#if anything i'm relieved

[apollos-olives]

Is it direspectful to cut a kufiya ? I was thinking of doing sewing projects and maybe clothes or plushies from them when i can get some from hirbawi but i don’t want to do something wrong

with all due respect, please do not mutilate, cut, or change the kuffiyeh in any way. if you're not palestinian, then you should not be using our clothes and our traditional scarves or anything outside of what we have instructed you to do with them. and you should ESPECIALLY NOT DO ANYTHING to a hirbawi kuffiyeh. hirbawi is the last kuffiyeh factory in palestine. that factory took a nearly dead cultural practice and revived it. please treat our scarves with respect and do not alter them in any way. they're very delicate and hirbawi puts their blood sweat and tears into their kuffiyehs. changing our cultural clothings outside of what we have instructed for non palestinians to do with them is extremely disrespectful and it turns into the topic of "consuming" our culture, instead of respecting and appreciating it.

thank you so much for asking first, before doing anything. please take care of our kuffiyehs and especially treat hirbawi's kuffiyehs with love. i hope this helps.

[waywardsunlight]

Oh uh! Evelyn has stolen your gender! 

Sometimes I think about how her name literally means island and I go a little wild in my mind. She looked like human Flap in this comic lmao.

[littlesmartart]

HANDS DIRTY | DELTA RAE

I've been thinking about this song + JGY for a long time ("I get my hands dirty, I show up so early, they show me no mercy, so I just keep working" hello???? hello??????), and I would like to personally thank ZZJ for his wonderful face and brilliant acting 🙏

[bi-hop]

crawling out of the 'university AU' dungeon, drenched in blood, to bring you all new shit

toshiro, laios, and namari, sitting in a circle and drinking beer:

namari: sooo how's things with that tall-man? the uh... I don't know how old he is. that one guy.

toshiro: kabru?

namari: yeah!

laios, slumping over: marcille says i'm in the talking stage with him. i don't even know what that is

namari, under her breath: you're going to marcille for love advice?

toshiro (he didn't hear her): I think a talking stage is a 'friendship'

laios:

[uldahstreetrat]

also as an update for everyone: my mom is home from the hospital! she's still on bed rest and doing pretty rough, but they cleared her to be well enough to be home <3

I have three more comms in my queue right now and there are still slots open if you'd like to snatch one! I'm also probably gonna open up a third comm style next week but I may also limit slots down a bit more so I can focus on getting some merch designs done also

[lloydfrontera]

what do you think llojavi's child will be? I love reading your hc.

mmhhh i never really stopped to think about it tbh! kid fics aren't really my go-to and i'm terrified of having children myself so it's not something i tend to explore with my ships

but if i had to have a hc for them... i think they'd have a lot of children. all of them adopted.

it just makes sense for them as characters imo! they are both deeply compassionate individuals who know what it's like to lose both parents and know how much it means to be brought in to a loving family. they know.

they wouldn't be able to come across a child who needs what they received at one point and look away.

that plus lloyd is an only child, he always wanted a little sibling and was absolutely delighted to get julian, i think once he gets over the instinctual fear of "oh god what the fuck am i doing i don't know how to be a father" and is more comfortable in his role as parent he wouldn't be able to resist the idea of having a bunch of kids running around their home. i'm thinking maybe four. probably six. no more than eight.

but. i do think the first kid would be javier's fault.

in one of those rare occasions he's not glued to lloyd's side, he'd go out to run some errands or something and then come back with a semi-terrified look on his face and a far-too-small-for-their-age kid in his arms.

lloyd just,,, stares at them for a little bit before taking the kid and charge of the situation. he's never really had any experience with kids but they're just,,, people. in tiny. he knows people, he can work with that. his friendly and straightforward demeanor immediately wins over the child, making him relax and open up in a way that javier's warm but stilted demeanor weren't quite able to.

i'm thinking a four or five year old, just to really hammer down the parallels between javier and him. very tiny. with dark hair and dark eyes. the kind of features that don't really stand out in a crowd.

i think the two of them would think it's just something temporary, just until they find someone more suitable to raise a kid, a good family that could take him in.

neither of them really mentions the idea of keeping the child, at first because it's not even a possibility but then as the weeks pass by because they're just too wary of disrupting the routine they unconscionably created and actually having to take a decision about it.

but then one morning javier looks over during breakfast and there's lloyd pilling all sorts of food into the kid's plate, chatting him up the entire time, playfully teasing him into eating everything he can, the two of them very solemnly haggling and bargaining over just how many vegetables he has to eat in every meal and a wave of pure love and affection rushes through him and he realizes that. oh. he wants this to last forever.

he doesn't mention it tho. he knows lloyd has always talked about having an easy, relaxed life, free of any concerns and burdens. and raising a child is not an easy responsibility. spending the rest of his life at lloyd's side already feels like more than he deserves, he won't selfishly asks for more than lloyd is willing to give.

he will just enjoy however long this lasts and hope the separation won't hurt as much as he's bracing himself for.

meanwhile lloyd caught javier with the kid on top of him napping on a sunbeam like two weeks ago, both of them completely sprawled out and dead to the world, except when they unconsciously moved to chase the moving sunlight and then he immediately decided he was gonna keep this. them. all of it.

