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Youtube did a thing! A really, really nice thing!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSiehK2asbI is it bad that I laughed at "so gay"

Did you guys hear about all the buildings that displayed rainbow lighting last night? Most of them have the rainbow lighting due to it being LGBT Pride Month and that a lot of Pride Parades happen around this time but I think the White House just put up the rainbow lighting yesterday (more rainbow buildings here) I didn't see anything about Arkansas last night or today. I looked into it today though and while Arkansas's governor expressed that while it goes against his personal beliefs, he'll abide by the Supreme Court's ruling and marriage licenses will be issued to same sex couples that want them.

I really, truly hope so because there's a lot of work to be done internationally. Especially when you remember being gay can get you imprisoned or even killed in some countries. Not sure how realistic of a hope it is but the world's changing, perhaps something more really will come out of this c: ---------------- OMM: suddenly a lot happier about not going swimming over the past few summers....

(thank you, you two for posting because I saw stuff I wanted to add but didn't want to make my first post from earlier today even longer) Some 9 hours later after first hearing the ruling and I've still this stupidly happy grin on my face :') Though I personally find it a little crude, a lot of things, such as this image, are going around social media currently are regarding what progress still has to be made in the US regarding LGBT+ rights and quality. Gay marriage is a really huge step but it's only one small step towards full equality. (Kinda wish this could've been held off a day so we could all just take a day to be happy about this and celebrate all the marriages before going back to remember that there's still a lot of progress to be made in the US and internationally but I suppose it's better than people acting as though this decision solves all LGBT+ inequality.) And if you want to see some cute pictures of same sex couples getting married/marriage licenses today, here you go! These pictures are a very good reminder of just how important a decision like this is! Some of these couples have been waiting literally decades for today and seeing pictures of the moment they've been waiting for so long is really powerful! Some of Texas's influential political leaders are more or less unsurprisingly voicing their views on it. I haven't heard too much negativity coming from other southern states but there probably is quite a bit of anger down there regarding the new ruling. It seems like the majority of the country is really happy and proud of the decision today though! EDIT: Louisiana's, Texas's, and Mississippi's governors are standing against the Supreme Court's decision.(x) I don't know what they think their opposition will accomplish though...? It seems like those three are the only southern states actually not recognizing the ruling.

