#I tried to be polite

[elephant-in-the-pride-parade]

Ohh. Paramount has a form for general inquiries. I am so happy. I know exactly what to inquire about. 😈

#savestartrekprodigy #star trek prodigy #hope is a weapon #star trek #save star trek prodigy #i tried to be polite #maybe they'll respond who knows #but at least i know my voice can be heard somehow 🤷‍♀️

[vampibrainrot]

I hate when people use Jade as an excuse for why a certain ship (that has nothing to do with her) would work. Like yeah, both Jade and Jason are assassins and both met Roy, but it's kind of stupid to assume Roy would treat both the same way as if they didn't have very different motives to be who they are, how Roy met them, and why they live like this.

Okay, Jade is an assassin. But her reasons to become Cheshire are different than Jason's reasons to become Red Hood. Accepting to be trained and become a mercenary and killer was her only chance of survival. It was this or being sold as a slave. Also both Jade and her relationship with Roy are much more complex. They didn't know each other's identities when they first met, but when they found out, the things between them became a lot more messy. Roy ISN'T okay with the things Jade does and he talked about it more than once. He tried to convince her many, many times to change, and at one point gave up, bc he can't stand being with someone like this, no matter how much he loves her. Roy can understand why Jade lives this life, that's why he tries to help her and doesn't turn his back on her at all.

I'm not an expert on Jason, so a might say some bullshit now, but anyway Jason became Red Hood for revenge. He wanted revenge for his own death, revenge against Bruce for not killing the Joker and to prove to Bruce why his way isn't effective. Jason chooses violence to prove his point and that's what Roy wouldn't accept. Roy "too good to work in the darkness" Harper, the man who will question even Oliver's methods, avoids violence at any cost, aims at someone's clothing when shooting an arrow to hold them against the wall while Oliver aims for the shoulder, who is also very stubborn, wouldn't accept that. And there's the whole thing of Jason going to Start City and kidnapping Mia and threatening to kill her just to prove his point to Bruce

And lastly, there is this small little detail that JADE IS LIAN'S MOTHER and Roy doesn't have the right to keep a mother from seeing her daughter or letting whatever is going on between him and Jade affect her relationship with her DAUGHTER

#I tried to be polite #But it's one of those topics that get on my nerves #like pls read something that ain't r/hato #And stop talking about different situations like they are all the same #They aren't #roy harper #jade nyugen #dc #comics #arrowfam

[original-punks]

youre so hot😭😍❤️ dm me? 🤤🤤🍆

#i tried to be polite #then i remembered idgaf #answered #(for the record i only dm mutuals or i dm people myself)

[sparkleofstardust]

in light of the recent news that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has been found dead after a helicopter crash you might be wondering 'who the hell is this guy and why are so many people celebrating his death??' and i'm here to answer that!

to fully understand what's going on we need to look into Iran's history: when the Iranian revolution in 1979 happened the authoritarian king who was ruling at that time was overthrown, but the ensuing power vacuum lead to the islamic regime seizing power and establishing Iran as an islamic republic

the following years were incredibly cruel to the Iranian people; thousands of people (especially minorities) have been protesting against the strict islamic regime leading to many being jailed, tortured and executed.

and this is where Raisi played a big part: in 1988 he was part of a committee that ordered the execution of thousands of political prisoners who were protesting the islamic regime, earning himself the title of "the butcher of tehran"

do not be fooled by what the state media wants you to believe, the Iranian people are celebrating his death. he was a cruel mass murderer who has destroyed the lives of thousands of people, his death should be used as a time to mourn for all the suffering he has caused, and bring new attention to the political prisoners still being held in Iranian prisions today

because sadly the fight is far from over. many of you have probably heard of the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini back in 2022, causing a new wave of nationwide protests and establishing the "woman, life, freedom" movement. the regime has gotten increasingly cruel in their treatment of the Iranian people, especially women, but the people of Iran are not deterred and keep fighting for a free Iran.

if you want to know how you can help, please keep talking about us. the one thing the regime hates is international attention, and in the past it has been proven that international pressure has stopped the regime from executing various political prisoners. people like Toomaj Salehi are under imminent threat of execution and spreading their names could save their lives. so whether you share social media posts or talk to your family and friends about what is happening in Iran, anything helps 🙏🏼

jin, jiyan, azadi ✌🏼

#iran #ebrahim raisi #global news #woman life freedom #iran news #politics #turns out trying to summarize decades of oppression into a semi-coherent tumblr post is harder than i thought #so i tried to make it as short and accurate as possible ! but let me know if any elaboration is needed #this is far from what i usually post but i thought someone might appreciate the explanation <3 #and i will not stand for anyone mourning that guy may he rot in hell #thank you to everyone who took the time to read this it means a lot to me !!

