#struggling country

[alwaysbewoke]

this zionist cuck is always getting bodied on his own show lmaooo

#Lebanon's economic struggles #American politics #Middle East turmoil #geopolitical interference #Lebanon #impoverished #struggling country #American invasion #interference #Taliban #Middle East #American interference

[lucky-fy]

For the Laicion nation (aka, me and three other people)

I had this illustration commissioned (a big thank you to @lunehowls) for my werewolf AU Laicion fic (still a WIP).

The general pitch is as follows :

AU in which Laios never got to meet his sister again, putting his life on a whole other path, a more desperate one. A military deserter with barely a coin to his name, Laios hitches a ride on a boat to one of the elven continents, where he learns about magical tattoos that binds one’s soul to a wolf’s, effectively making them artificial werewolves. Illegal magic be damned, this feels like the answer to… everything.

In the process, he learns about the existence of an illegal fighting ring in one of the elven cities, where beastmen gladiators gather. Freshly tattooed and without anywhere else to go to, Laios decides to head there, where he meets Lycion, an elf and artificial werewolf gladiator. If they first bond over a simple shared meal, by spending time together (sharing the same room in the barracks, maybe the same bed? gasp) they find that they have a lot in common, notably a shared distaste for the body they were born in, a dysphoria partially remedied by becoming a werewolf.

They bond :)

#dungeon meshi #laios touden #lycion #laicion #I'm heads deep in research regarding Ancient Rome gladiators... and loving it. Really fascinating stuff. #I bemoan the fact that most papers are locked behind a paywall (though I found one that gives a free pdf access) #(and no. Sci-hub is not an option. It's blocked in my country) #I'm also re-reading DunMeshi and taking notes to get a better grasp of Laios and Lycion as characters. Character studies if you will #and I still need to fully outline the fic #I know where I'm starting (struggling to choose a POV for that first chapter LOL) and where I'm ending so there's that #and a bunch of disconnected scenes (as we all do ahaha) #anyway. Doing all of this while studying for veterinary school. It's hard. I feel guilty whenever I'm not studying... #let's just say I don't expect the prep work for the fic to be ready before this summer (+ I need to finish the Kuro cosplay for Japan Expo) #hopefully; once it's done; I'll be able to set a schedule and write smoothly #werewolf #werewolf laios #rarepair #Fy posts

[learnelle]

During my mini hiatus I fulfilled my dream of visiting Norway! The most surprising thing was hearing Lithuanian being spoken literally everywhere. My mum and I always speak Lithuanian to each other, so it was incredibly bizarre for people to overhear us and then come speak with us, or to have waiters/shopkeepers switch from English to Lithuanian. I’ve never experienced anything like it before, and I had no idea so many Lithuanians live in Norway! I absolutely ADORED this, it made all the places we visited instantly feel like home. Despite all that, I learned a bit of Norwegian and discovered that it’s literally the cutest language. Language learning is absolutely wonderful

#But fr it made me so happy 🥺 I rarely ever get to use my lithuanian so this was such a pleasant surprise!! #When we arrived in Oslo we sat down at a restaurant and were discussing how ridiculously expensive everything was - #- and then the waitress came over and asked (in lithuanian) if we were ready to order 💀💀💀💀 #We were struggling to find our hotel and we asked two ladies on a bench who were speaking lithuanian where we could find it !! #At a food festival in Bergen there was a stand for lithuanian chocolate so we were tasting there and had so many Lithuanians come and chat #And soooo many more instances like this !! #Imagine spending 99% of your time not speaking a language outside of the country / without your family #and then all of a sudden everyone speaks this language in the least expected place. Woah! #If I wasn’t so settled in France and if I was a bit less poor I would consider moving to Bergen. I loved itttt !!!! #studyblr #light academia #studyspo #langblr #norway #cottagecore

[archiarthur]

And then they made out

#not my best work and im out of country so im lowkey struggling #tf2 #science party #team fortress 2 #art-chi #engiemedic #medicengie #tf2 medic #tf2 engineer #engineer x medic #medic x engineer #genetic engineering #bird brains

