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greetings. i am corvo. i was born one day, and i haven't died yet. this is my writing blog.
for unserious posting and various miscellaneous reblogs, find me at my secondary blog, @wide-eyed-jokers
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THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING
Avesa (Venezuelan association for an alternative secual education) is trending because they said over 60% of pregnant women in Venezuela are teenagers
DO Y'ALL GET IT NOW
DO Y'ALL FUCKING GET THAT WE NEED MADURO OUT OF POWER
Just so everyone can understand what the picture below means: The color coded uniforms in Venezuela usually represent age range. The blue shirt belongs to the first three years of highschool, where the ages usually range from eleven (11) to fourteen (14).
To dumb it down even further: Those are school uniforms for pregnant thirteen year olds, because after 25 years of the same idiotic power hungry red nosed red hat red eyed CLOWNS in power, this country does not have a basic law framework that allows LITTLE GIRLS to get abortions so that we don't have KIDS dropping out of school to raise babies or, the alternative, kids going to school pregnant.
Wait it gets worse: many teenage pregnancies in Venezuela end up with the child dead at birth, because guess what most of time the teen parents don't have the resources to cover the what their pregnant-and-still-growing bodies need to sustain themselves AND A BABY, but also if the baby somehow survives, they still could die at the hospital from preventable diseases because hospitals in Venezuela are not as reliable OR HYGIENIC as they used to be. IF THE BABY AND THE MOM STILL SOMEHOW SURVIVES AFTER ALL OF THAT, the cases of special need children in Venezuela are on the rise and it's suspected that the cause lies in teenage pregnancies because surviving underdeveloped babies will have long term issues, which shouldn't be a problem because disabled children deserve to grow up and live a dignified life the answer isnt eugenics get the fuck out of my face with eugenics, but hey isn't it kinda cruel to have to see your kid grow up in a country that doesn't have the infraestructure or the people to help them in the most basic of their needs because the people who are capable of doing so are fleeing in the hopes of finding a better life and those who remain might not have the money, the time, damn even the basic amount of love and care required to do such a task like holy shit teachers don't even sit to try and understand neurotypical children anymore, the schools are falling apart also you rely on government aid and this is the same government that is detaining other kids because they were walking out at the wrong hour wearing the wrong color of shirt and the chances of this kid going to school at all are dim anyways because public schools aren't even working full hours anymore in most places, public schools can't be considered SAFE anymore in a lot of places, which goes to the decreace of literacy and the perpetuation of the cycle of poverty and abuse under which this government thrives because they rely on desperate, scared people, and people still demonize teen moms even though they have to go through ALL of this BEFORE BEING LEGALLY ALLOWED TO VOTE THESE PEOPLE OUT and hey can we say this is a fucking nightmare yet or do we have to get fack checked by a yanki-tanki first.
For the sake of whatever sanity I have left, Chavistas and tankies will be blocked on sight. I do not accept denialism. Don't come to me with stupid ass arguments like "boohoo CIA psyops venezuelan sovereignty venezuelan resources" and expect me to engage back in good faith and try to educate you. If I see a bit of Chavista-crafted propapaganda seep through your words I will block. I am not interested in outsiders trying to convince me, a venezuelan living in Venezuela, that the regime that has prevented me and my family from living a normal life are somehow the good guys and that I should blame nebulous evil foreign entities for the horrors we've seen.
If you do any of these things and I refuse to engage with you, know that this isn't a "gotcha". You didn't win. You are and will always be a product of propaganda and it would be a waste of MY time to try to break it to you.
SOME of the children currently under arrest by the Venezuelan Government
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Victoria. 16 years old, is in her fifth year of high school. She is a member of the Orquesta Sinfónica, and attends a modeling and make-up school. She was kidnapped on July 29 and subjected to forced disappearance. She was not allowed to defend herself through her lawyers.
Lauriannys. 16 years old girl who just graduated from high school and was arrested on August 14 after being reported by an official from the Carúpano City Hall. The reason? She allegedly forwarded a message via WhatsApp after July 28. That night, a group of regime officials forcibly removed her from her home as if she were a criminal. Due to the trauma of what happened, she began to feel ill and as a result, she suffered a collapse that caused brain damage and required urgent transfer to a healthcare centre. There she was prosecuted without the right to defend herself for the crime of instigating hatred, with a sentence of 24 years in prison.
José. 14 years old teenager who was arrested on July 30 with his father when they passed by a protest at a PSUV headquarters on their way to do personal errands. They were arrested and had rocks, sticks and a bottle of petrol planted in their bags, in order to accuse them of “acts of vandalism”. The young man was brought forward and charged with terrorism and inciting hatred.
