x. now @grogblogging

inactive following blog bc tumblr still won't let me switch primary & secondary blogs even in the year of our lord 2020

[orpheusilver]

black sails finale takes census

alive: i trust silvers story

alive: heres the textual evidence

alive: thats the ending i want

dead: i dont trust his story

dead: heres the textual evidence

dead: thats the ending i want

idk: mad abt the ambiguity

idk: neutral abt the ambiguity

idk: delighted by the ambiguity

theres ambiguity?????????

i havent seen/finished black sails but i want to be included

Voting ended onOct 13, 2024

dont blow up my notes with arguing, i just want to know what The People In General think. if you want to change minds please make an original post

[orpheusilver]

watching the "theres ambiguity??" percentage slowly but surely increase as it gets further from my mutual circles

[bloglikeanegyptian]

award-winning palestinian children's illustrator baraa awoor writes:

"what use is it to be an illustrator of children's books when the world has sentenced the children of your country to the death penalty, to vanish, to genocide?"

some of baraa's illustrations:

this is an illustration for youssef, whose mother is remembered running desperately into the hospital asking if anyone had seen a "small white boy with beautiful curly hair, his name is youssef," a description which was remembered by millions when she finally identified his body:

this illustration is for young omar, who was hugging his little brother and teaching him how to repeat the shahada after him (a prayer spoken by muslims before their death) as he lay on his hospital bed:

"we want a new year that doesn't kill us or our children, we want it a year without blood, without screaming, without pain, we want a new attempt to get our lives back, or something that resembled our life, even if life is a lie we still cling to it, return life to us—a new year's card unlike any other year:"

[bloglikeanegyptian]

baraa is currently fundraising to get her family of 12 out of gaza. she is a friend of mine and this is a reputable fundraiser, so please donate if you can. the egyptian government is currently charging upwards of 5,000 USD per person to get to cairo through the rafah border:

Help Artist Baraa and her Family in Gaza, organized by Baraa Awoor

I urgently reach out to you in a time of crisis. My family, consisting of twelve… Baraa Awoor needs your support for Help Artist Baraa and

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

$76,618 / $100,000 goal

NO DONATIONS IN 2 WHOLE DAYS - let's fix this please!!

[beliched]

The titans<33

[bronzetomatoes]

what's your fatal parking flaw

too close on the drivers side

too close on the passenger side

don't pull in far enough

pull in too far

crooked

nothing I'm an expert

I don't drive

Voting ended onOct 5, 2024

[bronzetomatoes]

Can we get some drivers up in here

[rei-does-stuff]

The Glassworker - Mano Animation Studios

Directed by - Usman Riaz

Pakistan’s First Ever 2D Hand Drawn Animated Film

Currently in Pakistani Theaters as of July 26 International release is coming soon <3

English Trailer || Urdu Trailer

[art-the-f-up]

Not enough people here on tumblr are talking about this movie but the director built the entire studio from ground up for this work of art. It's ten years of effort put in by animators, artists, and musicians. It is an ANTI-WAR film with beautiful metaphors and transitions and dialogue. It is an entirely HAND-DRAWN animated film in a country where animation didn't even have the scope before.

The themes of the movie accurately depict even the current world events and the story itself is also very sweet.

The director of this movie was very inspired by Studio Ghibli. Please please make sure to watch the movie as well as the documentary of the making of this film when it comes out in other countries because it makes you feel like you can do anything and achieve any goal no matter how impossible it seems.

ALSO, the director named Mano Animation Studios after his CAT!!!!!!

[incidentalcomics]

Words of Wonder: Words for the Great Outdoors

[apolladay]

How many people do you follow? Not your followers! How many people do YOU follow?

Under 10

10+

30+

50+

75+

100+

150+

200+ (!?!?!?)

How many people do you follow? Not your followers! How many people do YOU follow?

Under 10

10+

30+

50+

75+

100+

150+

200+ (!?!?!?)

