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✊🏾Black American Culture
#black girl moodboard#goddess energy#moodboards#aesthetic board#luxury aesthetic#my moodboard#black women#black girl aesthetic#black femininity#nsfq#black women in luxury#luxe life#black love#black men#black woman appreciation#90s aesthetic#y2k#black positivity#black parade#culture#black americans#black moodboard#style#natural hair#hair aesthetic
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Hey I just realized I don't think I know any American irl who doesn't have an immigrant ancestor within living memory and want to see if that's a me thing or just an average situation
#i know the 'further back' option also covers every native American but... it's different. GGGpa coming over from spain or smthn is#different than g^30pa coming across the bering strait land bridge you know?#like. dont be a pedant.#like i think the reason no one in my sorta life is not a recent addition to the country is bc im from an area thats like. mostly#recent immigrants. My family included.
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i was a (pre)teen hero once, but then i took some trauma to my psyche
#kim possible#danny phantom#danny fenton#my life as a teenage robot#jenny xj9#jenny wakeman#american dragon jake long#jake long#the life and times of juniper lee#juniper lee#rc9gn#randy cunningham 9th grade ninja#randy cunningham#secret saturdays#zak saturday#ben 10#ben tennyson#generator rex#rex salazar#HoM au#everyone has a dream to draw some cool crossovers with their fav characters of 2000s dont lie to me#been sitting on these doodles for like half a year....no idea what to call this xover but im having ideas now feck.
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ENG PLAYERS I BESEECH YOU
I have been informed that you guys are getting part 4 of episode 7 tomorrow, which means we are FINALLY going to get the official romanization of Revaan's name, somebody please tell me because I need to know what it is.
like, yes, it's probably just Revan/Levan, but look, I'm sitting here with my finger over the button of all these Laverne and Shirley jokes and just waiting for the opportunity to deploy them --
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 part 5 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 part 5 spoilers#(not me realizing that meleanor doesn't actually appear non-silhouetted until part 5 so uhhhhh. whoops.)#(i know a bunch of you read the spoiler-tagged stuff though so i'm putting my life in your hands)#revan would be the funniest one i think because it's just raven but with the vowels switched and i'd be over here going WHAT COULD IT MEAN#anyway i'm here to give the people what they crave and it's obviously references to 70s american sitcoms that spun off of happy days#mork and grimdy. i-is that anything.#the problem of course is now that i might have to actually come up with a bunch of laverne and shirley jokes#when i haven't...actually watched it in a million years#(my personal pool of media i consumed growing up is a good 60% made up of random things i found to watch at 3 am because of insomnia)#(this probably explains a lot about me) (the opinions about zorro adaptations anyway)#hold on let me marathon all eight seasons and -- wait i'm just now finding out there was also an animated series#in which they joined the army and their sergeant was a literal cartoon pig but also they went to space and fought giant gorillas?#but how does boo boo kitty factor into this
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one of the things that's the most fucking frustrating for me about arguing with climate change deniers is the sheer fucking scope of how much it matters. sweating in my father's car, thinking about how it's the "hottest summer so far," every summer. and there's this deep, roiling rage that comes over me, every time.
the stakes are wrong, is the thing. that's part of what makes it not an actual debate: the other side isn't coming to the table with anything to fucking lose.
like okay. i am obviously pro gun control. but there is a basic human part of me that can understand and empathize with someone who says, "i'm worried that would lead to the law-abiding citizens being punished while criminals now essentially have a superpower." i don't agree, but i can tell the stakes for them are also very high.
but let's say the science is wrong and i'm wrong and the visible reality is wrong and every climate disaster refugee is wrong. let's say you're right, humans aren't causing it or it's not happening or whatever else. let's just say that, for fun.
so we spend hundreds of millions of dollars making the earth cleaner, and then it turns out we didn't need to do that. oops! we cleaned the earth. our children grow up with skies full of more butterflies and bees. lawns are taken over with rich local biodiversity. we don't cry over our electric bills anymore. and, if you're staunchly capitalist and i need to speak ROI with you - we've created so many jobs in developing sectors and we have exciting new investment opportunities.
i am reminded of kodak, and how they did not make "the switch" to digital photography; how within 20 years kodak was no longer a household brand. do we, as a nation, feel comfortable watching as the world makes "the switch" while we ride the laurels of oil? this boggles me. i have heard so much propaganda about how america cannot "fall behind" other countries, but in this crucial sector - the one that could actually influence our own monopolies - suddenly we turn the other cheek. but maybe you're right! maybe it will collapse like just another silicone valley dream. but isn't that the crux of capitalism? that some economies will peter out eventually?
