#and almost started crying right there

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The state of Utah in the United States has no citizenship requirements for marriage licenses, and Utah County is the only place there that allows international couples to register their marriages online. Since the county rolled out virtual weddings during the Covid-19 pandemic, it became a wedding haven for same-sex couples who are not able to officially marry in their own countries.

As sexual minorities in China face suppression at home, Utah County is allowing them to officially marry and celebrate their love — all for around $100. Although the marriages aren’t recognized in China, some 200 same-sex couples from mainland China and Hong Kong have gotten married via the county’s digital marriage license system since 2021.

For authorities in Utah County, the influx of international couples came as a surprise. The Utah County and Auditor’s Office moved its marriage licensing service online, as part of a digitization initiative in 2019. At the start of the pandemic, a number of couples requested Zoom ceremonies, and the county made those available as well.

The service first attracted couples in Utah, followed by people from across the U.S., and later, from all over the world. From May 1 to September 20 this year, at least 77 same-sex couples with mainland Chinese addresses have been married there, said county deputy clerk Russ Rampton, who oversees marriage licensing, to Rest of World.

Although same-sex marriage remains illegal in Hong Kong, under a different set of laws to mainland China, residents who get married in other places are able to apply for dependent visas in the city for their partners. Married gay people are also able to mark themselves as married in tax filings.

In his vow, however, [one marriage certificate applicant] Zhu said he was looking forward to getting married a second time — in China. “If one day our country allows this, I hope we could get married again in this country,” Zhu said to his husband before they kissed.

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Marriage equality does not stop in the West.

#lgbtq #queer #marriage equality #gay rights #lgbtq rights #utah #china #hong kong #international marriage equality #i'm not an emotional person but i saw this and almost started crying #this is so heartwarming but heartbreaking at the same time #and from utah of all places #God truly loves the gays after all huh

[wulfhalls]

FLORENCE AND ANYA AT THE LONDON PREMIERE!! IT’S GIVING ALIA AND IRULAN <33 THE CONTRASTING BLACK AND WHITE HOODS!! THE JOINT SLAY. we won so bad

irulalia real confirmed. to me. here is how they can win messiah and liberate us from that fucking duncan idaho ghola thru lesbian love and their maximised joint slay

#if we need a alia love interest we have one right here!!!!!! #i am married to ur brother u are a self aware and conscious embryo with 1000s of years of knowledge could i make it anymore clear #asks #dune #thesihaya #still have nightmares about the fucking duncan idaho ghola like. what do u mean there is a 4000 year time skip #and his ass is still fucking there????? almost started crying in god emperor/heretics/ chapterhouse fr #at least hes somewhat standable when with my beloved murbella <3

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

Maybe a doodle of Alfira from bg3? I just think she's neat and I've hardly seen any art of her

You're so right?? I didn't realize it until you said it but yeah. For such a well-loved NPC art about her doesn't float around all that often

I wanted to draw her singing but I can't stop thinking about how intensely upbeat she has to stay for the kids. The poor woman has to be at her breaking point

#i also got an idea for a full alfira drawing (also sad though) #so thank you for that! /gen #i started thinking about her while I was drawing and now i have Feelings about her #we almost always see her (at least trying to be) upbeat #the only times i remember seeing her upset are 1) when you meet her at the grove and 2) when you talk to her about the hostage tieflings #she needs a hug & a hot drink & a good cry & space to just. not have to put on a brave face #and she's so YOUNG too?!? #like. there's no way she's past 30 right? a good chunk of the tiefling adults are pretty young tbh #unless im just really bad at figuring out ages #alfira bg3 #bg3 #bg3 fanart #baldurs gate 3 #my art #art request #sketch

[catradoraism]

i know ppl say hualian is a slow burn bc they don’t get together until like 177 chapters in but like timeline wise it’s only been a couple of months so really that’s a pretty normal trajectory for a relationship. if u don’t count the insane 800 year timeline where hua cheng is pining on his own

