[alicentpark]

hire women to direct movies with female protagonists you fucking cowards

[rylaice]

What it is like being a Mercy main…

[zestripes]

Yep... sigh *crawls into corner to cry*

[cpt-sunstark]

[ruinedchildhood]

💯💯💯💯💯💯

[zestripes]

I totally didn’t read the entire comic in order to find this part....

[kimiooon]

Riverdale looked so cool, and knowing that comicbook Jughead Jones is oficially asexual I was so excited for representation but 6th episode ruined everything. Is it really that hard to write ace characters? come ooon, there’s already more than enough romance in this series.

[thehumorousace]

Porn blogs following a sex-repulsed asexual person is like watering a fake plant. Like y u gotta do that, it’s not gonna do anything.

[zestripes]

Overwatch Restricting Custom Games Because of Abuse of XP

The Forum Post is Here

Jeff put up a long post about turning on the AFK detector onto custom games, because people had been abusing the custom game system in order to gain free XP while AFK. He’s encouraging people to make sure they don’t do this anymore, or even joke about it in the titles of the custom games, because they are going to start banning them. He also asks that people who are just trying to have a good time, report these games so that the team doesn’t have to implement the option that has people not gain XP from custom games at all. So as a PSA lets not let it get to that point!

[trimmerlist]

Self indulgent Reaper selfie

[zestripes]

@mami-nagami

[bob-belcher]

Happy International Women’s Day!

[zestripes]

Room for Ruby Leak: STEVEN UNIVERSE

Spoilers incoming (duh)

So the new episode looks like it’s going to be about Navel, one of the nicer Rubies that were shot into space, going through an attempt to join the Crystal Gems. They are probably ging to be skeptical, going to try and see if they should actually trust her and whatnot. But what I’m really interested in is getting some information about the current state of Homeworld from her, and how Rubies were treated. Since they were considered common gems, basic infantry, it’s quite possible they were just thrown around as they were in The Answer. 

That and I’m interested to see how far along her redemption arc will go, if Navel is gets to stay by the end of this episode. This could also be a sign that we might get a few more characters before Homeworld or the Diamonds attack, because if that isn’t the season finale I don’t know what will be. Guess we’ll have to see, let me know what your predictions are!

[jackfryst-a-deactivated20201014]

cinematic appreciation ━ the book of life

❛ the land of the remembered was vibrant and joyous! everything was like the land above, but it was more colourful, it was more beautiful, it was more festive! ❜

[zestripes]

Orisa Isn’t Dropping Tomorrow

Looks like everyone’s favorite Robo Cop Centaur won’t be dropping on the live servers tomorrow. Usually patches that have been up on the PTR get dropped on Tuesday, but it seems like they’ll be waiting another week to fix bugs and whatnot.

Click Here for a link to the forum.

Although I’ve heard nothing, but praise from players that have tried her out, and enthusiasm for those who are waiting to play her, I guess we’ll have to wait until it goes live. 

[thehumorousace]

Me: I like my sex how I like my coffee. Friend: I thought you hated coffee. Me: Exactly!

[prosodi]

THE OLD GUARD

Did you know tumblr hates wide compositions? Here are the finalized pieces of this triptych. I’ll be bringing these along to Wondercon at the end of the month, so keep your eyeballs peeled for me!

[life-of-an-asexual]

YOUR IDENTITY IS VALID!

Hey there, my name is E.C. and I run a store called ThreadyToGo which has a specialization in LGBTQ pride bracelets.

Above are just some examples, but I sell almost every pride flag (if you don’t see one you can always request it)! Some of the ones not pictured are demisexual, agender, and genderfluid. Plus any aromantics can request a different variations of the flag due the many variations of the flag

The store has two main goals, to bring as many LGBTQ people a piece of wearable pride as possible and to help fund a chest binder for the owner, aka myself.

It would really mean a lot to me if you did check out the store, take a look at what I have to offer, share with your friends and maybe even buy something because every little bit counts and I’m almost at my goal!

