#or if you’re brave

[daeneryscel]

i am telling all of you right here right now they’re getting married this season trust 🙏🏻

[moonimii]

[braverynight]

I love my worm <3

[lnmei]

Here’s a bit of a departure from my usual art posting but I’d like to get the word out about my dear friend Edrian and his friend Angeles’s endurance performance and hunger strike for a free Palestine in Los Angeles starting today, June 17th. (More info on Edrian’s Instagram and at venerations.cargo.site)

Edrian will begin cutting out paper dolls and ribbons to reach 35,647 of each, reflecting the reported death toll of Palestinians killed by Israel’s genocide in Gaza since Oct. 7th. He will not move from the venue until he is done and do nothing aside from cutting with few exceptions made for his own physical and economic survival. In addition to that and to represent a microcosm of the suffering in Gaza and Palestine, he will be on HUNGER STRIKE until he finishes. It’s an impossible task to do alone before starving so audience participation is essential. I’m spreading the word to ask for support through participation!

You can participate in a number of ways (more detailed instructions here):

Spread the word. Word of mouth and social media sharing are crucial as this performance is being promoted pretty exclusively via word of mouth.

Donate money to Palestinian aid funds! Certain high donation amounts can help Edrian continue his endurance performance by allowing him to engage in life-giving activities like showering or socializing with a loved one, and reaching the 100k total goal allows him to end his hunger strike.

If you live in and around Los Angeles, visit the venue (800 Date Ave, Alhambra, CA 91803) There you can help him cut and show your support. ***The performance is on the second floor of the venue and there is no elevator so it is not accessible except by stairs :(

If you don’t live near LA, you can cut paper dolls and mail them to the venue address to count towards the total. (printable templates here) This is what I will be doing. It’s easy to do with any spare time you’re not using your hands. I recommend mailing them in small batches if possible to get them in on time and reduce the risk of losing mail. I also recommend including info about the count of paper dolls in each parcel (for example include a note telling the total number of paper dolls) Every small amount counts!

If you are an Art Center College of Design student or alumni, sign the petition to pressure Art Center to divest from Israel! Art Center has refused to host Edrian and Angeles for their performance, torn down their posters promoting it, and in general refused to take a stance against Israel’s genocide. As artists and human beings we must resist genocide and refuse to support institutions that side against the people.

He is also live-streaming his performance and documenting progress if you would like to show support just by being present.

If you’ve never participated in a political performance before now’s a great chance, any little bit counts! I appreciate any time or effort you take to read this, support my friends, and work towards a free Palestine! ♥️🇵🇸

[curiouslymyown]

Who would of thought that almost falling off a roof could be so sexy

[incorrect-upon-a-witchlight]

Gricko: what should I get at ihop?

Frost: pancake combo

Gideon: sucked dry

Kremy: killed

Gricko: alright

[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

[k00ldino]

[babyboywilson]

in the last few months I have been sexually harassed and verbally abused at work. but you know what…

im fucking proud of myself because, for the first time ever, I found the courage and bravery I never knew I had. it took some time, but I stood up and called out this behavior and took action. I advocated for myself and the rest of my coworkers who were being treated the same way I was. me speaking up made not just me, but several other female coworkers feel seen and heard. I finally refused to sit back and be treated as less than just because I’m a female 28yo junior vet. life is never that easy though. initially, me speaking up about being sexually harassed caused a retaliatory hostile work environment that led to further verbal abuse. it took everything in me to speak up again and clearly state my boundaries. knowing that I deserved better than I was being treated professionally and personally, I resigned from my job this week.

im finally about to follow my dream and move back home to texas next month after having been in arizona for almost 7 years. ive never been more ready to start a new chapter of my life away from such a toxic environment ive experienced in arizona over the last couple of years.

just wanted to share this lil update because I’m sure some of you will remember that I was depressed and wanted to end it all a couple months ago and this is the reason why I was struggling so badly. but im so fucking proud of myself for standing up, voicing my boundaries, and refusing to tolerate sexist, abusive behavior from the doctor/owner of the practice I worked at.

tl;dr misogynistic, abusive, toxic men are everywhere (personal life, work, day to day life, etc). im so proud of myself for taking a leap into bravery and defending myself against harassment and abuse for the first time ever. when one door closes another one opens, and there is always hope for something better around the corner

[paramores]

girlboss has rotted y’all’s brain so bad that y’all wanna project and wish penelope had chosen a loveless marriage when all she has ever wanted was to be loved holy shit

[futurealchemy]

hear me out: the hope kids having matching halloween costumes, but the costumes in question are rotbtd. specifically hiro as hiccup, miguel as jack, riley as merida and mei as rapunzel.

