#i'd appreciate a reblog though!

[cthulhu-with-a-fez]

hey, everybody!

no pressure or obligation to act on this, but my family is doing a really cool thing and i'm trying to spread the word about it!

a team of my cousins are preparing to run the berlin marathon together, and they're representing (and raising money for!) two substance abuse and addiction recovery organizations: Release Recovery in new york, and the High Watch Recovery Center in connecticut, where two of my family members currently work. we're all really proud of what they're doing, and i'm trying to do my bit to help out!

i linked my cousin sean's page above, he's come a long way down an incredibly difficult road of recovery so this cause is near and dear to his and all of our hearts. i'd also encourage reading my other cousins' pages as well! sparky's, john's, and katrina's are for High Watch too, while david's and bryan's are for Release Recovery.

if you wanted to send a single donation to be split evenly between them all, though, john has volunteered to organize that through his venmo @John-McGowan-6 to make it easier!!

again, obviously no pressure to donate, i know we're all basically passing the same $20 bill around in circles, but it's a really fantastic cause spearheaded by some genuinely good people in my family and i just want to do my best to get the word out for them - i would super appreciate it if anyone's willing to pitch in!

#addiction recovery #addiction awareness #berlin marathon #fundraising #fundraiser #charity #donations #signal boost #pitch in to support my cousins if you can!! i'd really appreciate it #but no worries if you can't #i'd appreciate a reblog though! #posts by cwaf

[nerdacious]

I screwed myself over by posting my fic all at once instead of one chapter at a time. So here’s my shameless self promotion!

We’ve got:

What if Harry didn’t recruit Kim? (Post game, so spoilers)

Pining Kim is a mental wreck

Kim’s notebook (What’s in there?!)

Precinct 57 (featuring 2/3 of the Aces and Alice)

Imaginary Harry being a menace

La Revacholiere works in mysterious ways and is very tired

How Kim Got His Groove Back

“Martin Martinaise” makes you feel special

Some angst with a side of porn

Kim/Harry in a Kim/Smoker suit and also a secret third thing???

The sequel is complete!

You can find it here: Call Me By His Name

#If you like it and feel inclined I'd appreciate a reblog #no pressure though #also if you like it I love Kudos don’t let anyone tell you authors don’t like kudos #I'm open to constructive feedback in my DMs too #disco elysium #disco elysium fic #kim kitsuragi #the smoker on the balcony #martin martinaise #kimharry #harrykim #kim/harry #kim/smoker on the balcony #kim/smoker #de fanfic #my fic #fanfiction

[justsomeunsurefancat]

ALRIGHT IT'S FINISHED I MADE A CLERITH DRAWING

I love them so much <3

This is probably the most complex thing i've drawn in my entire life. It took me... I think the program said like 16 hours. This originally started as just a doodle to try and draw two people together, since I never do that, then I thought "hey, it'd look cute if I made a little background" then one thing got to the other and... here we are.

It took me a lot to make the lighting and i'm still not 100% pleased with how it turned out, i wanted it to look more... sunsety? i think? but i would've never finished it if I kept overthinking it. Also I'm... happy with the result, it worked hard and I do like it.

#also if you're reading this i'd be very happy if you could reblog it instead of just liking i'd appreciate it a ton #honestly i give myself a bit of extra credit because I did this on my phone and I only started drawing there recently #also ibis paint sucks for making gradients #still a good program though #final fantasy 7 #final fantasy vii #cloud strife #aerith gainsborough #ff7 fanart #ffvii fanart #clerith #cloud x aerith #my art

[haxxydraws]

Wahoo! Some characters I know, some characters I dig the vibe of, all characters that were fun to draw!

Names and sources below the cut

Shiver | Splatoon 3

Din Djarin | The Mandalorian

Alucard / Adrian Tepes | Castlevania

Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing | Hellsing

Nadja of Antipaxos | What We Do in the Shadows

Gregor | Limbus Company

Also pinging the people who requested these characters

@kitsugami @f-a-b-l-e @gatored @manywinged @fat-fem-and-asian @noro-noro-noro

Thank you to everyone else who also gave suggestions!

