#If anyone else has anything to add feel free

[gay-otlc]

hi so i’m interested in reading tgl bc of your posts but i can’t decide if i want to start reading that or one of the other things on my read list, and i can’t find a solid summary so i was wondering how you would describe it!! obviously only if you’re in the mood, no pressure, im just curious abt it!

So, it's set in an alternate universe where the Library of Alexandria is still intact. Jess, the protagonist, is from a family that illegally smuggles books for money, and at the beginning of the story he travels to Alexandria to study to become a Librarian. Over the course of his studying, he gradually discovers that there might be some shady shit going on within the Library.

The book has found family, robot lions, and angsty gay people that will fuck you up. Highly recommend.

#the great library #if anyone else has anything to add feel free

[the-mighty-mittens]

I think a lot of people misunderstand (movie) Nimona as a character tbh.

"It's her fault everyone hates her, she hurt people" You have to keep in mind people treated her like crap because she was different, that wasn't her fault. She was attacked and made out to be a monster for defending herself, that wasn't her fault. This went on for over a thousand years, and eventually it wore her down and she decided that nobody was gonna see her as anything other than a monster, so why not fill the role you've been given and have some fun? Why lie down and let people treat you poorly when you can fight back?

Even so, she didn't purposely kill or injure any civilians (she saved a kid in the cereal dragon scene, and she just spit cereal at the knights, she could have killed them if she wanted to) and even when she turned into the shadow thing near the end, the most damage was caused by the knights attacking her. There were plenty of times she could have killed someone and didn't, because she's not really a monster. It seems like she mostly just wanted to make the Institution's life hell because they did the same to her, and that's totally valid imo. (I think the only person she killed, if I remember correctly, was the Director at the end and she TOTALLY deserved it. Correct me if I missed something though!)

I see a lot of myself in Nimona, as a queer teen myself. A lot of anger towards people for treating the LGBTQ+ community like crap for being different, and a lot of sadness because it feels like no matter what we do, we'll always be seen as monsters.

"Kids. Little kids. They grow up believing they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything different. And _I'm_ the monster?" "I don't know what's scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart, or that sometimes, I just wanna let them."

Those lines resonate with me, because I feel that. I know what it's like, and it's scary. It wears you down and you really do start to believe the people telling you you're bad after a while, especially when it's coming from the people with more authority than you.

I see where she's coming from, because I know firsthand how it feels. A lot of people don't though, and it makes me sad when they boil her down to being "just a monster."

Anyway, everyone's entitled to their own opinions, I just wanted to talk about it.

Great movie, 10/10 recommend

#nimona #nimona movie #lgbtq #If anyone has anything else to add feel free! #Thinking about Nimona recently #if this needs any tws let me know!

[kandavers]

Hi!!!! I'm a huge fan of your art, and I was wondering if you could just help me understand QPR relationships a little better? Google won't give me a straight anwser and I am very confused LOL. In your art they have kissed, that one mpreg related comic, and implied nsfw, so I can't exactly understand how it's different from a romantic relationship? AHH sorry!!! I'm just not sure how to understand better, and I thought it would be good to go to you, who seems to know a lot about it!

I've already explained a little bit on QPRs in one of the previous asks: here!

But the simple answer to the question of 'How a QPR is any different from a romantic relationship' is romantic attraction is NOT involved.

A lot of people view intimate acts such as Kissing or Going on Dates or Sleeping with One Another (as you have mentioned) as something only a 'romantic couple' would do. Thus, there's the term *queer* platonic, which quite literally means a sort of friendship that does these things that defy society's general view of 'intimacy can only be shared between lovers'

I'm not the best at explaining things (believe me, i'd defend QPRs with my life, the only thing capping me is English not being my first language 💀 /hj) and it's not like I'm the CEO of QPRs or anything so I may make mistakes myself too, but I hope this helps your understanding of it even a little bit ^^

#kanrambles #ask #queerplatonic #qpr #queer platonic relationship #if anyone has anything else to add #feel free!

