"If you stand for nothing, what will you fall for?"

Heyo! My name's Bell | she/her | Filipino 🇵🇭 artist and part-time yapper

[younghickorycomic]

Meet the Polk Administration

[yourakh]

do good without expecting anything back

[just-some-random-blogger]

THE US AND ISRAEL ARE TRYING TO BUILD A DATA CENTER IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE US AND ISRAEL ARE TRYING TO BUILD A DATA CENTER IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE US AND ISRAEL ARE TRYING TO BUILD A DATA CENTER IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE US AND ISRAEL ARE TRYING TO BUILD A DATA CENTER IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE US AND ISRAEL ARE TRYING TO BUILD A DATA CENTER IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE US AND ISRAEL ARE TRYING TO BUILD A DATA CENTER IN THE PHILIPPINES.

[cathkaesque]

The Pax Silica initaitive is a joint plan involving the participants such as the UK, US, Israel, the EU to secure rare earth minerals for the silicon supply chain. This plan will involve opening up huge swaths of the island of Luzon to mining and special economic zones, displacing farming communities and threatening the food and water security of thousands.

Primer on the initiative from Philippine social movements:

[everentropy]

To be clear, this is NOT a data center, this is rare earth metal extraction and manufacturing, particularly silicon. I'd actually argue that's worse because a single data center can cause a lot of harm but it can be shut down. Meanwhile, rare earth extraction could cause lasting damage including pollution of water, air and land, and habitat destruction.

The original signatories were Australia, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the UK and of course the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Silica

Currently the Wikipedia has a controversies page, though if that gets taken out it should still be in the edit history.

[tealmussel]

Sign the Petition

Reject #NakakaPAXshit SILICA in the Philippines!

REJECT Pax Silica and US-Israeli expansion in the Philippines!

President Bongbong Marcos and United States officials have unveiled a 1,600-hectare artificial intelligence hub in the Luzon Economic Corri

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[walmart-the-official]

Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

[bleu-guacamole]

Might I add, free database of mostly European folklore and myths

[bogleech]

A Book of Creatures by @a-book-of-creatures doesn't update these days but is another thing along these lines, really huge, fully illustrated all by the author and cites all sources

[st-dionysus]

Free database of Native American folklore, sorted by tribe.

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Quiet joys w/ Marge

[mysharona1987]

[okiitos]

Rescue professional here:

If you need rescuing or help, DON’T FUCKING MOVE. You are so much easier to find when you stay put.

[thegreenpea]

Credits: @foxes-in-love

Your most important survival skill is asking for help

[existential-dread-in-the-am]

Goddamn preach this

[rogue-cyberman]

"Your most important survival skill is asking for help." THIS, it makes me so damn pissed off when parents try and normalize that asking for help is a taboo thing!

[isthescavengervideocute]

This feels important to reblog

[sealbuffed]

In the manga, Imposter uses the phrasing of "the lives I've sacrificed" seemingly pertaining to the identities they've adorned. It's implied they've done unsavory things in the past in order to successfully skinwalk others, which can easily be interpreted as them literally taking people's lives in order to take their identities.

However, due to the particular usage of the word "sacrifice" as opposed to something more overt like "taken", (obfuscating their time as a Remnant as that wouldn't be what they're referring to in this context) I instead headcanon that they utilize missing person cases to evade homelessness and in general as a conduit to exist as someone tangible in society.

It's still an incredibly dubious and scummy thing to do, which would add credence to the immense shame they harbor over the truth of the nature of their existence. Reaping the benefits of a warm place to stay, of fresh meals and preexisting relationships to slot into for a false sense of belonging and care, of celebration for the long awaited "reunion" of someone long since accepted to be gone... Isn't it pleasant to experience all of that without the burden of permanence? To know you will inevitably have to leave it all behind. Conversely, isn't it heartwrenching to know it doesn't truly belong to you? That any affection expressed is ultimately based within a farce.

Of course, this wouldn't be the case for every single identity they've impersonated; it's only a convenient option which takes into consideration the issue of a prospective person to impersonate still having a presence in the outside world, which would put a more prevalent expiration date on the longevity of the identity they're currently wearing. Which isn't to say there isn't an expiration date on impersonating these missing people... "Caught in an endless cycle of doubt and suspicion"... Of course those loved ones would be happy to finally receive closure, but logically, does it really make sense..? Taps my nose cheekily.

[2sidedukulele]

This is exactly my assumption about the Impostor's life pre-Hope's Peak too! If we were to rank the SDR2 cast by the gravity of the ~worst things they did *before* entering HP, I believe that the Impostor would rank near the top of the list...

[genoskissors]

Image I found on Pinterest

[jvgsjeff]

[chpxcrwy]

ok i know it's not Halloween or even close to it rn but a friend started talking about Corpse Bride earlier and it reminded me of a revalation i will never be able to disconnect.

that's the same guy

[smelliestofthemall]

wait ... now that i rewatch season 1 (for the 959 time), was the Huge Dick Sculpture by Liszt supposed to be a reference to His Huge Dick sculpture in Lisztomania (1975)😭😭

[hecklefreckled]

Human Monokuma!!

[comeandrockmeamadeusxx]

I always wondered why he looked so tiny here and then realized its because there's a giant ass wall behind him

[la-kampanart]

Oh yes I feel it mmmmm... the satisfaction of completing a computer science excercise on your own

[abraham-lincolns-wife]

Well its over I guess everyone go home

[doodle-blight]

If things TRULY stop here, I won’t go in depth on everything I went through. I feel it more important that Gabby’s story gets out (because they’re younger, they were hurt more recently and I don’t want to overshadow that, and because don’t really like talking about troubles in my life publicly). I’m hoping things stop here, but if they don’t, I do have the giant screenshot folder ready.

If you haven’t already, please read Gabby’s other recent post(s) about Dakota.

[joydoesathing]

"a stage partner, you say?"

colored version and inspo

planning to make some kind of first time meeting/working as a pair thing for them (dyk that washers and dryers only became commonly bought together after the postwar boom)

[chiaknight-smb]

Despite a few cheating scandals, a fresh new face has made a name for himself in the tennis scene- he's even caught the eye of that veteran, Daisy! Together, they're tearing through doubles tourneys like nothing... and it looks like you're in their sights! Think you and your partner can take them on?