#from March 2023

[guerillas-of-history]

Ranks of resistance fighters from Saraya Al-Quds, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, and Al-Qassam Brigades are participating in the PIJ-led festival today held in #Jenin in honor of the city’s martyrs.

[emilyych]

i will rain down every agony, every violation imaginable, upon you

[probablyasocialecologist]

In effect, the Internet Archive is fighting to prevent the devolution of ebooks into Netflix-like, un-ownable licensed products. An “authorized” licensed book that can’t be owned outright isn’t fundamentally a book at all; books that can only be licensed are impermanent object that can disappear from the virtual shelves of libraries for any number of reasons.

The stakes in this lawsuit have become clearer in the years since it was filed, as attacks against the freedom of individuals to read, write, teach, and learn have escalated—shading, not infrequently now, into threats of violence: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis taking aim at academic freedom on multiple fronts; literal book bannings and library closings; open aggression against school board members and librarians. Do we want to live in a world where books can disappear with one click of DeSantis’s mouse?

Jennie Rose Halperin, the director of Library Futures, a digital library policy and advocacy organization, told me: “If libraries do not maintain the right to purchase and lend materials digitally as well as physically on terms that are equitable and fair to the public, we risk further exacerbating divides in our democracy and society, as well as the continued privatization of information access. Just because a book is digital does not make it licensed software—a book is a book, in whatever form it takes.”

Libraries, it’s clear, need their traditional statutory protections now more than ever. The right of first sale, which allows libraries to own and loan the books in their own collections, in particular, must be preserved for digital books as well as print ones.

[...]

The future of digital culture must not be left in the hands of commercial interests, because corporations don’t protect or develop culture: They sell it. Which is fine, and healthy, so long as businesses stay in their lane—but they don’t. Again and again, corporate overreach like the lawsuit against the Internet Archive has shown that where there is more money to be made, business will all too happily interfere with schools, universities, and libraries—no matter the cost to the quality or utility or posterity of education, or art, or literature.

[skunk-floof]

DocM, Destroyer of Inklings - Hermitoon Member 4/26

Species - (Half-Sanitized) Octoling

Weapon of Choice - E-Liter 4k Scope

Doc (Splashtag: theGOAT) was a high ranking sniper octoling. He was so well known that he ended up being close to DJ Octavio. When he wasn't out on the battlefield or discussing plans with Octavio, he was helping newer octarian soldiers train and practice their aim.

He was perfectly content with where he was in life. But after a while he started to realize he was sort of in a losing battle. Octarian cities were constantly running out of power, and it seemed like even when he was fighting his hardest, he couldn't prevent them from losing power somewhere else. So, after years of being by Octavio's side, he retired. During retirement, he spent his time picking up engineering and mechanics as a hobby, with the octarian mechanic Ethoslab as inspiration to start.

Over time he noticed that Octo Valley was looking more and more empty. Like his old octarian buddies had just disappeared. After hearing more and more stories of an underground metro octos were taking to make it to the surface to start their life anew, Doc took it upon himself to try and find out what was so special about it. And why no one was hearing back from said octos who supposedly made it to the surface.

He did eventually find the metro. And in doing so, went along with Tartar's commands to get to 'the promosed land.' And like many others before him, he completed the challenges and got all the thangs that needed to be located. After he had already stepped in, he realized what was happening. With all of his strength, he punched through the glass and escaped, but not unscathed. His right arm was so badly cut up that he ended up getting it amputated, along with his right eye being cut. And the sanitization process had left his skin a sickly green. Along with that, many of his memories were left fragmented or straight up missing.

When he did make it to the surface (no thanks to Tartar) his main goal was to get in contact with other octolings on the surface, and he wanted to find out if he could cure himself of his half-sanitation. He quickly found out, it wasn't exactly a common occurrence to see a sanitized octoling, which led others to be wary or suspicious of him. But, he wasn't the only one either. And as it turns out, Doc wasn't the only one trying to find a cure for sanitation. One day, he met a fully sanitized octoling named Cleo, and she, surprisingly enough, had lots of connections. Connections that led him to talking to the idol Marina on how reversing the sanitization process might work. With him being only partially sanitized, he would be a great test subject on learning how to move forward.