[corioheinous]

just got into aliens stage because it was trending and does all the lore come from the youtube videos?? or is the story continued elsewhere?

Idk how qualified I am to answer this question since I’d only consider myself a casual fan of the series BUT as far as I know the MVs are gonna be the primary source of lore rn… The alnst Twitter account does post rlly cool official art for the series as well as the occasional mini comic (great source of insight into their relationship dynamics), though for those you’ll probably have to scan the replies for translations lol. Same goes for the community posts on VIVINOS’ Youtube channel! They also have a Patreon, somewhat recently they uploaded an interview with Ivan there I’m pretty sure(?) (not subscribed RIP). There’s also some articles and basic plot/character information on their creatorlink site which has been dubiously translated into EN. Though I think the full versions of those articles are exclusive to the Alien Stage magazine (probably also accessible via Patreon).

With all of this in mind, I still firmly believe the best way to experience alnst lore is through reading fan theories/speculation in YT comments, tumblr/reddit analyses, tweets, blog posts, etc. The alnst cinematic universe is still very elusive, but in my experience its fans are spectacular at analyzing every microscopic detail shown in an MV frame/official art/what have you to the point where a lot of my understanding of the “lore” has been informed by conjecture lmfao. It definitely keeps things interesting!

I hope you are enjoying the series so far + good luck on the lore hunt my friend :)

#If anyone has anything else to add because there’s most definitely stuff that I missed #Feel free to share in the replies pls and thank you… #alien stage #alnst #vivinos #anon ask

[lilyginnyblackv2]

Overlooked Gabriel & Annalise Moment - TBSATDH Spoilers

A scene I don't really see people talk about in regards to Annalise and Gabriel's relationship in The Bastard Son and The Devil Himself is the one in Ep. 8 when the boys reunite with her. Gabriel gets to her first, she looks to him first, and she seeks comfort from him first.

Gabriel and Annalise's bond tends to be overlooked and downplayed a bit within the fandom space, and I can understand why. Their bond is probably the most subtle of the three and also the only one that hasn't included any kissing. It’s also the least developed and it's closer to a deep platonic or queerplatonic dynamic.

But in this moment they both look at each other so intensely. The screenshots I took can't really capture it, but Annalise was practically clawing at Gabriel for physical comfort in that scene. And that makes sense to me, given the dynamic we've seen between the three before.

Annalise comforts Nathan:

Nathan comforts Gabriel:

Gabriel comforts Annalise:

Of course, there has also been times when all three of them drew comfort from each other:

And Gabriel did comfort Nathan in this scene, though it was more akin to “snapping Nathan out of his guilt and trauma response to the situation,” since there wasn’t really time for comfort.

But the most common dynamic we’ve seen, and when looking at their one-on-one interactions, Annalise comforts Nathan, but rarely vice versa. So it makes sense that she looked to Gabriel for comfort first, then turned to Nathan. 

I really feel like that Episode 5 scene, when Gabriel and Annalise held hands and gave each other comfort during the Ceremony, is when their dynamic started to shift and change a bit. In the sense of getting more intimate and intense, though not necessarily romantic or sexual. 

If the series wanted to pursue that route in a (hopeful) second season, I wouldn’t necessarily object to it. Granted it is handled well, especially because I can see how it could potentially tie into the implied trauma Gabriel experienced from Mercury (she had no qualms with kissing Nathan when she was possessing his gran’s body, and her words and actions to and with Gabriel imply possible sexual trauma and abuse, in the below image she says, “So hard to say no to such perfection” while looking at him and touching him in a very sexualized way). 

The set up that Season 1 left off with seems to heavily imply that Jessica and Mercury will be the big bad duo of a potential Season 2, which would work perfectly with the hanging plotline of the boy Gabriel promised he would come back for at Mercury’s. And all of that would tie in nicely with a deeper exploration of Gabriel, his sexuality, his past and traumas, and his bonds with both Nathan and Annalise.

