Always Confused

nova | writer (ao3 under same name and writing blog under @writingstothevoid) | very into UTMV | also into a few other fandoms (sanders sides) | pfp made by @shynetyme06 on tumblr!!!!

[maraschino-fairy-deactivated202]

palestine masterpost-masterpost

i've been trying my best to collect a bunch of links to other, more structured resources about the genocide in gaza, and what you, reading this, can do about it, that i'm going to compile here.

DON'T SCROLL PAST. LOOK THROUGH THE LINKS. REBLOG.

less and less people are talking about gaza every day, but it is still a very real crisis.

education, donations, speaking out, global links (masterpost)

links to contextual articles

for americans - state/congressional contacts

how you can help palestine - donations, petitions, campaigns, upcoming protests (masterpost)

non-politically motivated charity links

canary mission

petitions and congressional contact (masterpost)

education, current news, taking action, direct action and donations, current protests (masterpost)

small monetary actions

2700 ebooks on israel and palestine, available for free

thorough article by storiesfromgaza, dated 10/30/23

targeted boycott + bds

how to find state/congressional contacts, bds, email template, donation links

sudan and congo

egypt, us/uk/canada/europe congressional contacts

direct links to help palestine

educate yourself (twitter links)

translating gaza (instagram link)

bds/targeted boycott information

compilation of palestine info and how to support it (masterpost), dated 10/28/23

latest info as of 11/3/23 and large amounts of immediate action to take (masterpost)

history of palestine and israel - articles, books, films, social media (masterpost)

socials to follow

journalists in north gaza

btselem

[shynetyme06]

This is part one of many for some fan kids that I want to give new designs to, as part of the reason I've been procrastinating art I wanna make is that I want to use something other than the canon designs, for varying reasons

PJ's reason is that her current self represented by the 2018 redesign had a recent age change to be at 28yo minimum, and since a lot of my art and stories tend to have at least 4 of those years missing I felt the need to draw something more distinct

it also serves as a general personal design for when I want to draw PJ in scenarios she hasn't been or relationships with people she hasn't met in canon So you guys will be seeing a lot of who I've simply dubbed "HC PJ" over the next bunch of posts (a lot of which will most likely be over on @dailypj !!)

og pj - @7goodangel I forgot the tag sosorry😭

[shynetyme06]

Part 2 of the shipkid redesigns, 2nd fav edition

Going into these next designs, you'll notice that I have a lot more to say about them than I did PJ. There isn't as much info in their canons, so I've built off of it with a bunch of my own ideas (I'll probably add the "HC" prefix to all of them lol)

Og Crescent belongs to lunnar-chan, more rambles about this variant under the cut :3

I'm not writing anything here that's already apart of canon, but I do want to note that og Crescent is already stated to be aroace. I just imagine him to specifically be on the repulsed side of the spectrum

His magic isn't strong on a base level, as he can only levitate small objects and read weakened/tired minds before it begins to cause headaches and often a leak of liquid negativity and determination (aka his blood. fun times)

His ability to sense other's emotions is also limited, as he can only do it while in close proximity. He doesn't have an aura either

Not very emotive + resting angry face. Even when content he tends to just look bored

Chronic pain due to the determination near melting his bones mixed with the rapid healing

The only reason Nightmare kept Crescent around despite his weaknesses was the possibility of him corrupting like he did someday

He's since escaped Nightmare, but hasn't been able to cry for many years due to suppressing his negative emotions to not lose control

He's still a skilled fighter in his own right, mainly deploying his tendrils for self defense and using his magic decisively. He's had to gain a lot of experience over his life

I have a lot more ideas but for now this is just a list of the "essentials" when it comes to my variant

[nikadd]

you should not be allowed to play carry on my wayward son on other tv shows

[sunny-draws-things]

GUYS PIRATING IS BAD.

DO NOT PIRATE ANYTHING. NOT SHOWS/MOVIES. NOT GAMES OR SAFER GAMES. AND CERTAINLY NOT BOOKS. AND DO NOT DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS. AND NEVER EVER EVER WATCH MUSICALS WITHOUT GOING TO THEM AND DONT USE ADBLOCKERS/OTHER ADBLOCKER TO AVOID ADS AND VIRUSES PIRATING IS VERY HARMFUL TO THE CORPORATIONS WHO WORKS VERY HARD TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE AND THEIR MONEY. ANYONE WHO PIRATES IS BAD. BAD PIRATING. EVIL. OH AND THIS

[patronsaintofmistakenidentity]

"cigarette" implies the existence of a much larger "cigar"

[patronsaintofmistakenidentity]

i recovered by the time i hit post but when i first had this thought i had genuinely forgotten cigars exist

[penny-anna]

Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection

The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.

OH MY GOD??

[the-big-mood]

Scientists at Cortical Labs have successfully trained a cluster of approximately 200,000 living human neurons, grown on a microelectrode array chip, to play the classic 3D video game DOOM.

