#other countire

[worriesndoodles]

tried to find arthur cantabella hate posts, saw several posts wondering about aa not being very secular/spirituality existing beyond spirit mediums but those are years old so im just going to propose this separately

i think it might be because ace atrorney is a japanese game...! im not *that* knowledgeable in the area but definitely amaterasu (who i always thought was at least half alluded to with holy mother) existing in a pantheon and yokais being heavily integrained even in modern culture would influence how spirituality is percieved by aa characters who are originally japanese (aside from christianity raise from the american missionaries in east asia)

[digimonirl]

Does your Postoffice have any specially trained digimon for letters that need to go to places like highlight heaven? Or do you just try your best to get there as a hired tamer and digimon duo?

Hey there friend! Our office has both humans and Digimon carriers, but we aren't assigned routes in a way that takes that kind of stuff into account. The post office runs off a seniority system, so the more senior carriers get first dibs on any route that opens up. Me and Felt are newer carriers, so we just take whatever isn't already occupied that particular day. We can fill in for other carrier's vacations, giving us more stability, but that doesn't happen often. We've been getting more assignments with large apartment complexes since Felt digivolved though; it being able to fly now really helps deliver packages up large flights of stairs wgeuehdjsjw

[kikiwiwiz]

Self portait

[irl-magicalgirl]

can we bring back having a normalized one month minimum for grieving the loss of a loved one, please

[xiaoxiongmaos]

why do you draw ugly. your art is very good but the people you draw are so ugly. can you please draw someone that’s good looking. many european faces are beautiful their eyes stand out and it’ll make your art very appealing to the audience. you will get more likes when you don’t draw these closed eye asians and good faces. i like your art very much this is only my suggestion for you to get more likes but keep up the good work and try drawing beautiful people 👍

anon this is so not how you compliment someone :')

on a serious note; judging by what you said i'm pretty sure you don't engage with kpop or any piece of asian media at all so i'm wondering how you stumbled upon this blog... but i'd like to tell you that putting someone against your ideal of pretty/beautiful doesn't make them an ugly person. yes, they might be according to your standard or taste but that's more reason to not label anyone as entirely attractive/unattractive⏤it's only your idea of a nice/unpleasant look.

i draw people i find easy to draw from my perspective and am still practicing drawing loads of different facial structures. i started drawing back in 2018 and practiced with the kpop stars i like which is why i'm comfortable drawing them the most. txt are my main focus for content on this blog which is why i post for them! you can easily search up other artists that post the content you desire and engage with their work.

thank you for the 'suggestion' but i'm okay creating stuff for and liking the people i find beautiful c: and i don't wish for a ton of likes or reblogs because i have followers/friends who encourage me and love my work all the same <3

[erzsebetrosztoczy]

Also i think here, in Hungary we have 15 days of sick leave and 1 year of additional dick pay when even without working (i mean when you are unable to work) you get your salary's 50 or 60% depending on the company.

Also i heard Hungary is pretty allowing with maternity leave, we get 25 weeks for that.

I think adults need summer vacation. Like let's just close down all our jobs for three months and play outside. Please. I'm so tired.

[misguidedscavenger]

Going from being a third culture kid who thought the US had a lot of issues but it was still my home and enjoyed the culture and wanted to love it despite everything and got very tired of everyone trash talking it all the time

To the dual citizen living in the US who thinks america (as it is) should be abolished and will likely see its fall soon unless something is done, can't stop complaining about it, never wants to go back when I leave, feels a greater connection to being third culture/European, and constantly says "I'm not american"

[iceyrukia]

Liberals be like : this POC is acting out of line doesn't agree with my politics so they must be A) brainwashed or B) white/an honorary white person!! No this isn't racist or patronizing at all !!!

See : white liberal feminists scrambling to make sure any feminist opinions that they don't agree with are labeled as "white imperialist racist bigoted colonialist * insert more buzzwords here* rhetoric", so WOC that disagree with them are "white coded" and/or literally not WOC :| , because every feminist that disagrees with them must be another white women ( a bad one unlike them, a progressive white girl ;) wink wink ) honorary mention : western WOC libfems who do this shit to other WOC too.

