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Day 8 of drawing sans everyday until deltarune chapters are released
I’m actually so happy with this one, drawing this goober has actually helped improve my art which is embarrassing lmao. I spent a couple hours on this one which is way longer than how I usually do. It’s pretty crazy to see how much I’ve actually improved in a week.
got told at lunch "you feel like Tumblr Incarnate" and i had to tell them i've been here for 13 years and counting. i was here three years before dashcon happened. i saw the mishapocalypse. i survived the gigapause. i've been here longer than the shoelaces post. i've been here since it was hipsters versus fandom and i played both sides extensively by overdoing the sepia filters on everything and making my own flashing galaxy gif edits for my fandom posts. i'm every tumblr. it's all in me
Oh ancient one what wisdom do you hold?
99% of callout posts are bullshit and just petty personal drama someone is escalating to get even on a grudge. do not engage with these, do not freelance as a cop
DNIs do not work. accept this. internalize that people you don't like will see your posts and engage with them. this is unavoidable and the sooner you make peace with it the freer your mind will be. block the freaks and don't sweat the small stuff
building a tight knit circle of fellow weirdos who vibe with your particular quirks and taste is infinitely more rewarding and sustainable than chasing the biggest numbers
don't respond to bad-faith arguments or bad takes; just block people, blacklist tags, filter post content, and move on. don't feed the trolls (or the bigots)
don't hate-follow
don't tag your hate (ex. if you're posting about how much you hate a ship, don't tag it as that ship, etc.)
don't feel obligated to keep following someone who posts stuff that upsets/depresses/angers/bores you just because you know them really well, or because you're mutuals, or because you used to like what they post. following is nothing personal and neither is unfollowing
op doesn't know you; avoid parasocial relationships
don't pick fights or reblog posts just to disagree/argue
spread joy and positivity in your circles
disable anonymous asks
This is some of the best social media advice (and advice for being a human among humans generally) I've ever seen.
All of this. For people asking how I've survived here for over 12 years...
THEY ARE COMMUNISTS YOUR HONOR👺👺👺
This was a commission for @zenubi-scribbles and I kinda struggled on how i want to make so theres some other stuff leftXD
me when the ship fic is not also an in-depth thesis with multiple cited sources proposing an analysis of one or both characters' psyches down to the most fundamental level
just thought about The Thing I Like and got so emotional i acted this gif out in real life with the passion of a broadway actor
To any fic writers who worry they are wasting their time... I read a fic for a relatively small and inactive fandom about three years ago. And there was one specific scene where a character watched another dancing like an idiot to a beyonce song and it was so sweet and loving that even now years later I have that song on one of my spotify playlist so every once in a while it will play and remind me of that fic, and every time it does I smile and feel a little happier.
The stats on a fic will never really tell you if your writing touched someone. There's no numerical way to show you what impact you made. Maybe you are wasting time, or maybe you are writing something that someone will remember for a long time, something that will never fail to make them smile.
One time when I was still new at writing I read something to the effect of “nothing is sacred. Even the people who love your fanfic today will have forgotten all about it in a few months.”
That’s just. Not true.
I can still remember parts of the very first stories I read. Maybe not the titles or authors, maybe not even the most profound parts. But I remember them. A little line of dialogue, a creative description, something that sounded JUST LIKE the character(s).
There are some stories I do remember by title and author, and still recall vividly. I even go back and read them now and then if they’re still around. Some of these stories are 25 years old. I was in sixth grade when I found them. I still think about them. I still smile about them. Way, way more than “a few months” after I read them.
Wanted to get back into posting, I spent like a solid week on this because I would keep restarting, I think I’m ready for this one to be done so here he is!
This youth from Palestine here, was called after finding his friend's house got bombed. They asked him to call his friend in order to determine his exact location so they can start digging.
Remember that in gaza there are no resources to dig people up from underneath the rubble, so civilians from the neighborhood have to use their own hands and be very careful because of the bodies underneath. I can't even imagine the trauma he's experiencing, his shaking voice and hands. I would never bear witnessing my best friend in such conditions and having to call them bc I'm not even sure they're alive.
