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hello, monsters

[fourangers]

Original Artist: Blue Tomato

CUTTING THE ORIGINAL COMIC FUCKING SUCKS SO HERE’S THE ORIGINAL SIZE:

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[theimpurelily]

So I was rereading chapter 37 of Shen Yuan of No Relation by @grubus and I realized something. SQQ did exactly what YQY threatened to do years ago and then some.

What an over achiever.

[jewishvitya-movingblogs]

A pro-Palestine Jew on tiktok asked those of us who were raised pro-Israel, what got us to change our minds on Palestine. I made a video to answer (with my voice, not my face), and a few people watched it and found some value in it. I'm putting this here too. I communicate through text better than voice.

So I feel repetitive for saying this at this point, but I grew up in the West Bank settlements. I wrote this post to give an example of the extent to which Palestinians are dehumanized there.

Where I live now, I meet Palestinians in day to day life. Israeli Arab citizens living their lives. In the West Bank, it was nothing like that. Over there, I only saw them through the electric fence, and the hostility between us and Palestinians was tangible.

When you're a child being brought into the situation, you don't experience the context, you don't experience the history, you don't know why they're hostile to you. You just feel "these people hate me, they don't want me to exist." And that bubble was my reality. So when I was taught in school that everything we did was in self defense, that our military is special and uniquely ethical because it's the only defensive military in the world - that made sense to me. It slotted neatly into the reality I knew.

One of the first things to burst the bubble for me was when I spoke to an old Israeli man and he was talking about his trauma from battle. I don't remember what he said, but it hit me wrong. It conflicted with the history as I understood it. So I was a bit desperate to make it make sense again, and I said, "But everything we did was in self defense, right?"

He kinda looked at me, couldn't understand at all why I was upset, and he went, "We destroyed whole villages. Of course we did. It was war, that's what you do."

And that casual "of course" stuck with me. I had to look into it more.

I couldn't look at more accurate history, and not at accounts by Palestinians, I was too primed against these sources to trust them. The community I grew up in had an anti-intellectual element to it where scholars weren't trusted about things like this.

So what really solidified this for me, was seeing Palestinian culture.

Because part of the story that Israel tells us to justify everything, is that Palestinians are not a distinct group of people, they're just Arabs. They belong to the nations around us. They insist on being here because they want to deny us a homeland. The Palestinian identity exists to hurt us. This, because the idea of displacing them and taking over their lands doesn't sound like stealing, if this was never theirs and they're only pretending because they want to deprive us.

But then foods, dances, clothing, embroidery, the Palestinian dialect. These things are history. They don't pop into existence just because you hate Jews and they're trying to move here. How gorgeous is the Palestinian thobe? How stunning is tatreez in general? And when I saw specific patterns belonging to different regions of Palestine?

All of these painted for me a rich shared life of a group of people, and countered the narrative that the Palestininian identity was fabricated to hurt us. It taught me that, whatever we call them, whatever they call themselves, they have a history in this land, they have a right to it, they have a connection to it that we can't override with our own.

I started having conversations with leftist friends. Confronting the fact that the borders of the occupied territories are arbitrary and every Israeli city was taken from them. In one of those conversations, I was encouraged to rethink how I imagine peace.

This also goes back to schooling. Because they drilled into us, we're the ones who want peace, they're the ones who keep fighting, they're just so dedicated to death and killing and they won't leave us alone.

In high school, we had a stadium event with a speaker who was telling us about a person who defected from Hamas, converted to Christianity and became a Shin Bet agent. Pretty sure you can read this in the book "Son of Hamas." A lot of my friends read the book, I didn't read it, I only know what I was told in that lecture. I guess they couldn't risk us missing out on the indoctrination if we chose not to read it.

One of the things they told us was how he thought, we've been fighting with them for so long, Israelis must have a culture around the glorification of violence. And he looked for that in music. He looked for songs about war. And for a while he just couldn't find any, but when he did, he translated it more fully, and he found out the song was about an end to wars. And this, according to the story as I was told it, was one of the things that convinced him. If you know know the current trending Israeli "war anthem," you know this flimsy reasoning doesn't work.

Back then, my friend encouraged me to think more critically about how we as Israelis envision peace, as the absence of resistance. And how self-centered it is. They can be suffering under our occupation, but as long as it doesn't reach us, that's called peace. So of course we want it and they don't.

