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lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)
if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.
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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.
I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.
I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.
If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.
#cw: suicidal ideation#cw: suicide#cw: self harm#cw: mental health#cw: depression#i made the balloon the main representation of my self destructive urges for a reason but im not going to explain it#i tried to keep a lot of the details in this vague#it would be my worst nightmare if this comic encouraged someone to hurt themselves#so. please dont#for a long time even the thought of making this comic felt so insipid and narcissistic#with the state of the world as it is#having the only threat to your life be yourself felt so privileged and trite and shameful#but doing this comic made me sit down and process things in full#and im just. very grateful i didn't give in to my thoughts back when i sincerely felt i'd be more useful to the world dead#i also feel the need to say that this wont represent everyone's battle with mental illness. its unfortunately different for all of us#there is no fix-all#and im afraid this might be one of those comics that either resonates a lot or misses the target by a mile#i made it for myself foremost. and now that its done im glad i did it#thank you for reading#and please stay alive#stillindigo art#stillindigo comics
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Minthara says “in Her name” when you first meet her and she’s following the Absolute but when you recruit her and she expresses that she no longer follows any god, but she still has an intact paladin oath, and she says “in your name” occasionally because she’s no longer Lolth’s paladin or the Absolute’s paladin, she’s your paladin
#😭#she might not think you’re a god or whatever but you’re the only one that ever came to save her#and if you let her read your mind you’re the only one she knows has no intention to hurt or use her#like I feel like what Minthara wants most of all is to not have to look over her shoulder or wait for the shoe to drop#like every relationship she’s had as a lolthsworn drow has come with the caveat that everyone will take her out if they have the chance#and if it benefits them even a little#lolth literally encourages this so long as you aren’t obvious about it#and lolth will 100% punish you the second she has an excuse to#and then the absolute like while she was being controlled probably felt more like genuine love than Minthara ever experienced#but it came with Orin and punishments for failing#and her being literallly mind controlled into her#so it’s still violent and threatening even if the extent of that is only realized after she’s pulled out of it#but then there’s you who pulled her out of that#who can clearly and plainly show her that you have no intention of hurting her even if it benefits you#and who went out of your way to rescue her when no one else she was devoted to ever would#and you offered her the means to not only stay safe from the absolute but to get revenge on it#of course it’s ‘in your name’ now you’re the only person that gave Minthara a reason for her to follow you#that wasn’t threats of violence and suffering#you literally gave her the opposite#she’s YOUR paladin it doesn’t matter if aren’t a god#you could be tho#Minthara#minthara baenre#bg3#baldur's gate 3
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 72)
The rhetoric from Israel and their defenders really hasn't changed one bit, has it? Months and months of terrorizing Palestinian villages, and the moment they retaliate, it must be because the Arabs are violent Nazis set to exterminate the oh-so-peaceful Zionist settlers for no other reason than them being Jewish
And what were the Zionists settlers - with Ben-Gurion's explicit approval - doing at the time?
Pappé (2006, p. 58)
Similarly, in the villages:
Pappé (2006, p. 57)
Still the same playbook, 75+ years later...
Also, it's important to understand that these violent attacks against Palestinian cities and villages - and there were many more in the winter of 47/48 than the examples included here - were part of a larger, deliberate operation meant to 'drive out' (i.e. ethnically cleanse) the Native population of Palestine. It didn't matter if the Palestinians were just quietly living their life in the countryside; if they were not Jewish, they would had to go. And if the Zionists could not find a pretext for retaliation, they would make one.
In the aftermath of the UN partition, this operation of ethnic cleansing - without 'pretext' - was not only openly discussed, but approved of, by Ben-Gurion and the rest of the Zionist leadership:
Pappé (2006, p. 64)
What we're seeing today in Gaza - with the collective punishment of 2 million Palestinians - is the continuation of this very same Zionist program of ethnic cleansing that Israel was founded on.