[ruinedchildhood]

[emmaklee]

[pourquoiwhy]

I learned a new concept

Graceful degradation is the ability of a computer, machine, electronic system or network to maintain limited functionality even when a large portion of it has been destroyed or rendered inoperative. The purpose of graceful degradation is to prevent catastrophic failure. (Tech Target, first result on the search engine)

[biglawbear]

Literal opposite of planned obsolescence. I love you graceful degradation.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Oh neat the first time I heard of the concept the guy described it to me as "catastrophic functionality".

He was talking about it in the context of designing robots that would go in and stop nuclear reactor meltdowns, something that would 100% destroy the robot, but they would be designed to keep functioning and fighting the meltdown for as long as possible. He had some designs where over 80% of the robot has died and it was functionally dragging its corpse around by its one working arm because one more minute of functionality might save thousands.

I've been having a few bad years mental health wise, and thinking about those robots a lot .

[maddie-2022]

This is also why NASA missions usually keep going so long after schedule. They are *masters* of graceful degradation, able to keep machines limping along on minimal power and after sustaining heavy damage

[top-lil]

Here’s a thing that happened to one of my friends. I was there.

Basically, we were walking down the sidewalk, talking about something meaningless. I think it had to do with a movie. Then this bus screeches up, stops next to us, and a bunch of people with “Down with Cis” shirts climbed out and started beating him up. I was punched and kicked a bit too, but I managed to avoid brutalization by going for their faces. After figuring out what’s happening, I started attacking them back, getting them off of him. He was quite injured but I called 911 and he made a full recovery at the hospital. I was fine, with only a cut on my arm that they patched up.

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 4th of april, 2015.

[catball]

happy 11th birthday down with cis!

[ilikeit-art]

Have you ever wondered how tech technicians recover data from faulty flash and memory whose data cannot be recovered by normal methods.

[myothertardisisonthemun]

this is necromancy

[oodles-of-boodle]

This, right here?

THIS is a magic circle and NOTHING you can tell me will convince me otherwise.

[kompaktcat]

@eroticismofthemachinedetector

[eroticismofthemachinedetector]

Beep BOOP

[wizard-of-interesting-failure]

The -mancy suffix, though it has branched out greatly in recent times, originally referred to divination. This is literally wresting knowledge of the unknown from the bones of the dead. So this isn't just necromancy, it is necromancy in the original sense. Old necromancy meeting new technology.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs put the nerd girls hair up and put her glasses back on and had a strained father/son relationship that ended with them reconciling by finally learning how to engage with each others interests and celebrate their differences and there was the giant evil sentient food as well

[megamindsupremacy]

Is anybody else aware of the snake who hates Markiplier or am I in an echo chamber of Tofu v Mark in my internet corner

[megamindsupremacy]

A girl on TikTok was watching Markiplier with her snake, Tofu, when she realized it flips its shit every time Markiplier is on screen

He rears up and stares directly at Markiplier’s face in the corner of the screen. It’s not moving targets/the YouTube video, it’s Markiplier

He has no reaction to other YouTubers doing letsplays. It’s Markiplier.

He rattles his tail and strikes directly at Markiplier’s face, in the 1x1 box in the corner of her screen. He’s specifically targeting Markiplier.

It’s not the volume of the video, she played it muted and he still attacked the screen. It’s Markiplier.

It’s not the fact that Markiplier is moving, Tofu had the same reaction to a picture of Markiplier she googled. He just hates Markiplier.

Tofu will literally leave if something else is on the screen. He’s only locked onto Markiplier.

It’s not the fact that it’s a digital Markiplier, she printed out a photo of his face and taped it to a stick and he struck at it repeatedly.

It’s not the paper, she cut the same shape with a blank piece of paper and he didn’t care. Tofu fucking hates Markiplier and not a single person can figure out why.

Here’s the highlights:

(Here’s one of her videos)

[tastefullyoffensive]

[federalbureauofislam]

this could be us

[celebrity-pharmacist]

but you’re (not) playing (trombone)

[radwolf76]

[radwolf76]

[shittalkingclassicliterature]

[intactics]

[mornington-the-crescent]

[handweavers]

having institutional access never stops feeling sort of crazy to me because you can literally type in any country and time period and find at least a handful of peer reviewed articles somewhere that discuss a specific aspect of people's lives in depth and at length like "what was considered pop culture in late imperial russia" or "how did the textile trade work in northern mali in the 1600s" or "children's toys in pre-colonial philippines" and it's just sitting there but the majority of people on planet earth aren't allowed to read any of it

[handweavers]

somebody reblogged this and said something to the effect of "even if they had access they wouldn't read it because most people watch fox news and love conspiracy theories" and you should probably know that most people on planet earth are not republicans from the united states

[beemovieerotica]

one cool thing about having an autistic dad whose special interest is underwater spearfishing is that when he catches fish he'll just call up a nearby chinese restaurant like "hi. i caught a fish. can you cook it and i'll bring my family by?" and they're like "yeah sure come on over white boy" and the fish is delicious.

[beemovieerotica]

it's worth adding that my mom is chinese and she always gets embarrassed by this. like she doesn't want to come to the restaurant with us. she doesn't want to be seen with the white man she caught plus the fish that her white man caught. everyone who works at the restaurant thinks my dad is awesome and compliments him + her for choosing him and we all find this very fun except for her.