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Those mods that replace female characters with male characters in games but keep the female animations really highlight how fucking insane and ridiculous the animations for women in video games usually are

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not to get political but im begging you guys to stop coming to hawaii. in maui theyre asking to put a ‘pause’ on flights bc we literally do not have enough room or staff to service you. the roads are so full that its causing a major backup when ppl need to get to work.

on top of this, i heard that by September? theyre expecting to get rid of the mask rule (if 70% of ppl are vaccinated/all goes well) but ill be honest w/ you, i know many locals arent getting the vaccine and i know plenty of tourist arent gonna take the necessary precautions.

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UH FUCK I FORGOT ABOUT MY TUMBLR AGAIN IM SORRY please take 1 (one) Maeve as an apology

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Sorry for the triple post OTL, Instagram hates me IT’S FINALLY TIME! I’ve been working on a few things I’m very excited to show you guys, and this is the first thing that’s officially in production! I wanted to start with something relatively easy with some screen print to test out my manu’s range, and they nailed it! The first pic is actually the manu’s art, and I’m so impressed with how close it was to my art! Expect updates for my shop opening, backing cards, and packaging in the coming weeks~ Also let me know; are you as excited as I am for this pin? And if I made a shiny variant (possibly with a different flavor cone 🍦 to match), would you be interested? Thank you all for your support! 💖💖💖 #pin #pinstagram #pinsofinstagram #pinmaker #mypins #pokepins #pokemon #pokemonpin #goomy #pinmaker https://www.instagram.com/p/CDUScsPFzK-/?igshid=1md6mt48tvo6

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Sorry for the double post, I missed something lmao IT’S FINALLY TIME! I’ve been working on a few things I’m very excited to show you guys, and this is the first thing that’s officially in production! I wanted to start with something relatively easy with some screen print to test out my manu’s range, and they nailed it! The first pic is actually the manu’s art, and I’m so impressed with how close it was to my art! Expect updates for my shop opening, backing cards, and packaging in the coming weeks~ Also let me know; are you as excited as I am for this pin? And if I made a shiny variant (possibly with a different flavor cone 🍦 to match), would you be interested? Thank you all for your support! 💖💖💖 #pin #pinstagram #pinsofinstagram #pinmaker #mypins #pokepins #pokemon #pokemonpin #goomy #pinmaker https://www.instagram.com/p/CDUSSQll3Ju/?igshid=pwmj9vfizuis

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IT’S FINALLY TIME! I’ve been working on a few things I’m very excited to show you guys, and this is the first thing that’s officially in production! I wanted to start with something relatively easy with some screen print to test out my manu’s range, and they nailed it! The first pic is actually the manu’s art, and I’m so impressed with how close it was to my art! Expect updates for my shop opening, backing cards, and packaging in the coming weeks~ Also let me know; are you as excited as I am for this pin? And if I made a shiny variant (possibly with a different flavor cone 🍦 to match), would you be interested? Thank you all for your support! 💖💖💖 #pin #pinstagram #pinsofinstagram #pinmaker #mypins #pokepins #pokemon #pokemonpin #goomy #pinmaker https://www.instagram.com/p/CDUR2twFTY9/?igshid=1q7almyf72o46

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i just spent 45 minutes making a stupid flyer in word's free version but now you can also make flyers that looks like you used the paid version, with shit like backgrounds and borders with my half assed tutorial: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1N_l4WuAQvJyN65_hNsrDDHvEJAkL4ZpCwwcl-Tk6Nz0/edit?usp=sharing Here's what I made! Yeah it take like 5 minutes in other programs but if it NEEDS to be a word doc you can do it without all of the hassle I went through, and without spending $139.99 for the paid version of word!

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"Hey there, bud. I'm pretty new to the Isle, but after meeting you, I think I'm gonna like it here. Would you like to be my guide?"

Mewn is invited to the Isle of Armor by her aunt Melony for the summer, but before even stepping off the train platform, Mewn catches the eye of a slightly familiar Pokemon... After a battle, Mewn is enamoured with this Slowbro. She never thought much of them before... in fact, the only time she ran into them was when she was restocking her Slowpoke tails and Slowking gems. But Mewn's really vibing with the Slowbro's chill attitude, so why not invite him to dinner with the family?

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If you’ve been posting in favor of BLM for the past couple of weeks, but intend to play Pokemon Unite despite knowing that it is being designed and published by Tencent, you are the definition of a hypocrite. 

Tencent built the Sesame Credit app that is preparing to become mandatory across mainland China. To briefly define what it is, it’s a program that influences your real-world financial credit score based on your social media interactions. Like and share acceptable propaganda, your credit score will increase. Like or share something the government doesn’t like, your credit score decreases. If you’re even so much as friends with someone who likes or shares something the government dislikes, it affects your score too. Thereby limiting who people are willing to associate with, and what they’re willing to learn. 