Voting ended onFeb 5, 2024

[staticnoisesss]

today marks day 111 of the genocide in gaza.

and i need you all to keep in mind just how dire the situation in gaza is right now. and to keep talking about it. now is not the time to turn away.

today i want to talk about khalil again. yesterday, khalil posted about how his aunt passed away and they went to the graveyard to bury her, only to find thousands of tents in the cemetery. the people living as refugees in rafah have been so jam packed that they’ve started sheltering at the cemetery.

in a heartbreaking sentence, khalil says “they are living in the cemetery, waiting for their time to be buried”. can you imagine the situation one has to be in to say something like that?

not only do the gazans not have a safe place to live, they are also starving and suffering from diseases and lack of medication. in fact, that’s the cause of khalil’s aunt’s death—bad food and no medicine.

the people of gaza barely have food to eat. the children have to clean dirt and insects off animal feed before milling it to make food. medicine isn’t coming into the gaza strip. there are pharmacies all around but none can help because they do not have the means to. why?

because israel consistently denies shipments of vital aid. in fact, according to the UN, israel recently added insulin pens for children to the list of prohibited items that are not allowed into gaza. this list also includes other medicines for chronic illnesses are also not allowed [here is the full press conference for anyone who’s interested].

this claim is also backed by the report journalist motaz azaiza was making as he was evacuating gaza of a plethora of aid trucks waiting at the border to enter gaza. and for the little bit of aid that is available to gazans? yesterday the israeli military opened fire at starving citizens who were queueing to get aid in northern gaza.

there are too many heartbreaking stories coming out of gaza; there is at least one per person, in a population of 2.2M people. i urge you to not turn away from hearing their stories and facing the reality of the crimes being committed against them by israeli occupation forces.

whatever anyone else might say, whatever the verdict of tomorrow’s hearing may be… i want you to remember that what’s happening in gaza is nothing short of a genocide—a collective total of 33,360 deaths, and 64,150 injured. don’t let them just be numbers. these are people.

people who are not just being killed in cold blood, but are also being starved. they are being tortured physically and psychologically. they are being subjected to illnesses with no treatment given. they are being subjected to eating things like grass, immature food, expired food. read the euro med monitor report for the full picture of the destruction happening in gaza at the hands of the israeli occupation forces.

this is a genocide. this is one of, if not the deadliest of war crimes we’ve seen in the 21st century.

i am so heartbroken i barely have the energy to type today. please call for an end to all of this, for a permanent ceasefire. and subsequently an end to the israeli occupation.

we cannot leave the palestinians to fend for themselves and continue being oppressed directly or indirectly by their oppressors and colonisers. this occupation must end. palestine must be freed in its entirety.

من المية للمية

ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE

please especially send donations to help supply aid and food to gazans. especially to the organisations working within gaza. it’s not like there isn’t any food at all. gaza is not a barren land. the food is just inaccessible and very expensive and unaffordable for most gazans (if you follow journalist muhammad smiry, you’ll see he posts a lot about the atrocious prices of food in gaza). so your donations help people purchase food in bulk within gaza and supply to the civilians.

[grogblogging-follows]

seeing a couple new faces around here so: 

hello! this blog is inactive! you can find me for realsies @grogblogging 

if i ever post to this blog it’s only by accident sdkfjgh

[grogblogging-follows]

seeing a couple new faces around here so: 

hello! this blog is inactive! you can find me for realsies @grogblogging 

if i ever post to this blog it’s only by accident sdkfjgh

[tanoraqui]

cannot stop thinking about some Solstryce Academy freshman in 10-20 years being like, “…and for Transmutation 101 I have Widogast. He seems kinda dry, lecture-wise, but there was a cat on his desk the whole time so, like, pretty good?”

“Oh hell yeah!” says the other student in the cafeteria. “You got Widogast? I’m so jealous. I heard he nearly gets fired or even arrested like every other year for treasonous rhetoric.”

“What.”

“Yeah! Also, the cat. He has like three I think.”