Unless we're willing to work to change the situation entirely, our calls for peace are just "please stop fighting back against the harm we cause you."

In this video, Shlomo Yitzchak shares how he changed his mind. His story is much more interesting than mine, and he's much more eloquent telling it. He mentions how he was taught to fear Palestinians. An automatic thought, "If I go with you, you'll kill me." I was taught this too. I was taught that, if I'm in a taxi, I should be looking at the driver's name. And if that name is Arab, I should watch the road and the route he's taking, to be prepared in case he wants to take me somewhere to kill me. Just a random person trying to work. For years it stayed a habit, I'd automatically look at the driver's name. Even after knowing that I want to align myself with liberation, justice, and equality. It was a process of unlearning.

On October, not long after the current escalation of violence, I had to take a taxi again. A Jewish driver stopped and told me he'll take me, "so an Arab doesn't get you." Israeli Jews are so comfortable saying things like this to each other. My neighbors discussed a Palestinian employee, with one saying "We should tell him not to come anymore, that we want to hire a Jew." The second answered, "No, he'll say it's discrimination," like it would be so ridiculous of him. And the first just shrugged, "So we don't have to tell him why." They didn't go through with it, but they were so casual about this conversation.

In the Torah, we're told to treat those who are foreign to us well, because we know what it's like to be the foreigner. Fighting back against oppression is the natural human thing to do. We know it because we lived it. And as soon as I looked at things from this angle, it wasn't really a choice of what to support.

[most-tragic-character-tournament]

MOST TRAGIC TOURNAMENT: ROUND 6 [QUARTERFINALS] SHEN JIU//ORIGINAL SHEN QINGQIU (THE SCUM VILLAIN’S SELF-SAVING SYSTEM) VS DOCTOR HEINZ DOOFENSMIRTZ (PHINEAS AND FERB)

Shen Jiu//Original Shen Qingqiu

Dr. Heinz Doofensmirtz

Voting ended onDec 13, 2023

PROPAGANDA UNDER THE CUT: [SPOILERS AND POSSIBLE TRIGGERS AHEAD]

SHEN JIU//ORIGINAL SHEN QINGQIU:

DR. DOOFENSMIRTZ:

[hybrid-battle]

Hybrid Battle - Final Round!

Luo Binghe (1/2 Human, 1/2 Heavenly Demon)

Samus Aran (1/3 Human, 1/3 Metroid, 1/3 Chozo (technically 1/2 Mawkin, 1/2 Toha)

Voting ended onSep 23, 2023

[grimeclown]

Btw when someone says "don't talk to me like that, I don't know you" the normal thing to do is apologize for the perceived overfamiliarity and correct the behavior. Just in case anyone was wondering

[the-scungles-of-crungles]

If someone said that to me I would unironically dig an underground bunker by hand and only ever leave to pick up doordash orders and nobody would ever see me again ever holy shit

Alternatively I would just jump off a bridge immediately god damn even just reading that makes my soul want to fucking die

[deepseametro]

hey dude this is a really weird thing to say to a stranger!

[the-scungles-of-crungles]

Buddy you don't get it I would fucking perish

[grimeclown]

Hey dude i know rejection sensitive dysphoria is a thing but if you react this strongly to people setting simple boundaries you need to figure out how to work through that

[the-scungles-of-crungles]

Oh I deal with it. By being incredibly careful about anything I say to anyone in person ever

Although I once asked my cousin if I could join her dnd group (I have noclue how it works) and she went "Uh... No" and basically was like "you'd fuck it up" (she was very nice about it but damn I felt like the dumbest bitch alive ever)

And I haven't recovered since! So yeah that's why I'm a freak online because real life is impossible lmao! Hope this explains it!

[grimeclown]

That's not dealing with it but good luck I guess

[carolxdanvers]

Fyi, this is not only a bad way to deal with it bc it's straight up leaning into your own disordered thinking, but it's also EVEN MORE inconsiderate than the original offense of being overly familiar.

Y'all may not realize the things you do are manipulative, but responding to a fair boundary (that isn't even stated in a rude way) with "If anyone ever set this reasonable boundary with me I would run away into the woods" is manipulation. You are making it more difficult for people to feel safe telling you when you've made them uncomfortable or crossed a boundary, which means they'll likely respond by either cutting you off or allowing you to walk over their boundaries for fear of setting you off.

