#btw this is not about anyone specifically

[realitys-ex]

To be completely honest, anyone who would call themselves a 'Zionist' believes in the 'safe' aspect. If you are calling people who want Jews out of their country or dead 'Zionists' you are probably misusing the term.

Zionism is a Umbrella term for a specific ideology, not just a set of actions.

Support of Israel is, oddly, not necessarily Zionism.

For example, if a hypothetical country supported Israel because they don't want Jerusalem controlled by a muslim country, and Israel seemed to be a good way to do it, but don't actually care about Jews being there or not. They are not Zionist.

If a country is apposed to Iran, and is looking for a convenient country to prop up in a proxy war and chooses Israel, that is not Zionism.

I am well aware of the 'Go back to palestine' Graffiti that was everywhere in the early Nazi regime, before they got around to killing the Jews which is why I mentioned it.

But, I probably shouldn't have, because that is not Zionism, just surface level similarity.

Yes, but they are the Jew haters. Inventing new ways to kill people b/c the cost in bullets and manpower to take out all the Jews was too high is a kinda insane thing that they did. The Death Camps are a unique feature of the Nazis. Concentration camps? Work camps? been done before and since. Death camps? Only the Nazis. If you remove Jew hatred, it isn't Nazism, it is something else.

(oh and if you are going to say that they would gave needed them for others: it is estimated that 1500 gay people, 500000 Romani, and 200000 Disabled people were killed in camps, that is less than 1/6th of number of Jews. So while they were used on others, they were built for the Jews)

While Kahanism is a form Zionsim, I don't dispute that.

Elon Musk is not a Zionist.

He may be pro Israel because he believes it to be in his economic best interest, but he in no way subscribes to the 'Jews should be safe in their homeland' which is the underlying ideology.

I don't disagree with him supporting Nazi ideology btw, I am saying that he is right, and you cannot be a Nazi and a Zionist.

Oh, and a lot of Nazis claimed that Homosexuality was a Jewish plot to weaken the German people, as was support for the disabled.

They may have hated those groups, but they did so through a lens of Jew hatred.

There are a lot more sources, but I can only read so much about Nazis in one day.

[mammoth-clangen]

How would you recommend drawing differences between saber tooth cat types (Sorry if that doesn't male sense I didn't know how to word it)

So I'm not sure I fully understand the question, but I did make a whole species sheet here:

The point of this is to illustrate the differences, both based on skeletal anatomy, and ones I added in soft tissue for fun!

Uh oh lads, Pav's rambling again!

As far as depicting extinct species in a way that makes them distinct; I find restricting certain traits to only one species or the other helps. e.g: Ice Fangs will never have ear-tufts and Fleet Fangs always have them, Ice Fangs will always have exposed sabers and Fleet Fangs always have lip-pockets covering theirs (they have to be actively grimacing to show the whole fang).

Also look at the varied soft tissue of real life animals.

Fleet Fangs have lynx like ear tufts because they share a similar environment and are both long-limbed ice-cats. They also have a paler under-tail like deer, which I imagine is used for social signalling (Homotherium is hypothesised to be social irl too!)

I decided to give the Ice Fangs more bear like lips, which is loosely based on a (debunked) idea of them having huge jowls that enveloped the whole length of their sabers. This would make actually using the sabers too hard for me to think it's plausible, but a more mobile lip that can be moved out of the way when they go from full gape to rest is a fun concept :D

I also try not to draw any sabercats with pantherine noses. Pantherine rhinarium are quite distinct in their reduction of lower lobe (which I'm sure has a proper name but I Cannot find it and keep getting photos of nose jobs, so I'm giving up). This makes the whole nose into a defined T-shape, but there's no reason for any sabercat lineage to have that specific autapomorphy. So the Fleet Fangs get Jaguarundi/lynx inspired heart-shaped ones, and Ice Fangs have very wide noses like a stretched domestic cat c'x

Not sure that answers your question but hope it helps a bit anyway c:

[weaselle]

Be very careful when you see things like this:

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"Read this and save a life - YOUR OWN

From a surgical nurse and certified CPR teacher:

Please pause for 2 minutes and read this:"

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(this was copied from a real post that crossed my dash, btw, and it had more than 100k notes)

Anyone can say they are a surgical nurse and certified CPR teacher... or they could talk to someone with those credentials but misunderstand the information.

the post went on in a numbered format to say this

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"6. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE? Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

7. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

8. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital."