[chaiaurchaandni]

if u wanna learn more about kashmir + it's resistance against indian occupation + kashmiri struggles for an independent state, might i recommend @ kashmirarchive on instagram

+ @ kashmirawareness for news updates on kashmir

#pls add more platforms that share info about kashmir !!! #whether thats pages on tumblr or twitter or ig or just links to archives or resources or books #stuff ppl can use to read up on the liberation struggle in kashmir #free kashmir #just wanna clarify since a lot of ppl esp indians get mad when we demand an end to indian occupation of kashmir #and always bring up pakistani administered kashmir #so just wanna clarify that i believe kashmir belongs to the kashmirirs and they should be given the right to self determination #kashmir does not belong to either india or pakistan both countries only want kashmir for the sake of their own power #resistance #liberation

[swervenation]

maggie’s hud readouts are so fucking funny to me as a concept. reblog and tag this post with what you think they would say about you or your OC(s).

#subject: jamie. #autocrat of 'swerve nation' a country unrecognized by 192/193 UN members #notable enjoyer of large robot breasts #(exercise caution) #threat level: annoyance. #struggling to believe that the megatron description isn't so long from conflicting emotions that it covers his left optic completely #seriously? no mention of the homoerotic meet cute of 'you are now his public defender'? #anyways i think i would be #ultra magnus #minimus ambus #...? #mtmte #transformers #macaddam #my honest reaction

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #it was a hard day today. #sometimes you just gotta cry for an hour about requiring significant assistance to do basic stuff that you don't actually have help with rn! #(my wife is working 6 12s at a job we had to move across the country for) #(which means 1 she is *exhausted* at *all* times and struggling to even meet her own needs) #(and 2 our other partner and all our family and friends are. multiple days away by car. so they can't come help.) #it's getting hard to even stick leftovers in the microwave for myself but no one else is able to cook for me. #it sucks. #(we're moving again in june because this was a 1-year position from the beginning) #(and the idea is for our other partner to move in with us which will help a lot) #(plus my wife should be switching to a reliably 5-day week at that time) #(but we don't know where we're going for another month and a half.) #(so we can't really do any groundwork or anything to make that happen.) #(and having zero agency other than sitting and waiting and getting worse alone Really Sucks!) #I guess this is a bit of a secret part two to yesterday's meducation lol #favorites

[scaredpigeons]

Love harassing my friends with my unhinged thoughts

#neuvillette #i’m canadian #i knew it was coming #I’m having so much fun being able to pronounce everything in Fontaine #and watching everyone else struggle loooooool #everyone else being a large chunk of Americans™️ #no hate to my US baddies tho🙋🏻‍♀️ #y’all just share a country with a lot of people who perpetuate stereotypes that the rest of the world loves to laugh at heheh

[canisalbus]

So my hiking route today took me through a deer park with, I kid you not, a 50+ herd of albino/leucistic fallow and (not very) red deer… what are the changes lol

Now I’m imagining poor Vasco in this Where’s Waldo situation, once he gets a grip on himself and goes back to find Machete.

(The expressions in Hound Mode btw were delightful!)

Ah, that must've been quite a sight! It's always such a staggering feeling coming across a big herd of any large animals, at least if you ask me. The fact they were all white just adds to the effect.

I hope Vasco would've fetched Machete and showed him the deer as well. I don't think he's encountered many other albinistic animals, at least in canon. He might've been impressed.

#also I'm quite jealous #we don't have red deer in Finland and only a small struggling population of fallow deer in the southern end of the country #our deer species are moose/european elk #reindeer (both wild and semi-domesticated) and roe deer #and invasive whitetail deer #which was gifted/introduced here in the 1930's by the Finnish Americans living in Minnesota #answered #hrh-spinach #I don't know much about deer parks but even if those deer were being deliberately bred for albinism/leucism #it's still neat seeing so many at once

[ragnarssons]

people out there pretending the watcher dudes are struggling wittle poow artists having to live by capitalist rules :((((( to justify their dumb ass move... y'all are cute, i guess.