As someone who is aroace though, I would also be perfectly fine with Gabriel and Annalise’s relationship continuing to deepen but still staying in this space of deeply platonic and/or queerplatonic, since I feel we could always do with more representation like that, especially for poly ships.

Anyway, wrapping all of this up: That Ep. 8 scene speaks volumes about Annalise and Gabriel’s bond and I love it! It shows how they’ve grown a lot closer to each other than a lot of the fandom thinks they have, and possibly even more than either of them had fully realized in-series until that moment.

#The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself #The Bastard Son and The Devil Himself #TBSATDH #Gabriel x Annalise #Gabriel x Annalise x Nathan #Mercury #TBSATDH spoilers #long post #image heavy post #meta #if anyone else has anything else to add #please feel free!

[young-adult-catholic]

Can I ask some advice. I was pro choice for years but recently became pro life but now I’m struggling with the realization that all my pro choice friends have really hateful attitudes towards babies and even disabled people that I didn’t notice when I was pro choice. I want to say something but doing so would admit that I changed my mind and I’m afraid they won’t want to be friends with me; they don’t have nice thoughts on prolifers and I don’t want them dismissing me as a brainwashed prude

Hello, thank you so much for your ask! Also, in case nobody else has told you, welcome to being pro life! It is extremely brave of you to make that change when everyone around you has a different view point. As far as advice for talking to them, it is definitely really tough, and I don’t have all of the answers.

My number one piece of advice is to come at it with love and remind them to do the same. A lot of times people who feel very strongly about something feel attacked when they are confronted about it, and it’s important to state out loud that even if you disagree with them, you still love them.

As someone who has been in similar situations regarding different beliefs, if you do feel like you need to speak up about it, you don’t necessarily have to start a debate doing it. A lot of times I’ll say something like “Hey, that’s a human person you’re talking about there” or “That’s not cool, how would you feel if someone said that about you,” which tends to get them to drop the topic.

As far as having a conversation about it, let them come to you and be genuine about it. Explain your points using science-- don’t use religion to convince them if they aren’t religious. Remind them (and remember) that both sides are usually coming at this out of a desire to help women, so we can agree on a lot of concrete solutions that aren’t abortion, such as crisis pregnancy centers and better care for moms. You could also point out that in a lot of ways, abortion is extremely misogynistic and does much more to hurt women-- for example, it’s much cheaper to pay for an abortion than it is to pay for the support the mother will need, so many in society would rather do that then provide women with what they need. 

Another thing to remember is that a lot of pro choice woman have had abortions, and in today’s society, people tend to judge their self worth based off of the actions they have done. So if they have done something “bad” they consider themselves “bad” and they can’t fix that. It means that a lot of those women are going to be more resistant to pro life arguments because they don’t want to be bad, and because if they admit that the unborn are humans, then it means they killed their baby.

This is really tough to deal with, and there is no good answer to it outside of the Sacraments. But I would take the time to remind them that just because you do something wrong, it doesn’t make you a bad person. Yes, there is nothing we can do to undo that mistake, but that doesn’t mean that saying it isn’t a mistake is the right answer. Remind them that you love them (and if they are religious, remind them that God loves them and that they can and will be forgiven).

I know this is long, but I hope that it helped!

#ask answered #pro life #also if anyone else has anything to add #please feel free to do so! #good luck anon #feel free to come back with any other questions #or to let me know how it goes #Thank you to madamoisellesarcasme for helping with this

