Sleep-loving Potato

Rey | she/her | lesbian extraordinaire | 18 yrs

[worldcircus]

[primitivetreasure-deactivated20]

Oscar-worthy.

[shinjiapologist]

shoutout to the earth kingdom girl zuko went on one date with. i truly believe she made the choice not to snitch on his firebending

[guardiandae]

#okay but i kind of shipped her with Zuko harder than i ever did Zuko and Mai #like i LOVE MAI do not get me wrong #but can you imagine #this girl has been dating Lee for a few months by this point #only for him to say ‘hey im going out of town for a bit’ #and then the fire nation invades so like #okay its understandable that i havent seen my boyfriend in WEEKS #the war ends #she gets a summons to the FIRE NATION CAPITAL PER LORD ZUKO’S REQUEST #and Jin’s just like ?????? okay #honestly she thinks Lee somehow managed to be the fire lord’s tea server because he would do that #IN WALKS HER BOYFRIEND THE FIRE LORD AND SHE IS JUST LIKE LEE WTF #LEE I KNEW YOU WERE FIRE NATION I DIDNT KNOW YOU WERE THE FIRE NATION #L E E #LEE DO I HAVE TO GO TO ETIQUETTE SCHOOL NOW #BABE I WASNT PREPARED FOR THIS  (via @majestically-fangirling)

[missymalice]

“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”

a hero emerges 

[inkgut-deactivated20180603]

And just like in the novels, grown men and women are going out of their way to destroy her. Support our hero.

[freifraufischer]

And it’s not even like it doesn’t happen regularly.  

Teenage girls are amazing.

[queen-of-the-merry-men]

Sometimes they’re not even teenagers

[maveragical]

Reblog every time a girl is discredited/ignored

[thecaboodale]

[spacemonkeyg78]

[itssammray]

[disgusting-enby]

Who they are:

Emma Gonzalez

Malala Yousafzai

Ruby Bridges

Greta Thunberg

Mari Copeny

Autumn Peltier

Afreen Khan

Sophie Cruz

Charlottesville Black Students Union

Naomi Wadler

DAPL protestors (names not found)

Ahed Tamimi

[adultprivilege]

This isn’t a coincidence. Revolutions almost always happen when the population of a country is at its youngest and that’s a lot more true nowadays with social media.

[2am-theswifthour]

Claudette Colvin was actually the first one to refuse her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. The movement chose to promote Rosa Parks as the figure for that form of protest because Claudette was a pregnant 15-year-old girl.

Barbara Rose Johns was a 16-year-old who organized a student strike protesting segregated schools. This strike, after gaining support of the NAACP, became a lawsuit that turned into Brown vs. The Board of Education and resulted in the desegregation of U.S schools nationally.

7th-grader Mary Beth Tinker, disturbed by the Vietnam War, decided to wear an arm band with a peace sign on it in protest. Her school suspended her. Her family filed a suit, Tinker vs. Des Moines, which reached the Supreme Court and ruled in her favor, ensuring that students and teachers maintain their right to free speech while in school.

Freddie & Truus Oversteegen were sisters who joined a Dutch resistance movement in WWII in their teens. They lured, ambushed, and assassinated Nazis and Dutch collaborators. They also blew up a railway line, transported Jewish refugees to new hiding places, and worked in an emergency hospital. 

Our history books may like to showcase male figures, but behind every movement is a young girl ready to make a change. It was true then, it’s true now, and future generations of teenage girls will go on to inspire progress, whether they’re credited or not.

[pattykrenwinkelsbountifulleghair]

There is nothing empowering about commercialized rape

One of my best friends, a girl I have known since I was like 16, is a “sex worker”.  She was abandoned by her father and abused by her unstable mother.  She has multiple learning disabilities, processing difficulties, and executive dysfunction.  She has never received proper treatment or diagnosis other than being labeled with a form of Autism in early elementary school.  

She is the single mother of a child conceive by the man who, when she was fresh out of HS, essentially kidnapped her to the other side of the country and pimped her out to support his crack habit, all while starving and beating her almost to death.  

She risked her life to leave, only to be left completely dependent on her still-abusive mother (who not only starves and degrades her, but also refuses to allow her to see a psychologist because the mother “doesnt believe in mental illness” and considers people on psych medication to be “drug addicts”).  

Her mother also refuses to get her the testing that would possibly entitle to her to some sort of social security disability benefits, job placement programs, and other resources for the disabled.  Her mom also regularly steals her meager WIC checks and food stamps allowances as ‘rent’. She’s going through all sorts of programs and on all sorts of waiting lists trying to do the right thing and get into a work placement program and she’s being strangled by red tape and bureaucracy.   

She is the strongest woman I know but she is also, in every sense of the word, a vulnerable person.  

In order to provide for her son, she has resorted back to ‘sex work’.   She doesn’t talk about it much.  In fact, the only thing she’s said since taking it back up took my breath away.  