#watcher #ryan bergara #shane madej #naivete is cute #'youtube is shit!!!' yes it is #that's why they had a patreon #with 11k SUBS #that's why they had sponsorships #that's why they had merch #ALL OF IT WORKING HELLA FINE #they are NOT struggling ffs #they're literally like 'oh ANYBODY can afford 6 dollars per month hahahah' *laughs in bourgeoisie* like HUH???? #then you have their ghost files tour that IS SOLD OUT almost everywhere #going in several countries #I MEAN???? #y'all need to stop comparing them to the struggling artist who needs to put food on the table

[cinnamonsikwate]

i still hate how the onus was on zon and his people to "prove" that orcs were capable of more than violence meanwhile marcille didn't do a goddamn thing to change their minds about elves being raging bigots. funny how she thinks elves (a long-lived race with powerful magic) and orcs (a short-lived race with no magic as far as we can see) are on a level playing field when it comes to securing land and resources!

and having bahai, zon's child, be the one to go "why can't we all just get along" like ooh ryoko kui some crimes cannot be forgiven

#dungeon meshi #fantasy racism #she captured white ppl microaggressions against poc perfectly but cannot commit to portraying actual oppression #and with current events marcille's demonization of the orcs who are obviously fighting to keep their autonomy reads so so awfully #tfw you struggle w depicting oppression bc then you'd have to come to terms w the horrors your country wrought in east & southeast asia #ryoko kui 🤝 hiromu arakawa #interesting how the 'how laios & shuro met' comic generated more racism discourse than ep 4 of the anime #calemonsito notes #edited to include zon's name #i thought his son had an official name too but i can't confirm it in the world guide #edit 2: found his name! #just a lil tidbit: bahay means house in tagalog

[ladykatibeth]

Thinking about the idea that the vampires issues with growth (at least as we humans are seeing them in a 4 year period) is often brought up as like….a failing or flaw like stubbornness…and how I super disagree so I did some time scale math.

So, if a human lives to 100, a single year is about 1% of their total life.

Laszlo is 311, a year is worth about 0.32% of his total life.

Nadja is about 500 a year is worth 0.20% of her total life.

Nandor is 760, a year is worth about 0.13% of his total life.

To put this in perspective, about 46 years ago computers starting being advertised and bought as a more commercial product (but they won’t reach 50% kept in the home until 2000)

For Laszlo scaled (keeping in mind some error, because every additional year changes the conversion slightly) the computer began being marketed about 14 years ago.

For Nadja scaled the computer began being marketed about 9 years ago.

For Nandor scaled the computer began being marketed about 6 years ago.

But that’s computers, iPhones weren’t a thing until 2007, 16 years ago.

For Laszlo scaled (keeping in mind some error, because every additional year changes the conversion slightly) the iPhone began being sold about 5 years ago.

For Nadja scaled the iPhone began being marketed about 3 years ago.

For Nandor scaled the iPhone began being sold about 2 years ago.

We got from the invention of the telephone to the iPhone in about 131 years.

That’s about 42% of Laszlo’s life, 26% of Nadja’s and 17% of Nandor’s.

If you put this to a 100 year scale Lazlo experienced this development in 42 years, Nadja experienced it in 26 years and Nandor experienced it in 17 years.

So, all things considered…….I think they’re pretty well adjusted 😂

Also just for fun, Nandor and Guillermo have known each other for about 13 years, in scale, for him, this is about a year and 248 days. Thats been about 40% of Guillermo’s life.

Nandors going through a speed burn and Guillermo is going through a slow one is what I’m saying.

