#its free for you and takes seconds to do

[greencarnation]

I went to an Ilan Pappé talk yesterdays - I really recommend his books if you've not checked them out already. He's arguably one of the worlds leading experts on Zionism and the "Israel"-Palestine conflict, so obviously everything he said was great, but what I want to highlight:

Someone asked him if he thought the protests and petitions and calling you reps and shit would work, and he said no, it never will. It's still important to do that but the powerful will never surrender their power to the powerless just because they ask for it. Asking the UK and the US to cut ties with their imperial outpost in the Middle East is like asking an animal to gnaw off it's own limb - it won't do it unless its only other choice is dying completely.

So who does have the power to put a stop to this, we asked. The working class of the imperial core. That's us, and we are the most powerful people in the world right now, because this war machine can't function without us. Movements like this can only be built from the ground up, so stop looking to the government and start looking to your community. We need to make it more unprofitable to support Israel than it is to cut ties with it.

This is a call to action. The people HAVE the power, and we have to use it. Yes, that's you. Contact your trade union, your workplace, your school, your church, your university. Your friends, family, any connections you have. As many people on board as possible, with one goal: shut it down. Take direct action now.

#were seeing this all over the world so i know we know all this but it bears repeating #stop lamenting on how you wish you could do more. you can #the power is with you #we have to stop begging the government and take it into our own hands #idk we could do so much more #your voice matters it really reallt does #also don't let yourself get distracted #i keep seeing that thing w the watermelon filter on tiktok that apparently raises money #and like sure do that if u have a second #but it isn't really helping palestine because none of that money is getting through #its just another thing keeping you distracted #idk man #ill make a post more abt direct action and shit and what you can do in your community #and what to push for in your school uni ect #anyway yeah #palestine #gaza #israel #free palestine #ilan pappe #mine

[sea-buns]

Forgive me if I'm a bit nervous about Gorgug this season. It's just that the last Zac Oyama pc was Colin Provolone, who was arguably one of his greatest D20 performances, if not the greatest.

Zac always does great with every pc he plays, but Colin was something else. He came out swinging with actions and words that were teeming with unspoken emotional baggage. The way Colin's presence affected the other pcs; there was this level of depth that I don't think I've seen in any of his other characters. It was understated and quiet in that signature "just a guy" way that he tends to be, while still captivating everyone instantly with just how raw it was.

Not to say we haven't seen emotional depth in Gorgug. It's just that, compared to the other Bad Kids, Gorgug's journey and progression as a character has been very... impersonal? Like, yes, he found his birth parents, and he found friends who appreciate him, and he faced his insecurities about his intelligence, and he navigated relationship troubles, and his trial through the claustrophobic bug-tunnels was a horrifically-uncanny parallel to how he's spent his entire life trying to make himself as small as possible.

But how much of that has actually changed him from the Gorgug we started with? I would agree that he's definitely happier with his life, given all the loving and supportive people that have been added to it when it used to be just him and his parents. And he's certainly grown into himself and become more self-assured in his abilities, even if he's still, and always will be, our anxious little guy. And there's nothing wrong with that. I've always liked how Gorgug was a representation of all the little things. The subtle acts and kindnesses that don't seem like much to most, but to some are everything.

We don't need another Bad Kid living in fear that their mouth could be shit-in at any moment. We've already got one-too-many.

All that being said, I just feel like Gorgug's personal story beats are much easier to sweep under the rug than everyone else's. He has the same soft and understated quality that Colin held, but they lack that extra oomph that pushed Colin over the edge from being just another guy in a series of dudes, to a character that the vast majority of us could not get out of our heads. He took someone who was anxious and softspoken, who ultimately never wanted to be violent— someone who is remarkably similar to Gorgug in many ways— and maintained that demeanor and core in Colin's character while still hitting us in the feels with character development at max velocity at every turn.

I think Zac gets better and better at this with every season that goes by. With each new character, there is always something that leaves me stunned in awe. And it's been, what, three? Four years since we last saw Gorgug?