How would anyone heal from this? And yet all are we asking for is just a ceasefire. This genocide should stop.
this cop also did this to another protestor:
i remember when Instagram mostly banned me from my account for an entire year after posting about police brutality and its' links to white supremacy and institutionalized violence -it was during the height of the BLM movement after George Floyd was murdered. i remember calling out ex-co-workers at the time and people on social media i was mutuals with at the time for saying 'but it's not all cops, some are good,' and my response to that, and will always be: policing systems do MORE harm than good in communities. cops get little to zero training and are allowed to bear arms and have a licences to maim, injure, and kill people (most of whom, are NOT threats). and it's beyond unacceptable. the amount of funding these fucking systems get too when it can be allocated to programs that ACTUALLY do good.
defund the police.
end the occupation and free palestine!
*also, a few people have noted this, but yes, I believe it appears that the cop spat on the memorial candles too. and the fact he will never be fired and told to give up his badge for doing such a heinous thing is just despicable* -and yes all cops are bad.
heartbreaking. you have to write the fic youre writing in order for it to be written
tragic. they found an angel stcuk tangled in the telephone wires outsside your house. sorruy. yeah we dont know how to get it out cus anyone who approached the divine light of their holy aura got obliterated. yeah we forgot their names. it'll probably get free sooner or later. dont go outside
interesting point! lets not stare at it for too long okay!!
#i know this is supposed to be like some gravity-time distortiong effect but i think its interesting that it looks the exact same as this#glitch i got in a differential equation solver program i made (i was actually trying to simulate cooking meatballs but thats like what life#is) where the solution overshot up and down and looked just like the last image#idk it would be funny if life was a crappy meatball differential equation solver
PREV @jswatson I WANNA APPRECIATE HOW COOL THIS IS!!!! i may not personally be very math savvy, but theres something to be said about a glitched simulation of cooking meatballs having the same beautiful effect that i imagine reality warping would emulate. this is great news to me.
The idea has been circulating that northern Gaza is empty after a massive evacuation yesterday, but this is not true. This is propagated and supported by Israel so that they can freely commit atrocities in the north under the justification that no one there is a civilian. But there are still around 800,000 civilians in northern Gaza, and they are now facing increasing bombardment and starvation, with decreasing media coverage.
Most journalists who were in north Gaza have evacuated to the south, and that includes most or all of the best-known, English-speaking journalists with the highest follower counts. They are trying to share information from northern Gaza, but they already have a catastrophic situation to document in the south.
There are a few journalists and other social media users still in northern Gaza, but their accounts have a smaller following and they mostly post in Arabic, so the English-speaking world is not circulating their updates. These people have chosen to remain in extreme danger in order to document the ongoing atrocities in northern Gaza, but are receiving very little engagement with their content.
I will post the journalists and other Instagram users in north Gaza of whom I am aware. Please follow with them and engage with their content, so that the world doesn’t let Israel carry out genocide in northern Gaza in silence. I will add some translation resources/suggestions at the bottom of this post.
I will post Instagram usernames with links to their profiles, as well as provide their names if I can, as well as some details about who they are, from where in north Gaza they are posting, and details about what they’re saying. This is not a complete list, and there are a few people in this list who may not be in north Gaza, but I can’t distinguish their location and they’re sharing content from north Gaza. I apologize in advance for any and all errors I have made and will fix or update them as they appear to me.
Journalists and other people posting from north Gaza as of Saturday November 11th:
abomoaaz23 (Mostafa Abu Mouath, journalist, Al Shifa Hospital)
wadeaa_.9 (Wadea Abu Alsaoud, journalist, Al Shifa Hospital)
nooh.xp (Nooh Al Shaghnobi)
ferasalajrami (Feras Al Ajrami, journalist)
almajd_free (Mahmoud Abusalama, journalist, around Indonesian Hospital)
abdullahobead (Abdullah Ebead, journalist, Indonesian Hospital, was nearly killed with some of his colleagues today when they stepped out of the hospital to check on the neighborhood around them. Israel sees their press jackets and targets them. His last livestream had only about 130 viewers and he described being shot at, and some people having to eat cardboard because they are completely out of food and have no way to get more.)