[dissociativemagicalgirl]

thinking further on my response and i do think CDDs can be a spectrum more than clear cut diagnostic criteria. like just in general. like just from what ive observed & what im reading (currently working on the haunted self!) i think theres a lot of overlap in symptoms between DID, OSDD, and even C-PTSD & BPD, which makes it harder to draw a line on whether certain presentations count as one disorder or another

it's an added layer of difficulty that theres so many different ways CDDs can present. i feel like every system i meet and every system i read about has its own unique ways of presenting, which im assuming is because it's a complex series of adaptations to very specific stimuli & circumstances. but like the variance in peoples' lived experiences makes it hard to make blanket statements about systems (or even like, alter archetypes, for example)

like theres just so many ways a system can look. some people know about their alters as early they can remember & experienced them as imaginary friends or voices. some people go 20, 30+ years without realizing theyre a system at all. theres polyfrag systems with layers upon layers of subsystems and complicated inner workings. theres people whose alters have only a passing awareness of each other. and so on. Individuals might share a diagnostic label, but there might be little overlap in how they experience being a system

anyways This is a lot of rambling that's straying into different territories.. sorry my mind may not be all here LOL

at it's core we are all experiencing various levels of structural dissociation ... unity 🤝

#borderline #i think changing diagnoses and/or comorbidity is common for us. So im not terribly concerned on whos using the 'right label' #When really diagnostic criteria arent set in stone. my perspective on this is probably at least partially informed by my experiences #being in the mental health system for a very long time & going through Most of the DSM-V LOL.. #in i hate you dont leave me. my copy is at my parents' house so i cant double check #But towards the beginning there's a list of how BPD has a lot of overlap with like. Most other disorders #i remember the phrase that BPD seems like it's on the of everything else #& i would not be surprised if other disorders related to complex trauma were similar as well - in that they can easily mask as other #disorders. & theres naturally going to be a lot of overlap with many other disorders #This went off topic but ^_^ if anyone has anything to say on the matter feel free to add on. not sure what the point of all this is LOL

[applealchemist]

I just realized that the Bungou Stray Dogs and Death Note universe could probably coexist with each other. Like you can't tell me that a world with a notebook that kills people as long as you know the name and face, and Shinigami can't coexist with a world that has a small population of superpowered humans, and a reality altering book that everyone wants to get their hands on. And if we're going to talk about the years, 2007–2012 was the year in the Death Note anime (i haven't finished the anime yet, nor have i read themanga, so it could be a little longer for the canon years), and I don't think a specific year was ever mentioned in Bungou Stray Fogs, but it's first volume was published in 2013, so if we just say the Bungou Stray Dogs timeline exists in 2013, that's like a 6–1 year gap if I did my maths right, so the Kira case would've started around the time of Stormbringer and the Dragon Head Feud (i can't remember the name but the opening part of Dead Apple). And remember, ability users aren't a commonality like how people with powers are in the MHA universe, and Shinigami can only be seen by humans who have touched a Death Note– which needs to be dropped by a Shinigami/God of Death. And I doubt that the Port Mafia would slip up and have high ranking members, or at least the more important characters that get should, get caught and killed by Kira, and you also need to take things like Mushitaro's ability, The Perfect Crime, into account because then there wouldn't be evidence that Light could've come across that would make him write someone like Dazai's name into the Death Note

#thanks for coming to my ted talk #if anyone has anything else to add feel free reblog and add onto this #bungou gay dogs #bungou stray dogs fukuzawa #bungou stray dogs #bungou sd #bungou stray dogs sigma #bungou stray dogs mayoi #bungou mayoi #bsd manga #bsd anime #bsd #bsd theory #death note #misa death note #l lawlight #light yagami #death note l #yagami light #misa amane #death note matsuda #death note theory

[episodes-without-incident]

Is there a counter out there for bringing up the Italian cold steel cinquedea

Anon, I'm going to be honest with you. I watch every Drawfee episode and stream, and that combination of words means nothing to me.