We had just finished painting Halloween pumpkins with her little son. The baby decided he was hungry, and attempted to open a fresh bag of cereal that we’d just picked up from the store.  He wound up breaking the bag open, and everything spilled out over the yard.  The cereal all spilled out, and some eggs were ruined; maybe 6 dollars worth of food.  We were cleaning it up and she broke down crying. “He doesn’t get it.” She kept saying, over and over. “He doesn’t get what I had to do for this.”

There’s nothing empowering about a mentally disabled abuse survivor sobbing on her front lawn over a single broken bag of groceries because it means she’ll have to be raped again, sooner than expected, to keep herself and her child alive.  

I’ve said it before and Ill say it again, if you buy sex in any form, you are a rapist who deserves a painful death and I personally hate you.  This is not some one-off shock story, either.  These are the girls you are buying. Most of their stories are even worse, a lot of their stories start as children.  If you can perpetuate that and still live with yourself you need to be removed from this earth.

[skramzsexual-deactivated2022090]

This is it. This is the post I found months ago that opened my eyes completely. This post ripped my heart out and fucked me up for weeks. I would still probably be stuck in pro-porn “sex positive” hell if I hadn’t stumbled upon this post. This is hell. I want to make it my goal in life to make sure no one ever has to go through something like this ever. I want to help every trapped sex worker exit and find a better job, a better life. One where they don’t have to be raped and abused just to survive. I owe everything to this story.

[appropriately-inappropriate]

If you can read that story and then say “sex work is work” with a straight face, or say that sex work doesn’t harm women, you lack a soul.

[haroldhighballjordan]

so like when zuko becomes fire lord do u think his portrait is put up everywhere like his dad’s was

like zuko definitely didn’t WANT it to happen, but the fire nation is just so used to being a faccist regime that they just go ahead and start putting their new leader’s face everywhere and zuko is so “ugh” about it but he also has way more important things to focus on so he develops a very choose-your-battles kinda attitude towards it

but do you think the gaang finds it hilarious? do you think they put up tiny portraits of zuko in their own homes for the hilarity of it? do u think Sokka and Suki have a portrait of zuko in every room in their house? do you think they say good morning to it every day? do you think they kiss it goodnight? do you-

[just-shower-thoughts]

Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

[unclebeanbag]

“Friend”

Its more of I killed a potential enemy. Hold his dismembered corpse in victory.

[ulysseus]

Plants don’t wage war

[unclebeanbag]

Ever heard of blackberries?

Yes, plants do wage war

[kasaron]

Mint and strawberries, too. They need to be quarantined or they will kill basically everything else. 

[systlin]

I planted mint in the ground 2 years ago.

It’s currently fighting a bitter battle to the death against the raspberries attempting to invade from the east while trying to annex the patio.

Could go either way at this point TBH. Unless, of course, I take a shovel and the blowtorch out there and battle both back to within their original boundaries.

And anyone wondering if a blowtorch is overkill for weeding back mint has never actually planted mint.

[moirakatson]

This post did not go where I expected it to.

[deathbeforednf]

Our garden plot at my childhood home slowly got overrun by wild blackberries after we stopped managing it while my sister and I were in nursing school. And by overrun I mean it was like a 4 foot tall thicket of wild blackberries. It hadn’t been touched by humans in at least 4 years. I started the ultimately futile task of trying to clear this plot with a machete and discovered to my amazement a patch of mint several feet across underneath the canopy of blackberry, still fighting the good fight all those years later.

Ultimately it took two jars of homemade napalm and some creative fire placement to clear that patch but I damn sure saved that patch of mint. It earned the right to be there.

[norseminuteman]

Yall mother fuckers don’t even talk unless you’ve had to wage war on kudzu (it’s an ivy strain directly from Hell) that shit doesn’t just wage war with other plants, it wages war with all living things on planet earth. It’s some gnarly ass Blood for the Blood God, Chlorophyll for the Chlorophyll Throne demon weed. 

[breadgunner-deactivated20181003]

Can second the comments of Kudzu.

I forget where I read it but there’s this one tree that creates an extremely flammable substance that’s in both the bark and leaves. Dead trees become torches and crushed up leaves become dust-incendiary, all while the plant’s seeds are Giant Redwood levels of resilient to open flame. IE it has a goddamn scorched earth policy. It’s even more badass than plants that use toxins to starve other plants.

[booksandwildthings]

I’d like to third the comments on Kudzu. These are the battlefields:

See those weird pillars? Those were trees. See that strange lump in the middle? That was a house. Everything green you see in this photo is kudzu.

[nevercure]

Kudzu is an apocalyptic nightmare

They smother every other living plant to death

Those trees under there are dead, they can’t get sunlight. Kudzu takes over and steals everything from these trees, and becomes them. It’s creepy as hell. These plants are basically straight out of a horror novelist’s wet dream tbh.

The bodies of everything the kudzu has slain.