[tellurium-iron]

Proof: there's no fucking difference between racist, misogynistic ass memes, the over-emphasis on Brazilian women's figures, and these fanarts. I didn't even have to search hard for the sexualization to crop up. And like, every once in a while, there's just a miku at the beach in a normal manner, but the rest is garbage. It's a shame because this concept of insert!miku is fun.

what lovely brazilian miku you drew i hope it reveals no strange bias towards brazilian women

[o0sleepingdead0o]

Prepared for Anything Pt. 4

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5, MasterPost

Danny folded his arms beneath his head where he lay on the desert floor. The sky blinked with stars and he was so happy he took a trip out of Gotham to do this. He liked Gotham, it felt kinda like home. But it didn’t have stars. It didn’t have the expanse of clear black pinpricked with dazzling, little lights and constellations.

It was handy being able to pop in and out of hemispheres any time he pleased.

“DANNY?!” 

Oh.

Danny rolled his head to the side to see a few violently shivering vigilantes coming around a scraggly, rocky outcrop. Robin, Red Hood, and a black and blue one Danny hadn’t encountered before, wrapped their arms around themselves tightly. They changed directions to walk towards him.                                                                                           

“Oh, hey guys.” Danny raised a hand to wave lazily at them and tucked it back in place. “What are y'all doing out here?” He asked amicably, though surmised they must be on some sort of mission. What a coincidence.

Hood and the one coloured like a bruise spluttered. “US?” Hood cried a little frenetically. As they got closer, Danny could see all their teeth were chattering and their lips were starting to turn blue. 

Oh. That wasn’t good. He had been sad Orphan wasn’t here. Maybe it was better that she wasn’t.

Hood and Robin stormed closer while Bruisy followed at a slower pace. “WHAT-T A-ARE YOU D-DOING OUT H-H-HERE?! H-HOW D-DID YOU GET OUT H-HERE?! I M-MEAN. . . .WHAT?!” Hood gestured his arms bewilderedly at him. “W-WERE T-TEN C-COUNTIRES A-AWAY F-F-FROM THE S-S-STATES!”

Danny stood up and reached under his t-shirt. “Here.” He handed Hood, Robin, and Bruisy large, reflective blankets, throwing Hood off from his rant.

“. . .wha. . .” Bruisy said. The vigilantes seemed slightly confused, but didn’t hesitate to unfold them and throw them around their shoulders.

“So?” Danny raised an eyebrow.

“Our p-plane w-wrecked.” Robin grumbled venomously.

“. . .and ex-exploded.” Hood added.

Danny hummed sympathetically. 

Robin opened his mouth again. “How are you—“

“Have you contacted. . um. . . your associates?” Danny wasn’t really sure what the vigilantes called each other or what their relations were like, but they acted like teammates. They should help each other out when things like this happened, right?

Bruise sighed. “N-no signal.” The man seemed particularly tired and out a little out of it. That really wasn’t good.

“A-and all the s-supers are o-off planet.”

“The what are where? Nevermind.” Danny waved his hand dismissively and reached over his shoulder. He ducked his head a little as he withdrew a three foot metal rod from the back of his shirt.

“Uhhhh. . .” Bruise said.

Danny pulled another rod from a sleeve and a third from his pant leg.

“H-how, dude, j-just. . .just w-why?” Hood said.

Danny didn’t answer and reached underneath the back of his shirt to pull out a fourth. He stuck them in the ground straight up, making a square.

“W-what are y-you d-doing?” Robin asked.

“Building a cell tower.” Danny said and reached into his other pant leg, taking out another rod. And another. From his pocket, he pulled out a screwdriver and some screws.

“. . .N-nothing a-about you makes-s s-sense.” Hood commented.

Danny snorted.

“Y-you’re n-n-not aff-ffected by the c-cold. W-why?” Robin’s eyes narrowed at him.

“Uhhhhh. . .” Danny attached more rods together and screwed some screws. “I, uh. . .I was working out. Warmed me up a lot.” He lied. He knew it was bad. He was still going to drive it into the ground if they questioned it. “And I haven’t been here that long.”

