#meanwhile at WB

[hero-israel]

sorry if this is a dumb question and i understand if you don't want to answer but do you have links to posts explaining why israel isn't an apartheid state? i swear i read posts like that on your blog before but i don't know how to refind them

Israeli Arabs have legal equality with Jews. Same restaurants, same pools, same seats on the bus, same voting rights. I would favorably compare the treatment of Israeli Arabs with that of any minority group in any country on Earth.

The West Bank has a military occupation, with (pretty fast) checkpoints and no right to vote about the government running that military. Military occupations are bad and some of us have been against this particular one for decades. The anti-occupation movement hasn't gotten anywhere, they've just been stuck. Being stuck in a military occupation for X more years doesn't make it apartheid, just like being stuck in a bad marriage for X more years doesn't make you divorced. Meanwhile, the 2020 Abraham Accords showed that multiple Arab states were willing to accept this unchanging status quo and deal with Israel as it is. Those two factors - the stagnant, unchanging nature of the occupation, and the clear loss of interest in the Palestinian cause - combined to have the latest crop of awareness-raising college interns at some shifty NGOs try to force change by abracadabra'ing together a new concept of "apartheid" that exists solely for Israel. And it is working, just like "Christ-killer" and "stabbed Germany in the back" worked.

In 2010, Human Rights Watch published an extremely critical report on Israel's occupation of the West Bank. Dragged them up one wall and down the other. Yet there was no accusation of "apartheid" there. In the report, page 33, they cited a lawsuit by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel that had said it was apartheid for the West Bank military occupation authorities to ban Palestinians from driving on Highway 443 after repeated firebombings / shootings against Israelis. The Israeli High Court ruled that it was inappropriate to ban Palestinians from the road, and it re-established their equal driving access - they have had it ever since. The court also said that the accusation of apartheid behind that now-ended ban was dishonest, because the security concerns were not based on race; there were and are no "Jewish-only" roads anywhere, even when WB Palestinians were denied road access, Israeli Arabs could and did drive there. The HRW 2010 report included a long summary of that finding, without challenge. As bad as they saw Israel, they agreed it wasn't apartheid.

Then in 2020 came the Abraham Accords, so while nothing at all had changed in the administration of the West Bank, in 2021 HRW said it actually was apartheid. It really is that simple. The most famous legal convention banning apartheid specifies that it is race-based. HRW instead went with a different legal convention on apartheid, one that says it could be based on national origin if it involves discrimination among citizens of the same country.... and then they up and added their own twist to that, saying they will consider it apartheid if there is discrimination based on national origin AMONG PEOPLE WHO AREN'T CITIZENS OF THE SAME COUNTRY. In a very real sense, HRW declared Mexico is an apartheid state because Americans can't vote in its elections.

In 2022, Amnesty International followed with their own report, saying that not only was the military occupation now "apartheid," but that Israel itself had been an apartheid state ever since it was established in 1948. This moral perversion had the effect of saying Israel literally INVENTED apartheid since in May 1948 it didn't even exist in South Africa yet. It also said that Amnesty International - founded 1961 - had been looking at an apartheid the whole time but never recognized it. To make things even more dishonest, Amnesty said they "are not claiming Israeli conditions are analogous to South Africa," meaning anything that shows how Israel is different from South Africa doesn't count. They're using the South African word for the South African policy but it's actually not like South Africa at all so be quiet, neener neener no backsies.

I shouldn't have to take that seriously. Neither should anyone. Palestinians and their advocates should be ashamed to have to lean on such an obvious bad-faith lie.

Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013, never once accused Israel of apartheid, and instead repeatedly said he supported Zionism and a 2-state solution. Mandela's lawyer, still alive, says the accusation is a lie. Mansour Abbas, leader of the Arab Islamist party that joined Israel's governing coalition in 2021, says the accusation is a lie. And if people want to bandy around NGO business cards, here is the International Committee of the Red Cross in 2017:

“The Red Cross was very familiar with the regime that prevailed in South Africa during the apartheid period, and we are responding to all those who raise their claim of apartheid against Israel: No, there is no apartheid here, no regime of superiority of race, of denial of basic human rights to a group of people because of their alleged racial inferiority. There is a bloody national conflict, whose most prominent and tragic characteristic is its continuation over the years, decades-long, and there is a state of occupation. Not apartheid.”

There's a lot more you can see about the shifty terminology, unreliable sourcing, and longstanding culture of antisemitism and racism within Amnesty International. People who can cite chapter and verse of why the Salvation Army, Autism Speaks, Chik-Fil-A and Harry Potter are problematic should not be shocked.

#israel #palestine #amnesty international #apartheid #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #false accusations #european antisemitism #jumblr #human rights watch

[apollos-olives]

It’s so weird to me that Zionists are so destructive to land that they say is “sacred” to them. They claim that “oh it’s part of our culture and religion (and yes, Gaza and WB and current Israeli territory are very important to Judaism)” but then they’ll flood the water systems with seawater and chemicals, which will not only kill Palestinians, but will kill the soil and the plants and the animals. They’ll flood the skies with white phosphorus which will point not only Palestine, but Israel as well and the surrounding Mediterranean. Not to mention the diseases from the dead bodies that are forced to rot in the rubble will spread everywhere to the Gazans that are alive to everywhere in the Mediterranean INCLUDING Israel! Meanwhile Palestinians will dig through the rubble to find their pet birds and cats and dogs, will feed the animals before they feed themselves.

because zionists don't care. they don't actually give a shit about the land or the history. israel is just a military base in the middle east that the us invests it's money into. netanyahu is biden's lapdog and all of israel is a cowardly farce of a "country" that exists to commit more and more atrocities against arabs. the damage israel is doing is going to affect the entire world, and we need to stop it immediately and force the west to provide reparations.

