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#big fan of julie #julie joyful #welcome home #hehe

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- Mr. Dear?..

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How are you doing?

i am doing great, been busy as hell with work though

i’m on break so just maybe i’ll pick up the pen and draw something

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Damien Wytte is incredibly funny to me because he'll do over the top shit for the sake of "protecting everyone" but it's like so obviously he's doing it to protect one specific guy

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thinking so hard abt damien wytte rn

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Nightmare

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The bishops of death

And some doodles

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ive been playing cult of the lamb and leshy started a quest line that had me choking

#cotl #cotl leshy #leshy then proceeded to fight the bat #he unfortunately won #but in my head leshy lost

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been thinking abt that puppet show again

#dhmis fanart #dhmis yellow guy #dont hug me im scared #will probably draw the other two if i have time #i love them all #i think the duck dudes my favorite #i love the show a whole lot #specifically because they all refer to each other as that one #and the other one #and thats how i refer to my pals

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The trope I appreciate very much

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Last Song: Silver by Nic Nim

Favorite Color: Orange!!

Last Movie/Show: The great british baking show lol

Next on my Watch List: Not sure, haven’t had a lot of free time lately, but maaaybe I’ll rewatch arcane or mitchells vs the machines?

Last Game: Cult of the Lamb

Last Book: Currently reading The Prince of Tides for literature class, but the last thing I read of my own volition was Timekeeper by Tara Sim!!

Sweet/Savory/Spicy: Savory

Fiction I’m Currently Reading: Right now I’m reading In Loco Parentis, a marble hornets fanfic

Last Thing I Googled: ao3, because I was checking the name of the fic lol

Current Obsession: Marble hornets, its very much old news but I watched it over break and I love Tim

Greatest Flaw: I am very inconsistent 😞

Tags: anyone who wants to participate!!

Tag game! Thanks for the tag @unhelpfulfemme :)

Last song: Defying Gravity from Wicked, according to Spotify, or whatever song I heard last on the radio this morning.

Favorite color: Blue, 100%! Although I do love green, and I love saying stygian blue is my favorite color just to be obnoxious.

Last movie/show: I’m two episodes into Breaking Bad (first watch), and four episodes into rewatching Star Wars: Rebels, but in Spanish this time. Because I have a French accent when I speak Spanish and that has to change.

Next on my watchlist: Finishing seasons 6 and 7 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. For the, what, fifth time?

Last game: I don’t play video games, so the last game I played was probably cribbage? Lmao.

Last book: I just finished the newest Riordanverse book – The Chalice of the Gods – and I am currently reading Star Wars: The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life, which is a collection of short stories.

Sweet/savory/spicy: Man, I feel like I change my answer every time I get this in a tag game. Spicy, maybe?

Relationship status: Not something I disclose on the Internet.

Last thing I Googled: “chalice percy jackson” to make sure I was getting the title right.

Current obsession: I find myself getting sucked back into the Rebels obsession.

Greatest flaw: Again, not something I disclose on the Internet? Lol.

Fic i’m currently reading: None currently. Open to recommendations.

No pressure tags: Any one of my mutuals who would like to participate!

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working on multiple wips whilr doing 19 credit hrs,,, i love all my classes but oh man is it hard to budget my time lol

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i hate when americans get asked about the israeli/palestinian conflict and they say “well it’s not really my place to have an opinion” our country literally funds genocide against the palestinian people in the name of “defense” it absolutely is our business, we should be as mad as we can as loudly as possible. 

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I know it seems like striking on social media might not do enough, but as someone who has been outright obsessively using the internet since I was a child to the point that it is literally woven in my soul, been active and involved in online activism for about five years, and been using social media as marketing for about the same amount of time, I can confidently say that

THIS FUCKING WORKS!!

People base their entire businesses on their success on social media. They look at trending topics on twitter and don't see bite sized chunks of culture distilled to its finest and worst moments, they see market data! They don't see you as a single human being, they see you as a data point among thousands run through a probably AI assisted system that's prone to fucking up, that determines everything they're going to do.

How they're going to advertise, who they target it with it, what the general public wants. Every single major corporation uses data from social media websites to do this. Every. Single. One. Social media is a lot of things, and one of those things is a tool for business and politics. We know for a fact that social media politics bleeds out into the real world very fucking quickly.

Even if you can't strike financially, even if you have to go to work or school to survive, striking on social media is one of the best things you can do. Even if it's quiet. People are going to notice when thousands upon thousands of users across various sites go completely dark, and even more when some of them start getting real fucking loud about this. The US Capitalist Infused Government loves sweeping war crimes under the rug once they think the general public has forgotten about their atrocities and fallen into complacency. This system has been doing this for literal centuries.