Danny fished a large spool of wire from his back pocket and a pair of pliers from the other.

Robin watched him do it. He stared at him for a long moment, his eyes narrowing further. “Meta-human.”

“Gesundheit.”

The reply seemed to take the vigilantes by surprise, but said nothing of it. They were too busy shivering and huddling on the ground, trying to warm up. At least they didn’t seem to be getting worse.

Danny pulled rod after rod from his clothes. He began to retrieve them from the dirt and sand before it became too many to say it was physically possible to have this many pieces on his person. He had to have limits somewhere. 

“. . .How d-did you k-know those w-were th-th-there!?” Hood said.

“Umm. . .I come here often. What if I got stranded and needed to call someone? Or I spotted a UFO and needed to make contact? I buried these in the sand so no one would steal ‘em.”

“. . . W-were in the m-middle of t-the d-desert. I d-don’t think you n-need to w-worry about th-that. . .”

“You found me, didn’t you?”

“. . .”

“. . .”

Dannykept attaching, and screwing, and wiring, and plier-ing, until he was finally at the top of a twenty-foot tower, and affixing transceivers to it. With the ectoplasm Danny infused into it, it should be powerful enough to work.

He had considered making them a jet, but that might take too long. This way they could get help from the nearest civilization while they waited for pick-up.

  Danny climbed back down.

Even with their masks, the baffled astonishment was clear on the vigilante’s faces. “What the heck. . .” Bruise said faintly.

Danny ignored him and flicked a switch. “Give it a go.” He encouraged the vigilantes who looked to be shaking a little less.

They shared doubtful glances and checked their tech. “It works!” Hood exclaimed and immediately sent out an S.O.S.

Danny made an offended noise and held a hand to his chest. “You doubted me?”

“Yes.” The three said in unison.

“It’s a cell tower.” Hood continued. “How do you even know how to build that?”

“Eh.” Danny shrugged. “You pick a few things up when your parents have a lab in their basement for you to play around in growing up.”

There was a long pause. 

“That is highly concerning and explains almost nothing.”

Danny’s brows furrowed.

“Seriously. How are you here?”

Danny shrugged again. “I walked.” It wasn’t a lie.

Despite explaining he had a way back to Gotham, the vigilantes wouldn’t leave without him. They slept most of the way back.

Tag List: @okami-love @whataspectaclebear @thomasdimensor @observerblock23 @stargazer-luna

[spaghettioverdose]

Am I stupid or something because I agree with all of your post but I don't know what's wrong with small businesses. Am I a capitalist because I'm disabled and can only make money selling stickers or am I missing a bigger picture

Because this is tumblr and people in the notes will immediately read three lines of this and accuse me of pissing on the poor, I will begin with a disclaimer that I am neither comparing you to a Elon Musk nor calling you evil.

So, you sell stickers. I would assume that in this context you are selling your own stickers with your own designs, rather than working as a cashier selling someone else's stickers, since you're disabled and you mentioned you can't work a job. You are therefore selling a product you own (whether you produce the stickers entirely yourself or use a 3rd party company) for a profit at a (presumably) online store instead of selling your labour power for a wage. This, by definition would make you petit bourgeois.

When communists talk about class positions, it is not a question of an individual's morality, motivation or amount of income.

Being a small business owner (or petit bourgeois), means that your class interests and the class interests of the workers (the proletariat) come into conflict. As a clear example, let's say in this scenario that you are selling a sticker design on a 3rd party website that specialises in this service, and they source the actual physical stickers from factories around the world. Here, you are essentially selling your intellectual property to the company in exchange for some of the profits from its further sale. Perhaps many of those factories are in the global south, in countires with very low wages and few worker protections (due to intervention from imperial core bourgeoisie powers). One day, the political struggle for worker rights and higher wages is won in some of these countries, driving up the cost of production for the stickers. Perhaps there is also a victory for a union of delivery service workers at home in the imperial core, driving up wages and protections for them as well, further cutting into profits.