anasjamal44 (Anas Al Sharif, journalist, Indonesian Hospital)
saleemaburass (Saleem Z Aburas, relief coordinator for Palestine Red Crescent society, located at Al Quds Hospital and reporting tanks and snipers surrounding the premises, killing anyone who moves, even to try to treat the wounded. They are out of water, food, and electricity.)
ezz.lulu (Ezedeen Lulu, medical student volunteering at Al Shifa, one of the few medical staff to remain at Al Shifa to treat patients.)
hossam_shbat (Hossam Shbat, journalist, Indonesian Hospital)
sami_tabak_2 (Sami Abu Tabak)
fadi_alwhidi (Fadi Alwhidi, photographer, Indonesian Hospital/Jabaliya, managed to go to the market earlier today with hundreds of other Gazans but they all had to flee after Israel began shelling the area)
abd.sabbah (Abed Alqadr Sabaah, photographer and videographer)
najjart_1 (Tamer Mazen, engineering researcher and trainer)
m_abuowda11 (Momina Abu Owda, photographer)
ahmed.hamdan8 (Ahmed Hamdan, journalist, Indonesian Hospital)
hassan_zaqout00 (Hassan Zaqout, artist and medical professional at Al Shifa)
princekouta (Medical professional at Al Shifa, one of the last to stay behind to care for the injured. Reports Al Shifa is surrounded on all sides and no one can go in or out, bring anything in or out, or treat anyone outside the hospital, as Israel shoots at anyone who tries. Reports that many were killed or injured inside the hospital after an oxygen line exploded due to bombardment.)
mohanned_rayyen96 (Mohanned Rayyen, journalist, Jabalia)
abood0_8 (Abood Abo Salama, photographer, Indonesian Hospital)
abo_khaled_4u (Mohammed Saber Arab, journalist, Indonesian Hospital)
ahmed_al_arini22 (Ahmed Al Arini, journalist/videographer/editor, Indonesian Hospital and Beit Lahia)
nofal_i (Ibrahim Nohal, around the Indonesian Hospital)
hosalem (Hosam Salem, photojournalist)
marah_at99 (Marah Attaallah, journalist)
tawfiqhemaid (Tawfiq Hemaid, Jabalia)
saber.nuraldin (Mohammed Saber, photographer and journalist)
maqadema (Ahmed Maqadema, journalist, Gaza City)
Resources:
on Instagram mobile, there is usually a button at the bottom of Arabic text on photos, stories, and bios that says “translate” and will translate the text into English. It’s not perfect, but you should get the general idea of what’s being said.
princekouta posts mostly in English, nearly all of his videos with updates from Al Shifa are in English.
Some of these posters, such as fuad.kh.ps_ and najjart_1, also post small blurbs in English describing their Arabic text and/or audio.
Sometimes on livestreams in Arabic, if you ask in the chat, someone will summarize what the person is saying and translate it into English. The host *may* also speak in English if they see your question, but do not count on it happening and absolutely do NOT pester them. Their internet access is extremely limited and they are stressed beyond human comprehension, they do not need entitled anglophones interrupting their updates with demands and tantrums. You can also record their livestreams and, if you can POLITELY find someone who can translate Arabic to English, send it to them for translation.
Additionally, there’s a fantastic account called translating_gaza that translates videos from people in Gaza from Arabic into English. If you DM them a video and ask them to translate it, they may do so. Note that they are completely inundated with requests, are struggling with technical issues and IG censorship, and are a small purely volunteer team, and they cannot possibly translate every request they receive. Follow them regardless, because they are a fantastic resource for non-Arabic English speakers.
I can't stop thinking about the news out of Palestine. Israel is sieging al Shifa hospital. Videos of people's limbs being severed off are haunting (graphic video tw). The hospital has ran out of fuel and 39 babies in incubators are fending for their lives by themselves, because Israel has stationed snipers around the hospital and is shooting all medical crew that walks into their sight.