When he wasn't focused on sanitization cures, he jumped straight back into his hobby of mechanics, only this time so he could actually afford a place to live in Inkopolis Square. His main gig was fixing broken weapons from turf wars and Salmon Run shifts. Grizzco paid well, and there were always jobs ready to be taken, but he also did enjoy repairing inklings prized turf war mains when they happened to break from never-ending use. Doc himself usually does not participate in turf wars, but does indulge in ranked matches on occasion.

[rapidstar64]

Alex g attacks his guitarist and goes crazy on stage singing Blessing

(3am challenge gone wrong) (real) (not clickbate)

[yaz-the-spaz]

You look so beautiful wtff

omg stahppp it thank youuuu you're too kind! 🙈🙈🙈🥰

[givemeallyourpenny]

Boop :)

Boop!

[ashoss]

old drawings i found while going thru my computer

[i-may-be-an-emu]

“egg”

[mistyheartrbs]

cannot stop thinking about weird barbie and queercoding and how her subplot mirrors margot robbie barbie’s main plotline and the Implications of it all. because like. weird barbie is introduced as this outsider who lives on the fringes of barbieland society (it’s intentionally never made clear whether she was exiled or chose to set up camp there herself; the way mckinnon plays her makes me think probably a mix of both) who, as one of the other barbies (i want to say alexandra shipp/the author?) explains, was one of the prettiest barbies until a little girl played with her too hard, and now she’s an outcast. the barbies call her Weird Barbie behind her back and to her face. this is because of something she couldn’t control (first parallel to robbie’s barbie, whose crisis is brought on by gloria’s own feelings of negativity) and yet she’s forced away because of it. going to hop onto a brief tangent here and say one of the things that never sat right with me in toy story 3 was the weird...demonization? of the preschoolers who chew on/break/otherwise harm the toys because in a story where the Very Ultimate Dream of any toy is to be loved and played with it’s bizarre that they then seemed to be saying well, actually, there are Wrong ways to play with toys when these kids didn’t know any better. and it would’ve been easy for that to be weird barbie’s deal - a freaky little girl played with her in the “wrong” way and doomed her as a result. but she gets to be a hero! she leads the resistance!

robbie’s barbie is immune to ken’s brainwashing bc she experienced the real world’s misogyny and more specifically felt gloria’s messy complex human emotions - her “dark and crazy” drawings, as sasha calls them - stemming from the pain of being a woman in society. weird barbie has never been to the real world and still manages to stay immune, along with her mansion of misfit toys (including, as other tumblr users have pointed out, magic earring ken aka Gay Ken) - there’s layers to that. in both robbie’s barbie’s and weird barbie’s cases, their girls placed Weird and Unpleasant feelings onto the perfect ideal that is Barbie™ and absolutely upended their lives as a result - but they became fully realized people because of it. barbie chooses to go back to the real world to live as a human woman because she wants to feel all those messy and bizarre human feelings! she loves them! she loves humanity and the avenues through which she reaches that love are women being unabashedly freaky and weird both within and outside of her understanding of the world she lives in. what a queer experience. what a way to showcase that scary exciting feeling of being on the very fringes of girlhood and needing to define it for yourself. pink birkenstocks. she leaves barbieland better than she found it. she can’t stay there anymore. she loves the people around her and she loves herself and that self-love is something she’s earned now. weird barbie gets to run sanitation. gloria’s ideas for ordinary barbie foster understanding. barbie is sasha’s stepmom now probably. greta gerwig you’ve done it again.

[solfinite]

hello finally putting my au stuff down on paper after several months.. also finally chose a name for it !! it's called Sonic Aeroventure :)

(+xtra traditional sketches below)

[radioelly]

early shuake v third sem shuake based on this meme:

[kaelidascope]

Hey can someone send me that Link that Doesn't Exist for where to watch definitely Not RWBY

[rkgkyouu]

Caelus found a wonderful song that reminded him of Welt 👴 YT Algorithm recommended me this Spongebob song and thought it would be funny if Caelus gives it to Mr. Yang as a gift (or at least it was funnier in my head lol)

[jasminebythebay]

Commission for matching profile pictures of Shadow and Silver. ☕️💌 Thank you for commissioning me!

[lalunanymph]

rin loves denying you your pleasure while nothing gets sae harder than when you're sobbing for him to stop