#I mean #I think they still should probably put in effort to stay up dated #but I don’t blame them for struggling #especially with how speedily tech developed recently #they’re actually pretty good? #for like #the equivalent of going to a whole different country culturally speaking #every 2 years #wwdits #Nadja of antipaxos #laszlo cravensworth #nandor the relentless #wwdits meta

[cute-as-buttons]

76 YEARS AND WE'RE STILL GOING!!!!!

#independence day #Like listen I have my problems w this country #But I can also acknowledge that we've gotten so far #So this independence day! I implore you to look into our history! #Find out abt kala pani and how horrific it was #Look beyond “we got independence because of gandhi and Nehru” #It wasn't a bloodless victory #It was almost two centuries of constant struggle #And that deserves far more acknowledgment than it's given #We've fought for so long and we'll continue to fight #India #Bharat mata ki jai<3 #sara. exe #I love my country and want it to be better #And better starts w us

[brobound]

Truck Trussed

#video #rope #struggle #trucktrussed #country boy #favorite

[human-encounters-diary]

Day 15

We are set to arrive on Fendaar in two cycles. As we are currently stuck on the SIIR Noxos, I have concluded that the passages of time that I am free of duties would be best spent continuing to observe the human. The human, on the other hand, seemed to have different plans in that matter, as it took me an unusually long amount of time to locate her.

As I eventually found her, she seemed to be working on one of the control panels in the main control room, so I may excuse her absence with duties she had to attend to. As she saw me, although, she seemed rather…excited (this is obviously mere speculation, as the study of the Terran so far has provided far too little evidence to prove such theories)?

As she rolled out from under the control board and sighted me, her face once again split into a wide opening revealing her horrifying amount of teeth.

"Hey! Dude!", she said, raising to her full height and stepping towards me, still baring her teeth, although I did not recoil, as I did not want to seem impolite. She raised her arms, each pointing into a different direction, away from their connection to the human's body.

"Human Quinn. How are you?"

"Me? I‘m fine, the whole 'wandering around in space' thing just made me throw up, I honestly don‘t know why they insisted on keeping me there for two whole days."

The ends of her fingers, studded with claw-like (rather short and rounded instead of sharp, perhaps they were not meant to function as claws at all, or perhaps the beings on Terra were far different from what I knew, and therefore a shape like this was far more useful to hunt) protuberances, scraped over the back of the connection between her head and her upper body. If I interpreted her facial expression correctly, she seemed to be thinking.

"Maybe I got a light concussion too, I’m not entirely sure. But it's improbable, because I’m fine now."

I decided to focus on one piece of information at a time. "Well, this "throwing up" can certainly not be a healthy nor normal process, otherwise, it would not seem so violently painful and involuntary, would it?"

"Well it‘s not…unnatural, it‘s just something that can happen. And about health, it‘s not unhealthy, it usually helps us to get rid of stuff that is bad for our bodies!", she eludicated, moving one of her arms in a rather random manner.

"The scientists have concluded that this fluid is highly acidic. If this 'stuff' is so harmful to you, wouldn‘t it just dissolve in this fluid before being able to cause any further harm?"

Quinn seemed to think about that. 

"Well, just because it gets dissolved, doesn‘t mean it‘s gone, you know? It's still in our bodies, and we have to get rid of it somehow. And if it needs to be fast, we throw up. Honestly, I‘d definitely explain this further to you, but Biology‘s never really been my strongest subject, ya know what I mean?"

I did not, in fact, know what she meant, but I decided against questioning her further.

After a pause the Terran spoke up again: "So, this planet we're landing on..." "Fendaar.", I clarified. "Right. So, this planet that we‘re going to, it‘s a desert, right?" "That is correct." "So, is it a sand, an ice or, I guess you could also count rock desert? 'Cuz on my planet, we‘ve got all of those types."

"Fendaar‘s ecosystem is mostly made up out of sandlike landscapes with rather scarce vegetation and biodiversity. Most of the planets in system 36-54 have rather extreme temperature ranges, and Fendaar is no exception.", I eludicated.

"Alright, cool.", she spoke, rolling back under the underside of the control panel she had been working on previously. She seemed to be sitting, or rather lying, on a piece of metal with four small wheels attached to it, allowing her to move it around.

"Your planet.", I initiated. 

