#opabinia-777

[vergess]

My mom doesn’t believe me about Covid still being a serious problem

are there any resources I could point her to?

I recommend The People's CDC, which is a nonprofit COVID information group dedicated to scientific accuracy. Their COVID This Week summary is delivered in the format of a half hour weekly news show, and is available on their website here

It's a good resource for keeping on top of the latest research, and they also summarize public health law changes relating to COVID.

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

What’s your thoughts on gravity falls

I don't really know what it is, honestly. I knew a few people who were into it as kids, but I think the only show I've actually watched all the way through was "Daria" (the cartoon).

It looks like a show in the style of "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" from the perspective of an adult, but then it also sort of appears to be a mix of some of the more abstract or surreal parts of early 2000s internet cartoons like "Homestar Runner" and a weird adult fantasy novel? It's pretty enjoyable for what it is -- I really like it when there's a lot going on and the writing is good -- but I'm still confused about why anyone would make or watch it.

[mandareeboo]

What fandoms do you write for?

Hooo boy, lemme just grab the entire list from my fanfic bio (I’ll edit out ones I wrote for like once lol):

Ben 10, Danny Phantom, Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Scooby Doo, Pokémon, El Tigre, My Little Pony, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Avatar: Last Airbender, Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, Warriors, Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, Codename: Kids Next Door, Over the Garden Wall, Star Vs. The Forces of Evil, Rick and Morty, Loud House, Watership Down, Hanazuki: Full of Treasures, DuckTales, OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes, Bojack Horseman, Darkwing Duck, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Amphibia, Infinity Train, Inside Job, and Dead End: Paranormal Park.

[dzamie]

Gets funnier cause these are the rules da is currently enforcing

oof

[stunning-eclipse]

A commission for @opabinia-777 !

[carbonateddelusion]

a commission for @opabinia-777 !

consider commissioning me here, I'm no longer in a crisis situation but it'd still help immensely as I sort out permanent housing!

[catbreon-draws]

Bust commission for @opabinia-777! Thanks so much for your support! ^-^

Please consider sharing my art if you like it, thank you! My commission details and available pokemon adoptables are in my pinned post. Please PM me if interested!

[absolute-eyesore]

Commission for @opabinia-777 based off of SCP-7179

Thanks for the support!

-Hollow

[raulsberet]

Just a heads up, that fundraiser post from queueinglovee is a scam. They have done this before, using pictures of the same cat, using a different name, with a different injury, with a bill from a different vet, with the same writing on it. (Notice how the 2's are written) Also, note that queueinglovee's blod was also created 4 hours ago. The other blog they used is deactivated, but here is a link to a reblog of it. https://www.tumblr.com/opabinia-777/728864326940770304 I suggest deleting your reblog of their post so more users don't get deceived, making a post to help people be aware of what's happening, and reporting queueinglovee.

I did delete my reblog.

I was unaware of this but another ask told me about this.

I apologise for reblogging the scam post!

I was in the dark about it being a lie.

[vergess]

#Doesn’t it also have an association with hard content? (via @opabinia-777)

It's more... like... "content not normally found on this archive." Something unexpected.

In theory, you could run an archive dedicated to extreme gore, and then fluff with proper tagging would be dead dove.

So it gets associated with hard content due to the fact that, well, most archives are overwhelmingly low violence romance, gen adventure, and porn.

hate what people did to the dead dove tag

[vergess]

Is “from the river to the sea” inherently an antisemetic dog whistle or can it be used in good faith in a similar vein to Free Palestine?

I’ve been hearing conflicting viewpoints

obviously if you feel uncomfortable you don’t have to answer

It's... complicated.

Personally, I don't believe most people saying "from the river to the sea" are actually calling for the immediate dismantling and re-refugeeing of Israel's entire population.

Nevertheless in absolute terms, that is EXACTLY what the slogan is demanding. See, a lot of people don't actually look at a map:

The area highlighted in red is, approximately, what "the river to the sea" refers to in its most conservative terms. Note how almost every single population center is within that range.

In practical terms, it's straight up a demand that Israel stop existing and Palestine be returned to local control.

And normally, being a fucking sensible person, you'd think, "Well, land back! Give it back!!"

Only you're assuming Israelis are colonizers.

Which IS. NOT. TRUE. Just because Israel is operating as a US colonial project doesn't make Israelis colonizers themselves.

Israelis are better thought of as refugees. People who were successfully genocided out of EVERY SURROUNDING NATION:

This map shows the expulsion or genocide of Jews from the area surrounding Israel over the last century.

Black-coloured countries have eliminated over 80% and up to 100% of their Jewish populations. That is to say, countries in black successfully committed genocide against their Jewish populations in the last century.

With any surviving refugees sent where?

To Israel.

Red represents greater than 60% population loss. In a century.

Blue represents 40+%, and yellow 20+%.

Remember: population loss over 10% is considered a strong indication of genocide, and 30% population loss is proof.

And remember that these number include the entire span of time between the holocaust and now.