he already reached his limit on how many times he can lose his family. he's no longer letting anything else keep him from hoarding his loved ones like a dragon with their treasure.

and he's terrified to admit it but the pipsqueak has already burrowed his way into his heart and now heaven help the soul that tries to take him away from lloyd. he's not above biting.

that's precisely why he doesn't bring it up with javier because,,, he really doesn't know what would happen if javier isn't on board with the plan. he's not selfish enough to make a decision like this for the both of them but he really doesn't think he can give the kid up anymore.

so he just. doesn't say anything. he continues with the routine they've made and hopes time will be enough to make javier fall for the child the same way lloyd did already.

and then this goes on for a couple weeks because these two are terrible and i love them for it. but this is like. not great. it actually kind of really sucks for them but also for the child

it all comes crashing down when the poor kid breaks down on them at some point because someone told him they were giving him away and, hey, turns out, not telling a child who's been left on the streets to survive by himself what's the plan for them because you're too busy worrying your partner won't be on board with keeping him is not a great idea! because he's gonna be lowkey fretting about what will happen to him and ultimately freak out at the slightest suggestion that he's being abandoned again! who would've thought!

they both immediately try to comfort him but they can't get to the bottom of his fears and actually give him reassurance because they don't know if they can promise him anything because they don't know what the other is thinking.

that is until they make eye contact in the middle of comforting him and it's one of those perfect moments where they're in total sync and can have entire conversations with just one look. and they realize how stupid they've been. because of course the other also wanted the same thing. of course they would want to give this child the very same thing they've received from their loved ones. how could've they ever doubted that.

after that is just really a matter of convincing the kid that of course they're not giving him away, he's staying right there with them, they can be his family now if that's what he wants. which isn't really hard because apart from this one communication issue they have actually been pretty good improvised parents to the squirt. and now that they know for sure they will be his parents forever, they try even harder to be better.

so that's how they adopt their first child.

i could go into detail about the rest of the kids are adopted but. that would make for an even longer post and this is already way more than i wanted to write askjhdkss

this is,,, really not what you asked for but it's what came out when i sat down to answer this ask, so like. i hope you still like it nonnie and i'm really sorry 〒▽〒

[icewindandboringhorror]

"We can get through this by working together, reach out to your friends, community is all we have, a social network will be your security in the world, now is the time to lean on others!"

I do agree, and it's scientifically sound (pretty sure there is data about how people with better social networks live longer and etc) but also....augh..... what about the severe social issues, difficulty to leave the house, physical issues which lead to like zero socialization energy a majority of the time, etc. etc. Social support can be a replacement for structural support, but.. I guess I just wish it didn't have to be. Community is extremely difficult to build, even moreso if you're someone who has issues with social cues or group conversations or even just being around others in the first place. And blah, nuance, of course I'm just complaining or maybe being too negative or maybe misunderstanding, but, I hardly have the energy to brush my hair once every 2 months.. how am I supposed to maintain a wide social network and be active in a Community and Join Groups lol... sometimes it kind of feels like "er.. well if thats my only option then...... ruh roh". It's overwhelming

[mitamicah]

Day 7 for @kaarija-inktober (Frank Edition): Soft

A little tribute to pötsi :'D

I remembered this sweet little moment (x) of Jere being soft and kind to himself and his tummy so I decided that this would be a fun different take on the prompt :3 After all one of the things I really appeciate about Jere is how good a rolemodel he is when it comes to body image and to be confident in the skin you're in <3 no matter your weight ^V^

[notyoinara]

alice yabusame art marathon 2024 has ended early.........it's okay there's always next year

[theloveinc]

i don't really want to bc like. there's many reasons for me to stay but. i don't think this tumblr life is for me anymore

[lightasthesun]

after years of being terrified I told my conservative dad I'm bisexual and he smiled just nodded and we hugged and????

Bye sobbing.

[syn0vial]

anyway, i love in legacy of the force when boba is all like "my bloodline is cursed with some kind of malevolent force that follows me around and harms everyone around me and if i try to have a family it'll inevitably infect them too and suck all the happiness out of their lives and that's why i needed to get tf away from all of you" and you're just sitting there reading like. that's generational trauma babe! please seek therapy

[lovelaceisntdead]

i think i just need to rewatch lost.

[discordiansamba]

To Shiro's benefit when Adam and the rest of the Kerberos crew are captured by the Galra, they don't suspect he had anything to do with it. Is this because he has established a deep bond of trust with them? Well. That's a part of the answer.

But the bigger part is that they've all seen how he looks at Adam. They've heard the melodramatic sighs. The way his whole face lights up when Adam is in the room. Like. Yeah. This alien's got it BAD for Adam, he would literally never do anything to hurt him.

[cxpperhead]

Due to the nature of his work, Copperhead isn't active every night. He may spend a week hunting somebody down before delivering the coup de grâce, leaving him with a little free time before picking up his next contract. Copperhead often spends his free time caring for the various snakes and other reptile species that come into his care; sometimes these are animals belonging to former victims but often they are creatures which have been neglected or improperly cared for in some way, the serpent metahuman carefully nursing them back to health before making sure they end up in good hands.