#xie lian pov: 80k meet-cute. friends to lovers #hua cheng pov: 1M unrequited love. not actually unrequited love #hualian #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #ok strictly speaking from xie lians pov. hualian is such a nice dynamic bc all the batshit crazy stuff is happening around them #and those two are the furthest thing from normal #but they are able to just have this ‘normal’ between the two of them #like they started out as friends who just. talk. and cook together. it is so normal #their friendship developed very organically and they have such a natural affinity for each other #that is uncomplicated by misunderstandings or miscommunication #which is a far cry from my usual type of ship. see username #i usually love that miscommunication and angst #but hualian is an exception i guess LMAO #and then u have hua cheng pov where his unrequited love lasted almost a millennium without even seeing xie lian #devotion fr #edit: i forgot to mention their frequent make outs right up until the confession scene #like is it REALLY. a slow burn?

[dazadoop]

Got back into Neopets again and honestly you have no idea how happy it makes me that there's a shit ton of pride themed wearables for your pets

Look at the gay ass bird I made. I love him so much

#neopets #seeing stuff like this in something so close to my heart really means a lot #can't even explain what it feels like to see so many different pride flags on other people's pets when browsing the site #Legit almost started crying when I found out cause I was so happy lmao #in a time when so many lgbt rights and lives are on the line #it's nice to find little things like this to give you hope that maybe everything will be okay someday

[brw]

Hank Pym taught me that there are choices beyond programming! Janet Van Dyne, that there was beauty in the smallest of people. Pietro Maximoff, that if one's father is evil, it does not mean the child must be! Clint Barton, that there is no such thing as a powerless man! And Wanda, my dear Wanda... taught me that even an android can love!

Universe X #X by Alex Ross, written by Jim Krueger and drawn by Dougie Braithwaite

#I'm going to start ugly crying if you were curious #brieuc reads comics #the vision #vision #earth x #ch: far superior to flesh and blood #r: until the starts burn out #hank pym #ch: the wonderfully winsome wasp #clint barton #pietro maximoff #I couldn't find these panels and I wanted them on my blog #something about how Vision loves these people so much. how IMPORTANT they all are to them. #and how they will be forced to outlive almost all of them #but the love continues on. and the love is why Vision keeps trying to do what's right in every universe #will always sacrifice themself in the name of the love for their friends. their family. #if you even CARE!!!!!! #sobbing into my hands

[sysig]

Last man standing (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #It's lonely at the top :( #Poor dearest is worse for wear ah </3 #This scene made me cry ;; #Like it was sad when he wrote down his missing canonmates but going back in and writing everyone else's names ;;;; #Even his shaky alliances! Even the people he hasn't seen for a while!! Wehhh <3 <3 <3 #You soft heart ;; I see you Admiral ♥ #Also had a lot of fun writing in VUK ZIX again hehe ♪ #The translations from VUK ZIX to English aren't exact - for starters they're upside down haha #So if you started from the top down it would actually read KINLEZ NATPAK but I figured that wouldn't be as readable #You read from the bottom up! I also still headcanon it being written/read from left to right #So he started with Zelnick then Fwiffo then Tanaka and so on #Although I did change it up for the second one - Teisel then Xelloss then Xigbar then Asch and Van #The more I think of it the more I'm surprised there's no H :0 #Even just as a demarcation of a pause before during or after a syllable #The ''sh'' sound makes complete sense tho hehe <3 #Any incorrect shaping of letters/poor handwriting on my part can totally be chalked up to ZEX not being used to human hands! #Totallyyy lol #I really like the way specific syllables are shaped - like how Teisel and Zelnick almost share the same shaped between ''SEL'' and ''ZEL'' #How Z is a more connected extension of S just agh it's so pretty <3 <3 Eco_Mono really did such a lovely job with it ♪ #And then certain ''incorrectly'' spelled syllables still turned out so pretty! Like the ''ANA'' in Talana - look how swoopy and continuous! #The ''BAR'' in Xigbar looks really cool - honestly reminds me of the fanweapons I made ages ago for I? think? Xigbar's apprentice?? #It's been too long I don't remember now lol but it's cool to me in particular because of that!! :D #Fwiffo looks so funny haha - Tanaka has a cool star-like kind of letter in his name?? Man it's just so neat <3 #As for ZEX - I mean he made it this far :( Not one to give up easily that's for certain ♥ Tenacious #I want him to be happy :'0

[moonysfavoritetoast]

i made ranboo’s mask from genloss and my mom saw the paint out and asked to see what i made. it’s all over for me.

