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them!!!

Say cheese!!!

Drawing the whole damn squad was quite some work but I've done it. These are for MCM London specifically...getting them printed as little faux polaroid pics :3c

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Come on, lucky potato, work your magic

Not on the US political stuff, that’s a lot to ask of a potato

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If you're trans and you don't have a passport, get one. right now. not in a month, not in a week, get started on it today.

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The horrors persist, but so do we.

the first thing to understand is you absolutely CANNOT kill yourself about this. that is what these fascists want. it's convenient for them if the opposition self-exterminates. stay alive and fight. it's harder but if everyone gives up then we are truly done for. we need you and we need each other.

this is horrifying, but it is survivable. the human spirit is to adapt and to work together and that's exactly what we'll do to turn this around. it's going to be okay. if not now, then in the future after we make it so.

we can do this.

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Hi 👋, My name is Mohammad, and I’m reaching out in a moment of desperate need. I’m a father of three young children living in Gaza, and we are caught in the midst of a catastrophic war. Our home is no longer a safe haven, and the future here seems increasingly uncertain. 💔

I’ve launched a fundraising campaign with the goal of raising $40,000 to relocate my family to a safer place where my children can grow up in peace and have a chance at a brighter future.

Unfortunately, my previous fundraising efforts were abruptly halted when my account was terminated without explanation. However, I remain determined to keep fighting for my family’s safety and well-being. 🫶

If you could take a moment to read our story, consider donating, or simply share our campaign with others, it would make an incredible difference. Every act of kindness, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to safety and a new beginning. 🙏

Thank you for your time, compassion, and support. ❤️‍🩹

https://gofund.me/fd1faea2 🔗

I’m sorry for what you’re going through. I don’t entirely know how gofundme works so I’m signal boosting instead

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Cinderella marries the Prince, part ½

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Eyo??

Some witches skating

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I don't want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don't want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don't want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.

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there is no greater feeling in life than when a friendship evolution pokemon surrendered to your shelter rests its head on you for a nap

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I had an interesting night last night

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This is probably a very silly question but how do you know which fan works are 'worth' saving, for lack of a better word? Like, I imagine ones that touch on real world topics or at least have a modicum of plot to them are probably better for history than whatever random anime pwp I'm reading 😅

The answer is yes.

Yes, they are worth saving.

Yes, all of them.

YES, INCLUDING YOUR RANDOM ANIME PWP.

Look, let me explain to you in real actual historical terms exactly why that stuff is important. I learned this when I was doing a rewrite of Lysistrata for my Directing class in college.

There’s a bit in the first act, first scene, where Lysistrata is convincing the women of Greece to pledge they won’t have sex until the war is over, where she says “we won’t act like the lioness on the cheese grater.” I looked through six different translations, aka “all the translations I could find,” and every single one used that phrase: “the lioness on the cheese grater.” Now some of these were very old, stuffy, let’s-pretend-this-isn’t-an-absurdist-comedy-about-anything-as-dirty-as-sex-after-all-it’s-Greek-and-thus-must-be-dignified kind of translations, but one of them had specifically been written to be as over-the-top shockingly vulgar as possible, and it still included that phrase. I was expecting it to be modified to whatever the modern name of that position was, but nope–still “we won’t fuck like whores and assume the position of the lioness on the cheese grater.”

And thus began an undignified six hours of me reading very dry academic papers and clicking all kinds of shady links trying to answer the question: what the fuck was the lioness on a cheese grater?

At the end of six hours I said “fuck it” and changed it to doggy style.

Because the answer is: we only know the phrase from the play and from a “menu of services” in a brothel. Ancient cheese graters looked more or less like modern ones, so there wasn’t really room for decorations of lions. We have no idea what it was. It was apparently in-demand enough to be worth a very pretty penny (or, er. A very pretty drachma, as it were), but no records outside the play and that single menu exist. There��s even the possibility it was put on the menu as a joke in reference to the play, and that it means nothing at all.

So: am I saying your random anime PWP could theoretically someday be the only remaining record of the word “bishounen” being used in Latinized form?

