#but i do have to say

[gai-is-love-kakagai-is-life]

First post is gonna be some bad long-haired Gai phone gallery edits.... Im pretty proud of them and the last one is my icon because he's so PRETTY!

#this was the only way my friend who hates Naruto would accept Gai #not that Gai needs to change at all #i love and accept maito gai in all his forms #but i do have to say #long-haired gai is really fucking nice #might guy #maito gai #long hair gai

[immediatebreakfast]

But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below. They saw it but for a glimpse for the window was instantly thrust down; but that glimpse had been sufficient, and they turned and left the court without a word. 

I have to ask Jekyll... was it worthy?

Was it worthy for you to condemn yourself to a life of self imposed isolation thanks to the fear of being caught with the legal consequences of your actions as the moral ones destroy your mind with every second that passes? Of course these consequences are not born out of guilt since you seem to desperately try to separate yourself from Hyde (without results), but out of understanding that you seriously fucked up.

Not leaving your house, not enjoying life, not even facing the friend that already has sacrificed so much of his moral fortitude by trying to help you with what he thought was an attempt at your own life.

Now here Jekyll is, alone by a window, dewling and stewing on his actions, his inactions, and his words. Utterly alone in a room, going from wall to wall as he ponders upon everything done. About Hyde, about the murder, about Lanyon and Utterson.

There might a way for him to distract himself, but normally for such man so obsessed with keeping up his appaerances at some point all of it will catch up, and the only person who will stand in the room is only Jekyll.

And then, Jekyll can't even enjoy a simple conversation with Utterson because there is no way now that he can without something making him remember what he has done.

#But I do have to say #Putting a face of terror so horrid that Utterson and Enfield couldn't talk through their whole walk is something #Utterson said “God forgive us all” I don't want to imagine what they saw despite being described #jekyll and hyde weekly #the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #henry jekyll

[anothercrisis]

it was way too long without Nikolai thoughts so come with me to this journe- /coughs/

Food.

I, for fucking sure, know that Nik hates most of his national food. Its just not that good to him. There are some good dishes that he will make in the middle in the end if he curves it. Like Oliv'ye. Its a salad made with potatoes, carrots, any type of meat (or not, I've seen it without meat), eggs, canned peas, mayonnaise and toppings (onions, pickles or cucumbers, ive heard of people adding corn but i strongly believe its a sin). Basically you boil everything, chop it up, add salt, mayo and its done! Easy and tasty.

I'm ready to swear on my mask and glasses, Price almost killed him when it happened the first time. Like imagine waking up to noise in your kitchen and your lover is gone and you hear a loud bang and “Syka! (Bitch but usually used as fuck)” from said kitchen. He was this close 🤏 to strangling Nik but was lucky to be spared. Turned out he grabbed hot pot with my brothers vegetables and spilled some boiling water on himself.

I heavily headcanon that you can- /coughs a little/ you can give Nikolai products and a recipe and it'll be done almost always perfectly.

About Price... well... beans on toast. Thats it. That's all you will be getting. Even if his life would depend on it he won't, never fucking ever, make anything. Not trusted even by Soap to cook anything. Gaz once tried his cooking and got food poisoning and a visit to the hospital. Ow.

I think you are absolutely right. Nik is definitely the one between him and Price who knows how to cook.

And I wonder if it’s because, like with languages, Nik just had to learn the skill to ensure his own survival and to enrich himself since no one else had the time or cared enough about him to teach him.

I feel like when he had free time on his hands, once life obligations like school and work were aside, that he would like to spend it doing something worthwhile, like reading or eating. And maybe it’s like a ritual of his. I’ve heard someone say before (in my own words) that they like to put energy into their cooking because it translates into energy for their body and mind. So I wonder if Nik does the same. If he intentionally takes the time to cook whenever he can to get that settling feeling of care and comfort.

And Price. At the end of the day, he is still a white man and who will only season his food with salt and pepper on most occasions. He doesn’t have the time with all of his duties to adopt a cooking ritual like Nik has, and we all know he wouldn’t be any good at it anyway.

So yeah, when Nik joins the 141 and when Price welcomes him into his little family, Nik takes to cooking for all of them whenever he can. It’s a love language as much as any other.