but let's say you're right, and i'm wrong, and we stopped fracking for no good reason. that they re-seed quarries. that we tear down unused corporate-owned buildings or at least repurpose them for communities. that we make an effort, and that effort doesn't really help. what happens then? what are the stakes. what have we lost, and what have we gained?
sometimes we take our cars through a car wash and then later, it rains. "oh," we laugh to ourselves. we gripe about it over coffee with our coworkers. what a shame! but we are also aware: the car is cleaner. is that what you are worried about? that you'll make the effort but things will resolve naturally? that it will just be "a waste"?
and what i'm right. what if we're already seeing people lose their houses and their lives. what if it is happening everywhere, not just in coastal towns or equatorial countries you don't care about. what if i'm right and you're wrong but you're yelling and rich and powerful. so we ignore all of the bellwethers and all of the indicators and all of the sirens. what if we say - well, if it happens, it's fate.
nevermind. you wouldn't even wear a mask, anyway. i know what happens when you see disaster. you think the disaster will flinch if you just shout louder. that you can toss enough lives into the storm for the storm to recognize your sacrifice and balk. you argue because it feels good to stand up against "the liberals" even when the situation should not be political. you are busy crying for jesus with a bullhorn while i am trying to usher people into a shelter. you've already locked the doors, even on the church.
the stakes are skewed. you think this is some intellectual "debate" to win, some funny banter. you fuel up your huge unmuddied truck and say suck it to every citizen of that shitbird state california. serves them right for voting blue!
and the rest of us are terrified of the entire fucking environment collapsing.
#spilled ink#writeblr#i hope it is clear here that i actually very much care about equatorial countries#and that's part of what makes me so angry bc im like. climate refugees exist.#they've existed for a while!!!#and the reply is almost always ''should have thought about that before living on an island"#like fuck dude. do you need to like how people vote before ur like#your entire house shouldn't burn down each summer????#so many of these people make it their life to mock california that they think it's FUNNY#and im like. girl you should be fucking trembling. TEXAS??? ARE YOU LISTENING??#this is one of those times that like. i need to stress how fucking stupid it would be#to let trump win. bc he could have “reached across the aisle.” covid could have been#a MASSIVE commercial success. he has such a huge and bigoted and brainwashed following.#literally just a PR campaign called COWBOY UP and it's pictures of cowboys in bandanas#trump reinvisioned as the lone ranger fighting for the american people against covid. EASY SELL#and instead. companies bought him. it became political. it was not ''oh shit this is 1 enemy let's all be human''#it was ''you deserve to die.''#climate change should be GLOBAL. it should be like ''yeah i hate u but. we do all live here''#i don't have to LIKE my group members to do well on a team project bc we are ALL getting graded.#is that simple enough of an under-explaination lol
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Hot to the Touch
(Sunset x Thea)
#mlp#sunset shimmer#twilight sparkle#twiset#my art#fanart#the grand galloping 20s#illustration#rarijack is my funny goofy ship your american drama “the fashionista falls for the farmgirl!”#but twiset is my pull at your heartstrings drama romance shit#at least for this au#what if thea was the only one who could calm sunset's rage#what if sunset knows she should hate thea for “replacing” her for being the witch she was supposed to be but she can't bring herself to#what if thea was the guiding star who saves sunset's soul and brought laughter and peace and love back into her jaded tired life#what if they loved each other more than they ever thought they could but it wasn't meant to last. sunset must leave and thea must stay.#what if i ran off a bridge
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Reachin' out for something to hold!
Looking for a love when the climate is cold!
#something something american girls#life is strange#lis#pricefield#chloe price#max claufield#my art#artists on tumblr#lis fanart#life is strange fanart
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dichotomous plants are so weird man. like they’re not even weird it’s the becoming the dichotomous that’s weird. i went to a talk once about a population of strawberries that were accidentally slowly becoming dichotomous and they didn’t even have sex chromosomes, like they had like a bunch of genes across a bunch of chromosomes that did a little bit of sex but not a lot and it added up to one whole sex kind of but not enough that they had all collectively decided to be one sex or the other, so there was still like, a sizable chunk of the population that was producing flowers of both sexes. like they were microdosing it. taking the sex genes for a spin in the strawberry patch
#the conclusion of the talk was like#what if plants are slowly become more dichotomous over time because it’s more advantageous?#and I was like. that would be interesting but I feel like they would have done it already if it was that good#sex genes are really only as good as the creature or life form you are I think#making the sex genes work for YOU#and for those wild strawberries in the American west. they were just being silly about it you know#and my assumption that having dedicated sex chromosomes that hold the majority but not all sex-related info. turns out that’s kinda weird
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save me dan howell and phil lester carrying a wasted anthony padilla back to his hotel room after he got lit on too many tequila sunrises... save me
#anthony padilla came into my life with dan anthony or a rat. to me is more dnp adjacent than any of their other american friends#anthony padilla#dan and phil
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john soap mactavish was punk as a teenager and you cannot convince me otherwise
he has had that fuckass mohawk since he was like fourteen and he 100 percent used to rock liberty spikes. everyone in his neighborhood probably hated him because he caused so much trouble.
