#is just so

[decaffloki]

being trans in america right now is very very scary, and something about seeing "protect trans kids" in the new spiderverse movie just. means so much to me

[astraystayyh]

it's been nearly three months since we went through an earthquake and each night when i go to bed i still feel the bed shaking underneath and i have to stand up and stare at my lamp to see if im just imagining things. i didn't even realize that the earthquake, which lasted for a mere minute, affected me this much until this started happening. so i can't even imagine the psychological repercussions that people in Palestine now face

to wake up to the sound of bombs everyday, to know that nowhere is safe, that there is nowhere to hide, to go to sleep not knowing if you'll still be alive tmrw, to write your name on your arm so that ppl would be able to identify you. all of this will leave such horrible horrible mental scars on all Palestinians i can't imagine the fear and the dread and the anxiety they must feel rn. my heart breaks for all of them it's horrible all of this is

[icejello]

LOOK AT THEM BEING OVERPROTECTIVE OF THEIR DAUGHTER 😭

IT'S A KID KAZUKI😭

[sing-me-under]

I frequently think about Robin (1993) #101

I think about it a lot

[locoier]

everyone should have a kids cartoon that theyre randomly really emotionally attached to i think. for me it is pinky and the brain btw

[yakayla-withay]

Okay so I think I know the most attractive thing that a person can like do/wear:

One of those white undershirts and have a happy trail

I won’t be explaining

[leogichidaa]

7 Up

thanks for the tag @anemicc-royalty <3

rules: post 7 (or more) lines of a wip you've been working on

This is from a WIP I have been obsessing over the last couple of weeks when I should be focusing on other things. I went back and forth between which lines to pick because I have two sets I like and then decided, fuck it, rules are for squares, have both!

The Beast in the Belly of the Earth:

Fenrir leaned forward until his face was an inch away from the child’s. The boy scrunched up his nose as Fenrir’s hot breath hit him, but he did not back away. “Your daddy left you out on the street to die, boy,” Fenrir said. “And they call us monsters…”

“I’d rather eat it than raise it,” Ginger said. “I’m hungry. We’re all hungry.”

“We will find food,” Fenrir snapped. “I've not let you starve before, so I'll thank you to shut your mouth and trust me.”

“I guess we have another mouth to feed now, too,” Bea said, giving the child a light kick. “Just what we need.”

“The boy will find his own food,” Fenrir said. “Won’t you, Rosier?”

The child put his hand on his stomach, which ached with an impossible hunger. He had not missed so much as a meal before being bitten and it had been days since he had last been properly fed. Lately he thought of little else but food, how to find it, and what it would feel like to eat it.

He looked up at Fenrir and nodded.

AND:

"As you wish," Rosier said, releasing his hold on Regulus. "You're coming with me, though."

"What? I am not watching you shower, Rosier," Regulus said, rubbing his wrist where Rosier had held him.

"Watch me or don't, I don't care, but I have to watch you. Were you not listening?"

"Surely not constantly..."

"All your fancy schooling and you don't understand what 'don't let him out of your sight' means, hmm?" Rosier asked with a smug smile. "Put on a blindfold if you're so bothered, but you better be where I can see you."

Regulus tilted his chin up defiantly. "Or what?"

Rosier leaned forward slightly, a dangerous glint in his eyes. "Or I will have to come and find you, won't I, little prince? I would enjoy that quite a bit, but you…Depends how willing you are to play games with the Dark Lord's orders."

No pressure tag: @yletylyf @unspeakable3 @drownedlove @green-and-grey-kenaz @ncoincidences

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.

[elbiotipo]

I think one big reason why we don't consider the stars as important as before (not even pop-astrology anymore cares about the stars or the sky on itself, just the signs deprived of context) is because of light pollution.

For most of human history the sky looked between 1-3, 4 at most. And then all of a sudden with electrification it was gone (I'm lucky if I get 6 in my small city). The first time I saw the Milky Way fully as a kid was a spiritual experience, I was almost scared on how BRIGHT it was, it felt like someone was looking back at me. You don't get that at all with modern light pollution.

When most people talk about stargazing nowadays they think about watching about a couple of bright dots. The stars are really, really not like that. The unpolluted night sky is a festival of fireworks. There is nothing like it.

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[rats4brainzzz]

imagine how much of a fucking horrible person you have to be that on the first day your elected into office the crisis calls of a Suicide Prevention Project Go Up 33%. The Trevor Project Received over 1,400 Call By Early Monday Afternoon. Most of those calls, if not all, are coming from children. Children scared of you and what you will do. Imagine how much power and how horrible you have to be to do that.

( Edit ) Link To Where I Got My Info:

[windwenn]

This drawing made me realise that actually I love the comfort zone and I would like to go back into it. Also that I must draw more tigers.

[bixels]

As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

[tawnysoup]

Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!

[bearvverine]

me and gang at the haunted house