#What can we do but pick up the pieces

[sysig]

Without me, who am I (Patreon)

[ruvviks]

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Nathan and Ruben share a bond more powerful than most; mutual understanding through past experiences no one should ever have to go through, and through past actions so horrible they cannot be spoken of. Their grief and the blood on their hands binds them to the STEM technology they created, which has alienated them from the rest of the world— but they give each other the comfort they have both longed for so desperately for years, and that is all they need. They are each other's counterpart; you cannot imagine one without the other, like two sides of the same coin. Through their pain, their grief, their desire, and their regret, they have become one.

anna akhmatova, the guest // bones; equinox // 'i won't become' by kim jakobsson // agustín gómez-arcos, the carnivorous lamb // by oxy // achilles come down; gang of youths // czeslaw milosz, from 'new and collected poems: 1931-2001' // 'extended ambience portrait from a resonant biostructure' and 'migraine tenfold times ten' by daniel vega // a little death; the neighbourhood // marina tsvetaeva, from 'poem of the end' // by drummnist // katie maria, winter // 'nocturne in black and gold the falling rocket' by james abbott mcneill whistler // micah nemerever, these violent delights // body language; we are fury // 'the penitent' by emil melmoth // chelsea dingman, from 'of those who can't afford to be gentle'

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[starlightmeissa]

*shoves 🎤 in your face* Do you think Tsunade, Oro and Jiraya ever explored each other's bodies, before the fall out???

<leans into mic> yes. probably.

you’re telling me three teenagers to twenty somethings who lived through two back to back wars with weird interpersonal sexual tension DIDN’T fuck at least once??? not even once????

though i imagine it’s also possible they didn’t and all that tension stayed there in their ribs, a bit like a rot. the sannin to me feel like foils for team 7 that never overcome their personal issues and find connection and growth through each other.

in a way, them never exploring each other’s bodies is a part of Their Problem. they could not seek solace or support in each other in anything that wasn’t fighting. which in turn caused them to isolate themselves from each other, and inevitably caused each of them to leave the village. the will of fire is defined by the chains of love and care you have for your comrades making you stronger. tsunade, orochimaru and jiraiya do not allow themselves to be vulnerable with each other. so they lose their will of fire and their trauma controls them.

i think maybe if they Had explored each others bodies, they would have been able to express a certain level of vulnerability together that would have kept them from falling out.

all this is to say, did the fuck in canon? probably not. in fluffy clouds?

:)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

reading Krakoa era out of order bc reading lists online make it confusing and my local library only has so many books

just as god intended right on my friend you're doing everything right and don't let anyone tell you otherwise

[starberry-cupcake]

I'm still recuperating so I can't make gifs or recaps of any kind but I just wanted to throw another bit of tng reaction

[girlwiththegreenhat]

Why the fuck are people on Twitter upset about nonbinary robots. Transformers are aliens, why would they follow another species gender binary based on reproduction when they don't even reproduce sexually. If anything, ALL the robots should use they/them.

[arson-jellyfish69]

I love the internet, there is a neigh endless amount of tutorials and references from which I can learn art, from the fundamentals to more complex things like perspective, anatomy and the like

But I fucking hate the internet because All these fucking companies are just using ai to make shitty slop and people eat it up instead of making use of the vast resources it provides, seriously every day I log on here I lose more and more of my faith in humanity

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

I FUCKING LOVE VILLAIN WINS AUS

I AM SO INCREDIBLY NORMAL ABOUT VILLAIN WINS AUS

[wintaebear]

it's astonishing to me how they're trying to frame faifa's kindness as an inherently bad thing

[fingertipsmp3]

I feel like I’ve lived through at least a month just in the past 3 days. I checked the date just now and damn near had an out of body experience when I realised Monday was only two days ago

[madegeeky]

I am going to my paternal grandmother's memorial this weekend.

Which means I'm going to have to put up with my paternal uncles.

The same uncles that have refused to include my Mom in anything to do with it because she's not considered a "real" sibling and my Dad is dead so fuck her, I guess?

I'm pretty sure in the last year of my grandma's life, my Mom saw her more than my uncles did in the past five years or more. When Grandma was in the hospital, guess who rushed to get there instead of waiting a week or two? Guess who was there for Grandma's last few days? Guess who loved Grandma as deeply as any child could and who, along with dealing with the death of another mother (because that's how she thought of Grandma), has to deal with the fact that the last major familial tie she has to her deceased husband (that isn't us) is now gone and she's mourning not just Grandma but my Dad all over again?

Fucking guess.

Anywaaaaay, they just sent out an email talking about letting the grandkids pick out any stuff they want of Grandma's before the memorial.

There was no mention of when my Mom would get to be able to pick out her own stuff.

So I sent out the most aggressive passive aggressive email that I possibly could to inquire as to why my Mom wasn't a part of this because, surely, they wouldn't be disrespectful enough to imply that my Mom, their sister-in-law and their mother's daughter-in-law, is a grandkid and thus shouldn't she be allowed to pick out some things of sentimental value?

To which he replies that, oh, he thought that he already knew everything she wanted (he had never asked her if she wanted anything other than a few very specific things). So, when we get there, we can talk to some other uncles that aren't him (thank fuck) and she can choose "something different". Let that specific phrasing sink in for a minute...

Surely, Geeky, he didn't actually imply that if she wanted something she had to put back something she'd already picked out? Surely he isn't a ghoul shaped like a human being who got annoyed that Grandma was leaving money to her grandkids and her daughter-in-law? Surely he wouldn't ignore the book that Grandma had painstakingly put together of things she wanted people to have just because it wasn't notorized and his kids weren't in it enough? Surely he would never do such things!