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instead of doing any of this, call 9-1-1 

I mean try this after you call, sure, try anything, but this is probably not going to work. See number 8? that is not how human anatomy works, coughing does not squeeze the heart. Changes in pressure around the lungs from coughing instigate a change in blood pressure and also alter the electro-stimulus from the vagus nervous system between the heart and brain, and can give a minor tweak to the rhythm of an already beating heart

Since this coughing technique can provoke any change in heartbeat, it is a thing that sometimes, occasionally, can work in a hospital setting to correct a couple of very specific types of arrhythmia, which is a temporary abnormal heartbeat rhythm, not a heart attack. Basically if your lower ventricles start doing something like adding a tiny extra beat, a deep cough can sometimes get it to kick back into normal rhythm, but it is working on a heart that is beating almost correctly.

For this reason, in a hospital setting, a doctor may occasionally tell a patient to try this coughing to correct a couple of exact and minor heartbeat issues, again, for a patient with a known condition who has a slightly altered rhythm in a heart that is already beating.

Actual heart attacks are marked by wildly chaotic rhythms (or no rhythm) rendering this technique useless for heart attack 99.99% of the time. The thing about chaos is you never know what you’re going to get so if you’ve called 911 or attracted helpful attention, or have literally zero other options, go ahead and try this, but it’s almost certainly only going to help with something you were going to survive anyway.

CPR breaks ribs. That’s how hard you have to squeeze a heart to make it even sort of do its job. If a deep cough could squeeze your heart hard enough for this to work, then every time somebody had a coughing fit they’d risk heart failure.

But don't take my word for it. Look it up. Ask a person you know for a fact is a doctor (i did both before writing this, my father is a retired doctor of internal medicine and my mother is a retired ICU and ER nurse, which is why this kind of misinformation bothers me so much) but more relevant to most of you out there, i didn't even just take their word for it i also looked up the information. Personally i went ahead and looked up how coughing effects the vagus system, which counts as interesting reading for me, but you don't have to do a research project on it, literally just type it in a search bar and look for valid sources

but why would anyone ever make posts like this which are outright lies and also could be dangerous for people to believe?

the answer happens to be in the rest of the original post:

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9. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!

10. A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.

11. Rather than sending jokes, please��� contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a person’s life.

12. If this message comes around you… more than once… please don’t get irritated… You should instead, be happy that you have many friends who care about you & keeps reminding you how to deal with a Heart attack.

please take the time and boost this post by reposting it and sending it to those you love because we all need to understand how to quickly deal with heart attacks

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That's why. Look at that. They want you to reblog this multiple times for them, and they tell you to do so 5 times in a row.

Bot accounts and view farmers can make money from getting high numbers of notes, views, or followers. They run their numbers up and then sell the account to entities that want access to the public for marketing or propaganda campaigns.

Random posts and video shorts are NOT the place to get important information. You may find important information in these places, but you won't know it until you check the source and look it up yourself. And if it contains information that could hurt people to believe if it's wrong... look into it a little before you share it

[collectivephilosopher]

JINX'S ATTACK AT THE COUNCIL

Alright, I need to get this out of my system.

I really don't get how people can portray Jinx's attack at the council as "lashing out" and "throwing tantrum"

I'm not sure if the show is potraying it as such but I'm not saying otherwise either.

First.

If Jinx was lashing out and throwing tantrum, she would show this by lashing out to others other than Piltover. I'm not saying she wasn't angry but she was angry specifically at Piltover. She did not bomb anyone/anything else but the council aka Piltover. Was it personal? Probably yeah. But this is like someone finally attacking their abuser who has been abusing them for years. It's not tantrum. Tantrum is destroying irrelevant things to channel your anger like when you're angry at your parents and destroy the table instead.

What Jinx is doing is showing to piltover. ("We'll show them, we will show them all"). She's telling the council, "look here, I am what you've made, I am the consquence of your action/inaction and I am done. I will show you how much you have hurt me."

"But they were about to vote for peace and Jinx ruined it!" Wrong.

The council were voting for "councilor Talis's proposal for peace." What is this proposal? His deal with Silco ("Jayce has brokered a deal with Silco"). His deal specifically asked for JINX which Silco would not give thus this deal and the meeting was useless because it would never happen anyways.

I need to say btw that his demand for Jinx was ass. He was asking for an individual to essentially be the pound of flesh to satisfy Piltover. Like okay, if Jinx has to pay for the crimes she did then what about the enforcers who has done brutality for years in Zaun? They get free pass? Really? Why? Because Jinx is an individual who did crime on her own? Then what about Jayce who killed an innocent child while attacking a factory filled with people who just work there for living? (Mind you in S1 the show never show Jinx killing civilians)

Now about the tea party.

