"Tatsuya, thank you for everything"

○papu ○ they/she/he ○ 25 years old ○ finnish ○ Rebloggin things ○ Brb just crying over Utena's ending and Maya Amano○

[queenrhaenyras]

VENEZUELA’S EARTHQUAKE HELP RESOURCES

WANT TO HELP BUT DON'T KNOW HOW? GO HERE

For donations:

We Love Foundation: Provinding food, water, medical support, hygiene kits, shelter supplies, logistics, and direct support for vulnerable families on the ground. They have worked with global partners and Venezuelan nonprofits for the past 13 years.

The Gio Foundation: Humanitarian and animal aid nonprofit organization accepting donations through their portal.

Aldeas Infantiles SOS: Accepts donations in bolívares (Venezuelan currency) through their Venezuelan branch. Donations in foreign currencies can be sent through Aldeas Infantiles SOS Spain.

Save the Children’s Emergency Fund: Donations will go towards providing urgent, life-saving support to Venezuelan children.

UNICEF Spain: Has launched an Emergency Fund for Venezuelan children.

Miami-based Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce Foundation: Launched a fundraising campaign to provide food, water, medicine, shelter and emergency relief.

World Central Kitchen: Providing fresh meals to communities in need in Venezuela.

Caritas Venezuela: Accepting both venezuelan and foreign donations.

Alimenta La Solidaridad: Activated their humanitarian network to support communities affected by the earthquake and deliver aid where it is needed the most.

International Medical Corps: Deployed members of their in-country team to the affected region to assess needs, working in close collaboration with local officials and emergency responders.

The House Project: Providing emergency humanitarian aid to those who need it most.

Fundación ACNUR Argentina: Independent, non-profit organization that works to raise public awareness and secure funds to support the humanitarian aid programs of ACNUR (the UN Refugee Agency).

Emergency Appeal by Healing Venezuela: Healing Venezuela is a UK based charity focused on alleviating the health crisis in Venezuela.

SOS Venezuela Appeal by People In Need: People in Need is a Czech non-governmental, non-profit organization active all over the world.

Ayudo Venezuela: A website to look up all collecting centers available in Venezuela.

Some collecting centers around the world: Find a near collecting center if there's any and help with anything you can.

For reporting missing people/pets:

Desaparecidos Terremoto Venezuela: If anyone you know in Venezuela is missing you can report them here.

Encuéntralos: You can locate people here.

HuellaScan: Website to report and locate missing pets.

Other resources and articles:

A map to see damages in Venezuela

Earthquakes in Venezuela: What We Know by Caracas Chronicles

Key Information About Venezuela’s State of Emergency by Caracas Chronicles

A Shaken Country and an Exposed State by Juan Carlos Gabaldón

Important video with information about Venezuela by Alex TVzla on instagram

For the best information about Venezuela in english please follow Caracas Chronicles and Alex TVzla on instagram.

If you are from the US call your representatives to pressure into aiding Venezuela as much as possible. Please, my country needs all the help they can get.

There are many Venezuelan communities around the world coming together and organizing to help those back home. Find the nearest collecting center and please help with whatever you can! }

Venezuela was already a devastated country, and this just made everything a million times worse.

All these campaigns/fundraisers I'm sharing have been verified.

If you can't donate, please share.

[just-a-carrot]

I'm a storyteller, too! ໒(´◡`)७✎

My time loop horror game with an asexual MC, lots of gay yearning, and a whopping 570 CGs is coming to Steam (free!) this summer with a demo launching next month for Steam Next Fest!

Wishlisting really helps with visibility!!

[ilhoonftw]

[ilhoonftw]

reblog this version of post instead, thanks

more from the author:

if you wanna read the bootleg translation link

link to buy raws

[katzkinder]

Since Mukuro and Tsuna are still weirdly connected, Tsuna’s sometimes gotten glimpses of things he wasn’t ever supposed to, and vice versa on Mukuro’s end. He usually shoves Tsuna awake once he notices Tsuna’s accidentally plopped into one of his memories, but

If it’s one of Tsuna’s, he’ll let it play out without interruption. It’s never anything of note, anyhow, so expending energy to wake him would be pointless >liar mc liar face

Eventually this gets him more than he bargained for

There’s also a lot of stuff in Tsuna’s mind that, once he’s aware of it, it makes him go okay hold up

Because it’s not like he ever assumed that Tsuna was some happy go lucky idiot, but he also assumed he wasn’t actually thinking about much in that head of his he’s sure is more fluff than brains

Gokudera-kun is going to be disillusioned with me any day now. I’m grateful to him but I feel bad for somehow tricking him like this. I shouldn’t let him get too close but I don’t want to hurt him, either. What should I do? I’m sorry, Gokudera-kun. Please don’t hate me when you figure it out.