#free palestine#palestine#gaza#these are all quotes from ch. 4#which deals with the immediate aftermath of the UN partition#starting now on chapter 5 of my rereading#and once again i encourage everyone to read along with me#if you can't afford to buy it there's always libgen (or google author + title + pdf and a copy should come up)
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top/bottom discourse and dom/sub truthers this and that, none of that can touch me because i headcanon them as vers and switch and whatever is best for the bit and therefore always win. look at all the beauty in the world
#all these middle-aged men deserve a good railing and to rail someone good and i will not get in the way of that#in fact i will encourage it because i love them. love reading and writing them fuck in all the different ways keep it up everyone love you#also begging some people to learn the differences between top/bottom/vers and dom/sub/switch#one day i will write them as sides and no one can stop me#📓🐭
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WIP Wednesday Good Omens Recs
let's spread some love and share some wips this wednesday. writing can be hard and lonely sometimes, so let's hit the kudos button and post a comment or two on some ongoing fics today!
#gonna reblog with some of my recs in a sec#feel free to add yours!!#i know wips aren't everyone's thing and that's okay!! but if u do feel up for reading them in general#then i really wanna encourage u to talk about them!! nothing better than encouragement and love on your own ongoing projects!!#good omens#good omens fic rec#good omens fanfiction#good omens fics#aziraphale x crowley#crowley x aziraphale#aziracrow#go fanfic#ineffable husbands#ineffable spouses#foolish recs
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Day 63: Stupid
It's ok to be wrong sometimes.......right?
PLEASE! Donate to help save Safaa and her family! | Main post | Gofundme
#amy rose#amy rose daily#sonic#sth#sonic fanart#please donate!#amy rose fanart#day 63#this is vent art tbh but I think it applies to Amy as well#everytime I read a Metamy fic and Amy wants to save Metal#and everyone is like: What no thats stupid and dangerous!!#and yet I know that if SONIC asked / encouraged saving Metal he'd get almost no pushback#her friends should actually trust her i think#tho I think part of that is the fandom liking to villianize her or use her an a character with “bad ideas��#cough * those sonadow fics where Amy implies Sonic shouldn't trust Shadow Cough*#anyway oops#sorry for complaining about fandom of all things I just.......Amy deserves more man#trust her#shes awesome#luckily bad Amy in sonadow fics is much rarier nowadays - its few and far between
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— unsent letters, margaux paul
#this is genuinely one of the most heartbreaking poems i’ve ever read#i encourage everyone to read this book its beautiful#toronto maple leafs#mitch marner#1634
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"Omg ur exposing minors to bad stuff" if a minor can read and understand fanfiction, they can also read and understand the following words. RATED 18, DARK CONTENT, TW. INCEST, MINORS DO NOT INTERACT.
And if they can't understand simple sentences, then Wattpad is right there for them. Not tumblr.
You can bitch and moan about how writing shit like this is "bad", but really the closest thing you've read to an actual book with nuance is ... actually nothing, you don't read anything. It's always the smau writers who just entered tumblr, like shut up and sit down. If you're worried about kids, host a security seminar to parents to monitor their online presence or teach kids internet safety and how to use the block option. No one is obligated to hide their content from you because you think you're on a moral high ground compared to the rest of us. People like you are the reason why we can't say murder and kidnapping and call real pedophiles pedophiles because you don't want "kids" knowing bad stuff, but in reality you're doing more harm than good with your chronically online takes.
Respectfully take a break from smaus and pick up a book. I may not endorse many things but I'm on the side of artistic freedom and blocking people. I'm on the side of writing about darker topics and exploring trauma, because talking about pedophilia was how I discovered that I was assaulted at seven. Something I didn't know because adults with YOUR mindset refused to let me know that it's wrong for an adult to touch a child because "what about the kids."
I'm not saying children should be exposed to reading r 18 fics, god no. I'm saying that 1) people should write wtv the fuck they want without being looked at as a bad person. 2) kids should have a safe space, preferably with a trusted adult that is NOT on the internet who will not be afraid to talk about darker topics that can affect them. 3) enough of what about the kids or the mentally ill people, why should a kid be on my account?
#hello.layla 🍓#'your exposing minors and mentally ill people to bad stuff' my guy are you stupid ?#x reader#jujutsu kaisen x reader#jjk x reader smau#harry potter x reader#btw my first introduction to incest was the bible. which i was encouraged to read as a kid. long before fanfiction.#should they ban a religious text for including something that happens in real life simply because ķids will read it.#or should parents watch their damn kids instead of putting the responsibility on everyone else?
