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[interactyouth]

It's Intersex Awareness Week! Did you know it is also Asexual Awareness Week? There are individuals who belong to both groups, such as our own Youth Program Manager Apollo (yours truly) who created this art to celebrate both. Intersex people are born with variations in their sex traits or reproductive anatomy that do not fit traditional conceptions about male and female bodies. On the other hand, asexual people experience sexual attraction in a way that deviates from societal standards, such as not experiencing it at all or only under certain circumstances. Historically, these two communities share a similar fight for bodily autonomy against societal standards that dictate what we "should do" with our bodies. Both communities also often struggle to gain visibility of their perspectives on international, mainstream social media. So, during Intersex Awareness and Asexuality Awareness Week, let's put our hands together in solidarity for bodily autonomy and to be loud and proud!

[spirk]

got two new tattooes today, i'm already contemplating another one and i'm thinking of a line tattoo of the oz'hesta ofc making them spock and kirks hands. im super pumped to plan it out

[callmeklair]

happy birthday to me ✨

I'm so glad to meet you guys @its-irsaa-fyp @afra-blueraz @diabolik-art-blog @shuyui-nether and many others after entering Tumblr to meet with more people of this fandom here.

I'm so glad to meet you guys and have you here with me. 🥹🫶

and also thanks to Yui, my muse, my role model, my baby, my best girl, my girlfriend, my wife, my everything. I love you so much girl, your character inspires me so much. after going through all your routes, I started thinking from your viewpoint on situations and my brave woman you are awesome for being able to deal with all that yet standing up on your ground until the end.

please don't mind me, i decided to do this random appreciation post I met everyone this year because I'm really glad to meet you guys and to know you all. thank you so much for always supporting me 💞

ily all and will keep supporting you all ✨

[fnafyournotau]

did a drawing of Margaret the Boss of the pizzaplex in arcane style wahoo

[darlenedanforth]

HIII I was super busy all day today but I'll be back around tomorrow to participate in sleepover stuff !!! Pls keep it going another day I wanna join in so bad !! - 🐝

[dailyfryes]

Jack the Ripper DLC: a rant

Alright well, I always said I was going to write a rant about the Jack the Ripper DLC and how nonsensical it is. Since my boyfriend is playing it for the first time and I’m watching him play it... yeah well here’s my rant: 

I don’t even know how to begin this, there’s an endless amount of plot holes and I’ll probably forget a few things. 

Let’s just start with the beginning of the game, you play as Jack and literally murder a cop in plain view of the public. In fact Jack kills a lot of people in this game who aren’t just the canonical five. It’s absurd. Obviously I know it’s for a video game but it just seems too over the top, I feel like there would be a bigger outroar from the public and more newspaper articles. But anyway this is the smallest gripe for me.

I absolutely hate how this DLC has Jacob being too soft about Jack to kill him. You’re kidding me, right? Yes, I know Jacob has a soft spot for the disenfranchised, but this is his empire he has built in London all at risk. His position as a Master Assassin, and no doubt a Head Assassin at the London Headquarters, all at risk. His FAMILY at risk. As much as he might view Jack as a son, he would love his own son and wife (and perhaps other kids if he has others) far more than he would care for Jack. God, they don’t even mention his family (or Evie’s!!!! She’s even still referred to as Miss Frye???)! We know for a fact he has a son (at the very least) during this DLC as Lydia is born five years after. Since Jaocb becomes a grandfather at 46 he would’ve had a wife by the time he went to India with Evie, Henry and Jack - yet she’s not in the photo. (Let’s be real though: Ubisoft is crap at keeping up with timelines.) And, no, I do not believe it to be in his character to be unmarried or a man who sleeps around (it’s not in his character: he is very devotional, and it’s also pretty biphobic to characterise him as someone who just sleeps around). I would assume Jacob sent his family away from London, but no we don’t even get a mention of them, or Henry. AND even worse: the entire London Brotherhood just dips?????????????????? This makes me assume Jacob is the Head Assassin because why else would the disappear? Even so, since when were Assassins such cowards?? It’s literally one man. 