I'm just,,, I'm cautiously optimistic but also going into a bit of a worry about what violence this man may inflict upon us

#i got SO carried away LMAO #i dont think ive ever written any posts about gorgug specifically #i made a lot about colin. and some about pib. and some more about zacs performances in general. #but never anything gorgug-focused. i just wasnt on tumblr at those other times that hed been on my mind like this #you can tell i still couldnt resist talking about colin lol #he was just so fucking good. a fantastic character all around. i cant imagine a better example to get my point across than him #when i do posts like this its all very much just me taking a vague idea and working with whatever comes out in the moment #so when i tell you i very much did not plan to get lost in the counterargument and had to stop for a second to remember what my point was #my point still stands but so does everything else #you dont realize it. how similar gorgug and colin really are. or how metaphorical the bug tunnel was. #or how gorgug IS the epitome of little details. small acts. quiet rights and wrongs. the faint causes and the even subtler effects. #u dont truly realize it until youre writing it yourself in a free flow fugue state and it all comes to a halt cuz youve blown your own mind #anyway i love gorgug and i love zac pcs and i hope this post makes sense cuz finding the right words was fucking hard hah #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fantasy high sophomore year #fhsy #gorgug thistlespring #the ravening war #trw #colin provolone #zac oyama

[b4kuch1n]

blood loss edition

#sk8 the infinity #kyan reki #hasegawa langa #renga #colloquially. like gesturing towards a signifier of a signifier of a story told long before. youre not getting more out of me than that #ft. tố linh (and them in yuutoverse for a hot second) #if u wonder what a dirt historian is. stay tuned <3 #that thing reki does in the first page is a real thing everyone here's convinced of btw #like. free hangin from a bar by ur arms will make u taller #also I literally did not mean to design amy and linh Like That. I did Not mean for them to be. Like That #but I am happy that I did. bc I love their design and they play well with yuuto #the last page is. some extremely disorganized Thoughts from a thing I kinda wanna write #maybe not right now. but eventually #I guess it's also mostly like. one more love letter to the siblings out there. it has to do with reki getting #underground basically illegal T shots at S lmao #shakes u by the collar we're not going anywhere! I love you!! everything will find its place!!!! #anyways. there are also a number of muppet type creatures in this one. idk whats up with that #I dont have much blood in me rn Im not lucid. have fun be urself ok? #thats also why the inks been taking a break btw. and the fact that my new pot of ink just arrived today #while Im being deprived of my appropriate volume of intravenous fluid #man. may be another day. before I can stop screaming at my wall and punching things off shelves. and draw properly #meanwhile. u know whats up #I go lay down now. have fun ok? be kind to ur tall friends knee them only gently #also just realized future!langa kinda has a bit of haruka vibes. that is literally so awesome

[tendercoretroglodyke]

people will really stand around making small talk like "can you believe covid's back??" without a mask even in SIGHT, with no irony or self-awareness at ALL. truly astounding

#hey hey. why do you think its 'back'?? #come on. take a second. think it through you can do it 🤔🤔🤔 #i work at a library that has been giving out free covid tests and n95 masks throughout the pandemic #lately the covid test supply has dried up in the high demand #meanwhile barely anyone even LOOKS at the masks #often those that take them arent even wearing a mask. like. are you just taking things cos theyre free?? what are you gonna do with those #i literally had to step out of work and sit in my car for a minute bc im going crazy #im gonna snap i really am #its not a COLD #its LETHAL its DISABLING... care about people!! #wear a fucking mask!!

[caffeinatedopossum]

I complained a lot about the side effects from my anxiety meds but they've genuinely changed my life in the best way. I'm talking to friends again, I'm playing video games, I'm not having panic attacks about dying every single night... genuinely wish I had this years ago

#im pretty sure the main side effect of emotional blunting has actually mainly gone away now #pretty sure it was because i was taking them inconsistently #im supposed to take two a day but before i got adhd meds i couldnt remember to take my second dose #and then it also says on the bottle to take with or without food but take it the same way everyday #and i didnt start doing that until recently. and its gotten better since then #it changes the absorption of it apparently so you gotta do it the same everytime #i was gonna go with not eating every morning cause i normally didnt like to eat when i got up #but i always eat before bed when i have to take my second dose sooo yeah #anyways. just realized this is probably super boring to most people #whatever its my tags its im free to be boring #engagement is optional

[terrorbirb]

:((((((((( boss didn't buy me lunch like they normally do on people's last day. Commence absolute minimal effort to finish out this job.

