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I cant believe asexuals officially own Halloween

Ace week 2020 is october 25-31st

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I mean our flag matches the Halloween Aesthetic™ so it’s about time tbh.

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Here y’all go, a Halloween themed ace flag I made for fun a couple days ago

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holy shit we are powerful happy asexual awarness week!!!

ladybug friends (same bug but we had three last week)

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Africa is being Colonized

AFRICOM is the United States attempt to control the African continent through regime change, drone strikes, espionage, and “diplomacy.” The purpose is to control Africa and it’s people, and to continue the US’s plundering of Africa. The United States is in Africa steal resources such as oil, diamonds, gold, timber, and more. AFRICOM was also created to discourage African countries from collaborating with communist and socialist countries, primarily China.

What is Africom?

Africom is the “United States Africa Command,” a military program started in 2008 to “counters transnational threats… strengthen security forces, and responds to crises in order to advance U.S. national interests and promote regional security, stability, and prosperity.” taken from their website. However, AFRICOM, as explained by Netfa Freeman, “has put most African nations under the effective military control of the United States. AFRICOM is the re-colonization of Africa by the U.S., with thousands of U.S. troops now stationed in some 30 African countries and dozens of U.S. bases across Africa. The total estimated cost for AFRICOM in 2018 is $236.9 million.“

African leaders as a whole rejected AFRICOM, all the way back in 2007. Despite this, the United States continued their invasion, and now has military bases in an estimated 60 countries.

Why does africom exist?

1. “ENDING TERRORISM” The US claims that they’re in Africa to end terrorism. However, this is just a cover for the US’s military presence.

In fact, terrorism has increased since AFRICOM started, but the program was never meant to actually help African people. By all standards, the US is the greatest terrorist in the world. As explained by Tunde Osazua, “The occupation of foreign countries and devastating bombings that the United States has used to achieve its goals in Africa are acts of terror. The U.S. also leverages economic terrorism with the World Bank and IMF to transfer wealth and force austerity measures, and it enforces murderous sanctions on African countries. Al-Shabaab, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and their counterparts cannot come close to the kind of death, destruction, and destabilization that the U.S. has brought about in Africa.” source

2. NEO-COLONIALISM infiltrating states under the guise of “counter-terrorism,” encouraging capitalistic dictatorships and taking out socialist and communist rules.

This is not the first time the United States has destabilized democratically elected socialist or communist leaders. As early as the 1950s, the US has assassinated and overthrown African leaders. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana was overthrown in a CIA led coup while he was visiting China. More recently, the United States invaded Somalia in the 1990s, plunging it into the conflict that is still happening now.

3. PREVENT COLLABORATION WITH CHINA prevent China from trading with African countries, and discouraging south-south solidarity

(this racist cartoon)

The view of China giving loans and trading with Africa as predatory is untrue. In truth, Africans on average have a positive or neutral view of China. Portraying Africa as being taken advantage of by China is infantilistic, and also enraging when put in comparison to the United States literally invading, killing, and destabilizing African countries again and again to protect US hegemony. Imagine if China drone bombed one of these countries? We must end the normalization of mindless killing in the global south (as well as the valorization of the US military and veterans).

What is AFRICOM doing now?

Right now, AFRICOM is trying to get the right to drone bomb Kenya to prevent “terrorism.” Even more conservative American news sites like the Washington Post admits is incredibly violent, and will likely cause more unrest. President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya has said that he will not give the US permission to drone strike Kenya, and that there aren’t any terrorist camps in Kenya. However, not getting permission from country leaders to drone strike hasn’t stopped the US before. This plan is remarkably similar to what the US did to Somalia, in which US backed Ethiopian soldiers wrecked havoc.

It’s important to know that AFRICOM is supported by the democratic party, even more “progressive” politicians like Ilhan Omar. While AFRICOM was created in 2008 by George Bush, it grew by 2,000% under Obama, and is currently supported by both Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

Additional Resources

This is a great article, it’s an article on the Black Agenda Report detailing why Africom exists and what it does, by Ebrahim Shabbir Deen.

This article explains China’s relationship with Africa, by Danny Haiphong.

This article describes research done into the amount of US military bases in Africa. It’s a lot.

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Can you please reblog if your blog is a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, non binary, demisexual or any other kind of queer or questioning people? Because mine is.