Social media is just the newest and most expansive form we as a species have developed in the ongoing invention of ways to express our thoughts about things. It's the weirdest one, that's for sure, but executives pay attention to it. They don't often seek to understand it beyond a very basic level, because as I said, they view us as numbers on a screen, not as multifaceted incredibly and deeply fucked human beings. They do not seek to understand us on a personal level unless they think the cost of it won't outweigh the potential profit.

Pattern recognition is the tool of the moment. Machine Learning. Gathering endless amounts of data so we can replicate human existence through machines. You may think that social media strikes are ineffective because social media is just on the internet and it's "not real", but it is real! You are really doing stuff! You are contributing! Even if you're just lurking! Basic amounts of engagement can make a huge impact in a busted algorithm. Maybe you're not someone who would ever be drafted into an actual war-zone due to physical or mental health conditions, but you are probably a part of a key demographic of people that businesses are absolutely hungry for.

The budding adult has always been the target of greedy capitalists basically since this system was established and continued to get worse over time. The stage of your life when you are in the age range of 18-25 is an incredibly important transitional period, followed by a transitional period every six months until you lose sense of what six months even is because you haven't been happy in eight, and if you're in the 18-25 range currently, you got extra fucked by the pandemic. The world is in a turbulent stage and we are at the center of all of it and have been since 2001. Every single social media marketing expert will tell you the 18-25 demographic of social media users is a target demographic, because they are the most prone to extremes due to a life chock full of them.

We have to remember to be human, but we have to also know how to speak their language. They just see us as numbers? Let's show them some fucking numbers. Make posts about Gaza trend on every platform you have your hands on. Even if it's just liking posts, that gives them a slight boost in the algorithm. Commenting on posts is especially important on sites like Twitter and Instagram. But across every site the most important thing to do is reblog/retweet/share/send/copy link, whatever it is for that site, it is the biggest thing that everyone, and I mean EVERYONE looks at.

From a humble artist to a head of marketing at a billion dollar corporation about to have a meeting with a barely over 21 intern about how they need to run the twitter account, to said intern bumbling their way through adulthood with a job they only feel they're good at because they've been using social media since Skype was invented. We need to be loud, we need to make sure this can't be ignored, we can't sweep this under the rug. Mass media, especially coming out of the West, has been trying to censor, de-sanitize, and keep this issue quiet.

DO NOT LET YOURSELF BE SILENCED

There are tens of thousands of DEAD CHILDREN who have been BOMBED while in CIVILIAN AREAS and that is a FUCKING WAR CRIME.

THIS IS A GENOCIDE

Say that as many times as you can. Do not let it be ignored. A silent populous is a complacent one. Use your voice, even as small as it may seem. Make noise. Be loud. Be annoying. Don't let this be ignored. Talk about it everywhere you go. Do not let this be ignored.

Sometimes even we get disconnected from the real people around us. We base our sense of worth as a person based on the numbers going up or down but instead of developing a gambling addiction we just got angry about it but still fall into it because of cultural conditioning. But even if you only have let's say, completely random example, 70 followers. And only a small percent of them will see your post. Let's say maybe 20 on average, 30 on a good day, and even higher based on the machinations of fate. That's still 20 people who took time out of their day to read something you wrote, process something you created, share a part of your experience of living.

And likely they felt compelled to share it too, therefore increasing the spread of people who feel your influence. 20 people may not seem like a lot, but that has a major impact. Now imagine posts into the hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands and even millions. Those aren't just numbers. Each and every single one of those is just another person who might have reblogged a post because someone they like shared it, or because they wanted to spread its message, and that simple act causes a single post to have massive waves of effects from simple ripples.

Don't let yourself be discouraged. Don't think your voice or your impact "isn't enough to matter." Everything counts.

Don't let this be ignored. Don't become complacent. Know that every little thing counts, and to do every little thing you can.

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Simple things you can do right now to support Gaza if you can't strike by staying home from work/school

queue posts about Palestine to regularly post throughout the week to keep them visible. Check tags like: #strike for gaza, #free gaza, #ceasefire now. I'm going to share posts from Bisan and other Palestinians on instagram.

don't spend money on nonessentials. if you didn't have time to prepare for the strike and still need to get groceries/medicine/etc, get it now to prepare for not spending the rest of the week! striking for even part of the week is better than not participating at all.

read bit.ly/StopGazaGenocide, this is a document put together by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) with lots of good information and graphics and link to art you can freely use to spread awareness. There is also a link to email your representatives to urge them to stop supporting the occupation and the email is pre-generated! it took me one minute to send emails!

email your representatives that you are striking for Palestine!

keep talking about Palestine. keep reading about Palestine. keep caring about Palestine. If you make even one person pay attention, you've done good work! keep going!

Do what you can! Doing ANYTHING is better than doing nothing.

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while not an actual action item for the general strike, you could also find some Palestinian recipes to cook. Part of the attempted erasure of Palestinian identity has been Israeli appropriation of recipes/foods. (And some pan-Arab foods too)