#totes bro #he like. forgot. its not exactly targeted #just emblematic of how they take me for granted #IDK! i just think i shouldn't have to office manage my going away lunch #if he doesn't take me to dinner i will block his number upon exit so he cannot ask me any question ever #its an office joke how much i enjoy free food #absolute minimal effort from this second on #this doesnt count as one of those things that therapy would be like 'dont assume people can read your mind and say how you feel' #1. because i don't have a different relationship to him than literally every other coworker #2. he's my boss and not like someone i care about on a personal level #:(((((((((((((( #not to keep bringing this up but im the only person they didnt get a wedding gift either #i. don't. care. if its usually my job to arrange this partially and remind my bosses #am i supposed to arrange my wedding gift and going away lunch because i do office managing? #i dont even have my bowl to eat my sad frozen bag of peas because i left it accidentally #i on some level knew this would be the case

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

So I'm an area director at a summer camp, but yesterday my boss called me and asked if I'd be down to be the director of two areas and I said yes without thinking about the consequences. So now I'm the director of two areas? That means two groups of staff to train and lead, two sets of lesson plans, two areas to teach at and make the schedule for and make the lesson plans for, two physical areas to set up. They're right next to each other, but this is going to be fucking insane

#the reason this is happening is because we dont have a dining hall director anymore because the first decided to take summer classes #and the second got a research position. so the director of the area that my area is right next to. volunteered to switch #so the camp director called me yesterday and was like 'this is all happening would you want to take on another area?' #so i would be director of both. with kind of a concentration in the new one. while my assistant director concentrates on the first one #but id still have to lead both staffs. teach at both. be available to both. do records for both. set up both #i start thinking about it and i always realize another thing thats gonna be weird about it #but on the bright side ive decided i cant do the 5 mile hike requirement for my old area #every thursday we do a five mile hike for our class because its for requirements. and i hate it cuz its hard lol #but i realized that it wouldnt really work out for me to be across the lake with one area and leave the other area directorless #so guess i cant do that! oh nooo /s #but i have to make two teaching schedules.whoch i started last night #i have to both teach a suitable amount in both areas but also have enough free time to be flexible and available for both #i am so tired already. and i just got this news yesterday #i was up until 5am because i was planning shit and then i layed awake anxious for another hour #also i watched the disruptors which admittedly got me to stay up pretty late too. the grant obrien and ally Beardsley movie #its very good. but mostly i stayed up late because i was trying to figure out being the director of two areas #i think about it for two seconds and i realize another reason itll be super hard. i have to introduce two staffs at the campfire #i have to talk about two areas at the leaders meeting. i have to learn a whole bundle of new merit badges #im so tired

[scp-69]

i think car insurance should be free if youre cute

#why are they making me pay a grand......... i know its like my second year as a Car Driver Person but please thats so much money........... #ive never been in a crash ive only ever hit walls and out trailer a couple of times my car is a piece of shit anyway cmoooon u wanna give #me free insurance soooo so bad. you do not want to take over half my savings in one lump sum. you love me so much. cmon.. #staring at the £6.15 in my bank account currently. im turning evil #bloop

[publicuniversalenemy]

just want to assure all my friends and followers that, even though i havent been active in Ages, im still up to the usual: realizing that im more mentally ill than i initially thought, and calling aggressively heterosexual 80s singers faggots <3

#literally TELL ME that billy idol isnt a fag. you can’t! #also hey what the fuck is up with my brain i stg theres something new with this bitch every week #‘~ooh~ the diagnostic criteria for OSDD fits your brain like a glove’ goddamn girl can you chill? for one damn second? #why is it never that im just Not Like Other Girls and instead im just fucked up??? #but noooo i had to have two specialists very quickly narrow in on that within one fucking week of eachother so idk!!!! #guess this is a Thing!!! #but yeah on a less silly note. spent a While on pluralpedia last night and um. #oh shit folks #things are making sense. #things are seeming Very Obvious in retrospect #(also idk if im Back yet. i wanna be n i really miss this space but also. its just not been Working for me yk) #anyways i hope ur all doing well and also plesae feel free to send me Messages or Posts if u want! #it might take me A Million Years (metric) to respond but i WILL see it and it will make me smile #f slur #whatever the fuck

[perenlop]

for a romhack thats supposedly about darkrai, eots is reallyyyyyyyy obsessed with chatot. it also reallyyyyyyyy hates chatot.

