Winteriron Wonderland

I WILL GO DOWN WITH THIS SHIP! Art by Beir.

[ussthunderquack]

I'm at a convention and I just saw Captain America pick his nose. He truly is an accurate mascot for this country.

[freegazafromhamas]

This also applies for anyone left of center choosing to not vote or throw out their vote on a write-in because their inner Calvinist won't allow voting for a candidate that doesn't share all the same views as them on every issue.

[fortheammonites]

Falling for scams does hurt people, actually

TW: Human trafficking, SA, torture, discussion of scam farms

I see a whole bunch of people arguing that they would rather risk giving to a scammer than ignore someone's gofundme. I also see people saying things like "I can't believe some sick people are profiteering off genocide" and like, me neither, but I feel like you guys really don't understand who actually runs these kinds of scams and what they are.

Scams of noticeable scale-- like scam asks being sent from hundreds of accounts to every user on Tumblr!-- are typically related to organised crime in poor countries, not Susan from Milwaukee who wants a new coat and has no scruples. People get trafficked by gangs to scam farms in Asia and Africa where they're worked to the bone and tortured trying to get idiots in wealthy countries to part with their money. Genocide profiteering is pretty much the least evil thing these people do.

Here's a UN article on it. Obvious warnings for content related to human trafficking and SA.

Southeast Asia: Torture rooms and karaoke bars in gang-run ‘scam farms’

Transnational crime syndicates based in Southeast Asia are fuelling the trafficking of people, either forcing them to commit crimes or for s

When you donate to a scammer, you fund these organisations and give them a reason to exist. It's possible some of the fundraisers are legit. I honestly find it unlikely given I'm not seeing any from any other countries where urgent fundraisers would seem to have great reason to exist but which haven't captured the same level of attention on Tumblr-- the number of Sudanese, Congolese, Ukrainian, Burmese or Uyghur fundraisers in my DMs is a fat 0. In any case, there are safer ways to help.

If you want to help (which is great!) you don't have to take the risk of paying for human trafficking. Donate to legitimate charities which have the resources to safely and effectively ensure the money and help is getting to the right people. Funding human trafficking rings in Myanmar is not a good risk to be taking while trying to help.

14 Trusted Charities Helping Civilians in Palestine

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has caused immense suffering, with countless individuals displaced, harmed, and killed over the years. Tens

[winterironwonderland]

Bucky and Tony know a bit about manipulation and artificial intelligence respectively. The pair might be skilled in detecting AI scam bots.

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Tel Aviv last night

Following the devastating news of the murder of 6 hostages, us Israelis are striking and protesting for a deal.

Saying we don’t want a ceasefire deal is just wrong. There are protests nationwide, school and most businesses are closed in protest.

We want a ceasefire / hostages deal . Bring them home now❤️🎗️

[crustgender]

full photo:

[david-goldrock]

Can anybody explain to me why the protests are against Israel's policy though?

What do you object to? Benjamin AGREED to the deal already.

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

He may have agreed to it but unfortunately he’s also delaying it… The main issues are

-Him insisting on including the Philadelphi Corridor & not ending the war already

-Thus delaying a deal in may that included the recently murdered hostages and many other hostages (women, children,elderly, injured…)

Everyone has been saying this- Hostages’ families, Israeli & us officials, other Members of the knesset…

*I’m honestly surprised you asked considering it’s all over the news .

Anyways, I hope he’s ✨✨never elected again and faces prison time ✨✨

[jujusjunk]

How’d he get elected in the first place? Genuine question because every single Israeli I’ve had a convo with has been heavily against him. I remember a friend told me it was something about not enough candidates but Idk that didn’t make sense. There’s also the fact that I’ve been hearing of protest for a while. So are all (or at least non-heavily-right wing) Israelis against him and his actions or is there still a group of people (citizens) who still support and agree with him?

[bdalak]

the prime minister specifically is selected by the president, i think based on who they believe is most likely to form a government—not always the party that holds the most seats in the knesset. that's why in 2021 we ended up seeing a unity government between yesh atid (17 seats w/ party leader yair lapid) and yamina (7 seats w/ party leader naftali bennett) despite likud holding 30 seats total. in order to form a coalition government you need to hold a majority out of the total seats of the knesset (120, so minimum seats needed is 61).

there are a lot of reasons why bibi keeps being selected as prime minister. his party is the most popular, having received 1.1 million votes in the most recent election and holding 32 seats in the knesset. he's steadily gone further and further right when it comes to the parties he'll work with and imo the standards for who the far right will consider working with are much more relaxed than the standards that left-wing parties will hold. on top of that...other israelis like @homochadensistm would be able to explain better than me how he's sort of "bought out" the haredi voting bloc lol

israel also doesn't have ranked choice voting, so if a party you vote for doesn't meet the electoral threshold then your votes are essentially thrown out. in the most recent election, i think around 325,000 votes between two left wing parties, meretz and labor, were thrown out because they failed to reach the electoral threshold. for some perspective, Shas (right-wing haredi political party), the third largest party in the knesset with 11 seats, received ~393,000 votes. i think it was the leaders of meretz who refused to sign an electoral agreement with labor which would have allowed them to share votes, and they faced a lot of criticism for this decision after the election.

that's my understanding of why he keeps being chosen for prime minister anyway. currently, his coalition government only holds 64/120 seats in the knesset. this is by no means a huge majority, which explains why you're seeing such large protests against decisions the government makes, and also why you'll meet so many israelis who are against bibi + the current government.

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

This is a great explanation of Israeli politics! Thank you, I wrote a bit as well but it’s so much to explain Xx

תודה רבה☺️

[thechromebucket]

Marvelous Mermay: Starkfish

"The truth is...I am a merman."

Note: Most of my Marvel merfolk will not be this elaborate. The plan is for most of them to be quick sketch-doodles like last year. But some will get more attention than others.

[ussthunderquack]

Happy Festivus everyone! This year, the Feats of Strength will be hosted by the Grandmaster.

[saganarojanaolt]

Art for "Hero is a Relative Term" by the terrific @riotwritesthings

Rating: Teen

Summary:

Another day, another kidnapping, and Tony’s biggest concern is that he’s never going to live this down.

Clint is going to mock him forever and Natasha is going to give him judging looks and next time he tries to run out to grab burgers for everyone Steve is going to make him bring an escort. And that’s not even getting into what Bucky is probably going to have to say about this.

Good thing Tony is an old pro at making his own escapes.

Link on Ao3

Bonus fill for @winterironmonth Prompt - SFW Friday: Powerless

And a shirtless version 🤭

[why-the-face]

The one name that can never be crossed off.

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Just had a thought after watching ep 1 of TFATWS and had to quickly sketch this up. Because feelings. I have them.

And I need to share them.

[justlous-art]

I don’t use my tablet for almost a month and suddenly I don’t know how to draw anymore… 

anyway, natasha taking her favorite boys on a mission 🕸

[saganarojanaolt]

Birthday gift for the lovely @newtypeshadow

Inspired by her absolutely amazing "He kindly stopped for me" fic found an Ao3 here

[floweringglass]

[fuckyeahtonystark]

(ง •̀_•́)ง (ง •̀_•́)ง (ง •̀_•́)ง

[romancebyfaye]

I mean, seriously. Did you just see him disarm - heh - The Winter freakin Soldier in a single gauntlet and a damn three piece suit? And the little smirk when he takes the gun apart?

I definitely headcanon that Winter would remember this moment with a grudging awe. And maybe some feelings in his pants.

Tony Stark is BAMF in and out of the armor.

[zanahoriabaila]

I love this scene. Those moves were so slick! The WS has dropped agents by the bunch, and a three piece suit asigned as non combatant disarms him (and delays him about as much as a former Red Room graduate).

Very nice reminder that Tony know his guns, and is far from helpless out of armor

[and-chaos-ensues]

Things I love about this gifset:

Tony Stark hop-skipping into an “I-brought-a-three-piece-suit-and-a-coolio-watch-to-a-gunfight” confrontation with the Winter Soldier

Tony Stark: The Smirk™

Tony Stark in general, love me the whole-ass man–

[zinfandelli]

My favorite part of this bit?

Tony knows so very well that he isn’t a match in strength to this guy so instead of straight up hand to hand he goes after him like Nat, but he lacks her flexibility and combat prowess so he can’t confront him head on like her either.

So tony uses buckys own momentum against him, pivoting his arm in arcs back and forth to disperse any forward thrust Bucky could get to throw him immediately. He creates his own openings to get in buckys personal space by keeping his arm straight at the elbow to push it out of his way at the shoulder letting him past buckys deadly hands. Obviously this doesn’t last but its a really good snippet of tonys serious actual martial arts training (you can really see this in those gifs of rdj practicing wing chun with his trainer on the wooden standees)

[cheesebongdynasty]

Be careful this Saturday the 24th

The reason would warrant a trigger warning, and this post might not reach people who have that subject filtered in their tags.

Some sickos have declared April 24th to be the "National Day" for something very sick. It may be a sick joke, but be careful all the same.

Women especially, but men and intersex people too, and definitely kids, be careful. Stay safe.

[tstarkx]

someone said out of all the guilt flashbacks Bucky had during the Ayo scene, the only one where he wasn’t being controlled by Hydra was the fight with Tony, because he feels just as much guilt for that as he does for his other actions—

[winterironwonderland]

How did I not pick up on that?!

[ussthunderquack]

I worship Shuri and Wakanda, but I'm still dying mad that Wanda Maximoff didn't use her powers to cure Bucky and Tony Stark didn't make him that new arm.

[buckybarnesj]

TORTURED TO FORGET  |  TORMENTED BY REMEMBERING

[ussthunderquack]

Oooo I can’t WAIT

for that father to learn the truth about his son’s death, in a civil environment, without watching a video recording of it while Bucky is standing right there, so all the anti-Stark androids can start their “brilliant” comparisons!