#and have chapters in other countries

[butchspace]

BDS has updated their calls for consumer boycotts to include: Chevron (and Texaco and Caltex by extension). Here is their most current boycott list.

They have also officially called for a boycott of McDonald’s. Here is their Instagram post on McDonald’s.

#Chevron was previously on the divestment list #also I believe BDS can have local chapters to check to see if your community has specific calls #and have chapters in other countries

[frobby]

Lets all name fanfics that formulatively changed our lives

Ill go first: there's this haikyuu kenhina fanfic where Kenma works at CVS and every time I see a CVS I think 'Kenma work there'

#Kenma was a witch and it was a man door hand hook car door crackfic #Actually one of my favorites of all time lowkey #My other haikyuu fanfic is this one where they're on a bus and the bus crashes and they all get injured #That one I've been looking for but I can't find it #Like tsukkis glasses break and he's blind and kageyama lands ON hinata and he needs to get spinal surgery so he's in a wheelchair #I think it was a chapter in a bigger fanfic which is why I can't find it #I'm like half sure it was the same series as the one where hinata crashes his bike and gets his leg stuck under a big rock #Does anyone know what I'm talking about? #If people have authors or links please provide #Also for good measure I'll throw in the one where it's iwaoi's wedding and iwaizumi gets turned into a werewolf #Just that whole series is so good like he gets stuck and oikawa contemplates moving to the country cuz he's husband is a dog now #He's got that dog in em #Anyway all my formulative fanfics i can't think of are from haikyuu cuz that was my previous fanfic reading endeavor #And before that would be blue exorcist but like on fanfic dot net and shit #I could list some but I shan't #haikyuu #Blue exorcist #fanfic #fanfiction

[jangmi-latte]

rook ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ

#i miss him so fucking much i have been deprived since chapter 7 came out 😭😭😭😭 #HIS LAST REVEAL WAS GLOMAS. GLORIOUS FUCKING MASQUERADE #HOW DO YOU THINK I'M STILL BREATHING 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #i WANT HIM BACK THEN I REMEMBER DECEMBER'S RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER #I'M FIGHTING FOR MY LIFE WITH 40 PULLS #my love please 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 i beg #i miss you sm my hunter please come home 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 #i feel like a housewife whose husband went to another country to work i can not live like this #i feel so LONELY i want him back you have no idea #i stare at his cards and i BLACK out #life is dull no rook #i try to make content of other characters but my brain just goes “how about rook content” DARLING THERE'S BEEN NONE #i just wanna hug and smell him all day ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ the nuis need a bath #rook rook rook (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠) oh rook my love #i wanna CRY where are you my love my monsieur (⁠ ⁠ꈨຶ⁠ ⁠˙̫̮⁠ ⁠ꈨຶ⁠ ⁠) #i miss your voice cracks and silly little hair swish (⁠´⁠°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥⁠ω⁠°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥⁠｀⁠)

[flairza]

ive been cropping screenshots from the tf2 comic, just because i can (free pfp vault !)

here's memes i made from those said screenshots, to which i know that i, and other people will not use, but i find pride from it anyways.

Its almost if not all in filipino :') this is how i put my interests in my life

(descriptions + translations in alt :3)

#tried my best to explain o7 #WAAA I FORGOT THE 10 IMAGE LIMITATION #ill try to add more. soon. later. #tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 comic #tf2 memes #(NOT REALLY. PROBABLY.) #you guys can tell its from just one chapter this is so funny #(ive literally screenshotted every panel of all of the comics minus the update ones. i will do those after im finihed with the other ones) #(i sort them out and then i crop them in a 1:1 ratio 😋) #id say this is kalye humor but. its so not 😭 this is my lunishment for rejecting my country's slang/trends in suh a young age #*such #*punishment #(i have now developed severe impostor syndrome as a result)

[zaphiyy207]

Rambling Kirby #2

my interpretation of game dream team is basically them being close best friends but said they're not best friends and just calls the others close friends/acquintances or etc etc (exception of Kirby, he addressed them as best friends. No, none of them bothered to correct him) when they're actually like the closest friends that they see each other as family/close siblings

Not proofread!

Like, they can have the best teamwork dynamic out of all teams in Star Allies. Without even saying anything, just a glance is enough to do a good teamwork attack. Meta Knight going for arial slam and Bandana poke their enemy with his spear and threw it towards Dedede, who'll slam them to Kirby which Kirby ends up be the one to decide on how to end their torture.