#palestine #free palestine

[fluffyartbl0g]

I’m really confused with your speedrun au!! I felt like I was missing some parts even with the master doc :C Can you like try to summarize everything in order please or something 😢? It’s really good though love it so far <3!

uuu its all g!!! For anyone unaware, the speedrun AU is all made completely out of chronological order wahaha. I just pick parts or characters from the main series that I'd like to see in a timetravel situation, and then do them :3

though, to keep things spicy, I do also sometimes leave some loose threads for me to pick up later :D Like with the end of the bon clay cover comics!

If you want some extra tidbits about the speedrun AU, you might wanna scroll through the tag and scavenge for some of the asks I answer about it. Though I dont think theres that much XD

The basic summary of the whole thing is:

Luffy and his crew (including vivi and carue duh) has time travelled back 15 years cause the world ended after getting eaten by a gigantic snake [lol i was rlly into this one piece theory at the time that involved something like this happening]. This is all happening 2 years before Luffy canonically set sail! For reasons currently unknown, the gang has to get to raftel as FAST as possible, so they've planned out several STRATS N EPIC HACKZ to optimise their run~

The east blue crew gathers all up together and heads to the grandline where they pick up vivi and carue. meanwhile, jinbei has picked up brook, and then those two meet up with franky, robin and chopper and head to sabaody. Through use of eternal poses, the east blue crew is able to meet up with the rest at sabaody (where they have a brief encounter with akainu), and then they all blast into the new world with the help of shirahoshi's deal with the seakings!

They pick up sabo at dressrosa real quick and then the ASL reunion happens, and then luffy makes an alliance with WB. Then they go to WCI to pick up zeus (no nakama left behind!) and also inadvertently pick up brulee, pudding and katakuri.

Thas basically it for now owo (❁´▽`❁)*✲ﾟ*

#one piece #time travel au #speedrun au

[ordinaryschmuck]

Alright, last time ever that I’ll talk about Velma. I promise.

Because I’ve been extra salty towards this show all week, and I don’t want to take it further than that. Talking nothing but bad stuff about this show for the entirety of its run is exactly what the writers want. They want us to hate watch it so we can talk about each new atrocity the show brings up week after week, and call us haters or anti-woke propagandists. When, in reality, they don’t give a FUCK about any of that. They don’t care about other races, genders, or sexualities. They just WANT you to think they do. Know how I can tell? Because I’ve SEEN genuine attempts of representation.

THIS is a genuine attempt of representation. Matt Braly, the series creator of Amphibia and a Thai-American, felt like Thai culture was underrepresented in media. So, he not only made his main character and her Thai, but he also dedicated subplots and entire episodes showcasing the culture he wanted to represent.

THIS is a genuine attempt at representation. Dana Terrace, series creator of The Owl House and open Bisexual, wanted a main character that was explicitly bi to finally help kids feel like they’re seen. To help give the representation SHE always wanted.

But when I look at Velma? None of it hits the same.

This isn’t a genuine attempt for representation. This is Mindy Kuling turning a character into a self-insert to make herself look smarter than everyone else and the most important person in a narrative. Truth is, this Velma is nothing more than a sociopath, narcissistic dipshit who thinks she’s better than everyone else but is actually more aggravating than endearing.

So...Good job representing YOURSELF there, Mindy.

And this?

This isn’t representation. This is a shield.

A way to protect the show from any criticism because it couldn’t possibly be bad. They have gay characters! Gay characters are good in everything!

Except that is the LAST reason you should include gay characters! Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE more LGBTQA+ representation in media. What I don’t love is obvious attempts to pander to audiences just to avoid criticisms. And keep in mind, this is NOT the first attempt a creator wanted to make Velma gay.

James Gunn wanted to make her gay in the live action movie, but WB said no.

Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated (the GOAT of the Scooby-Doo franchise) wanted to make Velma gay, but could only imply it because Cartoon Network didn’t greenlit Steven Universe yet.

THOSE are genuine attempts to make Velma gay, to represent people because the creators of both products agreed that it was the least they could do.

But making Velma and Daphne a thing just to protect a show is nothing more than shallow and inconsiderate of the hard fight dozens of people put up with for the sake of representation.

And, honestly, I’d be a little more forgiving if the writing in Velma was good. But it’s not.

Within the first minute, this show features...

Cockroaches having sex...

And fifteen year olds taking a shower to make a joke about how over-sexualized a series’ pilot can be.

First of all: FUCK YOU FOR MAKING ME FIND THIS SCREEN SHOT FOR A POINT!

Second: You lose every ounce of credibility that you actually care about people when one of the first moves you make in your series is to sexualize minors for the sake of a joke.

