You Held Your Breath

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
codename-adler
codename-adler

“fandom so powerful they forced the author to make a ship canon” no. no.

what you means is, Author so powerful she lead on the fandom for a decade on crumbs of a ship before revealing her hand.

one, we don’t actually know if Jerejean is planned to go canon, so jot that down.

two, if the fandom latched on Jerejean so desperately and profoundly, did you think it was accidental? did you think it was a coincidence? did you really believe Nora Sakavic left these two characters, with so few lines, to each other’s hands without supervision? i don’t think so, no. i will eat my hat before i believe this author, whose infinite cunning never ceases to amaze and bloom, did anything else but what she’d laid the foundations down for when AFTG was written. Miss Numerology? Miss Patterns? Miss Psychology? sending Jean to Jeremy’s Trojans randomly, after openly admitting it took drafts after drafts to keep Jean alive? nah.

tl;dr - we’ve been following where she wanted us to go all along. don’t you take credit for that.

fortheloveofexy
fortheloveofexy

no bc the more i think about it the more crazy i feel. Jeremy using sex as both self-harm and an easy escape but sex with Jean could never be that. Jeremy can't just rush into it with Jean and then take off the minute it's over. With Jean it would have to be slow and careful and it would mean something. Sex with Jean would shatter Jeremy's worldview. Sex with Jean wouldn't leave Jeremy feeling empty and used and embarrassed. Jean wouldn't let it be like that, couldn't let it be like that, because his heart is too good and he cares too much and he knows exactly how it feels to be degraded, and he won't let Jeremy do it to himself anymore, not with him.

plotbunny-bundle
rhad-barks

the first thing to understand is you absolutely CANNOT kill yourself about this. that is what these fascists want. it's convenient for them if the opposition self-exterminates. stay alive and fight. it's harder but if everyone gives up then we are truly done for. we need you and we need each other.

this is horrifying, but it is survivable. the human spirit is to adapt and to work together and that's exactly what we'll do to turn this around. it's going to be okay. if not now, then in the future after we make it so.

we can do this.

lunagalemaster
unforth

Everything feels awful right now but it isn't really. We still don't officially have a winner, but regardless of how the presidential election ends up, I wanted to take a minute and find what lights I can in the 3 a.m. darkness. Here's what I know:

* Kentucky overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to undermine the public education system by offering private school vouchers:

Kentucky rejects Amendment 2 to allow private education funding, passes Amendment 1
Amendment 2 to allow public funds to go to private and charter school education was rejected universally in Kentucky counties when the Assoc
Louisville Public Media

* Delaware has elected a transgender woman to the House of Representatives, the first out trans person of any gender ever elected to congress:

Sarah McBride becomes first out trans person elected to US House
McBride wins Delaware’s at-large House seat against Republican candidate John Whalen III, a former state police officer
the Guardian

* For the first time in history, two Black women will be serving in the senate at the same time, and they are only the fourth and fifth Black women ever elected to the senate:

US will have two Black women serving as senators for first time in history
Democrats Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland both saw victories
the Guardian

* New York State has passed a constitutional amendment enshrining the rights of pregnant people (including the right to an abortion), LGBTQIA+ people, the disabled, immigrants regardless of legal status, and other at-risk groups:

New York voters pass Prop 1, enshrine abortion rights into state constitution
The constitutional amendment faced a tougher-than-expected fight after a right-wing campaign against anti-discrimination protections.
Gothamist

* Democrat Josh Stein has beaten self-avowed Nazi Mark Robinson to become governor of North Carolina:

North Carolina’s Josh Stein wins race for governor over Mark Robinson
 Stein is the current attorney general and he noted his work winning opioid settlements. But it was controversy over Robinson’s inflammatory
NPR

That's everything I know off the top of my head. It's not many bright spots, but it's not zero. I'm going to try to find more and I'll add them to the post. It's the only thing I can think of to do that isn't sobbing and throwing up or looking up Canadian immigration rules.

If you know more good news, I encourage you to add it in reblogs.

unforth

* Nevada has amended their constitution to guarantee abortion rights, overturning a state ban:

Nevada Question 6 Election Results 2024: Right to Abortion
Get live results and maps from the 2024 Nevada general election.
nytimes.com

* Colorado has passed amendment 79, guaranteeing the right to an abortion, with more than a 20 point spread between the Yes and No vote:

Colorado voters approve constitutional amendment on abortion access
This means that now, the right to an abortion is codified into the state constitution and a future state legislature cannot restrict it.
Colorado Public Radio

* Maryland Question 1, also focused on reproductive rights and abortion, has passed as well: https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/maryland/issue-1

Maryland Question 1 results 2024 | CNN Politics
Question 1 on the Maryland ballot offers voters the choice to enshrine reproductive rights in the state’s constitution. View the 2024 ballot
CNN

* Likewise, Amendment 3 has passed in Missouri, overturning a near-total ban to add reproductive rights to the state constitution:

Missourians vote to pass Amendment 3, enshrining abortion rights into the state constitution
Missourians voted to enshrine reproductive health rights into the state’s constitution Tuesday by voting yes on Amendment 3.
https://www.firstalert4.com

* Arizona Proposition 139 to protect abortion rights also passed:

Arizona Proposition 139 Election Results 2024: Right to Abortion
Get live results and maps from the 2024 Arizona general election.
nytimes.com

Every glimmer helps.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

unforth

* New Jersey has elected the first Korean-American senator in history:

Democrat Andy Kim wins open New Jersey Senate seat, defeating Republican Curtis Bashaw
Democratic U.S. Rep. Andy Kim was elected Tuesday to the U.S. Senate, defeating Republican businessman Curtis Bashaw for the seat that opene
Yahoo News
crafting-and-tea

California has enshrined marriage equality by overturning Prop 8.

MSN
msn.com
thestuckylibrary
bump-inthe-night-deactivated202

If it makes any of you feel better, Donald Trump will have an uphill battle to change the constitution. He will need:

-2/3 of Senators (60)

-2/3 of the House of Representatives (290)

-3/4 of the states (38)

In 2026, 33 senate seats will be up for grabs, and we’ll be able to vote for people who are against Trump and his ideals.

Breathe and remain hopeful because it’s not over. We can still fight and make Trump’s last four years hell.

iamnmbr3

This is so important. Also pay attention to local elections. Now more than ever it's important to have staunch anti Trump democrats at every level of government - from school boards to senate seats. Apathy and not voting helped Trump win. Now is the time to wake up and get serious and hold on to the freedoms we have left. We have got to fight for every inch of territory. Do not give up. Do not give him any more power than he already has.

lunagalemaster
jockoppressor

If Harris loses, please try blaming real issues (Republican-driven voter suppression and intimidation tactics; billionaire-funded Trump-PAC’s and propaganda machines; a broken electoral system that hinges presidential elections on a dozen or so states instead of a simple popular vote; or the Democratic Party’s fumbled opportunities to respond to things like the corporate greed driven cost of living crisis, the housing shortage, the medical debt and healthcare accessibility crisis, the ongoing climate disaster, and the ongoing genocide in Palestine) instead of doing the Right’s job for them by blaming folks like climate protestors, Antizionist and pro-Palestine activists, Black and Brown people, jaded millennials living paycheck to paycheck, and tumblr users with an audience ⅛ the size of the average Christofascist MegaChurch Congregation.