After a long mission where the team is barely standing, after Nik has brought them all safely back to base, after they’ve all been to medical, they will all gather around the common areas and sit together in comfortable silence while they wait for Nik to cook them something warm and comforting and hearty.

The entire team counts on Nik as much as they do Price. The two of them are the foundation the team stands on and there’s no telling what they would be without them.

#to absolutely no one's surprise #this got wildly out of hand #but I do have to say #I absolutely love that I’ve become the place for everyone to drop their nikolai and price thoughts #they get sent to me and I deliver them to all the prikolai fans that hang around my page #and it’s a duty I’m more than happy to fulfill #keeping this ship afloat is a community effort and I wouldn’t have any other way #prikolai agenda #prikolai headcanons #prikolai #price x nikolai #captain john price #john price #cod nikolai #call of duty #modern warfare #cod mwii #it’s the crisis talking #askbox

[bee-the-bard]

So much for that idea.

Got myself a treat in the form of Baldur's Gate 3. Made up my mind long before I got it that I would romance Gale. He just seems to be more my type, you know?

Until I found Astarion lounged back on my fucking bedroll. And *then* I let the fucker bite me.

Okay, so plan changed, right? Cos at this point Shadowheart is looking pretty fucking sweet, too, and I happened to read up that both she and Astarion are poly so ...no problem, right? Like, what a life, even with a stupid fucking tadpole in my eye.

But then I got the Mystra scene with Gale. I didn't roll with him, I took the polite way out, but ... goddamn. Now I'm mad at myself, and mad that he isn't poly as well.

I have to hand it to the devs - they've managed to do something Dragon Age has never been able to - give me romance angst. (Ok, technically Inquisition did, but only because the only two people I want to bang are not into chicks. The angst is that there is no romance.)

I already know I'll do multiple runs with the game, but is it going to turn out like DAO and 2? Will I actually be able to romance someone different the next time around? The two sarcastic Fereldens stuck in my heart head tell me it's at best a 50/50 proposition.

#bg3 #Baulder's Gate 3 #the romance angst #I'm not even halfway through Act 1 #why can't Gale be poly? #why? #but like #that's probably why he appealed to me #that kind of personality #over the trainwreck hurts so good that I fucking well expect Astarion to be #but I do have to say #Shadowheart is the biggest surprise #I'm still not decided with her but at this point I'll be surprised if I don't roll with it #I suspect she and Astarion would both be kinky fucks #gods what a life #even with a tadpole in my eye

[oceanera12]

I just want you all to know that I posted two chapters on two separate fics around the same time. And of those two chapters, my blockmen/Minecraft fanfic chapter got more comments than my Batman fanfic chapter.

Like, I can understand why my end note on the Minecraft one might affect those results (I basically just inform everyone that comments are my main form of motivation when it comes to writing stories so if they want faster updates comments are the best way to do that) so this is technically a biased test--

However, I wanted to just let you all know because this morning, when I woke up to the email notifications, guess which fic I worked on all day today? That's right, the one with more comments. I proceeded to knock out the first draft of an entire chapter.

That might not sound impressive except for the fact that I typed *checks word doc* 11,500 words of the *checks again* 14,300.

IN A DAY.

Basically, this is your PSA to all of you fanfic commenters/reviewers that you matter, and please never stop what you are doing because look what you do for us writers, thank you very much!

#fanfiction #fanfics #writers #commenters #fanfic #just a psa #i'm not accusing readers of anything #but i do have to say #that hermitcraft beat batman #soooooo #read into that as you will #where is this motivation during nanowrimo #seriously i'm a fifth of the way there #in a DAY

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

[This got very long, for which I'm very sorry, there was probably a more concise way of putting all of this but I'm bad at it.] Setting aside the questions of whether Harry wants to continue with his Blank Space approach to image (basically unknowable as fans) and whether it's long-term feasible (fascinating but different conversation), I wonder whether you think it's likely to be a successful approach even in the short (ish) term. Of course, Harry is wildly successful right now and I don't want to imply that's not the case or not acknowledge it. But I do think that the attitude towards him has changed, at least in the kind of media and cultural conversations about him. Some of that is I think just due to the fact that he got incredibly popular, but I do think some of it is as a result of choices he's made about how to handle things in the last year.