The reason why Jinx was there at the cannery, why Silco was there which leads to his death, was BECAUSE OF PILTOVER.

Jinx overheard Silco's lament about his deal with piltover and thought he's going to go through with the deal, giving her up, betraying her. Had Jayce never demanded Jinx, she would literally never kidnap Silco.

Silco told Jinx about the deal again at the tea party and he until the end said he would never gave up Jinx. This goofy peace will literally never happen. Besides until the end of S1 the demand for Jinx was never dropped so we can safely assume that the council are still out for Jinx's blood. What else was Jinx supposed to do when she was put at the end of a spear like that?

Jinx attacked the council for all the pain they caused her. While she might not think of other Zaunites at the moment, it's still a political attack. Jinx was also the victim of the system here. She's an oppressed individual. The enforcers hunted Zaunite like they're animals. Jinx is just a Zaunite who happen to grew up stronger than the people who hunt her and in return hunt them back.

She attacked nothing else but the council tower and disappeared after. She was not lashing out.

[immaterial-girl]

tumblr is great bc you’ll follow someone whose blog has a lot of things you like and then one day you have been grandfather-ed into an interest in bruce springsteen after seeing infrequent yet consistent performance gifsets and lyric breakdowns for 2 years posted by a 20-something lesbian who you know nothing else about besides her obsession with books from 2016 and bad cable television. and you listen to Dancing In the Dark (1984) while driving home and think about her and this is what its all about

[skullrift]

“who’s the evil alter” about to be me if you don’t shut yo ass up

- 🥀

[twigs-sprigs]

isnt it a little bit fucked up of some of yall to headcanon lloyd as white when hes one of the only characters with actual asian heritage. isnt that just a little bit fucked up to you.

[itsatorchwoodthing]

everyday i watch people on twitter praise a show that has one or two queer characters in 2024 for being groundbreaking for things torchwood did in 2006

[sergle]

man, you know, nobody asked me, but I have such conflicting opinions on some of the fat falin art, where on one hand: it's always nice to see A Fat Body in fanart anywhere + it's being done in positive ways, for funsies and on the other hand, there is something so familiar about how you are automatically The Fat One if you are a woman simply standing next to a more petite woman, bc I've had a 0% hitrate in seeing people change Marcille's body type and keep Falin's, or change both of them. it's just Falin

[theerurishipper]

I feel like people really underestimate the importance of Dick being the first Robin. Like, reverse Robin AUs are interesting and such, but I just hope people realize that in the context of canon, they would never work. The reason Batman and Robin ever works is because the first Robin was Dick Grayson specifically. Because Bruce would never have taken in any child if Dick's tragedy hadn't specifically happened to mirror his own experience. Dick Grayson was the only one Bruce truly saw himself in first, because the fundamental event that defines them is the same. And he sees the opportunity to help someone the way he was never helped, to make sure that Dick didn't go down the dark path he did. So, my point here is that the only one Bruce actually made the choice to take in, the only one who could kickstart it all, is Dick Grayson, because he is the only one with whom Bruce could immediately empathize and connect with.

This never happened with any other Robin. He took in Jason because he missed Dick, he took in Tim because Tim forced himself into the role, he took in Steph because he was trying to make Tim come back to being Robin, and Dick made Damian Robin. Of course, he loved all of them, and they all have their unique relationships with Bruce that are very important and inform their characters, and he does need them too. But he specifically formed this connection with Dick that made Dick the only person he ever considered taking in. It took a very specific set of circumstances in Dick's backstory that made Bruce commit an impulse adoption that just isn't really present in any other Robin's story. And the reason Jason or Tim or Steph or Damian or anyone else whom Bruce has taken under his wing even got that chance is because of the work Dick Grayson put into Bruce Wayne.

Before Dick, Bruce was reckless and didn't care at all about himself, to the point of almost being borderline suicidal. He was more brutal, more violent, etc. The reason all this changed, is because of Dick Grayson specifically. He was the one with whom Bruce opened up, with whom Bruce was forced to grow up, to take responsibility and learn to take care of both Dick and himself. Dick, to Bruce was the one who brought "color to their [his and Alfred's] monochrome lives." Dick Grayson's specific brand of happiness and joy changed Bruce for the better. Dick gave Bruce hope. This is true for other Robins too, but only because they followed the precedent that Dick Grayson set, only because they slid into his role (they have their own interesting relationships with Bruce, but this specifically is from Dick that other Robins carried on. A legacy, if you will). Dick Grayson turned Bruce into the kind of man who would become a serial adopter.