[dailymanners]

Always use "excuse me" if you have to get into someone else's personal space.

Someone at the store is standing in front of the shelf where there's a can you want to grab? Don't just reach into their personal space without warning, say "excuse me" or "pardon my reach" first so that they at least have a warning that someone is about to reach into their personal space, and most importantly, so that they have a chance to move before you get into their space.

Or if someone is standing on a walkway or in a doorway you need to get through, don't just silently shove past them or squeeze past them, say "excuse me" so that they have a warning that a someone is about to squeeze or shove into their personal space, and they have a chance to move out of the way before you do you.

People deserve a fair warning if someone is about to squeeze or shove or reach into their personal space. A lot of people are not okay with having someone, but especially a stranger, randomly shove or squeeze or reach into their personal space without warning. They also deserve a chance to move out of the way first for the sake of their comfort.

Try to avoid just staring at people who are in your way and expecting them to read your mind that you want them to move. Most people cannot, in fact, read minds, so having someone stand in front of them and stare at them often only leads to making them feel uncomfortable and frustrated.

But also more importantly, if you are standing somewhere someone needs to get to, and they say excuse me, you should move aside for them even if just temporarily, so they can avoid the discomfort of having to reach into your personal space or squeeze past you.

If someone is saying "excuse me" it's because they would like you to move because they don't want to have to get into your personal space, whether it's out of respect for you, or just because they themselves are not comfortable getting in your personal space.

All of this goes double for people with trauma and/or people who are neurodivergent. If someone has trauma related to abuse or assault they may find it more upsetting or possibly triggering to suddenly have someone shoving or reaching in their personal space without warning.

Or, many types of neurodivergence can make it especially disturbing and unpleasant to have someone else in your personal space, especially without warning.

You can never be 100% sure who is and isn't traumatized and/or neurodivergent, so always practice respecting other's personal space by giving them a fair warning with "excuse me" or "pardon my reach" before getting in their personal space, and moving aside when you hear those magic words. Or, even if someone isn't traumatized nor neurodivergent, it's still fair to not like someone in your personal space without warning and not being given the opportunity to move first.

#manners #politeness #courtesy #good manners #etiquette #I'm so sorry I really tried to make this one shorter I really did #I trimmed the fat as much as I could but this was as short as I could bring myself to make it #Where I live most people will just shove into your personal space without saying anything #or just stare at you until you get the hint and move #and I hate it so much #Especially because I am both neurodivergent and have PTSD so I really hate people staring at me and/or shoving in my personal space

[zu-is-here]

Not a temptation but an assumption ;D

#zu art #x-orcist #love and passion #priest!cross #herbalist!dream #cross!sans #dream!sans #undertale #undertale au #utmv #English is hard but he tries harder xd #the thing I drew but absolutely forgot to post while writing the lines for polite Cross (≧∀≦) #all ​thanks to Gayfish for helping with it! <3 #ooff that's a strange long format but looks interesting :D #gotta zzz— have a good night or day everyone╰(*´︶`*)╯♡

[angryducktimemachine]

I watched the Granada Holmes Hound of the Baskervilles and this is my explanation (and defense ?) of Holmes just absolutely horrible looking stew.

[ID: a digital drawing of Sherlock Holmes. He's walking across a moor with his hands behind his back, holding a letter. A thought bubble above him reads "I forgot my damn stew by the fire." /End ID]

#he just horribly overcooked that stew i know it #like my man I'm german I've eaten lots of gross looking stews in my life but this truly is #the worst anyone has ever done #Sherlock Holmes #the whole scene was soooo fucking funny tho #watson tries so hard to politely deny on trying the stew but Holmes seems so proud of it and keeps telling watson to try it #and watson just :|

[suitsofarmour]

blurrrrrrrrrr

#transformers #idw transformers #maccadam #blurr #my art #rambling a bit here i have thoughts about blurrr #mm in retrospect maybe i should’ve tried to draw him more aerodynamic since it fits his whole speedster racer thing a lot more #that being said i got really attached to his bulkier look from a lot of his earlier(???) appearances in idw #IT HAS LIKE the stockier jock hunk vibes that i dig a lot #anyways i haven’t read RiD (politics heavy plot not rly my cup of tea lol) but i hear he’s a bartender there which sounds awesome

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 84

Amity Park absolutely adores her little ghostling, her little Gatekeeper who was of her own ectoplasm, reborn from her own blood in the center of her new heart. She absolutely adores her baby, practically a newborn, being only a year dead! 