Them together is a force to be reckon with. They are the core star allies, they're the ones who formed the 'organisation'. They're the original group in Dreamland.

When one is down, the other fought their way tooth and nail to get to the fallen one and help them up. When one bled, the other bled too. When one rage, the other followed their rage.

They came from different backgrounds but their fates were intertwined from the very start. Even with their differences of view or actions that will shake the balance between peace and chaos, they continued to fight for their home and their loved ones.

And yet, they're the idiots when it comes to one another. Separately, they're very much an idol, a role model for those who admired them. But when they're together, that cool look just disappeared.

Whether it range from Meta Knight and Dedede constantly argued until they settled their arguements with a physical fight (one loses, the winner wins the arguement), or to them being the worst at the most simple mission(stealing is legal in dreamland but not on another planet...); it was bound to end up in chaos.

Bandana who asked the other three if they wanted a snack, which they all politely declined his offer to them being full or busy or on a diet. And yet when he opened that snack, all three pair of eyes just looked at him with their hands outstretched. Bandana was not happy.

Meta Knight and Kirby who have chaos flows in their blood, cannot be in the same room for too long or the room will be destroyed or the world will be destroyed. No 'and' or other possibilities. It's always those two.

So yes, while the four do end up be the light of hope for Popstar and the universe, they're also the ones who will end up make the situation worst due to their chaos nature. (Not really a permanent thing, they always will fix it in the end)

#kirby #meta knight #bandana waddle dee #king dedede #kirby return to dreamland #tag that because they're the squad #four friend enjoying each other company #but also would strangle the other for their stupidity #rambling about kirby because brain rot #brain rot so hard #i am having a migraine #i am currently in another country with like an unfinished assignment #and unfinished chapter 2 #aughhh #they're the best friends but they're the dumbasses of Popstar #they cannot be together but they must be together #magolor is the fifth honorary member of their group #he is the founder of that group after all #since magolor kind of..made them realise they're the best with each other

[silent-partner-412]

man they did akhos and patroka so dirty in xenoblade 2 like akhos is so cool except he only gets like two good moments throughout the entire game. patroka has it even worse, she doesn’t even get one good moment and has bad voice acting to boot. the two of them are definitely the least plot important members of torna so i get that they’re not gonna get the same time that the rest of them get, but… cmon man they’re so cool, i want more of them

#xenoblade #xenoblade chronicles #xenoblade 2 #xenoblade chronicles 2 #akhos #patroka #basically all we get of them in terms of backstory is the quick cutscene in ch9 #which happens during an already super busy moment in the story #akhos at least had the benefit of being the most relevant villain in ch3 and he kinda slays that whole chapter down #but patroka gets like NOTHING #she’s introduced at the end of by far the worst segment of the game #her and mikhail are the most underwhelming end of chapter boss fight in the game other than ch8 which doesn’t have one #but at least mikhail has torna the golden country + history with jin #it’s just a shame and makes me really yearn for an alternate version of this game where we play as the torna gang

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

on the one hand i've never lived in a proper city before and i'm slightly terrified but FUCK am i excited to live somewhere with a proper cinema next year

#thought now that i'm finished with my degree i would go to the cinema more often #the cheap cinema is showing: the little mermaid. guardians of the galaxy 3. the super mario bros movie. and across the spiderverse #the expensive cinema is showing fast x. the super mario bros movie. are you there god it's me margaret. and book club the next chapter #i just want to see a real movie 😭 #there are so many interesting films i want to see that are *technically* out in uk cinemas #just not if u live anywhere other than a big city #i have a friend who lives in london and she goes to the bfi cinema basically every day #where i come from we have one cinema that only gets movies two months after their main release #and this is what drives people to piracy bc i literally have the money and the inclination to see these films at the cinema #but i literally can't!!!! #but [redacted] where i'm living next year is like. the third or fourth biggest city in the country #so i'm hopeful <3 #anyway rant over lmao #🧃

[kurozu501]

what sticks with me about chainsaw man is not the fights but the really sharp character moments. denji, power, and aki becoming really genuinely domestic and caring for each other after the darkness devil, everything with aki and the “snowball fight”, the entire makima apartment sequence, the power dumpster scene paralleling chapter 1, kobeni and denji having a genuine conversation, “i made a bet that she was never really looking at me”, “did you know? it was my dream to be hugged by someone”, “thats why, make sure to give her plenty of hugs too” all of that stuff was great. It got me, its just that it increasingly clashed with the weird incomprehensible battle stuff as it went on. 