his parents were so happy when he said he wanted to join the military because they thought it would straighten him out (behavior-wise, they knew he was a flaming bisexual from a very young age and couldn't care less) but NOPE like 2 years later they get a call from him like
"ma help ah punched some fookin dobber and locked 'im in his car 'cause he was sayin' dumb shite aboot me and now ah'm prob'ly gonna get kicked out, be prepared"
and later that same day got a text from johnny saying
"nevermind im staying, fuckin eejit's too much of a puss to admit he's a douche"
"sorry for my language ma"
and they just have to wonder how johnny has made it this far in life
#absolutely abhorrent portrayal of a scottish accent on my part sorry about that#look im american ive literally never met a scottish person in my life#call of duty#cod#cod mw2#john soap mactavish#soap cod#john mactavish#soap mw2
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Randy was accepted into the hom team:
✧author AU-@drawnfamiliarfaces I’ve been wanting to draw something with them for a long time, but I never got around to it, and when I saw this scene in Hazbin, I couldn’t help but want to edit it
#semisomnosres#crossover fanart#redraw#hom au#ben 10 ditto#kim possible#danny phantom#my life as a teenage robot#american dragon jake long#the life and times of juniper lee#rc9gn#secret saturdays#ben 10#generator rex
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some random HoMies arts ;3
#hom au#juniper lee#rex salazar#ben tennyson#randy cunningham#zak saturday#kim possible#jake long#danny fenton#jenny xj9#danny phantom#generator rex#the life and times of juniper lee#randy cunningham 9th grade ninja#ben 10#american dragon jake long#my life as a teenage robot#mlaatr#dp#genrex#rc9gn#adjl#i doodled most of these out during my break...because i have a group shot wips that i cant finish & i proscrastinated with smaller ones lol
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I think everyone needs to experience technology in a rural area at least once in their life. I'm talking out in the boondocks, where the lines between modern and old blur in ways that almost make you believe that something else exists out there with you. Where your phone will register 5G in a spot 50 miles from any semblance of civilization but still won't load anything. Where the office computer is fully updated to the latest windows and hardwired into the internet and won't run certain programs, but only in the afternoon. Where the cell service cuts when a storm rolls overhead, and the phone lines at your work will randomly stop for a few minutes on a sunny day and IT can't figure out why so you all shrug and move on until they're working again. In a place where the home wifi router has to be wrapped in tinfoil otherwise turning on the desktop causes Netflix to stop working on the TV. Where the jokes about an entity living at your office feel a little too real, where no one truly believes in the paranormal but take the superstitions a little too seriously. Don't run this program at 4:50pm. Ask the computer nicely and it may just load what you need. Knock on wood if you joke about the phones going down today. And whatever you do, never run the microwave and the printer at the same time, even though they're on seperate circuits. We're about to head into the winter months, are you prepared? It changes your relationship with technology I think, when you've been to a place where the standard of reliance has to follow the whims of an ancient aura in the air.
#american gothic#gothic americana#old gods#cybercore#rural gothic#rural aesthetic#can't call this creative writing cause its all based on my real life experiences lol#work
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gotta say, theres something really weird about how online queer spaces pretend that intersex people dont exist. even american queer rights orgs seem to ignore us. and then i see kiwi sites on queer communities and theres comparatively a lot of intersex stuff. i go to a local nurses office and intersex people are included in a pamphlet on representation in books. every queer rights org has a link to to sites for intersex rights. am i crazy or is america falling behind? its quite... concerning
#intersex#queer#in the same train of thought#american media is strangely devoid of indigenous representation#for most of my life#the majority of media i have engaged in#is american#yet i didnt find any native american characters outside westerns#until i read heros of olympus#Piper is the only native american character ive ever seen#outside media set in the 1800s#compare that to media in aotearoa#where theres hakas on tv#just because thats part of aotearoa#not trying to brag#but america is falling behind
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Etho and Grian are back at base, hysterically laughing over their achievement. Cleo sits inside, staring, as the two of them talk about getting a wither and a warden to fight, and tries to figure out what she feels about it.