What used to be a house

Someone attempting to drive a four wheeler through it, to give you scale

It’s an ornamental plant kept in check in china, but was introduced to north america where it immediately went rampant and began to spread incredibly fast like a disease, destroying everything in its wake

The ONLY thing that has stopped this curse from engulfing the united states is goats. Apparently goats love this stuff like no tomorrow. Everywhere we find it now, we just bring a horde of goats to cut it down. Everything is fine…. for now.

[nevercure]

Kudzu is on time magazine’s top 10 invasive species to look out for.

This little buddy doing his part

[nevercure]

Not to keep spamming this post but 

“the growth of kudzu as it became a “structural parasite” of the South,[7] enveloping entire structures when untreated[11] and often referred to as “the vine that ate the South”.[13]”

“It has been spreading rapidly in the southern U.S., “easily outpacing the use of herbicide spraying and mowing, as well increasing the costs of these controls by $6 million annually”.[2]“

yall it’s been estimated this plant consumes 600 kilometers of the united states every year

it’s been suggested that we just start eating it to make it go away

[kiwilemonteanonsense]

Adding to the spam: yes, kudzu IS edible. In fact, all parts of it but the vine are edible. The leaves are supposedly great in salads or baked into quiche. The flowers supposedly are great in jam. The roots… Well, if you know how to cook other root vegetables, you know what to do with kudzu root. Feed this stuff to your livestock and cook it.

Eat it before it eats your house.

[vagaybond]

@solarpunkcast @solarpunkactionweek @solarpunkinspo @enviropunk feels relevant

[crittizen]

In this world it’s eat or be eaten

[gamebird]

Thread starts with the existential angst of building a treehouse. Ends with recipes on how to eat kudzu.

Posts that make you go ‘hm.’

[wardofwinters]

Kudzu covers all my grandmas plants and is slowly crawling up her house. She doesn’t seem to care but…

[venusaurasaboy]

i am a luxury few can tolerate

[starapture]

commission info is available here!

[crowswarm]

my friend and i were arguing about soup

[taeguks]

It’s no big deal

[namkooks-deactivated20210523]

happy birthday to bangtan’s rock, jung hoseok ♡

[patientno7]

the suffering never ends

[sinksanksockie2]

This is the real process

[thewritingbeast-blog]

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Bonus art masterlist!

[brucewayneright]

BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

[startripperhq]

COOL.

[petitprincess1]

I’VE REBLOGGED THIS BEFORE AND I WILL REBLOG IT 20 TIMES MORE

[30-minute-memes]

I see his robot as an absolute win

[missioncomission]

How to Paint Skin Tutorial

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Helpful tutorial for any digital artists struggling to paint skin! :)

[gayavatarstyle]

I get that being frozen for 100 years is a tough thing to go through but honestly Aang should have used it for comedy more

[gayavatarstyle]

Katara: wow so this is Omashu

Aang: back in my day it was called weed city

Sokka: I’m… pretty sure it wasn’t

Aang: that’s what the fire nation wants you to think

[gayavatarstyle]

Bumi, the second they arrive: welcome to weed city

Sokka: what the fuck

[somethingmissingthiswaycomes]

Imagine them getting stuck in Ba Sing Se and Aang just being like, “I wonder if the sandal pit is still here.”

And everyone’s like, “The what?”

And he’s all, “The sandal pit. It’s where I buried all the sandals of people who were mean to me and my friends.”

Cut to the gaang walking around town, and Aang’s muttering about it being around here somewhere, when suddenly Toph stops and says, “There’s a big pile of sandals about fifty feet below that cobbler’s house,” and Sokka loses his mind.

[logo-comics]

This raises the question of whether Aang is telling the truth or if Toph and Bumi just happen to have the same sense of humor as him.

[wolfgang-amadeus-mozfart]

May I offer a third option into the mix:

It’s just sheer coincidence but it sends Aang hog fuckin’ wild

[kelssiel]

in the fire nation:

aang: i wonder if they still have the national fire burping competition?

sokka: okay now that’s definitely fake

after the war

zuko: you guys can’t go home you’ll miss the national fire burping competition!

sokka: you’re lying, you’re definitely lying

iroh: i won seven years in a row, until those cowards banned me

[jenny-jinya]

Okay, I’m sorry but I just feel so restless about the bushfires, I made a mini-comic. Maybe it will get a few more people to donate. I wish I could do more.  Please see http://wires.org.au if you want to help. :(

[awesome-picz]

Victorian Bushfire Appeal WIRES-Emergency Fund for Wildlife Pics That Sum Up The Hell On Earth That Is Taking Place In Australia.

Help Thirsty Koalas Devastated by Recent Fires :

https://au.gofundme.com/f/help-thirsty-koalas-devastated-by-recent-fires

Mogo Zoo Fire Recovery

https://au.gofundme.com/f/mogo-zoo-fire-recovery

WIRES-Emergency Fund for Wildlife

https://www.facebook.com/donate/1386120504919105/10158318179549750/

Victorian Bushfire Appeal

https://www.vic.gov.au/bushfireappeal

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

I’m so sorry, guys. I hope it gets better soon.