#so i haven't been able to reach you

[thatsveryood]

someone help me go viral (affectionate) with my cute shop of things bc it's full of things i think tumblr would love and yet i get like 2 visitors a month

like this here's my best seller at markets. i know my niche i know my people. get urself this crystal ball sticker, where all the tumblr wizards at

i got enamel pins- only two so far bc dang is it expensive to make these. don't you want a bitch soup pin?? don't you need a destiel is canon pin??

get your favorite fic tropes in sticker or iron-on patch form!! don't see your fave? tell me in the tags cause i'm working on series 2 of these!

i have tons more cute stuff on my site and am working on adding some more stuff but money is soooo tight this month and i'm sitting on inventory for stuff that i'm sure people want but no one knows i exist. so if you could help a girl out and share this, even if you can't buy anything, that would be the best.

find my stuff at makeamess.shop

[sysig]

What if baby VUX (Patreon)

[sevenyeargap]

hello new followers! there's quite a lot of you now. thank you! i just wanted to let you know that i love you, and im glad you decided to follow my silly blog! im also currently recovering from an eight month long internship that was pretty bad for my autism (had to talk to so many people), so if i sent you a message and you replied and i haven't replied yet, or if you sent me an ask - i promise i haven't forgotten about you! im just having a hard time with keeping up with things right now!!! okay bye and big hugs and kisses 🫂💖

[aeide-thea]

sometimes it really is just like. is this all there is. feeling oversensitive & undersocialized—too sensitive to socialize—forever, bc you never got enough ~affirmation~ growing up (poor, pathetic baby; how long will you persist in singing the same self-pitying song…), & so never developed the proper emotional cushioning against the heartache & the thousand natural shocks, &c, &c, &c, &c, &c…

[ofgentleresolve]

the way i think moving blogs might help with my enthusiasm on here but also not knowing if it would actually help....

[sonicprim3d]

" The best form of birth control available for them is to reduce them into a fine dust as quickly as possible! "

[smalllonelyegg]

so tired of the everything :(((

[zackmartin]

hiiiiiii zzzzzzz (pronounced zeeeeee) ummmm i love you sososo much ur the cooliest fr and ur my fav big sibling mwah mwah ily 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶💞💘💓💘💗💘❤️‍🩹❤️‍🔥❣️❤️‍🩹💟❤️‍🔥💟💓💘💞💞💟💞🩷

also i scrolled thru yr entire lizzie tag and wow u mean so much to me and i mean so much to u and i maybe cried a little bit and idk where im going with this ok i lobe u goodnighty <3

that's honestly how i pronounce it in my head, our minds You can't tell me these things, I'm gonna get an ego!! Like, I'm Lizzie's fav big sibling 😎💁🏼 But literally you're my favoritist little sibling and you're right you DO mean so much to me, ily so so so much 🥺💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

[mando-of-esverr]

//Hhhh thinking about the Imperial Anon's bounty and where Darius is at in his current timeline - where he's at the trial of Tycho Celchu (hhh my roomie has been liveblogging her reading the books so while I haven't read them, she's giving me really good rundowns), and all we both can think of is how devious the Imperial Intel agent might've been - or even his superiors - to have Darius take the job at this moment in time.

//Because in his Discord timeline (which I'm still converting over to his other timeline) he was actually captured by Imperial Videre. (who are originally called Nor'Thumbrans, which translates to "Men of the North Storm" or Dar'Thumrbians which is "Men of the Dark(force) Storm") These Videre, being led by Ysanne Isard, bring him to the Lusankya from which he ends up on Ak'ritar, meets Tycho, and escapes. Unbeknownst to him, the Imp Videre did their bit to try and make him into one of them, including expanding his abilities to include force bonds. Guess who he unintentionally gets bonded to.

//Fastforward like 2-3 years when everyone's thinking he's cleared of any brainwashing or programming - and here comes an intel agent with just the right incentive to get him started and the programming does the rest.

//Idk how it would end for Darius but I know he'd slowly start sliding into that mando/videre hunter type and start trying to capture his quarry and use his catches as bait for the others. How far he gets before his force bond with Tycho jars him out of it is currently in the air, but oh boy, this new timeline stuff along with this Imp Anon stuff is just -chef's kiss-

//Gotta love when everything just falls into place~

[wildegeist-old]

It's been a strange week because on one hand I've been super stressed with this apartment application that's honestly been made a LOT harder than it should ever have to be, like this process has been dragged out because of some bullshit that I'm too tired to even elaborate on.

But on the other hand I reconnected with someone I care about a lot who I hadn't spoken to since mid-2020 and said reconnection has genuinely been so nice, pleasant, and healing that I also feel great. It was also so unexpected that I'm still questioning if it's even real.

