i'm in a ball gown

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

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
cannibaldatingsite
madmoths

Anyway, something I neglected to mention in my post last night is that much of Buffalo’s East Side (where the shooting happened) is a food desert. This Tops was the main grocery store in this particular district (there are mini marts in this particular area but not another big grocery store). And if you don’t have a car, it’s not always easy to get to places in Buffalo even with public transportation so trying to get to the main grocery store in your area can be difficult for some people to begin with - and now it’s probably going to be closed for a bit due to what happened.

If you feel inclined to donate, you can donate to Buffalo Community Fridge. They have a Venmo: bflocommunityfridge. Also, Buffalo Community Fridge has a Target Registry so you can purchase and give items directly. There are three different ‘community fridges’ located throughout Buffalo to help address food insecurity including one on the East Side. It’s a place where people can drop off food and anyone can take food at any time - it’s open 24/7. Here is a link to their website and to their Instagram. You can read more about how the community fridge project got started and see pictures at Buffalo Rising.

Additionally, a local mosque (confirmed- Jami Masjid) is also raising funds for the families of the victims. Here is a link to their fundraiser.

maeumsim
42ndplace

[text ID: Bioluminescence by Paul Tran

There’s a dark so deep beneath the sea the creatures beget their own
light. This feat, this fact of adaptation, I could say, is beautiful

though the creatures are hideous. Lanternfish. Hatchetfish. Viperfish.
I, not unlike them, forfeited beauty to glimpse the world hidden

by eternal darkness. I subsisted on falling matter, unaware
from where or why matter fell, and on weaker creatures beguiled

by my luminosity. My hideous face opening, suddenly, to take them
into a darkness darker and more eternal than this underworld

underwater. I swam and swam toward nowhere and nothing.
I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going

even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far
away from the rest of life, the terrestrial made possible by and thereby

dependent upon light, I did what I had to do. I stalked. I killed.
I wanted to feel in my body my body at work, working to stay

alive. I swam. I kept going. I waited. I found myself without meaning
to, without contriving meaning at the time, in time, in the company

of creatures who, hideous like me, had to be their own illumination.
Their own god. Their own genesis. Often we feuded. Often we fused

like anglerfish. Blood to blood. Desire to desire. We were wild. Bewildered.
Beautiful in our wilderness and wildness. In the most extreme conditions

we proved that life can exist. I exist. I am my life, I thought, approaching
at last the bottom of the sea. It wasn’t the bottom. It wasn’t the sea.

end text ID]

i shant say a word.
pyropian
ot3

to be honest i feel like discussions about Representation need to come second to discussions about dissolving corporate media monopolies. i don’t care how diverse the characters in a show are if the system in place still demands that art has to be palatable for the masses and filtered thru a corporate assembly line just to exist. its crazy. its craaazy how far people will go to defend the honor of corporate media. i guarantee whatever Creatives are responsible for the representation in your favorite piece of corporate media could have made something better, realer, and more valuable if they didn’t have to sanitize their shit for the mass market. i guarantee there are a million people out there who would make stuff you would love but the fact that media is treated as a product and not an art form means theyll never get a chance to do anything at all. 

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socksmaybe: “[id: a behind the scenes photo of toby schmidtz as jack rackham on the set of black sails. he’s sitting with his legs crossed in a beach chair under a red umbrella. he’s looking directly at the camera, away from the scene being staged...
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[id: a behind the scenes photo of toby schmidtz as jack rackham on the set of black sails. he’s sitting with his legs crossed in a beach chair under a red umbrella. he’s looking directly at the camera, away from the scene being staged near the water. the caption reads, first in red allcaps “saturday chillin / don’t fuckin @ me today” then in cyan cursive “i’m chillin” end id.]