#fanart #shiver #splatoon 3 #din djarin #the mandalorian #adrian tepes #castlevania #integra hellsing #hellsing #nadja of antipaxos #what we do in the shadows #gregor #limbus company #painted #2023 #this was a lot of fun but my wrist is sooo mad at me for doing these all at once sjdkfl #i dont generally req reblogs but if you're up to reblogging this i'd appreciate it! (if not no sweat though /gen) #im just proud of how this turned out

[cauterizedpod]

Welcome to the year 3000,

A lot's changed and they live underwater, but I hear your great, great, great granddaughters aren't doing fine 💔

A new science-fiction/horror/survival audio-drama about the things we leave behind and things we've yet to discover: Cauterized

Some MP3 players hold up surprisingly well after 2000 years!

More info to come soon! Produced currently by one very passionate mom

#audio drama #Spotify #audio fiction #cauterized #fictional podcast #Hi there I'm new here! #I've worked on this project for 6yrs and have a wonderful team of really cool people behind me #I'd really appreciate any advice and any reblogs #Don't worry though there's a LOT coming your way 💕 #Horror #Science fiction #Oh and I'm looking for people trying to get their music out there. Right now the soundtrack is from friends but I've got big plans #You know It Makes A Sound? Well here's a completely different plot but a similar premise. Music and art brings us together #Feel free to send me any questions #I already have the first 3 songs<3 #(and year 3000 is not one of them ;) ) #I'm getting all the accounts set up right now #Happy social launch day! 💜

[drawbudd]

please reblog this post with a character (or ship) and what song you associate with them!!

i don't mean like ''oh yeah this suits them'' (although you're free to name multiple songs and talk about why if you want to though! this is a character appreciation post foremost!!), but more something like every time you listen to that song now, even if you're not even in that fandom anymore, it will always be their song to you

i'll start with one that's been on my mind for ages, and that's huntlow and ''golden hour'' by JVKE

#wow actually me talking #playlist #i also kinda associate ''where the watermelons rot'' by Madelynn Whitt with Philip Wittebane but not so strongly that i'd say its his song #definitely an honorable mention though #(as you can tell owl house has definitely been on my mind sisfeiufe) #but yeah definitely go ahead and reblog this post with your fave and their song!! #i'd love to see the perspective and maybe even discover some new songs along the way #and don't think ''ohhh but my blorbo is cringe :('' look at me #in this house we appreciate characters and the magic of creating stories and in turn the stories make who we are!!! #it could be the fucking Cucumber from Veggietales for all i care

[liesonthefloordramatically]

went to get my traditional “I am so jetlagged and need to consume A Dinner” meal (really good tenpura place that I adore) and the usual waitress wasn’t there (understandable, it has been four years) but it did mean that this guy legitimately tried to explain how to eat tenpura to me despite me multiple times saying that I speak Japanese, have been to Japan many times, and know how to eat tenpura

#I'd appreciate it if people didn't reblog this; thanks #this is one of the many reasons that I don't enjoy Tokyo #like it's very sweet that people try to be helpful but when they insist on being 'helpful' when it's obvious that I don't actually need help #that's actually just extremely annoying and kind of condescending #I promise that I know what salt is my guy. I do in fact understand how salt works. #in Nagoya people are so terrified to see a foreigner that the second it becomes obvious that I speak Japanese they just treat me normally #Queenie actually says something on this blog #I do miss the old waitress even though she A. saw me cry about tenpura multiple times #B. she once apologized to me when they overhauled the menu and eliminated my favorite set lksjlfdusaoifdusao #(I was mostly mortified that I was so memorable)

[justanothadeadbloginthevoid]

I've got a few post queued with my art thats up on my redbubble since they're having a sale this week ^-^

Honestly kinda bummed that so much of my warrior cats art got copyright struck after a while. A few remain but the sets are clearly broken up. I'm tempted to re-upload but I don't want further action. They were absolutely bestsellers, esp the galaxy riverclan logo for some reason lol

Anyway, I've got other Fandom stuff and some original work up there, so hopefully some of it is still appealing.