"Yeah?", she responded, while continuing her work on the wiring.

"Am I assuming correctly that your planet has a far bigger biodiversity?"

"Oh, yeah.", there was a small spring in her voice, as if she had let out air in the middle of speaking. "Big biodiversity. We‘ve got deserts and rainforests, coral reefs and permafrost - although perhaps not for that long anymore - mountain ranges and all that stuff."

"Interesting.", I supplied, for lack of a better response. If Terra had such differences in temperature and landscapes, it was a logical conclusion that the humans had evolved to survive under such circumstances.

"Yeah."

It was unusually quiet for some time. That was, until Quinn rolled out from the underside of the control panels.

"Alright, I‘m done." She took a deep breath before opening her mouth once again. Then, all of a sudden, the muscles of her face started contracting as if she was plagued by an invisible pain. Her eyes squeezed shut and she let out horrifying noise, holding an arm angled in front of her nose and mouth. The noise itself was not particularly loud or long, but I recoiled either way, as a measure of safety. I could not be certain if this gesture was meant to harm me, after all.

Quinn‘s arm sank down again as her other hand rubbed at her nose. She huffed, a sound far less threatening than the one she had produced a moment ago. One of the hair patches above her visual organs raised itself, prompting the question to arise if human hair was controlled by muscles or if it had a mind of its own, although this was a question that could be further investigated later. One of the corners of her mouth raised, revealing the seemingly sharpest teeth in her mouth.

"I guess dust is an inter-galactic thing, huh?"

I did not respond. Her face muscles contracted, causing the skin above her visual organs to crease.

"Hey, you okay? You‘re looking a little spooked over there."

"Human, I do not wish to cause you discomfort, but, if I may ask, what was the purpose of the noise you just uttered?"

She did not respond for a moment, blinking with both of her eyes as she stared at me. It was quite unsettling, considering her previous explanation, that most humans preferred not being stared at. 

"I…sneezed?" The creases in the skin above her eyes deepened.

My front pliers uttered another rattling sound. "What is this 'sneezing'? What purpose does it serve?" I admit, I was quite curious. Terrans seemed much more complex than I had previously assumed.

She paused, seemingly to think of an answer. "Well, it‘s like…if something is bothering us at or in out nose, like dust, for example, it‘s kind of the natural response to that. To keep things out of our bodies that don‘t belong there."

"Human bodies seem to require a lot of defense mechanisms.", I commented.

She raised and lowered the connection of her arms to her upper body, baring her teeth once again while raising herself to her full height, using one of her arms as support.

"Y’know, it’s surprisingly hard to explain something you’re so used to to someone who’s never heard of it. I guess I still have to work on the whole 'awareness that I‘m around aliens' thing. S‘ kind of surreal."

She patted off her clothing, as if to remove non-existent filth once again. I had noticed the past few cycles that most of her clothing seemed to consist of several, usually differently-coloured, pieces of fabric. 

Her clothes usually covered her body from the connection between her arms and torso to the connection between her legs and, presumably, her feet. Her feet were usually also covered, although I could not determine the purpose it was supposed to serve in the environment we are currently in, although the theory that the conditions on Earth are vastly different compared to the ones on the SIIR Noxos is gaining more probability, based on the Terran's narrations.

The human seemed to evaluate a question she wanted to ask (this is, of course, a mere speculation based on previous observations: her face muscles were contracted to form a crease over her visual organs, which could so far most likely be interpreted as confusion, thoughtfulness or discomfort; her head was both slightly raised and tilted to one side at the same time, a gesture that was most likely supposed to convey an ongoing thought process).

Although, before she could utter a noise, V-7 informed us of a request from the Vitrichl to gather for a matter of importance.

The purpose of his summoning was to divide the crew into several smaller groups that were to be assigned with different tasks to fulfill once we sucessfully landed on Fendaar.

