#cricket chirps

[fleshadept]

you guys know you can get USB connectable CD, dvd, and blu-ray players right. and you can buy external hard drives with crazy amounts of space for an amount of money that would make the average person from 2009’s head explode bc of how cheap it is. and if you do this and get ripping software such as handbrake for CDs and DVDs and makeMKV for blurays you can both own a physical copy of whatever media you want and make it accessible to yourself no matter where you are. do you guys know this

[goingtolebanon]

dni lists don't work and i am well aware of this but just know that if you are a zionist/pro-israel and/or you think the israel/palestine situation is a "neutral situation" please know that you are extremely unwelcome here and will be made to feel that way. free palestine

[cagedcricket]

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[themarkofoxin]

imagine. you’re in a london gay club. you run into these two people who are clearly together and seem a bit awkward and start chatting. you’ve never seen them before and they seem open to a threesome. you hit it off and finally ask if they’d be down. they look at each other and nod, then wordlessly produce a 20-page document labeled NON DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT. you ask why. they laugh and say just sign it. you do. these people must be important to warrant this. you have the threesome. the sex is mid. they don’t even notice when you leave

[cricketsintheaudience]

dc’s ongoing trend of fully open yet still tucked-in shirts confounds me

[imthemuthafuckingcricket]

Alcibiades would like a word

[saturnisscreaming]

There is a massive cricket in the center of the earth. That's why you only ever hear one chirping and it rubbing it's legs together is what makes the earth spin

[cricketnationrise]

kiss cam meet cute??? my eyes are open please xoxo

a snippet for you!

The woman behind him points up and—oh. Alex and his date are indeed on the Kiss Cam. “Gina.” She doesn’t look up from where she’s busy scrolling through Instagram.  “Gina.” “God, Alex, not now, there’s not even anything happening on the ice.” Another glance up shows that the camera is still trained on them and Alex can hear awkward chuckles all around him and he knows his anxiety must be showing on his face where everyone can see and— There’s a tap on his shoulder. It’s the guy who’s been sitting next to him the whole game with a sheepish smile and a furious blush on his face. “I could, erm, kiss you. To get the cameras off. If you wanted.”

[the-cricket-chirps]

Jacques Villon

The Cricket, American Bar (Le Grillon, American Bar)

1899

[screaming-cricket]

shoutout to the "to be loved is to be changed" meme. becoming something different because you were deeply cared for is beautiful. your loved stuffies, shirts, and blankets that have been torn, stained, etcetera are beautiful

[grimdarkauxiliatrix]

love that you can tell immediately if homestuck fanart is from 2013 or more recent based on a sliding scale of how fat and race diverse the characters are. every 2013 fanart makes everyone skinny animecoded and twinkifies the boys but recent fanart is so much more fun & endearing

[fleshadept]

looking at (vetted) gofundmes for people trying to escape palestine and i don't know how many of you actually click on the gofundme links you reblog but i would like to point out, for what it's worth, just how amazing it is that so many have raised so much money. it may overall feel like a drop in the ocean but the fact that several gofundmes have raised tens of thousands of dollars is amazing. it is so expensive to leave gaza right now, and people still need money after they escape. but regardless of what propaganda the US, UK, canada, and other western nations are trying to pump out, people across the world are doing what they can to help these people survive. many of them are still very far from their goals (like this one and this one and this one) and some of them are very close to high goals (like this one), and some of them have reached almost double their original goal.

and that's not even addressing direct aid or organizations that take continuous donations for distribution of food, menstrual products, etc. the PCRF has raised $16,000,000 of their target goal of $20,000,000 to fund current aid and long-term relief efforts in gaza. ANERA's febuary 13th update discusses the material ways they helped palestinians today:

(ANERA donate link)

my point is, it often feels like the world is turning a blind eye to palestine. but i would like to point out that there is an important difference between "the world" and "western political leaders and media narratives". a breathtaking amount of real people, the people who make up the world, are trying to help. in the face of israel attempting to commit genocide, the world is saying No. These people deserve to live. and literally sending millions of dollars internationally, through the internet connection that israel has desperately been trying to destroy.

it may not feel like it matters in the grand scheme of things. but to the people who get fresh clothes, or a hot meal, or blankets, or the kids who get new toys, or to the people who are able to bring their families to safety, it matters to them. go make someone's day better. i've linked so many options with ways to do that.

[goingtolebanon]

if you transition it doesn't have to be forever. if you detransition it doesn't have to be forever. if you come out as a specific label you don't have to keep it forever. if you change your mind to something new, you don't have to keep that forever, either. we are ever-changing beings and it is okay to change your mind, and it is okay to have complicated feelings, and it is okay to be unsure about all of these things, too.

[cagedcricket]

my experience of this situation, as a nonpassing transfemme who, cannot, in fact, avoid transmisogyny no matter how much anyone malds over it:

[themarkofoxin]

so i may have brought my DSLR to the bath bookshop thing

[cricketsintheaudience]

Okay, okay, so, hear me out... I have the greatest drawing idea ever... Clark and Bruce doing each other's nails.

okay so this is MANY months late!!! but I really liked this ask and I really appreciate your suggestion, sorry it took so long to get around to!