Yamamoto is such a nice person; he shouldn’t be stuck around someone like me. He’s like Kyoko-chan like that. Nice to everyone, even useless, no good me. I wouldn’t be surprised if she fell in love with him. Of course the two nicest people in the whole school would date, right? I’m so worried about him… I don’t know how to handle the way he lights up when he sees me. What should I do? Don’t try and hurt yourself again. Don’t get hurt for my sake, either. I’m sorry I’m so weak…

Hibari-san doesn’t treat me differently from anyone else. He’s super scary but he still bothers to treat me like I’m normal. I think if even he began to act like I wasn’t worth his time I would seriously just give up and call it quits. Things have gotten so messed up. I’m relying on a psychopath like that kicking my ass to reassure me I still mean something. If even someone who values strength above all else still has hope for me what choice do I have?

Reborn’s going to give up on me. Reborn’s going to give up on me. Reborn’s going to give up on me. Don’t go. Don’t go. Don’t go don’t go don’t go don’t go don’t go don’t go don’t go don’t go— It would be just like me to be so useless I beat the world’s greatest, huh?

The only words he ever found in relation to himself, and words that shake him to his core, are very simple ones

Please wait for me

One time, though, he managed to dive deep enough to find the source of Tsuna’s Dying Will, and he keeps going back despite knowing it’s a pointless, silly thing to do.

There are still the broken remnants of a cage around it. If he sits near it like this, he can almost pretend he isn’t in Vindicare. The cage is still red hot. He’ll burn his fingers if he tries to handle them. The flames reach out to him but don’t touch.

It is not a soft, warm home.

It is something which, if he allowed it to, would consume him right down to his marrow.

This is how Sawada Tsunayoshi has always survived

One day he sees that flame guttering, and he feels panic swell in his throat, because what could possibly, after all this time, be dimming that roaring inferno

There’s ice at the base now

Tsuna made a binding vow to destroy Vongola, that rotten, shambling corpse of a man’s ideals puppeteered by someone with a face a lot like his.

He knows better than anyone that when you make that kind of vow, if you don’t fulfill it… There are consequences.

The mafia has practically deified Vongola Primo’s will into its own separate entity.

The ring, rebuilt and no longer fit for any other, past or future, weighs cold on a young boy’s finger, demanding he make good on his promise

Mukuro wants to destroy the mafia. He’ll get his wish. He’ll make sure of it.

Sawada Tsunayoshi… Is too kind for that life, anyhow.

[justnoodlefishthings]

"Coca-Cola made an AI ad!"

"McDonald's releases AI Christmas commercial!!"

Don't care didn't ask plus here's a beautifully animated ad for a French supermarket that was made by actual artists

[dyingfad]

Gankutsuou (2004) Ep. 17

[just-a-carrot]

Ok it's out! Can you survive a night with a vampire? Help Iggy use his sweet and oblivious "wiles" to keep from getting blood-sucked by his charming suitor!

Includes:

🦇 1 short gay (and very thirsty) vampire

🐇 1 cute awkward nerd

A darkly comedic fever dream of a romp that can hopefully make you laugh (and feel things). Available for free on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and right in the browser:

My Vampire Boyfriend Smokes Lucky Strikes by Carrot

Don't let him in! ...or do?

Please help share if you can! I've been really struggling to get visibility of any kind on itch after the deindexing!

[toolusingmammalgirl]

This is 100% the gay supervillain music video I’ve been waiting for.

I love campy gay villains, but gay villains of this type are amazing too and sorely underrepresented.

[psshaw]

…Oh, so by “gay”, you mean. Actually gay.

[groovy-bastard]

I don’t usually reblog stuff like this but tbh this is the kind of content I live for.

[spockvarietyhour]

Happy 10 year anniversary to these two, specifically

(single dropped Dec. 3, 2015, music vid hit youtube Jan 12, 2016)

[motionpicturesource]

AZUR & ASMAR: THE PRINCES' QUEST // AZUR ET ASMAR (2006) - Directed by Michel Ocelot

[britomartis]

hello everyone im making a new post since the original lost traction! first of all i would like to say thank you for reading if you do. i want to empathize and say that i understand how disheartening it feels to see sad stories and dono posts when you're broke. if you can't afford anything rn, it's ok!! please do not worry or feel bad. it's rough out here. i would really love it if you would just pitch us a reblog at least. it doesn't seem like it helps, but it really does, if nothing else but to help show that people care since it can be so demoralizing to be suffering AND feel alone.

with that, let me get to the facts. my very dear friends ebony & azul have been experiencing housing instability for years. last summer we saw them off as they left to make the effort to create permanent housing for themselves and other black disabled people. unfortunately, climate crisis, car issues, racism, and other hardships have been slapping them both in the face the whole time. they made the decision to pursue other housing situations for the time being.