#we gave the game an unreliable protagonist and narrator who is meant to be kinda terrible bc this is an ‘’off’’ take on the game #meant to feel uncanny and its supposed to be uncomfortable and creepy when the guild members reject you for your behavior #but god chatot is apparently sooooooo nasty and evil and lazy and corrupt we gotta introduce a whole new guy #just to back up the hero that yep!!! hes evil incarnate and nasty!! #the hero is unreliable except for when we wanna vent abt the characters we dont like #its not even that i like chatot and want to defend him it just feels so exhausting and weird #like i thought this was about darkrai why are you spending all these scenes talking about how chatot is horrible and mean #im sorry im not over brelooms backstory. its supposed to be unfair and gross and ik he didnt exactly deserve to get evicted or anything #but seriously???? it comes across like a teen throwing a fit that his mom asked him to do the dishes for one night #and then got upset when the dishes werent done the next morning and asked their mom why she didnt just suck it up and do them #i feel like a factor here is that people forget that the apprentices arent kids. even hero and partner while implied to be young can be seen #as young adults but everyone else comes across like an adult to me. so its not like theyre exploiting babies #echoed voice #it sucks bc other than this i like this romhack quite a bit! i think the stuff with hero is really interesting #i like the second timeline i like the uncomfortable changes i like how you actually make partner worse as an inversion to the vanilla game #but when the chatot stuff happens it takes me out of it. free my man he did some bullshit but not all that

[monstriiss]

ooc: stands here covered in blood holding starbucks in my reusable travel cup

#;; ooc. #do y'all still love me after dipping without a word again dignskfnfosj #not me trying to fill out a job application at 1am and then being like 'why wont my brain make the words go' #TRYING NOT TO GET PSYCHED OUT my god i hate this shit #pretty sure theyre not supposed to ask you half of the shit they are asking so im just #going to research a few things after i have slept to get a refresher on what my rights to privacy are #sir this is a local grocery store not the secret service i just want money can you give me the job or not #anyway im gonna be away/lurking for a while longer fam squad while i miss talking its been nice to have a break and just focus on irl things #two wins! washing machine has been repaired and i finally got my hands on some second hand boots that i have been hunting for 3 years #the seller was super nice and put up a buy now option when i asked if they would :))) #OH also got a new microwave AND managed to free my garlic bread from the broken one (it required surgery) (taking it apart)

[unkillobel]

begging people @ my work to learn to use the google search function

#‘what do i do with this blank table in word’ have you tried the delete button. #‘i wasn’t sure if it was relevant to everyone’ it’s a National Public Holiday u knob #at my first gov job someone hailed me as the excel expert. i don’t know anything about excel i just would google her questions #ITS FREE AND TAKES LESS THAN A SECOND

[adraughtofamortentia]

.

#my cousin was like hows the first day of freedom (post paper) #and its like #do you know whay its like to wake up #and not immediately be met with this sense of crushing guilt #for sleeping or not getting to homework the second my eyes open #like everyday for the last 3 years of this degree (and all my others lmao) #i wake up and am already defeated #i slept good and woke up to a world that was free #my big plans? #clean the bathtub and take a nice bath :) #and im actually so thrilled about that #rambles

[dandyshucks]

if I try to mess with the eyes on the first one anymore I'm going to lose my mind DBDNDML so here have some self insert art,,,, also the houndoom was largely copied from someone else's art (dvixie/SkyVixie on deviantart, the art seems to have been taken down from their gallery though, I just found the art on pinterest and then had to track down the artist fjfkdl idk why ppl repost art with no credit 😭), I was trying to just get a feel for drawing them so I figured (HEAVILY) referencing someone else's piece would be alright for this sort of personal art thing!!

#aaaand I'll turn off rbs too djdksl i dont want to take any credit for that houndoom #i changed a couple minor things but dbfkdl it rly is just me looking at that other person's art and trying to draw it myself #it was good for getting a feel for how to draw them though!!! this was before the other art featuring houndoom i did a while ago #so i think it helped a lot to be able to draw houndoom again on my own this time fjfkdjdl #gave me a feel for placement and anatomy and whatnot #i know copying is largely considered to be Bad in the art community but if u do it the right way i think it can be beneficial to ur art #u just have to be careful and not claim credit for it fjdkl like... idk be smart and respectful #i think this is the first time I've ever done smth like this actually SNDKSL #the closest i get to copying is using free-to-use pose bases occasionally and even then i sometimes clarify in the tags that im using one #every day i fear someone will walk up and show all the drawings I've used free-to-use pose bases for #and be like AHA. I'VE FOUND YOU OUT. YOU'RE A FAKE ARTIST!!!! #and its like... no... i just like using free-to-use pose bases sometimes DBDJDKL #takes out the work of figuring out posing sometimes when im tired of coming up w my own fjfkdl #ANYWAYS. RAMBLE OVER SORRY SNDJFKDL #moral of the story: if u copy art just do it in a respectful and clear way and don't take credit for it when its not yours sbdjdksl #okay im going to skedaddle off this post before i stick my foot in my mouth if i havent already djdkdls WAUGH i am afraid of posting this #but i want to share self insert stuff somewhere sjfjdkl and i like the human posing i did on the second one so... SIGH. #dandy.cmd #doodlebug.png #junebug 🪲