It also affects citizens based on individual purchases. If you buy something like video games, or non-approved books, or anything that’s not a “necessity”, this can lower your credit score as well, since the app is targeted to flag you as a “non-ideal citizen���. (Kind of ironic then that they program video games too, with micro-transactions, but I guess a lot of companies will have double standards for profit these days). 

Tencent is also the company that encouraged Blizzard to suppress players from speaking out about freeing Hong Kong. A revolution that is still ongoing, where Hong Kong citizens are fighting to secure their democratic freedom, and where protesters are being tortured or even executed. 

While this is going on, also keep in mind that there are other protests going on, because the mainland government in northwest China is rounding up and keeping approximately 1.8 Uyghur Muslims in re-education (concentration) camps, so that they may gain access to more energy resources and trading routes. 

Tencent is one of the main companies behind keeping atrocities like this silenced. 

PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT POKEMON UNITE. PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT TENCENT.

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What have the protests accomplished?

5/26 4 officers fired for murdering George Floyd 5/27 Charges dropped for Kenneth Walker (Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, who police accused of killing her) 5/28 University of Minnesota cancels contract with police 5/28 3rd precinct police station neutralized by protesters 5/28 Minneapolis transit union refuses to bring police officers to protests or transport arrested protesters 5/29 Activists commandeer Minneapolis hotel to provide shelter to homeless 5/29 Former officer Chauvin arrested and charged with murder 5/29 Louisville Mayor suspends “no-knock” warrants 5/30 US Embassies across Africa condemn police murder of George Floyd 5/30 Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison takes over prosecution of the murdering officer 5/30 Transport Workers Union refuses to help NYPD transport arrests protesters 5/30 Maryland lawmakers forming work group on police reform, accountability 5/31 2 abusive officers fired for pulling a couple out of their car and tasing them - Atlanta, GA 6/1 Minneapolis public schools end contract with police 6/1 Confederate monument removed after being toppled by protesters - Birmingham, AL 6/1 CA prosecutors launch campaign to stop DAs from accepting police union money 6/1 Tulsa Mayor agrees to not renew Live PD contract 6/1 Louisville police chief fired after shooting of David Mcatee 6/1 Congress begins bipartisan push to cut off police access to military gear 6/1 Atlanta announces plans to create a task force and public database to track police brutality in metro Atlanta area 6/2 Minneapolis AFL-CIO calls for resignation of police union president Bob Kroll, a vocal white supremest 6/2 Pittsburgh transit union announces refusal to transport police officers or arrest protesters 6/2 Racist ex-mayor Frank Rizzo statue removed in Philadelphia 6/2 6 abusive officers charged for violence against residents and protesters - Atlanta, GA 6/2 Civil rights investigation of Minneapolis Police Dept launched 6/2 San Francisco resolution to prevent law enforcement from hiring officers with history of misconduct 6/2 Survey indicates that 64% of those polled are sympathetic to protesters, 47% disapprove of police handling of the protests, and 54% think the burning down of the Minneapolis police precinct was fully or partially justified 6/2 Trenton NJ announces policing reforms 6/2 Minneapolis City Council members consider disbanding the police 6/2 Confederate statue removed from Alexandria, VA 6/3 Officer fired for tweets promoting violence against protesters - Denver, CO 6/3 Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art cut ties with the MPD 6/3 Chauvin charges upgraded to second degree murder, remaining 3 officers also charged and taken into custody 6/3 Richmond VA Mayor Stoney announces RPD reform measures: establish “Marcus” alert for folks experiencing mental health crises, establish independent Citizen Review Board, an ordinance to remove Confederate monuments, and implement racial equity study 6/3 County commissioners deny proposal for $23 million expansion of Fulton County jail 6/3 Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board unanimously votes to sever ties with MPD 6/3 Seattle withdraws request to end federal oversight/consent decree of police department 6/3 Breonna Taylor’s case reopened 6/3 Louisville police department (Breonna Taylor’s murderers) will now be under review from an outside agency, which will include review on training, bias-free policing and accountability 6/3 Colorado lawmakers introduce a police reform bill that includes body cam laws, repealing the “fleeing felon” statute, and banning chokeholds 6/3 Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announces plans to reduce funding to police department by $150M and instead invest in minority communities 6/4 Virginia governor announces plans to remove Robert E. Lee statue from Richmond 6/4 Portland schools superintendent discontinues presence of armed police officers in schools 6/4 MBTA (Metro Boston) board orders that buses wont transport police to protests, or protesters to police 6/4 King County Labor Federation issues ultimatum to police unions: admit to and address racism in Seattle PD, or be removed 6/5 City of Minneapolis bans all chokeholds by police 6/5 Racist ex-mayor Hubbard statue removed - Dearborn, MI 6/5 NFL condemns racism and admits it should have listened to players’ protests 6/5 California Governor Gavin Newsom calls for statewide use-of-force standard made along with community leaders and ban on carotid holds 6/5 2 Buffalo officers suspended within a day of pushing 75 year old protester to the ground, and lying about it 6/5 2 NYPD officers suspended after videos of violence to protesters 6/5 The US Marines bans display of the Confederate flag 6/5 Dallas adopts a “duty to intervene” rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in excessive use of force 6/5 Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax releases an 11-point action plan for immediate police reforms 6/6 Statue of Confederate general Williams Carter Wickham torn down - Richmond, VA 6/6 2 Buffalo officers charged with second-degree assault for shoving elderly man 6/6 San Francisco Mayor London Breed announces effort to defund police and redirect funds to Black community 6/7 Frank Rizzo mural removed, to be replaced with new artwork - Philadelphia, PA 6/7 Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband the police department, invest in proven community-led public safety 6/7 Protesters in Bristol topple statue of slave trader Edward Colston, throw it in the river 6/7 NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio vows for the first time to cut funding for NYPD, redirect to social services 6/7 A Virginia police officer faces charges after using a stun gun on a black man 6/8 NY State Assembly passes the Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act 6/8 Democrats in Congress unveil a bill to rein in bias and excessive force in policing 6/8 Black lawmakers block a legislative session in Pennsylvania to demand action on police reform 6/8 France bans police use of chokeholds 6/8 Seattle council members join calls to defund police department 6/8 Boston reevaluates how it funds police department 6/8 Honolulu Police Commission nominees voice support for more transparency, reforms 6/8 Rights groups and Floyd’s family call for a UN inquiry into American policing and help with systemic police reform