A joke that doesn’t make sense at that. Point me to a series pilot that’s over-sexualized. If you get more than ten, I’ll say you have a point. I won’t say that sexualizing minors to make it was a good thing, but I’ll at least say that, “Yeah. You’re right. So many pilots do this. SO STOP DOING IT!”

That’s the level of writing Velma has. And it’s why they have their “representation” to protect themselves. Meanwhile, you want to know the level of writing you’ll find in The Owl House and Amphibia?

Villains who prove that the most dangerous people are the ones who make the rules.

Jokes that are actually funny.

Likable main protagonists who are kind and caring to the people around them.

Protagonists who have heartfelt relationships with other great characters, to the point that it breaks your heart to see them leave each other.

And on top of that, actually good representation. But here’s the thing: The representation isn’t only genuine. It’s a bonus. Something great to add onto everything else the writers and the creators do right.

What it isn’t is an attempt to protect a show from what it does wrong.

And that’s it. That’s the LAST time I’ll ever talk about Velma. I really mean it this time.

Talking about this show past it’s premier is already more attention it deserves. And if you were smart, you would not only stop watching, but stop talking. The best attention to give something you hate is NO attention.

If you really want to waste time, waste it by watching something good, like The Owl House and Amphibia. They may be kids shows, but they have more maturity than a single second of Velma.

#velma series #velma series salt #the owl house #amphibia #luz noceda #anne boonchuy #cw: naked minors #cw: velma

[doubleddenden]

A quick look at the timeline since we last checked in

Sonic Frontiers has a song by ONE OK GO and one version says "Fuck the pain away"

Disney proves it truly listens to what fans do not want by making live action Pinocchio, Little Mermaid, and Mufasa, which is a prequel to the much behated live action Lion King

HBO Max nuked a bunch of its animated shows for tax write offs

Uncle Grandpa almost survived with one episode called "Fleas Help Us" before being deleted

Summer Camp Island literally had a whole season ready

WB canned a completed Batgirl movie after spending $98 million. For tax write offs.

FBI raided Trump's Florida home and found hundreds of stolen top secret files, and one includes nuclear defense details on a foreign nation. Yeah he's in very hot shit

Biden administration opens the path for forgiveness for $10k-$20k of student loans, MS decides to tax anyone that gets it

When the Republicans got offended the White House Official Twitter Account revealed the MILLIONS of PPP loans the nay sayers had forgiven individually

NASA Is trying to GET US BACK ON THE MOON BABEY WOOOOOOOOO but unfortunately they had to scrub 2 launches because of engine troubles and a leak

But it's cool! It's cool! They gotta get it right because the end goal is to try and establish a MOTHERFUCKING MOON BASE!!! SOMEBODY HIGH FIVE ME

A machine on Mars the size of a lunch box made about as much oxygen as a small tree, prompting some to think we could have oxygen mines for future manned Marsian missions

Leonardo DiCaprio breaks up with another woman who just turned 25

JK Rowling wrote a book about totally not her being harassed by the very people she demonizes every day as a racist antisemitic ableist TERF and embarrassed herself in front of God and the internet again

After years of failing to sell on the market, Sony makes the decision to INCREASE the price of the PS5 despite only 5 people other than Crypto Dorks having them

Nintendo follows up by revealing they have no plans to change prices, which we all been knew because they still sell years old ports for $60

Gendy Tartokovsky's Primal aired a Dinosaur literally laying eggs up close and personal from its cloaca (side note do dinosaurs have those?)

Gendy is also apparently at the helm of a second PPG reboot in the works

She-Hulk Twerked

Looney Tunes officially ships Bugs X Daffy

3 Avatar Movies in the works. No not the blue people- well yes those too but I meant the one about the bald kid, the second one about Zuko, and the third about Korra

Blue people avatar has a movie coming in December

Reigen Arataka from Mob Psycho 100 wins Twitter poll for Twink Supreme

Reigen does absolutely nothing and wins Ultimate DILF

In an ultimate final clash, Reigen just barely loses to Sans Undertale for Tumblr Sexyman

Tobyfox wrote fanfic about it and posted it to Twitter

On the same exact fucking day Sans defeats Reigen, the Queen of England DIED. Tv stations in mourning across the globe. Meanwhile Irish people and other people directly negatively impacted by colonization by the crown cheered and partied and tumblr and twitter released the crabs 🦀

This is as of September 10th, 2022, not told in any particular chronological order

This has been the look at the timeline, and no, the year is not over yet

See yall in December

#the timeline #sonic frontiers #queen elizabeth ii #sanssweep #reigensweep #nasa #artemis 1 #hbo max #crab #im not the official news. look it up if you have doubts

[jimmy-dipthong]

I'm learning more about "localisation discourse" in the anime fan community and my god it is so stupid. The arguments are so incestuous, like people in these discussions (both sides!) haven't ever considered what translation or localisation is outside of the context of anime and manga. Like lots of anime fans say they "hate localisation and want accurate translation" - and then the translators are like "localisation is accurate translation". Both sides are just talking past each other.

I believe that the translators are doing nothing wrong - if a translation reads naturally and conveys essentially the same meaning as the original, that’s a good and accurate translation. The “anti-localisation” crowd are abusive and awful. But both sides of the discourse are terrible at communicating.