That's manipulative. You might genuinely be mortified, but that is something you NEED to work on, because the alternative is forcing everyone to walk on eggshells around you at the risk that politely setting any boundaries will set you off.

If you'd be fucked up if someone said that to you, that's understandable. I would be. So apologize politely, then deal with your own shit on your own time.

[ariaste]

All of this, AND: Having lived the majority of my life experiencing the Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria “if i am rejected, I will dig a hole in the ground and never come out ever again” thing..... Look, if this is you, please take some real time to consider whether you feel secure about setting your own boundaries. Like GENUINELY secure. Because I didn’t. I was deep in RSD and trauma, and I’d been raised to put other people’s needs and feelings before my own, and since being rejected hurt SO MUCH, I didn’t want to make anyone else feel that way either. So I didn’t set any boundaries at all.

I worked very hard to erase my boundaries for people, or move them, or ignore them, because I didn’t want to set a boundary and ruin the friendship/relationship. Which meant that I allowed a LOT of people to hurt me, often without even knowing that they were hurting me until I reached my limit and couldn’t repress any more and eventually just snapped at them. ....whiiiiiich ruined the friendships. So this experience taught me over and over again that communicating my boundaries = losing someone I cared about. Boundaries became this huge HUGE thing, like the entire Great Wall of China, and it took up so so so much of my emotional energy to figure out how and when to navigate a minor nudge of one of my boundaries (like, idk, a friend wanting me to listen to her vent about her love life when I have errands to run) because I felt like whatever I did to advocate for myself and take care of my own needs was gambling with the connection I had with this person I liked. 

I also felt like setting boundaries was the same thing as attempting to control another person’s actions, so I struggled with it on an ethical level: “How is this different from manipulation? How am I supposed to be as kind and fair as I want to be, when I’m forcing someone to act in a certain way?”

All in all, I was living in a constant state of borderline emotional burnout JUST from the struggle I with this one specific thing.

And then literally like five months ago, I had this epiphany that a really good expression of a Healthy Boundary isn’t a *prescriptive* statement (such as ordering someone to do something, bossing them around, steamrolling them) -- but a DESCRIPTIVE one: It is a description of who you are and what your needs are. The actions the other person takes in response are entirely their own business and have very little to do with me. Since then, it has gotten a LOT easier to express my boundaries (though this is a very new growth arc for me and I’m still practicing!) and all of these good things started happening in my life -- new work opportunities, new friends who are learning to be good at boundaries themselves and DELIGHTED to be practicing with me, new changes to my physical environment to optimize my home for what my needs are -- and I have a truly shocking amount of extra energy. I won’t say that I’ve magically become “a much happier person”, but I am a person with energy I didn’t have before which I can now put towards pursuing the things that generate happiness, and I feel a lot more confident and assertive than I did even six months ago. Literally that’s how fast the change has happened.

You don’t have to live in the hole in the ground. You don’t have to live in constant pain and fear and burnout. You don’t have to put other people’s needs before your own. You don’t have to feel the weight of all that shame and guilt crushing you alive. The weirdest and most surreal thing that I have discovered this year is that when I started setting boundaries the right way, the rejection DECREASED and the amount of acceptance and love I had in my life INCREASED DRAMATICALLY. 

But no one really teaches you HOW to set a boundary properly, do they? They  just say “Set healthy boundaries!” like you’re supposed to just understand the concept -- tbh, if you’re as deep in RSD shame as I was, you might genuinely not know the procedure for how to do it.

For that, I recommend an amazing book called (shockingly) The Book Of Boundaries by Melissa Urban, which not only has amazing discussion of boundaries but also provides ACTUAL SCRIPTS for loads and loads and LOADS of different real-life scenarios:

you have NO IDEA how wide my eyes got when I realized that the Green boundary counted as Setting A Boundary. Or when I realized that I’ve had a habit of ignoring/repressing my boundaries during the stage when the Green response would be useful, and then after a while of putting up with it skipping directly to the Yellow response with quite a lot of built-up resentment. MY WHOLE BRAIN EXPLODED, THIS WAS A REVELATION. 

Anyway highly recommend this book, great book, so useful. Learning this shit can be really hard, but at least for me it was not anywhere close to as hard as I expected it to be. I just needed to figure out the trick -- and it is a deeply cool trick once you’ve got the hang of it. <3

[nicostiel]

#The holy trinity of queer agony

[undeadcas]

15x18 // cas confessing to dean about his empty deal

[faelicy]

Scum Villain Table of Contents

Main Novel:

人渣反派 【Scum Villain】

受虐男主 【Abused Male Lead】

炮灰当道 【Cannon Fodder in the Way】

暗助男主 【Secretly Assisting the Male Lead】

初级任务 【Beginner Level Quest】

出师不利 【Unfavorable Beginning】

一坑男主 【Backstabbing the Male Lead, No. 1】

坑完给糖 【Giving Sweets After Backstabbing】

百战峰主 【Bai Zhan Peak Lord】

魔女挑衅 【Demon Girl’s Provocation】

二坑男主 【Backstabbing the Male Lead, No. 2】

狂刷好感 【Favor Farming Frenzy】

装B遭劈 【Posers Draw Lightning Strikes】

恶俗设定 【Vulgar Setup】

梦魇副本 【Nightmare Instance】

拿错剧本 · 1 【Wrong Script 1】

拿错剧本 · 2 【Wrong Script 2】

随身爷爷 【Portable Grandfather】

谆谆教诲 【Earnest Instruction】

艰巨任务 【Arduous Task】

仙盟大会 · 1 【Immortal Alliance Conference 1】

仙盟大会 · 2 【Immortal Alliance Conference 2】

突生惊变 · 1 【Abrupt Change 1】

突生惊变 · 2 【Abrupt Change 2】

无间深渊 · 1 【Endless Abyss 1】

无间深渊 · 2 【Endless Abyss 2】

无间深渊 · 3 【Endless Abyss 3】

同乡认亲 【Friends from the Same Hometown】

白露森林 【Bai Lu Forest】

露湖蛇男 【The Snake-Man of the Dew Lake】

瘟城疑踪 【The Mystery of the Plague City】

师徒重逢 · 1 【Master and Disciple Reunite 1】

师徒重逢 · 2 【Master and Disciple Reunite 2】

鬼畜如斯 【Like an Evil Beast】

冤罪加身 · 1 【False Accusations 1】

冤罪加身 · 2 【False Accusations 2】

迷宫水牢 · 1 【The Labyrinthine Water Prison 1】

迷宫水牢 · 2 【The Labyrinthine Water Prison 2】

逃离水牢 【Escape from the Water Prison】

花月逃杀 · 1 【Fleeing Death in Hua Yue 1】

花月逃杀 · 2 【Fleeing Death in Hua Yue 2】

店中口角 【Altercation in the Tavern】

主角卒，全剧终 【Main Character Dies, The End】

手动重生 【Manual Rebirth】

魔族文化 【Demon Culture】

大闹魔窟 【Commotion in the Demon’s Lair】

八卦江湖 【Gossipy Jianghu】

相逢不识 【Meeting Without Knowing】

性向真相 【Truth of Orientation】

三观尽碎 【Worldview Completely Shattered】

此梦堪怜 【This Dream is Piteous】

Novel Extras:

记一次和柳巨巨打魅妖的经历 【Remembering an Experience of Fighting Succubi with Great Master Liu】

===

Novel Synopsis:

“Can’t I properly read stallion novels anymore!”

Shen Yuan transmigrated into someone who’d abused the young male lead almost to death, the scum villain Shen Qingqiu.

It must be known, the original Shen Qingqiu ended up being carved alive by his disciple, Luo Binghe into a human stick, a human stick!

Ten thousand “fuck your mom”s rampaged through Shen Qingqiu’s heart:

“It’s not that I don’t want to cling to the male lead’s thighs, but who made him so fucking black. The type who seeks thousand-fold retribution!”

Why have all the female lead’s scenes been forcibly given to him.

Why, as a scum villain, does he need to constantly sacrifice himself, blocking knife and gun for the protagonist!

Shen Qingqiu: “…I think I can still save him, one more time.”

A gong who starts as a loyal dog of a small white flower, and ends up as a blackened, mental case of a maiden X a refined scum villain of a tsukkomi-holic shou

This is actually a dogblood story about a master-disciple pair never doing honest work, fighting mobs, and engaging in romance.

It’s also a story where the villain personally witnesses how the male lead transforms from a little sheep of a white lotus into a dark tyrant O(∩_∩)O~

[mitrr]

Saezuru linkit.