#i know i should upkeep #and push my shop more #its such a casual thing for me #but hey I'm giving it anothwr poke lol #and I might look into printing and ordering something like stickers independently #like bulk #but thats a whole new thing to learn #i do appreciste redbubble #A. handling all manufacturing and shipping #and #B. being a proxy for the copyright studd #stuff*** #a shame its so inconsistently enforced #this post is mostly vent #I'd appreciate reblogs on the art as it gets posted though ^-^

[dewitty1]

Saturday Six (Stuff)

The Dude (@super-ultra-mega-kami-guru-blog) comes home Monday night!( ´͈ ॢꇴ `͈ॢ)･*♡

I guess the kittehs have been good company. Leeloo has been a typical kitten aka a terror. (^・ω・^ )

As much as I don't want my parents to interfere in my business I do want my mom to ask her bestie, WTF, because I did an estimate for her and I have heard back and I need money like now. Mom said no, and rightfully so, but still, lol.（’-’*)

Speaking of parents, Mom asked me to come hang out at their old people gratitude dinner today. Umm, yeah no thanks. Once was enough. I'm fine hanging out with myself.٩(•̤̀ᵕ•̤́๑)ᵒᵏᵎᵎᵎᵎ

Seriously the worst part of being a small business person is worrying about money. We hates it.( •̀ω•́ )σ

And even though he's a jerk about it, Dad is helping me get tires on my car. That's one good thing, he'll always keep the car up. Though he still calls it "his" car. s(・｀ヘ´・;)ゞ

Bonus: Happy End of Daylight Saving Time weekend! Tonight most of the USA imitates Cher and turns back time, the Standard clock. WHEEEE. (not fun. We hates the dark) (´～`)

#Saturday Six #About me #Personal #November 4 2023 #please do not reblog #Carey rambles about life and stuff and her parents and it's amazing that her mom actually thought that she might be a little lonely which y #But I do not want to hang out with a bunch of old - now sober - drunks - most of whom are jerks anyway and have a pseudo Thanksgiving #I'd rather do accounting - which I actively LOATHE lolololol #And I'm making chili (con carne & frijoles for you sticklers) #so yeah anyway #I'm excited for the dude to come home #I guess - though it's been nice having the house to myself #I hooe their dad has talked to them about working 🙏 #Alrighty enough rambles in the tags #I hope you have a great day or night wherever you are #Don't let the current events happening get you down #I hope all your loved ones are safe #Hugssss from mom or just a friend whatever you need right now ٩(๑•◡-๑)۶ⒽⓤⒼ❤💜 💙 💚 💛 ❤️ 💕 💖 #I appreciate y'all reading my nonsensical ramblings every time I throw them out! 💗 #Now back to your regularly scheduled programming

[aggressive-almond-cookie]

So hey, those of you that have played through both Octo Expansion and Alterna, how do you feel like they compare in difficulty to each other? (I guess it might also be useful to compare 'difficulty to complete the main storyline' and 'difficulty to 100%' as separate categories, though I'm curious about either one.) The general impression that I have is that Octo is harder, which makes sense since it’s an expansion, but I don't really have a gauge on how much harder or which aspects of it are harder. So if you have any thoughts/anecdotes/experiences/comparisons you don’t mind sharing I’d love to hear them.

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #octo expansion #I've already spoilered myself on all the octo story content but #kind of trying to figure out if I would completely demoralize myself trying to play octo #I mean I probably will eventually anyway but #I'd like to know how much to brace myself lol #I loved alterna and I want more of that but I'm also just not great at the game #also I'd dearly appreciate reblogs if it would fit your blog #on the offchance I get more people willing to share out of it #only if you want to though #!!

[lexicog]

hey who want this as a sticker

#art #cat #creature #doodle #digital art #merch #stickers #my art #drew this to test new brush settings cause im frustrated with how slow i draw... it helped a bit but it wasn't good for some stuff #like the end of the tail for my life i could not line it right so i had to just use my usual brush #which i still need for cleaning up rough spots and rounding corners too. argh #anyway if it peaks interest. i would make pride flag versions with the stripes of the flag on the tail... and maybe the paws get some color #so just imagine how awesome that. #reblogs are really appreciated i'd love to get a good interest check #like only if you want though (bashful voice) (gaze averted) (gluteal cheeks blushed)

[paperhats-and-evil-schemes]

