#tw bombing mention

[mellometal]

(I'm going to edit this with added links to resources ASAP. I just don't have all of them saved at the moment. I'm sorry. [Update: I'm gonna just reblog this post with resources. I was trying to edit this post with resources, but the connection was wonky.])

I wanted to make sure I got everything I needed to say in a way that's easy for everyone to understand. I'm gonna be honest, I was genuinely unaware of what has been happening in the world until about a week ago or so due to things going on in my personal life that needed my immediate attention. I've also been struggling a lot, but that's not important right now. Because I was unaware of what was going on in the world currently, I did research to educate myself, watched a lot of videos about it, shared a ton of content about it, am currently in the process of reaching out to representatives all over the United States to get the President to call for a ceasefire, and I've been trying to start the conversation with people I know in real life.

Don't try to use what 1sra3l is doing to Palestine, Gaza, Congo, and Sudan as an excuse to be antisemitic or Islamophobic. Do not try to justify 1sra3l killing innocent people in any way, shape, or form. I don't tolerate people who stand for genocide. Nothing justifies killing innocent people. Tigray, Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, Ukraine, and Northern Ireland are some more oppressed nations, to give some more examples.

Many of the people in Palestine and Gaza have had their homes, schools, hospitals, businesses, and so on destroyed due to 1sra3l bombing them. They're watching their own people die. They're digging through slabs of broken concrete to find their missing loved ones. They're putting the dismembered body parts of their loved ones in bags. They don't have clean drinking water. They don't have electricity. They're getting WORMS from having to drink water that's not suitable for consumption. Food is scarce and very expensive. People are dying from starvation, not having clean drinking water, and the inability to access adequate medical care due to extremely limited resources. Doctors are having to perform life-saving procedures without any type of sanitation, anesthesia, or any type of pain relief to give to the injured. They're performing procedures on the hospital floor and in the streets. They're now having to choose who's worth saving, watch victims die, and then move on to the next. The animals that are still alive are having to resort to eating blown off body parts of DEAD PEOPLE. This is just SOME of the things these people are going through.

There's also war going on in Congo and Sudan. Tigray is still suffering from the genocide on their people, even after the peace agreement in 2022 between Ethiopia and Tigray. Big tech companies are enslaving children in Congo by forcing them to mine for coltan. Millions of Congolese people are being killed. Many Tigrayans are still displaced from their homes, parts of Tigray are still being held captive, and school hasn't started for many children there because so many people are having to resort to living in school buildings or in tents. This is all just the tip of the iceberg and from what I found doing some quick research.

To top that off, President Biden is refusing to ceasefire on Palestine and Gaza. HE'S SENDING MORE MONEY TO 1SRA3L INSTEAD. 1SRA3L, UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW, SHOULDN'T EVEN BE DOING WHAT THEY'RE DOING. THEY'VE BROKEN SO MANY LAWS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW. THE AMOUNT OF LAWS THEY'VE BROKEN UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW IS ACTUALLY SCARY. MULTIPLE PEOPLE IN CONGRESS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO SILENCE ANYONE (specifically they have been trying to silence Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American in Congress) SPEAKING OUT ABOUT THE WAR CRIMES BEING COMMITTED AND FUNDED WITH AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS. Oh, but Biden had all the time in the world recently to visit grieving families here in the United States who have lost loved ones due to the rampant gun problem in this country that STILL isn't being fixed. That's nice. /s By the way, I'm not criticizing him for visiting grieving families. I'm criticizing Biden for funding the genocide of innocent people instead of putting a stop to it. The civilians in Palestine and Gaza didn't do anything to deserve what they're going through right now. That goes for all oppressed nations.

We might end up in World War III, and that's gonna be a HUGE problem for the United States if we get involved instead of staying out of it. We don't have enough troops for when and IF WW3 happens. I'm not kidding. When NORTH KOREA is saying that what Biden’s doing is fucked up, you KNOW that it's bad. I don't want World War III to be a reality. I don't want that to happen. I want to say that WW3 will never happen, BUT I CAN'T. History WILL keep repeating itself.

As far as boycotts go, the list of brands that have ties to 1sra3l is overwhelmingly long and the brands that have no ties to 1sra3l and support Palestine are small in comparison. However, the big three to focus on boycotting are McDonald's, Starbucks, and Disney. They're the companies who contribute the most money to horrific shit like what I mentioned here.

I keep seeing many people leaving disabled people out of the conversation and it's irritating because disabled people exist all across the globe. For disabled people, boycotting many of these things that I haven't even listed here may be more difficult, if not impossible, for them to do for a variety of reasons (mainly medical). Obviously I'm speaking in a general sense. It all depends on the person. Reason why I'm bringing this up is because I saw a few medication brands on the boycott list. I've seen people say to just get the generic brand of their medications, but that might not be an available option for them, depending on their insurance.

