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danneroni

RIP to the absolute legend Oliver Tree. Here's some fanart I made back in 2019 💔

dercolaris-deactivated20240605

*Intense reblogging*

halfdeadnarmy

GUYS KICK HIM DOWN THE FUCKING STAIRS

the-jason-todd-impreganator

LET’S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

mourningkite

New scam dropped

( second persons account was hacked by the people doing these scams as an fyi )

Not quite sure what they do but from what ive seen im pretty sure they hack into accounts and im also pretty sure they ask for money

Either way just wanted to make a post saying block and report any accounts leaving comments like this and dont trust it basically lol, theyve got nothing good for you and everything and anything they say is bullshit

If i find anything more i’ll add some stuff or find a better post i’ll rb it here

closet-keys

Rafah is the only crossing that connects Gaza to the outside world without passing through Israel. Israeli forces took control of the border in May 2024, and completely blocked access for years. In February of this year, they finally opened the crossing partially, only to then close it again immediately on the first of March.

There are 20,000 people who urgently need medical evacuations out of Gaza, and around 50,000 Palestinians stranded in Egypt wishing to return to their homes and families in Gaza.

closet-keys

In Ali's Truthout article, one Palestinian woman asked for her statement to be printed anonymously, fearing harassment:

"Life in Egypt is difficult because I don’t know anyone here. I left Gaza only when it was necessary, holding on to the hope of going back home. I want to go home. If not now, Allah knows when it might be. My name isn’t on the list yet; I only became aware of the registration link very late and registered in January. The waiting list is long because only around 50 people are allowed through at a time. I do hear about the harassment and torture, but I pray that Allah will make my return easy and safe."

This quote breaks my heart. It reminds me deeply of conversations with my friend Mahmoud, who is also stranded in Egypt, waiting to be reunited with his family in Gaza. He is terrified to experience torture just to return home, and now even that option has been taken away as the crossings were closed only one month after opening.

closet-keys

Mahmoud told me this week:

"I love everyone in Gaza and throughout the world. We strive to live safely in our land. But we are forbidden from doing that. I wish I could return to my country. This is an injustice beyond imagination and suffering beyond human endurance. It's strange that we are only a few kilometers away from our country, yet we cannot enter it except by Israeli order. It's strange that my future is slipping away while I'm searching for a country that will accept me as a Palestinian refugee. No country allows us to obtain residency or citizenship. We live in harsh conditions and cannot escape them under the occupation. I swear to God, most of the time I think about where to go and what to do."

closet-keys

Food, medicine, and fuel prices are already surging due to closures, and Mahmoud's family in Gaza relies on donations for all of their basic necessities. One bag of flour is now $200, and last week they only raised $700 in donations. Please donate to Mahmoud's family so they can survive and be reunited.

My wife @cannilyuncanny hosts Mahmoud's family's campaign and transfers donations directly to Mahmoud's sister Mahrah (@mahrahpalestine) in Gaza. The campaign is vetted by @90-ghost and was shared by fairuzfan.

earthpictureshere

Eight Rainbows! WOW Lehigh Valley, PA [960 x 960]

rigaya-deactivated20180901

reblog for good luck

thespectacularspider-girl

Leprechaun convention.

bluegoo2

Leprecon

thespectacularspider-girl

GODDAMNIT

wolfjackle

@betasuppe

furornocturna

Lepreblog for Leprecon

cheshire-cat-lenalee2

unclefather

can’t risk it

bentejam

THIS PIECE OF PICTURE WORKS.

fakesurgery

Gotta take all the chances…..

fit-beach-tea

Never risk it

reshipped

i had to

superchubly

Need some good luck. Really do.

what-owo

Why not haha

marciereynard

i only rb the positive ones, fuck the negative ones lmao

yesthefandomfreakblr

might as well

systlin

Did you hear the scientists have found a way to grow colored cotton? Thoughts?

It’s not a ‘scientists have found’ and much more ‘people have been already doing that for thousands of years and it’s just gaining more attention recently’

beowulf22121

Scientists didn’t know. It should be “Scientists just found out”

systlin

There’s actually been a load of vitriol leveled against folks who try to raise traditional colored cottons, because a lot of cotton growers don’t want the colored cottons cross-pollinating with their standard white cotton.

But anyway cotton can be grown in lovely natural shades of greens, reddish-brown ochres, and browns, all of which deepen with a good boil in water with a bit of washing soda thrown in.

The color obviously doesn’t fade or run, because it’s not dye. It’s the intrinsic color of the fiber itself.

angry-cajun-lady

I....I want clothes made out of those colors. They don't hurt my brain!

systlin

Aren’t they lovely?

I’m biased because I love the natural earth tones of many fibers, of course...browns, blacks, creams, copper-reds, ect...but I think they’re just gorgeous.

systlin

https://www.vreseis.com/shop

If anyone wants to know where you can get yarn or cotton like this!

carolxdanvers

Scientists did not "just find out", and this is more of the same anti intellectual bs as the post that goes around claiming archaeologists were too stupid to know that hair could be sewn for elaborate styles.