#i keep getting stuck on small stuff like why did makima have the zombie devil #she had nothing to do with that. she never met him. hell she never even saw him except for a pile of minced meat. #why were reze and quanxi back for 5 seconds along with those other guys and talking but then in the final battle they're just dolls #how do makima's powers work? how does she gain access to even people who are dead? #if all she needed to do was beat denji in a fight to gain control over the chainsaw devil why bother with the entire plot #just beat denji in a fight in chapter 2 #you cant even say 'it has to be the chainsaw devil not denji' bc she beats up what she thinks is denji in the final battle #if makima is so powerful and controls so much of the world why did the other countries feel free to send so many assassins after denji #who was reze? why was she referred to as the gun devil's 'partner'? who was the gun devil were they a person like her or what #also hey if makima has to beat people in a fight to control them why could she just walk up to angel and instantly control him #lots and lots of small stuff like that that adds up #chainsaw man #chainsaw man spoilers #csm spoilers

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: the Great Kazansky-Mitchell Breakup Fiasco of 2003 (post-pulling-Rooster’s-papers) is still giving me grief :(

just feels like i can’t get it right every time i try (and lord how ive tried. the above excerpts are 3 out of a total 7 attempts to get this time period correct, and the other 4 are already up on ao3)

im basically revising this fic like a novel just because i want to get it right for once and for all but the emotional minefield of this chapter (ch 8 of the original fic) means ive basically written myself into a corner where they have to talk about it to move on with their lives but also can’t talk about it because the climax (thanks tgm screenwriters) has to come after mav dies/is resurrected. idk it’s more complicated than that but i tried writing out my notes about what I’m trying to do in the rewrite of this chapter to include in this post and it came out to 1000 words itself, so ill just keep it at that

#weekly word count update: macbook making nervous glances towards the fire escape #if this were just a fic about guys being repressed it would be easy #but the rooster situation complicates everything so much #because they somehow have to forgive each other for what they did to someone else #& then this chapter also has the politics of the 4th star etc… #oh shit im rewriting my notes again ok can’t do that #anyway #im leaving the country for a couple weeks in jan (research conference in Spain!) so i will #try try try to have all these revisions up by then 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽 working real hard #top gun #top gun maverick #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #when we get around to talking about it #top gun fanfiction #if it wasn’t clear #first one is ice second one is slider third one is mav

[thyme-in-a-bubble]

I’m so embarrassed I saw ur buttercup master list and was so confused lookin at the dates. I was like….. there’s no 17th month 🫠. Is it obvious that’s I’m American 😭 anyways can wait 🤭

sdfghjklæø yeah it's so wild that you guys switch it around. just had to be a little different, even with such a tiny thing lol

#are there other countries that put the month first and then the date? probably #maybe i should have written it more like with the month part written not as a number but the name #but i mean it's only a few chapters so you'll hopefully get the schedule at some point as they roll out #if it doesn't click if you look at it long enough #lea answers

[persefoneshalott]

Les mis spanish censorship adventures 2

IV ) Works Corresponding to Words

Here's a rough translation of the old censored version, which cuts two paragraphs:

"Man has the flesh upon him, which is at once his burden and his temptation. He carries it and yields to it.

"He must watch it, contain it, repress it; but if despite his efforts he falls, the fault thus committed is venial. It is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may transform and end in prayer. " When he saw that certain people shouted a lot and soon became indignant:

"Hello" he said smiling, "it seems that’s a great crime that everybody commits. See how frightened hypocrites rush to protest and take cover."

It has the unintended consequence of making the people look really dramatic. Bishop: it's possible repent if you fall to temptation despite your efforts people watching: I'VE NEVER HEARD NOTHING LIKE THIS IN A CHURCH IN MY LIFE

Here are the two cut paragraphs in the new translation, that come after the 'end in prayer' line: "To be a saint is the exception, to be a just man is the rule. Err, collapse, sin, but be just.  

"To commit the least number of sins possible is the law of man. To commit none is the dream of the angel. Everything earthly is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation."

So yeah I can see why that'd get a bigger reaction.