#the combination sounds VAGUELY familiar but I couldn't tell you anything about it or when it has been referenced #but like. if anyone else has intel feel free to add on #asks #not an episode count

[thefuturewithoutus]

per your recent post i would love some house md amv and fic recs.. planning to watch s8 very soon

YES!!!!! okay i'll link everything season 8 related. i don't watch as many amvs as i should so the first two are season 8 related and the others just make me emotional.

amvs

- i bet on losing dogs by @cinemapphic

- self promoting lol but tropic of cancer

- teardrop by @alonetogether

fics

- together, in all things by sebviathan

- esopus creek by shaycat

- love is blind, deaf, and walks with a limp by iwantedtosavetheworld

- and i fight time (it won in a landslide) by @mayfieldarc

misc

- this poem by @ocdwilson

- c word comparative with angels in america part 1 / part 2 by @buckysoldatbarnes

#answered #anonymous #if anyone has anything else to add feel free #and sorry if i annoyed anyone with the @s help... #id love to hear your thoughts on any of this + s8 if u want to share!! and also ive posted alot about s8 so there's probably more in my #house md tag. #cancer mention /// #looking back i dont even think I answered this question properly sorry for recing you post s8 content before u. watched season 8 #it's kind of funny. sorry

[thornsnvultures]

Ok so hear me out, I sort of maybe kind of know what a knot is (ABO) but as my resident monster fucker mutual can you please explain exactly what it is, what it does and how it’s supposed to feel because I’m at a loss here. treat me like I’m a grandad

Ok it's like a bumpus on the peepus that holds the good stuff all up and in for breeding purposes.

In some fics the knot "inflates" or becomes engorged before they get started, like when the dude first gets hard, and it's something that has to be worked up to and eased in during sex (like you don't suddenly go from one finger to four. unless you do idk your life lol). Sometimes it chubs up inside after the guy cums to hold everything in (and then they have to lay there like that for like 20min - a few hrs).

It's usually supposed to feel like a good, thick stretch. Some fics describe it as "popping in" when the dude finally gets it in there which always kind of yucks me out, like that sounds painful.

Here's some bad dragons for examples of different kinds

I hope this made sense. It's one of those fantasy world things where you can kind of make it be whatever you want. Some people are purists and like "oh it has to be this one way" but idk it's just porn, get silly with it.

#i love that this is my role lol resident monsterfucker #cause it's true lol #💌 #nsft #monsterfuckery #if anyone has anything else to add feel free im sure i could be describing this better lol

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

i think this is a good example of the situation(tm) with spain and fascism and how it's very different to other european countries like italy or germany.

this news article says that the government pays more than 9000€ per year to mantain franco's tomb (and by the government it means, well, the taxpayers). for those who don't know, francisco franco was a fascist dictator (friend of hitler and mussolini) that ruled spain from 1939 til 1975. he died peacefully. in his bed. after 4 decades of ruling. this is one of the key points regarding all of this.

and you might be thinking... well, the right wing party must be the ruling party for this to happen! lol no. we are currently under a pretty left-leaning government (this will probably change next month btw, there's general elections on april 28th). this is the government who passed the so-called trans law. and, most importantly, this government exhumated franco's body from his monumental funerary monument to a normal cemetery.

this is the monument in question, btw, it's called valle de los caídos (valley of the fallen) and it was built by the people franco sent to concentration camps throughout the country.

and yes, you read that well. franco's body was here until 2019. the monument was visited (and still is visited) by tons of fascists, who would do the nazi salute, fly the francoist flag, and chant francoist chants. all while the police was just there (but that's no surprise, isn't it). now, those people just go to the new location of franco's tomb.

oh, btw, on april 24th 2023 (4 days ago as i'm writing this post) there was another exhumation in the valley of the fallen (i just found out that since 2022 its name officially changed to 'cuelgamuros valley'. sure), this time of josé antonio primo de rivera, son of the dictator of spain from 1923-1930, and founder of the falange española, a fascist organization that became the only political party during the franco regime (yes. this is the equivalent to the nazi party) that btw still exists as a political party. so that's also lovely. this shouldn't come as a surprise, as la legión española, the military faction most closely allied to franco before, during, and after the civil war, still exists and they parade sometimes. you've probably seen these guys, there's a weird thing where people thirst over them on twitter:

