#3 Mikey Stan

Mostly a TMNT blog but don't think I won't post on other shit from time to time | Amatuer meme maker | Currently mostly active on my Transformers sideblog @bepisprime | Feel free to message me, just know that I have the social prowess of a mouldy onion

[thethief1996]

Gaza has been completely cut off from the world and from each other. Gazans with Turkish SIM cards have been able to make contact with the outer world and said rescue teams don't know where to go because they don't know where bombings have happened. There's no way to call ambulances. At night, due to the electricity cut, Gazans are left in complete dark only lit up by the airstrikes. They have no way to know what's happening on the next street over. Meanwhile, Israel is publishing AI rendered videos of tunnels under Al-Shifa hospital to manufacture consent for its bombing. Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in Gaza, is housing hundreds of refugees.

This was meant to cut off Palestinians from the world, because we are sympathizing with their first person accounts and it makes Genocide Joe look like a genocide denier when he casts doubt on the death toll (a note on this, Israel has called the Gaza Municipality to threaten them with bombings. They want to erase every record that Palestinians exist in Gaza).

It's not up to us to feel defeated. Israel denies the very existence of Palestinians, and when we turn around and give up hope, we are washing our hands of any work towards liberation and becoming complicit in the zionist narrative. The people of Gaza are alive, the people in the West Bank are alive and the 5.6 million refugees denied the right of return are alive. Mosques are using their minarets to send out help signals. We're being asked to be their voices, so let's be their voices.

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).

Keep yourself updated and share Palestinian voices, looking to inform yourself from the sources. Palestinians have asked of us only that we share, tweet and post, over and over. 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

Mohammed El-Kurd (twitter / instagram)

Al-Shabaka (twitter / instagram)

Mariam Barghouti (twitter / instagram)

Muhammad Shehada (twitter)

Motaz Azaiza (instagram) - reporting directly from Gaza. He's been offline since yesterday. Keep him in your prayers.

Take action. 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.

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

FOR PEOPLE IN THE UK: Friends of Al-Aqsa UK and Palestine Solidarity UK have made toolkits for calls and emails

FOR PEOPLE IN GERMANY: Here's a toolkit to contact your representatives by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN IRELAND: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN POLAND: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN DENMARK: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN SWEDEN: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN FRANCE: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN THE NETHERLANDS: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN GREECE: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN NORWAY: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN ITALY: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN PORTUGAL: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN SPAIN: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN FINLAND: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN AUSTRIA: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN BELGIUM: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN ROMANIA: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN UKRAINE: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

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:

Here's a list on tumblr

Global calendar

Another global calendar (go to the instragram of the organizers to confirm your protest)

USA calendar

Australia calendar

There will a National March on Nov 4th in Washington, with the participation of 200+ organizations. If you can, get a group of friends and attend.

Feel free to add more resources. Check the links, there are too many protests and tumblr has a word limit for text posts.

[donnieandhisbackupturtles]

I don't know if I should apologise for this or not

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Inspired by these two posts:

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Donnie: gets mad at Raph for stalling a mission to take a photo

Also Donnie:

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Say what you will about him but he’s a fucking legend

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If Raph doesn’t dab in the rottmnt movie I will riot

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Sorry guys, the movie was too good for me to be mad

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O Titan, Where Art Thou was great so naturally I had to make a bunch of King memes, mostly from that one sequence

[redasuree]

The fact that Surface Pressure fits Raph so while and What else can I do fits Leo so perfectly 🥰🥰🥰🥰

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Cue Mikey singing Waiting on a Miracle after years of everyone viewing him as the least useful member of the team

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Encanto good movie

Original comic

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Guys, I gotta say, the Bad Batch is a pretty great show

Original comic

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How old were the DIGGs? is an all-female mutant band that made their debut in the Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode "Pizza Pit"

Sadly I do not know but I'd say somewhere in their twenties I guess. I'm not really the person to go to for this sort of trivia, sorry about that

[donnieandhisbackupturtles]

How old was Dale? is one of April O'Neil's classmates and a minor recurring character in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Don't worry I know all there is to know about Dale. Unfortunately, there's not really a canon age for Dale, but seeing as he's in April's class and April is like 16-17, he'd probably also be in that age range

[rookiebotwx78]

btw for anyone who may need it, here's how webber looked like before with higher contrast + some estimations on how i think his bangs are supposed to look like under there!

[donnieandhisbackupturtles]

Here’s a different shot with higher contrast that shows the entirety of his bangs!

Also bonus shot with a vague side view where you can see the outline of his nose and mouth

[donnieandhisbackupturtles]

Also feck it, here’s my best attempt at recreating his actual face using a mixture of tracing and using his mother’s face for reference. I also gave him freckles because freckles are cool

[rookiebotwx78]

btw for anyone who may need it, here's how webber looked like before with higher contrast + some estimations on how i think his bangs are supposed to look like under there!

[donnieandhisbackupturtles]

Here’s a different shot with higher contrast that shows the entirety of his bangs!

Also bonus shot with a vague side view where you can see the outline of his nose and mouth

[donnieandhisbackupturtles]

I think that turtle anon is a bot. A lot of blogs I follow have been getting that same exact anon and if you search turtles a bunch of them come up.

Ah fudge. When I said I liked transfromers, I wasn’t expecting real bots to show up. Anyway, thanks for the heads up.

[donnieandhisbackupturtles]

Do you like turtles?

Take a guess, buddy

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TMNT 2012 AU where Karai reacts to Splinter being her biological father with excitement over having two dads. (Yes, exactly like Mikey in rottmnt, including but not limited to her throwing a coin in a wishing well and wishing her two dads would get along, and trying to “reform” Splinter to make him more evil.)