one of those housing situations... is me! yaaay wheeee! i am pretty broke, but i'm just not-broke enough to be able to rent a place with a spare room. unfortunately, we had to delay this as they had a bedbug scare and i can't afford physically or financially to deal with an infestation (i'm operating with only half of my total arms rn due to injury, RIP lefty). ebony decided to expedite moving to china, and is there working their butt off on the job search. i would like to get azul moved in with my wife and i, because it's still on the table! we need to help ebony keep surviving, and to help azul fix up their car, eat and live, and nuke bedbugs. to that end, check out this chuffed campaign! there's less than 1k to the current goal! ✨

Help Ebony + Azul Find Safety After Climate Disasters

TLDR: chaos has been following us since last year and this summer we decided to find alternatives to our original project after our road got

[britomartis]

$3,745 out of $4,500!!

i'll be nice the rest of the time im fundraising for them but since i just had to go through thanksgiving as a navajo yet again i'm in a bad mood. this site is soooo white as hell and i KNOW you're going to spend too much money on mid fandom merch made overseas by underpaid workers for christmas that ur gonna forget in a corner for years to come. at least offset that karma by donating a few dollars or pity reblogging this post <33

[gatoburr0]

Holy shit???? New scam strategy alert! Apparently scammers will use your identity to accuse you from selling child porn!!! Do not fall for this bullshit 😭😭😭😭😭 lmfoaifjapfj

[scam-alerts]

Oh jeeze! That IS new!

Make sure you guys are aware of this, as it's likely the same scammers as those 'I accidentally reported you' scammers, all in an effort to try and get you to add them to discord or some other chat app and then have you pay them money.

Be careful guys!

Report any kinds of blogs that DM you like this immediately!

[mythi-cat]

I've seen various incarnations of these scams before, so I'm gonna talk about that a bit in case you want to learn more about how they work and how to protect yourself.

When you are the target of this type of scam, you will probably receive a DM with a screenshot of what appears to be an account imitating yours that is doing something illegal or horrible (just like the ones in the post). In the case of the Discord‐based variant of this scam that I have personally been targeted by, it was a screenshot of an "email" that was edited to look like it came from Discord staff, claiming that my account was reported and that they would ban me if I did not talk to them quickly. The screenshot that the scammer sends you is fake. It's just a photoshopped image, and if you look closely, you'll probably find inconsistencies that prove this. The account doesn't actually exist. It's an emotional manipulation tool. The scammer is banking on you seeing their screenshot and panicking.

This scam, like similar ones, uses fear and shock to make its victims feel pressured to act without thinking. After all, if you are in a panic and are focused on taking down an (imaginary) impostor who is "ruining your name", or on sorting out a situation where someone has "accidentally reported you for having [horrible content]", you may not be taking the time to realize all of the small, suspicious details of the situation. You might not think about the fact that Tumblr (or Discord, or the FBI, etc) would never ask you to speak with them over DMs with a "staff account," would never ask for your password or your personal information, would never need you to send money to "prove" your identity, etc.

To reiterate, the screenshot is not real. Do not engage with people who send you send screenshots like these. Don't ask for more information. Just report them for scamming and block them! Interacting with them will do nothing but prove that your account has a real person behind it that they can try to trick again later.

If you are a victim of this or any other scam, be EXTREMY wary of any stranger who claims that they can help you get your money/account/etc back. Recovery scams are a thing, and they fucking suck.

Stay safe!

[sadfaceclown]

Ashley also known as squidkid1111 took their own life after facing bullying from the cosplay community due to them being a cosplayer of color. Rest in peace.

[uptownlowdown]

a reminder that racism in fandom/nerd/hobby spaces has real life consequences, and is not something you can simply filter or block out of existence. people whine about “serious” topics ruining fandom, meanwhile Black fans are routinely belittled and harassed simply for existing in these spaces.

rest in eternal power, ash. i’m so sorry this happened to you.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Also, because they were* a Black cosplayer. Not just "of color", they're not synonymous. Say Black, please. Harassment for cosplaying while Black comes from nonblack fans of color, too. Many Black cosplayers will tell you of the baffling experience.

*correction: I heard they went by she/they but the post says they. My apologies.

[teomodo]

art books on the internet archive for you

morpho books

figure drawing for all it's worth (+ creative illustration)

framed ink

will eisner comics and sequential art

will eisner graphic storytelling and visual narrative

understanding comics (+ making comics)

folder of various animation production art

burne hogarth drawing dynamic hands

perspective for comic book artists

michael mattesi force drawing

the animator's survival kit

color and light james gurney

be free

[ladyaldhelm]

HOW TO TURN OFF GOOGLE AI in GMAIL:

Open Gmail in your browser

Click on the Gear Icon ⚙️ in the upper right

In the General Tab, scroll down to "Smart Features" and UNCHECK THE BOX. It is about halfway down.