Below are links to different listings for your view pleasure, and thank you! <3

Larger Sexuality Bracelets // Sexuality Bracelets // Rainbow Bracelets // Larger Gender Identity Bracelets //Gender Identity Bracelets

Also Bulk Order & Blind Bag options are available! 

Here are a few photos of the bracelets thanks to the lovely people who submitted amazing reviews!

Lexi Flood: In love with this. Great quality. Will buy again!!!! ?????

Megan Buchan:  Amazing item, fits perfectly and is really nice. I like how they ask for the wrist size as it makes it feel more personal to the wearer. I would defiantly by another.

Emily Cossentino: The product came swiftly (save for a delay because of a strike in the Canadian Postal Service), and fits perfectly. It is very durable. I will be wearing it every single day! I highly recommend buying from ThreadyToGo, as the shop owner is very reliable and makes the process as easy and simple as possible for the customer. That is something you don’t always see these days. I admire that, and I absolutely love my pride bracelet that I bought from ThreadyToGo. I would 100% buy again.

I’m so very close to my goal and I would love it if you checked out the store or shared with friends, or even buy something, every little bit helps! 

[zestripes]

@a-wild-gabby-appears You should do this

[nowyoukno]

Source for more facts on your dash follow NowYouKno

[the-treble-deactivated20160823]

That was super nice of them.

And now I’m mad that nobody told us we were given cows. Cause that’s really f*cking nice and nobody mentioned it at all.

[rice-to-the-occasion]

American media tends to disregard that anyone donates to the US. And then Amurricans complain about money going abroad because “nobody helped the US in our disasters.”

>.>

Also, do you know how much a cow costs? O.O

[awesomonster]

It isn’t just a matter of how much a cow costs, its a matter of considering that Masai life is based around their cattle. Its their wealth, their food, and a significant part of their religion. Here’s a quote from Wikipedia:

“Traditional Maasai lifestyle centres around their cattle which constitute their primary source of food. The measure of a man’s wealth is in terms of cattle and children. A herd of 50 cattle is respectable, and the more children the better. A man who has plenty of one but not the other is considered to be poor.[37] A Maasai religious belief relates that God gave them all the cattle on earth, leading to the belief that rustling cattle from other tribes is a matter of taking back what is rightfully theirs, a practice that has become much less common.[38]”

So its not just “they gave us 14 cows”, its that they gave us something that is very important and significant to them, it is more than just a kind gesture that definitely deserves to be known and its a genuine shame that more people don’t know about it.

[gweatherwax]

Wait, you guys DON’T KNOW that we offer help to the US when you have disasters???????

Shit, down here in Brazil we not only offered to send tracking units and doctors to help in 9/11 but we wanted to send a whole lot of donations to help with Katrina (we have experience with floods down here so we knew what kind of medicine to send to prevent outbreaks). 

We alone had like 2 army airplanes full of medicine and non-perishables like baby formula, diapers, bottled water, mosquito nets and other stuff that’s needed to fight opportunistic diseases that hit flooded areas, enough to assist a good few thousand people at least, ready to go the day after it hit, but your government refused the donations. 

The same thing happened to the Canadians and Europeans who offered help, the US embassies around the world told us all to give money to Red Cross.

And so we did, we all gave hundreds of millions of dollars to them, and then this happened:

Red Cross scandals tarnish relief efforts

‘Breathtaking’ Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid

So please, don’t you go spreading misinformation and prejudice against the rest of the world, WE DID OFFER HELP AND ORGANIZED IT EVEN FASTER THAN BUSH DID, BUT Y’ALL REFUSED IT. 

[randomthingsthatilike1]

Oh wow I had no idea this happened it’s really not talked about in media at all wow this is something good to know about wow

[jadedhavok]

I’m so angry.

I didn’t know that other countries tried to help after 9/11 or Katrina. Like, that’s something we, the people, should hear about and we don’t.

Please don’t blame us for the shitty decisions our government makes. We don’t have as much control over our government as we would like to think and they keep a lot from us.

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

Spread this shit. 

[twixieshores]

After Katrina, Cuba donated several hundred blankets. Think about that. A country that is suffering economically due directly to the US embargo offered to help us when we needed it by sending what they could. And once again, it was refused. We have a government that is so self-righteous that we refuse to accept disaster aid in order to maintain this facade that we are the most generous nation on earth.

