Sick Sad World

Sci-Fi Fantasy author, poet, I’m getting there in graphic art. I like to bake and I want to garden. My AO3 is SoulQueen. She/her 26, Black/African-American. Be Kind and stay hydrated.

[galactic-mayhem]

saw this on pinterest but i think it belongs here too

[vinnie-vindictive]

this will never not be important

[saragaza00]

Hello my friend I am a mother of two little girls from Gaza, Sara (6 years old) and Ameera (5 years old) 💔Before the war, we lived a simple life with a home and dreams like any other family. Today, our home has been destroyed, and we are living in a damaged tent after long months of displacement, fear, hunger, and loss.

My daughters spend their days standing in long lines for water and bread instead of living their childhood 🥺 My husband was also injured while trying to bring food for us during the famine.

I created this fundraiser with a broken heart, only hoping to protect my daughters and give them a chance to live with dignity, safety, and hope again 🙏

Any donation, no matter how small, can help us survive. And if you cannot donate, sharing our story may help us reach someone who can, but please try to support us with a donation because my campaign is still new and my little girls desperately need your help 🌿

Help Sara and Ameera Survive

Hi, I am Max Langlois. I created this fundraiser for these two little girls. Please read their story below, share and donate if you can.

Please do not leave Sara and Ameera alone in this pain and suffering 💔

[crazyguyraaagh]

Ah yes, famously the most valid argument of all; "You're just too stupid to understand it"

[abdulrahman-family2]

My little nephew is dying. I will never forgive anyone who ignores this.

[abdulrahman-family2]

Please, we urgently need 700 euros for my nephew's emergency surgery. 💔 His health has deteriorated drastically; he is now in a coma and unconscious, and he is suffering greatly. Time is running out, and every moment is crucial for him.

[abdulrahman-family2]

My nephew is his parents' only child. He lost his father in this genocide in the Gaza Strip and suffered many traumas in this war. Please don't leave him alone. Donate for his operation. Please donate, donate! 💔😭

Donate here - PayPal - Vetted#642

[neechees]

20 euros have been raised out of the 700 euros needed. He still needs 680 euros for his nephew's surgery urgently before anything bad happens to him. Donate, donate, save a child's life!

[abdulrahman-family2]

If anything bad happens to me or I lose contact with you, please remember that I begged you to donate, even a small amount, or to share my post. I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and doesn't support me with a single word or a small donation, and ignores me.

[abdulrahman-family2]

Guys, someone donated 10 euros, but we still need 670 euros for my nephew's urgent surgery. Please don't let me lose hope. My hope is in you. Save us! Save my nephew before he dies! Please donate! Donate! Don't ignore me! I'm begging you! Donate! 😭😭💔

[abdulrahman-family2]

My friends, one of you donated 50 euros, but we still need 620 euros. Please, keep donating. So that we can have my nephew's surgery quickly and without delay? Please, I beg you, don't let us lose hope. Save my nephew's life! Donate, donate! 😭💔

[abdulrahman-family2]

Guys, we still need your help. No one has donated yet. Our goal remains the same. When will your hearts soften? All I'm asking is to save my nephew. I don't want him to die. Donate, donate. I don't want to suddenly have to tell you that my nephew has passed away. Please, we don't want to get to that point. My nephew's condition is critical. Donate, donate. 💔😭

[abdulrahman-family2]

These may be my last words or the last time I write a post about my nephew, so I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and does not support me with a single word and ignores me.

[abdulrahman-family2]

Guys, my nephew's surgery is in 16 hours, and we desperately need your help. We need 450 euros. Please, don't leave me alone. Save me! Donate, donate! Don't leave me alone in this world suffering from this genocide. Be with me! Donate, donate!💔😭

[professionalmushroom]

Please donate if you can, please, they don’t have much time left and only need €450! Donating 5 or 10 euros right now can really help them!!!

[abdulrahman-family2]

Guys, I'm saying it again, my nephew's surgery is in 14 hours, and we desperately need your help. Please, please don't leave me alone. Save me! Donate, donate! Don't leave me alone in this world suffering from this genocide. Please support me! Please donate, donate!💔😭

[abdulrahman-family2]

Oh God, oh God, time is running out and we still need 420 euros. Please, please stand by me, don't ignore me. Tell me the world still stands with me, helps me survive, gives me hope despite the genocide we are living through. Please, all I ask is to save my nephew. Please donate, donate!💔😭

[steliosagapitos]

[catdile]

Hi Apple users, Apple released a fun thing where they take your photos and Siri transcripts and use them to train AI! And they may be automatically turned on without your knowledge, because oh boy they sure were for me!!!!!!!!!!!!

Open the “apps” section in your settings (it’s usually at the very bottom), go to photos and scroll until you see “Enhanced Visual Search” and then turn that shit off. Then go to “Privacy and Security”, scroll until you see “Analytics & Improvements”, and turn off “Improve Siri & Dictation” as well.

​I am an artist with hundreds upon hundreds of my artworks in my photo album. I also have plenty of photos with not only my own face, but the faces of my friends and my family. I do not appreciate that being used to train AI without my consent, and I’m pretty sure it’s the same for others too.

I’m so tired of big companies.