Anyway, scientists DID figure out how to grow colored cotton. They genetically engineered it to be bright fuckin pink, and they didn't "just find out" about it, they already knew which is literally what inspired them to attempt the thing they just accomplished. Begging y'all to stop pretending that scientists don't know things, don't have interests, don't grow up in farming communities or have family who taught them this. Scientists are people. Do you seriously think people who use genetic engineering to make eco-friendly pink cotton don't know anything about textiles?

Anyway. Bright pink cotton without dyes, because science is awesome

gamerwoman3d

Yes. CSIRO scientist Doctor Colleen MacMillan led the team that figured this out. They used tobacco plants for testing because of the genetic similarity. Basically if the tobacco leaves produced colors when injected with a bit of the experimental genetic material, the scientists on the team already understood that the color change would affect cotton bolls as well.

They grew bright red and bright yellow in a petri dish.

And yes, Doctor MacMillan knows lots of things. Here's a list of some of her publications.

@csirogram on Instagram

Additionally folks are researching how to create flame resistant cotton and black cotton. If a variety of black cotton becomes viable, it can stop a LOT of environmental damage caused by chemical manufacturing of black dye.

nartoq

THIS. Every damn botanist I know, including myself, is at the least tangentially interested in fiber arts and indigenous methods behind things like that. Scientists have hobbies and we're all goddamn nerds so a lot of those hobbies are more niche. The anti-intellectualism is insane. I swear half of y'all think scientists are all evil cackling old men devoted to holding up colonial power systems. The work done by Dr. MacMillan is crazy cool and should be celebrated

marisatomay

at the risk of being cringe with everything going on — this week, the last six months, the past five years — i keep thinking about that one quote from the great gatsby

marisatomay

“they were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

marisatomay

it’s just every day now, huh.

chxrry-bombs

6 Quick Writing Exercises to Wake Up Your Imagination

We all hit those blah writing days. Your fingers are ready, your doc is open... and your brain goes static. That’s where writing exercises come in — small creative boosts to shake off the dust and get back into your story flow. Here are six to try when your words feel stuck in traffic.

1. The 5-Minute Word Sprint

Pick a random word (use a generator or close your eyes and point at a book), set a 5-minute timer, and write anything involving that word. No stopping, no deleting.

2. Dialogue Without Context

Write a short convo between two people. No descriptions. No setting. Just back-and-forth lines.

3. Rewrite a Scene in Another Genre

Take a scene from your current story and flip the genre. Drama becomes comedy. Fantasy becomes sci-fi. Romance becomes horror.

4. Describe a Place Using the Five Senses — No Sight Allowed

Can’t mention what anything looks like. Only sound, touch, smell, taste, and intuition.

5. Character Swap POVs

Write a paragraph from the POV of a side character reacting to your main character. Bonus if the POV is brutally honest or completely wrong.

6. One Line Story Hooks

Write 3 one-sentence story starters that make you want to keep writing. (Example: “I woke up married to my enemy, and worse — he knew it before I did.”)

You don’t need to write a masterpiece every day. But showing up — even for a silly exercise — keeps the creative part of your brain warmed up. Try one of these before your next writing session, and see where it takes you. 🍒

filmnoirsbian

Thinking back to the first story I ever started writing down (I was 7 or 8) about a group of stray cats who, every full moon, took the form of human kids. They actually were human kids, who had been killed (all at different times/by different people). Their bodies were each dumped by the side of the road where a cat had been hit by a car previously, and their souls landed in the cats' bodies. Eventually they all found each other and decided that every full moon, when they shifted, they'd try to solve each other's murders one by one. It was going to be a series, with each book focusing on a different kid's murder mystery. I told my mom about it once, briefly, and she said "Those cat books (warrior cats) are making you creepy."

filmnoirsbian

Just finished writing this manuscript, the first story I ever started. 23 years in the making. Never give up, even if your mom calls you creepy 🖤

hold-on-a-little-longer-whump

NEVER GIVE UP PEOPLE WE’RE GONNA GET THE STRAY CATS AND DEAD KIDS STORY

tallowandport

Fic idea:

Billy Batson sits down to think about how to keep his secret identity from the Justice League, and comes up with the ingenious idea to create ANOTHER identity!

He manages to figure out how to morph his costume into any type of clothing he wants, and then goes out to create a 'Very Real Adult Man Civilian Identity'.

Maybe he gets some sort of construction worker job? To make use of his strength. A brick wall of a man like his marvel form wouldn't look out of place carrying around steel beams.

