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Writing, Drawing, Mediocrity!

@gemmaroses / gemmaroses.tumblr.com

25, she/they, call me Gemma
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pineapplesagainstpizza

Hey guys, I realised that no one is talking about Rina Sawayama not being allowed to participate in The Mercury and Brits Awards. Both of these award shows require artists to have a british citzenship to be eligible for nominations. However, many artists like Rina Sawayama were not born into countries that allow dual citizenships. If she applies for a British citizenship, she must give up her Japanese citizenship. This is something that American and European immigrants will never have to suffer from. This rule restricts immigrants from participating in these award shows. So many of us are asking these awards shows to remove their citizenship requirement and/or give Rina Sawayama a pass on this requirement (she has lived in england for over 25 years).

Spread the word

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theconcealedweapon

If you really care about preventing government tyranny, your #1 priority must be making sure criminals have rights.

And that's not a joke or an exaggeration.

If criminals don't have rights, then all the government has to do is find some excuse to label people as criminals, and those people will no longer have rights. It's what literally every tyrannical government in all of history has done.

If you believe that people who break the law should forfeit their rights, you're literally as pro-tyranny as a person can get.

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decepticonsensual

So I just now learned about Stagecoach Mary and how have I never heard of this absolute LEGEND of a woman before

  • She was born a slave and freed when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued (she was about 30)
  • She was about six feet tall and 200 pounds and once she was free she decided she’d never take shit from anyone ever again
  • When one of her close friends, a nun by the name of Mother Amadeus, became ill with pneumonia at her convent in Montana, Mary headed alone into the frontier to nurse Mother Amadeus back to health
  • After Mother Amadeus recovered, she gave Mary a job as the foreman of the convent. She repaired buildings, took care of chickens, made the long and dangerous journeys into town for supplies, and did other odd jobs.
  • She could drink most men under the table, and one saloon offered five bucks and a free shot of whiskey to any man who could take a punch to the face from Mary and remain standing. 
  • She was once said by a local paper to have broken more noses than anyone else in Montana
  • She was outspokenly Republican, which at this time was the liberal party in America, and would get into political debates with the more conservative townsfolk
  • One time a man insulted her outside the saloon so hit him in the face with a rock, and only stopped when other cowboys held her back.
  • On one supply run into town, her wagon overturned and the horses fled. Mary spent all night single-handedly fending off a pack of wolves with her guns before she righted the heavy wagon by herself and tracked down the spooked horses. The only thing lost in the accident was a jar of molasses.
  • She lost her job at the convent when she got into a gunfight with a male employee who did not want to take orders from a black woman. She reportedly shot him in the ass, which angered the local bishop.
  • After losing her convent job, Mary spent a brief time running a restaurant, where she welcomed and served all comers
  • When a job for a mail carrier opened at the local US Post Office, Mary got the job because she managed to hitch six horses to a wagon faster than any of the male candidates
  • She was sixty at the time
  • This made her the first black woman mail carrier, and the second woman mail carrier in US history
  • When the snows were too deep for the horses to manage the long and dangerous delivery routes, Mary would strap on snowshoes, put the bags of mail on her shoulders, and do it herself
  • At one point she apparently had a pet eagle????
  • She only retired from the mail route when she was about 70 years old, and instead made a quieter living by babysitting and running a laundry business in the town of Cascade
  • She was a huge baseball fan and often gave the local team a big bouquet of flowers from her garden
  • The people of Cascade loved Mary so much that they closed the schools annually on her birthday
  • When a law was passed in Montana that forbade women from drinking in saloons, the mayor of Cascade granted Mary an exemption. 
  • When her house burned down, the whole town got together to help her build a new one
  • She continued drinking, fighting, and going to baseball games until she died of liver failure at 82 in 1914

Mary (far right) and the local baseball team

Anyway sorry for gushing I just now heard about her and I’m in love

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augustdementhe

I’ve heard of her, but godDAMN, if her story doesn’t bear repeating. ^w^

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historyisntboring
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somasis-moved

a bunch of specific-body-part-fetish porn artists come together and draw a single character in their respective styles, each doing a single body part, creating the most terrifying image ever made by humans

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judgejudyofficial

mary shelley  …

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snovyda

Dear US American friends,

I love you all and wish you all the best, but please, PLEASE, I’M BEGGING YOU, please tag your US politics posts.

As someone who is not American and is struggling with some issues, seeing all these posts with acronyms I don’t know about calling for action, etc., is really draining.

Could you please just tag your stuff? Thank you.

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snovyda

Guys, thank you for the 100500th reminder to not mail in my ballot anymore or whatever. PLEASE TAG YOUR STUFF, I’M BEGGING YOU.

The rest of the world has their own things to deal with already, and it honestly feels like having “USA! USA! NOTHING ELSE EXISTS BUT USA!!!” yelled at you all the time, with no way to filter it out.

i mean, i understand the frustration, being a non american myself, but really though just like how people in your fandom can ship your notp, americans are allowed to worry about their own country and not tag it because they want their potentially american followers to see. if you want to see less of those kinda posts, then unfollow the blogs reblogging those kinda things. easy peasy! if you are afraid of missing their fandom content, then just go to the fandom tag or their blog, even if they dont tag politics they might tag fandoms. you just gotta know how to curate your dash so you’ll stop seeing things you hate

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polyglotplatypus

today in “no one knows im pgp” i give you this retelling of a recent conversation i had with a well-meaning fellow homestuck 

(i dont know exactly how to feel about being told i draw so much better than myself but im gonna take it as compliment)

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polyglotplatypus

only if this comic blows my cover and the people im talking to realise im me

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polyglotplatypus

SIR WEVE BEEN COMPROMISED

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polyglotplatypus

im cryign

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weapon-up-wallflower

I was thinking that the idea that Deadlock had next-to-no hand-to-hand combat experience was unreasonable until it occurred to me that it’s possible he never needed it, because even through 4 million years of war, with a gun in his hand almost no one has ever made it closer than a 50-foot circumference of distance to him

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gynandromorph

there’s a decent amt of neurologists who’ve called the sleep schedules we’re obligated to be on despite flagrant conflict with our natural circadian rhythms “borderline torture” and the work hours we’re expected to put in despite the fact that the average person can only maintain maximal efficiency and focus for 3 hours at a time “nearly inhumane” and i think about that a lot

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