shepardoftheearth:

tockthewatchdog:

twunkbanner:

bethanyactually:

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and here’s snopes verifying this, since no big media outlets are bothering to cover it

The amendment appears on a funding bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. If it remains in the final bill, the amendment would cut 15% of federal adoption funding to states and localities that penalize adoption agencies that refuse to place children in families that conflict with the agency’s “sincerely held religious beliefs or convictions.” 

it hasn’t happened yet, so there’s still time to reach out to your representatives about it

also, i can guarantee you that no big media outlets are ever not bothering to cover huge stories that a lot of people care about

“Calling it a “license to discriminate,” the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said the amendment would have “a sweeping, harmful impact in child welfare services by enabling discrimination against LGBTQ people, same-sex couples, interfaith couples, single parents, married couples in which one prospective parent has previously been divorced, or other qualified parents to whom an agency has an objection.”” -Snopes

mystech-master:

rex101111:

Guilty Gear Sitcom AU inspired by the song “Birthday Train” (an actual song on the GG Rev ost it’s crazy)

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@gear-project you might like this

Also, where are some of the other characters in this AU, Like Johnny, May, Axl, Slayer, Venom and Chipp?

– Johnny and May are the only half way normal people in the whole neighborhood. At least at first. They’re the first to welcome Sol when he moves in and even invite him to their house for dinner. It’s actually pretty nice, at first. Though the house is full of other people (the pirate crew natch) it’s actually pretty cozy and Sol finds himself relaxing. Until May goes over to the fridge to fetch a beer for Sol, only to have it drop from her grip and roll under the fridge. Before he can tell her that she doesn’t need to bother and that he can go without, she just. Fucking. Lifts the fridge to get to the beer. With one hand. The whole damn thing. She doesn’t even strain. He’s frozen stiff for the rest of dinner. (Johnny takes it in stride and does a few coin tricks. Says Dizzy got a real kick out of them. Sol silently mourns for the death of common sense that he caused by coming here. At least the beer’s good.)

– Axl is possibly the unluckiest son of a bitch Sol has ever met, himself included. Every week he sees him in the middle of some new disaster or misfortune, ranging from crashing his convertible into a tree with a hornets nest in it (that landed right into his passenger seat), somehow getting his long hair stuck in the rear door of a moving mail truck (the driver being a teenager with headphones stuck in his ears so he didn’t notice Axl for a mile or five), and somehow finding himself flying through Baiken’s bathroom window while she was on the toilet (nobody knows how he got out of that with only 5 months in the hospital to show for it.) Sol tends to see him in the local bar most days, and usually buys him a round or two in sympathy. (Ironically, Axl is actually the only normal person Sol has met since he moved in, which makes all the nonsense he goes through even weirder.)

– Slayer is as obscenely rich as he is in cannon and lives in a mansion (because of course he does), but drives over 20 miles just to shop at the local convenience store because it’s the only place where he can find his favorite brand of wine at a cheap price along with his wife’s beauty products. He knows all the residents of the neighborhood by name and treats them like old friends, even I-no. (Baiken finds him creepy though). He’s also, apparently, an old boxing champ from England who may or may not be able to kill everyone with his bare hands if he wished, and Sol might have found that boast intimidating if slayer didn’t say it while drunk out of his mind. Sol has also seen him walking around town with an umbrella, and when he asked Slayer why that was one day he shrugged noncommittally, “What kind of vampire would I be if I walked in broad daylight without some kind of protection?” (He then proceeded to spout off a bunch of nonsense hiaku, but Sol was too busy face palming to hear him.)  

– Venom is in a cold war of epic proportions with Millia and Zato. They constantly try to one up each other in all sorts of things, like decoration in holidays (Venom won Christmas with a snooker themed lights all over his house, while the two won Halloween with a demonic theme, even dressing Eddie up as a shadow dog), and hosting huge parties at the same time and inviting the same people (Johnny, May, Faust and the Badguy family go to Millia’s parties, while Slayer, Potemkin and Baiken tend to go to Venom’s, mostly for food preferences). As a general rule though most people find him kinda creepy and weird. (Sol is glad that for once he and his crazy neighbors agree on something.)

–  Chipp is a retired extreme sports star. He insists he’s just “on break” though. He jogs around the neighborhood every morning and evening, and tends to carpool to the gym with Potemkin. The two of them kinda have the complete opposite views on fitness, Chipp focusing on stamina and shape while Potemkin on bulking up, but overall they get along just fine. (He convinced Sol to go on a jog with him once. He came back home vomiting his breakfast and swearing to never go anywhere near the american ninja wannabe ever again.)

(by all means request more characters, worst case I’ll wiki them for five minutes and bull shit a paragraph of nonsense :V)

boyonetta:

“You can criticize something you love!”

Yeah, and you can also get tired of criticizing something you love. You can get completely fed up with it and decide, “You know what? Flaws aside, I love this thing, and I don’t have to waste hours of my life admitting its flaws to strangers on the Internet in order to somehow justify my love of it.” You can get sick of watching others gleefully tear it apart, for no reason other than that it’s popular and they hate that you love it. You can get sick of watching others tearing it apart with good intentions, too.