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Far enough into the future that most of our records have been lost, when the world looks unimaginably different, your random-ass porn could be something historians use to say “hm. The fact that these letters made these sounds, and these kanji made these sounds, and the word here is being used in a similar way to how it’s used when written in kanji…we’re pretty sure this is evidence there was literary communication between English-speaking countries and Japan.”

Or, put another way: nobody’s ever gonna forget covid. But will they remember that slender young men with shaggy hair were considered desirable in the 2010s? That is something that will be of interest to some future historian. I assure you, people have been handwringing over the goddamn lioness on the cheese grater for over two thousand fucking years. Yes, there is a place in history for your smut.

And I will leave you with this: stripped of all pretension and the mystique granted to it by virtue of being old as balls, Lysistrata is a play whose plot is thus: “fuck this war! We, the women of Greece, are going to make ourselves as hot as fucking possible while also closing our thighs for business until the men agree to put down their weapons and stop fighting! Jesus, they won’t even send us dildos because they ‘need wood and leather for armor’–fuck that shit, seize the treasury and whip out the chastity belts, girls!” And then the entire second act is men running around wearing giant-ass fake penises, we’re talking Ron Jeremy would blush in shame here fake penises, going “let us fuck you! Please, please, pleaaaaaaase let us fuck you!” and finally agreeing to end the war so they can fuck. That’s it, that’s the play. I mean, it is wildly funny. But it’s very thin on the ground in terms of plot (and frankly has a gigantic plot hole in the form of “you’re really going to say none of these guys just said ‘fuck you’ and started boffing each other?”), and it was not written to be intellectual. It was for the Bacchanalia. It was written for a bunch of super-drunk, super-rowdy, probably-illiterate partiers who would have been walking in and out of the arena. Hardly highbrow entertainment, in other words.

…but what a loss to the world, wouldn’t it be, if all copies of it had been forever lost?

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Children!

I was recently struck with a VERY good idea

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this post is beautiful

baldur's gate 3 wyll ravengard grand duke coronation tumblr simulator

🩸 bloodlover

he said WHAT about me

🦴 jonfromshop

i love <3 that we are livign in this day and age of baldurian politics. this is fucking awesome

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🪼 slenderweaver

TWENTY. FOUR.

#AND WHAT WAS I DOING AT TWENTY FOUR. FUCKALL!!!!!

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🪡 tailormadewares Follow

now why is the coronation happening in the middle of the night. some of us have jobs!

🐦‍⬛ ulderravengard Follow

the new duke consort is kind of like an evil stepmother but for the city

🦴 jonfromshop

AREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO BE READING OUT THE GREAT LAWS RIGHT NOW LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO

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🌊 tavalina

very extremely proud of one of my best friends in the whole world wyll ravengard. can't make it to the coronation because of the whole bein g stuck in hell with my wife thing can a sweet mutual please. keep me updated.

🐺 simfolicity Follow

duke consort astarion lastname has clearly micromanaged the whole thing and ulder ravengard and him might be trying to kill each other during the ceremony. wyll is just happy to be there i think

🌊 tavalina

oh okay so business as usual

🏹 highharper

business as usual

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💋 bladethatthang

why is NO ONE talking about the geopolitical ramifications of the future grand duke being engaged to marry a CLEARLY evil looking mean cunt of an elf. not to MENTION the problematic age gap.

🩸 bloodlover

mad because he's fucking me and not you????????

💋 bladethatthang

i genuinely wish we all had died with the elder brain

🪡 tailormadewares Follow

HERITAGE POST

#bringing this back for coronation day

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🪼 slenderweaver

i;m sorry. wyll ravengard is TWENTY FOUR YEARS OLD? HE SHOULD'VE BEEN AT THE ELFSONG

🛎️ i-live-in-the-dumbwaiter

quite famously he was at the elfsong. like i understand where you're coming from but that was a whole thing. he was very polite about ordering food at 3 in the morrow in the sense that he didn't. do that.

��� slenderweaver

oh so now we are fucking doing elfsong pedantics about the TWENTY FOUR YEAR OLD RUNNING OUR CITY.

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this is so fucking stupid i WANTED to do a coup a mutiny an overthrowing even today during the coronation but no one wants to fucking do revolution anymore. you say can we PLEASE try and kill the new grand duke for trade opportunities and freedom of will. and then they will say well why would i want to do that. wyll ravengard is soooooooooo handsome and sweet and nice. trying to kill him would be RUDE. WE USED TO BE A FUCKING CITY.