Nosy anon here, wondering if you perhaps have any snippets of your recent fic stuff that you'd like to share? Totally no worries if the answer is no though, of course! Only if you wanna. :)

As much as I do appreciate the enthusiasm, I don't think I'm feeling up to posting fanfic stuff again quite yet. I don't really have a particular reason to give as to why, just kind of not in that headspace as of right now, sorry... ┐(=w=;)┌ Maybe another day! Just not right now. Again, I still do really appreciate the love, though! <3

#I'm not sure if I have a lot of spoiler-free scenes that are finished enough to share right now anyway #Been kinda just working on the angst or hurt/comfort side of things right now because that's where my energy's at I guess #And that stuff's all riddled with spoilers #But I will keep your ask in mind and try to remember to pin any scenes that might have good snippets for sharing in the future #(🖒^^) #OP #tbh the next thing I'd probably be sharing is those doodles I did forever ago of WH and his summoner #But that's also in a state of 'not quite feeling it yet' in terms of posting so yeah probably not for a little while anyway #Idk. Brain shit's weird. #As usual I can't guarantee any timeframe of when I'll feel more up to it but I will keep it in mind all the same lol #I'm still going to try and queue up all the other people's content I have saved in my drafts though lol #So much cool art guys omg #I've got like a hundred posts saved in my drafts for reblogging #I'M SORRY FOR ALL THE OLD POSTS I'M GONNA REBLOG I JUST WANNA APPRECIATE THE COOL CONTENT I MISSED KDFJDKSXD

[eisthenameofme]

Someone just put exclusionist bullshit on my dash so:

.There is nothing bad about microlables, and they don't in any way prevent overarching queer solidarity and recognition of shared experiences just by virtue of existing. The entire point of including those labels is to make it clear they are /included/. It is intentional solidarity with them. That is the point. It's exclusionary rhetoric you're thinking of that prevents queer solidarity. (What microlabels do is help to enable people to talk about their specific experience within that microlable, and realize that there is that shared experience in the first place).

.Personal identities are just that, and if an individual for whatever reason wants to use two terms that seem to you to be contradictory, it's perfectly within their rights to do so (you are not the arbitrator of anyone else's identity. You almost certainly don't even know what their reasoning is, and either way they don't owe you an explanation about it in the first place. Yes this includes bi lesbians, and any other combination of identities you personally dislike). Words mean things, but their definitions are not rigid, least of all when they are used to describe something so complex and variable as personal identity. If someone is basing their identity on a word, they clearly have identified something about it that resonates with their personal experience, regardless of whether you, a random stranger, understand or relate to it.

.It is biphobic for someone to say bi people can only like two genders or can't like all genders or are transphobic for being bi; it is panphobic to say that pan people are biphobic, or transphobic, or homophobic for existing. Also, speaking of preventing solidarity, stop trying to pit bi and pan people against each other.

.criticism of a queer identity is not "rightful", and it being "well meant" or not is irrelevant. No they are not hurting you by existing. No they are not hurting the queer community by existing. They are also not being solipsistic just because they want a more specific word to describe and discuss their personal experiences. No matter how weird and unnecessary you personally think it is. Exclusionists like you, on the other hand, are doing an excellent job of trying to prevent solidarity with people who do use those labels.

.the comodification of pride is a problem. Microlables are not the impetus for that. You're thinking of capitalism.

.microlables are not the thing centering discussions in queer spaces around whether something is "valid". It /is/ usually exclusionist rhetoric like yours fueling the idea that it's a necessary discussion in the first place, though. ("Well intentioned" criticism of personal identities does tend to result in people responding that there's nothing wrong with their identity, actually)

. Queer people don't have to change how they present their identity to be more palatable to you, and it's queerphobic for you to expect or demand that they do. Yes even those ones. Fuck off.