Then, right below that is Google Workspace smart features. Click on the "Manage Workspace Smart Features" and make sure both toggles are OFF

[creatingblackcharacters]

Welcome!

I'm going to update this list as I post more. So make sure to check periodically!

Anon Office Hours: Wed 12:30pm - Friday 6:30pm. (EST)

I DELETE ASKS THAT DO NOT CAPITALIZE THE IDENTITY OF "BLACK" ☺️

Try #commonly asked questions in the search bar, case you need extra guidance 👍🏾

Causes

"Your posts are too long"- Teacher's Note

Feedback Rules

FAQs!

Please take the time to review the one relevant to your questions! They are long- some longer than others- but they likely have a link contained within that can better guide your research!

📝Syllabus📝

Lesson 1: "White Man Painted Black"?

Lesson 1.5: "Hair for Thought"- how visualizing affects your writing

Lesson 2: “That One Hairstyle? RETIRE IT!” Black Hair is an Art (pt.1)

Lesson 2.1: Addendum to Hair pt 1

Lesson 2: "It Takes HOW LONG?" Black Hair is an Art (pt.2)

Application! Examples of Protective Hair Coverings

Application! Ice's Lazy Loc Wash Routine

Application! How to: Simplified Braid

Application! Daisy E's Simplified Hair Drawing

Lesson 3: "Defying the Default"- Skin Tones and the Presence of Black Characters

Application! What are Black fans looking for in Commissions?

Lesson 4: "Do Black People Blush?" Bringing brown complexions to life

Application! Humanæ- Resource for Skin Palettes!

Lesson 5: "The Same Place As the Music" Lighting & Color

Lesson 6: "Let's Have A Talk, First" Stereotypes, pt 1

Lesson 6: “Why’s she so rude?” (She’s Not)- Stereotypes, pt 2

Lesson 6: "Is He the Threat (Or Are You?)"- Stereotypes, pt 3

Application! How to Spot a Stereotype: An Example

Lesson 7: "That's the Black one!"- Imagery and "Black-Coded" Characters

Lesson 8: “Across cultures, darker people suffer most. Why?” Multiethnic and Multicultural Blackness

Lesson 9: “Romance Will Not Solve Racism”- Interracial/Biracial/Blended Black and White Relationships and Families

Application! "Not Black Enough"

Lesson 10: “The Ambiguously Brown Character™”- The Attachment to Eurocentric Beauty Standards

Lesson 11: “No, That’s Not ‘How Color Works’.” - Whitewashing

Lesson 12: “The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth” - Violence, Violent Imagery & Black Horror

Lesson 13: “It’s Giving” AAVE, and the Denied Yet Undeniable Impact of Black Culture

Lesson 14: “On Human Dignity.”  Blackness, Gender & Sexuality

Lesson 15: How To Guide Your Research

Lesson 16: "Make Your Peace With The Chaos..." Childhood While Black

Lesson 17: "D.N.A."- Blackness and Health/Medical Antiblackness

Application! Where do I find books by Black authors?

[utopians]

the avatar movies are crazy bc "what if colonizers literally inhabited and puppeteered the bodies of indigenous peoples in order to exploit their homeland" sounds like the premise of some sort of anticolonial horror film, like specifically the kind of thing that would be commenting on self-indigenization among white settlers, but because it's James Cameron his whole takeaway from that premise is "it would be preddy cool"

[utopians]

actually sorry. the takeaway is also "the white settler possessing an indigenous body would actually be extremely good, perhaps even The Best, at being indigenous, and he would become their Leader"

[afronerdism]

The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

[afronerdism]

To explain what I mean, the conversation around cultural appropriation was started by black and native people to discuss the frustrations we feel at being punished socially and financially for partaking in our cultural heritage while white people could take, I.e. appropriate, aspects of our culture that we are actively shamed for and be heralded as innovators. It was about the frustrations we feel when the same white people who shamed us would take our culture and wear it as if they were the ones who created it while still actively shaming us for doing the same.

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.

White People are always asking me what they can do to help. You want to know? Stop talking. Aplify our voices and shut the fuck up because you all have pretty much derailed this conversation and many more like it to the point that we no longer are trying to make steps to understand and dismantle the racism around cultural appropriation and instead are just using it as social shaming tactics.

[afronerdism]

TL;DR: read my post. Most things worth learning about can’t be summarized in the bullet points of a buzfeed article. Don’t come into academic circles and complain because everything hasn’t been conviently summarized for you. Stop pretending that things aren’t accessible to you because you refuse to do the intellectual labor that is learning.