First things first, I started writing this at the end of May, my laptop restarted a couple days ago and lost everything I had written, and because I had finals and two big tests last week and had family stuff recently so I didn't get time until now to rewrite anything so sorry for the wait! dear lord this took a long time to write That being said, happy LGBT Pride Month! This month if you google LGBT or the words making up the acronym Google displays a rainbow banner at the top of the page. When I first tried it a couple days ago asexual and pansexual weren't included in this but when I tried it today they both got the banner as well! --Since I've been working on this sporadically over the month the news stories have been in chronological order but this is too important to go towards the end! The United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of same sex marriage!! The vote was only 5-4 but this means same sex marriage is now legal in all 50 states! This is a huge win for all Americans today because even if you, yourself aren't affected by this decision, your family/friends might be! The fight for LGBTQIA+ equality isn't over but this is a huge, huge, huge step in the right direction! To have this happen during Pride month only makes it better too! Congrats to any and all couples personally affected by this decision and are now married or engaged as of today! Probably the most well known story is that earlier this month it was revealed that Caitlyn Jenner will be/is on the cover of this month's Vanity Fair! Caitlyn, formerly known as Bruce, finally showed us what she looks post transition and told the world her new name! She looks really good too, especially considering her age! This got a lot of media coverage and for the most part the news stations and people that misgendered Caitlyn were all condemned for it. And despite a petition going up to have her Olympic medals revoked the International Olympic Committee have stated that they won't strip her of her medals! (Vanity Fair article) Target released an LGBT Pride Month related ad the other day. The message is nice and it's nice to see another LGBT+ accepting brand Miley Cyrus recently came out as genderqueer/nonbinary (genderfluid to be more exact) and pansexual(..?). In a photoshoot and interview with Paper Magazine she said, "I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn't involve an animal and everyone is of age. Everything that's legal, I'm down with. Yo, I'm down with any adult--anyone over the age of 18 who is down to love me. ... I don't relate to being boy or girl, and I don't have to have my partner relate to boy or girl." She didn't use any labels or terms specifically but the way she worded things matches the definition of pansexual and nonbinary. Some people are skeptical of her saying this could just be a ploy to get attention for herself or her recently launched Happy Hippie Foundation which helps homeless and LGBT youth. It'd be angering if it turns out this whole thing is a lie but assuming it's not, it's nice to get such good awareness for pansexuality and genderqueer identities since they're glossed over quite a bit. (Paper Magazine article --Pictures in the article are NSFW) Youtuber Ingrid Nilsen came out earlier this month via an emotional youtube video. She explained her experience with struggling with the fact that she is gay and her coming out and acceptance process. Congratulations to Ingrid! Coming out, especially to such a large audience can be a very challenging, hard thing to do and I think she handled it really well! Unfortunately, not all LGBT news this month is good news. Michigan Governor Rick Synder signed in a law that would allow faith based adoption agencies to deny service to same sex couples/families. So y'know in other words this is essentially saying that certain adoption centers could not give kids the opportunity to go into loving homes if that home just so happen to be a family with two dads or two moms. I just.... ohm y god why (huffington post article) (I wrote a lot holy crap sorry if I accidentally skipped any parts too! It just started looking like a wall of text at some point haha) Yeah, the amount of sex thrown at us in movies, advertisements, and songs can feel a little suffocating. It's one of those things that once you're aware of it, you continue to stay hyper aware of it. It's arguably better than sex being so taboo it's not talked about at all but it's a little much y'know? No problem! I'm glad you found found AVEN helpful! It really is a big problem that some parents can't even fathom their children being transgender. (a parent's transphobic views will likely be passed down to their children too and if that child's very vocal about their hateful views it could ultimately hurt others) Love for one's children shouldn't be conditional. And seeing your child happy should make you happy right? Even if your child isn't transgender, shaming girls who are tomboys and play out in the dirt or are rougher or shaming boys who might like dress up and dolls is harmful too. When that kid's older they'll much rather remember being allowed to play with whatever toys they want instead of being told playing with certain toys is wrong. These are some reasons why trans visibility and acceptance is important because it can literally save lives. Or on a lesser but still important scale, it can save a lot of kids from being unhappy and have a negative self image from an early age.

Savant - Cry for Love

OMM 1: !!!!! it happened--it really happened! *runs off to go post in the LGBTQA+ thread* OMM 2: today I learned just how important umlauts are

OMM 1: the second Persona 5 trailer leaked while I was asleep OMM 2: the nintendo gods have answered my prayers \o/

Foster the People - Broken Jaw

I'm not very knowledgeable about wwii but "aryan" doesn't necessarily mean a racist person. (excluding those who identify as aryan today, those people most definitely are) I think "aryan" was just used to describe the white European appearance that Hitler viewed as the most superior race. (the "ideal aryan" had blonde hair, blue eyes, and pale skin and ironically enough, Hitler didn't even fit that bill as he was a brunette with brown eyes) If I'm not mistaken, people with aryan appearances who had "impurities" were also killed in the holocaust (ex: those who had physical disabilities, mental illness, and/or were gay) but their numbers were a lot smaller compared to other groups the Nazis went after. (I did double check a lot of what I said but please correct me if I'm wrong!) Completely switching gears here but yeah the mass extinction didn't start recently. We've lost at least 77 species of mammals, 140 types of bird, and 34 amphibians since 1500 so scientists have been keeping an eye on this for a while. I'm assuming humans play the biggest part in the mass extinction since a lot of industrialization, pollution, and population increase came about in the past 500 years but the Earth just doing what it does probably had some part in it too but it's a minor part in comparison. I'm sure a bunch of species went extinct at least partially because of humans. Especially if the species had the climate and humans working against it its survival. (ex: wooly mammoths) The reason it didn't cause a mass extinction is probably because it's a lot harder to hunt hundreds of species into extinction compared to now where humans are unintentionally harming animals. (ex: habitat loss, we know the deforestation of rainforests is bad yet it still happens. Not to mention tribes who still reside in those forests are also harmed by this) Despite the industrial revolution happening so long ago it didn't come and go without any consequences* though. And coal leaves behind coal ash which if not stored properly can cause horrific spills. And that's the thing, organizations can certainly help a ton! They can only do so much though. Some species might get to the point where they only exist in captivity. It's better than them completely being gone but it's not much better.. Take Lonesome George the last known Pinta Island tortoise for example. When he died in 2012 , the subspecies he belonged to just stopped existing because there were no females he could mate with to continue the subspecies. Lonesome George was even referred to as the rarest animal in the world during his last years. it doesn't It might not be as brutal but animals are still dying :c And I vote we send all the harmful human waste to space and make the aliens deal with it, it's a completely foolproof plan amiright??? ----- *I wanted to link a Lonesome George video I came across because I thought it gave a lot of perspective and realized one of my links stopped working, like the entire site's just down but I was able to access a cached copy and screenshot it so if anyone cares, here

