

He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor

Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going

For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for β€œquestions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.

He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like they’re going to bug out of his skull so I don’t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.

Addition for those unaware: Cory Booker is black. Strom Thurmond set the previous record about 70 years ago in protest of civil rights. Booker spent much of the time I was watching talking about the importance of working together for the people and the idea that it's not "left versus right but right versus wrong."

The new record speech is on the right side of history.

did you enjoy being skeptical about everything you read on april fools day? now get ready for developing critical thinking skills every day of the year

hey everyone its april fools. but dont worry i dont have anything planned. just going to sit here and...

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On a whim, I put on "The Residence" while I ate dinner tonight. It's a murder mystery taking place in the whitehouse. The MC is a detective named Cordelia Cupp:

And I am in LOVE with her first of all, she spends half the show looking for/at birds or thinking about birdwatching (I LOVE HER), while solving the crime.

She is followed around by Park

Who is assigned to her to help her (he is not very helpful)

And actually assisted by the head Usher

I thought the victim would be the president, but it's not- the president and his husband are also characters, along with the australian prime minister and his foreign minister, because this is all taking place during a State Dinner with the australian government in attendance as the guests of honor. I don't want to spoil anything else, but I think Tumblr would really appreciate the chef even though I CANNOT find a good enough image of her to encapsulate her raw energy.

Anyway, I have excellent taste and so far this show has been a DELIGHT so if you have some time, go watch!

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