#respect the locals

[sharks-are-friends-not-foes]

🐙 Daily Cephalopod Fact: 🐙

Dumbo Octopus: The name "dumbo" originates from their resemblance to the title character of Disney's 1941 film Dumbo, having two prominent ear-like fins which extend from the mantle above each eye. Dumbo octopuses are the deepest living octopuses known, with some specimens captured or observed at hadal depths (20,000 to 36,000 ft) below sea level.

#dumbo octopus #dumbo #elephant ear fins #elephant ears #deep sea #deep sea octopus #creatures of the deep sea #octopus of the deep #hadal zone #trench zone #shark blog #respect the locals #ocean #ocean depths #abyss #ocean life #marine animals #marine life #marine biology #marine

[amomentoftimeandword]

🦈🦈 IT'S SHARK WEEK!! 🦈🦈

Did you know that sharks keep ocean ecosystems in balance? Certain species are critical in the environments where they live and if they were to die off or be killed off, the entire ecosystem would collapse. Us humans, see them as a threat, but WE are more a threat to them than they are to us. By sport fishing sharks, culling them for their fins, we are harming the ocean even further. Many may not realize how this balance between sharks and their environments impacts US, but it's guaranteed to be seen AND felt when we destroy that balance!

#shark week #shark #hammerhead shark #great hammerhead #shark awareness #save the sharks #respect the locals #did you know #sharks #shark facts

[meteor752]

Honestly the story of mlp must be very weird from the pov of a random guy in ponyville, like one day a new antisocial librarian moves into town, and like a year later that librarian ascends into godhood and becomes the new ruler of the entire world

#I would respect the hell out of every librarian I ever met if I lived in Equestria #You never know which one will be your next god #mlp #mlp fim #my little pony #my little pony friendship is magic #mlp g4 #twilight sparkle #that one weird prissy girl you went to school with in your youth becomes the head of a fashion empire and the savior of the world #That shy girl you used to bully marries the embodiment of chaos #Those two girls who wouldn’t stop fighting during the autumn race gets married #And one of them becomes the captain of the wonderbolts #Your towns local baker marries Weird Al Yankovich #Id be pissed at myself that I never volunteered to help out during the summer solstice all those years back #outside pov

[emdeerm]

Idea!

Whomst???

So, let's take canon Danny Phantom. We can even take the AGIT, that would only make him canonically 16-17is for this scenario. (Btw, poor Val. I'm seriously so sorry for her)

Danny is flying around the Infinite Realms to familiarise himself with it better. Look, if he decided to be the Bridge, he has to learn more about the Ghost side of his life. Their customs, quirks, limits, world... from someone who isn't a Fruitloop or his parents. He is still ashamed that it took meeting Dairy King to finally realise that not all Ghosts are evil.

He got to a section of many, many, MANY, natural portals that led into completely different universes. Most of them even had Heroes!!!! He was so exited!

He visited many in the next few months. Made friends, confused the heck out of locals. Made some enemies, cause that's just his life.

Spiderman was cool! Iron Man was so fun to prank, the guy was a billionaire and hilarious.

Even if he never was able to speak with the vast majority, those Japanese Heroes with cool superpowers were awesome. He was kinda glad his world was normal-is tho. Call him judgmental, but come on, look him in the eyes and tell him that you wouldn't be weirded out by some of the mutations.

And now, he spotted his new target. From what he gathered, they were an urban legend of the gloomy as heck city. Robins,... bats? or something. Time to make friends!

And close the leakage of the Raw, unfiltered ectoplasm into here. He had only been around one for an hour and he saw how problematic it was.

Aka

Danny is a gremlin in canon. He found cool portals. He will make it other's problem.

Yes, he keeps his identity hidden. No, he doesn't stay invisible all the time. Only initially to get some info. After that? You'd spot him openly bothering the superheroes. And rogues. Can't let them be left out.

What are they gonna do? Kill him? They can't even touch him most of the time.

