She/They. 27. Dyslexic. Sanguine humored. Bisexual.
Born of Mountain People and Horse Lords, Raised in Sky Cities, Born to be a Queen. Punk Rock, Lord of the Rings, Tea, Movies and Things That Make Me Tick.
I’m curious, you guys tell me how you distinguish between your two sets of grandparents when speaking (or how you did it as a kid). Was it always Grandma [Lastname] or Grandpa [Firstname], or did one or both sets of grandparents have nicknames? (Like Nana or Papa.)
(So @piratefishmama came up with the idea that demobats could be the early stage form of something bigger- like a demodragon. Which was so friggin cool I immediately wanted to draw one)
I know everyone says it’s best to just stick to “said” as a dialogue tag bc it disappears and that’s true and I mostly do but I want to take a moment for my all-time favorite dialogue tag, “lied.” Absolutely nothing hits like “‘I’m here to help,’ he lied.” NOTHING.
ABSOLUTELY one of my favourites.
I love to add a good adverb: “lied cheerfully,” etc.
Marlene Dietrich is detained at a train station in Paris in 1933 for violating the ban on women wearing trousers.
As with all german actors in the 30’s, you always gotta check the World War II section of their Wikipedia page. Well im happy to report that Marlene Dietrich was in open opposition to the Nazi regime, and in 1937 donated her entire salary for a film (over 9 million dollars in todays money) to helping Jewish refugees :)
The most extreme minority of the already far-right Republican party used a crisis that they manufactured to bully the rest of the party to elect a fascist as Speaker of the House (the second-in-line to the Presidency after the Vice President)
This is textbook authoritarian takeover. Straight out of the history books. Happened in post-Tsarist Russia and more relevant to the GOP, in Weimar Germany.
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#don’t underestimate him #he’s an ideologically commitment christo-fascist in a position of power #and he got half of congress to follow his lead
This is a classic propaganda and gaslighting technique that right-wingers love to use, where they strip all the content and context of what they’ve done to make it seem like the left is overreacting.
Trump does it too in his legal defense, pretending that what he’d done during and leading up to Jan 6 was just “free speech expressing his opinion about an election” and not an orchestrated plot to overturn the will of the voters to install himself into power.
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He is that bad, people.
Your racist uncle who listens exclusively to far-right talk radio is now one of the most powerful people in the government of the most powerful nation on Earth.
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Actually, no, fuck this. I’m tired of comments like this.
I made this post to inform people, not to scare them into submission. That’s my bad. I played into the fascists’ hand.
This kind of defeatist attitude isn’t only unproductive, it’s exactly what the GOP (and all other authoritarian regimes today and throughout history) rely on.
The fact is, it’s in times like this that you ought to fight more, and harder.
There’re so many things you can do:
You can protest
You can spread the word
You can write letters to the non-fascist members of Congress and tell them to be aggressive
You can even take legal action to stop their crimes (like in the case of Gerrymandering)
You can support others who do the same with clicks and with financial support
MeidasTouch (who are mentioned in this post) are a great pro-democracy media network to get you started.
And most importantly you can vote. And/or help and encourage others to vote.
Republicans and Christofascists only made it this far because they cheated and lied to make their minority rule possible. They’re far from the majority of Americans.
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