No, it’s not enough, but this is only the beginning. Keep fighting!!!

(This list comes from Mara Ahmed’s blog post and was compiled by Fahd Ahmed; I added sources and new entries. Please reblog with further additions.)

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si im researching bnha for a thing, and unfortunately, vigilantes has the most info on that. i dont like vigilantes.

you might say, why not opal? its kind of like a useless quirk izuku au.

well, you see, i dont like the rape in chapter 2. or, you know, the subplot where pop step's near rapists just become,, casual friends of the group. its not even a subplot. in like, chapter 10, they're just like, oh yeah, its shin and his crew, the people who tried to rape pop step and did high risk drugs at least once. yeah theyre our buds now. pop step, dont be so mean to these guys. theyre reformed criminals, its not like they tried to rape you or anyth- OH WAIT LOL YEAH BUT THEYRE COOL NOW SO CALM DOWN BITCH

SPEAKING OF WHCH, that BITCH IS LIKE 14 AND THEYRE PUSHING KOICHI/POP STEP EVEN THOUGH KOICHI IS IN COLLEGE WHAT THE FUCK

and THEN theres that one fan of pop steps who does trigger and GETS FUCKING HORNY FOR HER AND ENDS UP GROPING HER who looks like he's 10, but the eel kid who gropes pop step is 19 YEARS OLD, ITS IN THE SHIFUKU ADD ON IN THE VOLUME RELEASES

btw then theres the scene where shin mcrapey goes to a MIDDLE SCHOOL ASKING ABOUT SOME GIRL BC KNUCKLEDUSTER ASKED HIM TO and after he's asked to leave, a girl gets him into an alleyway where they tease A PANTY SHOT BEFORE FUCKING WASPS SWARM OUT OF HER CROTCH

and on a lesser but still what the fuck note, koichi's mom is revealed to have a quirk called fly swatter, where she can HIT HER SON FROM LIKE 3 FEET AWAY and to make it even better, apparently, koichi used to fly with his quirk, but it freaked his mom out so she HIT HIM UNTIL HE STOPPED FLYING. AS IF HE WAS A DOG WHO PEED EVERYWHERE THAT YOU HIT ON THE NOSE TO GET THEM TO LEARN THAT ITS BAD. THATS ONE ABUSIVE WAY TO INSTILL BEHAVIOR IN YOUR CHILD

ALSO, i love how when pop step is nearly raped its highly implied that no hero will come to save her. i thought there was an overflow of heroes??? especially since all might is still active? thats a repeated thing through both bnha and vigilantes, that there arent enough heroes, but i thought at one point they said the world was overflowing with heroes??? AND, AND TENSEI LIVES AROUND HERE, RIGHT??? SINCE HE AND KOICHI BECOME RUNNING BUDDIES?? WHERE THE FUCK IS TENSEI? DONT RUIN TENSEI'S REPUTATION LIKE THIS

WHO THE FUCK IS APPROVING THIS?? I KNOW VIGILANTES ISNT IN SHONEN JUMP, BUT BNHA IS AND THIS IS AN OFFICIAL SPIN OFF. ISNT SHONEN JUMP FOR LIKE, 6-14 YEAR OLDS? i mean, damn, as an american who grew up playing a lot of violent video games and is generally not phased by violence, a lot of shonen jump is pretty fucking intense, both in the stories and the art. HOWEVER, generally shonen jump doesnt have A LOT of abuse and rape? ofc theres the "sexy" girl that the authors jack off to (even thought they're usually 14), but not full on rape scenes.