First of all, the word “localisation”, as it is understood outside the weeb community, means “adapting a work or product for use by a different population than the original (usually a population of a different geographical region)”. As a programmer, I deal with localised text in our product - for example we have different localisations for Australian english text (en-AU) vs British english text (en-GB) vs US english text (en-US). Yet, many anime/manga/etc translators call themselves localisers - what variety of english are they supposedly localising the content into? Probably US english, but it’s certainly not specifically americanised a lot of the time (e.g. Kimetsu no Yaiba isn’t being americanised in any translations I’m aware of), and the days of jelly donuts are far, far behind us. Erasing japanese cultural references is no longer "more marketable", and hasn't been for a long time. Most anime translations (including the ones that the “anti-localisation” crowd complain about) are simply translations into an international variety of english, and decidedly NOT localisations.

So if the “anti-localisation” crowd aren’t complaining about localisation, what are they complaining about? They often say they want “accurate translations”, but this isn’t true either. An “accurate translation” is a translation that simply conveys all the information from the original. おはよ！→ “Sup bro” can be an accurate translation, but I’m sure the anti-localisers wouldn’t agree (おはよ and sup bro are both just phatic greetings, we don’t need to specify morning unless it’s not obvious from the visuals that it’s morning). What they actually want is a translation that “sounds right”. This may seem impossible to deliver since it is so unspecific, but I think it’s actually quite simple - in short, overly-weeby translations have become their own variety of english, which I’ll call en-WB. Often fan translations are in this specific dialect because the fan translators haven’t studied actual translation and simply know what “sounds right” in en-WB.

For example, these anti-localisers often say they are annoyed that honorifics are removed. To a regular old translator with no knowledge of the anime discourse, this is very silly because -chan and -kun are not present in any common variety of english, so why would they appear in the translation? To divorce this discussion from anime briefly, a very good translator who is translating a full length Japanese novel would adapt the relationship/hierarchy dynamic via speech patterns and phrasing, rather than using the honorifics directly. But the anti-localisers don’t want a brilliant translation into international english, they want a passable translation into en-WB.

Both sides of the discourse are misunderstanding each other, using dumb arguments that completely miss the point. Anti-localisers are saying shit like ”fan translations are better!!” which really means “fan translations sound like how I expect the translation to sound, and pro translations do not sound like that” which means “fan translations are translating into the english dialect I expect and pro translations do not”.

Meanwhile pro translators are saying “pro translators are fans too!! And how could an amateur be better? We studied to do this professionally!”. But this is flawed logic - the lack of formal training in translation is ironically what enables fan translators to translate into en-WB correctly. Pro translators of course could translate into en-WB if they wanted to/were told to, but they don’t - they want to make the translation as accessible as possible to all viewers, meaning that making the language natural and internationalised is the correct course of action.

To me as a half-japanese person who has grown up with smatterings of anime from an early age, anime is just cartoons to me. It's just another tv show, there's nothing special about it. So when I talked about translation as I have in previous posts, I was basically unaware of this stupid discourse and was simply discussing translation as it exists outside of the anime/manga industry - rewriting a work as if it were originally written in the target language. In principle I don't believe anime should be treated any different to other tv shows when being translated, and I personally hate en-WB, it's like nails on a chalkboard to me. But that's what a bunch of anime fans want, and that's fine. They can have their (in my eyes) terrible translations, and I can have my (in their eyes) terrible translations.

If we were talking about translating literature or live action tv or news articles instead of anime we wouldn't be getting any of this discussion. I think it's almost entirely the fault of anime's history with fan translations and heavy handed cultural erasure by 4kids etc that's led to the current state of things. And unfortunately those things still influence how people think about anime translations now. I just want to approach anime translations like I would any other translation - but the existence of this discourse adds an annoying layer over it all.

#localisation #localization #anime #anime and manga #japanese language #translation #japanese #langblr #jimmy blogthong

[reesespeanutbutterfuck]

imperfectionist (vinny hong x jo!reader)

jay jo's imperfectionist sister meets the flawful vinny hong.

part 6

part 5 | part 7

part warnings: fem!reader, cursing, jo!reader (jay is reader's 1 year older brother, but they're in the same class), second person's pov (you, you're, your), wb main story SPOILERS

—

Vinny has never looked back twice at a person before. Not at least before you.

Vinny’s eyes have been glued to the resin charm you gave him all afternoon. A cat tomato. A tomato cat. Whatever. Meanwhile, his bespectacled friend, Sung, was already itching to ask about it beside him.

He never thought of you after the incident… that’s what you thought. After everything, you expect him to just erase his memory of you? Yeah, you probably thought he doesn't remember you, but oh, he does. All too well.

He still has so many questions. Why were you in that alley? Were you experienced with fighting like how he concludes? 

Why were you so mysterious? 

He tries to shrug the thought of you in his head, but he fails. He panned his head slightly at Sung, who was observing him from the seat beside him. 

Vinny's face crumpled. “What?”

That was Sung’s cue to finally open his mouth and stand up to stand behind him. “You’ve been fidgeting that thing for a while now, where is that even from?” He stood up and knocked on the resin charm with a finger from behind Vinny.

Vinny swatted his hand away, enclosed the charm inside his fist, and put it back inside his pocket.

“A girl gave you that.” Sung nodded slowly. It wasn’t a question, it’s a statement. It’s as if he knows.

