#Here we go..

[eddiegettingshot]

kind of feel like s6 opening with High Hopes by panic at the disco really set the stage for the quality of the season.

[just-pauline]

[michax-forever]

Uncanny screenshot edits...

[dreamings-free]

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[pickypickypeak]

The seven dwarfs controversy is so funny actually because it clearly comes from people who:

1. don’t care about the original and are only here to complain

2. only read the headlines and started making assumptions (“it’s woke!!!”)

3. are racist sorry not sorry :/

First of all, the seven dwarfs from the Disney movie were never meant to be people with dwarfism, but rather fantasy dwarfs/dwarves, much like the lotr ones. So yeah, it’s not a big deal if it turns out they’re not all played by dwarf actors, they’re not “taking opportunities away” because it was never said it was a role specifically made for dwarf actors (were the dwarves in lotr and rop played by dwarf actors?).

Then you got people complaining for their heights as shown in the leaked pictures, which leads me to point 2. If people brought themselves to read the full articles before spreading hate on every social media because of a misleading headline, they would know that the actors in the pictures are only stunts and do NOT reflect the dwarfs’ final look in the film, which according to Disney will be heavily edited in CGI to resemble hobbits or trolls from Frozen. So my guess is, they’re going for a high fantasy route with them, which is not a bad thing at all since they were already fantasy in the original movie: think of the fairies and creatures from Maleficent. Maybe they will skip the “dwarf” word to avoid controversy, that sucks in my opinion since it was never meant to stereotype people with dwarfism, but I still really wanna see their final look before judging.

My main concern at this point is about their names, I really hope they keep all of them the same.

If you mad about their skin color that’s on you :))

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[cornpapers]

[angel-fruitcake]

[owllooker]

Wild Life, amiright?

[daisywords]

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

[oh-snapperss]

they'll fund a genocide and let their poor regions be destroyed. don't fucking forgive them for that.

my hometown is completely gone from what pictures i can find of it, i have not heard from my family (including aunts, uncles, parents, one sibling, and a grandparent), and the infrastructure in the mountain communities is wiped out. i cannot stress how catastrophic this is, or how difficult it will be for these communities to build back. i am angry, and scared, and heartbroken by everything that's happened.

and our government is spending it's money to fund a genocide.

free palestine, and don't be complicit. realize that this is not something happening that doesn't affect you--although it shouldn't take this to care about the deaths of thousands of people anyway.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[chiptrillino-art]

something stranger and more wonderful

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my art for @faux-fires (ao3 Link) fic "something stranger and more wonderful"

beta red by @ranilla-bean (ao3 Link) for this years @zukkabigbang2024 event. its truly a beautiful fic. Keeping you on your toes while reading. making you worry about sokka exposed to the whims of nature and zuko, all alone.

big thank you to reikah and rana for all the handholding during this project! And stoping me form overthinking details.

[pigswithwings]

above all else a trans woman is a person. above all else a trans women is a woman who goes to the same grocery store as you and buys fruits in the same grocery cart as you and goes home and eats her dinner the same as you. above all else a trans woman is a woman who dresses like you do and talks the same way you do. above all else a trans woman is a woman who wants to be cared about the same way you want to be cared about and a trans woman is a woman who makes friends the same way you make friends. above all else you should care about trans women because they are people. treat her as such.

[flmed]

‘ no, i find it endearing that you have a dream beside the artificial dream your parents have built for you, ‘

crossed arms are loosening into a welcoming invitation to speak further about her circumstance that forces her to deny her parents' generosity to protect @songb1rd –––––however, he is a mere messenger that carries the duty to thoroughly delivers the contract for her protection; a bargain cannot withstand, even if she denies it, with a story that telltale her strain or hopes . . . it doesn't matter to him, when the ink is still fresh on the document,

‘ but considering their story, i don't think you're out. even after the police questionings. a parasite did grow, &. perhaps have taken a control under guise, ‘

. . . SMALL STATER CALL, ✉️ .