#dc x dp #dpxdc #dp x dc #dcxdp #Danny isn't at all concerned about being seen #he's not from here #there are no weapons or laws against him #he's vibing #the locals are collectively getting grey hairs #especially the older and/or rich ones #look #the guy can turn invisible #can spy on you and you won't know #that's dangerous! #How do you not see that Flash?!?! #No! you are not buddies! get back you traitor! #P.s: Danny won't try to find their civilian lives. he has some respect #Iron man's identity literally wasn't a secret when Spiderman reffered to him by his actual name all the time #not his fault #dc x dp prompt 4

[zu-is-here]

as it should be

[3/5] ★ Happy anniversary Dreamtale ★

Dream & Nightmare by jokublog

#zu art #dream!sans #nightmare!sans #passive!nightmare #dreamtale #anniversary #undertale #undertale au #utmv #something incomprehensible was spinning in my head and resulted in this #can't stop thinking of Dream & Nightmare's roles and the meaning of being guardians (before eating apples aka becoming mortals) #cause consider. they were just two kids living under the tree. they didn't eat or even sleep cause no need to. #They just. Guarded. The Tree. #sure they had lots of free time for themselves (with Nightmare reading books & Dream visiting villagers?) #and for sure the locals were mostly respectful of them despite the enticing fruits #but six years have passed without any tree incidents while possible ill-wishers were around? #to their credit the twins did a /good/ job ☆

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

What would it be like if people in your community looked out for you?

What would it look like if people outside your most-texted friends and closest family knew you and were invested in your wellbeing and were willing to make deliberate effort to contribute to it?

What would a healthy supportive community, full of a wide variety of people who aren't all necessarily friends, look like?

What would make your community more like that?

What structures or opportunities already exist that might enable that? Are they sufficient? Why or why not? If you don't know what kinds of organizations etc exist in your community, how could you find out? If they aren't sufficient, what could you do to contribute or create new opportunities for relating with each other?

What barriers interrupt opportunities for healthy connection and support in your community? What would effectively addressing those barriers look like?

What would be the easiest possible first step that one busy person could take to start to make your community more connected? Can you think of anything that you personally could do?

What kinds of skills or ideas would be necessary that you can't provide? How could you find people with those kinds of skills or ideas who are also interested in community care and who might be willing to work together?

You're probably marginalized by at least one form of oppression. Most people are. You're probably busy and tired. Most people are. What would make it possible for you to contribute anyway? What would make it possible for other busy tired people to contribute?

If you want your community to care for you—if you need that, as I'm convinced all people do—you might have to figure out how to care for your community first. If you wanted that, how would you start?

#being deliberately vague wrt 'community' here because it can look like many things #your neighborhood? people who go to your school? your local cultural or religious community? your local music scene? #but i specifically mean larger groups. not just friend groups. #a functioning community that actually works as a broad support system requires a lot of people #with a lot of different perspectives/experiences/skills/needs etc #it can start from almost any large group #but to become effectively supportive there has to be some catalyst to encourage ppl to value&cultivate care and respect #as well as difference and personal autonomy #thatdiabolicalfeminist

[chamomileteainabuttercup]

happy for the people enjoying punk Steve lately and genuinely not criticising them, only expressing a different thought in parallel (I hate how saying "genuinely not criticising" can make it sound even more passive-aggressive but I'm genuinely genuinely not criticising! I'm not suggesting other people are liking my favourite character wrong that would be so douchey)

I just always like the idea that Steve isn't, like, repressing a secret desire to be unconventional and join some kind of counterculture and one day start showing his true, wilder self in his fashion and grooming choices

that the way he looks is literally just what he's like

you could give him total freedom of choice and tell him to go hog wild and he'd still be chumping around in polos and light-wash jeans

they're comfortable and he likes how he looks

he likes sports and cars and his favourite Star Wars movie remains the one with the teddy bears

any "unconventional" stuff he does is very subtle and minor like he was indeed wearing a touch of strawberry lip gloss in the summer of 1985 because he needed a little cheer-me-up and he felt like the blue uniform washed him out, he's a warm autumn for god's sake he shouldn't be wearing blue

he would get, like, one ear pierced and wear a small plain gold stud and he'd feel very special about it

Eddie: gradually filling up his whole skin with increasingly elaborate tattoos

Steve: got a little heart with "E+S" in it on his inside forearm where it's not conspicuous but he can take a look at it and smile to himself any time he wants

he's not holding back this is just what he needs (and he thinks Eddie's tattoos and hair and jewellery and et cetera et cetera are badass and beautiful)

#steve harrington #steddie #this is closely aligned to steve 'boring queer' harrington #this also tends to lead to early misunderstandings with eddie's friends because steve doesn't LOOK or SOUND like someone who would #be nice to them or respect what they're doing or anything #(whether that's metal friends gaming friends queer friends or whatever combination thereof) #they're naturally wary and defensive at first #the thing is steve gets why so he's patient about it #telling them isn't going to work like showing them so he just quietly concentrates on showing them #eventually he just becomes known within whatever local community there is and newcomers are told about him #not like 'watch out for that guy' like 'you don't need to worry about that guy' #'yes he IS sitting there with his legs crossed reading Sports Illustrated but I promise you he's okay'

[deimcs]

AN OLD SCRAP FROM THE WATERDEEP GAZETTE, DATED 22 YEARS AGO.