anyways, this all boils down to the continuist nature of fascism in this country. fascist symbols are not banned, and neither is the flag or the hymn. i heard so many times the cara al sol (the francoist anthem) in high school sung by the kids who thought being a fascist was cool. again, franco's body wasn't exhumated until 2019 and with tons of polemics, delays and protests (protests!!!!). primo de rivera's wasn't exhumated until this very year (also with protests). and, meanwhile, there's more than 1000 mass graves still unearthed in spain, most of them filled by republicans who either were killed during the war, or right after it. one of them is the poet federico garcía lorca, considered one of (if not the best) writer in spanish history, and killed for his sexuality in 1936 by francoist soldiers. and, with him, thousands of people have been lost to time. in 2022 (83 years after the war ended) the government opened a 'mass grave searcher' on the ministry website, in order to look if your lost relative had been discovered.

i've talked about this before, but as another example, my great-grand father was unjustly sent to prisioner in 1939 for being a republican. he even spent some years in death row before being released after 5 years. he was officially pardoned by the government in 2017. he died in 1989.

also, something that has been particularly evident during this government, is that fascists are very much alive and have a ton of power. and politicians are either one of them or scared of them. keep in mind that spain has had multiple military and fascist uprisings and coup de états in the 20th century, it's very recent history. that, summed with the terrible job done during the transition period of not divorcing themselves with the francoists or just banning everything to do with them (that 'terrible job' happened because well. there were a lot of fascists there), makes for fascism being painfully present in spain all throughout the 20th and 21st century, so it's always been here, and very obviously so, and that's why it's so fundamentally different from other european regions.

this is what happens when fascists win and fuck up everything. spain is a perfect example of it. i love maps, but everytime i see alternative history maps (and there's a ton of them) that are like 'europe but hitler won ww2' i get the irk because 1) the person making that post is probably a nazi, and 2) that's just what happened in spain. the 'nazis won au' is just 20th century spain. and the consequences of that still ooze to this date. so yeah. that's all i have to say i think.

#spain #tw: fascism #tw: nazism #i finally did it! the doñana post made me motivated enough to write a full-length post lol #this is just an informative post i guess? i don't think many people outside of spain are aware of our situation #i glossed out over a ton of stuff cause i'm not very informed about all of this but if anyone has any questions or wants me to tackle #anything else please let me know #and fellow spaniards feel free to add stuff to this post!! #anyways there's general elections in exactly one month so that'll be scary

[orokay]

Hello, orokay!! I've adored your art for years now and I was wondering if you have any tips on how to draw and paint/render scars? I can never seem to get them to look right, any help is appreciated! Hope you're having a good year!

Hi anon, thank you so much!

Sorry this took a minute to reply to, I've been trying to figure out how I wanted to respond. For me, a lot of questions about how I do certain things are kind of tricky bc generally the answer is 'idk I just try things and tweak it until it feels right' and I don't really feel qualified to give art advice bc most of the time I'm just making stuff up as I go, but I know that's not really a helpful answer 😭

My art style tends to lean towards simple and stylized, so for scars I try to limit them to three colors at most, less if I feel like I can get away with it. It also depends a lot on the scar since there are different types of scars. Usually how I pick the colors I use is: one color darker than than the skin tone (shading), one slightly lighter than the skin tone for the injured flesh and occasionally an even lighter color for highlights. I'll include some examples under the cut. But please please please keep in mind wrt scars 99.9% of the time I'm just winging it and going off of what I think looks cool, I don't know anything about the science behind how people scar so please do your own research if you want to be accurate.

I'd say when approaching/researching scars you need to consider a few things:

Skin color of the person- Scars look different on different skin colors and different people scar differently. I think this is one of the biggest things to remember! Color pick for the scar based off of the character's skin tone and shade. The color you use for scar tissue on a person w/ light skin is going to look unrealistic and out of place on person with dark skin, doubly so if the undertone of their skin is different (ie. warm vs neutral vs cool undertones). It's so important to look up references because everyone scars differently and skin type can make a huge difference on how a person scars.