[lavender---sunshine]

i am so deep in my feelings right now, i both sad and mad enough that i cannot sleep

#ive been angry oscillating between angry and sad pretty much the whole day #i had a rare saturday off and i feel like i wasted half of it for my mom and she didnt appreciate it #i wanted to take her to somewhere new for brunch and a cool bookstore and to get our nails donw #and she drove like 30 minutes in the wrong direction and wouldnt listen to me and tried to blame it on me #im not allowed to be sick on my own. she has to be sick too. if i have a headache so does she and worse #if im nauseous in the afternoon she 'threw up' that morning. she'll say its something we ate even if we ate nothing in common #ive broken our in hives that keep popping up and the whole day she was acting as if she was itchy too AND dizzy. #we had to stop multiple times because she was so dizzy. im not saying she was lying but it stopped her from cleaning #she didnt want the original breakfast place near the bookstore and salon and when we got to the second one it was closed #found a third but she didnt want to deal with parking. went to option 4 and she didnt like her food. #she also kept asking me what she was getting instead of just ordering herself. 'what was it that i wanted? yes can you tell her i want xyz' #(and let me just say i have 0 patience left for people who cant do anything themselves. helplessness is a hard hard no for me #we didnt go to the bookstore or the salon and shes like oh okay tomorrow. i told her i had plans and shes like oh you always make plans #with your friends and none with me. Girlfriend. what are we doing right now? #went home to try to clean up our apartment and got overwhelmed when i realized i have to do everything myself because she no help #while she laid down and watched pitch perfect for the 1000th time #im also trying to figure out how to tell an ex friend i dont want them back in my life because theyre so much work #but i dont have room in my life to have that conversation. im also probably going to start looking for a different job soon #i just want my parents gone. my apartment furnished. free time. and a vacation.

[sugardoodle]

I have 2 days to decide whether or not to spay my accidental new cat before she has her babies. She's like, t-minus 7ish days until birth so I have no idea what I should do. Like they might be viable at this point so it feels more like euthanizing an entire litter than just terminating a pregnancy. Like you can feel them moving and kicking if you touch her belly. I've been dying the past 3 days over this decision but I'm almost out of time.

Also if anyone thinks to berate me for allowing her to get pregnant, you can go kick rocks, because I brought her in from outside over a month ago since she was a stray and it was almost winter. She came like that so it's not my fault, and they couldn't get me in for a spay any sooner because of the high demand for the low cost clinic. It was originally scheduled for December 1st but I wasn't sure if she'd still be pregnant at that point, so they were able to get me on the cancelation list. But not as soon as I wanted and now I'm in a pickle.

I dont regret bringing her inside at all, but I do wish I'd been able to just fork over the couple hundred extra it would have cost to have her spayed at my actual vet rather than waiting for the clinic to have a spot. But now if I decide to back out and let her raise the kittens, itll cost that much anyways to have them all fixed and chipped and vaxxed and whatnot. So it didn't matter much in the end, ig? Unless I can live with myself if I make the decision to have the babies aborted. Which in humans like, your body your choice. But this cat can't make any choices so it's on ME to decide FOR her and she would probs be fine either way since she's an animal. But I'm having a problem with it so UGH what do I DO now.

#sorry to randomly vent on your dash but im so stressed out #genuinely idk what decision to make here. its crushing me to consider having the babies terminated when theyre basically days from birth #but can i afford to take care of them? like i have savings but i live month to month so im not exactly adding to it rn #and what if i cant find homes for all of them?? #i live in an apartment and this second (theoretically) temporary cat is ALREADY against the lease #they probably wouldnt ever find out but what would i do if they did. idk how long id be stuck with a million cats #what if my fridge breaks and maintenance tells on me and i end up with days to rehome them or get evicted #or something idk i havent lived on my own for very long. maybe im overreacting on that point #my heart says let them live but my brain says that theres already an overpopulation problem and its more financially responsible to spay #esp since im somehow supposed to pay for next semester when i forgot to fill out the FAFSA for another loan #now THAT i cannot afford. and this would make it even worse #you are free to put opinions in the replies btw. its only fair if youve read this far already tbh