Yohendri. A fifth-year high school student and a soccer player, goalkeeper for his soccer team. In his free time he sells fried plantains with his uncle. He lives with his sick mother and his grandfather. The young man was arrested along with his cousin and a friend on August 6. At 11:00 pm, the young man went with his cousin to a neighbor's house to invite him to play with the phones. While there, regime officials arrived abruptly asking for another person. At that moment they were taken into custody. Relatives claim that the officials were looking for another person with the same name. They were victims of a mix-up; they were arrested and processed in the same way.
Edison. 15 years old, arbitrarily KIDNAPPED in Barinas on August 2, was severely beaten, causing FACIAL PARALYSIS, and was accused of Terrorism. He has already been released on bail.
Camila, 15 years old, was kidnapped by the forces of the Nicolás Maduro dictatorship in Trujillo state to force her father, Gerardo Leal, to turn himself in. Her only "crime" was accompanying María Corina Machado on motorcycle tours.
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this is one of the 15 or so kids that freed a few days ago, after the complaints of thousands of people. he is 11 or 12 and he's denouncing that he was tortured by being electrocuted and beat up by a liutenant of the current regime's military. it's fucking heartbreaking to hear his voice shaking.
mind you 15 kids were let go after being UNLAWFULLY KIDNAPPED BY THE MILITARY. and there's still
OVER 117 CHILDREN KIDNAPPED
The censored video is from 2019
THAT'S HOW LONG THEY'VE BEEN DOING THIS
no puede ser soy el goku Venecia con tails en el hombro literalmente gané
COÑOELAMADRE NO ES VENECIA ES VENECO POR QUÉ CARAJOS SE PASA EL AUTOCORRECTOR JODIENDO ésto lo voy a considerar como xenofobia créanme
promocionando una vez más éste pequeño proyecto mío para recopilar cuantas leyendas y mitos venezolanos posibles encuentre online!!!
desde siempre me ha apasionado la mitología venezolana y me rompe el corazón que tantas personas no sepas más que el silbón y la sayona. lo hago principalmente como información y guía de referencia para cualquier artista que quiera ver la diversidad cultural del país. Ando con las leyendas aún pero mi objetivo es leyendas, mitos, tradiciones (como los diablos del corpus cristi) y cualquier otra cosa que me parezca importante!!!
en la esquina superior izquierda de la tabla hay un link para un doc con información más específica del proyecto :) espero que le sirva a alguien
Bro no sé si te enteraste pero Venezuela está sin luz :))))))
Estoy super feliz al respecto :)))))))
No vi nada al respecto, en estas últimas semanas se empezó a divulgar menos lo que pasa allá, qué horrible. Hace cuanto están así??
Pidiendo prestado el post brevemente para notificar que van 9hrs sin electricidad en (casi) todo el país. El oficialismo lo atribuye a un sabotaje, igual que el que duró 7 días seguidos en marzo de 2019. Hay tanquetas custodiando Miraflores.
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Something a little more experimental and a little more personal, Ill write descriptions when I have the spoons
Update wrote the ids
In conflict zones, PPE like this is meant to turn you into a walking white flag, especially if you are not authorized to carry a red cross on your uniform to identify you as Untouchable During Conflicts by the standards of an international court of law. PPE comes in a lot of formats, and when you work in a conflict zone as a medical professional of any kind, ostensibly your first job upon arriving to the scene is to confirm whether or not it is safe for you to go and DO your job. This is ~obviously~ a complicated and nuanced ask, and so it is commonly practiced to send medical personnel into conflict zones in high vis PPE that provides them both medical protection AND ballistic protection so that there are more situations in which they can justify running in to do their work despite the danger.
One of the things that has been so horrifying about the way the IOF operates in Gaza and the West Bank is that it negates the function of these forms of PPE. Medical professionals get captured, wounded, and killed REGARDLESS of how visibly identified they are, or even BECAUSE of it. This has led to a massive number of "hero" medics who simply run into frontline situations, no PPE gear, no thought for themselves or their colleagues, no perimeter checks or care for ANYTHING except how fast they can get in, grab their patient, and get out again, because this is now the ONLY effective way to perform medical duties in the region. To be a medical worker in Gaza or the West Bank is to accept death into your heart in ten thousand little ways just so you can save any lives you manage to while you manage to keep it up.