Color of the person's blood- same vibe as with blushing/lip color/etc. if your character has blue blood, the scar likely isn't going to be pink. This probably isn't something you're going to have to keep in mind a lot, but just in case. This also kind of ties into the first one because if a character has a non-human skin tone, like blue, and red blood then the scar is probably going to be more of a purple tone, for example.

Type of scar- think about the injury and what kind of scar would result from it. I'm not a doctor so idk how scarring works and generally go off of vibes, but if you want to make it as accurate as possible, I'd suggest looking up images of scars from whatever type of injury you want your character to have. I used to work with dogs and I scar easily so I have a lot of bite/scratch scars. Some of them are lighter than my skin and raised while others that were less deep are darker and on the surface of the skin (aka no texture). My brother has a very deep dog bite scar that's left a dent in his skin and light, pink and shiny scar tissue. Basically, if you know you have the stomach for it, I 100% suggest looking up examples of the type of injury you're thinking of so you can see how that injury tends to scar. Is it hypertrophic? Atrophic? Keloid?

How was it treated and how old is the scar?- is it a burn scar that received skin grafts? is it a surgical scar? stitches? did it heal well or was there infection? All of these things can change how a wound heals and scars. New scars are going to be much more stark, especially if they're still healing, and most scars fade over time. Examples under the cut...

Some examples from my drawings over the years:

OC w/ healed burn w/ skin graft stylized and very simplified // really simple, sketchy scars on Narci:

This iteration of Blue's blood is green so the scar on her cheek is green (we're going to ignore her lips and the flush on her ears lol):

raised scars on nikora and blair's cheeks:

#answered asks #i cannot stress enough i go off of vibes 99.9% of the time im not an expert anything i get right is purely by accident #pleaaaaaaaaaase do research #if anyone else has actual medical knowledge and wants to give tips/point anon towards resources please feel free to add on #i'd like to learn more too ^^

[veradragonjedi]

I completely support Israel being held accountable for its crimes against humanity, but we also can’t ignore that Indonesia has been violently occupying West Papua - a region more than twice the size of occupied Palestine - for the past 55 years, and has murdered 500,000 indigenous West Papuans in the process. Indonesian soldiers routinely burn indigenous villages to the ground, pose with the bodies of murdered Papuan civilians, and actively prevent journalists from reporting on the genocide. West Papuans often refer to their homeland as “Indonesia’s Palestine.”

☝️

#i am not educated enough to know about the Indonesian occupation #not enough to add on anything anyway #i dont know why i was sent this (i mean; i dont know whether they want me to respond; spread the word; argure; or post this so its known) #id like to learn further if anyone else has add ons #and feel free to reblog to spread the word i suppose #!! #important #vee answers

[transgender-scout]

Hi Arrow. Do you recommend trying TF2? I like the funny guys but I have no FPS experience

Em. I am gripping you by the face. I have not been thinking about anything besides TF2 for the past two months. I absolutely recommend it.

I’m also not really big into FPSs, but I really enjoy the gameplay for it. There’s a fairly outdated tutorial you can play where it walks you through how to play a few of the classes that I found helpful to get a feel for the game, but there’s also offline training with bots that you can play to get a little more practice with each class until you feel comfortable enough to play online (if you even want to).

There’s also a lot of custom maps that people make just to be silly on (the Mario kart and McDonald’s maps come to mind lol). I’m personally a big fan of Mann vs Machine, where you and five others just fight waves of robots.

The game isn’t super great at walking you through things, so you would probably need to either have someone play with you to explain things or do some quick research on it, like reading the wikis or watching some videos about it. It’s pretty easy to pick up once you get it tho!

Also, TF2 has had a huge problem with bots in the past few years, so to be able to communicate through chat, voice commands, or voice chat, you have to spend at least $5 on the game. I just bought some silly cosmetics from the community shop, but you can also buy taunts and other weapons if you want.