I tend to think that Holivia (writ large - it, the conversation around it, etc) did in fact harm his image, but I also think a lot of people who think that think it's because Olivia is a bad person and associating with a bad person made people dislike Harry, and I disagree pretty strongly with that explanation. But reading your post about the foundations of Harry's womanizer image made me think about this question slightly differently and maybe realize something. I think you were spot on in describing Caroline Flack and Taylor Swift as two seminal PR relationships in establishing Harry's appeal with women, and I think they both played into female fantasies. Especially, I think about the fact that one of the "dates" Harry and Taylor went on (and one that I still see a lot of pictures of brought out to this day) is the one where they took Lux. I think it was in part meant to soften the womanizer image - like, Harry might sleep with a lot of women, but he's not sleeping with hot models, he likes older women, he likes kids, he's a sensitive womanizer, or a womanizer without edge, maybe?

In any event, I can see how Holivia, in theory, hit some of those themes again - older woman with kids, yes, but the idea being, Harry is okay with women who have power, women who have complicated lives, hitting the liking kids theme again and hinting at a maturity in his image. And yet, it seems to have really fallen short of communicating those themes about Harry to the public, in ways that I think also translated to his broader image. Even though I think a lot of it was rooted in misogyny, it's impossible not to reckon with the fact that Olivia did draw a lot of negative attention and criticism while dating Harry, and I think that's where the Blank Space approach maybe fell apart. A lot of narratives about Holivia sprang up, even outside of Larry circles, that kind of had the effect of "absolving" Harry of dating someone as hated as Olivia. (I find it fascinating that there is a significant story in his fanbase in which Harry is attracted to and dates women and yet Olivia specifically was a PR relationship forced onto him by her/his team.) But there was also the good boyfriend Harry story, where he was in love with Olivia and hurt by her treatment from fans. Those two strands of stories were very inconsistent, in ways that made the Blank Space, leave room for both approach very difficult, if not impossible. I think people were expecting good boyfriend Harry to more definitively signal his support for Olivia and commitment to her, but doing that in a significant or definitive way would have jeopardized the alternative stories. And, for reasons that he knows and we don't, Harry never really seemed willing to definitively signal that support (i.e. at Venice, even just calling her his girlfriend - the most we got were his kind of mild comments about fans making it difficult to date, but that also included the "I don't think I've ever publicly dated anyone" comment so it was kind of a wash overall).

I think in choosing to handle that issue that way, Harry did some damage to his image, because the Blank Space approach seems to hinge on leaving room for multiple plausible positive stories to explain your behavior. Post-Holivia, I think the good boyfriend narrative has warped a little bit and people who believed that story now see him as more of a typical womanizer, and what had previously been believed to be a genuine sensitivity/maturity became perceived as like, a faux-soft fuckboy, because for all his sensitive lyrics when his girlfriend was getting absolutely hammered in the press and by his fans, he still didn't even call her his girlfriend (so how good of a fantasy boyfriend is he really?). I'd also argue this is where the queerbaiting discourse about Harry should be categorized - it's all kind of in the space of, we believed there was more to Harry behind what he showed us publicly and now we think there really is just blank space there, he's not as interesting as we gave him credit for (not saying any of that is either fair or true, but I think that's the undertone to conversations other people are having about him). And on the other side, by continuing to leave open the space for the Harry as victim narrative (and by playing into it with the MFASR mv), that narrative has only continued to grow - the Houdini/caged bird narratives about his upcoming music video (whether official or, more likely, fan-made), the response to the new tour dates. I just think Harry's been remarkably lucky in that the Blank Space approach has allowed for multiple positive narratives to coexist about him without really many negative narratives arising, whereas now it seems to me like, by failing to commit to one of the narratives he was trying to tell, he seems to have undermined the strategy as a whole and allowed for a lot of negative narratives to fill in that space. And I guess I just wonder where he goes from here, if not to actively establish some positive story about himself to combat those negative stories.

Thanks for your thoughts anon - I think they're really interesting and have sparked a few thoughts in me.

I'm going to deal with the Olivia question first and separately I think, before moving on to Harry. I think the important piece you're missing is that Holivia turbo-charged Harry's career and moved him up a level in terms of celebrity. If you're assessing the impact on his career, but only looking at the last six months, you'll miss entirely.