“Shut up.”

His defensiveness of himself only made Sung chuckle in confirmation, which made the crease on Vinny’s forehead more prominent, as Sung thinks, he didn’t even bother denying it. 

“I’m right, am I? You’re not one to acquire that for yourself. And you have beef with every man on earth, so only a woman could've given you that. Look at you getting really popular with the ladies. Isn’t Miss Suturing expert, one rainy Saturday night enough? Who gave you that resin charm? Someone important? Do I know her? I’m your friend, tell me! Tell me everything!”

If only Sung knew the woman he stupidly dubbed as Miss Suturing expert was also the one who gave him the charm.

Vinny looked elsewhere. “Speaking of her, still nothing?”

Sung shook his head. “Nah, unfortunately. Just visit her in the hospital and find out. Or just join Minu's new crew and ask him.” Suddenly Sung’s smug face in Vinny’s point of view looked too punchable.

“I’ll kill you.” Vinny’s frown crumpled his whole face this time.

“Honestly, based on her personality, sounds like she's sheltered. Model student, eh? I told you to ask Minu. I think she’ll be hard to find.”

“Not so hard.” He thought he wouldn't meet you again, too.

“What?” Sung almost jumped back on his seat when he quickly went back. He was waiting for Vinny to clarify if his interpretation was right.

“We bumped into each other. She got stabbed.” Vinny reclined on his seat, mentioned like it was a normal occurence to be stabbed and to see someone get stabbed on an average Friday night.

“What?!”

“One more “what” and I’ll bust your jaw, Kwon Sung.”

Sung had to stare into space for a while to process that information. What the fuck?

“Why? What happened to her? Why was she stabbed? How did it happen?”

“I didn’t see what happened.”

“Is she doing well, though?”

“‘Dunno. You ask her.” Vinny nonchalantly replied.

Sung’s face soured at Vinny refusing to elaborate. Plus, he doesn't even know you personally and he haven't seen you yet, yet he’s worried for you, while this dickhead with his feigned nonchalance says he isn’t! 

“Tsk. You fucker! Not even man up to check on a girl that you witnessed almost at death’s door, how cruel. That’s why you don’t have a girlfriend!”

“I don’t want one!” Vinny defensively sneered as he thought of smashing the hardbound book on Sung’s face. He really makes Vinny’s blood pressure skyrocket.

“You sure you weren’t only dreaming because of your abstinence and unsuppressable yearn?” Sung tilted his head.

“My what…” Vinny scoffed in irritation while pronouncing the last syllables of his words, and cringed hard, yet he didn’t see any point to even bother further pointing out Sung’s unsettling words.

“S’not that I’m doubting you, but how do you know you really saw her and it wasn’t a hallucination?”

Vinny rolled his eyes in annoyance and raised the tomato cat resin charm—as if indirectly saying it’s proof of their encounter. Sung’s face looked puzzled for a moment until he realized what his friend meant. He was taken aback as it slowly sunk in. 

“Wow, well played. I’m proud of you.” Sung slow-claps.

“This one’s another.” His hand whipped out another object. Glasses. They were eyeglasses. He clicked his tongue. “That woman doesn’t care about her belongings.”

“Well for one, she just got stabbed for God’s sake. For sure she’s shaken to even double-back for her belongings.”

“That’s the thing—she didn’t look shook, not one bit. She even grabs any chance she has to joke around.”

“In other words, you got bullied by her? You don’t say…” Sung could not contain his laugh anymore, imagining his socially awkward friend being bullied by a girl.

Vinny's tried his best to conceal his embarrassment, that was growing even more.

“Fuck you.” 

“You know, even if you don’t give a direct answer, you’re too obvious.” Sung bit the insides of his cheek to contain a mischievous grin, this time he really tried. Vinny might actually put his head on a stick. “But the woman really is something else. I understand why you like her.”

Vinny flung a ballpoint pen at Sung—which he dodged. Sung made his way outside to go to the restroom, his laugh still audible from where Vinny was sitting.

After a moment of silence, Vinny lightly touched the clothed scar he got from when he got stabbed. The one you stitched. 

For someone who magically just vanished, you sure did leave a lot of souvenirs.

“So what’s your plan? The glasses were prescription ones and graded. I knew from one look from afar. She must be blind right now because you took her eyeglasses with you. I’d know.” Sung adjusted his own glasses, imagining the pain of a shit eyesight without glasses.

“I didn’t take it on purpose, fucker. She left it.”

“Whatever. I hope you see her again.”

“Just to return her glasses.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

___

That was the last time he mentioned you to someone, a week ago. And now you're standing here in front of him, not even fazed of his presence. Your eyes flung to him for a moment, but you immediately looked away like your eyes passed by a blank wall. He knew he'd meet you at some time after your last encounter after you revealed your relationship with Minu and coerced him to join Hummingbird, but now you're really here.

Just what on earth is happening?

***

#livelaughlovenoah #MOTHERFUCKEROWENISHOT #vinny hong #jay jo #vinny hong x reader #windbreaker #jay jo x reader

[vylad243]

Prompt:

Vox catches a virus and then has a critical update right before Alastor's rut, making him extremely ill, and making Alastor WORSE the week before his rut like he's told Vox his about his feelings and they've been dating, but he hasn't asked Vox to commit for his rut thinking Nifty will be fine since they'd barely started dating, but with this...his instincts are screaming at him.