#ranboo #genloss #generation loss #like actually she asked what show #i almost started crying right then and there #shitpost

[orgonongurlz]

urgghGGHH the new s4 minute promo has me ill insane rabid foaming OUT THE MOUTH!!

im being a little ridiculous but the second i saw the scene with the mannequins i looked at the one on the right and immediately connected it to chip (because of the chipped tooth)

so… chip potentially full blown LOSES AN EYE?? foreshadowing, hear me out *clasps hands together*

#big city greens #chip whistler #theory #an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth am i right? #im losing my mind #ive been freaking out for the last 2 hours ask my boyfirwnd and my friends #MY BOYFIRWND WONT STOP MAKING JOKES THAT HELL BE BALD TOO BECAUSE OF WHAT IM SAYING #almost started crying when i saw the promo HELP #my lg chip design always had a scar on his eye but now i have to change the side </3 #and yknow fully /get rid of it/ #grady speaks

[urrvw]

Hi im back . For some time

#.mimiming ❜ #um . hi im gonna slee soon but i missed you all so much #umm first of all im trying to ccut down in screentime because my therapist told me to #second. after two or three months of convincing myself that i literally do not care im only going to school for just a few more days (onl #y today and wednesday) i literally do not care #i almost keep crying . because well um #idk. i was originally planning on cutting off contact with everyone #because of stuff thats happened before #but my friends. my current friends dont just treat me as a therapist or something so #also one of my wives would probably hunt me down and kill me if i tried to cut off contact #but ill still miss this stupid class and this stupid school and all the stupid teachers and students #and the horrible tasting canteen food #and the playground ive played in eight times total despite being here for 12 years #idk man #also because of my periods my mood swings were so much worse #and i just ..idk i needed a break ig #anyways im back for sometime then ill start looking for a job #me friend said maybe we can do something together #idk #you can always send me asks and dms tho 👍👍 #im not really sure . like about anything right now #ill try to get the drawing requests done soon maybe #wild how time passes huh #god i need to stop acting like such a grownup im literally three years old

[prettyupsetnerd]

hc that lincoln can't watch this video without crying (tears of joy)

#dndads #lincoln li wilson #dungeons and daddies #grant probably showed it to him right after garfield 2 and when linc started crying he almost panicked #Youtube

[heraldofcrow]

My night in a nutshell

Sorry @Lore Council 💀

#video games have affected my emotions more than almost any other form of media with the exception of books and music #it’s legit crazy lmao #i’m glad tho because idk how to express darker emotions irl so i need SOMEWHERE to process #hence my instability xDD #bro i literally started crying when i saw the fire this time ahshshsb #it fucked me up #but i SHOULD be fine now….r-right? #*faceplants* #i will cope by focusing on the valentine’s day drawings <33 #lore council shenanigans #mutuals #CrowNotes

[orcelito]

Still not used to how damn easy it is to make me cry anytime anything dad related is mentioned

It's like a specific trigger that is all over everywhere. Ah well. Such is life.

#speculation nation #not like every mention of a dad does this but if it makes me think about *my* dad. well nonzero chance ill start crying right there. #usually just a few tears. i wasnt even sniffling for this one. #just got punched in the heart and squeezed my eyes shut and what do you know. theres tears now. #stopping as quickly as they started. #and sometimes i see a loving dad in a show hugging his kid(s) and i get just a Deep ache in my chest... #this may or may not just be the entire rest of my life y'all. sigh. #negative/ #i guess. i know all the dead dad talk has got to be rather tiring by now. #but it's been almost 2 months and im still processing. alas. #i'll still be processing for months and months im sure. oh well.