There’s a ton to explore in the game and I learn something new every time I play tbh!!!

But!!! If you want to enjoy the silly guys without playing the game!!!! There’s comics!!!!!!!!!!!

There’s a lot of smaller comics that were released to introduce new updates which is really fun, but then there’s the main comic series that focuses on a big overarching plot that’s sooooo funny and silly and heartbreaking <333

It also (imo) helps establish some of the characters in really interesting way. Like they’re all fucked up little clown dudes, but the comics give a bit of insight for some of them. A couple of the characters get brushed over a bit because there’s nine of them and you can only do so much, but it still did a damn good job of getting me attached to them all.

The only problem is…it’s not finished. The second to last comic was published in 2017 and the last one has been “coming soon!” since then. :( I’d still recommended it tho bc the comics are really good! The art is gorgeous and everyone is sooooo silly.

AND if you don’t want to do THAT! Theres the Meet the Team videos that Valve made to introduce each of the mercs, plus a few other videos for updates and other things. I LOVE these. I watch em all the time lol. My personal favs are Spy, Pyro, and Medic but it doesn’t take long to watch them all.

AND THEN There’s a whole wide internet of SFMs (SourceFilm Maker) on YouTube!! A lot of them are super silly YouTube poop-like videos that are rawrXDomgLOL random. This isn’t super my thing so I don’t have any recs unfortunately.

But there was an SFM recently released called Emesis Blue that is driving me to the brink. It’s a full length psychological horror/thriller movie that’s like TF2 but real fucked up. It’s been living in my brain for a solid week. It lowkey kinda gave me nightmares so you may check out the Does the Dog Die page for it if you’re sensitive to horror, or skip it all together.

Also kind of a blanket trigger warning for all media listed is blood, guns, violence, and bodies exploding into cartoon meat chunks. Fun stuff lol.

So there’s a lot of ways to enjoy the fun mess that is TF2. Let me know if you get into it bc hooooly shit I love this funny hat game so much.

#HOPEFULLY that’s enough info to get you started lol #let me know if there’s anything else lol #ALSO it’s so good to hear from you <333333 #I hope you’re doing well!!!!! #jackandthedevil #nottobeconfusedwithask #terrifiedofjudgement #tf2 #(sorry main tf2 tag I need to organize things or I will die </3) #(although if anyone else has something helpful to add feel free. just pls be nice)

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Oh another Ghosts thing I've been meaning to post about bc I've not seen anyone talk about it... (bbc ghosts s4 spoilers ahead)

In the final episode of series 4, when the gatehouse is burning down, we see this shot of the group:

Now I'm no cinematographer, and this didn't even occur to me until my 2nd watch through, but there's obviously two halves of the screen cut through with the pane of glass, splitting the characters into 2 groups, and Thomas is completely obstructed by it. Not to mention shattering glass being a pretty common trope to symbolise strained relationships or just things in general falling apart so-to-speak.

Idk if it means anything or is foreshadowing anything, or if it was just a weird decision by the crew to keep this shot in the final edit. Did they just overlook it without thinking?

It just kind of rubs me the wrong way that there's such an obvious gash through the screen, grouping Alison, Mike and Fanny in one group and Pat, Julian, Cap, Robin and Kitty in another. It really, really irks me that Thomas is obscured. Does it mean something?????? Help me idk 😭😭😭

#i mean im sure it was just a weird editing choice buT STILL #also i was gonna mention humphrey not being there either til i remembered noone cares about him 😭🙄 #bbc ghosts #theorizing #bbc ghosts thomas #bbc ghosts s4 #bbc ghosts mike #bbc ghosts alison #bbc ghosts fanny #bbc ghosts pat #bbc ghosts julian #bbc ghosts captain #bbc ghosts robin #bbc ghosts kitty #anything else i forgot to tag????? #idk if anyone has theories pls do feel free to add on uwu