Lana Condor photographed for Rollacoaster Magazine by Pier-Alexandre Gagné

➣ NATIONWIDE TRACTION, PLEASE!

Keep up the energy. Inspire the youth vote.

VOTE LIKE YOUR FUTURE DEPENDED ON IT, BECAUSE IT DOES!

<3 ALL OF THIS <3

Get out and vote regardless of whether it seems like its a “Sure thing” or seems “Hopeless”…there’s no such thing as a sure thing and there is always ALWAYS a chance that your vote can make a difference no matter how hopeless it might seem…

“A Fabulous Life” Rayna Ahmadi™️

Integrity Toys “Luxe Life” Convention 2018

“Walking On Gold” Adele Makéda™️ 

Integrity Toys “Luxe Life” Convention 2018 Centerpiece Doll

holy shit

“My mom told my brother to stay out of the cabinets and he didn’t listen so she did this lmao“

@anxietyproblem

ATTENTION: A young man, Danye Jones, was LYNCHED just a few days ago and no media - other than twitter - has covered his murder, possibly because police have decided to rule this out as a suicide, but we know better. The Jones family and Danye deserve better and they deserve justice. Please don’t let this go unnoticed. Please reblog and share this story with every media you can. Make them pay attention and listen to what we have to say. Don’t let them get away with this. Say his name!

Side Note: I won’t be sharing Danye’s body because it could be disturbing to some. But if you feel the need to see his body to grasp what they did to him, then you can find it very easily on Twitter or Google.

excellent twitter happening from today

Um… Y'all clearly have not even seen a single blizzard character…. Have you….

This is a problem in Blizzard’s real games as well

THESE FOUR ARE ALL DIFFERENT RACES AND THEY HAVE THE SAME FREAKING FEATURES

me after opening up to someone: wow, i feel so much better!!! :) that was a good idea. 

me lying in bed that night, realising what I’ve done:

Love ain’t doing shit

tl;dr - braindump from jury duty

my trial is over and i can talk about it.

the DA didn’t make the case for the crime and i went into the deliberation room knowing that. i also knew a half-dozen white orange county folks might not see it that way. the defendant was latino, there was a gang charge in addition to robbery.

sure enough, as we went around the table to give our first impressions, the white ladies used language around “gut instinct” and “he shouldn’t be hanging out with bad people” and the like. others were undecided because there was so much unreliable testimony.

they got to me and i flatly said “i have reasonable doubts.” i stated some of my reasoning and heads started to nod. the next 3 jurors to talk after me were hispanic. they stated that they understood why this might be confusing, and then gave some personal perspectives about growing up in disadvantage neighborhoods, how not everyone is a gangster just because they live there. one white lady said “well, you know, they should really move if that’s the case.”

the discussion opened up and it went right to gangs, right to how the defendant shouldn’t be hanging out with gang members. everyone had an opinion about how the defendant looked, or talked, or that he was drinking a 40 just before the robbery, or that he was related to a gang member. they went right to that.

but that’s not what we were supposed to decide on. we were there for a robbery as the primary charge. a robbery that i very clearly felt the state had not be able to pin on this guy.

so… being the loud mouth that i sometimes am… i interrupted and said “let’s all turn to page 14 in the jury instructions and go through what would make the charge ‘guilty’, line by line, and see where we all stand.”

sure enough, when we focused on the actual charge, and the facts actually required for someone to be found guilty, most in the room agreed it wasn’t there. well, except for two white ladies.

so i, also a white lady, helped to walk them through the list. when “gut instinct” or “it’s a bad neighborhood” came up, i kindly pointed out that those are not facts of the case. when i requested that they use the facts of the case to provide reasoning for their position, they both quietly agreed there weren’t any.

and that’s how, in about an hour, we came to a unanimous decision of ‘not guilty’.

i don’t have experience with the court system. and i don’t watch court room based tv dramas. so i was really a blank slate to all this.

i was taken aback at the very clear inherent bias that some jurors displayed, and all the while realizing they didn’t think of themselves as bias. but i was also taken aback by how focusing on the process, the rules, and the facts quickly squashed that line of reasoning.

this has buoyed me a bit, in light of the actions of the aclu over the muslim ban. but it also feels so fragile. so very fragile.

And this is exactly why I have never tried to get out of jury duty. We need clear thinking, intelligent people on juries. I get so frustrated with people I know who are always looking for a way out of serving.

somebody offer this hero a cape

Fellow whites. THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING.

Which means -get yourselfs on juries-. Don’t skip jury duty. Don’t skip don’t skip don’t try to sneak out of it, get on that jury, and make sure you are keeping all the other white people in line.

You live in a town where the law states that everyone must be visibly excited about Christmas starting November 1st or risk re-education. You, a cynical teen, have just been turned into the Holiday Bureau by your own family, due to them feeling shame for having a kid who doesn’t love Christmas.

tonight’s mood is the deep desire to be held close in a dimly lit room, covered in blankets while rain is softly falling outside

me watching disney princess movies

as a kid:

now: 

subway employees when i tell them i want a sub: