#Minimisation

[stil-lindigo]

Bisan is calling for another global strike!

I saw some posts just outlining Jan 21st, and wanted to clarify that Bisan has called for a full seven days of action.

What a global strike would look like is:

calling in sick to work

purchasing bare essentials ahead of the week so you can observe the general boycott of goods / buying as little as you genuinely can

putting in a concerted effort to elevate Palestinian voices and make it clear that this strike is in support of a permanent ceasefire!

For those who will have to purchase necessary goods during this time, please observe the brands that the BDS movement is asking us to boycott!

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Right now is also a good time to mention some better uses for your money during this week.

Available e-sims in Gaza are running low!!

Mirna El Helbawi and her team are working round the clock to continue to connect Palestinians as Israel does its best to cut them off from the rest of the world.

You can learn how to purchase and send e-sims here, and below you’ll find a list of what is currently needed (the areas in brackets indicate what region you should select to buy e-sims in).

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CareforGaza is an organisation that does verifiably good work, distributing supplies directly to Palestinian families.

They have a Gofundme set up at the moment, but because of Gofundme’s poor track record regarding refusing to transfer funds to Palestinians, I’d recommend continuing to donate directly to their PayPal here.

Good luck to all of you. Don't turn away from Palestine!

[infoscoop]

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[housederiva]

My Heart...

[weewoo911]

If Eddie does justify his cheating on Marisol “because Kim looks like Shannon” to another character I really need them to go

(Like- cheating on your girlfriend: you’re a shitty boyfriend. Cheating on your girlfriend because you’re obsessed with your dead wife and don’t even care that this other woman is her own person: you’re a shitty boyfriend and you probably need to see a doctor)

[bluegiragi]

okay, first of all, absolutely goddamn feral about you, your art, writing, ideas and aus i am chewing on the bars of my cage and foaming at the mouth and screeching incoherent and rolling around on the floor and- ough... anyway

i do have a very self indulgent question, particularly about Monster AU Ghost and Price, but also extending towards the rest of 141 with their involvement

at one point you mentioned that wraiths were rare, and ghost would likely feel pity towards another one

what would happen if they did come across another wraith? especially someone fairly fresh, maybe even young, younger than any of them. is there anything anyone could do to help them? would they help? price seems to know how to handle ghost well enough, and seems like hes been around since ghost's transformation, but how would ghost himself handle seeing someone else go through something like what he did? if he had to, what advice would he give them that he never got?

just been rotting in my brain 😭 ily gira and i hope youre taking care of yourself, thank you so much for the work you put in and share with us 🥺💕

this!! is!! such a good question, anon!!!! I think there's a lot of sides to that kind of situation, especially if it’s a younger person since I hc Ghost as having a massive soft spot for kids.

lots of writing under the cut!!! my braincells were FEASTING.

I think if it was just Ghost and the newly-born wraith, he'd try to mercy-kill it. The circumstances that lead to the creation of a wraith are truly harrowing, and while Simon understands the desire for revenge that burns at the core of every freshly made wraith, he also believes their plight is a kind of torture. In his mind, it would be kind to put one out of their misery. He wouldn't take any pleasure in it - I think overall, it would be a miserable affair for all parties involved.

If Price or any of the others were around, I think they’d try to convince him to take them under his wing so to speak. But while Ghost currently operates decently with his support system, he’s extremely lucky and should be considered the exception to the trend. Price was instrumental in his recovery - years of working under him solidified Price in his subconscious as an authority figure he could trust. When Ghost lost control, he could still rely on instinct - even with his mind fracturing, Price never changed. But not everyone has this kind of person immediately available to them, and it was crucial that Price got to him as soon as he did. What Ghost is now is not what a wraith commonly looks like. Price dragged him back from a brink.

New wraiths are sort of like rabid dogs, with no sense of self preservation. They’d approach every confrontation with the kind of frenzy you’d see in someone fighting for their life. They’d also be basically impossible to immobilize - you’ve seen how Simon goes wispy at times, imagine trying to handcuff a cloud of smoke. If it came down to a situation where any of the 141 were in danger, Ghost wouldn’t hold back. He’d put the other wraith down.

But if Ghost met another wraith who’d survived that first explosion of fury and managed to calm down, AND the 141 were with him, I think he’d try to help. They bring out the best in him.

[ashethewitch]

[vigilskeep]

intensely self indulgent but hear me out: au where spite is a hunger demon and lucanis does vampire stuff about it

[shayberri789]

Is... is it a hot take to remind people that, on top of being demisexual (ans probably demi or fully aromantic tbh...), neil is most likely bisexual, not gay?

Or are we all collectively forgetting that it was girls Mary beat him for looking at....

[athinginmotion]

my main adhd tip is to plan for your most chaotic future self rather than your most idealised organised future self. don’t work against the grain of your personality, work with it. if you are always running out the house in the morning and don’t have time to eat breakfast have a stash of some breakfast foods you can grab and go. if you struggle to get laundry done buy a couple of pairs of your favourite trousers or shirts so you always have a clean pair. if you never iron, buy clothes that don’t need ironing. if you are always forgetting your keys, get a few spares cut and keep each one in different bags/coat pockets. etcetera.

[metamatar]

sometimes I realize some people come from an entirely different moral universe because they genuinely believe bombing civilians is legitimate if there might be military infrastructure around there somewhere

[goddessofroyalty]

A quick collection of parenting culture-clashes that happened in Zaun Family between Jayvik and (mostly) Silco based on things that have happened in my family:

All of Silco's kids spent basically until they could walk being carried about by someone nearly constantly unless sleeping so when Viktor and Jayce intentionally put Naph on the ground (on a blanket) he is very confused and the sentence "What the fuck is floor time" is uttered when they try to explain that it's good developmentally for a baby

Silco has done the thing where while Naph is teething he's just dunked his finger in his whisky on the rocks and then run it along Naph's gums (a very common way to help with teething before modern numbing gels were created). Jayce does almost squeak out "did you just give my son alcohol?" at it

Naph when newborn sleeps in a cot with only a thin blanket where he is safe (from SIDS). All of Silco's kids when newborn slept in his and Vander's bed to keep them safe (from people breaking in).

Jayce and Viktor have one of those modern baby harnesses. Silco thinks it's dumb because as far as he's concerned all you need is long piece of fabric. Flip side of this is that Jayce and Viktor probably go for the baby swaddling onesie things while Silco can swaddle in that same piece of fabric.

Jayce and Viktor purchase/invent many things in the lead up to Naph's birth that Silco thinks are a waste of money/time. He ends up being right for about half of them.

[markscherz]

Prepare for the worst frog question you've ever received :(

Why do frogs pee when they make their escapes? They've soared high over my head, raining pee down on me (and in one case, my ice cream). They've leaped into the water at astonishing speeds, with the aid of projectile peeing. They've paced themselves and done one thousand short hops, peeing the entire way for emphasis.

But none of them have ever told me why... no matter how politely I've asked. Wise and powerful Tumblr frog guy, why do they do it?

Frogs are actually employed by the local firefighting service to help prevent wildfires. Every time they get scared, they release the flame retardant.

[oifaaa]

On the topic of reverse batkids / reverse robin aus I do find it really interesting how common it is to see people minimise the age gaps between the 4 main boy robins or just have the big age gap be between Tim and Jason considering the age gap in canon is mostly between Dick and Jason (8 years between them) and Tim and Damian (7 years between them)

[fandomsnrambles]

Nya but we spend the time to explore her character

Nya but we explore her rage towards social attitudes due to her gender

Nya but we talk about her suppressed rage in being overlooked as a woman (particularly in skybound) without bringing up Jay’s feelings

Nya but we give her the space to be angry at the way shes treated in early seasons

Nya but we try to understand her flaws without calling her a selfish bitch and other demeaning names

Nya but we stop mischaracterising her for her feelings of rage and stop saying she needs to chill

Nya but we give her the same energy as male characters

[eddiediazswife]

They don’t understand or care about Buck at all 🙄

I can’t wait for Tim to get rid of Tommy and their stans can come back to their senses.

One of the reasons I’m in love with buddie is because of their family dynamic, stop trying to minimise that just to make your ship seem more important.

[sapphicbuddies]

it is so very telling that a certain group of people on here think lfjr is somehow the best thing that happened to the show in terms of queer rep. so let me make this clear one more time: since season ONE we've had a canon married lesbian couple that consists of two black women one of which is a firefighter the other a fucking rocket scientist. we've had a black gay man who was married to athena come out as gay and working through that WITH athena, we've had a gay man at dispatch for years who is actually important to the plot outside of him being gay and we've had a man in his 30s discover he's been bisexual all this time (here you can also add that the entire audience has been seeing it for YEARS). so tell me again how the man who, from the moment he was back on screen wasn't anything more than a plot device, is somehow revolutionary queer rep. that man is a fucking joke and lfjr actively contributed to fooling you guys into believing he was anything more than that. he knew they wouldn't last and he still charged you 200$ to lie to your face about it.

so no. that man isn't revolutionary queer rep, he didn't put any thought worth mentioning into this ship and also while we're at it: lfjr is a terrible person who voted for trump and recently starred in weird qanon christian conservative movie. so do NOT even get me started on that.