So now he's got a: superhero identity. A "secret identity": construction worker guy. And a secret secret identity: Billy Batson, whiz kid.

the-local-bohg-witch

Do not forget the other victims of ICE

as much as we must mourn and stand in solidarity with Renee Nicole Good, please do not forget the other victims of ice raids, who are not white. Silverio Villegas González, a cook from mexico who was dropping his son off at daycare and was murdered Jaime Alanis, a farmer from mexico who fell off a green house at the farm where he worked to send money to his wife and daughter Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, a father and grandfather from Guatemala who was hit by a car Josué Castro Rivera, a garden from Honduras who was struck by a car And so many others who were killed or are dying in detention centres, prisons ect racial bias is always something we must be aware of, Renee will be focused on because she was a white woman and a US citizen, but do not forget all the other victims of ICE, may they all rest in power

striders

the other day i saw a tiktok of a woman talking about how her hyper-militant abusive parents would sometimes punish her by “taking away her name” and referring to her as a prisoner number. genuinely terrible stuff, obviously. but i skimmed the comments and. listen. i truly DO NOT mean to dunk too hard on this person, like they could be a kid or something, but.

just. breathtaking. imagine if your primary reference for the concept of the un-personing of prisoners was (check notes) a book series about owls.

saleensundria9

This is why it's important to Include stuff like this in fiction, especially ya fiction. It can be a lot of sheltered and/or indoctrinated children, in the case of a lot of rural "Christians", first introduction to these types of concepts in a way they can understand.

I don't think there's anything weird or shameful about it. Knowledge is knowledge, regardless of where it came from.

a-polite-melody

derinthescarletpescatarian

I was once listening to one of the ten billion animorphs podcasts out there, with two hosts, one who'd read Animorphs as a kid and one who was reading it for the first time as an adult. For those who don't know, Animorphs is a war story in which a handful of children have to secretly hold off an alien invasion until the "good" aliens arrive to save Earth. It starts off with fairly clear-cut Bad Species of aliens and Good Species of aliens but as the series goes on it becomes clear that there is no such thing as a good, clean or glorious war, that a clean Good Side and a clean Bad Side is usually propoganda, that heroism is a matter of circumstance and that war will chew up and spit out even the victorious; there are no winners in war, just the side that lost less.

It's a lot, for books aimed at eleven year olds who want to read about kids turning into fun animals.

On the podcast, the two (American) hosts happened to get onto the topic of the post-9/11 Iraq War and their reactions to it. They were both children at the time and as such could not be expected to have particularly nuanced views of US military policy. The person who hadn't read Animorphs was unsurprised by the declaration of war; that's what you did. Someone attacks America, America goes to war. That's how a country protects itself, through military revenge. The Animorphs fan, about the same age, had been devastated and against the war from the start. War was a Big Deal and, while sometimes unavoidable, should be a last resort; a lot of people were going to die, and a lot more were going to get hurt, and no matter how the war shook out it was still going to be horrible. They attributed this perspective, of course, to the series that had taught them about the horrors endemic to war in an engaging way at such a young age -- to Animorphs.

That's what kid fiction is for.

headspace-hotel

Most likely scenario is that the person is a kid. It's not like kids are so incredibly rare it's unlikely to encounter one.

We should never make fun of people for not knowing things, because that teaches them not to ask questions.

risen-from-stardust

lowkey just curious but do u have any tips for drawing yautjas? :]

Hi! Tbh this is somewhat difficult to answer, and is specially because of their heads that is the biggest "anomaly" compared to the rest of their bodies. I'll be just listing the things I noticed trough all my time drawing them, so I hope this helps.

First of all, their mouths are similar to ours in terms of how they open and close, but the skin of their cheeks is attached to the tusks. This is pretty clear when you look at pictures but when I first started drawing them this was one of my biggest isues.

The tusks are like extra bones connected to the jaws, formed by two joints, base and fang mobility.

Here is a little example using said pictures. It might seem like the upper tusks have three joints but no, they are just kinda close to the inner mouth and the upper jaw sides sometimes can be mistaken by part of the tusk. While doing this I noticed I use to do that tiny error.

Their heads are a lot more easier than some might think. The position and size of the eyes are same as ours because remember many of the movie predators are actors with massive build heads.

It consist in two parts: a crest and the hard skin that covers the base of the tresses, sometimes being more spiked, bumpy, or smooth

This, however, is not always the rule and the appearance of it can change drastically. Just look at Wolf and the emissaries (Sorry for the quality lol) or even Feral and Berserker but these two have the excuse of being a subspecies.

Hands are similar to us too but more scaly. Sometimes they have a side claw just like their feets an the texture depends, bumpy, plated or just textured like the rest of the boddy. The finger pads are just their normal skin but subespecies like Feral look like if they had something similar to gecko pads.

I tend to do them plated, is more fun to me

Gender dimorphism depends a lot on what you want to do. Its said that females are sleeker and with tiny, sharper mandibles (Hunting grounds) and some others say they look exactly the same as males and bigger (Mig mama / Dachande mention, AvP: prey - Novel) . Just have fun I guess. However! As a species that does a lot of phisical activity, it leads to a lower overall body fat percentage, which includes less fat tissue in the breasts

I might add more but this is what I can think about for now, thanks for leaving your ask :D

risen-from-stardust

Bringing these messy notes back for the new people