They city mourns the sudden passing of known philanthropist couple Karim and Lorna Charys, both victims of the mysterious fire that burned down the Southern Gate library yesterday. The guards are currently still investigating the true nature of this terrible accident, when asked if he suspected foul play, the captain refused to elaborate further. In the meantime the Blackstaff Academy sent over an emissary to extend their formal condolences to the now de-facto heiress of the Charys family, twenty-years old divination prodigy Amara Charys and her two younger siblings, Dhalia and Tarek. Young Lady Charys is set to inherit the Waterdeep estate together with her parents' large network of business partners and growing charity projects for families of wizards in need.

#bg3edit #tavedit #gamingedit #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #tav bg3 #amara charys #edits #it was about time i giffed her again #yes i have 10+ ocs that never even appeared on here #but i'm in an amara mood lately #local woman in her forties bored to death after having successfully looked after her siblings until their respective marriages #and now just wants an excuse to escape the same old routine #enter an alien kidnapping

[un-pearable]

as true as the jokes about “everyone wants to rewrite ninjago” are i feel like smthn people forget when complaining about the inconsistencies of the show is that…. it wasn’t planned? it’s not like most other animated shows lately - it didn’t start with a deeply fleshed out world or a meticulously designed pitch bible with grandiose plans for a long-term story or character arcs. the ninja don’t originally get their powers from heredity because they weren’t hereditary powers yet. the magic system doesn’t make sense bc they literally just made it up as they went! they go back and forth on stuff like whether non-elementals can learn spinjitzu bc it’s a collaborative piece of media made by people with vastly different levels of control over the story, the animation, the sets, etc. that varied over the course of the series. it’s totally understandable and exciting to see so many people reworking the early stuff with the lore and logic later seasons introduced but i personally feel that… if you’re doing that. you need to understand why the show is like that instead of writing it off as being bad and shitty. it was working with what it had. it’s only what it is now because of that awkward troubleshooting phase, not in spite of it

#ninjago #text✨ #you’re 100% allowed to criticize the show but i keep seeing people complain about the inconsistencies about like. their parents giving them #their powers especially. like yeah cool that wasn’t a thing yet? they have different origins than the non-core elementals #because in the real world that idea hadn’t even crossed their minds yet! the original story was a more traditional fantasy narrative of #normal people rising to the occasion and *gaining* powers through their own feats. the fact that they changed it later doesn’t mean #it was necessarily bad to begin with or that it’s something that should be mocked #idk just. there’s a lot of hostility in some circles about this stuff and it makes me kinda sad. enjoy the complexity of production and how #series adapt over time. it’s part of why the show is so interesting to me #that essay i wrote had a whole bit juxtaposing the attitudes about technology in rebooted and prime empire and how they reflect greater #cultural trends between 2013 and 2021. it’s SUPER interesting and yet a lot of people only talk about it to make fun of how ‘bad’ it was :( #this isnt to say i don’t enjoy some of the retcons. the changes to their meetings with wu in s8 are genuinely really interesting! i love the #changes to cole’s backstory. i think his mom makes him in the early seasons even better! i’m just saying.. be respectful? nobody *tries* to #make a bad show. ages and ages of time and dedication were put into what ends up on your screens. it’s all human love and creation. #as goofy as it is #okay sry got all anthropology there but hm. been thinking about this for a while. apologies for being the local annoying early seasons fan

[aleprouswitch]

"Imagine being an adult and your favorite band is System of a Down"

Yeah, imagine being an adult and your favorite band is (mostly) made up of socio-politically conscious Armenian-Americans who use their music to draw attention to important issues like war, genocide, political corruption, mass incarceration, environmental issues, and media propaganda, all the while having innovative music that absolutely slaps. The horror!

#some jackass on the local music scene posted that to facebook #and i just had to grimace because dude...come on #soad is 10x more worthy of respect that whatever edgelord ass death metal shit you're listening to #fuck off #system of a down #opinions

[badgerhuan]

I will never get over the fact that Mitsurugi and Itonokogiri have intentionally matching blade based names. NEVER.