In some ways it's not their fault. Task made them do it and all that. Plus--
Well, it's not like she and Etho are losing hearts anytime soon. They've both done a damn good job keeping themselves from dying. A benefit, Cleo thinks, of deciding to team with Etho this time. Between the two of them, they'll largely only do chaos they can recover from. Maybe this is their game. Maybe this time, Cleo manages to stick with someone until the very end. It looks like it. It looks like...
Grian, of course, is the confounding factor.
She wasn't going to turn him away. He needed allies. They needed someone a bit better at actually doing damage than herself or Etho. It's mutually beneficial. And, besides, he's weirdly lovable, in an inherently kind of dangerous way. A little like loving a bobcat someone had accidentally raised as a pet cat until it got a bit too big and stinky and murdery for them. Like, yeah, he shouldn't be domesticated and he's not, really, in any sense of the word, but it's a bit sad to watch him try to survive on his own now, right?
Hah. Maybe that's what Scar managed to do to him. Would explain a lot, really.
Anyway, he's her bobcat now, which is the problem.
See the thing is: Cleo understands Etho. It's why finally deciding to be partners for once felt... right. They're similar flavors of people. Scared, mostly. Survivors, but not in the 'will stab anyone' way that like, Martyn is. Loyal, although Cleo has no delusions that Etho is as loyal as she. And scared. Has she already said that? Scared. It's important to the kinds of things she and Etho are. Like... mountain lions, maybe. Mountain lions that have been around just enough people to know how dangerous they are. Like that.
God, she's only doing cat metaphors. Bdubs really is turning them all into furries.
Anyway, the point is, Grian isn't scared.
And that... terrifies her.
That's scarier than anything else. Because, see, Cleo wants to survive. But more than that, she wants her partners to survive. And she and Etho, the two of them are doing well. Better than most people. They're green and they have so many hearts.
But Grian? Grian's yellow and not afraid and goading Etho into not being afraid too. It's not their fault, exactly, Cleo thinks. They both had hard tasks. They didn't have a choice, Cleo thinks.
But. But.
She doesn't know what to do, if Etho gets convinced the humans down the mountain aren't scary. She doesn't know what to do if he gets too close. She doesn't know what to do if he gets hurt.
Because she--she doesn't think she can learn to stop being scared, anymore.
But she also doesn't know how many times her heart can stand to lose someone.
Did you know--wild cats are social? They have a reputation for being loners, but mountain lions, they're social. They don't do well being alone. They don't actually hunt solely alone. That's the important bit here. They seem independent, sure, but actually...
Anyway. This is Bdubs's fault. For making her a furry, apparently.
She watches Grian and Etho scheme together and sits back and breathes and tells herself that Etho isn't going to stop being afraid anytime soon. That if push came to shove, he, at least, would retreat back, and that maybe the two of them could convince Grian to retreat too. Safe from hunters. Safe from red.
Maybe safe from hurting each other, too.
(She's not so sure about that part.)
#secret life smp#secret life spoilers#zombiecleo#a bee fic#staring in. cleo and the fact she seems to consider dying before or at the same time as her allies as her happy ending#staring in. cleo and the fact that the thing she and etho have most in common is CAUTION.#and then staring at grian.#hm. well. hopefully that ends better than it seems like it might.#ALSO SHOUTOUT TO ME HAVING THE BRITISH PERSON USE METAPHORS USING EXCLUSIVELY AMERICAN WILDCATS#in my defense they're the ones i'm actually familiar with
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i know my place, i know my place, and THIS IS IT
#song: all american bitch by olivia rodrigo#NOBARA COME BACKKKKKKK#IM A NOBARA COME BACK TRUTHER OK JJK 266 HAS ME EYEING GEGE OK#GEGEEEEEEE BRING HER BACK AND MY LIFE IS YOUURRSSSSS#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#nobara kugisaki#kugisaki nobara#jjk nobara#jujutsu kaisen nobara#nobara fanart#i miss you nobara#jujutsu kaisen kugisaki#satosugu#jujutsu kaisen fanart#drawing#art#procreate#digital art#artists on tumblr#moth draws
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