Without his influence, without his precedent, there would be no Batfamily, because Bruce would never have gotten to the point where he would be able or willing to take in someone else and care for them properly (It took living through his trauma again to get him to take Dick in lmao). Hell, there would be no Batman because Bruce would have gotten himself killed a long time ago if Dick hadn't helped him learn self-care. Dick knows Bruce best, because he understands him on a fundamentally deeper level than anyone else in the world. And he's the only one who can make Bruce open up at his rawest, most downtrodden state. He is the only one who can give Bruce at his lowest that kind of hope. There is no Robin without Dick Grayson. It's literally a tribute to his parents, using their colors and the name his mother called him. He created that identity as a symbol of hope. He helped Bruce become the kind of man who could and would let other people that he had to care for into his life. Without Dick Grayson, you can simply forget about any other Robin or the Batfamily as a concept even existing.

[blushedfemmes]

when the cute butch who lives thousands of miles away and was never interested in the first place starts tagging reblogs with the same emoji

[arttsuka]

Based on somewhat real events

I spent way too much time drawing this...

But yeah, Ford finally saying thank you

A continuation (kinda)

[boredlime]

when you're Probably Not Cis but you present as it anyways because you're too lazy to do anything about it

[ph-cutie]

the dialogue abt evrart repeatedly personally visiting roy still mystifies me. from the moment you meet ev he starts building this narrative: he doesn't get out much because they move him with the crane, he knows everything because hes got eyes and ears feeding it to him, if the negotiators can't get into the harbor thats their problem, but you need to be helping him send Messages, to be carrying his tasks OUT of it, outside of his "fortress", as he calls it. Except that's evidently not fucking true because the month ago (or whenever) he was personally showing up to the pawnshop to be a bother. It contradicts so much of what we've been told about him but it doesn't really matter, because roy wasn't having it and doesn't want to talk about it. Evrart apparently just does that sometimes

[aihaloos]

Tempted to write a replaced au twst fic where Yuu (or alternatively, I'll use my Yuu, Riyuu, who is basically who I'm writing this for) used to be the cutest girl around, the cheery one who's always around everyone, the one you can't seem to dislike even if your crush falls for her because she earnestly says sorry (even though it's not her fault) and will always help you out if you need her back in her old school. But one day, a new girl comes around and her whole reputation got destroyed. She helps the new girl adjust, tells her all the rumours and introduces her to all the popular kids. But the girl ends up backstabbing her, telling the popular girls rumours about how she intentionally plays up the act to steal their crushes to her, and lies to the boys, telling them she's just playing with their hearts and that she's a horrible person.

Yuu ends up alone and excluded, being seen as "annoying" and only having a few close friends who doesn't really interact with her in public in fear of their reputation being ruined. She ends up miserable at school, and wishes to not go anymore. But one day comes a saving grace, she gets whisked by a mysterious black carriage into Twisted Wonderland, or more specifically, Night Raven College. She doesn't mind working if it meant she doesn't have to deal with her old school, there was still 1 and a half years left of school and she doesn't want to deal with all ghe group projects to be assigned that will inevitably end with everyone not wanting to team up with her. Plus, as annoying Grim is, he's like the animal friend all of the anime and storybook protagonists she knows has, and she doesn't mind him too much.

Some things did change after she and Grim got officially enrolled, but she had no problem adapting to the social expectations of the world, part time jobs with Sam -- and occasionally the canteen -- paid enough to get her tools for cooking basic but delicious food, and new friends without the weight of her past helped her get settled comfortably.

The existence of Overblots stunned her for a bit, but a peek into Riddle and Leona's memories helped her understand the concept, even if just a little. However, things began to change eerily simlarly to her old school when a new girl comes, also in a similar position to her, getting transported to a new, unfamilliar world, and seemingly hailing from a similar world to the Earth she knows. She warmly welcomes her, eager to finally befriend another girl, but it seems that the girl does not share the same enthusiasm.

The girl only barely responds to Yuu's attempts at forming a friendship, and always seems to talk her in a condescending way, and often dismisses her, and especially so whenever there are any boys around.

Yuu will not deny any statements claiming she's an attention seeker or that she plays up her sweet innocent girl act, but she knows to never, ever sacrifice a bystander for it. But if someone insists on war with her... well that's another, different story. She's learnt her lesson of being overly optimistic, and she will not make the same mistake twice. She will not let her make her life a living hell more than it already is with Crowley's irresponsibleness.

