Please Remember To Call Your Representatives About KOSA. This Is Still A Massive Issue And Apparently

Please remember to call your representatives about KOSA. This is still a massive issue and apparently it has enough support to pass in the Senate, which is terrifying. We must stop this from becoming law.

Don't know what this does just wanted to save this cause it is to cute to lose

Short RoadRat HighSchool AU Prompt

Mako inhaled slowly trying – and failing – to calm his jittery nerves. He flexed his hands where they hug by his side before clenching them again hard enough that he was sure his knuckles were white. He sighed heavily, knowing that lurking behind the tall library bookshelf any longer wasn’t going to magically give him the courage he was so desperately searching for. He shoved his hands into the loose pockets of his charcoal hoodie, a small pig cartoon plastered on the front, before he forced himself to turn the corner of the dark wooden shelf and head towards his unsuspecting target. 

Jamieson Fawkes, was sat at one of the large, round tables that were spread out among the library.  The blonde was alone, though the library was usually abandoned this late after school had already ended; most people were eager to get home and tried not to linger any longer than necessary. Not Jamie, whose eyes were glued to his phone, fingers flying across the screen and leg jiggling. Though Mako knew that if it wasn’t his leg it would be something else, Jamie was never still, he was always moving. He reminded Mako of a excited little flame, flickering too and fro and seemingly never static for more than a few moments before beginning it’s dance again. 

Mako’s steps faltered before he growled lowly to himself and forced himself to keep walking, heading straight towards the younger, unaware boy. Mako halted awkwardly in front of the table, but Jamie didn’t even seem to notice the hulking figure of the larger teen at first. Mako shifted uneasily before clearing his throat, Jamie still didn’t respond fingers never pausing for a moment. Mako was at a loss for a moment, his already faltering confidence chipping away with each moment and before he could stop himself he sighed heavily enough that the air forced from his lungs washed over Jamie, whose head shot up in surprise. Amber eyes wide with shock and something akin to wonder as he took in the figure in front of him, but only for a moment before they crinkled happily and a large, toothy grin spread across the blondes face. 

“Mako! I did’n even notice ya there!” Jamie crowed gleefully, his phone screen going dark as he laid it down on the table. His fingers moved from the phone screen to the table and began to unconsciously tap a senseless pattern. His good leg jiggling a tad higher than before. “What’cha need hoggy?” Jamie questioned with a curious tilt of his head. 

“Umm, well I needed to talk to you about…something.” Mako mumbled, chewing on his lip with every pause and unable to stop himself from turning his head away from Jamie. “I just wanted to ask you, I know we haven’t like….known each other that long and maybe that’s weird, maybe this is weird for me to suddenly ask but I guess…did you….no, do you….”He was fairly sure he was going to start hyperventilating at any moment, which meant he’d have to pull out his inhaler which he wasn’t sure he was ready to show Jamie it wasn’t good for the image he’d built up. The tough, unfriendly and unapproachable image that Jamie had completely and blindly stumbled right through only a few weeks back. Which is what had brought them to this situation in this first place. 

The situation being Mako trying – and spectacularly failing – at asking Jamie out. Mako roughly rubbed his hand over his slightly stubble chin as he finally choked out what he’d meant from the very beginning. 

“Do you wanna go out?” He grumbled, voice muffled by his hand. “…..like with me?” Silence reined supreme for long, tortuously long, moments. Mako could already feel the familiar tightening sensation of his stomach that would quickly devolve into panic. Mako couldn’t help but turn back to face Jamie who was staring up at Mako with a blank expression, Mako felt his heart plummet. He was such a fucking idiot, why had he thought this was a good idea and now he’d ruined one of the few friendship’s he actually cared about. 

His expression must have given away his complete and utter heartbreak because the blonde teens bushy eyebrows instantly furrowed in worry and his whole face scrunched up in concern and he flailed wildly as he tried to stand up. 

“Oh god! Oh god please don’t be upset!” Jamie cried, standing up so quickly that he sent his chair tumbling backwards and he nearly stumbled face first into Mako. Mako felt his sadness begin to shift into anger, he could do anger, anger was familiar territory. He growled low in his throat his mouth curling into a snarl. Of course he was gonna be fucking upset! What did Jamie expect? That Mako would just brush it off without a problem? What a load of shit. Mako spun on his heel ready to storm off, possibly to find something – maybe even someone – to punch.  