The function of the 3rd party sticker company is to strive for ever-increasing profits the capitalists who own it and its investors. The cut in profit will have to be made up elsewhere. This will be done by investing in political groups that are willing to repress worker movements within these countries, shifting production to countries that have yet to achieve these worker victories, cutting corners on their imperial core workers, increasing their price of service by taking a larger cut of your profits, or a mixture of some or all of these.

In that scenario, the proletarian class interests (higher wages, more protections and regulations) are in direct conflicts with the interests of the bourgeois 3rd party sticker company (higher profits, meaning lower wages and less protections and regulations) and by extension, yours, as your class interests also revolve around profit. When workers gain more power, it cuts into your profits. As a petit bourgeois, you are incetivised to support and pursue bourgeois and petty bourgeois politics such as IP laws.

As an individual, you can be whatever kind of person with whatever politics and views you have. As a petit bourgeois small business owner, you have a certain class position that comes with a certain set of class interests. You can always choose to forego your own class interests and instead support the class interests of the proletariat by being a communist even while continuing to be petit bourgeois or even as full on bourgeois. Very notable example being Engles who, although he was a factory owner, he was also one of the two founders of marxism, with the other one being Marx.

The point I was trying to make in the post that probably got you to send this anon, is that there isn't anything inherently communist or "leftist" about supporting small businesses. It is both an incredibly common liberal policy and talking point to support small business, and it does not serve the interests of a proletarian political movement to protect the petit bourgeoisie or ally with them, except in certain instances and involving certain sections of the petit bourgeois, rather than a blanket statement of saying that the small business owner is a nobler form of capitalist.

[whereserpentswalk]

You've been bitten by a werewolf. You didn't realize it at first of course. You were upstate on a camping trip and what looked like a distressed and out of place wolf just went up to you, and as you tried to fend it off with a rake it bit you. You assumed it was an escaped illegal pet due to how rare wolves are nowadays, but you were screened for rabies anyway just due to the way it behaved. Turns out it's a werewolf.

You're terrified, terrified that you'll hurt someone, possibly even someone you love. The suggestion that almost every piece of media about werewolves has given you is that you're a danger to everyone around you. The only two methods of dealing with it that you know of are taking drugs with life altering side effects, or being locked somewhere for the night.

Before even the first full moon of the month you look at a form for other werewolves. Turns out a lot of people who are freshly bitten have these types of fears and come there for help. The form explicitly discourages anyone from thinking of themselves as dangerous. There are almost no lethal werewolf attacks, any safety tips they have for you are going to purely center around the fact that humans might hurt you while you're a wolf. Especially for an urban werewolf like you where being caught risks institutionalization, something you though of as neutral but most of the form is very much agaisnt.

Their main suggestion for your safety is to stay with a freind who has space to take care of you, someone who you know well enough so that you'll trust even while in full wolf form. If you can go somewhere forested for the night, though that's more a tip about enjoying being a wolf then being at your maximum safety.

You also probably will be a creature somewhere between a wolf and a human for the nights before and after the full moon, depending on the exact nature of your condition you might experience some amount of partial change for up to about ten days out of the month. When that starts to happen the assumption is that you'll have enough of your mind to be able to be alone, and the suggestion is just that you stay in an area where people are accepting.

Your first night is the night before the full moon. Your half wolf half human for the entire night. Your worried you'll slip away from your identity so much that you'll hurt someone. You don't. Everything is largely fine. You're worried though. So very worried.

The next night you stay with a freind, as they suggested. You don't remember anything. Your freind said that they were afraid of you at first, ready to shoot you with a shotgun you didn't know they had. But in the end you just sort of sat there like a big dog, and trusted them as much as you would when you were in human form.

As time goes on it becomes more casual. You don't think of it as a big deal. You realize how low the likelihood of actually hurting someone is. Some full moons you spend being protected by freinds and treated like a weird pet, other nights you go to the woods, and enjoy the feelings of running around. The nights before and after the full moon, you just treat like any other night, only really having to deal with people's perception of you as a difference.

