Hakkai x Gojyo picspam.

1) I need some therapeutic happy things.
2) I need to use this photo thing more before my paid account runs out

Thus, lots and lots of Hakkai x Gojyo picspam.

Warning: *hot* and all forms of irredemably 'shippy.

( 23 pics under the cut )

Well, and this picture which I just adore to no end:


(via devikun, here, here, and Minekura herself)

decompressing re. re-election

Things That've Frustrated/Depressed Me Today:
1) Bush won.
2) People who say they're leaving the US because of #1.

I mean, you're just leaving? That's it? Even as a joke, it feels a bit like a gut-punch.

wayfairer mentioned in her political post part 1 that:

"We get the leaders we deserve. And this country does not deserve John Kerry."

And later on that:

"We choose based on material immediate concerns like 'wait, I don't want a gay couple in my neighborhood!' or 'if it gets rid of Saddam and makes me safer from terrorism, it's okay by me.' We don't consider how those choices affect those who have to live with them every day. And if we do consider, we just don't care. I thought more people cared."

Along the same lines?

Leaving America just because Bush won?

Damn, but that's selfish.

It feels just about the same as suicide does (for me), because what of the others? What of the people you leave behind?

What of the good you can do by staying? By working, by speaking, by listening?

What about attempting to understand why people voted the way they did, instead of just brushing people off as ignorant and stupid? There is more than book knowledge.

wayfairer's post part 2 gives some insight to the mentality that elected Bush. And it makes sense, in a way, because *all* people fear prejudice and persecution, they just have different guidelines.

It is not the end of the world.

There have been various wonderful posts in the aftermath of all this:
yonmei has been collecting a lot of them HERE
solaas gives a outside perspective HERE and
ladyjackyl gives a rallying cry HERE

Gloom and doom will have its place.

Grief will have its place.

But, goddammit, bounce back.

I'll quote guede_mazaka here, because what she has spoken of before the election still remains true:

America is only two hundred and twenty-seven years old. It's still growing. It's still growing. We have not become moribund, we have not become fossilized in our past. We are not lost because we have not even arrived yet. We continue to challenge and debate and think in new ways. And that, I think, is as it should be.

Watch the country grow. And tend her carefully, and speak to her of many things. Do not bury her yet.

Do not bury her yet.