Aaand thus begins the story. Or well, however you wanna continue it. I'm honestly in favour of most Housewardens (Kalim, Vil, and Idia in particular. I'll put my reasoning in a few paragraphs down) Adeuce, Tweels, and Ortho for team Yuu. Why?

Well, first of all, Adeuce. This is mostly because the duo is like. with Yuu since Day 1, as much of a bitch as Ace is, I think those two are the most likely to trust and know Yuu well enough to not believe the lies R (< Replacer) tells. Especially Deuce, he doesn't want to betray a friend he knew for quite a while, that would not be very honor student-like of him!! And she helped him out in a lot of situations too! He doesn't want to hurt you after all the trouble you go through to help him, and also knowing how horrible your living conditions are. Ace would most likely give in to peer pressure if the student body is overwhelmingly in favour of R, but as of now, he maybe enjoys your company just a bit more than R. Just a bit, promise.

Tweels I feel like is self-explanatory. Those two are perceptive as fuck istg it scares me. Jade especially. I feel like the two would just toy with R for a bit despite her facade and lies before dropping her after she bothers them for attention and favours one too many times.

(Ortho ties in with Idia so I'll explain him in Idia's paragraph)

Kalim is actually very emotionally intelligent. He can come off annoying and stupid, but from all the scenes I see of him, he's actually really good at dealing with people. Have you seen how he deals with the Scarabia residents after Jamil's OB??? The way he phrases his sentences?? He didn't force or even plead with them to forgive Jamil, he simply asks them to wait before making permanent judgements, and I think he's gonna be uncomfy with how condescendingly R talks to Yuu, and even if he's used to people going after him for money, I feel like R mostly eyeing him for money and how she "secretly" sighs in annoyance everytime she goes out of the party for a "bathroom break" will only solidify his dislike/discomfort, even if he doesn't show it.

Vil is also kind of self-explanatory if you read into his character and not just the shell the official English localization makes for him. (I could rant for hours about how the official tl portrays his character istg. He's hardworking and he actually didn't attempt to poison Neige out of pure jealousy, he did it because he felt like all his efforts to be beautiful will never be able to surpass Neige, who, in his eyes, always seemed to be innocent and naturally beautiful. He feels like the villain in Neige's story. He feels like he is reduced to what he often plays as, a snobbish, overconfident villain obsessed with overthrowing the hero. And because of it, it became a twisted self-fulfilling prophecy, pushing him to, in a fit of despair, be that same villain everyone sees him as.) I really don't think he will take well to R's condescension to Yuu, who genuinely wants to befriend R. (I actually have a whole thing in my head where Yuu and Vil occasionally have sleepovers where they do skincare together after the whole VDC thing happened. I feel like this is also a "vent sesh" of sorts for the both of them, just to air out their grievances without much seriousness, and I think Yuu would admit to wanting a fellow girl in the school that she could befriend, since no matter what, being the only girl can be exhausting.) Ik Vil's not a girl but he is such a girls' girl istg.

Idia... this mostly ties into Ortho and The STYX Incident, but like,, I think we can all agree on this one,, Idia is smart and capital V Very pessimistic. Would you rather trust the girl you've known for a while, who saw your memories, who helped you in awkward social situations when she can and is besties with your brother or some random new girl who trash talks said girl behind her back? The former, right? Plus, even if Yuu did only hang out with him and his brother because she likes to secretly laugh at him behind his back, there's mo guarantee R wouldn't do the same, given his experience. And he would rather have someone who actively helps him and his brother out than someone who wouldn't.

I didn't put Malleus in because of how canon him actually treats Yuu. I feel like the fandom kind of put on rose-tinted glasses on with his character, and kind of ignored some things like, idk... him just leaving them to fend for themselves homeless during Octavinelle... maybe he thought Crowley would offer them a place to stay but like... I'm still bothered by how didn't atleast offer a spare room in Diasomnia. He's a housewarden goddamnit. He's not as distant or scary as the rumours say but like. still rubbed me the wrong way.

Anyways I don't think my attention span will let me write it to completion so if anyone likes this and wants to write it feel free. Pls tag me if you do tho. I would love to read it :3

[beatcroc]

sonic scribbles of varying ages and intents. surge from mid 2022 when i was first catchin' up on idw, silver from a few months ago when i was trying to figure him out, the rest from late 2022 from memory with stylization and redesigning where i couldn't be assed to try and stay on-model