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The "wow this relationship was so compelling and/or queer I'm sure that there is much fan stuff" to "Oh yeah I forgot the fandom branded these characters as having a familial relationship such as siblings or parent/child and harassed people who said otherwise" pipeline
#fandom wank#this post is the simplified version of my thoughts#the more detailed version includes the fact that people do make stuff for a ship but get harassed for it or did make stuff but it was purged#And the fact that nowadays the moment a creator or the loud fandom people say 'this relationship is familial' everyone draws a big fat red#line and it seems to be accepted that you shouldn't like it in any way (even if you read into their relationship differently) or you're a#filthy degenerate#This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to fill these tags with my own posts#If not to encourage people against that behavior and show people that it's okay to like a fictional relationship or whatever#i just be ramblin
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The server erupts in celebration, as the Wither falls. Grian cries out for Jimmy, and Joel for Lizzie. Pearl and Bdubs share a glance. Words aren’t needed, they cry out in silence for their fallen Mounder. The remaining three walk home together, over broken terrain.
“We can deal with everything in the morning.” Joel’s voice quavers, but he smiles for them, before leaving.
Pearl hugs Bdubs. His thoughts are burning and hers must be, too. The anvil, the betrayal, Mumbo’s delirium, then his death.
“Get some rest, mate.” She whispers, before leading her dogs inside.
He’ll sleep at Etho’s tonight.
#life series#secret life#pearlescentmoon#bdoubleo100#bdouble0#bdubs#smallishbeans#joel smallishbeans#mumbo jumbo#mumbo#the mounders#drabble#100 words#fanfic#eliyipswrites#encouraging everyone who reads this to rewatch the session 6 scene where mumbo tries to do the anvil task on the mounders#it devastated me on a rewatch and i might have to make another post talking about it#but then again my brain is Wrong so who knows
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thoroughly obsessed with how quickly everyone's falling right back into proper phannie tendencies. sure some of us have stayed degenerates this whole time and never stopped pointing at them going You Are Gay For Each Other, but at first when the gaming channel returned it seemed like most people were kinda cautious like.. we're grown now. we are better than this. we do not need the rpf. and now we're three videos in and everyone's like oh my GOD they touched hands
#well not everyone#some people are mad about it#but its like. read the room 💀#dan and phil do notttttt care if anything theyre actively encouraging it so who gaf#anyway i LOVE it here
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So my parents dragged me to a christian festival today. Here are some of my favourite interactions I had
My father: this is my eldest daughter, *deadname*. She really wanted to be here
Me, a nonbinary person with heaps of religious trauma, definitely not there out of free will: ‘sup
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Me, just chilling around some stands:
Random christian: hey do you have a boyfriend and is he catholic
Me, a lesbian: Jesus is my boyfriend
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Random christian again: do u want a t-shirt with “hype jesus” on it to show that ur christian
Me, a pagan witch: yes
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Random christian yet again: what are u listening to?
Me: Take Me To Church from Hozier
Christian: Oh I love that song. Very nice to encourage young folks to worship god
Me: uh-huh
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Me: I’m gonna read Catherine Nixey’s “The Darkening Age” in front of this pastor
My brother: now why would you do that
Me: for the aesthetic
#if youre wondering#the darkening age is about the christian destruction of the classical world#And the “triumph” of christianity through the annihilation of freedom of religion#Its really good#i encourage everyone to read it#religious trauma#ex christian#nonbinary lesbian#gay pagan#pagans of tumblr#ex catholic#christianity is a cult#eldest daughter#eldest daughter syndrome
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rdj the (whitewashed) electric boogaloo
This is a reminder to everyone who's excited about RDJ's casting as Doctor Doom that this casting is whitewashing. Victor Von Doom is a Romani character and has been a Romani character since his introduction in the 1960s. (Fantastic Four Annual #2 [1964]) Not only that, but his Roma identity and the persecution he and his family faced due to it is integral to his character, it is what forms his identity. (Books of Doom by Ed Brubaker) Even if on the off chance this casting is meant to not be Victor but instead be some variant of Tony or whomever else becoming Doctor Doom, it is damaging to the character to rob him of that important cultural background. Doctor Doom does not exist without that history. Fans have been pushing hard to cast Doom as a Romani actor for years, especially since the MCU has whitewashed other Romani characters. (Wanda, Pietro, etc) This casting is not a celebration moment, it's fucking heartbreaking that the MCU repeatedly ignores the important and nuanced cultural backstories of characters.