Meanwhile Velvette and Valentino are helping Vox make a nest in his penthouse and are setting up an IV into Vox's arm. Velvette sets a medical pillow around Vox's neck while Valentino settles the sick overlord into the nest, while Vox begins the anti-virus and debugging program knocking himself out for 3 weeks. His automatic update program will add another 3 weeks onto it, effectively taking Vox out for 6 weeks. Valentino and Velvette start debating who is going to stay to change out Vox's IV's and be his cuddle buddy, when the shadows darken and an almost in rut stag appears, antlers fully extended. He's coherent enough that he brought some of his stuff and Niffty, but that's it. Otherwise he shoos the other Vs out and just collapses beside Vox, nuzzling his face into Vox's neck, gently murmuring mon amour.

It's not exactly what you asked for, but I tried my best! I got a mad case of writer's block right now. In the near future, I might rewrite this when my WB goes away or if I get struck with inspiration, but regardless, I hope you can enjoy it for what it is

#hazbin hotel #anonymous #vox hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel alastor #radiostatic

[devilzukin7]

Joaqui Cage (she is Johnny and Araceli's daughter)

Her real name is Joaquinha Carlton

I will post her full biography and design soon, but meanwhile, here is a little description: she always admired her father for being such an amazing fighter and a star, so she wanted to be like him in some way. She loved to sing so she started singing on her grandfather's (Bo'Rai Cho) bar dreaming to someday be a star by herself. She learned to fight and her dog helps her sometimes during fight :D

Character:

Joaqui Cage (MK OC)

Mortal Kombat (c) Netherrealm Studios / WB / Midway before

#mortal kombat #mortal kombat oc #mk oc #mortal kombat art #johnny cage #mk art #johnny cage art #warner bros #mk11 #mkd #mka #mk9 #mortal kombat 1 #original character #mk1 #joaqui cage #johnny cage's daughter #joaquinha cage

[theseshipsshallsail]

Hi there, just want to say that you crack my assets up each time you call out lizard your last post on 'X' was chef's kiss. Between you & @zuzla33 calling out her bullshit is just priceless and I look forward to what that crazy ass psycho is up to next. Yikes! I hope that reality POS show crashes and burns thisfast! Meanwhile our Timmy has got the golden WB parachute deal of all time which I'm sure narcissist lizard is surely raging with jealously! Keep calling that bitch out!!

Methinks this latest bid for attention might not end up quite like she thought it would 😏

#support armie hammer

[lakesbian]

I want you to know you have completed rewired my brain about aishalec…. I was staunchly against it on principle when I first read worm (I was like 17 and very anti-most-age-gaps). You have made me a believer

i'm still curious about where exactly the common fandom misconception that aisha and alec have an age gap (in the sense of 'a significant difference between their ages') comes from. like people have been thinking that forever, there's a comment on one of the chapters from like 2010 where someone is like Umm isn't it weird and creepy that alec is trying to hang out with aisha...he's like brian's age...and wb is like. no hes 15. maybe it's the narration in worm being focused on aisha being brian's Little sister + the only age she's mentioned as being is 13? doesn't explain why people keep assuming alec is older than he is despite him being the second most immature-behaving undersider but who knows. aisha and alec do actually have a smaller difference in age than brian and taylor--the info on the character page for aisha during her pre-timeskip imp era says she's 14, so the implication is she had an offscreen birthday around or shortly after leviathan/getting her powers (WORST fucking birthday ever lmao. thats a lie alecs were the worst ever. second worst birthday ever?). alec meanwhile is said to be a young 15 at the start of worm, and leviathan is really not long after the start of worm chronologically, so they're like. a year and change apart in age. they will survive having dumb little crushes on each other that don't go anywhere ! and furthermore it's reallycute that the 2 undersiders on the team with the trauma pertaining to SA that the other undersiders Don't Get get to, for once in their life, enjoy doing dumbass teenage "teehee i'm putting my feet in front of you on the table" "heehee i'm playfully shoving them off now" shit with someone who Gets Them w/ zero expectation of it escalating to points they're not emotionally ready for. playing video games together CAN fix them. if aishalec has 100 fans i'm one of them if aishalec has 10 fans i'm one of them if aishalec has 1 fan it's me and i just got rid of everyone who was interpreting them wrong etc etc

#ask #worm spoilers #scarf don't look

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Xiao ShùnYáo 肖順堯

XSY Studio Wb update 2024.02.10

🐉 Happy Lunar New Year!!!