First, the narrative was Israel would never bomb hospitals. Now, the hospitals are Hamas bases. Then, we respect journalists. Now, we have a fucking kill list of journalists because they are Hamas collaborators. First, we are not letting fuel in until the hostages are released. Now, we are not accepting the hostages back because that would stop our ground invasion and let Hamas win. And I could go on about every single lie they're making up. If you look up "Hamas rape" on google, the first link leads to Times of Israel saying Israel has found no forensic evidence of sexual violence, and only one eyewitness testimony out of 3.5k people attending the rave. If you Google "Hamas beheaded babies" the top links say they have no evidence for the claim besides word of mouth from extremist soldiers. Israeli extremists think about the ugliest goriest scene they can make out in their sick heads, tell that to a international journalist and they run away with it like it's gospel.
And children are being killed in the name of these lies. Thousands are being displaced in images that remind me of the pictures of Tantura 75 years ago, with their hands up so the tanks don't shoot them. Amputees are leaving the hospitals in wheelchairs hours after their surgeries because they are being shot at. Elders who survived the Nakba on 48 are having to walk towards Southern Gaza on foot (imagine walking from one end of your city to the other on foot), displaced again. People are cheering for the haunting images of white phosphorus bombs being dropped over Gaza. Gazan workers who were arrested in the West Bank are being thrust back into the bombings wearing numbered labels.
This is not normal. We are seeing the early stages of the settler colonial genocide of an indigenous population. Native leaders who have visited Gaza say its refugee camps look eerily like reservations. We can stop this. For the first time we are able to see wide scale accounts from the hands of the people suffering the genocide, and Israel is so scared of it they have cut all communications in Gaza.
This is our litmus test. I think we have never seen more clearly, with Palestine, Armenia, Congo and Sudan how colonialism has made our world a rotten place to live in.
The South African apartheid collapsed due to boycotts. We have to do everything in our power to stop Israel's hegemony. Even talking to a group of friends about Palestine changes the status quo. There's no world where we can live peacefully if Israel accomplishes their goals.
Keep yourself updated and share Palestinian voices. Muna El-Kurd said every tweet is like a treasure to them, because their voices are repressed on social media and even on this very app. Make it your action item to share something about the Palestinian plight everyday. Here are some resources:
Al Jazeera, Anadolu Agency, Mondoweiss
Boycott Divest Sanction Movement
Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing protests and direct action against weapons factories across the US
Mohammed El-Kurd (twitter / instagram)
Muhammad Shehada (twitter)
Motaz Azaiza (instagram) - reporting directly from Gaza.
Hind Khudary - reporting directly from Gaza. Her husband and daughter moved South to run from the tanks but she stayed behind to record the genocide. The least we can do is not let her calls fall on deaf ears.
You can participate in boycotts wherever you are in the world, through BDS guidelines. Don't be overwhelmed by gigantic boycott lists. BDS explicitly targets only a few brands which have bigger impact. You can stop consuming from as many brands as you want, though, and by all means feel free to give a 1 star review to McDonalds, Papa John, Pizza Hut, Burger King and Starbucks. Right now, they are focusing on boycotting the following:
Carrefour, HP, Puma, Sabra, Sodastream, Ahava cosmetics, Israeli fruits and vegetables
Push for a cultural boycott - pressure your favorite artist to speak out on Palestine and cancel any upcoming performances on occupied territory (Lorde cancelled her gig in Israel because of this. It works.)
If you can, participate in direct action or donate.
Palestine Action works to shut down Israeli weapons factories in the UK and USA, and have successfully shut down one of their firms in London.Some of the activists are going on trial and are calling for mobilizing on court.
Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing direct actions to stop the shipping of wars to Israel. Follow them.
Educate yourself. Read into Palestinian history and the occupation. You can't common sense people out of decades of propaganda. If your arguments crumble when a zionist brings up the "disengagement of Gaza", you have to learn more.
Read Decolonize Palestine. They have 15 minute reads that concisely explain the occupation (and its colonial roots) and debunk popular myths, including pinkwashing.
Read on Palestine. Here's an amazing masterpost.
Verso Book Club is giving out free books on Palestine (I personally downloaded Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe. If you still believe in the two states solution, this book by an Israeli professor debunks it).