In terms of the questions you ask about Harry - I think it is a really interesting one. The idea you seem to be exploring is that by being too much of a blank slate has backfired and allowed negative narratives to rise up.

I think I'd question a little bit some of the timing. When it comes to 'queerbaiting' - I think you're suggesting that the people who are responding to Harry in that way used to think that there was more to him, and have become persuaded that there's not. I actually don't think that's what is driving the 'queerbaiting' discourse. I think it almost exclusively comes from people who have had a vague idea of Harry and are now really thinking about him in any sort of way for the first time when he's on the cover of Vogue in a dress. It's people who are annoyed by Harry who are justifying it - rather than people who are invested in him (one of the many reasons why 'queerbaiting' is a terrible term and a terrible way of understanding the world).

More generally - I think it's possible that the last six months has had an impact on Harry's image, but it's way to soon to tell. It's certainly had an impact on the way he's talked about. The Guardian opened it's paragraph naming As it Was the fifth best song of 2022 'In some ways it’s been a hard year to be Harry'. But the Guardian is not the world - and I don't think there's any way of telling if it's made a difference to either the fans or casual listeners, which is what's important to his career. We may get a sign if ticket sales are soft, but I suspect we won't have any way of knowing until we see how his next major project is received.

#There's a lot I could respond to here #but I do have to say #the idea that Harry had a 'womaniser' image #is one of my beserker buttons #I don't think it's a useful starting point #and is getting in the way of understanding what's going on

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

#ramble #if you say unalive in front of me i will personally kill you with my hands #you just can't muffle and censor and hold someone's hand through some things #some things are horrible. and they should be spoken aloud and they should upset you. because they are horrible #the second we started kidzbopifying the world was the end of taking anything seriously i think #i'm not even joking i've spoken to people older than me who won't even say the world sex #this isn't the playground you're not going to get in trouble just let us say the word!!!!!! #how am i supposed to listen to you when you won't even say the thing you're supposed to be talking about #yes this is the fault of the platforms with their censorship rules but the fact that we all just go along with it like it's not dystopian #you do know it doesn't stop with cursing right. people are already having to censor queer terms because they get flagged as inappropriate

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

#spilled ink #warm up #“why did u tag it warm up” bc i wrote it off the cuff while drinkin coffee lol #btw the 30 dollar buy in for the dog walking is bc they pay the organizer a small pittance so she can #run fb ads and stuff and like she does put in a lot of work i don't mind paying her #but that's exactly what im fucking talking about like. #ppl can't afford to volunteer their time anymore and we all understand it!!! everything costs money for everyone! #like we didn't have to use to say ''do you mind paying me back for the stuff we ate'' #we used to be able to afford to feed our friends once in a while!!!

[spyglassrealms]

had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing

#normally I don't chronicle my dreams here but fucking hell that one was funny #I think this would genuinely make tumblr better tbh #@ staff do this cowards #spy has thoughts #my life is a sitcom and i am my own laugh track #functional website #spy's smash hits #Glock function #edit for everyone in the notes saying 'everyone clapped' #I know I can't prove to you that it happened for real you're just gonna have to trust me on this #but I swear on my goddamn life I'm not making this up #I make so many conscious puns that sometimes my subconscious cooks up a real good one

[spitblaze]

I don't see people gas up gnc and butch transfems nearly enough, can we get a fuckin round of applause for gnc and butch transfems

#spitblaze says things #transgender #transfem #mtf #several very good friends of mine are butch/gnc transfems and they both rule immensely #also theres just not enough appreciation for butch/gnc women generally but especially not transfem ones #not to do performative activism while having a post about not being a performative activist going around #i just wanna shout out a group that i feel is often overlooked #doin numbers

[areyouscaredyet]

im not particularly religious but i think it’s very cute that Trans Day of Visibility and Easter are on the same day this year :)

its no question that something like this could be triggering or upsetting to a number of queer ppl given the current sociopolitical climate, so i want everyone to remember that u are loved! Regardless of what u or others believe, there are ppl who will love and support you always. Give yourself patience and treat yourself with care!!!

happy and peaceful TDOV everyone!! And Easter to those who celebrate :D

#sorry for treating Jesus like an anime character #trans day of visibility #tdov #easter #Jesus is actually very fun to draw #I have no idea how to tag this because what do I even say #lgbtqia #religion #Jesus #christianity #christian imagery #sorry for all the tags I just wanna make sure ppl can filter this if they don’t wanna see it lol #i drawd this

[mamawasatesttube]

BTW... PSA.... even if we arent mutuals if youre in my notes regularly theres a Very high chance i am still fond of you. yes im vaguing someones tags on the compliment the person u rbed this from post. but like. positive vaguing? THE POINT IS im weird abt following ppl but IM STILL SENDING U FOND VIBES...