🩸 bloodlover

bunk 42, flaming fist barracks, basilisk gate

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AYO?????

🔥 florricking Follow

open the door

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✨ princessofhousenightstar

do your required reading you little wretches and understand that i am here fundamentally to talk about wyll where he can't see it. i love the man but sometimes i like to keep things to myself. anyways doesn't he look sooooooo dashing in his coronation outfittttttttt 🥰 i made ittttttt

🪼 slenderweaver

does anyone remember when this was an embroidery blog

🏹 highharper

you are a strange strange little man astarion

#HOW has he not found this blog yet is the question i think

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🩸 bloodlover

i want ulder ravengard dead

🗡️ bladeoffrontiers

:(

🩸 bloodlover

i want ulder ravengard mildly inconvenienced

🐦‍⬛ ulderravengard Follow

we are literally tumblr mutuals. for your evil and nefarious purposes no doubt.

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we're all going to fucking die

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wh

the grand duke isn't an option because he always sweeps.

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Don’t ask me why the older reblogs on this look so weird

The one currently stuck in my head is I Won’t Back Down by Tom Petty

Tagging @chineseviking @jenjenrose-artist @systlin

sayuutoria:

slipery-bastard:

vocaloid-enthusiast:

i-like-vocaloid-a-normal-amount:

ace-girlboy:

random-potato-mil:

theraccoonsinyourbackyard:

totallytesco:

bingle-official:

shakespeare-official-reblogs:

kitaab-korner:

anxious-alyssia:

strange-scottish-guy:

kutie106:

theronanlynchshow:

what-in-the-dickens:

ajearthlinggg:

2econd2ight2yd:

autocat5876:

flurry-bace:

flapajacker:

cannap1ss:

m0thlegs:

necesitotequila:

existingtm:

kijosakka:

jordanraye47:

glibble-glonker:

art3misg33k:

jock4lifealsoalthea:

artic-star:

deimosbreakfrost:

c4ndyl0l:

anonymousegeek:

sonicphobia0601:

battersweet:

sleeping-arsonist:

vvanillavveins:

raccoons-under-a-trenchcoat:

silly-lil-scribbles:

candorverity:

prettiest-ghoul-at-the-party:

godblessthisfuckingfandom:

justaneurodivergentwithissues:

to4st3er:

oursaviorkellinquinn-deactivate:

ATTENTION

If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

yay :3

feel better by penelope scott

@bittofeverything @justaneurodivergentwithissues @slay-toes

Thanks for the tag :)

miracle worker - Forrest Frank

@godblessthisfuckingfandom @reyna4ever

@ih8thewww

heyyyyyyyyyyyy

Freaks - Surf Curse

@lillianlilie @icechippies @prettiest-ghoul-at-the-party

Hihiii

I’m stuck with “I Don’t Have A Name For It by Steam Powered Giraffe” rn

Tags: @candorverity @temporarystay @ebgraham08 @ohnononos @screwingoldmen

Uuuuuuh

C'est la Vie by Young Gravy

I don’t usually like bad fuckboy music, but it’s there and I can’t get rid of it

@silly-lil-scribbles @ohnononos @chaotic-evil42168 @marylily-my-beloved

2econd 2ight 2eer by will wood cuz im making an animatic with it

@geewaysgreendayhoodie @chouthechaoticraccoon @ngalu @indelible-waltz @raccoons-under-a-trenchcoat @secretlyafiveheadeddragon @thesaltyblobfish /nf

California dreamin’ by the mamas & papas because I just started making a new playlist today

@vvanillavveins @robyn-i-guess @bumdaspooderman @anyone /nf

Thanks for the tag!