Jack having influence over London, that’s why the Assassins left. This makes no damn sense. It is insane to me the power that Jack has over people in this game. Even so, why would a strong Brotherhood just leave because of one guy and some gang members? These London Assassins are stupid! So, Jack kills the canonical five, which he and both we know aren’t actually prostitutes, they’re Assassins. And yet Jack and his lackeys have a vendetta against prostitutes? He’s working with Lady Owers? Why? Why the hell would she work with him (like yeah I know she does it because she doesn’t want him to kill her: but why is he even after her??? She’s not a bloody Assassin!), he’s supposed to be completely and utterly anonymous. Not just anonymous in the form of an alias, literally no one is supposed to know who this man is. How did he even approach her to work with him anyway? Why is he going after prostitutes when he only wants to kill and get revenge on Assassins? Jack the Ripper was a misogynist who targeted prostitutes because he hated women. He mutilated them because he hated women. This DLC Jack is just after a vendetta against Jacob and the Brotherhood, so while I understand why the Assassins used prostitution as a disguise, it makes no sense that Jack continues to go after regular prostitutes. The writers made it clear he wants revenge, only does Evie at one point hint at him perhaps being a misogynist (”Do you hurt women to prove you’re a man, Jack?”) - this just seems like a lazy throwaway line to try tie in with the fact the real Jack was a misogynist, but again, this is not why he [this DLC Jack] killed the canonical five. So, it makes so sense. Also, I’ve said this before but, Jacob has not had a thing with Nellie like some of you in this fandom believe. 

Influence over the Rooks in Whitechapel, this I guess could be more believable. I don’t know about y’all but by the time I finished the main game I was rich as hell from all the races and boat raids etc. And as a Master Assassin in London I imagine Jacob (and Evie) would’ve done quite well with themselves and would be able to afford to live in the richer areas of London (I’m thinking the Strand, personally). So, perhaps the Rooks from poorer areas like Whitechapel are feeling left behind, and perhaps could be swayed to go against Jacob. But then you get to the hulled out war ships. It’s littered in Rooks. There’s no way in hell Jack has all these Rooks and all the ones in Whitechapel/London City following him. Jack won’t even be paying them! You’re telling me not ONE of the Rooks on the hulled out ships thought, hey this is kind of messed up? No one out of the hundreds of Rooks said anything, ever? Also what even IS this hulled out war ship place about? This makes the LEAST amount of sense. So Jack, for sadistic reasons, is taking a lot of people prisoner, paying a hangman and other lackeys, to ferry out his prisoners (even the game doesn’t know why he chooses his prisoners asides from him being sick in the head), watch over them in the hulls, organise their murder and then dispose of the bodies? This is dozens upon dozens of people missing. Yet there’s no outcry in the newspapers. Nothing. Also, Evie quite literally lets some of the prisoners free, assuming they got out by boat before Jack got there, they would be telling everyone they were held prisoner by Jack (the game really doesn’t make it clear if they got out or not). Not only that but Evie just took a boat out there, does that mean anyone could just accidentally stumble across these ships? I assume if they did they’d die too: their families would report them missing. But the dumbest thing of all, Evie phones in to the London Police to let them know what is happening, so the police get sent to investigate. Jack then comes back and kills them all. So these policemen, dozens of them, are not going to return and the London Police will know about it. They will go to these ships again and see a massacre of prisoners and policemen, it’ll be big news. Nah, nothing about it is even brought up again. It’s the dumbest thing about this stupid DLC.

Also, Jack goes back to the Lambeth Asylum to get revenge and kill the nurse who abused him as a child, Evie literally says “Jack’s trail of death continues”. Again... how is this not news, how is this not one of the canonical murders? Oh, because it makes no sense. He kills so many non-Assassins, so many people beyond the canonical five, that it makes no sense there’s such an outcry about five women being murdered. It’s like the rest don’t matter. The thing is it’s hard to make a game about Jack the Ripper the way Ubisoft is trying to, there’s too much murder at every corner, but it’s expected in an AC game; it would be boring if you didn’t have anyone to fight. I would’ve preferred Jack to be some elusive target for the Assassins: something the Brotherhood hasn’t dealt with: normal people. Not an Assassin, nor a Templar. Even still, a Templar would’ve made more damn sense than Assassin. However, I feel like even I could write a better DLC with Jack being an Assassin that wasn’t as nonsensical as this. My boyfriend, who doesn’t like AC as much as me, even said this DLC made no sense plot-wise.  

Side note: I would love to see how livid Evie and Jacob are at the pathetic London Assassins that come crawling back from their hiding holes. They left their stronghold, one of the most powerful cities in Europe, they left the citizens behind. Ugh. Obviously not all of them leave as Mary Jane Kelley is murdered on the Fryes’ birthday, but how could the majority of them leave their brothers and sisters behind to be murdered or to fend for themselves? Also, Jack’s motive being that his mother died... the dying mother trope is so overdone: think of BvS or Civil War. Yawn. Oh and Frederick put his head on the line by not revealing who Jack was - like think about it: he was hounded and deemed a failure by everyone. It’s a huge and unrealistic ask of Evie, in reality he would’ve exposed Jack but hey, we love Freddy. Freddy is the best associate confirmed. 