IF it were possible to genuinely negotiate in good faith a peace treaty that allows Jewish refugees to Israel to stay in the Jewish Homeland that they've only barely even been sent to.

Then maybe "from the river to the sea" would not be a threat to finish off the last survivors of genocide.

But between US interventionism in the region, existing racial tensions, and the last century of genocide?

Good faith negotiations simply are not possible right now, and they won't be possible until the US and European powers make it possible by dialing back the imperialism and instead using their massive global power to support genuine negotiations of peace, that actually strive to develop a healthy, equitable society for both Jewish refugees returning to their historic homeland AND the people already living there.

Which, let's be realistic here. The EU is so busy crowing about how it's less racist than the US that they deny having even participated in these forced expulsions, claiming it was all "voluntary." And the US is literally still enslaving BIPOC in prisons.

So! That's just not going to happen!!

Which means we have to look at the phrase "from the river to the sea" not in the context of peace where it would be harmless, but in the context of, unfortunately, more wars over the last century than you could even give names to.

Where it calls for the expulsion of Jewish refugees from their homeland.

To where?

Well, most likely to death. After all, it's not like we're raring to take in ~7 million surviving Israeli Jews here in the US.

And that's the quiet part, I think. The part that people don't realize is being implied.

If Israel is gone, as the chant demands, then where do the 7 million Jewish Israelis go?

"Back home"? To the nations that killed off their entire families?

Because this isn't like land back movements in North America, where it is widely accepted that there would be no expulsions or relocations because they're inhumane.

The expulsions and forced relocations are already underway and currently ongoing.

That's the distinction that I think a lot of gentiles in the west don't grasp.

This slogan isn't "turn Israel over to Palestinian governance to achieve freedom" it's "turn Israel over to Palestinian control to complete the last century of genocides."

Like. Okay. In my ideal world, Israel as a state would never have been founded because the UK wouldn't have Done That To Palestine. But we live in this world, with this history.

To clamour for the dissolution of the Israeli state is to clamour for the slaughter and expulsion of 7 millions Jews. Bro that's half the global population.

Now, do I think "from the river to the sea" is an evil phrase and everyone who says it is genocidal?

No.

I think it's a poetic chant that works well in English and gets a decent message across to most listeners that they should support Palestinian humanity in the face of that genocide.

But I think that if I catch your ass shouting it after a ceasefire or during peace negotiations instead of during actual war crimes?

I won't be likely to trust you. Either you're well intended but uninformed, or worse, you know damned well what you're doing and its vile.

So, I don't know. I guess I would say it's not inherently antisemitic now, at this moment in time.

But give it a few months, and it will be, just like it has been before.

[andromeda-raine-gvf]

Just a heads up, that fundraiser post from queueinglovee is a scam. They have done this before, using pictures of the same cat, using a different name, with a different injury, with a bill from a different vet, with the same writing on it. (Notice how the 2's are written) Also, note that queueinglovee's blod was also created 4 hours ago. The other blog they used is deactivated, but here is a link to a reblog of it. https://www.tumblr.com/opabinia-777/728864326940770304 I suggest deleting your reblog of their post so more users don't get deceived, making a post to help people be aware of what's happening, and reporting queueinglovee.

Omg i had no idea! Thank you so much for letting me know!

[dzamie]

Why is this hot to me

You know why :P

Anyway, the solution to this sign is obvious: take a buddy with you. You'll still feel your skin melting off, exposing raw nerves to the stomach walls of the enterprising blue dra- I mean, of the unknown predator, but now you have company! They do say misery loves it.

[angstandhappiness]

YES

@theseasideskies #YESYESYEYSYWYSYEYSYES

@agiftfrombelow #thank you thank you thank you#this is so tasty for narinder

@thearchivistgate #i agree with this#he's just lil different#being imprisoned in judgement for who knows how long does this to you#can't blame him honestly

@ren-or-rin #YESSSSS#nods nods#mhm#you get it

@pikos-den : #yes. @artsycryptix : #THISSSSS#i live for these hc

@just-here-doing-something #weLL

@nomname #punch me in the gut moot

@espighty #agree wholeheartedly#especially the last one#To me. Narinder is the guy who stands on the outskirts of every social gathering.#He has little interest in joining of course. the years have taken their toll on his social skills anyways.#But he needs something to focus on to avoid being alone with his thoughts.#He’s used to watching things from afar anyways.#so#you’ll always find him in those outskirts. just watching.

@opabinia-777 #unsettling

Narinder hates having his wrists touched.

He hates clothes that are too heavy. He can’t stand sleeping with blankets. Hugs are hell for him.

Narinder who can’t shake the ghosts of chains that wrap around him

Narinder who talks to himself just to hear something, anything other than silence

Narinder who hates the snow because it’s nothing but a void of white

Narinder who, despite how mean and bitter he is, cannot stand being alone

[puppastry]

Thank you @opabinia-777 for commissioning me!!! 

[eimehh]

Put together the pre made elements in this picrew (wervty gasp picrew) and came up with this and If it’s ok you could draw it?

I had a fun time experimenting with this one! Thank you for the inspiration and request!