#les mis censorship #les mis letters #les mis #back again so soon! I don't think there's that much censorship but the bishop chapters have a LOT #every day I am thankful I met les mis people from other countries bc I would not have found out about the censored parts otherwise #and honesty?? censored bishop still has jokes #but the cuts make him kind of boring at times and confusing at other times #bishop voice: everybody makes mistakes everybody sins some days

[kyouka-supremacy]

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#First of all: sorry for vagueposting #Honestly I find it hard to consider bsd a stranger to quite directly referencing the world wars... #There's literally a character from an anglophone country who threatens and was fully willing to drop exactly two bombs– #of immense destructive power that would raze the city... There's no way that's a coincidence... #Also the Guild attitude is very much the one of the usa invader that greatly effected Japan post wwii... #It is particularly evident by chapter 15‚ not to mention the way Fitzgerald struggles (read: refuses)– #to pronounce Japanese names correctly... #Bsd overall just makes a very unflattering‚ stereotypical depiction of people from the usa #- shallow and apathetic and disrespectful of other countries' culture and attached to economic interests - #that like. if you ask me really really speaks of holding resentment for the post wwii occupation of Japan. #And bsd **is** an extremely nationalist manga‚ peoples. c'mon. every single foreign character is a villain. c'mon. #It heavily implies it's better being Japanese mafia than a foreigner. c'mon... #And just in case - though there shouldn't be any need for me to say that #- I'm not American‚ I have no personal interest in defending the portrayal of Americans - and I don't mean to. #I'm just saying bsd's portrayal of foreigners is a biased portrayal that most definitely was heavily influenced by the USA's occupation– #of Japan and overall looks with hostility to all other countries and is in that deeply nationalist because... It is. #Lastly it's not completely true bsd authors had little to do with war: maybe it was an exception in Op's mind‚ but let's not forget about– #Thou Shalt Not Die. Although that's not about wws so maybe it's because of that... #It's just... The way it's always a war of Japan vs. Americans‚ Japan vs. Slavics‚ Japan vs. Brits... #Where Japan always comes out as the winner... It *does* speak of a of a subtle not-so-subtle nationalism‚ doesn't it #I don't know‚ we don't know enough about bsd's great war™ to speak‚ but to me it just feels like a big “Japan engaged in a war– #(deeply reminiscent of wws) against everyone else where it spilled blood and suffered but came out winner despite fighting alone because– #we're amazing” or something like that aldvdjskdvks. #Don't quote me on this though‚ I should reread the manga to make a proper statement on this #Sorry for being insufferable political sciences student it will happen again 😔😔 #random rambles

[go-to-the-mirror]

We’re at [insert American political event] season, which means every American will not shut up about being American. God forbid you ever mention another country.

Who cares about corruption plaguing South Africa? All they deserve is misinformation and only being brought up as a talking point against [insert billionaire who made money of Apartheid] without any understanding of the lingering effects of it, only fucking caring about our issues when they’re a good reason to get angry at someone you don’t like.

Shut the hell up about Elon Musk getting his wealth from an emerald mine during Apartheid until you actually do you goddamn research on how mining affected people of colour living there.

Also, if we’re talking about countries with poor responses to COVID19, think about the homeless South Africans living in townships — did you know about townships? Don’t think you did — who were so crowded together, that of course they were going to get COVID and of course they were going to die from it.

Do you think about the crime rate, there? Every university barring Stellenbosch has been burned down at least once, it’s why I wanted to go to Stellenbosch, because hey, women have 1/3 chance of being raped in South Africa, but at least it’s the safest fucking university there. Why is the crime rate so high? The unemployment rate. It’s the highest in the goddamn world.

My dad, qualified as a paramedic, was a teacher at a university, white, able-bodied, couldn’t get a job. He had to go to Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ukraine for a bit. We didn’t see him for months. Think of the people who aren’t privileged. The people in townships who beg on the street for food, who have to commit crimes, who can’t get into good public schools because…

There’s this thing in South Africa where you can pay half the school fees and have the government pay the other half, in public school, half and half public schools. I went to a half and half elementary school, and I don’t remember seeing… anyone who wasn’t white. Everyone was white.

My sisters went to a half and half high school, and there were so few nonwhite kids, everyone who wasn’t white went to HH and they had better rhythm and always won spirit and HH wasn’t a half and half.

I don’t know much about the political situation in South Africa, but I know how much people love to bring up that goddamn emerald mine, and I’m not saying it’s okay that he makes that much money, but I’m saying that you could try bringing my country up as more than a fucking talk point. We’re more than a talking point. We’re a country. Bring us up, or shut up about us.