[fanfckery]

Okay, Katrina thing. Only Texans really knows this? and even then it’s not wide spread. Mexico sent their army. They sent their army for relief efforts. Didn’t call ahead, they drove all the way to San Antonio with doctors and food and all sorts of supplies. When people actually got a call from them saying “Hey, we’re sending people up.” The people who answered said “What? We can’t…” “Too late, already there.” This was while the government was turning down help. So yeah, other countries send relief. Forest fires up in Washington last year? Firefighters from Australia came up to assist. Like… we don’t hear about this shit. At all.

[awellboiledicicle]

I can second the above with the fires. 

Most the time, when people say “oh FEMA or something sent people right?” re: fires, its actually people from other countries showing up and kinda ignoring the government telling them to fuck off and staying on behalf of local departments because we REALLY need them. 

If there’s a huge ass disaster, and the government is sitting there with a thumb up it’s ass, help is offered and most the time– shit, it gets there! But then the feds do something really fucking dirty. They insist they were the help, if it’s talked about at all. 

They insist those people putting out fires were federal people, because to most people a fireman’s a fireman. The people handing out water and food, a relief worker is a relief worker. So on and so forth. 

We had people come up when the fires were so bad a while ago– not the Australians, but i think there was like a German group of like 3 guys that flew themselves over? They came out of sheer “this is horrible and we’re helping” and my dad [local fire chief] had them working with our guys and the feds lost no time telling every news outlet that it was THEIR people doing all the fire knockdowns and structure work when these guys were running into buildings and grabbing people, pets, and people’s important documents because they knew papers were a pain in the ass to replace. 

What you gotta understand is that our government is very intent on selling us and the rest of the world [as much as possible] the idea of a powerful and self reliant country. All our reporting on disasters, starts with the scaremongering and then moves to “but our people can handle it because we’re the best at handling things” and then they move on before the idea it’s out of control comes to mind. The average person outside of the disaster has no idea, if they have never been around such an event or met someone who regularly deals with these things, they will kinda probably nod along with that. Because we have no real scope on the scale and impact– by design. Our media intake is very controlled to slant everything to the “eh, we can handle it and everyone else out there– they need our help because they’re not so good at handling disasters like we are.” People who know better, reading international news, interacting with international social groups, looking outside their sphere of community– we know better but that kinda slant is really hard to break from because of that grip American media has on information. So, taking that knowledge, we further have restricted reporting on certain disasters because they’re considered unimportant.  Hurricanes are considered important, earthquakes are only considered important if it wrecks something the government cares about or somewhere a couple million people live that they’ll upset the national money flow/they can throw money at someone to make the news care, floods are only important if it’s in a similar manner to earthquakes but since they occur annually they’re rarely reported on nationally, mudslides that kill people or leave hundreds homeless aren’t important to the government even through they happen constantly, wildfires that consume most of the nation/continent each year generally are unimportant until they consume a town or threaten a government interest/money flow location. Terrorist attacks are always important because people will talk about them.

So, when we do get help for any of the above, it’s possible that most people may have no idea about what’s happened, let alone that help’s been sent. Or if people know something happened, the details are vague– the news don’t care to give the nitty gritty. You’ll know something happened and people are suffering and “gee, isn’t it good you’re not them” and then now the weather.

So, yeah, basically no one really knows we get help.

[petitepenquin]

International response to Hurricane Katrina:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina 

We got HELLA help, but nobody really talks about it

[evilelitest2]

American Media really fails regularly 

[iammyfather]

Hurricane Sandy, Quebec sends power line crews down to assist in restoring power.  California gets rid of water bombers due to budget cuts, Canada sends theirs down to help fight wild fires. Amazing what living on the border and having outside TV News does to your information flow.

[quendergeer]

Cuba regularly offers help (usually highly trained doctors) but america assumes they’re trolling & tells them to fuck off

[geoclaire]

Can confirm Australia sends firefighters every time y'all have wildfires. My friend’s dad was over there for months, unpaid.