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widok / 26 / she he they / main blog is bfdi.tumblr.com (my blogs are on seperate accounts so likes/follows/etc come from this url). i reblog a lot of donation posts here also because i feel they'll get more traction that way

[calebwittebane]

hi... due to my poor (worsening, it seems.) health situation i had another crappy month where i've gotten through nowhere near enough of my work and i am in a really awful spot financially, which is to say right now i can't afford rent, pain medicine (and i am in dire need of it right now 😔), phone bill, or groceries. i have no choice but to ask for help if it's not a problem and isn't going to put you in a bad spot financially in turn.

i need $700 overall (usd) to have all of that taken care of, but anything, even a little bit, helps and lets me eat and not be in a ton of pain all day and thus hopefully sort things out as best i can. i also really appreciate sharing.

paypal.me/jupitervivi

thank you and i'm sorry for taking your time with this. have a silly amity

[calebwittebane]

$45/700 !

[calebwittebane]

$155/700 :) another amity for you

[calebwittebane]

$160/700 ! huge thanks to everyone who's donated so far : )

[loki-loki-loki-loki-loki]

Molewhisker from RiverClan

[#637]

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I dunno you guys I think the emotion of “yaaay I finally have an excuse to be a bully” is one you shouldn’t luxuriate in

[catsoftheclans]

leafpool

[cacw]

tigerheart to dovewing after bearing witness and putting a stop to ivypools attempt on his brothers life: you may not know your sister as well as you think

ivypool to dovewing after tigerheart tells her killing is wrong: tigerheart is evil and cannot be trusted

[cacw]

there is a stark contrast between tigerheart who is genuinely concerned for dovewing but refuses to cost her a relationship with her sister vs ivypool who is desperate to save her own hide and will continue to keep secrets as long as she looks better than tigerheart in comparison

[skinwretch]

you would think that time that ivypool tried to kill flametail at the behest of the df cats and likely would have had tigerheart not stopped her would get brought up more often when people discuss their interactions. can't imagine why it doesn't

[skinwretch]

[bitchautism]

grooming trigger warning for Animal Farm : A Cautionary Tail ⚠️

stalin pig grooms stranger thing kid baby pig just like stalin groomed the usser into being communism :(

[cacw]

too good to be true

[catsoftheclans]

dovewing

[skinwretch]

you would think that time that ivypool tried to kill flametail at the behest of the df cats and likely would have had tigerheart not stopped her would get brought up more often when people discuss their interactions. can't imagine why it doesn't

[txttletale]

or to be a little less pithy, groundedness means a sense of internal consistency, the idea that events and traits of a story or world are grounded in a coherent set of logics.

while realism means--exactly that, adherence to the specific logics of actual reality and its physics, logistics, etc.

there is of course nothing wrong with wanting realism in a story, but 99% of the people who say they do really want groundedness. like the vast majority of dumb arguments about asoiaf/got are its fans saying "its realistic" when they mean "its grounded" and people ridiculing them because it is in fact not very realistic (and not just because of the overt fantasy elements)

[prokopetz]

In my experience, another big part of the problem with talking about "realism" in fictional milieux is the product of a specific Type of Guy employing the term as a sort of semantic bait and switch, sometimes without consciously realising that this is what they're doing.

There's a particular recurring discussion of "realism" in media that goes something like this: "okay, but realistically the heroes would always win because they'd just shoot the villain while they're monologuing" – while refusing to acknowledge the obvious follow-up question: "wait, but if monologuing reliably gets you shot, where do all the monologuing villains come from?"

i.e., what we're really discussing is not a milieu which has adhered to some notional model of "realism" ab initio, but one which was apparently governed by the conventional tropes of its genre right up until the moment the character the person framing the scenario wants to win walks into the room, whereupon "realism" asserts itself.

Heck, there were folks doing this song and dance in the notes of the post this one is following up on, trotting out hypotheticals like "in a realistic fantasy setting the twelve-year-old chosen one would always lose because experience trumps skill and the power of friendship isn't real", implicitly taking it as given that in a milieu where this is true, people would still be handing out magic swords to twelve-year-olds.

It's basically treating those silly "How [Media] Really Should Have Ended" YouTube videos as a legitimate critical lens, and in circles where this song and dance is common, it leads to a lot of people reflexively shutting down the moment they hear the word "realism" because they assume (often quite reasonably!) that oh great, it's That Guy again.

[skinwretch]

my personal grievance with mapleshade discourse is that so much of it suffers from this recency bias where all discussion ends up centering around the events of her novella as though it was written in a vacuum while her previous appearances that were established long before the book came out such as the spite fueled premeditated psychological torment of a disabled child of which is more or less the basis of her character concept are either treated like a footnote that doesn't reliably inform any reading of her character or not mentioned at all

[skuffypaw]

dumb little adopts for $5 or art (art offers will wait a few days before getting accepted)

https://toyhou.se/39583700.wc-adopts-55

[hamza-only]

A true story that happened to me in the Al-Rimal area of Gaza. I am not going to take you into fiction.

I was walking to fill water from a place nearly one kilometer away. The burning hot sun was shining directly on my head, dust surrounded me, and the sound of warplanes echoed above me. My head started hurting badly, my heart was beating very fast, my eyes were trembling, and my body was completely exhausted. Then suddenly, I collapsed onto the ground, a ground soaked with the blood of innocent children.

[hamza-only]

When I woke up, I found myself inside Al-Shifa Hospital. I asked them what had happened, and they told me that I had been found lying unconscious on the ground. After medical tests, they discovered that my blood level was only 7. They told me my condition was very serious and that I needed urgent treatment because it could lead to my death.

I also suffer from thalassemia, a blood disorder inherited genetically from my mother, which is another reason for the severe drop in my blood levels. In addition, many members of my family urgently need treatment as they also suffer from inherited thalassemia.

[hamza-only]

Any donation will help pay for our treatment and the medications needed for everyone suffering from severe anemia. Even sharing this message could help save lives. I know many people prefer donating to organizations or larger causes to help more people, but right now I ask you to help save our lives first.

I sincerely beg everyone to share this message because every share can make a huge difference in helping us receive donations and treatment.

[skinwretch]

mapleshade looking at the conventionally handsome charismatic perfect in every way riverclan golden boy who is favored by his family and community at large and was seemingly fated for a respected and advantageous life from the very beginning who also happens to share a name with the guy that arguably played the biggest role in her kits dying and being like no i think it's the one that was disowned for being too ugly that's had it too easy lately

[bebsi-cola]

do people realise that being disabled in a community of other disabled people that you will know someone who was killed or assaulted or abused for being disabled? hell even if you aren't disabled and you just exist in society. my friend's cousin was a little person and got attacked in the street for no fucking reason and died. if you talk to people with disabled family members you'll hear the same sort of stories over and over again. and people are getting way too comfortable these days dismissing ableism as just some sort of rhetoric. like "yeah it's bad optics to say it but-" and go on to say autistic people are really annoying or mobility aids take up too much space or scars really scare them so they should be covered or some other shit like. get a grip. it's not revolutionary or "saying what we're all thinking" by being ableist. that's actually the norm.

[lesbianambermoon]

sister brother