Think about that. Wanting to have a career saving lives means risking yours every day until one day you don't make it out. It's not heroic to live like that, it's psychological torture, and it never needed to happen to these people. They could have just been doctors, nurses, EMTs, etc. It didn't have to be a game of Russian Roulette to see how many times you can evade sniper fire and bombing raids before your luck runs out. I need people to think about how many of the medical staff "heros" we've seen over the last five months who ended up dead within weeks or months of us learning their names, their faces. What it must be like to watch your colleagues drop dead around and keep going because the only other choice is a death you can't stomach.
Press in blue. Medics in white. Obvious. Visible. Fighting for survival. If that isn't enough for people to understand what's happening, I don't know what could be anymore.
Senate trying to pass a bill that would force you to use your government id just to use the internet. That means no anonymity at all, ever, and that every pro-Palestinian organizer is immediately a target that the government can track. And they will use it explicitly to come after protestors and organizers.
KOSA (Kids Online Security Act) is indeed a deeply unconstitutional censorship bill with dire implications for information accessibility and political organizing, but this — that it would require your government ID to access sites — is not true. It is possible that if the bill passes (big if considering the extensive first amendment violations), that this could be a potential outcome, but it is not stated or required by the bill itself.
Please don’t spread sensational misinformation. I’d like to point out that the above post makes alarming claims with zero sources. That should ping your bullshit radar.
sources: politifact, EFF.org
I love love all your writing and jealous villains / possessive villains always make me kick my feet!! Can I request a hero that’s been under appreciated by the city and getting hurt / almost killed by civilians they were meant to protect? And the villain finds the aftermath? ╰(*´︶`*)╯♡
"My god." The voice was strained. Familiar. Them.
It really wasn't the hero's day, was it? They released a slow, pained breath, pushing themselves gingerly off the grimy, rain-puddled street. "Enjoy the show?"
"What show? You could have taken them. You should have taken them."
The hero grunted. They straightened. They wobbled.
The villain appeared out of the shadows, at their side, in an instant. It took the hero a moment to realise that the villain had placed a steadying hand on their arm.
The villain's face was harsher in the streetlight; all firelit edges, beautifully demonic, orange pinpricks glinting almost red in their furious eyes. Rain spat down, soaking into the villain's hair and clothes. They didn't seem to care.
The hero did a double-take. The flippant comment they'd been about to make died in their mouth.
"How much did you see?" the hero asked.
The villain's jaw clenched. "I just got here."
It was an unexpected confession. On closer inspection, the rapid rise an fall of the villain's chest suggested they'd been running.
"Huh," the hero said.
The villain's gaze raked over them, taking in every bruise and scrape and bit of blood. "You didn't fight back. Why didn't you fight back? You could have pulverised them. Made them fear ever hurting someone again. That's what you do if I attacked you."
The hero shrugged, awkwardly. They eased their arm free of the villain's grip.
"That's not an answer," the villain snapped.
"I would have killed them. Normal people can't deal with my powers."
"So better to let them nearly kill you?"
The hero shrugged again. Everything ached; they weren't especially in the mood for hearing about how wrongly they'd handled getting the flying spit kicked out of them, they weren't in the mood to explain how the villain was different. Even at war, it was easier with them.
"You're in uniform," the villain said. "They knew who they attacked."
"Oh." The hero hadn't realised. The truth of it struck them like a low blow and their shoulders slumped, as if it wasn't already far too late to brace and curl into a foetal position to guard the heart of them. "Right. Yeah. Well, bold move on their part!"
They tried for chipper. They failed completely.
The whole time, they'd been so preoccupied, they'd thought the strangers had no idea. A wave of stupidity, prickling with humiliation, washed over them. Their eyes felt hot.
The hero swore under their threat.
"I'm going to kill them." Possessiveness threaded low and heated through the villain's voice.
"I don't need you to do that."
"I know. It will be my absolute pleasure." The villain grabbed the hero's arm again as the took a step and stumbled. "They shouldn't-"
The hero could feel themselves beginning to shake, a myriad emotions welling up inside them, threatening to explode, as they listened to the villain's insistence that really no one else should be allowed to touch what was theirs.
"I said, I don't fucking need you to do that."
The villain went quiet. Still.
The hero closed their eyes again, already regretting their sharpness. A treacherous tear rolled down their cheek. Christ. That was all they needed, wasn't it? Cherry, meet the top of the garbage pile. They swiped furiously at their face and didn't say sorry. They couldn't say sorry. They'd never stop, they were sure of it.
"What do you need?" the villain asked.
The hero glanced up at them, startled.
It wasn't that the possessiveness was gone from the villain's face, only that the burning of it had finally cleared enough for the hero to see what lay beneath it.
The care, the sincerity, in the villain's question felt like a knockout blow. They didn't know what to do with it. They had no armour for it, no shield.
