The minister says the situation in Cuba is "extremely tense", as a US-led blockade of oil to the country causes widespread power cuts.
Fucking sickening, heartbreaking, disgusting. Hospitals, ambulances, water pumps, so much infrastructure shut down and so many lives hurt and lost because of it, all of this at the whim of the world's most brutal empire because they can't stand to have their will resisted so close to their shores by a society that has chosen time and time again to stand proud for the dream of a better world, a world without this blood-soaked hegemony.
[ID: Soma, Mina & Arikado at a yakiniku restaurant. Arikado and Soma have taken off their jackets. Arikado's barbecuing the meat as he listens to Mina & Soma talk. Mina's hands are steepled. Soma's arms rest on the table, a glass of fruit juice (with curly straw) in hand. In the window are several poster ads for the menu. Beyond the window glare is the hazy reflection of the Țepeș family at the dining table. Lisa & Dracula gesture as they talk; Dracula has a wine glass in hand. In the past, a young Adrian turns to listen. In the present, Arikado listens, expression soft.]
I like to think that post Dawn of Sorrow the Sorrow gang still end up in a bunch of miscellaneous supernatural hijinks. Eventually Soma and Mina invite Arikado to outings after he stops being quite so aloof and it becomes a regular event.
[ID: Illustration/photobash. Japanese driver licence of Arikado Genya. He has a stern expression & wears a collared button up and tie. End ID]
the concept of Alucard existing in the 21st century still amuses me. legendary dhampir ex-prince(?) swordsman from 1400s Romania. Has to pull out his driver licence before buying alcohol.
[ID: 2 panel comic. Panel 1: Chibi Kaito Kutsuna sleeps in bed with a small frown. In his dream, he's beat up, bloodied and laying vulnerable on asphalt, with someone stepping on his sternum. He hisses in pain. Someone's shadow looms over him.
Panel 2: Real Kaito now giggles in his sleep, slightly drooling. He has a small blush. His dream shows his POV from below as Kyo, backlit by the noon sun, moves to stomp on him. He has a look of contempt and wears his old Five Star gangster outfit. His clenched fist and cuff are bloodied. End ID]
'You better be willing to kill me. Like you were back then.'
'[fighting scrubs] doesn't do it for me at all.'
'Isn't there anyone out there who can get me burning?'
= bro is still carrying a torch for his old rival.
It looks like attention on Sudan has dramatically waned. Please do not stop talking about about Sudan. Let's keep the momentum up. The genocide is still ongoing. Al Jazeera reports the following: "The IRC highlights the role of “regional backers” complicit in a war that it says has killed 150,000 people and displaced more than 12 million. Some 33 million people need humanitarian aid, with 207,000 facing “catastrophic” food shortages.
“Large quantities of gold flow out of the country, while weapons move in the opposite direction,” says the report, which did not name the “backers”.
The United Arab Emirates is widely accused of backing the RSF, a claim the Gulf country denies".
We need a permanent ceasefire ASAP! Boycott the UAE, donate to fundraisers and grassroots organizations, and protest in the streets! Consider helping Eman (@emiiii980) in the meantime. She has been raising funds for her family, but we have not achieved the goal, so she has returned with a new fundraiser! She is supporting multiple other families, as well! So kindly contribute what you can and share it with everyone you know! Her fundraiser has been shared by @/el-shab-hussein here. [A friendly reminder to keep in mind with the currency exchange! $10 USD = $13 CAD!].
Please donate here.
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ID: digital illustration of Kabru & Mithrun, in a long sleeve shirt and oversized shirt respectively, over a pink background. They're greyscale, except for Kabru's bright blue eyes. Kabru looks aside, somewhat bashful but smiling, hand cupping his neck. Light & sparkles frame his features. Mithrun looks to Kabru, expression stoic but eye glinting. His hair's tucked behind his twitching ear. His heart thumps. A question mark floats by him. Both are slightly blushing. End ID.
ID: 3 digital illustrations of Digimon Beatbreak. 1 is two fullbody shots of Reina as a kid. Her red hair's chinlength & some's tied in a side ponytail. She's in an oversized maroon jacket with yellow lining, white tshirt, green shorts & ratty sneakers. Her thumb pokes through a hole in the sleeve. Pristimon rests on her head.
2nd is a purple headshot of Kyo, hair blowing in the wind. He's smiling, eyes lightless. It's a redraw of a shot from the OP.
