. . .a beauteous fleur from the enchanted woods. . .

I'm convinced we're in this mess largely due to the functional illiteracy of millions of Americans. There is a huge part of the population who cannot read critically, have low-level vocabulary, and no reading stamina. They are then susceptible to the use of emotion instead of information.

This concise and informative excerpt from the New Republic’s Alex Shephard should get everybody caught up on the government coup currently in progress. Required reading.

Paddington in God of War (2018)

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1430

Kylo Ren in the legacy of Vader comic issue 1 shown holding up his hands as he states in one panel “these hands?”and “these hands are weapons” in the next one. He’s wearing a black vest and strap that runs across his chest and light grey long sleeved shirt

#reyloprompt #reylowritingprompt

Prompt: Kylo has a stimulating use for his massive weapons

a lil cat screaming that commissions will open on february 7th!!!

at 2pm BRT!!! stay tuned!!

Well, this is where I leave you for Round One.

I hope, and therefore I am powerful, for no one can eviscerate my Hope. It is embedded in my Love and therefore unyielding.

For that’s how we win this war. Not fighting what we Hate, but saving what we Love. 🍓

You’ll see. I hope it brings you happiness and Love and light. 🍓🍓🍓

Please feel free to call me out on anything that may seem insensitive or ignorant. I do so love learning new things. There’s always a learning opportunity in every human interaction.

I love you! 🌻🍓🦋

BTW it’s so long that I took screenshots of my notes app.

I attempted to read through it again and fix grammatical errors and spelling and silly autocorrect, but I feel sleepy now and shall finally hit the hay.

Yeeting this out into the void for now. It.. somehow became a monster. XD

It’s evolved over the years; what I think about it and how I feel about it. My response has always been the same: I Love The Avett Brothers (love you Joe! @joekwon80.bsky.social ) more and more each day.

So enjoy:

A screenshot from AO3 showing that there are 31,000 fics under the Reylo umbrella.

Well done on hitting the 31k milestone on AO3, Reylo fam! The world may be crumbling but it's always good to see the best fandom holding strong.

It truly needs to be more understood by people that Biden is a radical extremist on Israel in a way most other Zionist Dems aren’t. While most just want to maintain western hegemony and see Israel as an avenue for that, Biden has for decades gleefully cheered on the slaughter of civilians

It sounds like I’m exaggerating but in the 80s Biden gleefully celebrated the slaughter of Lebanese civilians and talked about how he’d murder every Canadian if canada ever threatened the US. It was so extreme that Israel’s far-right leader Begin gave a speech distancing himself from Bidens comments

The craziest part is at the same time Ronald Reagan, seeing the slaughter, called Begin and threatened to withhold all US aid to Israel until it stopped. The bombing ended 20 minutes later.

It’s insane how Reagan is the good guy and Biden was the evil far to the right of him in this instance.

NEW: A Harris campaign organizer says senior officials ordered them to erase voters who asked about Gaza—marking emails as “no response” so they’d be removed from outreach. No engagement, no persuasion, just ignored. “The only clowns are the ones who decided to abdicate on this.”

Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing?

DON'T DO IT.

If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.

Document, document, document.

Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document

"would you please put that in writing" is how you pull off insubordination without actually being insubordinate. Very useful when you are getting sketchy (whatever 'sketchy' might mean) instructions from someone who might not want to take responsibility for it later.

signed, a former union steward.

Elon Musk used all the freedoms and opportunities of the USA, the country that defeated the Nazis, to become the wealthiest human being on earth.
So how does he return the favor?
He salutes the Nazis, then leads in the destruction of the Country made him.
To me- that’s as traitorous as it gets.

This. Make it hard for the Republicans to destroy the country.

Senator Schiff (as Dems filibuster the nomination of Project 2025 author Russ Vought): “The moment you say it’s ok to violate the law to shut down USAID you have said it is ok to violate the law and shut down anything.”

LOL the White House released its policy stating that White House personnel may never engage in communications with DoJ that could influence an investigation. Then it spends 3 pages explaining that the president can, though.

And also because you live here. Like it's okay and normal to want to protect the country from fascism

"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere."

- Elie Wiesel

Trump announced what he had in mind. Every eligible voter who didn't use their right to vote, voted for him.

The irony is that new IRS agents were hired specifically to audit high income earners - NOT like "YOU," but like ELON. He uses regular people as a shield to protect himself and his pals from clawing back what we lose to tax cheats. Elon's fans are useful idiots as he consolidates wealth for himself.

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire Alt: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire

TWO MORE FICS TO 31,000! #reylo #reylofic

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

February 3, 2025 I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

February 3, 2025

Oh cool! Never been to Swampcon, but always wanted to attend. See ya there!