yeah that’s right i changed my header text

[thatsonehellofabird]

My Parents Fled Gaza. I’m Still Here. We May Never See Each Other Again.

“I don’t want to leave you behind, but we can’t see any other way, Noor,” Mama said. “We are so tired. We cannot bear it anymore.”

Fahed (@/fahed-2) & Reem (@/reem-reem-0), fled south together with their children & their children's grandmother. Fahed's sister's family of 5 fled south as well, and the 13 of them remained together. But after 14 months of surviving hell as a unit (and nearly reaching their campaign goal) the family is now facing one of the worse decisions imaginable: who will be able to evacuate Gaza and who will be forced to stay behind.

There may be an opportunity for evacuation soon, but they're bracing for separation, with Fahed staying behind with his sister and her family. It's hard enough reunifying in Gaza, but with the border with Egypt between them, there's no telling when (or if) they'll ever see each other again. It shouldn't be a choice this family has to make: who survives, who may not. Their kids shouldn't be forcibly separated from their dad, nor Reem from her husband.

Fahed & Reem are some of the kindest, gentlest people ever, and their kids are dazzling, just absolute sweethearts. They've all lost so much and experienced too much, and somehow, kept finding a way to endure.

But right now, they might lose each other, so please: pitch in what you can, help the Shehabs stay together 🙏

DONATE HERE

(vetted here & by ButterflyEffect Project, #764)

sorry about this, tagging for reach below but if you'd like off leave a reply (& thanks for any rb's)

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[reem-reem-0]

Tagging for reach 🙏🏽

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[eldritch-muppetshow]

For Ace there was a period of time where they lost their powers and lived as a chef for a couple of decades on Earth.

OH that makes so much sense, thank you!

[eldritch-muppetshow]

probably a weird question but to people more versed in the ultra series fandom than me: i’ve seen a few fics mentioning ace to be a good chef, but is this something extrapolated from canon or a headcanon from a specific piece of fan media that got popular with the rest of the fandom?

[eldritch-muppetshow]

one pipe dream i have for future ultraman plotlines is a modern reimagining of redman as a member of/opponent to ultimate force zero. yes i know beta smash!z is already the ‘new generation redman’, but i want to see full commitment to the “bloodthirsty kaiju killer” interpretation and see how the modern ultra series would challenge his mindset

[eldritch-muppetshow]

reading up on ultra heights and was immediately jumpscared bc WHY are the adventure begins trio so giant

[eldritch-muppetshow]

i don’t have any fanart to show atm for the ultraman hyperfixation reveal, so have this edit i threw together for teo’s reveal

[kaijutegu]

everyone stop what you’re doing and look at this baby pelican

[kaijutegu]

[kaijutegu]

his power grows

[kaijutegu]

please… he’s getting too strong…

[kaijutegu]

please… stop… i beg of you…

[kaijutegu]

happy fifth birthday to piss homunculus! Good news: I found more of his baby pictures.

His real name is Rob, and he looks like this now:

That’s him in front with the two women who rescued him.

And even more good news: He is a fucking menace.

8.5K views · 903 reactions | Just wanted to share a update on Rob the pelican, what he has been up too. He absolutely loves helping us in a

Just wanted to share a update on Rob the pelican, what he has been up too. He absolutely loves helping us in anyway he can, we just have th

(link here if you can’t see the fb upload)

[kaijutegu]

Update part 2: Piss Homunculus Wants To Smash

[robs-sideblobs]

I'm gonna make a post with all of the 'stick figure violence' adjacent images I have. if anyone knows any similar ones I'm missing PLEASE SEND ME THEM. I have an unhealthy obsession with them.