"What do you need?" the villain asked again, softer, when the hero said nothing. Their other hand rose, cupping the hero's cheek. "You want me to get you home? Your leg's screwed. You can't walk."
"I can walk." The hero looked down at their leg. They could...well, it wouldn't be fun walking. They eyed the villain. "Seriously?"
"Well, I'd prefer to hunt the bastards down and kill them, but I also do an incredible taxi service, yeah."
"Thank you."
The villain looked almost as uncomfortable as the hero felt. They shrugged. Their jaw worked, eyes narrowing when they caught sight of the hero's injuries again. The hero could feel the villain's fingers flexing against their skin with barely leashed violence - and, yet. It was leashed.
The villain dropped their hand.
"My car is this way. Can you - can I - I can help you get there. If I'm allowed."
"You're asking permission to touch me?"
The villain glared at them.
Despite everything, the hero managed a weak smile back. "Yeah," they said. "You're allowed."
The villain nodded, wrapping an arm around the hero, before pulling them up into an unexpected bridal carry. They were strong. All lean muscle and warmth against the hero's frozen body.
"I'm going to get blood on you," the hero said.
"Because nobody has ever bled on me before ever."
The hero huffed.
They let the villain walk them out of the alleyway, brain still sluggishly working its way through all of the implications of the villain's sudden appearance.
They'd come running when - what? When they learned the hero was in trouble? When they learned that the hero wasn't fighting back to the full extent they were capable of?
Thoughts were hard and the villain's car was warm, the heating soon on full blast.
Thank you. It welled in their throat again. The hero choked on it.
They didn't think they'd ever been as well looked after as they were that week.
Are you aware that Google is currently being sued by the DOJ for being an illegal monopoly, in conjunction with almost fourty states?
Yes, I am aware
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN GOOGLE IS BEING SUED
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DON'T LET THIS GO OUT OF CIRCULATION. ADD MORE ONTO IT. QUEUE IT. DON'T LET THIS SITE FUCKING FORGET. THIS TRIAL COULD HAVE MASSIVE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE WHOLE INTERNET.
EDIT:
Originally I linked an MSN article. I was unaware they're not a trustworthy source, but many lovely people in the notes pointed it out and pointed out that the article I linked had issues, linking much better sources.
The U.S. Justice Department and a coalition of state attorneys general on Tuesday will begin a blockbuster antitrust trial in Washington, al
The biggest antitrust trial in nearly 25 years kicks off on Tuesday as the Justice Department makes its case that Google is an illegal monop
Here's an excellent addition to the post by @/thesoulofthebeautiful:
Note the suit is specifically about Google having an illegal monopoly as a search engine, however that does not mean that it's not extremely
Also, I saw a lot of people freaking out in the notes like "Oh shit, is Google gonna get completely taken down????" No. It won't. Google's a trillion dollar company, this won't completely destroy it. What it'll hopefully do is keep them from having Google be the default engine EVERYWHERE. If Google loses, that is a good thing. This WILL shake up the internet, but it won't be the end.
Cool? Cool. Here's a Destiel meme:
IF YOU REPOST THIS MEME, LINK THE SOURCES
Anybody else got that Evergiven sized writers block
“Where’s the next chapter?!” Well buddy you’re never gonna guess
What’s the comic sans trick?
#i feel like someone just asked me to eat dirt for my health
wingdings' true purpose as a font
Wingdings holy shit some of y'all are on a whole different level of galaxy wizard brain batshittery and I am in awe.
Exciting. When I don't want to see what I'm writing I just make the font color almost indistinguishable from the background color. (Do not do this.)
(I don't think the secret to the comic sans hack is comic sans itself; I think it's any deflation of being intimidated by your canvas.)
Hold on I need to go look something up immediately.
... you can't say that and not give the link.
The Internet's best write-reward system! Write one hundred words, get an image of a kitten!
Looks like you can even make it something other than kittens, by appending ?search=dinosaur (that's the example the page gives) to the end of the URL.
In the afterlife, you are given a choice of 7 gates to pass through and indulge in a deadly sin for the rest of eternity, but one in particular catches your eye; a rusty office door labelled “PRIDE” in bold font.
Content Warning: Violence, injury and self harm. Animal cruelty.
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hey full offense but the ‘use the right pronouns even if the person is horrible!’ statements arent made to coddle horrible ppl, its saying ‘dont view correct pronouns as a fucking privilege that can be taken away once people decide you’ve fucked up enough’, misgendering someone on purpose is transphobic no matter what bc it equates transphobia as a ‘punishment’ for bad people, pronouns are a part of baseline human respect, its that simple