Oh and there’s some people in this fandom who believe Jacob lived in Whitechapel?? (Again he’s probably rich, so, LOL!) He obviously wants to be right in the middle of it: to try catch Jack. This is clearly temporary lodgings, and also a means to stay away form his family to keep them safe if Jacob hadn’t already sent them away by that point. I’ve even seen some talk about the photos on the wall there, like the one of a bride, those photos are copy and pasted all over this game, they mean nothing. Evie literally has them in her train cart in the main game.

Right now that’s all I can think about: I’m sure I left other points out. But please feel free to send me an ask if you want to keep talking, I love talking anything and everything about Syndicate. 

If you’ve read this far, thank you :) and sorry if there’s typos

[joyfulsanctuary]

MERRY CHRISTMAS

🎉🎉🎉🎉 AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[probablythevaria]

Ive been inactive on Tumblr for some time and been following this blog for so long and I'm so happy it's still here 🥹 khr has brought back so many great memories to me. The characters mean a lot to me and the show got me through tough times and this is one of my favorite fandom blogs. You do such a great job. I hope your life is as good as khr made you feel

Thank you so much! ♥ Even though there's technically only two admins still around we both really appreciate anyone who supported our work ♥

It's kind of crazy because I made this blog when I was, like, 18 maybe? I was honestly just a little baby writer and I've hopefully improved quite a bit by now since I'm about to be 27 (oh yeah this blog is OLD)

But, yeah- my life's been okay! And I'm still around on tumblr and always wanting to talk khr if anyone wanted to follow my actual blog which is @fictionallyattractive . I'd love to see how any one of our supporters was doing after all these years ♥

[spelanceinplacesheshouldntbe]

spe!lance should not be in my coffee!

[imaginejamesandsirius]

Everyone welcome our newest member @starlitmusings! She wrote the latest fic we posted, check it out. She's new to prongsfoot, so be sure to make her feel welcome!

[interactyouth]

I want to join the interACT youth program so badly, when is that available?

Well, you're 100% allowed to join if you so desire! The youth program is simply a combination of our community spaces (Facebook and Discord) and our advocacy program (such as our yearly advocacy cohort). While our advocacy cohort is application and interview-based, the youth program spaces are accessible to intersex youth ages 13 to 29 after simply answering a demographics questionnaire! interACT is focused on empowering intersex youth to advocate for themselves and their communities--whether interpersonally or against systems, in-person or online, and potentially in solidarity with other advocacy movements--so that's the focus of several of the questions. As a 501(c)3 non-profit advocacy organization, we adhere to different guidelines in running our community spaces. However, if that's not to your preferences, our partners at InterConnect have been hosting all-ages intersex online support group meetings, conferences, and regional hangouts for 25 years that I would highly recommend!

If you're curious about some of interACT's recent accomplishments, we have a 2023 annual report (I'm eager for our 2024 report!) and our Instagram account is actively run by our lovely communications director! We recently hosted a health and wellness retreat in California earlier this month for 20 intersex youth, for instance. <3 This is our Discord invite, and the demographics survey link is also sent to newcomers automatically:

[twst-resources]

finally got the time to make an about page and a page for recommended blogs! :)

[callmeklair]

Hey dear.... sorry to ask this but when we can read new chapter 😭. I'm impatiently waiting for it. As Shu has a big role now.

dw, it's okay, you can ask me anything. I don't feel pressured or anything if you guys ask me about an update or anything. it's alright with me 😭

Right I was inactive this week because my maths test series was going on for almost the whole week so I was busy with it. but I have two surprises planned for you guys 🙊

so just wait until tomorrow (⁠◠⁠‿⁠・⁠)⁠—⁠☆

and yes, Shu's role will start getting bigger in the upcoming chapters. prepare yourselves for some shin vs. shu

[bitethebulletau]

[admin here. I found out yesterday that buds had quit like two weeks ago. Don’t worry though, I’m still gonna run this blog. I also have a fanfic for this au up on A03, it currently only has two chapters, but I am currently working on the third one rn, it will definitely take time though due to motivation. I just wanted to give you guys a little update.]

[askmadarauchiha]

Hello one more time.

I’m writing this to tsk everyone who’s been with me and liking my art of Madara sama.

I know it’s been awhile so I wanted to confirm here that I will not be continuing this ask blog.

Thank you so much for the support over the years this blog was active.

I’ve been spending the last few years adulting and I’m doing my best.

I hope all of you are doing well too.

I still do art (Insta: kurah_doujin , Pixiv: kurayamih , Twitter: kurayami_h) so if you like my work you can follow me on my new platforms. I’ve improved a lot! I wish to draw Madara again some day when I’m less busy.

Thank you once again for playing along with this ask blog!

Good bye!!

[jasonsnowwhitebrody]

Holy Shit-

I just realised.....today (April 15th for me) is my dad’s birthday.

Thats great, thats cool, except...

THAT MEANS MY BIRTHDAY IS TOMORROW (April 16th)

IM NOT READY FOR THIS