[robs-sideblobs]

[robs-sideblobs]

[robs-sideblobs]

[footlongdingledong]

oh yeah here’s one I made a while back

[brightlydim]

@b0nkcreat

[wizardnuke]

[wizardnuke]

[wizardnuke]

[wizardnuke]

[wolfwoodbignaturals]

@foxbride-sunlight

[gayfour]

Ooo I made some recently

[peachy-faery]

you are my peach, you are my plum

[eldritch-muppetshow]

homeworld!nightshade absolutely gets nitpicky that their altmode is NOT a beast mode, it is a VEHICLE MODE because it is modeled after a mech that has a human pilot in the winged sentinel series, if anyone around them had actually read the novels they’d know this—

[eldritch-muppetshow]

i think homeworld au!hashtag and shattered glass!soundwave would be best friends but they cannot understand each other’s lingo. it’s a lot of smiling + nodding and deciphering things through context clues on both ends

[sharigax]

My toxic fandom take is that I think that it's awful how much we can talk to creators and get answers from them word of god style. We should be out here in a godless place rooting for scraps of lore in the media like truffle pigs out in the fields

[eldritch-muppetshow]

elcie doodles

[eldritch-muppetshow]

elcie doodles

[eldritch-muppetshow]

with the homeworld au on my mind, i’ve been thinking: i want to swap out tarantulas for another bot (maybe blackarachnia?) in this au.

i like earthspark!tarantulas as a character + his bond with nightshade, don’t get me wrong. but (as someone who never read the character’s appearances in the idw comics that inspired his earthspark portrayal) i feel like nothing about this “neutral ex-decepticon scientist tired of the war with a soft spot for nightshade” character really requires them to be tarantulas specifically aside from having a spider beast mode.

hypothetical pitch for the blackarachnia version under the cut (cw for discussion of abuse)

- as a quick aside: i would move this episode and the episode with nightshade choosing their altmode into being separate episodes, maybe with them choosing their altmode as the follow-up to this one.

- in this version, blackarachnia is an ex-decepticon who suffered abuse that megatron did nothing to stop (maybe have her abuser be shockwave? he was set up as being truly evil in season 1 and i feel kinda bad shafting es!tarantulas just to make him an abuser). she is cynical towards the war and the autobot/decepticon conflict, believing it’s bound to kick off again one way or another— so she chooses to hide on earth. she’s been trying to build the hologram avatar as a means of hiding, not wanting to be forced to pick a faction as an unaffiliated cybertronian. as for why she never tried going to the autobots, you’ll find that out in a second

- homeworld!blackarachnia is a hybrid between her beast wars and animated iteration, i picture her personality more like beast wars but using her animated design

- i picture her bond with nightshade as more of a “cool big sister + younger sibling” dynamic than a parental one, they can really get on each other’s nerves but they ultimately care deeply about each other.

- blackarachnia doesn’t directly tell nightshade about how she suffered under the decepticons, not wanting to expose something so vulnerable + traumatic to a young bot she just met— instead, the topic semi-comes up when she explains that she has nowhere else to go. nightshade offers to pitch the idea of taking her in to their family, and offhandedly mentions megatron. she flinches/freezes up at the mention of his name, and nightshade is concerned and asks what’s wrong. blackarachnia explains, in the most delicate way she can, that she refuses to trust megatron after he turned a blind optic to her being hurt.

- unlike es!tarantulas, she does not offer to take nightshade with her— she doesn’t want to take a young bot away from their caretakers, and quite frankly she’s concerned they could be a liability to her escape. instead, it’s nightshade’s siblings eavesdropping and reporting back to bumblebee that get the duo caught (with dot and alex understandably freaking out that nightshade was just hanging out with a stranger behind their back)

- blackarachnia thinks she’s been caught by the autobots and lashes out, escaping with the hologram projector. the resulting scuffle (i’m thinking she webs up the terrans rather than attacking them, reserving her firepower for bee) alarms the maltos by showing just how badly she doesn’t want to be anywhere near megatron. before escaping, she hints to nightshade that she won’t forget their help

- a human heavily implied to be her holomatter avatar makes recurring appearances down the line, but she and nightshade don’t properly reunite until later in the story when megatron’s past is brought to the forefront

[eldritch-muppetshow]

actually, i just had an idea for how this could tie into the “episode” where nightshade chooses their altmode:

(cw: mention of gender dysphoria)

- what happens is that blackarachnia asks nightshade why they don’t have an altmode, as it’s risky for (what she assumes is) a factionless transformer to be running around with no means of disguising themself. nightshade explains that they do want an altmode, but they’re afraid they won’t like how they look after scanning one.