#yes this is vaguing someone specific. Go fuck yourself #also love seeing repackaged exclusionist ace discourse bullshit from the mid 2010s. #i dont know what to tag this. #queerphobia #tell me if you think anything specific should be tagged #mypost #anyway im back on my anti-exclusionist bullshit apparently #also i have half this fucking site block how did one of these fuckers find their way to my dash #just adding here because i saw someone checking in the notes- #yes its fine to reblog; i dont really put things on tumblr if I'd take issue with it being reblogged #and if i did id mention it in the post so people know #appreciate you checking though

[makerofmadness]

I feel like venting a bit right now because I just remembered something that brought back some bad memories:

Being in like elementary/middle school (I can't remember which exactly) during the US travel ban with the Middle East, as a Persian kid, was... I'm not sure if I can say terrifying, but it was certainly stressful. Especially when a lot of the other kids in my class where like. conservative/in conservative families and obviously very pro-trump. I remember talking about it and complaining about it (though obviously I had a somewhat limited understanding since I was in like 5th/6th grade at the time) and them just defending it and it was so frustrating to sit through.

Like they wanted to keep out immigrants from Middle Eastern countries, and both my parents were immigrants from Iran. it felt really tense for me, and I was just a young kid who didn't even really understand why the ban was happening in the first place.

like I was just lucky that pretty much any family member I ever really interacted with lived outside of Iran because if they didn't then I would've been cut off from seeing them. I knew another Persian kid (his family and mine are friends) and I remember him talking about how his grandparents weren't able to visit him because of the travel ban. and yet I still had to deal with several classmates trying to justify it constantly. They didn't care.

It's making me feel sick just thinking about it. Like, especially since most of the kids who were like that also picked on me a lot later down the line (I'm not sure if it was specifically because I'm Persian, I was openly bi and had undiagnosed autism. I feel like it would've been easier to recognize if it was targeted at me for being Persian if there was like a concrete term for discrimination like that but I don't think there is one [it's not racism, we're considered white in the US, and xenophobia doesn't feel quite right to me 'cus it's defined as hatred of people from other countries and I was born in the USA).

I'm not sure if I'd exactly call it traumatic but it was definitely a deeply distressing experience at least.

#Ask to tag #btw if anyone is wondering this is okay to reblog (and even add onto if you've had similar experiences) I'd honestly want more people to #see this since I never really see this stuff talked about here and I feel like more people should know how this impacted kids like me #I guess. I don't know I just would appreciate feeling seen I guess. #though I will request that people not call this the Muslim travel ban because I know it was targeted at/meant to keep out Muslims but #like I don't consider myself Muslim (my dad does I think and my mom used to but no longer wishes to be associated because of extremists) #It still felt targeted at me and people like me y'know???? #Sorry this was serious I need to distract myself now

[irawhiti]

while everyone's rightfully talking about oppenheimer and its flaws regarding the erasure of japanese and native american voices regarding nuclear testing and detonations, i'd like to bring up the fact that pacific islanders have also been severely impacted by nuclear testing under the pacific proving grounds, a name given by the US to a number of sites in the pacific that were designated for testing nuclear weapons after the second world war, at least 318 of which were dropped on our ancestral homes and people. i would like if more people talked about this.

important sections are bolded for ease of reading. i would appreciate this being reblogged since it's a bit alarming how few people know about this.

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in 1946, the indigenous peoples of pikinni (the bikini atoll) were forcibly relocated off of their islands so that nuclear tests could be run on the atoll. at least 23 nuclear bombs were detonated on this inhabited island chain, including 20 hydrogen bombs. many pasifika were irreversibly irradiated, all of them were starved during multiple forced relocations, and the island chain is still unsafe to live on despite multiple cleanup attempts. there are several craters visible from space that were left on the atoll from nuclear testing.

the forced relocation was to several different small and previously uninhabited islands over several decades, none of which were able to sustain traditional lifestyles which directly lead to further starvation and loss of culture and identity. there is a reason that pacific islanders choose specific islands to inhabit including access to fresh water, food, shelter, cloth and fibre, climate, etc. and obviously none of these reasons were taken into account during the displacements.

200 pikinni were eventually moved back to the atoll in the 1970s but dangerous levels of strontium-90 were found in drinking water in 1978 and the inhabitants were found to have abnormally high levels of caesium-137 in their bodies.

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i'm going to put the rest of this post under a readmore to improve the chances of this being reblogged by the general public. i would recommend you read the entirety of the post since it really isn't long and goes into detail about, say, entire islands being fully, utterly destroyed. like, wiped off of the map. without exaggeration, entire islands were disintegrated.