Mangan voit lukee täältä. Lue ekana tämä ja sitten tämä !!

Extra selitykset löytyy alhaalta; (ymmärrät paremmin)

Saezuru things; 0. 1. 2. 3.

Ennen Saezuru alkua; 1.

Chapter 23 (30.9.) 1. 2. 3.

Chapter 22 <- click first 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Chapter 21 1. 2. 3. 4.

Chapter 20 1.

Chapter 19 (yakuza stuff) 1.

Chapter 17 1. 2. 3. 4.

Chapter 16 & 15 1. 2.

Extra’s (chapters yms.) (blcd parts) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Theories etc Contact case (?) Y&D ‘which comes first’ ‘What we need to see’ Tattoos ?? Yashiro and Kissing Doumeki only one for Y? Ch17 + yakuza talk

Fanarts koska NGH ! 1. 2.

Henkilöt: Yashiro 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Doumeki 1. 2. 3. Kuga 1. 2. Kageyama 1. Misumi 1. 2. Misumi’s wife. Amou 1. Ryuuzaki Hirata

Yoneda Kou

Sori tää on sekanen ja tällee mut yritä pärjätä hahah XD

[suburbanhermit]

Great links, thanks!

[artemisrisen]

this is a great gathering of tumblr posts and resources, great job!!!!

[mitrr]

OMG I didn’t thought that people would actually reblog this and like this post! I actually just made this for @riiitu because she’s joining the fandom but omg. Thank you, I know this is messy and nothing like @lustfulcat‘s amazing posts!! >.<

[likethewayourclothesmell]

[cantabilechaos]

Being a kid was so fucking funny we’d just go around lying to each other’s faces constantly to impress each other one of my classmates told me he was the first person to visit the sun and when I asked him what it was like to prove he was lying he said he didn’t remember because they sent him there when he was just a baby and to this day the mental image of NASA launching an unsupervised baby into the sun still makes me crack up

[spacecorpscans]

hello! we’re planning on picking up these works 😳:

Miss You, Lucifer

And Then I Know Love

but we need your help! we’re in dire need of typesetters, preferably experienced! please email at [email protected] if you’re available for this request!!  thank you

[mcbbdoomsdaybunker]

Hello, everyone, and welcome to a new edition of the Megstiel Big Bang! 2020 has been so fucking weird already, we might as well, right?

Please read the rules and be sure to join us on our new Discord server!

Rules for Authors:

You can sing-up for either a Big Bang (10k words min.) or a Mini-Bang (5k-10k words). If you’re not sure how long your fic will be, you can let us know later.

You must have an Archive of Our Own account to participate, as that is where the collection will be hosted.

The fic must be completely unpublished, meaning, you can’t use this as a chance to complete that WIP you’ve posted three chapters of and abandoned, and remain so until your posting date. However, sequels are allowed!

After your posting date has past, you can post your fic in whatever other site you wish! We just ask you to not post it any part of it until then. Snipets and teasers will be allowed after the artists’ claims.

You can write whatever genre you want (AU, Canon Divergence, Dark, Fantasy, Adventure, Crossovers, go nuts) as long as it has Meg and Cas’ relationship as the main focus.

The only types of fics we won’t be accepting are Underage, proxy fics and fics featuring Cas and Meg as part of a poly ship.

You can only write one fic to participate. If you want to collaborate with a friend, you can do that, but that will be considered your only entry.

Your draft doesn’t have to be completed by the DRAFTS DUE! deadline, but you must have at least part of it so your artist can start working on your pieces. The drafts must all be submitted to our email (megstielbigbang.tumblr.com).

If you forget, don’t worry! We’ll be checking in on you and sending you reminders when needed.

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If you need to drop out for whatever reason, please let us know ASAP.

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If you sign up as an author, you can’t simultaneously sign up as an artist.

If you claim a Big Bang fic, you will be required to present two pieces of art. If you claim a Mini Bang, you’ll only be required to present one. You’ll have a question in the sign up form so you can indicate your preference or if you don’t have one at all.

You can work with whatever medium you prefer and your pieces can be traditional drawings, digital drawings, manips, banners, chapter headers, gifs, videos or picspams, whatever you wish!

You can’t make art for two fics simultaneously. However, if there aren’t enough artists to cover all the authors, there will be a second round of claimings for those interested.