I don't eat at McDonald's much anymore (actually haven't eaten there much if at all for years), I don't have a Disney+ subscription, and I rarely get Starbucks anyway...so it's personally not a huge loss. There are better things to watch. There are better places to eat at that are more Pescatarian friendly. There are also better places to get myself a blended coffee made with almond milk and extra fixings if I'm feeling fancy. I know there are people in food deserts, in financial strain, and have accessibility issues. I'm not talking about them.

When and if you can, shop and eat out locally. I'm sure they'd love the business! It also helps boost your town's local economy! If this isn't a viable option for you due to financial difficulties and/or accessibility issues, do what you gotta do that's the most sustainable for you, your family, your animals, and whatnot. Meaning if the only grocery store you have in your area is Walmart or it's the only place that's affordable, you're not evil for getting your groceries there. Because we're all struggling right now, myself included. Also, for anyone that's going to suggest a dollar store or a food bank, not everyone has a dollar store or food bank in their area, or has easy access to either of those things. The one thing I will say is do your best to be mindful of the things you buy.

For all my fellow American followers, Canadian followers, followers in the UK, and Australian followers, call and email your representatives and demand a ceasefire if you haven't already. This is especially for my fellow American followers. Call and email President Biden and Vice President Harris. CALL THE WHITE HOUSE. If you're going to a protest, be safe, be respectful, cover up anything identifiable on you, try to go in a group if you can, and all that good stuff. Sign petitions! Donate if you can.

There's so much shit going on, and I think I've discussed enough of it here. It's gotten way too long. Sorry if I missed anything. I wanted to at least cover the big stuff.

[sunnyvicky]

Video ID:

A woman seen from the back in black full-body covering, possibly a burka or chador. She sits infront of an open furnace with fire inside, and bread cooking infront of her on the ledge of the furnace. She uses a crooked fireplace poker to take the bread out, then takes it and hands it to someone off-screen. Calm music plays over the footage.

End ID

Urgent 🚨 🚨

My mother makes us bread despite the difficult situation and the lack of necessities of life 😔

The war has entered its ninth month and everything is getting worse 💔

Please help me get my family out of there and protect them from war and bombing🙏🙏

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My town got nuked and they still made us go to school, and when we tried to leave, they just fucking shot us.

[kerosene-saint]

THEY REFERENCE THE OKC BOMBING IN THE WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE COVER????

[coffeelovinggayidiot]

Listen, y'all outside of the Israel/Palestine situation can have whatever opinions you have, but as someone who woke up at 7am by the sounds of sirens and who has friends and family living in the danger zone, I honestly don't give a shit, and no other israel or palestinian gives a shit either over what some dumb fuck on the internet who's never experienced war or even been in a bomb shelter has to say. I pray that my palestinian friends are safe, and that they will suffer as little as possible. People on both sides are DYING. You can have your bullshit, experienceless opinion all you want, but fact is people here are suffering, and you, person getting angry and writing shitty tumblr posts, are not.

Go to hell, people are dying and you making anti-semetic/anti-palestinian post is helping no one but your pathetic ego

Edit: there's were just attacks where I live (which is considered safe) and I'm gonna be completely honest, I'm terrified, for both sides. PLEASE if you're in Palestine/Israel dm/reblog/comment to let me know your ok. We need to support each other through this. This is going to cause us all so much trauma, and we need to hold each other's hands.

[yonemurishiroku]

I don’t understand. Rick implanted that demigods can’t use electronic devices since it exposes them to the monsters. He didn’t say anything about guns.

I’m serious. You built a catapult but you can’t build a gun? C’mon. Give them a gun. Or those cannon thingies in the pirate ships. Maybe make bullets from celestial bronze or something.

Give Will a gun and let’s me see how Tartarus fares.

[call-me-maggie13]

My late 40s to early 50s boss just asked what’s wrong with 18-25 year olds these days

And as a 21 year old all I could think was

The world has been on fire since we were born and we’ve been told the adults are putting it out and now we’re old enough to realize they’ve been pouring kerosene on the flames instead of water.

Before my first birthday, 9/11 happened and the world wouldn’t let us forget it. When I was 6 years old, on September 11th, my teacher sat us down in front of a tv and showed us footage of 9/11 and then told us we weren’t allowed to cry. She said that it was real and those were real people jumping from the building because jumping was a faster death than burning.

When I was 7 years old, the economy collapsed and my family went from lower middle class to poverty, we went from healthy home cooked meals every night to mac and cheese and beans for weeks in a row. We started skipping holidays because mom and dad couldn’t keep the lights on and buy us new toys. We started wearing clothes and shoes until they fell apart.