Uhhh-

Not sure why, but I’ve had Rivolta Silenziosa by Humanwine and Villainous Thing by Shayfer James looping one after another in my head for like 3 days straight now, lmfao

Tagging @humanteethmarksonhumanbone @localsoulsalesman @kingskelly123 @juyuu @field-cryptobotanist @skyeoak @bat-luun @i-love-hyacinths @mossy-stormcloud @buried-in-the-archives @oxthemoron @critterofthenight @sleeping-arsonist @real-fragments @cecilsrandomeverything

thanks for the tag!!

right now it’s “six” by sleeping at last… that’s the one for my enneagram and i love that song sm <3

tagging @i-love-hyacinths @field-cryptobotanist @skyeoak @battersweet @space—girl @iris-echos @bloodied-metal-pipe @soph-the-podcast-nerd @bee-the-aa-fan + anyone else who wants to!!

Ty for the tag!!!(⁠ﾉ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠*⁠.⁠✧

“Bee My Honey”, the Honey B. Lovely’s theme from Final Fantasy XİV

@whosralf @sunny-tano19 @megamanzero5098 @eeveestarstudios-blog @piss-pumpkin @wildwolf-fandoms @greenghostreal and any other fella who come across

Oh man. It’s either “Mad” by TX2 or “A Million Gruesome Ways to Die” by Black Gryph0n. Yes. It’s still stuck in my head a year later.

the song with 5 names by will wood amd the tapeworms

@help-me-this-sucks @c4ndyl0l @lunasilverpelt @askhenrymorris

It’s either Rich boy by Millionaires or Mesmerizer by Hatsune Miku-,,,,,,,,

@rachelcommitscrimes @justamortalbeing @woobab @deimosbreakfrost

Just like you by falling in reverse

Me fr🤪🤪

@littlegoblininyourshoe @saccgiriangel @artic-star @the-passer-outer @lung-worm2023 @frontallobotomy03 @shark-watermelon

I want be a puppy and I want to get boned by 4lung & HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T by Fall Out Boy

😢😢😢

@alejandrosballcancer @jock4lifealsoalthea @plushii-gutz

Uhm probably ‘I’m an angel with a shotgun’ from The-cab!

Although days pass and it will soon change LOL

@brookiidookiii @starstriix @bhnsby @madohomuisgay123 @screw-you-lightning @sugerpeachy @lindsayluvrrrr @art3misg33k

Ahhhh Guilty Pleasure by Chappell Roan rn prolly :>

It’s too damn catchy lol

@butter-toes04 @veiwryn @glowingtears @glibble-glonker @froznwater @se3s1de @kohakutouwoah @criminalcinnamon @therealopaartist @t4t-hantunia @tophats-tea @melancholy-cowboy Only if u want!!

ooooooohhhh probably Sedona by Sir Chloe!! Basically every Sir Chloe song atp 😭😭

@criminalcinnamon @jaylaraye47

SARAH BY ALEX G

@cuppiidd @kijosakka

new religion by specimen OR goodbye my danish sweetheart by mitski

@cloudyskiiees @perpetualexistence @existingtm or open tag :3

“Love Potions” by BJ Lips and princess paparazzi

no pressure tags - @moosemonstrous @cicada-candy @sonata-stigmata @necesitotequila @mushroom-omnomnom [whoever got a brain worm and happen to see this]

Thanks for the tag! 😁

“Strangelove” by Depeche Mode

@albicocca011 @m0thlegs @banana-vatore @greytern @lovebugdrabbles

(No pressure at all! 💕)

AAA OMG TYSM FOR TAGGING <33

gonna be real. I’ve had let down by Radiohead stuck in my head these past few days. I think thom yorke is haunting me💀

@reallyhumongousgarden @kokkik @cannap1ss

(didn’t know who to tag,,😭don’t feel pressured to respond🫶‼️)

Thank u sm for the tag !! ^_^

When I am Queen by Jack Off Jill

@flapajacker ummm @ anyone who wants to idk who else to tag

Omg Ty for the tag <3

“Bad Girls” by MIA

@flurry-bace (I have other moots but figured you’d like this)

you were right :] Non-Stop from Hamilton

@siennabanana @eggsbenedictinurmom @autocat5876 no-pressure tag attack!!!

red river valley because i just got out of band 😢😢

@feligayzed @ratboyinastarrycoat @2econd2ight2yd @400birds @orionthecritter TAG BOMB!!! no pressure tho :3

teenage girl by cherry glazerr

@ajearthlinggg @aplaceinhell @booklover-333 + anyone else ^_^

wet by dazey and the scouts and roundabout by yes (they fuzed together in my brain somehow) @thatextraterrestrial @what-in-the-dickens @6arely-living @not-a-boot

thats really real of u broski +ty for the @ !!!!