#gyakuten saiban #mitsurugi reiji #itonokogiri keisuke #mitsunoko #roch speaks #ace attorney #dick gumshoe #miles edgeworth #gumworth #another thing tragically lost in the English localization #why isn't there more art of them with their respective blades....

[sharks-are-friends-not-foes]

🐙 Daily Cephalopod Fact: 🐙

Blue-Ringed Octopus: They are one of the world's most venomous marine animals. Despite their small size, 5 to 8 in. and relatively docile nature, they are very dangerous if provoked when handled because their venom contains a powerful neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin. The blue-ringed octopus carries enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes. Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated until respiratory depression and paralysis begins. No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available.

#blue ringed octopus #blue ringed #octopus #DO NOT TOUCH #venomous #the brighter the color the more dangerous #leave the cephalopod alone #ce #cephalopod #cephalopod facts #daily cephalopod #cep #facts about cephalopods #daily cephalopod fact #shark blog #respect the locals #mar #marine biology #marine life #marine animals #marine #ocean animal #ocean life #ocean

[biblicallyaccuratethespian]

woe. gwiles/ghostflower web weave be upon thee.

Talk to You by Ricky Montgomery | Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe | suente from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig | soufrise from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig | Orpheus Mourning the Death of Eurydice by Ary Scheffer | All I've Ever Known (In Spite of Herself) from Hadestown | Battle Cry by The Family Crest | falesia from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig | Unkown / Nth by Hozier | Alone Together by Fall Out Boy | Marigold by Mother Falcon | heartworm from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig | The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

#ghostflower #gwiles #miles x gwen #web weave #web weaving #spiderverse #ahaha get it cause they're spiderpeople and webs and-- #okay i'll shut up #across the spiderverse #spiderverse web weave #atsv #thank you to the gwiles hashtag for many of the movie screencaps #love y'all <3 #gonna get all the image descriptions done by tmr hopefully #it is a LOT of pictures #lots of respect for folks who do this as their main thing because it is A LOT OF WORK!! #Leave a lovely comment on your local web weaver's work today <33 they deserve it

[leverage-ot3]

not going to give the blog any attention or time of day but this is your reminder that the leverage crew would never be zionists or support israel whatsoever

I wasn't going to engage with it because I value my mental health but yeah. absolutely fucking NOT

y'all really think that this group of people that actively go out of their way to go against the rich and powerful, who make it their goal to help people that are oppressed, devalued by society and taken advantage by those more powerful would at all EVER align themselves with israel? bffrrn

I'm going to go off for a few paragraphs about why this is such a horrendously ridiculous and delusional idea, but I'm not going to clog up your dash so it's going under the cut. I want to respect people who already participate in activism and need fandom space for lighter things

tw for discussion of the atrocities and war crimes happening in palestine

over 25 THOUSAND innocent people have died as a result of israeli terror the last few months alone. over 10 thousand children. entire family lines have been erased from the world forever- grandparents, parents, children, grandchildren all martyred, often together as they are sheltering from bombs and bullets until they are murdered by soldiers that laugh as they shoot and detonate bombs.

you really think that eliot 'I adopt every child I see' spencer would support a regime that let a child stay trapped in a car where her family members were martyred, not let paramedics in for days and then when they finally let the paramedics approach they kill both her AND the EMS? you think he would stand with the government that arrests children as young as 6 years old for *checks hand* being terrorists (because what fucking 6 year old is a terrorist let alone any kind of national threat. they're fucking SIX). that snipes children for throwing rocks at tanks and their apartheid walls

he and all of them would weep at the picture released the other day of the little girl handing from rubble with her legs blown off.

all of them would be horrified of the bombardment that has murdered tens of thousands of innocent civilians, women, children, men, elderly alike with no fucking care. that shoots people with their hands up waving white flags. that bulldozes graveyards and digs up bodies and probably steals organs from they dying and deceased. that bombs hospitals, governmental and archival buildings, mosques, churches, holy sites, schools and universities. whose soldiers have a trend where they go through women's underwear drawers and make lewd comments about their lingerie and how kinky they must be. who make tiktoks of them playing in decimated playgrounds and signing their children's names on bombs. who force parents to collect pieces of their children in plastic bags because they have been blown apart by relentless bombing. who shoot a grandmother holding a child's hand. who murdered a woman that dared say that she was older than the 'state' of israel.