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ALL HALLOWS ALL MONTH

In the spirit of this season, we are pleased to bring you our All Hallows, All Month event! Designed to bring you closer to the true horror spirit of this franchise by getting scarier every day! I mean, none of us can believe you thought you could get through Averno without a month long Halloween event.

This event will bring you daily challenges, some new content, and all sorts of ghoulish cryptids and candies–everything that makes Halloween fun!

There are several ways to take part, as with all our events previously.

1. We will be hosting events on our Discord; including movie nights, special new roles just for spooky season, a ball, and a secret October 32nd event!

2. Daily challenges which you can post and tag us on Tik Tok, Instagram, Discord, and Tumblr! Details can be found in the calendar above. You can participate in any way you’d like for these challenges– art, cosplay, photography, cosplay, writing, anything goes!

3. Little sneaks peaks into Halloween in Averno!

4. Livestreamed events from our team on Instagram, Tiktok, and Youtube!

We hope to see you participate (using the hashtags #avernoween, #averno halloween, #halloween in averno, #inkverno, and #all hallows all month) and have a happy Halloween!

PLAINTEXT VERSIONS OF THE HEADMASTER’S SPEECH, EVENT CALENDAR AND INKTOBER CALENDAR HERE (because we all know tumblr mobile doesn’t play nice with images)

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girls don't want boys, girls want anatomically incorrect frog skeletons named Wirt.

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were can I find one. someone please direct me in the right area :)

anyones music apps glitchy because of 24 hour willow??? heheh we break the systems

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links to available songs and chords

because we know y’all ask :) these are on guitartabs and mostly have chords for guitar and ukulele (but honestly the only difference are the charts)

twinkling lights from bittersummer

vers. 1 and vers. 2

the sun and the moon from bittersummer

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this love won’t break your heart from bittersummer

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welcome to camp averno (camp averno theme song)

correct lyrics (the ones on guitartabs are sometimes incorrect)

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this post will be updated periodically as more of them are created :)

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we’ve gotten some requests for chords lately and i know the requests were for willow songs but they don’t give em out so here’s some already uploaded chords in a previous post

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https://www.broadwayrecords.com/willow

xoxo,

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Willow — Broadway Records

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DLH Cats: A Concept

So we all know how DLH is particularly bonded with the cats, so the cats follow us around, and we’re the only ones who can tell the difference between them.

Well, in order to be even more pretentious about it than we already are, we totally gave them all obnoxiously long medieval or mythology names

EXCEPT FOR ONE CAT, ~CLIO~

(which is technically both a medieval name and a name from Greek mythology)

Which allows for this interaction to take place:

a DUE kid, probably: There’s know way you know all of the cats names, even we aren’t that good

DLH kid, insulted: Of course we do!!! That’s Frethesuindis, and that’s Hruodpehrt and that’s Hegesistratos and that’s Vagdvaraestus and that’s Crispinianus and that’s Archestratidas and that’s Amalasuintha and that’s Cristemburga and that’s Cuphagoras and that’s Zephyrinus and that’s Murgindueta and that’s Ampinomene

DUE: Freth a swing us? Hruomus…ium??? Ok fine what about that one.

DLH: Oh that’s Clio

DUE: I….. what?

DDL kid in the corner who overheard the whole thing and gets it: *trying and failing to not laugh their ass off*

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As a DLH and DHP double major I offer the names Engamore and Parcenet.

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Your contributions are greatly appreciated.

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I love this idea! And if you give them cat treats they would gladly accept the gift

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the amount of books you consume is not an appraisal of your worth as a reader nor should it be a criterion for any type of hierarchical separation among people who love reading

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That being said if you want to read because you really used to like to read, but now can’t get through a single chapter, I hate to tell you friend, but you aren’t a reader (at least for now. there’s always room for change). All you are is chasing the time before school ruined knowledge and reading as a whole.

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Emma, I have to respectfully disagree. This is not what I’m trying to say with my post.

Are you reading sometimes? Are you reading words? And are they words that you read and they are read by you? And do you enjoy the activity of reading them? Even though sometimes it’s maybe hard to read and to focus? And you wish you could read more, like you used to? But you still like books? And the idea of reading?

You Are A Reader

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Ok I will admit that’s pretty darn wholesome. You’re right

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If you enjoy reading but school made it difficult YOU are still a reader? Like reading fanficiton, reader

Comics? reader

graphic novel? reader

magazines yes a reader?

If you enjoy to read you are a reader