3rd are several doodles of kid!Reina and younger Kyo. Reina piggybacking on an indulgent Kyo, saying 'Kyo!!'. Kyo's hand in a glove with a gold diamond encased (& no bracelet) vs Kyo's hand wrapped in bandages sealed with a star, Reina's smaller hands doing the bandages. A panel of Reina eating cup ramen, saying 'You don't need to coddle me. I've always fed myself.' Kyo in the background smiling, saying 'Absolutely not', followed by Reina, wide eyed, being served a giant bowl of homemade ramen (and tea). End ID.
[ID: 3 digital illustrations, 2 being closeups of the main fanart for fanfic 'The Thing with Feathers' by elinorwritesstuff.
First is V from the neck up, at rest with a gentle smile, surrounded by red roses. His white hair trails into the sky alongside ribbons and petals. It pays homage to the end of visions of V.
Second is a backview of SDT form Vergil and a wounded yellow bird, set against rain. The bird is littered with scratches. Vergil holds his hand out as if a perch for it to land.
Third is the main illustration. Circled at the centre is SDT Vergil holding out a hand for a hurt yellow bird in flight, amidst heavy rain and red storm clouds. The text 'THE THING WITH FEATHERS' is imposed in the middle. Then surrounding the circle in arcs are various imagery relating to the fanfic/poems/DMC. Long description under the read more. End ID.
The 'Little Joys' series by @elinorwritesstuff is really good & I adore it. This art is a request that spiraled out of control on my end; to draw something from a fanfic I'd rec. This is from the second fic in that series; author incorporated so many poems in the narrative seamlessly. I thought it'd be fun to try to do that visually. Hubris on my end but it was very fun.
[ID: Long description of the fanart. Circling the centre illustration of Vergil and a bird, are slices of images related to poems in the fanfic.
From the top left: Three geese in flight against cartoony stars, the full moon over a dark city street, a plum, an Ichthyosaur, a white hen in a red wheelbarrow of water, a leaf, silhouette of kid Vergil leaving his childhood manor, a snake, 3 dogfish and a smattering of cartoony stars, V at rest and unravelling amidst white flowers and red roses, Urizen laid low and motionless and V at his knees in a desert under a blue sky with puffy white clouds; kid Vergil climbing a tree with Dante at the trunk; red veiny branching roots curling around gravestones, a dove looking to the sun, white feathers, a kiwi bird, katydid wings, music notes and gold staff lines, a swan swimming on a dark lake, and a cutout of the painting 'Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus'. The fallen Icarus' legs peak out just by the centre circle. End ID. ]
Digital illustration. Vergil's drawn with a blank resting bitch face. Offscreen, someone tries talking to him. 'Verrgilllllll. Jeez, cat got your tongue? You even hearing me or am I just talkin' to myself... : ( '
In the background in Vergil's mind, a muppetlike Urizen and V sloppily make out.
I think whenever Vergil makes a decision he likes, deep in the recesses of his soul Urizen and V are furiously making out.
Something incredible might be happening with this initiative. I've been keeping up with it over the course of the year it's been up and slowly losing hope (50% of time elapsed and only 17% of signatures, etc.) but this week has gotten more signatures than the previous 11 months combined.
First to establish the rules: to get an official reply from the commission and possibly legislation, an initiative needs 1 million signatures within 1 year AND at least 7 different countries need to hit their threshold which is calculated based on population (idk how it's calculated but a little more than 1 in 1000 adult citizens of the country need to sign to hit its threshold). This is to ensure that not all the support for an initiative comes from one or very few countries.
Ok so here's the graph for signatures that the conversion therapy ban got over time according to the wayback machine:
The deadline is in 2 days as I write this and there's a MASSIVE last minute push! 415,223 signatures to go still but the last update to the website added about 360,000 all at once. I think it might still be possible after all.
With that newest update we now also have hit 7 different country thresholds (up from 3 before this spike). Shoutouts to France, Finland, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, and Slovenia!
uhh i got carried away. @put-me-out-of-my-destiny ty for the request, it was (too) fun.
[ID: Image one: Illustration of fem V in Eva's outfit, a black longsleeve gown with slits up the legs and shouders, high heels, and red shawl bunched across her arms. Her tattooed legs are visible through the gown slits. She stands on a ruined battlefield, book open in one hand and cane used in the other. Her expression is serious as she reads from her book. At her back is a translucent Eva, face turned away with hair and clothes billowing in the wind, as she reads from her spellbook.