[raining-its-pouring]

Not a Pebbles hater not a Pebbles lover but a secret third thing.

What he did he did out of complete and utter desperation. There was no noble intent, there was no malice, there was just the need to get out. To break the cycle he was trapped in, damn the consequences. Of course he acted rashly when he thought he found the key to ascending. (Not dying, mind you, he wanted to use the state of death in the cycle to tap into ascension. He didn’t - necessarily - want to die, but it was, in his mind, one of the necessary steps for iterators to take if they wanted to ascend.)

To be clear, there was no evidence that it would work. Just the speculations of a bunch of desperate people trying to escape a thankless situation. And Pebbles was so desperate he was willing to gamble it all, including his and Moon’s wellbeing, on those speculations.

On a slightly different note I do think there’s a weird snobbery that people have ABOUT rain world weirdly? That there’s this idea that applying real world stuff like suicide and whatnot is stupid bc this world is intentionally alien. But while I think Ascension isn’t death, I think the ideology of both the Ancients and the Sliverists can be seriously read as an allegory for depression and suicide.

We don’t know what Ascension is. I think far too many people write off that it’s inherently bad, when no where in canon is that a given. But we don’t know if it’s inherently good either, that’s just a desperate hope of the Ancients and Five Pebbles. They hope that whatever the next step is, it won’t be the living hell they seem to be in here.

My interpretation is that it’s just another step. It can be whatever the individual (if there is still a sense of identity to retain,) makes of it, and that happiness isn’t an inherent factor of it, but neither is unhappiness.

And that’s where I think the allegory can apply really well. Five Pebbles and the Ancients (at least the ones who left the biggest impact behind) are deeply, deeply unhappy. And I’d argue for good reason - theoretical immortality sounds, in my opinion, awful.

But Five Pebbles is one of the youngest iterators we see. Moon is one of the oldest. She seems to be content with her situation. And perhaps this is her folly - and I’d argue it is, a little - but I’d also argue that Five Pebbles does not try many other alternatives (that we know of) before deciding the problem is this stage of the cycle itself. That it’s out of his hands, because this existence- this stage- must be an inherent unhappy one. From there it’s not the biggest leap to deciding that the answer is to force his way into the next one as soon as possible, without seeing if he can carve a space for himself in this one. And I think that’s a very real parallel to a lot of people with suicidal ideation.

I think it also has something interesting to say in that regard. There’s a lot of argument around depression and suicide, specifically around “if the situation is bad enough and there’s no end in sight, how much does ‘changing your thinking’ really help the situation?” To which there is near endless debate. And to which I think the iterators situation is an interesting (and deliberate) wrinkle in the allegory tying into that.

It’s just one reading of it, and I think there are many more. But my point is that there is a very real, very canon-based reading there. And I’d like it if people stopped acting like it’s a misrepresentation of the text.

[rainbowpufflez]

Giovanni homophobia arc™️

[myokk]

If Eloise were in a different house, she would be a Gryffindor🫶🫶🫶

She might not be a stereotypically brave and reckless Gryffindor, but she is brave in her own, quiet way. She’s led by her emotions and her heart no matter how hard she tries not to be, and is unwaveringly loyal. Sometimes these impulses can lead to decisions she might regret in the future thoufh. And finally, when Eloise lets someone in, they are a part of her life forever🥺

[hiddengiggles]

Maybe its just delusion at this point but I ALWAYS think “Oh X spot isn’t that ticklish” and then it’s tickled and it’s like the most sensitive thing I’ve ever felt 🥴

[c-kiddo]

got to the scene (ep 118, cr2 rewatch) in which jes and fjord first kiss and i forgot it happened and i need to go back in time and explode everyone telling me how toxic it was bc of shipping discourse because it was so fucking cute i felt like this