EDIT: I made a mistake this feature isn’t used to train AI, but it does still take your photos to be analyzed by AI. This is a feature that was automatically turned on without notice, giving nobody the option to turn it off or on until they find it themselves.

[homosexualslug]

beautiful conversations happening on twitter

[thotsandpreyers]

[phantomrose96]

It is always possible to rewatch Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

[nikoco11]

something i have harbored

[phantomrose96]

Honestly. Honestly Ed vs Scar in episode 5 is striking me fresh, right now. Like by this point we've obviously established we're in a battle shonen by now. We know Ed gets into fights. He's scuffled with Cornello. He's a boy who knows how to hold a sharp object and use it.

But I think FMA does also does an excellent job choosing when to not let Ed come out on top. We just had the Nina episode and now Ed is in the middle of processing his first "catastrophic failure to save someone" type of failure since attempting to bring his mom back. He's dealing with a low that's absolutely hampering his abilities and the tonal shift hits for me in the way that 1) he doesn't notice Scar's initial attack against him (Al has to pull him away) and 2) Ed absolutely freezes up just thinking "This is bad."

This is, perhaps, baby's first "someone is coming at you with the full, concentrated, explicit intention of killing you" and Ed is so genuinely out of his depth with it. He really does try. He gets immediately bested. He's staring at a situation where Al is directly in harm's way. And Ed just lies down to die like a dog...

He does better later. He learns from this, later. But he's so young in this. It just hits.

[theconcealedweapon]

[flower-cute-posts]

Every tumblr girl from 2014 would’ve gone insane for this. (Available HERE)

[aatmadevata]

girls who used tumblr during 2014-18 were highly fashionable ones and had so many cool ideas 😩

[alyna-gg]

this is what happens when society denies women functional pockets for too long

[important-animal-images]

[theoutcastrogue]

[geigergearz]

I showed them to my mom once and she pointed at the kitten and said “petty theft” and pointed to the big cat and said “grand larceny”

[themythicalcodfish]

let’s burgle with mama

[pandabunnycallmeeither]

[groovysarity]

I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue

[kalamariboy]

[phantomrose96]

You know when I was younger I didn’t really mind that Brotherhood front-loads the Elric brothers’ backstory to episode 2 and has the anime-only ensemble cast introduction in episode 1, but I do actually think this takes away from the smart craft of how Arakawa drip-feeds you information throughout the earlier chapters.

You’re not supposed to learn Ed and Al’s full backstory until Izumi Curtis confronts them about it

[phantomrose96]

Then, of course, there is the fact that Brotherhood speeds past many of the earlier smaller arcs that got covered already in FMA03. Which I don't really blame them for given the circumstances but it does hamper the experience.

So truly my recommendation is to read the Fullmetal Alchemist manga as well, up through Ling's introduction or--really--the whole thing.

[phantomrose96]

*re-enters through the revolving door I just left by* FURTHERMORE, read volume 15. That's chapters 58-61.

This is the other part of the manga that Brotherhood absolutely truncated. Most volumes get 2 or 2.5 episodes to cover them. Volume 15 only got one episode (with a few short scenes moved elsewhere). And I suspect highly it had nothing to do with timing or pacing.

Because this is in fact the entire recount of the Amestrian military's involvement in Ishval and--for reasons I'd have loved to listen in behind closed doors to learn--the Brotherhood adaptation neutered quite a lot of it. And I specifically mean removing or toning down the more heinous things the military did, or offloading them to some nameless hegemony of 'horde of Amestrian soldiers' instead of how the manga actually handles it.

I have a longer post about this from about 10 years back. The earlier Brotherhood truncations were for the sake of not rehashing what FMA03 already covered. But I am so certain the truncating of volume 15 was political.

[liopleurodean]

the manga casually implies that Roy was torturing people "for the sake of science" with Dr Knox while fmab completely skips over how Roy and Knox know each other at all. (specifically, Knox says to Marcoh "they're gathering data on the effects of burns and pain on the human body, by using Ishvalans as test subjects" (emphasis mine). we know one specific person in that army who could effectively test that kind of information.)

I also don't remember how much depth the anime goes into concerning Logue Lowe's surrender, and Kimblee's involvement in what happened to Winry's parents. I know they don't mention anything about the prison camps.

(the Logue Lowe omission is especially interesting, because Bradley's comments about the value of lives go hand in hand with the conspiracy Ed is about to uncover in the North. it also expounds on Hughes more as a person and a soldier, and gives Basque Grand more depth. cutting it for political reasons also removes some extra foreshadowing for the next arc in the series.)

they also skip over Roy's conversation with his squad at the end of the war, which I think is 1) important lampshading of his later statement about protecting people and how that cascades, and 2) better shows the dedication of the very same squad working with him on the Promised Day. we also see his guilt about not knowing the names of the people who worked for and with him, and I think that also is an important explanation for why Roy lets himself be close to the men on his team later.

I could go on about details that were missed, like Roy officially killing the last of the Ishvalan rebels to secure the whole region, and the prison camps, and how it's implied that Roy's torture experience is the reason he's able to successfully burn Riza's back without killing her. ultimately it comes down to this, that there was enough material to get at least another episode out of this volume, on a topic that has been heavily referenced and talked around the entire show, full of extra character work and foreshadowing (something that Brotherhood loves), but they chose not to include any of it. which could mean nothing.