Yeah. So fuck him.

So I replied back, thanking him for the clarification, and then basically said "I'm so happy that you've been treating my Mom so kindly throughout this while process. I'm sure it would make my Dad really happy that you were treating her like close family."

(Mr. Geeky, when I told him: "That's not exactly subtle." To which I replied, "Good, it wasn't supposed to be.")

Listen, to keep the family peace for this memorial I might not be able to just say to your face that you're a sorry excuse for a human being and I think you deserve a kick in the balls. But I want you to *know* that that is exactly what I think of you, you piece of shit wearing a human suit.

[snekdood]

“manifestation” talk has spiritualized richness to the point where rich ppl think they can do anything and there wont be any consequences- i mean it was like that before but now they’ve made like. a religion out of it, which is making the situation so much worse.

[orcelito]

ok currently inspecting July Events to figure out wtf happened to Vash's coat

so we see him at the start of July in this:

which upon inspection IS different from his coat at the start of the series:

which makes this shot immediately post-july make some sense:

he's got the same belts pants, so clearly not ALL of his outfit got blown off, but it seems like his prior coat didn't survive the explosion. so at some point, he'd have to contact the floating ship again to get another coat made (these ppl really are working overtime keeping up with his coat and prosthetic demolishing lmaooo) WHICH on the topic of his prosthetic, it seems like it DID survive the July explosion, which is interesting!

smth im wondering about. In dialog, we hear from Brad that he met Vash when he was 4 years old, but hasn't seen him in the 13 years since (this being after the 2 years post-jeneora). at that time, it's 8 years post-july (since july happens 6 years before the start of the series, and then add the 2 years time skip post-jeneora), which sets the events of July THEORETICALLY to happen 5 years after his last visit to the flying ship.

so, how did he get his new coat if he hasn't been back to the flying ship in 13 years? Well, i assume he has some way to contact them from afar, considering he manages to get Sensei to bring him a new coat post-jeneora in some random town (& Sensei now brings Brad, who is 17, but would've only been 9 the last time).

this brings the question: how does he contact them? some kind of communication device? i remember his earring's a radio, but i dont remember him having any specific way to contact them directly. so maybe it's just not shown? i cant imagine he'd be able to send letters, all things considered, so it's probably some kind of radio transmission. the technology Does exist, & they almost definitely would pin a special radio on this disaster-prone asshole so he could still keep contact during the long years he's away from home.

the more you know 🤔

[stopfunkinwmyheart]

[aideshou]

INB4 i finish the last episode of daima

father-son kamehameha is still my favorite kamehameha art !

[zorthania]

A piece about survivors guilt.

This comic isn't perfect. I started it back in October 2023, and every time I picked up my pen, I wept.

I bring this to you today, on 9/11, in hopes that you reflect on this day a little differently than how most Americans would. Let it move you to continue to boycott, protest and challenge your family, friends and colleagues. You have a bigger impact than you would believe.

Thank you for reading this with an open heart.

From the river to the sea...

I'd like to bring to attention the fact that the figures depicted above are a gross undercount of the actual number of deaths. I scoured the internet high and low to source my findings and not a single one could break down the devastation that befell an individual ethnicity. Instead, they lumped a bunch of ethnicities together, provided a general timeline, and called it a day, reinforcing the sheer scale of dehumanization propagated in the west. The only consistency between all the articles I looked up was the 4.5 to 4.7 million figure I've included above, and even then, they were all published by western media news outlets... the very same that have been so unreliable and complicit in the genocide of Palestinians today. So I have to take everything they say with a grain of salt.

We are not just numbers.

All of us have ambitions and desires and lives worth living.

With that said, this is your friendly reminder to:

Donate an e-sim

Donate to PCRF to provide Palestinian children aid

Donate to Pious Projects to provide woman with feminine hygiene kits

Donate to CareForGaza to provide food to displaced families in Gaza either through their Gofundme or their paypal

Donate to any of the vetted gofundme campaigns on GazaFunds to help Palestinians trying to flee Gaza.

And if you or someone you know sees or experiences a hate crime and can afford it, SUE. This is a more effective use of your money than most realise. The reason zionists act with impunity is because of the normalization of white supremacy and oppression of ethnic minorities. Challenging that in any capacity tells them that there are consequences to their actions and makes them think twice before engaging in hate crimes and helps raise all of us up against the systems currently in place that let them get away with it.

If you can't donate or spend any money, you can:

Do your daily clicks.

Boycott targeted companies on the BDS list (if you're like me and you don't want a single dollar to go towards anything supporting Israel right now, you can use Bdnaash to double check what products are okay to buy, but the BDS list is sufficient as it is a strategic attack and proven very effective thus far)

Flood your representatives emails and voicemails with how you won't be voting for them unless their politics align with an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Attend a protest, be LOUD.

Challenge your circle of friends, family and colleagues with conversations about Palestine. (THIS IS THE MOST UNDERRATED AND MOST EFFECTIVE THING YOU CAN DO)

and if you're really up to, be disruptive in any capacity that you can think of towards major corporations benefiting from this onslaught. (i.e. halting military manufacturers from production + shipments, sticking boycott stickers on products at your market etc)

And finally, if your country wasn't mentioned in the above excerpt, it was no deliberate omission on my part and I encourage you to come forward and tell your story about the suffering of your people so that this may be a learning opportunity for everyone.

You are seen.

You are not alone.

Thank you again if you've read this far.

From the river to the sea...