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TODAYS ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN TAG IS:

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::me: oh boy 4am, time to try and draw manga style also me, 2 hours later: holy shit did that work?? holy fucking shit cora looks amazing in this??? all i did was study bnha for 20 minutes and i can make this apparently,,, does studying work?????? no that cant be i know i forgot fucking something but i dont feel like trying to figure out what it is

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You know what I wish was explored more? What Pink Diamond was supposed to be. Well, yeah, she's a Diamond, she was made to lead. But was she though? Let's take a look at Era 1. The Gempire was steadily growing, any rebellions were quickly squashed by a few troops, everything was prosperous. Why did the Diamonds need a third Diamond? The obvious answer is that their Gempire was growing too big for the three of them. But what about Era 2? At least 2 of the 3 Diamonds were phoning it in, and besides the "lack of resources" (we never find out what exactly those resources were, unless it was Pink's "essence"), Homeworld was just fine with 3 Diamonds. So what was the point of creating Pink? One theory, supplied by Pink's drawings in Familiar, is that a special comet or shooting star was required to make a new Diamond, and maybe the other Diamonds didn't want to miss this chance. And that probably is the canon answer. But fuck that I'm making my own theory. Let's look at Pink's design. Most people see her as some kind of jester or clown, as do I. Another idea I had is that she's an elf, like Santa's elves. Jesters and clowns exist to make people happy, but that seems more like Spinel's deal, right? She was made to make Pink happy. That's why I'm going with this elf thing. So, if Pink is also based off of Santa's elves, and elves are often known as Santa's little helpers. And that's what Pink was supposed to be. Pink wasn't supposed to be like Blue, Yellow, and White. She wasn't supposed to have planets and armies. She was supposed to help the other Diamonds whenever they got overwelmed. Oh, Yellow accidentally scheduled two meetings on the same day? Just have Pink step in for one. Blue doesn't have the time to have a ball with her court? Pink can do it. I think Pink may have been intended as the Diamond's assistant. Respected as a Diamond, unlike the Diamond's Pearls, but also in the Diamond's inner circle, so she always knew what to do. You may be asking, "Hey Opal, neat theory you just thought up on a whim, but canon doesn't have a ton of evidence to possibly back this." It kind of does though. We know that Gems often share some traits with their Diamonds. We don't see many "pink" Gems, but we do see the Rose Quartzes. And what do they do? Well in canon we're not 100% sure, but The Rose Quartz was a healer, and her shield was a defensive weapon. Both things that would help other Gems. And the Zoo Rose Quartzes were made to help humans. Amethyst also shares this trait, often checking in on Steven, abheit in a very 'chill' way. In "What's Your Problem?", Amethyst spends the episode trying to help Steven with his feelings about Rose/Pink. In "Guidance", Amethyst seems to have found her calling helping other Gems find their calling. But you might be saying, "Yeah, Pink and Rose loved helping people, but that's a personality trait that doesn't really have to do with why she was created." Ok yeah you might be right but this is my crack theory. And that's why we have Steven. Yes, Steven has always loved helping people, but isn't it interesting that in Future, when his Diamond side is starting to appear, he "needs to be needed"? That in "Guidance", he's desperate to help Gems? In "Graduation", when he wants to help Sadie and Lars with their relationship? In "Everything's Fine", where he's trying to help everyone? Why is Steven specifically latching onto that personality trait? I think it's because helping is in his gem's programming. And we can see that when Steven turns pink, it seems like his Gem is taking over. Not necessarily CYM pink Steven, and certainly not Pink or Rose, but the basic programming of the Pink Diamond gemstone. As we see with the other Diamonds, emotional outbursts seem rather common. They have trouble controlling their emotions in general, with Blue tearing up, Yellow being easy to anger, White losing her patience, and seemingly, Pink also being quick to anger, as seen in "Jungle Moon" and "Volleyball". The Diamonds are also made to be leaders, a trait Rose and Steven couldn't shake either. So if

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Starting this off with Mewn! She’s my Trainersona, and she’s probably as good at checking Instagram as I am lol https://www.instagram.com/p/B_jOV_ypYba/?igshid=lsk3e8ikeaq3