- blackarachnia’s response is that if they don’t like their altmode, they can just scan a new one until they find what they like— she used to be a cybertronian spider-tank before scanning her more traditional organic spider mode (the real story is that she was stranded without a trustworthy bot to turn to, and she scanned the spider mode to fall under the radar— but she’s not about to just spill that story to nightshade). the topic of nightshade’s altmode doesn’t come up for the rest of the blackarachnia episode, but is the topic of the following episode

- for the “nightshade gets an altmode” arc, the episode follows nightshade scanning a variety of altmodes off their siblings’ suggestions, but nothing is really clicking with them the way it did for twitch and thrash. still, as always nightshade is determined to figure out the answer and get to the bottom of what they want

- the episode culminates in nightshade essentially building their own altmode in the form of a recreation of the winged sentinel mecha, i’m imagining the big reveal of their altmode is when they swoop in as the hero from the novel they love so much to help their family against a threat. it would work with how homeworld!nightshade’s character is all about carving their own niche/path

[augmentedpolls]

What was the cause of the worst (physical) pain you’ve ever experienced?

chronic pain/chronic illness

break/sprain

kidney stone

labor

period cramp

an actual weapon

getting hit in the balls

something else

results

Voting ended onJan 6

[eldritch-muppetshow]

with the homeworld au on my mind, i’ve been thinking: i want to swap out tarantulas for another bot (maybe blackarachnia?) in this au.

i like earthspark!tarantulas as a character + his bond with nightshade, don’t get me wrong. but (as someone who never read the character’s appearances in the idw comics that inspired his earthspark portrayal) i feel like nothing about this “neutral ex-decepticon scientist tired of the war with a soft spot for nightshade” character really requires them to be tarantulas specifically aside from having a spider beast mode.

hypothetical pitch for the blackarachnia version under the cut (cw for discussion of abuse)

- as a quick aside: i would move this episode and the episode with nightshade choosing their altmode into being separate episodes, maybe with them choosing their altmode as the follow-up to this one.

- in this version, blackarachnia is an ex-decepticon who suffered abuse that megatron did nothing to stop (maybe have her abuser be shockwave? he was set up as being truly evil in season 1 and i feel kinda bad shafting es!tarantulas just to make him an abuser). she is cynical towards the war and the autobot/decepticon conflict, believing it’s bound to kick off again one way or another— so she chooses to hide on earth. she’s been trying to build the hologram avatar as a means of hiding, not wanting to be forced to pick a faction as an unaffiliated cybertronian. as for why she never tried going to the autobots, you’ll find that out in a second

- homeworld!blackarachnia is a hybrid between her beast wars and animated iteration, i picture her personality more like beast wars but using her animated design

- i picture her bond with nightshade as more of a “cool big sister + younger sibling” dynamic than a parental one, they can really get on each other’s nerves but they ultimately care deeply about each other.

- blackarachnia doesn’t directly tell nightshade about how she suffered under the decepticons, not wanting to expose something so vulnerable + traumatic to a young bot she just met— instead, the topic semi-comes up when she explains that she has nowhere else to go. nightshade offers to pitch the idea of taking her in to their family, and offhandedly mentions megatron. she flinches/freezes up at the mention of his name, and nightshade is concerned and asks what’s wrong. blackarachnia explains, in the most delicate way she can, that she refuses to trust megatron after he turned a blind optic to her being hurt.

- unlike es!tarantulas, she does not offer to take nightshade with her— she doesn’t want to take a young bot away from their caretakers, and quite frankly she’s concerned they could be a liability to her escape. instead, it’s nightshade’s siblings eavesdropping and reporting back to bumblebee that get the duo caught (with dot and alex understandably freaking out that nightshade was just hanging out with a stranger behind their back)

- blackarachnia thinks she’s been caught by the autobots and lashes out, escaping with the hologram projector. the resulting scuffle (i’m thinking she webs up the terrans rather than attacking them, reserving her firepower for bee) alarms the maltos by showing just how badly she doesn’t want to be anywhere near megatron. before escaping, she hints to nightshade that she won’t forget their help

- a human heavily implied to be her holomatter avatar makes recurring appearances down the line, but she and nightshade don’t properly reunite until later in the story when megatron’s past is brought to the forefront