Over time you learn how people treat you differently. You have to disclose everything to your employer, which makes finding a job far harder. It's harder to rent an apartment. Most first world countires outside America won't let you in. You can't buy a weapon in most states, can't get most insurance. Even the medical system has set you to automatically do not resuscitate. You can't even really date outside the werewolf community now, or occasionally withbrealated communities like witches or vampires, but most normal humans don't trust you.

People who know you worry to much. They suggest every restrictive solution you discarded in the first month. People want you to move "somewhere safer", wherever that it. They want you to take things you know won't cure you, or buy into whatever pseudoscience they've gotten a hold of. People are worried you'll hurt someone even when you're so very sure you'll be fine.

It was never that you were a wolf. It was that everyone else was that everyone else thought of you as one.

[carawayshalldie]

'the law' they say as if US law were the only existing judicial System in the world

Friday March 31.

Tumblr's Friday Explainer: Indictment.

For no reason, no reason whatsoever, absolutely none at all, we have decided to take you good folks with us on a little lesson in law. And no, not bird law, The Law; criminal law, to be precise. Every day is a school day, after all, so we figured there was no better time than this, the 31st, the last day of March 2023, to give you a little schooling on "Indictment". It is an important step in the legal process, and you never know, it may come in handy: you yourself may fancy yourself as a hotshot lawyer, or maybe you just can't get enough of crime dramas such as Better Call Saul, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Boston Legal, or indeed Suits. It could even give you a helping hand navigating the noisy, complex world of #us politics. You know. For example.

Well, curious critters, at a basic level, an indictment consists of a formal written list of what a suspect is accused of. An indictment, it is important to remember, is not a conviction—instead, it means that a prosecutor may move forward with criminal charges. Gosh, isn't that interesting!

With that, you can go about your Friday safe in the knowledge of your newfound, well, knowledge. And you're in good company, too, because as luck would have it, Tumblr's indictment fandom community are all beside themselves with excitement today. For reasons, admittedly, still a little unclear. 

[peoplevsbirds]

That’s a lot of words, you could have kept it succinct by just saying that you hate muslims.

Idk how many fucking times we have to tell you that the “FTRTTS” is about THE LAND OF PALESTINE!!!

No, the “evil muslims” aren’t planning on slaughtering everyone who currently lives in Israel, that’s the Israeli armies M.O.

And don’t even act like Christians are taking up arms against Israel. most Christians love the existence of Israel for 2 reasons, 1. It provides an easy way to get rid of their Jewish populations by encouraging them to leave their countires, and 2. Evangelicals want the Jews in Israel so when the ends of times come, every jew will die so they can be reunited w Jesus in heaven (or whatever the fuck).

Not to mention how many IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens are posting on social media about how they can’t wait to raze Gaza to the fucking ground.

Companies are planning on siezing that land and are auctioning it off to Israeli’s and other foreign zionists literally right fucking now.

Literally how can you argue that the current goal of the IDF is to do anything but either kill everyone in Gaza or force them out of the land using terrorism????

Signed,

An exhausted antizionist Jew

[jazzstir]

I know I haven’t posted in a white but I will start doing so again!! The creator of the animation is @ZaboveNaught on YouTube!

SUPPORT YEMEN!! With the recent attack on Yemen and the continuing genocide happeneing in Palestine and in dozens of other countires make sure you speak out and do what you can to spread there voices!

Here is a link with ways you can help Palestine

https://linktr.ee/ultimatecommunityforpalestine

[heljar-heimur]

Most people do, or should have. But I have encountered people who didn't believe Iceland was real. We barely exist on some maps.

Airport peeps are often interested in the Icelandic passport because its very pretty. But I've also heard of border control guards who had to check if the pass was real because they hadn't heard of the country thought it was a fake pass from a fake country.

I kinda have to agree with this anon. Saying just what country I'm from tends to be the "safest" option. Especially since when I tell people what country I'm from, their response is "is that a state of Mexico?"

Another story is of here in Berlin, when I went to open a bank account, the person that has my passport to add me into the system or smth asked me where I'm from (meaning country) so I answered. Then she said," No, what country are you from" I motioned to my passport and answered verbally again. She then said," I have never heard of that country. I don't think it'll be in the system." It was

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Jesus. Don't people have geography class when they're kids?