Art claims are blind, meaning, you won’t know with which author you’ll be working with. You’ll be given a summary of all the fics participating and you must submit to us your top three choices. The fics are assigned on a first come, first served basis, so make sure to answer fast to get your top pick!

Again, if you need to drop out, please let us know ASAP!

You can sign up as an artists by filling out this form!

Rules for both:

Artists and Authors are encouraged to communicate and send each other progress of their work.

If an Author drops out, the Artist will be given the option to claim another fic, post their art without a fic or drop out as well.

If an Artist drops out, the Author will be paired up with a pinch-hitter, but if none is available or the artist dropped out too late to find one, the author will have the option to post their fic without the art or to drop out as well.

The works must remained visibly for up to six months after they’ve been posted!

The Artist or the Author must make a master post for us to reblog that includes the pieces of art and all the fics relevant information (title, author’s handle, rating, addtional pairings, any content warnings they deem necessary and a summary).

Again, we cannot stress this enough, DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO DROP OUT.

Schedule:

June 15th - Sign ups for Authors and Artists open!

July 15th - Authors’ ign ups close.

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August 14th - DRAFTS DUE!/ARTISTS CLAIMS!

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October 23rd - Final Check-in.

October 30th - Posting Dates Revealed.

November 16th - POSTING BEGINS!

As always, if you have any other questions, you can send them to this blog, to our email [email protected] or by contacting the mods in our server!

We hope you will join us!

PS: Special thanks to @koriginaladdict for the beautiful banner!

[megstielbigbang]

This is your reminder that this event has moved to this blog and you can already sign up to participate this year!

[stardustedangst-deactivated2021]

Re: Liar’s Practice: A Bakudeku Visual Novel

Hi! I’m Snowy, the English translator for Re: Liar’s Practice! Thank you so much for showing interest in this game!

In this game, you play as Midoriya. After an incident with your childhood friend Bakugou creates a rift between you two, you must figure out how to mend your relationship and deal with some strange new feelings that are cropping up all of a sudden.

This game features original art by Ten and the project was headed by Ego!

There are three endings: Normal, Good, And True.

Screenshots below!

Note: this game contains some R18 content.

Technical info and download link below the cut!

Runs on: Win98 / 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista / Win10

When downloaded, run “game.exe” in the file.

Parts: Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Endings

Estimated play time: anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours

NOTE: You must change your locale to Traditional Chinese and restart the computer before playing this game! Changing the locale won’t change the language of the computer and you can change it back afterwards! It’s not quite changing the location; here’s a guide!

Languages: Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, and English

Download link: Here (click 英)

Official Website

Official Twitter

Trailer (Chinese)

Special thanks to @royaljellybeans for being my personal assistant and making my life less of a living hell during the two weeks it took to translate this beast! I’d also like to thank my proofreaders; I won’t name them because of the shit they might get for assisting in the translation of such a controversial ship when they aren’t even that involved with the fandom, but thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Lastly, please don’t attack anyone; if you must verbally abuse someone over ethics and morality and shipping, please do so in my ask box and not anyone else’s.

Enjoy! If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask!

[mysharona1987]

[theconcealedweapon]

Also the same men who purposely date women who are much younger than them and therefore are much less likely to be financially stable.

[theconcealedweapon]

Also the same men who feel emasculated when a woman makes more money than them.

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

Also the same men who see unpaid labour as living for free.

[zanabism-deactivated20200529]

on september 11th 2001, two planes crashed into the world trade centre in new york city. It was a massacre. 3000 dead in a matter of 24 hours. the entire world was in shock of the atrocity, the brutal, diabolical murder of scores of innocents. 

the american government reacted accordingly. a full investigation was launched to hold the culprits responsible – what nation could have sanctioned such a brutal attack on so many innocents? what kind of soulless country could, regardless of vendetta, allow such a heinous crime? 

by 2002, the united states had their answer. the investigation was complete. A 600 page document known as the Congressional Report on 9/11 was released. approx 20 pages detailing the workings of the nation responsible were produced. The report was published. 

Except the name of the country responsible for 9/11 was redacted in the report. blackened out with a sharpie. It would remain redacted for 14 years. The country in question? Saudi Arabia. 

Instead of declaring to the world who was involved in orchestrating 9/11, the u.s. would hide this information for over a decade. 