Meanwhile, on YáoYao's Wb. 🤭❤

#xiao shunyao #chinese actors #mysterious lotus casebook #shui long yin #till the end of the moon #hero legends #the blue whisper #where the lost ones go #the locked room #falling down 2 #cdrama

[chaiaurchaandni]

"whether we like it or not, the leila khaleds of the world are forcing us to pay attention to them."

thoughts:

how interesting that the host says that israel says the Palestinians 'fled' from their homeland while the Palestinians say they were 'driven out' - notice the changing narratives within israel, previously using the excuse that Palestinians themselves left and emptied their houses voluntarily, and now, in 2024, saying that the Palestinians never existed, or that they fought against jews and were driven out in the retaliatory attacks. they change their lies to whichever one suits their agenda more. similarly, back when colonialism was the popular thing to do in europe, herzl openly called for the colonization of Palestine by 'civilised' european jews. now that decolonization is popular, israelis often argue that the nakba and forceful displacement of Palestinians was an act of 'jewish decolonization' and reclamation'

notice how, despite being a Palestinian who literally lived through the nakba, and a resistance fighter herself, leila refuses to center herself. she remains humble, says that she has only done her duty, which is small compared to her cause, she's neither a heroine of a joan of arc. it is important to remember that anyone who truly cares about the cause does not center themselves as individuals. this behaviour is only seen from grifters, such as shaun king or khaled beydoun, who pedestalize themselves within the movement, and act like the sole saviours of the people. meanwhile, sincere and committed activists, like leila, who are on the frontlines, always put the cause above themselves.

notice how she says that the people of the world do not pay attention to Palestinians when israelies forcefully displace Palestinians, when israeli bombs kill Palestinians and their children, but these people only pay attention when the palestinians fight back. still rings true to this day, the violence of the oppressor is seen as the norm, the violence of the oppressed is seen as 'unprovoked, uncivilised, meaningless.' remember that before oct 7, 2023 was already one of the deadliest years for Palestinians in the WB. remember that israel has bombed Gaza several times in the past.

important that she points out how religion has little to do with the cause of Palestinian liberation itself. it is not a muslim cause. meanwhile the oppression of Palestinians and theft of Palestinian homeland is still justified on the basis of the religion of judaism.

im surprised by how patient she is. she says that she does not expect to see a free Palestine in her lifetime because a struggle such as hers takes DECADES. despite this, she strongly believes that one day, Palestine will be free. she says: "we believe that a popular revolution needs a long time. and time is with the people, always, not against them, when they use it properly and i think we are beginning to use the time properly"

when she said she has only seen heifa, her hometown in palestine, from the air ........... </3

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #glory to the martyrs #long live palestine #long live the resistance #death to israel #death to america #leila khaled #palestinian resistance

[lolhex12]

i noticed someting funny when put into perspective so i thought i'd share

so these are the old emperors and who came after them:

WB -> BB

Kaidou -> Luffy

Big Mom (??) -> Buggy (??)

(Shanks = Shanks)

Then you realize BB killed WB and replaced him, Luffy defeated Kaidou and replaced him...

Meanwhile Buggy got Big Mom's emperor seat even though it was Law and Kid who defeated her.

It's funny when u think about it bc Big Mom wouldn't have come to Wano and ally with Kaidou if Luffy hadn't angered her by messing with her tea party to get Sanji back.

So, in a way, Law and Kid cleaned up Luffy's mess (while he dealt with the main objective aka Kaidou) by taking down Big Mom (an Emperor), and who took that spot in the world? Fucking Buggy The Fucking Clown.

Law and Kid lowkey both lost to Buggy who profited off of their hard-earned win over an unexpected powerhouse who should not (and would not) have been present if it weren't for Luffy's antics :/

#point is: law and kid got screwed over royally with the whole thing when Buggy took a seat THEY freed #and what <did> they get for that giant win? their ships wrecked by the other emperors :/ maybe even dead crewmembers :// #life's not fair. is it? *sighs* #i really hope both of my babygirls are ok😭😭🫶 #ik the system isn't like 'if u kill one u can take over' but rather whoever is next most powerful in line gets the seat #but it's still interesting to think about when summarized like this imo #one piece #trafalgar law #eustass kid #heart pirates #kid pirates #op emperors #emperors of the sea #shanks #buggy #buggy the clown #buggy one piece #captain buggy #red hair shanks #kaidou #luffy #monkey d. luffy #straw hat luffy

[writingsofwesteros]

hehe here's something for the jace x targsister from the nsfw quarters https://www.tumblr.com/writingsofwesteros/741975242735517696/hi-hun-wb-some-nsfw-quarters-for-our-4-modern?source=share

"Thanks for coming to my birthday party Jacey," Jace felt the blood rush to his cock as she looked at him with that teasingly sweet smile. Alicent invited the whole family to the mansion for her birthday, keeping it casual- hence why Daemon was begrudgingly manning the grill (though one look at targsister in her bikini and he suddenly didn't mind too much, Jace noticed.) "Of course," Jace tried to sound smooth, but her tits looked like they could burst from her bikini top- he's starting to think she and Helaena did this on purpose. "Aeg's taking us out tonight for another celebration, you should come." She said as she sipping her margarita. Jace nodded, then suddenly remembering the gift he'd gotten her in his hand, and gave her the bag. "Happy birthday," He said sheepishly, and she giggled and embraced him tightly, and he froze, before hugging her back- his cock was aching at this point. "You're so cute when you're flustered Jacey," She whispered teasingly, before pulling back. As she opened it, he said nervously, "It's nothing much," he was suddenly second guessing his choice when he noticed the Van Cleefs bracelet that Aemond obviously got her. "I just- Hel said you like sentimental stuff, and I thought-" "Aw, Jacey," She gushed, holding the framed pictured of him and her as kids on the beach at Dragonstone, the family ancestral seat turned summer home. "I love it- it's adorable." He flushed red, and sighed in relief. "I'm really glad you like it-" She leaned in for a hug again, and he gladly took it, despite the glare from Aemond and Aegon- though Helaena was clearly giggling. "You know," She whispered. "My swimsuit's getting kinda uncomfortable- think I tied it too tight. Wanna come help me?" His eyes looked as though they would pop from his head. "I'd love to thank you for my gift. He nodded eagerly, he was practically drooling- gods he must look like a puppy-dog, and judging from the war Luke was looking at him and stifling a laugh, he definitely did.