Call your representatives. The Labour Party in the UK had an emergency meeting after several councilors threatened to resign if they didn't condemn Israeli war crimes. Calling to show your complaints works, even more if you live in a country that funds genocide.
FOR PEOPLE IN THE USA: USCPR has developed this toolkit for calls, here's a document that autosends emails to your representatives and here's a toolkit by Ceasefire in Gaza NOW!
FOR PEOPLE IN EUROPE: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace targeting the European Parliament and one specific for almost all countries in Europe, including Germany, Ireland, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, Norway, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Finland, Austria, Belgium Romania and Ukraine
FOR PEOPLE IN THE UK: Friends of Al-Aqsa UK and Palestine Solidarity UK have made toolkits for calls and emails
FOR PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA: Here's a toolkit by Stand With Palestine
FOR PEOPLE IN CANADA: Here's a toolkit by Indepent Jewish Voices for Canada
Join a protest. Here's a constantly updating list of protests:
Global calendar
Another global calendar (go to the instragram of the organizers to confirm your protest)
USA calendar
Australia calendar
Feel free to add more.
It was never about hamas. If israel manages somehow to kill every member of hamas, what then? Do you think Palestinians are just going to forgive and forget everything Israel has done?
Babies who are the only surviving members of their families? Fathers carrying the remains of their children in plastic bags? Palestinians who witnessed people blown to bits right in front of them? Had Israeli forces shoot at them as they tried to escape the north? Palestinians in the West Bank who have been captured and tortured on camera? Palestinians in 48 who have been arrested just for sympathizing with their kin in Gaza? Palestinian school girls being assaulted by the IOF? Mothers who only have the blood of their children on their hands as their only remaining piece of them? The constant dehumanization that followed our every move - how while Palestinians suffered, politicians called us “monsters”, “human animals”, “children of darkness”, “savages”, and “cockroaches”?
It’s been 75 years since my family was forced from their villages by Zionist militias, they have never forgotten what they did to their neighbors and how they are still denied their right of return. None of us will.
Now, IOF forces in Gaza raise the Israeli flag over the beaches and take selfies with fleeing Palestinians in the background, cheer and celebrate a “return to their settlements in gaza” and sing about leveling the land and fantasize building shopping malls on Palestinian mass graves - it was never about hamas.
(alt texts taken directly from @rw_pw's thread)
+ Two different reportbacks on the failure, submitted anonymously:
Reportback from the Port Blockade in Tacoma The Boat That Wasn't Blocked
Remember today. Remember how the world stood by and watched 2.2 million people which more than half of them are children get annihilated. Remember how Israel cut off all ways of communication and internet inside and outside of gaza, and started bombarding the strip heavily like never before with American weapons. How israel made itself look like the victim while it kills a Palestinian child every 10-15 minutes. Remember how if you're in gaza and your house got bombed, you will die either way because there is no way you can call an ambulance. You can't check on your loved ones even if they were meters away. Remember how everybody remained silent while Israelis chant and celebrate Palestinians death, and we demand the chance to live.
Remember how they bombed hospitals, mosques, churches, schools, refugee camps and houses. Remember the families who survived the first bombing in their house, only to get killed in a hospital or a camp. Remember how their defense minister called us Human Animals, our children children of the dark. Remember how the USA and Israel are testing weapons on the people of gaza. Things we've never seen before.
Remember the babies who survived the bombing while their entire family got killed. Who will tell these children their names? They experienced trauma that they don't even have the language to describe it.
Remember that we watched a genocide live, before they start changing the narrative. Remember that when this is marked in history, you were on what side. Remember the "never again" in the holocaust and Rwanda and and, but the "again and again" in gaza until everybody is dead in the most gruesome way.
Remember the killed Palestinians. They are not numbers.
This is the hospital that Israel wants to bomb. Over 30,000 people seeking care not to mention the families seeking refuge. Israel army spokesperson claims that Hamas headquarters are underneath this hospital. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY BOMBING A HOSPITAL. Al shifaa hospital is 16 meters above sea level, making it impossible for tunnels to exist beneath it. The highest area in Gaza is 105 meters.
Don't let them get away with bombing these children to shreds. Speak up!