i got wild in the streets by the circle jerks ahdnsbcnsbfnfndk

@cr33p-a-z01d @notlikeotherwarlocks @theronanlynchshow

paint it black bc it’s our band closer and i just got home from a football game! very sleepy :)

@roadkill111 @lady-hibiscus @pepper-m00n @kutie106 @k-is-for-potassium @maturefruitboy

@emilem-forevermore @asters-tempo @monarchofthequeerpotatoes

Could’ve been you by Lyn lapid, and spooky Mormon hell dream. It keeps alternating for some reason it’s rlly weird

@musical-dash-trash @forestgromlin @paloma-ascends-into-hellfire @chickencentaur

@strange-scottish-guy @iloveyapping

Thanks for the tag :)

Soft universe by AURORA

@quiclycasual @totally-not-a-commie @anxious-alyssia @fruitytea454 and anyone else who wants to :)

Hiiiii

Dance alone by Preston Pablo :3

@four-leafed-queer-gal @13personalities @half-shadowgalra @goodbye432

Joining because I think it said anyone can join!

Disco by Surf Curse

@shakespeare-official-account (don’t really have any other ppl to tag lol) and anyone else who sees this!

:))

bye bye bye by nsync, @bingle-official @yes-im-youtube-kids @yahooo-official @bees-official

Whatsername by GreenDay

@walmart-the-official @bear-l0ver @meatierbunger

GREEN DAY METITIONED

i wasnt tagged but

car lights - james marriott

no pressure tags @theraccoonsinyourbackyard @the-real-gmail @gb-tesco-official-new @coquette-baguette

HIIII

legendary from epic!

@frankie–the–fox @random-potato-mil @mintdragonnerd @lightbulbsarefun @introverted-kittycat @hallspreta @aroacemagicstar @wolfsummoner @hoarder-of-rats

(ofc none of you are actually obligated to rb!)

What a coincidence:

Ruthlessness from epic!

@the-trash-eating-llama @tar-thelien @eclipsed-raven @witheredsnow @braingoburr @ace-girlboy

Tokyo Ghetto by Eve

@thespianinthebackcorner @bubblingacid @acidicaurora @i-like-vocaloid-a-normal-amount @sea-dwelling-wizard

yay :D

faineant girl by weevildoing

@glitterypopcorn @starry-voidss @beanthebugboi @vocaloid-enthusiast

Oo ty for the tag!!

Ghost City Tokyo by Ayase, but specifically an English cover by Rachie :3

@slipery-bastard @jerryfromthenissan @autom8d-sauce uhh and anyone else ^.^

Ooo alr :D

Currently its Oh Klahoma by Jack Stauber

@suicideenthusiast @silly-zai + anyone else ^^

inexplicable - the corespondents

and there’s a second song playing aswell but i cant put a name to it

@aredeemantagonist @smallpieceofcheese @cantchooseafav @thund3randrain 🥺/nf

mind electric by miracle musical including that one part from demo 4

@aredeemantagonist @i-eat-bugs-and-dirt @thund3randrain @cantchooseafav

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ppl are so annoying “you can’t paint ur bedroom pink you’re an adult” i did not spend my entire life waiting to grow up and control my life to paint my bedroom beige

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Today’s weirdo add/emotional moment

Visited my parents for dinner, was nice. I brought some stuff I usually keep in a jacket pocket to fidget with—sea turtle charm from my ex-boyfriend, a wooden rook I found at work, part of a cross pendant I also found at work—and had them in my pants pocket all evening

Come the end of the night I’m talking to mom in the parking lot, fidgeting and I realize, I can’t feel the sea turtle anymore

This is a problem bc I probably dropped it in the leaves, and while the green shell might stand out the tarnished bottom of the turtle won’t

So mom and I spent like five minutes looking for it and I’m still kind of upset

I like that turtle charm. Both cause it’s from the ex who I still kinda like and bc it’s just pretty

If this is the universe telling me to let go it could’ve picked a less stress-causing way to do that