So like. Some really stressful stuff and then one very very good thing just balanced my mood as of late out to "a little weird, but optimistic"

[whlskr]

Stress causing burnout AND arthritis is too op. nerf that debuff in the next update or else

[spokelseskladden]

Ok so I've been forcing myself to practice painting landscapes lately, mostly as an attempt at get better at making backgrounds, but i haven't been able to incorporate it properly into my art yet :/ if any of my lovely mutuals/followers have some resources on backgrounds PLEASE send them to me, I'd be be forever indebted to you

[grimandghoulish]

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[buckleydiazmp4]

do you mind if i ramble in the tags about my weird relationship with making art in fandom for a second

[buttercuparry]

I know I sound like a broken record by now: repeating the same things others have said before but I think banality of it all is the point of my post. The fact that I have nothing new to say– not about the genocide in Gaza, not about the dwindling attention of allies, is HORRIFYING. 

It has been 11 months of a genocide that the UN calls “war on children”. Malnutrition, diseases, lack of suitable medical care have caused Gazan children to lose their childhood; to lose their lives entirely!  

There is no hope left for a future unmarked of pain and my friend Siraj Abudayeh ( @siraj2024 ) , who is father to three sons describes it as a “feeling of oppression”.  He laments that his children have been forced away from their schools, hopes and dreams  by colonizers and where before there were ambitions to excel in either studies or sports, all they know now is helplessness, fear and anger. 

Siraj has told me how his children- Abed, Muhammad and Amir have confessed to their father about how they have begun to  feel guilty for surviving at all now ; after having lost so many of their friends to the genocide they are experiencing survivor's guilt and it breaks my heart to hear that. Abed, the eldest son, is ONLY ELEVEN!!  Can you imagine an eleven year old feeling guilty because he has managed to survive while his friends haven't ? And what kind of survival it is– Half starving, drinking unclean water, forced into tents where sand mites pester him throughout the day?

I am not sure what happened or why the engagement with fundraisers has dropped so drastically lately but there is nothing more atrocious, more horrible than apathy when children are suffering.  It is so strange that we can quote James Baldwin so easily and yet have failed to understand what he meant when he said,

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; ...whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. ”

We have the power that is not afforded to Gazans and therefore it is on us to be attentive no matter how repetitive these posts feel. It is ridiculous and dehumanizing that during a genocide one has to worry about making a post original enough to maintain attention. And yes I know that we won't be able to stop the horrifying banality of Israel’s evil in a day but WE CAN help provide FIVE families that are dependent on this fundraiser with a lifeline during times such as these.  

Please we have managed to get this far after struggling for so long, it cannot be that we will fail Siraj when he is so close to the end goal of 82k !!

So DONATE AND BOOST. Find it in yourself to not just reblog but circulate the fundraiser among your colleagues, friends and family. Share it in your whatsapp chats and discord servers. Share it on every other platform that you may have a reach on.

Currently at $72,987 CAD of the short term goal of 75k. We have 2k left to raise by tomorrow. 

Vetting at 219

[comicaurora]

I've been reading some stuff on punitive justice, and it made something click for me that I've observed a lot online but haven't been able to put into words before.

When someone does something wrong, that's bad, and the damage it does needs to be repaired while the person needs to try to do better in future to minimize repeating harm. We learn it in preschool - say sorry, don't do it again. If they keep at it, remove them from the situation where they can do the harm until they prove they're responsible enough to go back in.

So if it turns out someone DIDN'T do anything wrong, that should be a relief! There's no damage to fix, no internal errors to correct. Less work for everybody, literally no harm done. False alarm, all good.

The thing I've observed is, lots of people want them to have done something wrong. There's almost disappointment when it turns out there's no harm done. And I think that's because of this general undercurrent of punitive justice as morally righteous and desirable: someone does something wrong, you get to punish them. Turns out they're innocent? That's disappointing. Find another reason you get to punish them, or find another bad person you get to punish. But at the core of it is that desire to punish someone. Someone you can hurt in a way that makes you a better person for hurting them.

This particular brand of almost cannibalistic pseudo-justice is super common in tumblr, one of the most ostensibly liberal spaces on the internet; I see more borderline savagery in online discourse here than in the actually toxic parts of the internet that are just openly cruel for cruelty's sake. It's always thrown me for a loop, and has frankly also hurt me, because on the rare occasions I get personally dogpiled, it only actually stings when it makes me worry that I've legitimately hurt someone. If I did something wrong, or more realistically when I inevitably do something wrong, that would make it good and right for people to give me shit about it every day until I'm dead.

The thing that clicked for me most recently was this bit in Ijeoma Oluo's Be A Revolution:

Punitive justice is specifically, uniquely appealing to people who have suffered injustices. Of course it's the Tumblr zeitgeist. Everyone here is a marginalized person failed by at least one system. Punishing someone for perceived injustice is how someone the system has deemed worthless proves their value in blood, even if the person being punished hasn't harmed you directly - even if they haven't harmed anyone. "Righteous" anger isn't about the target in these cases, it's about the inflicter. This is how much my pain is worth.

And that kind of violent validation is so alluring and so very dangerous. It seeks an outlet, wearing the justification of justice. Who's in reach? Who's an acceptable target this week? What's a good reason to use?

Is there anything they could do that would make me stop?