[tanoraqui]

A third student leans across the table to speak in an undertone. “I heard he used to be a Volstrucker.”

“Volstruckers aren’t real,” scoffs Student B. “What’s real is he - ” They lean in and lower their voice even more. “He and Archmage Beck used to be a thing.”

“Bullshit.”

“It’s true!”

“It’s true.” An older student, eavesdropping, leans over from the adjacent table. “I was there when she came and arrested him personally two years ago. They had tension, man. When she handcuffed him…”

“I wish Archmage Beck would handcuff me,” Student C says wistfully.

[tanoraqui]

Halfway through class one day, he stops abruptly in the middle of a sentence, hand with chalk frozen at the board. Then he says, “Do not worry, Jester, I’ll be there as soon as possible. Save your spell slots; I’ll contact the others. Care for Fjord, delay if possible.” Then he puts the chalk down and looks back to the students, as he starts gathering books off his desk. “Class is dismissed - I have a family emergency to attend to. Read Chapter 15 and prepare to discuss it next week - and extra credit to the first person who can find me Expositor Lionett of the Cobalt Soul or her wife, and ask them to come immediately. Tell her Fjord’s old snake friend may be waking up at last.”

He strides out of the room without waiting for a response, books under one arm, drawing bright sigils in the air to cast a wizard’s Sending as he walks. “Old friend, do you have Teleport today, or a circle? Our captain needs urgent help, all of us. I’ll gather the ladies - can you Caduceus?”

[blair-the-bold]

The classroom was silent as the professor walked in. Professor Widogast looked much like he always did, though perhaps his hair a little singed, a few bandages placed haphazardly across his arms and one on his neck. He looked at his wide eyed classroom before putting his texts on his desk and sighing; he’d get no teaching done today.

“Alright, questions one at a time please,” he murmured.

Immediately every hand shot up. He pointed to a shorter student near the back, her balance shifting from side to side.

“Sorry, professor, but is it true you actually exploded a ship into a giant sea serpent like everyone’s been on about?”

It was going to be a long day.

[grogblogging-follows]

#is it true you were fighting pirates? no they were on our side actually#are you a pirate? not anymore#did you kill the snake? not yet but I’m catching up to help after class#what happened to your neck?#*thinks back about Essek kissing him hard that night after they returned high on adrenaline and adventuring excitement*#oh just a run in with a very dangerous mage#students: :O (via @princessamericachavez)

[grogblogging-follows]

seeing a couple new faces around here so: 

hello! this blog is inactive! you can find me for realsies @grogblogging 

if i ever post to this blog it’s only by accident sdkfjgh

[grogblogging-follows]

❝if i could pull the blood of you from my veins and give it back, i would❞

[grogblogging-follows]

cambridge, november 2017

[theclassicsreader]

In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones.

Pablo Neruda, from “October Fullness” (via theclassicsreader)

[sproutsuggestions]

concept: you get home late, and i’m already asleep. you’re careful not to wake me up, and crawl into bed, exhausted. i roll over and tenderly kiss your cheek and cuddle up to you. i ask you how your day was, and you sleepily tell me. we quietly talk until we both doze off in each other’s arms.

[eorzean-cabbage]

I’d love to see the “you and I, we aren’t so different” villainous trope used by the hero.

Many times villains are characters who are driven to doing bad things because they felt they had no other choices or this was all they could do to stay alive. They shun the law because it was never written to protect them. They are embittered because they feel, and because they are, alone. Cast aside, left behind, threatened, spat upon.

“You and I, we aren’t so different,” doesn’t have to be a reminder that something in the hero is foul. It can just as easily be used to remind the villain that they aren’t all society say is bad or wrong. “You and I, we aren’t so different,” can be an offered hand.

“You and I, we aren’t so different.”

It absolutely can be the most pretentious, insulting thing…but it can also be a hope. Compassion goes a very, very long way, even if you don’t see the road ahead immediately.

[grogblogging-follows]

this trope is inverted in exactly this way in legend of korra, it’s a beautiful moment