I was grouped with the Terran, which was unsurprising, as well as Tkzt, a member of the species that is widely known across the galaxies as Ctzas (it is to note that the Ctzas have not evolved any form of written language and communicate exclusively through clicking and chittering sounds. The written forms of, for example, names of this species, are written by other species to produce approximately the same sound as the Ctzas make when recited verbally).

Tkzt, as a member of the unit controlling supply chains and keeping a list of the stock of the SIIR Noxos, would make a helpful addition in our task of seeking out the nearest settlement in order to stock up on supplies.

After all matters of importance were settled, the crew dissipated, continuing their respective tasks. The Terran was ordered to stay and to assist the Vitrichl in another matter, which is the reason I did not cross paths with the human again for the rest of this cycle.

Despite this, I am positive that accompanying the human on an foreign planet will give me a further insight into the species' mannerisms and interaction manners with foreign species, which will prove to be helpful further on in studying the human.

#*does that scene from movies but in reverse* #*a bus passes through your field of vision and suddenly I am standing on the opposite of the street in a trenchcoat & shades hiding my face #*In my hand a new chapter* #So honestly #I'm really immensely sorry that I disappeared for almost two whole months without a word #I had a lot going on #Duties #Deadlines #Having to travel out of the country two different times #But now I'm back!! #And I got a lot more free time so I'll be able to go back to my normal updating schedule of once a day #I spent some time thinking about where I wanted this story to go etc etc #But now I'm really excited to have this chapter finally released bc I was honestly struggling with it and the storyline #But now it's done and I'm back on the track :))) #day 15 #nr.15 #I wouldn't be surprised if most of you thought I was just dead and never gonna continue this lol #Also obviously thank you for the messages I got asking if I was okay and if I was continuing this #While also staying very polite #You guys are great <3 #Thanks for your patience and also for the 300 more followers I got while I was gone #Ok now the actual tags this already almost as long as the actual chapter again #I put it under a read more tho bc the chapter itself is also pretty long #earth is space australia #humans are weird #space australia #humans are space orcs #humans are insane #humans are terrifying #humans in space

[sunshinediaz]

snippet sunday 🥂

hi friends <3 had a weird and wild day but it's almost over so yeehaw, lol

have a snippet from hoa eddie ♥️ i had a small issue with it a few days ago and had to rework some things but now everything's flowing fantastic and i'll have chapter four finished by wednesday!

“Well, you won.” Buck flicks a hull at Eddie’s face. “What do you get?”  “An hour of bitch-free gloating.”  Buck snorts. “Not a chance in hell,” he says, taking a drink from his beer. “C’mon, Eddie. What do you want?”  Eddie rips his gaze away from Buck’s and stares out at the bar. The corner table gives them a good vantage—he can see the bar, the pool tables, the dart boards, and the dance floor. The music’s been good, a medley of pre-911 country and the classic rock his abuelo listened to, and he’s enjoyed himself more than he thought he would.  It’s been nice. It’s been fun, the same way it always is when he’s with Buck but better somehow because they’re in love and it’s unspoken but it’s known. It should be like this forever.   He turns back to Buck. “Buck, I—” The song, a Buddy Holly tune, switches to Shania Twain and he smiles. Shannon loved this song. “Dance with me.”  Buck gives him a funny look. “Dance with you?”  “Yeah.” Eddie takes one last drink of beer, stands, and reaches to pull Buck up along with him, as well. “Let’s see if I can keep up.” 

tagged by @daffi-990, @wikiangela, @actualalligator, @disasterbuckdiaz, @wildlife4life, @evanbegins, @eddiebabygirldiaz, and @devirnis

tagging @spagheddiediaz, @puppyboybuckley, @jeeyuns, @exhuastedpigeon, @honestlydarkprincess, and @monsterrae1 if any of you wanna share!

#everyday i struggle to not use the phrase 'pre-911 country music' in conversations and everyday i fail #it's not my fault 911 is a perfect way to measure time past? sorry? anyway #eddie during this scene: buck's so big i want to fuck him #also eddie during this scene: buck's so big i want him to fuck me #we LOVE switch kings <3 #tag games