#i have to acclimate myself into following people. first i have to spend a few days to weeks checking someones blog manually #and i cant follow too many new people in the same burst or else theres TOO MUCH new unfamiliarity on my dash #and i become a small and easily frightened beast alarmed by change #also im just....................... incredibly picky kjhsdkjjkdsj sometimes ppl i generally am :)! towards do occasionally rb #from someone who i want to throw bricks at. and then i cant follow them but im still :)! when i see them in notifs #and sometimes its just that im going AAAA!!! AAAA!!! and cant put more new things on my dash #or in some cases its someone im fond of seeing/chatting w whenever we have talked BUT they simply are also into stuff im not rly into #and i dont want it on my dash despite liking them as a person. etc. you know how it is #ALL OF WHICH TO SAY................... :)! #rimi talks

[stil-lindigo]

Bisan is calling for another global strike!

I saw some posts just outlining Jan 21st, and wanted to clarify that Bisan has called for a full seven days of action.

What a global strike would look like is:

calling in sick to work

purchasing bare essentials ahead of the week so you can observe the general boycott of goods / buying as little as you genuinely can

putting in a concerted effort to elevate Palestinian voices and make it clear that this strike is in support of a permanent ceasefire!

For those who will have to purchase necessary goods during this time, please observe the brands that the BDS movement is asking us to boycott!

♢♢♢

Right now is also a good time to mention some better uses for your money during this week.

Available e-sims in Gaza are running low!!

Mirna El Helbawi and her team are working round the clock to continue to connect Palestinians as Israel does its best to cut them off from the rest of the world.

You can learn how to purchase and send e-sims here, and below you’ll find a list of what is currently needed (the areas in brackets indicate what region you should select to buy e-sims in).

--

CareforGaza is an organisation that does verifiably good work, distributing supplies directly to Palestinian families.

They have a Gofundme set up at the moment, but because of Gofundme’s poor track record regarding refusing to transfer funds to Palestinians, I’d recommend continuing to donate directly to their PayPal here.

Good luck to all of you. Don't turn away from Palestine!

#i know that for some people their first instinct will be to scoff. how can anyone just not buy things for a full week? #what about groceries? rent? #and personally. i wanna say yes. there are some things that we have to spend money on to survive. #but it is possible still to make a concerted effort in your life #to carve out seven days where you can minimise that amount of money #i know its a lot. #for some people who are living on a tight budget. i know its not possible and i dont fault you for that #but i know for a fact that so many of us would be able to take out a few daily purchases in observance of this strike #do your best #dont turn away from palestine #free palestine #palestine #from the river to the sea #call to action

[oars]

#i feel like tge fact im apprehensive about posting this is kinda proving my point #the way everyone talks about both weight gain and weight loss is just horrendous #like idek if i could fit all i wanna say in here especially while im at work but #i so badly wish people could be normal about weight gain and talking about it #its like if youre not in some constant state of wanting to lose weight people want to kill you #god forbid you want to put on weight to feel more comfortable in your body outside of muscles and a butt #fatphobia is a given thats a whole other few paragraphs #im grateful i have mutuals and friends who are normal but ill have or hear these convos and go #ok i feel sick. why do i feel this way why do you feel that way. #anyways i think fatphobia is one of the worst things to ever happen

[mydairpercabeth]

season 4 is gonna hurt me i fear

#WHY WOULD THEY SAY THIS??? #if i had to see this so do you #percy really is his favorite child ever #thats his baby boy #pride is not the word im looking for #he would have hades build him the best place in elysium #anyways back to sobbing #percy jackson #poseidon #the great prophecy #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson the lightning thief #pjo tv #percy series #pjo tv show #battle of the labyrinth #percy jackson and the battle of the labyrinth #the last olympian #percy jackson the last olympian