So of course she had to gush and boast about her little phantom to the other city spirits! They all got together to gossip sometimes after all. And both Smallville and Fawcett started to gush about their own little ones back! 

Gosh they should set up a playdate at some point, her little phantom could use some friends in the mortal realm. Well some more friends, three is obviously not enough. Oh, Gotham and Bludhaven have come over as well! It’s a playdate then! 

Now if only each of their world’s timelines were synced up, but at least everyone is around the same age! 

#dcxdp #dpxdc #City Children Au #Prompts #Each city is from a different timeline lol #Bruce is an angy 16 year old vigilante and was Not prepared to be the oldest #Dick hasn't told them his birthday #and isn't revealing he's older than this Bruce by a few months #Clark is just happy to make friends and he brought pie! his ma and him made it! #Dick is wheezing at these itty bitty versions of Bruce and Clark- this is great and hilarious and oh god he has to protect them #Billy is chanting to do it whenever someone has a Bad Idea- He's just become the Champion of Magic & the gods encourage it #Danny is delighted to have more friends and he's not the oldest Or the youngest so yay! #they're having fun #lots of fun in all their timelines and in the realms too #if they get in trouble they call their city-parents #“Alfred says I'm a polite young man. He also says that if someone tries to grab me to use my teeth” #“Sounds about right” “Mood” “Biting is always good” “But what about diseases??” #“Hey Danny you like alien stuff right- do you think you can help me and the others translate this it came from the ship i was on” #“Omg Billy you should teach us mortal magic and we can teach you are stuff” #Dick: I don't wanna be the responsible one so I'm going to encourage them all to be Worse :) #At some point the squad is going to end up in some other timeline and confuse the fuck out of the JL lol #dick grayson #danny fenton #billy batson #clark kent #bruce wayne

[curiositypolling]

okay I don't want too much discourse here, I'm just curious where the numbers are (re tumblr), considering how much there is about it

also apologies to the uhhh rest of the world I'm sure youre sick of hearing about this stuff

pls reblog for sample size etc

(before anyone makes any ‘no trump option’ jokes, I figured on the gay communism webbed site it would just get troll votes)

#us politics #american politics #presidential election #election #adding some tags so ppl can filter it out if they want lol #tried to be as neutral with wording while still including popular opinions #(ie it's not obvious where I stand on the issue) #anyways I'm absolutely going to regret this aren't I #also lowkey want to see if Anyone goes in the 'i like him as a candidate' category lmaoo

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Courtroom Catastrophe [Bonus Comic]

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #xiao xingchen #xue yang #nie mingjue #jin guangyao #jin guangshan #Man…something about wwx thinking how he would have liked to have become friends with xxc really got to me #they both tried to do good but were met by terrible fates because of politics #what an awful fate for them both…courtroom dread as no one believes you. Rigged game. #I sure hope this Xue Meng guy isnt full of petty energy and leaves xxc along after this! #its meng yao/JGY’s first official appearance! Shout out to the person who caught on that even with his hat he had no hair! #he’s got a little headscarf. Like a grandma…mamie yao #in case people were wondering about JGS’s outfit; there’s only a front flap #nothing in the back #you hate to see him but you hate watching him leave even more #Thank god he's been dead for several slutty slutty years

[doodle-dog-diary]

To keep yourself alive AND stay sane you need an internal Senshi AND a Sam Vimes.