OMM: A bunch of Persona 5 screenshots from the unreleased second trailer were leaked last night while I was asleep \o/ I'm a little bit like that too! I really wish subs were available for some shows but I don't mind most shows don't have them

Cacti also

...what do you define as 'cooking'? Do you mean like being able to follow fairly simple recipes/instructions or actually having somewhat of an ability to cook from scratch?

Dear anonymous, You've been very quiet since you got back from your vacation... too quiet I admittedly don't really how you spend most of your days or know how truly busy you may be but you always respond fairly soon after I contact you text me first for once dammit --me -------------- Dear anon, "Remember to continue working on your summer classes over break." Ok but what if I just, ,, didn't. . . . . It's called a break for a reason.... I don't intend on completely ignoring them but I worry you have the expectation that I'm going to work on those a lot more than I'm actually going to --

pancakes

"Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset." --Joss Whedon *uses "kill me" in their daily vocabulary as an expression of ironic despair* (To be honest, I actually really like this quote so don't think I'm picking on you! c: )

A recent study shows that cat videos do improve one's mood. Watching cat videos can reduce anxiety, energize you, and even help with procrastination. The survey the findings came from had about 7,000 participants so this, like every study, can't speak for everybody. Almost 90% of the people who took the survey were female so it was noted that there's a chance males might respond differently to cat videos. (If by some weird, unlikely stroke of luck that happens to be true, I feel sorry for all of you unless men experience more positive effects for some reason.) It's still a crummy feeling knowing we humans are directly responsible for this for the most part. The previous mass extinctions were the result of natural disasters whereas this one's the result of humans being uncareful and unknowingly irresponsible for a long time. The part that nags at me the most though is that species we haven't even discovered yet might be ceasing to exist because our actions... you sound very salty But yeah, that's a blunt way to put it

OMM 1: 90% sure my favorite part of Jurassic World was when Chris Pratt's character muttered "son of a bitch.." under his breath and the younger brother character quietly just "...don't say 'bitch'" OMM 2: I've been willingly awake for like 22hours now ....why did I let this happen

I saw Inside Out on Friday and I saw Jurassic World today. Inside Out was ok! Not the best Pixar movie but it wasn't bad. I liked the theme it had too! Pixar's animation still bothers me though like.. I dunno the character models just look weird to my. Jurassic World was alright. My tolerance for those types of movies is very low but it wasn't bad--I didn't dislike it. It should be noted that the theater was terrible and I was very salty during the whole thing which probably made me not like it as much though. But the dinosaurs looked nice! (I wish the triceratops and stegosauruses had gotten more screen time though...) And the unnecessary romantic subplot made me very unhappy

Transistor OST - The Spine

OMM 1: the kitchen sink in my house doesn't work because we thought it needed new batteries but even after changing them it still doesn't work I didn't even know sinks needed batteries... I had no idea how much of an inconvenience not having a kitchen sink was too OMM 2: "Watch E3 Day 0 coverage here!" twitch... twitch no

The world has entered its sixth mass extinction according to Stanford University. Animals are dying out 100x faster than the normal rate apparently. Humans seem to be the main cause of this increase in species going extinct too. What an inconceivable concept amiright???? ?? hooooraaaayyyyyy. To think we no longer can have our presence graced by creatures such as this giant wombat in all seriousness though this is pretty concerning...

A haircut

When your cat willingly spends time with you

Two Door Cinema Club - This is the Life