#hard covid

[guvermint]

This will always be funny

[valtsv]

the thing that bothers me about dragon riders is that the dragon absolutely does not have to let you climb on its back. your ability to 'ride' the dragon is entirely dependent on the dragon allowing you to do that. it could fly just fine without you sitting there. which means you are not a dragon rider, not really. that beast is not your pet. you're the dragon's pet. you're its trophy wife.

[lotus-tower]

y’all do NOT go out next week unless you have to and wear your best masks and tape the edges down bc it’s just not worth it

[honeyhobbs]

Trying to draw again 😔 so obviously had to be gaz

[deep-space-lines]

One, two, three, four, to the floor

I give blood for blood but you want more

[salmonlyster]

someone make up a good ship name for these two while i go crazy

[humlors]

Narrowing down my type in video game romances to 'Big Gay Horny (double meaning)'

[heartorbit]

i'm sending this endless melody to a nameless you

[strawberry-cow-sorceress]

link to tweet

[ID: a screenshot of a tweet by Amanda Hu (@amandalhu) that reads “The progression from “we need to wear masks” ➡️ “only vulnerable people need to wear masks” ➡️ “vulnerable people can isolate” ➡️ “vulnerable people shouldn’t be in public as they’re vulnerable so anyone who wears a mask is a criminal” should be alarming to anyone against fascism”.” a timestamp in the bottom left corner reads “2:48 PM • 6/25/24]

As mask bans sweep the nation it is more important than ever to wear a mask (preferably a respirator) in public at all times. These mask bans rely on the manufactured consent of the public to permanently ice out immunocompromised and vulnerable people from daily social life. Aside from being clearly unethical to want to exclude all vulnerable people from society, it is impossible to do as immunocompromised people are everywhere and most need to work to survive. Further, mask bans will most heavily impact the most marginalized members of our communities like Black maskers and put them at even more risk of state violence. It may seem dramatic to claim that masking is ‘fighting fascism’ but it is one very small thing you can do to publicly signal dissent of the fascist state (and to help distract the agents of state violence away from people who are more vulnerable if you’re white like me).

If buying masks is out of your budget I would highly recommend looking up local mask blocs in your area. They are frequently giving away free respirators and other supplies to help you avoid infection and protect those around you.

[beyond-a-name]

I think the greatest political victory of anti-maskers here in Canada was shifting the focus of covid precautions from public responsibility to personal risk.

It's no longer about "My mask protects you; your mask protects me," or about keeping your neighbours or loved ones safe. Now it's only about "I'll wear it if it's crowded, otherwise I'm not that worried," and how much of a risk it is *to you*.

You see a lot of people who previously called anti-maskers idiots and would heap blame upon them, but now those same people all stopped wearing masks or taking precautions because "Vaccines are so effective now!" or "There's hardly any [reported] cases!" or "I'm tired of being scared," or "Well it's not going anywhere, and I'm tired of putting my life on pause." And it just becomes very clear that it wasn't ever actually about protecting those around you, (or if it was that it isn't now), but instead it was that everyone was just waiting until they could "start living again" or get back to "normal", and those people were angry because they thought someone was preventing them from living.

I thini that's the real root of it, is simply that most people never knew how to be alive in times of stress, that no matter how shit things get, you're alive and your life is right here and now.

But it's really hard to not read it as betrayal, as a childish selfishness, when someone doesn't wear a mask or do the bare minimum; because well, it's just very clear that it's not about the other people they're hurting, or pushing to the side, they can go back to stores and dance class and bars!!! There's even less people in wheelchairs clogging up the halls, or less people to serve their drinks or staff their business. It's all back to *normal!*

I've been in an abusive or tumultuous home basically all my life. If I decided that my life "started" when I wasn't stressed, I would discount my entire existence, it all just would have been "on pause". I still wear a mask. Everyone else is "back to normal".

It's just very clear that their idea of "normal" doesn't include you, or the people we lost, or the people now being pushed aside.

"Those at-risk will protect themselves," because the disabled and the old and children historically never need help, right? Get a grip. But don't worry, I know you don't feel too afraid to wear that mask that protects me and them, so I'm sure it's fine.

[lesliemeyers]

this is kinda... for both today's day of Kyle Week (favorite Kyle ship) and day 7 (Post-Covid/Adult) just really early.

+ extras ↴

okay first of all the song is Becoming Shadows by Stef Chura, in case anyone was wondering <3 (like the ending of the song with a little editing tho because. i only had so many frames in mind to draw lmao)

second, here are a few still assets from this (without the same exact texture + color grading used in the video tho. that stuff was done in after effects/when i was assembling the pieces)

third, i just really like how this preliminary rough painting/sketch layer looked so have that too

[reachouttouchfaith]

i honestly hope the whole “something’s coming!” vibe from dnp rn is a big psyop and the secret event is actually something to raise funds for palestine/congo/sudan/haiti etc or a similar initiative. would be really cool to see. or maybe it can be both, where they’re like “we’ll admit we’re gay for each other at 100k!” lol

[beanarie]

Relationship: Evan "Buck" Buckley/Tommy Kinard

Characters: Denny Wilson, Christopher Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Harry Grant (9-1-1 TV), Evan "Buck" Buckley, Tommy Kinard, May Grant (9-1-1 TV), Jee-Yun Buckley Han, Mara Driskell, Howie "Chimney" Han

Additional Tags:

Fix-It, Episode Fix-It: s08e06 Confessions (9-1-1 TV), Fluff, Light Angst, Getting Back Together

Language: English

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Published: 2025-01-01 Words: Chapters: 1/1

"It's decidedly bizarre," Tommy reflects, to no one in particular, "to feel parent-trapped when I've never parented anyone."

ok ao3 is a liar i posted this with more than two hours to go but anyway. go me. 💪

[covid-safer-hotties]

My man's stance is fantastic... ( っ˶°૦°˶)づ ✧

[pancakeke]

"autistic/neurodivergent people don't fuck" is another one of those red flag beliefs that tells you the holder doesn't interact with real people in real life

[southconfessionpark]

I love when people draw adult stan fat- draw that man FAT and OBESE. draw all of the characters FAT. don't be scared