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as i just mentioned, ānewetak (the eniwetok atoll) was bombed so violently that an entire island, āllokļap, was permanently and completely destroyed. an entire island. it's just GONE. the world's first hydrogen bomb was tested on this island. the crater is visibly larger than any of the islands next to it, more than a mile in diameter and roughly fifteen storeys deep. the hydrogen bomb released roughly 700 times the energy released during the bombing of hiroshima. this would, of course, be later outdone by other hydrogen bombs dropped on the pacific, reaching over 1000 times the energy released.

one attempt to clean up the waste on ānewetak was the construction of a large ~380ft dome, colloquially known as the tomb, on runit island. the island has been essentially turned into a nuclear waste dump where several other islands of ānewetak have moved irradiated soil to and, due to climate change, rising seawater is beginning to seep into the dome, causing nuclear waste to leak out. along with this, if a large typhoon were to hit the dome, there would be a catastrophic failure followed by a leak of nuclear waste into the surrounding land, drinking water, and ocean. the tomb was built haphazardly and quickly to cut costs.

hey, though, there's a plus side! the water in the lagoon and the soil surrounding the tomb is far more radioactive than the currently contained radioactive waste. a typhoon wouldn't cause (much) worse irradiation than the locals and ocean already currently experience, anyway! it's already gone to shit! and who cares, right, the only ""concern"" is that it will just further poison the drinking water of the locals with radioactive materials. this can just be handwaved off as a nonissue, i guess. /s

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at least 36 bombs were detonated in the general vicinity of kiritimati (christmas island) and johnson atoll. while johnson atoll has seemingly never been inhabited by polynesians, kiritimati was used intermittently by polynesians (and later on, micronesians) for several hundred years. many islands in the pacific were inhabited seasonally and likewise many pacific islanders should be classified as nomadic but it has always been convenient for the goal of white supremacy and imperalism to claim that semi-inhabited areas are completely uninhabited, claimable pieces of terra nullius.

regardless of the current lack of inhabitants on these islands, the nuclear detonations have caused widespread ecological damage to otherwise delicate island ecosystems and have further spread nuclear fallout across the entirety of the pacific ocean.

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while the marshall islands, micronesia, and the surrounding areas of melanesia and polynesia were (and still are) by far the worst affected by these atrocities, the entirety of the pacific has been irradiated to some extent due to ocean/wind currents freely spreading nuclear fallout through the water and air. all in all, at least 318 nuclear bombs were detonated across the pacific. i say "at least" because these are just the events that have been declassified and frankly? i wouldn't be shocked to find out they didn't stop there.

please don't leave the atomic destruction of the pacific out of this conversation. we've been displaced, irradiated, murdered, poisoned, and otherwise mass exterminated by nuclear testing on purpose and we are still suffering because of it. many of us have radiation poisoning, many of us have no safe ancestral home anymore. i cannot fucking state this enough, ISLANDS WERE DISINTEGRATED INTO NONEXISTENCE.

look, this isn't blaming people for not talking about us or knowing the extent of these issues, but it's... insidiously ironic that i haven't seen a single post that even mentions pacific islanders in a conversation about indigenous voices/voices of colour being ignored when it comes to nuclear tests and the devastation they've caused.

#ask to tag. i understand this is heavy and i've tried to tag accordingly #oppenheimer #oppenheimer 2023 #pasifika #micronesian #melanesian #polynesian #pacific islands #indigenous #pacific ocean #pacific proving grounds #racism #imperialism #genocide #nuclear weapons #indigenous genocide #nuclear #nuclear bomb #us imperialism #displacement #nuclear imperialism

[liesonthefloordramatically]

GOT FLAGGED FOR CREDIT CARD FRAUD AGAIN

THIS IS MY VILLAIN ORIGIN STORY

#I'd appreciate it if people didn't reblog this; thanks #I had to call them A THIRD TIME to be like 'hey. please let me use my frickin' credit card.' #the only good news is that apparently it's like 140 yen to the dollar right now #so maybe I'll be able to cover more of this with my research funds than I originally thought lksjfdusaofusaou #anyway. UGH. I still need to call again to make sure that they actually put the travel notice on my account #even though I've set it online I do not trust that it will actually go into effect >:((((( #Queenie actually says something on this blog