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me on film 🩷 by dani valadez

Kelli: They were asking me why I had so many books and I just said I like to read.

Me: Novel concept.

Kelli: I see what you did there.

Me: I didn't mean to do that!

Dining Room Kitchen Dining Dallas Kitchen/dining room combo - large scandinavian dark wood floor and brown floor kitchen/dining room combo idea

Grand Staircase, Bishop’s Palace, Galveston, Texas

Everyone outside is crabby

What I expected moving to texas: oh hm, cowboy boot... steak..,? the ole' prairie. youve been invited to,come lasso a tumbleweed,! 'howdy there sherriff' as a tramp stamp tattoo. Sweet teA hp potion... country girls make do

What I got when I moved to texas: i cant really leave the house bc theres about 20-30 of these big blue crabs that came up from their underground tunnels bc of the wet and rainy weather all standing on the patio having a fucking clawnference meeting

tw: school shootings, gun violence, SA

i memorized how to tell if i was out of view from a school window or window on the door in kindergarten. my school constantly has bomb or gun threats. i live in texas. i watch all of these things happen a few hours away. a kid at my school brought a handgun with him one morning and i was not informed about it until 6 pm because they “had the situation under control.” multiple people at my school have fallen victim to gun violence in their neighborhood a few miles or less from my own. i was much more naive in middle school, i had hope that every time we got a threat it would be the last one, i thought i was going to go to highschool and something would have been changed. yet here we are. i am lucky enough that they caught the kid before he did anything and i am lucky enough that threats never got inside before that. i am not lucky enough to not have to text my friends if they are okay when a 9-10th grade campus somehow didn’t notice a student with a military grade gun. i am not lucky enough to feel safe at my school. not just because of gun control but that has been the most consistent worry of mine. which is insane to me because i walk by my rapist everyday. i had people coming up to me in the halls and talking behind my back because they thought i was just faking it to cover for the fact i’m gay. i am bisexual, i am still attracted to men, and i had already been out for at least a year. and the school administrators asked me if i was promoting people to give him threats of being beat up or telling them to be mean to him despite the fact that i had not spoken to him in two weeks at that time. i walk by that man everyday and yet i worry about “bigger things” like when is the next day we’ll get a threat? when is the next day someone will come on campus with a gun unnoticed? when is the next day someone will have access to guns and try to use them in the middle of my school day? and my friends school days, and the kids in my city, and the kids in my state. i am going to be a senior this year and nothing has changed since kindergarten. i’m tired of empty promises and solutions that only include the increase of guns in police force and to citizens. i’m tired of it not being changed so i am asking for adults and all of the people voting next election to please look out for kids that have already been born and are living with this news right now in texas. too many lives have been lost. my love and condolences extend to those in uvalde. please consider donating to any organization that is actively helping the people in uvalde!! help kids in texas please.

tw: school shootings, gun violence (mentioned)

i forgot to include this in my last post, but i would like to stress just how much schools (especially in texas) have practiced active shooting drills. i did it every year from k-11 and will be doing it next year. they start showing us an “i love you” video (made by the parents of a girl who had been shot during a school shooting) in the third grade. they show a lower level more “age appropriate” one in k-2. even in the k-2 years we had kids, teachers, and other staff that were assigned to close blinds, lock doors, run into the halls and sweep for kids before inevitably having to close the doors leaving kids in restrooms. kids caught outside of a class would either have lock themself in a stall and stand on a toilet seat or run out of the building into the neighborhood that bordered the school. in sixth grade i had a teacher that would tell us that whenever a shooter comes into school locked doors certainly help but they don’t always work so we needed to make sure to keep something sharp or barricade the class. at the ages of 11 and 12 we had plans on who would do what if a shooter got in the room. mine was to grab the scissors and flip over the desks and chairs in order to attempt to trip the shooter. it was a futile attempt to feel safe when thinking about that, but it was helped us feel like maybe we would be okay whenever it may happen. at the age of 15 i was helping my friend through a panic attack when they had an unannounced drill and we were ushered into a librarians room kids weren’t allowed in. now at 16-18 we all have grown accustomed to it (not that we weren’t before but now we’re old enough to know that if it happens it happens and we will do all we can to stop them because our state government won’t) and we sit and play truth or dare or listen to music together while we wait for an administrator to come knock on the door. i have no doubt that even if my teachers aren’t fond of me they would stop at nothing to protect those that they teach and now as old as we are, we know we would do the same. it shouldn’t be this way. i shouldn’t know this information for years and just now reach the age to understand and speak out on it. again i am still a minor and yet my classmates, friends, and teachers are familiar with the idea that one day we may go into school and never go out. it sounds dramatic because it is a very serious issue that shouldn’t be political. it shouldn’t be an issue to restrict access to the object that makes kids feel the need to try and decide if they wanna risk getting up to close the windows, knowing they may be shot. again my love and condolences to those in uvalde and those victim to school shootings and gun violence previously. please look into ways to support the people at uvalde at this time. protect the kids of texas who are born and making decisions like the ones i listed above.

Season 5 and season 6 spoilers of Young Sheldon!!!

Honestly I wouldn't mind having Georgie Cooper as my baby daddy. Yeah he f***ed up and made a huge mistake, but he is working on better himself. Like trading in his mustang for a baby safe car, work more, going grocery shopping for his baby mama, letting her stay with him when she needed help with rent, breaking into her apartment to get her stuff back when she was kicked out, he is worried about being a bad dad. That's all I have, I have only seen a few episodes of season 6 and it just came out on Netflix today. But as I said, Georgie Cooper = going to be an amazing dad

Also HATE YOU PASTOR JEFF

Guest Bedroom Dallas Bedroom - mid-sized french country guest carpeted and beige floor bedroom idea with gray walls

Texian Campaign transferware, I love this pattern. I am always on the lookout for it. I rarely find it at a price I can afford, pity! #transferware, #texiancampaign, #texas, #antiques, #ironstone, https://www.instagram.com/p/BrgIW0yHB9O/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3kwgwombp4wm

This sounds like something from The Handmaid’s Tale, ffs.

ONE HOUR AGO: greg abbott, who i have the great displeasure of calling my governor, is calling for the expulsion and jailing of ut austin students exercising their first amendment right to freedom of speech an assembly. every single motherfucker on the right soooo concerned about the first amendment seems to be creaming their pants over college students being brutalized and arrested for protesting. its fucking reprehensible.

big sis culture is getting up at 1 am and going into the bathroom in your tightest pajamas and half-on crusty tennis shoes to grab lil bro's computer mouse because he left it in there with the big ass spider and he's scared but mom won't get up from her book to get it

at least for me?

I just missed the birthday party of my best friend since 8 years to see the Alamo. (It was worth it, i got a Davy Crockett hat.)

Texas is a hellhole. I got sunburnt yesterday, around my face, head, and neck, and I was wearing a formal suit today, and the collar rubbed up against my neck, and I am still in pain as I type this.

I walked outside and thought to myself "why is it so warm? isn't it fall?" and then I remembered I live in texas, and it is unnecessarily hot here.

Front Yard Austin This picture shows a large, modern, drought-resistant front yard gravel retaining wall landscape in the spring.

Take me back to Houston