In the end, it’s just a cartoon, or a book, or a movie. It’s not that serious, and you can enjoy it without hyper-focusing on its flaws. You don’t need to justify your love of something to someone else, least of all a person you don’t even know.

Guilty Gear Sitcom AU inspired by the song “Birthday Train” (an actual song on the GG Rev ost it’s crazy)

– Fredrick (or “Sol” as his friends call him) is convinced that he has the worst luck in the world.

– Sol used to be part of a heavy metal band in his youth, when one night of excessive drinking left him with a baby on his door step. At age 17. Whoops. He does the right thing and takes care of her as best he can, getting a job as a sort of “handyman” taking any kind of odd job he could find. (He had a pretty good guess as to who the mother was, but he never saw her again)

– It was hard going but somehow he managed, Dizzy grew up to be a smart and sweet woman, and even found a loving husband. It took a long while for Sol to warm up to Ky (mostly because the blond somehow got it into his head that the two of them should be friends), but he had to admit the guy loved his daughter, so he gave them his blessing and went on his way.

– He very deliberately tried to distance himself from the two, knowing his bad luck would probably rub off on them and wanting to spare them the trouble…until his bad luck found him sitting on the sidewalk while the burning wreckage of his house glowed behind him as he waited for the fire department to get off their ass.

– So, he needs a place to stay. And unfortunately the only place available was his daughter’s house. Thankfully they were both happy to have him crash on the couch while he figured out what to do, and he promised to try and stay out of their hair as much as he could.

– Dizzy has always thought her father was a bit distant. He was a man of few words and subtle actions. She knew he loved her but just didn’t know how to express it, so she’s determined to use this opportunity to learn more about him. (Ky is just glad he gets another crack at making a friend out of Sol, Dizzy silently cheers him on while knowing he doesn’t stand a chance)

– Since both Dizzy and Ky have steady jobs, Sol figured that while things would be a bit hectic, it’ll all calm down and he can work on getting his life in order without interfering with his daughter’s life overly much. Simple. Then a week into his visit Dizzy breaks the news that she’s pregnant over dinner. Ky jumps for joy and twirls Dizzy around while Sol chocked on his pasta. Okay, so much for simple. (It took every inch of self restraint he had not to strangle Ky for knocking his daughter up not two months into the marriage. It helped that he didn’t want to be a hypocrite)     

– While Sol attempts to put his own life back together (and sort out his feelings about the whole Dizzy is pregnant oh God situation) he finds out that his daughter and son-in-law had moved into the most insane neighborhood possible, their neighbors including:

* Baiken: A one armed Japanese lady with an eye patch that tends to look at Sol like he’s a piece of dog turd she just cleaned off her boot. He can often see her polishing and sharpening her blades on her porch in the morning. And the evening. And that’s blades plural, he’s been living here at least two months now and he has never seen the same sword twice. (He swears he’s seen her before, but he has no intention of getting within decapitation range to ask if they’ve met)

* Potemkin: A bodybuilder twice Sol’s height who may or may not be part robot. He’s a bit quietly intense and Sol thinks he saw him try and suplex a car once or twice. He’s a pretty alright guy overall though but Sol once shook his hand and nearly lost an arm. 

* Millia and Zato: A young couple living across the street who are outwardly pretty polite, but closer inspection leads Sol to conclude that they are either A. Crazy. Or B. Assassins for hire on Sabbatical. Millia talks about taking care of her hair the same way soldiers talk about maintaining their guns, and Zato trains his seeing eye dog (Eddie, a Great Dane who Does Not Like Sol One Bit) to attack a straw dummy every morning. He keeps his distance.

*  Jam: A constantly down on her luck Chinese restaurateur with broken English who is constantly trying to get Sol to join as a busboy, or a waiter, or something else that requires heavy lifting and can be payed with minimum wage. He’s half convinced she’s faking the broken English for sympathy points or to get people off guard so they give more generous tips. He went to her restaurant once with Dizzy for launch, and saw Jam send a violent costumer flying out through a wall with one punch to the chest. (She then spent the next ten minutes crying about how much it’s going to cost to fix the wall. Dizzy and he opted for pizza that afternoon)

* Faust: A doctor who can be charitably called zany. He’s as tall as Potemkin but thin as an electric poll, and constantly crouches when he sits. He speaks disjointedly and at length about all sorts of things that Sol can barely follow, and while Dizzy is glad for his company, since having a doctor so close to home will make the pregnancy safer and potentially easier to handle, Sol is half convinced his medical license is fake. (Oh, and he wears a paper bag over his head with a single eye hole in it. Because of course he fucking does.)  

* I-no: A crazy guitarist who only has a vague concept of both shirts and personal space. Apparently she was a huge fan of Sol back during his music days, and considers him leaving the Rock and Roll life style in favor of raising a kid to be a nearly unforgivable tragedy. She keeps trying to convince him to join her band and tour the world, Sol very resolutely ignores her. (Both because him chasing that life style is what put him here in the first place, and because I-no seems to be incapable of speaking in anything that isn’t innuendo or a double entendre. Creepy.) 

– Lots of shenanigans, naturally, ensue. What kinda shenanigans? How should I know I only played like two GG games.