Instead, they would point fingers at Iraq, whilst knowing that iraq had nothing to do with the attack in the first place. They would orchestrate journalistic propaganda in the new york times about “weapons of mass destruction” – a narrative that had been proven false by their very own intelligence officers, a narrative that had been shot down by every journalist that had ever stepped foot in Niger (where the purported ingredients of mass destruction were coming from). Regardless, the New York Times would dutifully publish the perverted stories anyway. NYT editors would say “to not invade iraq is the bigger mistake”. 

In 2003, the months of building up false stories in the media, propaganda in every mainstream newspaper, journal and t.v. show would pay off. The u.s. would invade iraq. 

from 2003 -  2011 the country of iraq would be brutalized in ways never seen before by mankind. modern, 21st century warfare would decimate the very spirit of iraq. at least 460 000 innocent, iraqi civilians murdered in 8 years. entire generations were wiped out in less than a decade. we will never know their names. 

waves of sexual violence committed upon “captured” cities ensued at the hands of american soldiers. many of the survivors, if not dead at the hands of their occupiers, would take their own lives. we will never know their names. 

in 2011, the blood in iraq is finally dry. we’ve leeched all of it. we’ve procured the natural resources we came for – it’s time to head out. the so called WMD we came for were never found, they did not exist, they were never real to begin with. A far cry from how things got started, we start seeing articles about the falsehood of the iraq war. the same publishers who willingly handed out propaganda to the masses about WMD in Saddam’s hands are now saying “wait…we’ve made an error.” the narrative shifts. the occupation ends 3 years after a new commander in chief is granted the power to end it. in its wake we leave behind military bases and mercenaries that are ready to activate whenever called upon. 

That same year, the u.s. supports various popular movements across the arab world. tens of regimes are flipped. 

and in that same year, using the same weapons left behind by valiant american rapists and invaders, an army of another kind of mercenaries is born. they call themselves ISIL, then ISIS. 

ISIS vows to cleanse the muslim world of shia muslims, minority sect muslims, christians, yezidis, Jewish people. ISIS also vows they are enemies of the u.s. America vows vice versa. Their feud is a celebrated one. ISIS, the evil nemesis of the Brave & Courageous America. 

But then, 2012 happens. America, losing their influence and control over the levant, start funding ISIS factions. America starts funding Al-Qaeda factions. 

The same NYT that once convinced us that Iraq had WMD is now INSISTING that these al-qaeda factions, that themselves claim to be brothers of al-qaeda, are moderate rebels simply looking for democracy and liberation. people believe it. 

America’s proxies in the levant go on to destroy the region in unimaginable ways–and then, 2018 happens. 

Iraqis & Iranians destroy ISIS. Indisputably, action from both nations led to the destruction of ISIS, now a paid member of the U.S. military. America, once using ISIS and AQ factions to regain control over the levant struggles to position themselves as the heroes – attempting pathetically to play both sides of the same coin. Again, the same way outlets like NYT backtracked their Iraq war propaganda, they start apologizing for identical mistakes in naming actual american funded terrorists as “freedom fighters.” another cycle ends. 

ISIS is gone, but the real loss is America’s. They’ve lost the barbaric feudalistic control they once held in the region via ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Their terrorist assets have been reduced to ashes by a people they once themselves invaded from 2003 - 2011.

This brings us to today. The united states has assassinated Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s second in command. this is akin to another nation murdering the likes of mike pence, joe biden or dick cheney. it is an act of war. 4000 troops have been deployed to the Iraq-Iran region. It is an invasion. 

And just as in 2003 the NYT & MSM justified the faulty invasion of iraq, and just as in 2012 the NYT & MSM justified the funding of ISIS & AQ factions, in 2020, a new propaganda will circulate to justify the illegal assassination of sovereign leaders. 

New propaganda will circulate to justify a new era of bloodshed in Iraq & Iran and the rape and murder of innocents.  New propaganda will vilify young, brown children as terrorists.  New propaganda will circulate to return us to the year 2003. 

There is nothing I can do within my capacity to help anyone. I am completely useless in saving any of the lives that will be taken in the next several years. 

All I can do is ask that when you see a piece of information that attempts to justify the actions of the u.s. on foreign soil, in any foreign nation, that you reduce it to ashes. They lied to you in 2003, they did it again in 2011, they are doing it again in 2020. 

Reject the lie. It’s all we can do.