the fact that you're posting this as israel relentlessly bombs rafa, the place they were told would be the only safe place to be, where 1.6 million people are living in tents living off animal feed because no sufficient humanitarian aid (if any) has been let through

these people that advocate for comeuppance and exposing wrongs would not support a regime that actively targets and murders journalists and their entire families.

you really think any of them would actively support a genocidal sociopathic government? fucking delusional

to a certain extent, I know that people want to keep fandom and advocacy spaces separate and I acknowledge and relate to that- when we are logged on every moment of the day we sometimes need to take breaks and engage with something else for our mental health. I need that too. and there is a very thin line when you try to apply fandom to current events because in all honesty, making headcanons about how your faves would react to X horrendous event can come off as extremely tone-deaf. I get you love your blorbos (I do too!), but actual people are suffering and it can come off as disingenuous to a lot of folks when you try to talk about your characters instead of the very real harm that is going on. HOWEVER, the other account posted in the leverage tag that the crew would be zionists and started that discourse and since it was already out there in our space I wanted to make sure that people know that this blog does not support that whatsoever.

and before this gets misconstrued: antizionism is not antisemitism. I have a lot of love for my jewish friends and followers, but saying that we can't be critical of war crimes and incessant aggression because it is a jewish state is fucking ridiculous. we should be able to hold any and all governments accountable when they do bad things (this absolutely also means I think we should hold the US accountable for enabling them and I live here. every country that is complicit needs to face consequences). saying that israel is exempt from criticism because jewish people deserve a right to a homeland isn't a great take. I completely understand fear of antisemitism and discrimination, but at some point we have to think critically and acknowledge that people are dying by the thousands and standing up for that and calling out atrocities takes precedence. jewish voices for peace has some really good content about this topic

anyways there's a random blog out there posting about how your faves are zionists splattering their rancid sponge and I want to make sure my stance on this subject is very clear: fuck israel, free palestine, and no one is free until everyone is free

#i got really fucking angry and this was kind of cathartic but honestly i'm just really fucking tired of this shit #thank u digitaldiscipline for talking me out of reblogging it with a response because that would just give the blog more undeserved attenti #free palestine #palestine #gaza #anti zionisim #fuck israel #fuck isntreal #leverage #leverage redemption #your fave is NOT a zionist #tw war crimes #also raf 'splattering their rancid sponge' is such an iconic phrase thank u for sharing that w me #I'm not going to talk about my real-life activism for privacy and security reasons but I regularly interact with people from jvp #and they are super awesome and lovely and courageous people #i really respect them. they are treated so awful in my area when we have protests at city hall from local rabbis. it takes a LOT of courage #ALSO there is a lot to be said about eliot as a character and how he isn't the best person but for the sake of him loving children i wrote #it that way. also hardison would be disappointed in you for supporting israel #mine

[badolmen]

hey you guys know that even if the people inside that submersible are rich billionaires, dying in that metal tube at the bottom of the ocean is a horrific way to die right. like. yeah stupid choices were made by the people in there signing off on a waiver that says the sub is not approved by anyone and they could die. but it’s the fault of OceanGate for knowingly putting people into a Home Depot DIY sub rigged up with an Xbox controller all to make a profit on people’s curiosity.

#ra speaks #personal #oceangate #missing sub #be normal on this post or I’m going to be disappointed in you and hope you grow as person #listen I’m not touching the ‘site of a horrific maritime disaster being used as a tourist locale’ with a ten foot pole #but like the people in that sub are currently going through something incredibly traumatic and will be lucky to survive #and I know we all love to laugh at dumb rich people suffering the consequences of their hubris #but jfc maybe I’m insane but like on a human level can you respect the horror of what is happening to real living ppl for a goddamn minute #there’s also a good chance these folk aren’t millionaires #they’re probably upper middle class folk splurging for the start of summer vacation #‘oh but I bet they’re still rich assholes-‘ THERES PEOPLE IN THERE. THEY MIGHT DIE. WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO GRASP AS A TERRIBLE THING??? #me. low empathy: wow this is horrible. I quite literally can’t imagine how the people down there feel but I’m sure it’s incredibly traumatic #dumbasses making memes: haha dumb rich kid and his dad are gonna suffocate in a metal tube lol

[paulthebukkit]

I am reeling, this is the funniest wording they could’ve used

#mad respect to the localization team for this #splatoon 3 #splatoon #nintendo switch #nintendo #video games #gaming #shitpost