I know I can't change anybody's mind on whether or not you want to be excited about RDJ's return to the MCU. But I do think at the very least you should be mad that the MCU is baiting us all and destroying nuanced and interesting characters for the sake of self-referential easter eggs and nostalgia bait. Because that's what it is. Feel how you'd like to feel about RDJ's return, but personally, this is soul-sucking. I had such a deep love for the MCU as a teenager, it was obviously something incredibly formative to me, especially Tony Stark. This isn't recreating what I fell in love with the MCU for. This is turning a well-planned and artistic storyline of adaptations into cheap cash grabs and fan service. Because, I think we're past the point of being able to call the MCU an adaptation of anything. They can use existing characters' names and powers, but to say they're being properly adapted is laughable.
This is not an adaptation of Doctor Doom. This is RDJ the Electric Boogaloo because Marvel's fear of losing the interest of dedicated MCU fans overrides their willingness to tell stories that are genuine to the characters. I don't know what there is to be excited about that. The MCU has lost its authenticity and aside from a few projects, feels heartless. Every movie is a copy of a copy. This announcement isn't something celebratory, it feels like a death knell of a cinematic universe that's so desperate to cling to relevancy it's resorting to nostalgia for a character/actor who hasn't even been dead for a decade. We're not getting anything new, we're just rinsing and repeating the same song and dance.
I get it. I love Tony Stark, his death destroyed me and I to this day, rue the ending he got in Endgame. It misunderstood his arc and it robbed him of a satisfying conclusion. But the solution to that isn't dragging the corpse out of the grave five years later to whitewash an existing character with rich and interesting nuance, just to forcibly tie his existence in the MCU to Tony. Whether he is a variant or not. Why would you want someone else's fave's legacy to be destroyed simply so your fave's legacy can go on? Hell, if we were really all so hellbent on the return of RDJ and/or Tony to the MCU, we have the multiverse for a reason. There were other ways to do it that didn't whitewash and ruin someone else. This just. Isn't something to be happy about.
#... we will not be addressing that i'm a dead blog#no one say a WORD about my inactivity for 4 years this isn't about that /lh#also if anyone tries to get smart about “romani isn't a race” i don't care and you can shut up.#it's an ethnic and cultural identity. and it should be portrayed correctly.#ESPECIALLY for a character like *victor von doom* of all people. like it is fundamental to him.#i would've included panels of the comics mentioned but most of them use the g-slur and i don't wish to encourage that here#like listen i don't think you need to be a comics fan to be an mcu fan. they're so divorced from each other atp#nor do i think the mcu owes complete comic accuracy. but i do think you should at *least* care when characters are whitewashed.#look. i really don't want this to be a debate on if rdj's return is good or not#i've been frankly baffled at how many old mutuals are excited but. whatever if you want him back i get it.#but it shouldn't be like this. not at the expense of a different character.#this whole thing made me realize i'm *far* more jaded and turned off to the mcu than most of you guys are.#which is fair you can still be an mcu fan. if it brings you joy i'm so happy for you#but how does this like. bring joy i don't get it.#this is soulless. it's uninspired. it's done purely for shock value.#i occasionally get asks to this blog about why i left and asking me to come back#and i get it. i *want* to come back.#but i don't *care* about the mcu anymore. this is not the franchise i fell in love with.#i don't recognize what once meant everything to me.#winteriron will always hold a special place in my heart (as will tony stark)#but like. i just don't have love for it. and it sucks that this bullshit from marvel actively kills the love i had.#this sours tony stark to me. i'm sorry but it does. because was it really worth this? is this what his legacy has become?#this does cheapen his legacy btw. like without question. it turns him into a cheap cameo reference. heart of the mcu my ass.#my fandom circles have *massively* changed#i'm now entirely surrounded by comics fans bc my primary fandom is dc comics. that's what i'm up to these days#and the difference was actually baffling to me. everyone i follow now is *pissed* about this. comics twitter is so mad.#and then i see ppl on here excited and i'm just genuinely surprised this is something you want. i don't get it.#i don't say that to be rude. i just don't get it. how is *this* actually something people *want*.#do i still care about marvel? eh.#i like winter soldier comics and i could give a comprehensive rec list. and i read some other characters i deeply enjoy.