#im kind of annoyed #meant to have a section abt canada but. yknow #yeah #south africa #americentrism makes me… very annoyed #sort of a vent #politics #anyway. uh. this isn’t about anyone in particular. it’s just about… the world i guess #i’m sick and tired of south africa being a talking point and then forgotten about #and it’s fine that people focus on other things but it’s my goddamn country and i wish that it was more focused on #landscaping your mind chapter one #now go to drafts hell #rape mention #racism

[singsweetmelodies]

Oh my God, I love that kiss fic already and now it's even harder to wait for the new chapter(s). I loooove that you love what you're writing, that's so important!!!!! Sending love your wayyyyy (and obvs don't feel pressured, pls) <33333

awwwww! anon, this is so sweet <3333 and i couldn't agree more!! it really is SO important to love what you're writing, because nothing burns you out faster than when you're not getting joy from writing, you know? thankfully, nothing gives me quite as much joy as these two french & french-adjacent fucks doing the nasty 🤭 what that says about ME and about my sanity, i have no idea, but at least it's fabulous for the writing 🤣❤️

#asks & answers #anon #lovely anons #i did see this at midnight last night but was too sleepy to do much more than a vague <333 in my head #but it's made me smile double now this morning!! #you are SUCH a sweetheart; anon; and i appreciate the support so much <3333 #also! just a little kiss fic progrees update since you DID say you're waiting excitedly for the next chapter #i had great intentions of posting another chapter this weekend; but 2 things happened: #1) SO MUCH PIARLES CONTENT. oh my GOD. i was literally spending HOURS just rewatching and reblogging with the biggest heart eyes ever #2) i had an unexpectedly full weekend of early birthday celebrations #and it's not that i FORGOT about my birthday....... #but it didn't occur to me to think that all my family and friends would want to see me THIS much over the weekend 🤣😅 #i think they're making up for last year when i was in a whole other country for my bday #but anyways! YEAHHHH; writing time was much less than i'd hoped over the weekend #so there won't be a new chapter *soon* #because unfortunately (or actually FORTUNATELY! just unfortunately for the waiting period) the spa chapter is a long one #i mean; it'd have to be. SO MUCH happened that weekend #and i need to do it all justice; y'know? #but it's definitely coming; that's for sure #and i hope you'll love it just as much as i do when it's ready ❤️💙❤️💙

[heartyearning]

got 2 new books today (esc&ctrl by steve hollyman and boy parts by eliza clark) and im ngl the first one especially was a cover buy like the summary sounded good but i coulda picked up any other book and bought that instead if it wasnt for the cover, but omg i just started reading it and the summary which sounded intriguing is DWARFED by the PREMISE of this book which has me shaking & crying & clawing at the walls of my fucking enclosure

#so the summary is basically smth along the lines of 'some guy wakes up in a different country without knowing how he got there #his gf has been murdered in their home country & now a sextape they made once is going viral bc someone else entirely posted it' #which like !! sounds interesting !! & the book is incredible to hold too like the weight of it & the binding quality is like #its a super floppy book basically its very nice so thats why i bought it #but i just read the foreword and OH MY GODDDDDDD MY GOD MY GOD. idk if its true & also thts not the fucking point but #the foreword is the author talking abt the manuscript for a novella he wrote on a typewriter & didnt have any other edition of #getting stolen & then all these years later getting an email from some guy who found the manuscript & sending him the scan #-ned in pages of the manuscript to make sure its the actual manuscript & theres been chapters added #by someone who seems to know the author (bc of injokes and what not) and OHHHH THAT IS SO #SO GOOD TO ME IDFK. IM BUZZING. IDK IF I SHOULD READ THIS NOW OR SAVE IT TO READ TOMORROW #BC I FEEL LIKE THIS IS A SINGLE SITTING TYPE OF READ #ough ough ough so exciting. also the impact hashtag impact house of leaves has had on the courier font industry. #im joking of course but like its partially explained in footnotes which are of course partially written in courier #to be fair part of the book in general is also written in courier but like idk its funny

[everyneji]

#naruto #mangacap #everyneji #neji #neji hyuga #chunin exams #chapter 102 #.my theory is they wanted more than the byakugan btw #.that in fact they wanted war to resume #.like there have got to be easier ways to get your hands on a byakugan #.and since not every clan member activates it abducting a child #.who may not have it isn't the best bet #.there are interesting posts about kumo being a nation built on orphans from other countries #.and wanting to turn hinata into an asset and not just harvest her eyes #.which i think makes more sense #.but yeah i also think they didn't want peace lol