Senshi is there to remind you to eat, but Sam Vimes is there to parry your extended relatives rancid political takes at family events and keep you from going insane

#dungeon meshi #senshi #terry pratchett #discworld #sam vimes #i learnt firsthand that if you can't convince someone that black people are people too and killing people is generally bad #you can pivot and argue the point of 'a policeman's job is to arrest people not kill he's not a judge or an executioner' #when my father tried to talk his rancid political takes with me when i was half delirious with fever #it was like the spirit of sam vimes himself was speaking through my mouth it was amazing ive never felt so powerful before #i firmly believe this is the closest a person can get to having a jojo stan in real life #highly recommend

[somegrumpynerd]

This guy needs a big cosy pillow and blanket

#UTDR #UTMV #Dream Sans #Based on true events (me) #Except I do need to sleep I just don't enough #I feel like Blue tries to make sure Dream gets enough sleep #Dream is too polite to insist he doesn't need sleep to live #Also Blue makes him very comfy and he enjoys a lil snooze sometimes

[redwinterroses]

Bringin' this back with the discussion of Tango on tumblr and cc boundaries in general:

Please be aware that Tango is very much not a fan of being depicted with demonic features in general, and specifically he dislikes being shown with horns.

In this clip he expresses that being drawn with horns "bothers me a little bit, I'm not gonna lie" and in this one he semi-jokingly says "no it doesn't bother me" while nodding and mouthing that it does. (For those that might have problems processing body language and unspokens, it's pretty obvious that he's trying not to make a big deal about it, but that he's not a fan of the idea.)

Respecting a creator's wishes is good fandom etiquette, especially when it's something as non-impactful as requesting to be portrayed in fanworks with or without a certain feature. Especially if there's a chance that he might actually be lurking, please keep this in mind.

#tried to make this as polite a reminders as possible #but honestly I want to just wave it like a flag and yell: #''respect cc's boundaries and wishes!!! it's basic fandom decency!!!'' #but yeah. anyway. #tangotek #hermit boundaries

[brother-emperors]

TRY AGAIN LATER

it's like. well. its several things.

(Plutarch's Crassus, trans. Warner)

and also this

(ibid.)

that compliment sounds like an insult, baby.

anyway, there's a fun kind of eroticism in being given everything, in taking things that aren't yours without any real consequence, in climbing towards becoming a Roman Alexander, only for one man to deny you, over and over and over again, at every turn. Sulla tried, Crassus did it better. who would put a butcher in their place? who else knows you well enough to do it? who else can match you step for step like this? doesn't it feel like a kind of intimacy, a kind of—

it's also about the 'even sulla kissed my sword/so you want me on my knees too?' innuendo was too good to pass up. that was actually the first line I wrote, I figured out the rest of this to justify making a comic with it

and finally! the sword line is referencing/playing off of Lucan's Pharsalia a little bit because it fucks hard

(Lucan's Pharsalia, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce)

EDIT: oh, and that's a public domain anatomical illustration of a heart. you know how it is with love and hate.

#marcus licinius crassus #gnaeus pompeius magnus #tris homines #komiks tag #roman republic tag #drawing tag #its about how many ways i can create situations where i have crassus call pompey a brat #the subtext going on here is that pompey and sulla are in the middle of their political falling out #and pompey is like. okay motherfucker. and crassus is something that sulla had under his hand #but uhhhhhh. its not going that well for pompey. because sulla got there first #and left his mark #dont worry tho pompey you'll get him in the end. your descendants are going to marry each other #and name two of their sons directly after both of you!! fucking wild. LOVE it #can't get much closer than that! altho pompey did try something when he married publius crassus' widow #crassus himself however holds true to his statement of 'no one is ever going to touch me ever again.' #he's like. not alive right either so it'd be hard to pin him down anyway #too haunted. your ghosts your dead your ancestors have escaped your family house buddy

[steveyockey]

I think more than the message that “Zionism is NOT Judaism” which is true but rings hollow to me I would like to see people embracing the fact that Zionism directly contradicts many Jewish values and that anti-Zionist Jews see their faith as inherently connected to their activism against the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. I was taught to be anti-Zionist largely by Jewish friends and comrades and I continue to lean on them for guidance and clarity as they bravely stand against the propaganda their institutions foisted on them from the moment they were born. In return I work to fulfill the promise that I will make them feel safe in any place, not just the occupied land they were raised to see as the only home where they would not face anti-Semitism. the fight for a free Palestine and the fight for a world where Jewish people can exist without fear are intrinsically linked and must be pursued together

#it’s just like crazy every time I see an explainer that’s like #‘you might not believe it but actually zionism is not a jewish value’ and I’m like ????? obviously???? but we move 💗 #obviously not ignoring Jewish people raised with no attachment to Israel who are often erased in these #conversations just that it is always inspiring to me to know that people taught about ‘a land with a people and a people without a land’ etc #etc can break through that and embrace liberatory politics even when like their campus hillel tries to shut down every palestinian speaker