“WAIT!” Jamie’s shout was so unexpected and so were the slender fingers clutching his bicep that Mako found himself stopping. Jamie was instantly in front of him, hands still gripping Mako’s arms as if he’d run off if Jamie wasn’t keeping him there. Jamie’s whole face was screwed up in a desperate expression that Mako thought didn’t really suit the younger boy. “Please, just hang on a tic.” Jamie pleaded. Mako huffed grumpily before nodding, crossing his thick arms across his even thicker chest. Jamie chewed his bottom lip, watching Mako with distrust as if thinking the moment he turned his back the larger boy would make a break for it. Mako simply raised an unimpressed eyebrow and jerked his head in a motion that clearly read, “Get the fuck on with it.” 

Jamie scuttled over to where he’d been sitting, he dropped to a crouch and pulled out his ratty little bag that had been tucked underneath the table. The blonde teen dug around inside his bag, face a mask of concentration and Mako could even see a hint of Jamie’s pink tongue sticking out in a comical expression of indentured focus. 

“Aha! Found ya, ya little fucks!” Jamie barked happily pulling out a pair of weird curbed little gadgets that were badly painted a truly obnoxious shade of yellow. Mako’s head twisted in confusion and he found himself fully turning to face the blonde, anger momentarily forgotten as Jamie began to shove the small contraptions into his ears. He fiddled with them for a few moments before turning to face Mako with a huge grin nearly splitting his face. “Okay,” Jamie grinned, “now I can actually hear ya!” 

Mako’s jaw dropped. It felt as though his brain were buffering or possibly that he was on one of those hidden camera shows and he was just waiting for someone to jump out and yell, “SURPRISE BITCH!” except it didn’t, instead he just stared down at Jamie was rising from his crouched position still fucking grinning. 

“Jamie are you deaf?” Mako asked incredulously. Jamie’s lips puckered in thought. 

“Yes! Wait, no sorta. Mostly?” Jamie babbled and Mako laughed breathlessly at the absurdity of the situation. 

“Jamie.” He said, his voice firm and slightly louder than Jamie’s own soft ramblings, which instantly quieted the blonde who looked up at him expectantly. 

“Do’you like ice cream?” Mako asked with a small smirk playing on his full lips. Jamie’s eyes practically sparkled and he smiled fully enough to show off his sharp canine teeth. 

“Who the fuck doesn’t like ice cream?” He squealed happily, moving to clutch Mako’s large arm against his slender chest. Mako grunted in agreement pulling Jamie closer to plant a wet kiss against the crown of his head. 

He didn’t even know what he’d been worried about. 

Requests are open. 

WE. WILL. WIN.

KOSA Is gonna get defeated if we try hard enough, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHOSE SPOKE OUT ABOUT IT SO FAR!!

We keep pushing, keep hoping, keep fighting!

Omg can you make a post linking all the roadrat high school fanfics please I'm in need

I’m fine

Misunderstandings

This RoadRat drabble

Anarchist’s Kama Sutra

Roadrat/Reaper76 prompt

First First Kiss

Practical Joke

Winter Break

Aloha wau iā ʻoe

Flux [5 chapters]

Nothing

Migraine

V-Day Cards

Your stare was holding

Serenade

Teenage Dirtbag

Guys. What is happening. No one is talking about Kosa.

We have to get it trending. Boost this post

Senate Bill 686 of the 118th Congress (The Restrict Act)

I’m honestly a bit disappointed here at Tumblr for not talking about this bill more, so I’m going to share what I’ve learned about it with you all

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The link above goes to a pdf file going over the entire bill that has only been introduced atm as shown in the image just above from congress.gov.

Now, people only see this as a means to ban Tiktok, but that’s just the mask this truly cruel bill is hiding behind.

To boil it all down, this bill lets the Secretary of Commerce to have the power to ban…basically ANYTHING on the internet.

This includes hardware like video game consoles or Wifi networks as well as software and applications such as VPNs.

It also gives the government the power to monitor, basically everything you do online, private messages, posts on social media, streams, you name it, they can monitor it.

And the punishment for using, say, a VPN to access Tiktok, will result in 20 years in prison with a 1/4 million fine, a full million if you did it on purpose.

Now, I please ask you all to go to your representatives and tell them about how you don’t want this bill to be passed whatsoever. Heck, if you have to, (passively) threaten them with supporting their opponent in the next primary in any way they can. Just remember to be respectful and civil.

If you don’t want to do that, I respect that decision, and I understand that you wouldn’t want to deal with politics. But, I at least ask you to signal boost this post by reblogging it to your own followers and give any other thoughts about this that you might have in the tags or just normally.

I don’t want this lovable hellsite we all call home and made such good friends and memories on to be under the eyes of those pedophilic heathens who can’t seem to even know how to unlock a smartphone.

I thank you all for reading this, and I hope you all have a good day/night.