Image two: Greyscale portrait of fem Vergil in Eva's outfit. She has a slicked back mullet and dark eyebags, and gazes aside seriously, hand at her chest. There is a hint of cleavage. Image three: The same portrait of Vergil, now with red accents (and less eyebags). She holds a rose close. It's bright red and alive, despite the seemingly wilting edges; the thorns send blood dripping down her fingers. Her lips are red; the lipstick's been smudged. End ID]
(a couple outfit alts under the cut (and white hair V)
[ID: The illustration of fem V, with white hair instead of black. End ID]
[ID: Illustration of fem V, sans Eva, and wearing the shawl the same way Eva does; draped over her shoulders and arms, with the ends coming down just past her knees. End ID]
[ID: Illustration of fem V with white hair and no shawl. End ID]
[ID: Doodle page of Ciel and Alouette. From left to right:
1. A mischievous looking Alouette, hand on chin, daydreaming of being a cool fighting robot. The cool fighting robot in her thought bubble looks like a badly drawn Prairie with a buster on her arm, doing a 'jump and shoot' megaman pose
2. Alouette clutching Ciel's waist in a tight hug, with a troubled expression. Ciel looks at her softly, one hand patting Alouette's head.
3. Portrait shot of a 3/4 profile Ciel, helmetless and hair billowing in the wind, with a determined expression and upturned jacket collar. There are sparkles in the background. It's labelled '~Alouette vision...until she gets older'. The image right below is a tired Ciel with giant eyebags, drinking a mug of tea as she types at her keyboard. In the background is a worried Alouette, saying 'sis pls go to bed.'
End ID]
DMCV Dante's hair. It's perfect and I love seeing people draw it because its a neat lil prop to help depict Dante.
It first off gives him a scruffy cool uncle look, which was always Dante's final form.
However, it is also the calculated length to obscure his eyes completely, visually depicting him as closed off or masking his emotions.
AND if you pose Dante at the right angle, with his hair shadowing his eyes and a haunted gaze, you turn Dante into a forlorn wife.
🙏 all very important parts of his character. As an illustration:
[ID: Sketches of DMCV Dante's bust. First has him smiling while sighing. Middle has him staring at the viewer with a sorrowful expression, hair shadowing his eyes. Third has him in shadow, hair hiding his eyes. Above are 2 chibi Dante faces, one with an uwu face and one with shadowed eyes, to exaggerate how Dante's depicted. End ID]
hfdjs. I found that first coloured drawing of baby Alucard in my files and was suddenly compelled to draw a bunch of Aria of Sorrow family doodles. That first drawing was made 10 Apr 2023...(it is 20 Apr 2025 now).
IDs are in the alt but they're going under the cut too with closeups.
ID: Coloured doodle of a smiling child Adrian Fahrenheit Tepes, in a little sweater vest with a neck bow. He's smiling so wide you can see fangs. Beside him is a doodle of him as a blueish wolf pup, with its tail wagging. Next to Adrian is a poorly drawn Soma staring at nothing, and mentally he is a loading symbol. 'Congratulations! You're a single father' labels the Soma doodle. End ID]
Also. This was definitely inspired by the fic 'Father of Mine' by TheTurtleFromHell.
[ID: Topdown view of Soma and Adrian sleeping on a couch. Soma's fluffy coat is draped over them like a blanket (it covers Adrian more). They're hugging in their sleep, Adrian tucked into Soma's chest; Adrian has a pained expression, and clutches at Soma's shirt. There's a conversation written next to them:
Soma: Hey, what's wrong?
Adrian: I had a bad dream.
Soma: Want to talk about it?
Adrian: There was a fire...and..you and mother weren't there.
Soma: Then I'll stay here. That way, the dream won't come back. That okay?
Adrian: It is. End ID]
[ID: Part two of the above conversation.
Adrian: I really missed you.
The image switches from the couch to a closeup of Dracula's death. Dracula slumps against Alucard, face unseen, Alucard's sword run bloody through his back. Alucard supports the dying Dracula, face tucked into his shoulder, his one visible eye horrified. He clutches at Dracula's back.
Adrian: I hope this isn't the dream. End ID]
[ID: Mina and Adrian reading a book together on a couch. Mina's pointing to words on the page with a gentle smile.
Mina: This one is Amaterasu, the sun goddess. There's a famous legend about her and a cave...
Adrian: Mhm!
End ID]
[ID: 4 panel comic of Mina and Adrian.
Adrian, holding up a paper: Miss Hakuba! I drew this for you!
Mina, enthused: Really?!
The drawing is shown, Adrian's eager expression peeking out behind it.
Mina: Is that me as Sailor Mars?
Adrian: yes!
Mina: It's so good! You must've worked hard, I'm so proud of you! (the word 'proud' is underlined)
Adrian has a sudden look of surprise/alarm, before fat tears trail down his cheeks.
Mina, worried and reaching out: Adrian? What's wrong?