The minute he shut her door, and turned around, he sucked in a breath, as she dropped her itty bitty bikini top and those supple, heavy tits were staring him in the face. "Fuck," He rasped.

"I reeeeeeeaaaally loved my gift Jacey," She hummed, as she stalked over to him, dragging her nails across his toned chest. "Hel was right," She murmured. "You are adorable." Jace felt his hand slide down and cup his leaking cock through his swim trucks. "And always so excited to see me," She giggled. "I need you," He practically whined. "I know baby," She cooed, and Jace bucked into her hand, and leaned in and kissed her desperately, groaning at how good she tastes. She tugs his swim trucks down, and Jace feels his head spinning with want for her.

It didn't take long for Jace to be rutting into her like a desperate man, her legs thrown over his shoulders as the bed below them shook, and she moaned, "Jace- fuck, just like that- you're so big-". Her wet, slick walls kept sucking him in deeper, and deeper, as he bullied her sweet spot. "Fuck- you feel better than I ever thought you would-" He grunted, as her tits jiggled as he fucked into her. It might've been her birthday, but this was the best present he ever got. Hehehehe later that night when Aeg takes them all out for her birthday, Aeg and Aem are way more clingy than usual- they HATE sharing her...and Jace is desperate to have her again- meanwhile she lets them fight it out while she makes out with Hel and gets fingered in the bathroom of the club-🤭

ALL OF THIS !!

hence why Daemon was begrudgingly manning the grill (though one look at targsister in her bikini and he suddenly didn't mind too much, Jace noticed.) Daemon just being his wild self thank you very much

Poor Jace, i imagine he didn't last long the first time ,but who can blame him

#social media au

[kawaiisdisaster]

Heyyy, are you guys ready to hear about an Animaniacs and Pinky And The Brain Swap AU idea i came up with? Yes? Okay so basically in this AU, everything in Animaniacs is almost the same... Except all the characters are replaced with PATB ones!

The only exception would be the Pinky and Brain segment itself which instead of them, it would be starring... Minerva Mink and Hello Nurse! Yeah that's right, it's MY AU so i can do whatever i want hehe! /hj Anywho, here are all the character roles:

Darky (Dark Pinky) as Yakko Warner

Pinks (OG Pinky) as Wakko Warner

Suavy (Pinky Suavo) as Dot Warner

The Brain as Hello Nurse and viceversa

Minerva Mink as Pinky

Billie as Minerva Mink

Floyd Nesbitt (that rude guy from the "Fly" episode) as Thaddeus Plotz

Julia as Nora Rita Norita (I'm thinking of making her be with Billie in this, altought I don't ship Minerva with Nora. Nothing against anyone that those, tho!)

Snowball as Dr. Scratchansniff

Larry as Ralph T. Guard

Egwind as Ralph's wife

Cupcake (Snowball's sister) as Jürgen Scratchansniff

Dark Brain as Nurse Doom (he's Brain's twin brother in this)

Precious as Mindy

Bobby-Bob Yokel as Buttons

All three versions of Pinky are triplets in this and everyone has their original age, including them!

Still figuring out roles for the other characters and i might change some of the already chosen ones, but here's the plot:

Pinks, Darky and Suavy were first created with the purpose of being the new toon stars but as they came to life, they brought nothing but chaos to the studio.

Darky was an extreme trouble-maker and would cause mayhem just to get a laugh out of it, Suavy was considereted to be too sensual as he had way too many people swooning over him on a daily basis, and Pinks was too dump as he would unintetionally cause a few messes here and there aswell as annoying a handful of the producers.

Technically speaking Darky should have been the only one to get locked up, but we're talking about the same people who willingly locked up three literal children in the original show... so all three of them were sent to the tower. That, or perhaps Pinks and Suavy didn't wanna leave their brother alone which is why they joined him inside the WB Water Tower.

Anyways you know how the rest goes: after a few years the Pinkies escape the Water Tower and brought chaos back to their world. So Mr. Nesbitt orders for Dr. Snowball to get them to behave themselves or make them act more "normal", which Snowball is very mad about but has no choice but to do it as it his job.

Incase that doesn't work, Nesbitt orders Larry to chase the Pinkies around to catch them and get them locked back in the tower. Meanwhile Pinks and Suavy take an interest in Hello Brainy, the studio medic and Dr. Snowball's assistant, whom Darky dislikes for some reason. After a few years pass Nesbitt retires and Julia takes his place as CEO.

There's more but i still need to figure it out! In the mean time, here's a drawing of Hello Brainy:

#pinky and the brain #animaniacs #role swap au #brinky #Julia x Billie #HelloMink #animaniacs reboot #hello nurse #the brain #patb #patb au #animaniacs au