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heehee (pepstavo under the cut)
#arts#mine#saucy#pepstavo#easing everyone in w the cute shit first#can u believe i forgot about this???? CAN U BELIEVE IT ???#this is like one of the first things i drew back in like April i think#i still love it tho#recently i have been drawing them doing some heehee shit instead of the cutesy shit so i need this to stay humble#remember my roots…#anyway if ur still reading this hooray u get bonus stuff like usual w my tags#giving him a huge praise kink. he is doing SUCH a good job he is doing the best job EVER#this would be a bit further in their relationship (pending™️) where the intimacy walls are slowly being worn down#so hes seeking out touch and affection and all that goodness instead of reflexively flinching away#and gus SEES this so hes trying so hard to encourage him like BLEASE….i did not dick around for months for this to NOT pay off#he is a patient man but theres only so much patience one Can have#and that patience IS rewarded#its funny bc i write gus as like. a top. a general Dom bc he is both patient and assertive#and hes met someone he GENUINELY w his WHOLE chest wants to bottom for and he cant do it bc this bigass dude is a lil princess™️#and so for now he is being the big boy but hes like counting down in his head when theyre able to get to a space comfy enough for him#where he gets to get his back blown out (its soon)#i hope that doesnt make it seem like hes only being nice to get dicked down bc he is actually always this nice#and full of love bursting at the seams#which results in endless praise and pdas and being a bit more playful than usual (bc he is a silly lil joyous gnome; its built in his dna)#so peppino will simply have this forever :)#okay mwah#i will slowly upload my stuffs since twitter is exploding and anyone who isnt niceys about this will be obliterated#like for reals
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holy shit, I just realized I passed 250,000 total words posted on ao3 with the oneshot I posted earlier today. okay. wow. that’s a lot of kanej brainrot!
#that feels like a lot of words???#thank you so much to everyone who has read them and commented and encouraged me to keep writing#this hobby has been such a joy and a lifeline for me#and I hope you all are able to escape into my stories the way I’ve been able to escape into them#personal#ao3 stats
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Dorothea Hackman (Euston Food Bank director) shares how Liam Payne secretly gave up his time to help feed hundreds of struggling families in Camden:
“Liam Payne was the kindest, most sensitive young man I have ever met over an incredibly long period of time.”
“He got in touch out of the blue and offered help. We desperately needed the money at the time. We were dealing with a massive increase in demand – because of lockdown people were desperate for food.”
“He got in touch and asked what we did and what we needed. We told him about our work and he said, ‘Right, I’m giving you £80,000.”
“He came down to the food bank and really got involved, really rolled his sleeves up. He carried crates, packed boxes and bags, he visited us, supported us and was always charming”
“We are all incredibly upset and sad to hear the news. He really got it. He really understood his social obligations as a successful and rich person. He stood up to be counted. We will miss him terribly.”
“He never once asked for anything. He did not want publicity, he did not want people to know, he just didn’t have that motivation – he saw a need and knew he could help.”
Food For All director Peter O’Grady recalled the singer turning up at a kitchen in Holborn and helping make giant pots of curry. He added:
“He actually saved the day during the pandemic. He made the biggest single donation we have ever had, with no fuss. He didn’t want anyone to make a thing about it. He let nobody know of his generosity.”
Source: Camden New Journal
#he did so much and no one knew#I encourage everyone to read the article#Liam Payne volunteering at the food bank in Euston during the Covid crisis#He really understood his social obligations as a successful and rich person#He never once asked for anything. He did not want publicity.#Food For All#important#liam payne#activism#pandemic#covid 19#covid#rip liam#one direction#doing good thing for the sake of it shouldn’t be rare but these days I feel like it#maybe I just need to be a bit more hopeful#cost of living#euston#camden#food bank#volunteering#lockdown#Euston Food Bank
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