[executiveibex]

going from the Lake Timea arc in PARTIZAN where the Ashen, their long history as the Hypha largely lost, are introduced thanks to a chain of events beginning with the murder of the Ashen elect of Past —

— to the Road to PALISADE Lancer game where Zeke and Dianthe are uncovering buried Hyphan history and a new generation of strati are learning from the dead to tap into their powers and defend their community from the Principality —

— to the Road to PARTIZAN Dialect game where everything about the Hypha is laid out, and suddenly you see the ghosts everywhere in their story since then... but also that even after millennia of persecution and forced assimilation and language death, one core principle of the Dialect game was ultimately adhered to, in the long spiral of history.

whether carried with the Hypha and their descendents or not, the dead were not forgotten. even if meaning was lost or changed or stamped out over time, it was found again.

... out of all the emotionally devastating moments in my personal sci-fi FatT seasons onion, this arc of events is the most affecting one by a mile.

#i realize the f@tt blogging topic of tonight is sexeter leap and his stolen dick HOWEVER #the dialect game almost made me cry at work so you're all getting my feelings about it #anyway nice to get to the road to partizan games at long last! #since i hadn't listened to twilight mirage i skipped them and went straight into partizan #which was a good decision at the time i think but every time they would reference one of these games in partizan i would go MAAAN #but now!! i FINALLY get all the context RIGHT when it will be most deliciously painful to me :} #and considering it's my busy season at work i don't think i'll have ANY trouble finishing these eps before palisade starts in earnest #mine #f@tt liveblogging #f@tt meta #friends at the table #the road to partizan #partizan #the road to palisade

[saltpepperbeard]

no so like i know a common analysis to make is ed pushed lucius overboard because he was trying to get rid of any sort of ties to stede and anything that subsequently made him emotionally vulnerable but now i’m also thinking that he could have also pushed lucius overboard because lucius encouraged ed to chase after stede and to put his heart on the line and after it only brought him excruciating pain of course he’s going to want to lash out at the person who nudged him to try when he’s in such a fiery state and-

#OFMD #Edward Teach #Lucius Spriggs #Revenge Rambles #anyway i'm crying and throwing up #I think people have made similar comparisons/analysis before but like #I STARTED LOOKED AT THEIR RELATIONSHIP PROGRESSION IN A GIF SET AND WAS LIKE UHHHHHHHH #SEEMS RATHER RIPE FOR A GRUDGE OF SORTS #Like obviously it's not Lucius' fault #He couldn't have known what was going to happen #He was just trying to encourage an older man to find innocent love #He could SEE it right there and was wanting both of them to have it #So he just offered a gentle push to see if it would blossom #It wasn't HIS fault that they were both a bit emotionally immature with the situation ajslkahslka #But like #With how emotionally volatile Ed gets #I can 100% see him also throwing some of the blame on Lucius #I know it was LIKELY mostly done to rid the revenge of almost anything Stede but #IT JUST ADDS LAYERS OF OUCH :)

[coolertheory]

/ butterfly soup 2 spoilers

children of immigrant parents when they get to the part of butterfly soup 2 when noelle feels a disconnect from her culture and family from not being able to speak her parents native language and regretting not picking up when she was younger but then her parents said in turn they never tried speaking to her in their language because they didnt want to pass on the accent and how theyve never had opportunities to go back to their home country often because of the expenses AND

#I HAD TO PAUSE THE GAME AND CRY FOR A BIT IT HIT!! TOO!! CLOSE!! TO!! HOME!! #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOUEEEEEEEEGH #literally my situation my entire life i have regretted so much that i never learned tagalog and when my entire family is speaking it #its just so.. weird. not being able to speak and barely comprehending a language youre surrounded by every day. and wishing you could #anyways. maybe ill finally write that heartfelt essay on butterfly soup 2 because GOD the themes of these games r like #sticking a mirror right at me. its insane how i can relate to almosts every single characters struggles in this game 100%. AUGU1HHHHHHHHHHHH #dont get me started on how much related to akarsha before but WHEN THEY INTRODUCED HER PARENTS?? THEY ARE ALMOST IDENTICAL TO MINE. GRAHGUEH #butterfly soup #butterfly soup 2 #butterfly soup 2 spoilers