When I was 11 years old, Sandy Hook was attacked by a grown man with a gun and 26 children and teachers were brutally murdered. My teachers never looked at us the same and I haven’t felt safe in a school since. After that, once a month we would have active shooter drills and we were taught to fight and cause as much damage as possible if an armed man entered our classroom because it gave other classes a few extra seconds to escape, it gave our siblings a few extra breaths of safety. We were taught to cover ourselves in other students blood and play dead if we weren’t hit, we were taught that we weren’t safe and we wouldn’t be safe as long as we were in school.

When I was 15 years old, my high school art teacher locked us in the classroom and told us if we heard gunshots we should line the desks up lengthwise so that they reached the other wall because that would be harder to break through than a barricade. She told us that she knew about the threats and she wouldn’t judge any of us that wanted to leave. She told us to get our siblings and stay in the buildings as long as possible, to duck in between the cars so we couldn’t be seen until we got to ours. She told us about the trail behind the auto shop that was lined with trees and led off campus. I got my brother and his friends and we left, we spent the day sitting on the floor in my living room waiting for a phone call that the people we left behind were dying.

Two weeks later, one of my friends dragged me out of a football game and forced me to go home with him. He grabbed my brothers and my best friend and forced the six of us into a two seater car before he would tell us anything. His mom worked for the school board and had told him the police found an active bomb under the bleachers in the student section, and they weren’t informing anyone because they didn’t want to incite panic.

When I was 16 years old, ISIS set off a bomb at a pop concert in Britain and killed 22 people, injuring at least 100 more. The next day at school, our teachers went over how to stay safe if we ever experienced something like that. They told us the most important thing to remember was to not remove any shrapnel because it could be keeping us from bleeding out, they said it was more important to get yourself out safely before you worried about anyone else.

When I was 18 years old, my teachers stopped teaching and put the news up on the projector and we watched as the Notre-Dame burned. The boy I had sat next to since second grade spent the entire day trying to call his sister who was studying abroad in Paris, I watched this kid I had never even seen frown fall apart in English because she wouldn’t pick up the phone. We didn’t know it at the time, but she was okay.

Six months later, my history teacher put the news on the projector again for another fire. This time, we watched as an entire continent burned for three months. We watched their sky turned orange from the smoke and their wildlife drowned in pools because they were trying to escape the heat.

When I was 19 years old, the whole world shut down because of a global pandemic. I didn’t meet a single new person for eight months, despite the fact that I had just moved across the country. I watched as people didn’t wear masks and spread it to everyone around them, I was so scared when I went back to my room every night because my roommate was immunocompromised and I was terrified I would give her Covid and kill her.

Just two months later, I watched a video of a black man being murdered by police officers. I watched the world around me explode after George Floyd’s death, people destroying businesses and police stations. I watched some of my friends realize police officers didn’t exist to keep them safe, they existed to keep the people in power in power. I learned that some of the people I had grown up with would rather watch a black man die than admit that maybe, maybe, the system was broken.

When I was 20 years old, I went to the mall with a friend to buy a birthday present and I was pulled to the ground by a twelve-year-old girl after gunshots went off in the mall. I held this child’s hands as she cried for two hours until we were evacuated by police, and then I waited with her outside and helped her look for her mom. I gave her my phone to call her mom and I watched as she called the number over and over and never got a reply. I waited with her until a police officer took her to the station to try to find out more information about the girl’s mom, I hugged this girl I had never seen before and I wished her the best. I never found out what happened to her or her mom, it keeps me up at night sometimes worrying that this little girl was orphaned.

When I was 21 years old, I started working at a daycare and exactly a week later, Uvalde happened and I found myself crying because my students are the same age those kids were. When they came in after school the next day, one of them had asked me if I had heard about Uvalde and I told her I had, I asked her if she was scared of going to school because of it. Her reply broke my heart. “We practice for it every week so that when it happens to us, we know what to do. I’m just worried that the shooter is going to start in my baby sister’s classroom and not mine.” I listened as other students with younger siblings agreed with her, one of them saying “I would take fifty bullets, if I had to to keep my little brother safe.”

Early this year, I watched Russia launched bombs into Ukraine, blowing up churches and schools and hospitals and apartment buildings. I watched as the estimated death count rose from the hundreds to the thousands to the tens of thousands. I watched men send their wives and children to bordering countries for refuge while they stayed behind to fight, knowing they would probably never see each other again.

Just four months ago, I watched as my right to medical privacy got taken away. I watched my old roommate fall apart because she was denied the right to have her dead fetus removed from her body for almost two days, I worried every time I looked away from her that the next time I saw her would be in a casket. I watched as the women around me realized the military-grade weapons that had torn children in classrooms apart were protected by the government but our bodies weren’t.

There is nothing “wrong” with my generation, we’ve experienced all these things as children and were expected to respond with patriotism for a country that continuously sacrificed their children for the “right” to military-grade weapons, that took away my freedom of choice. We are tired, we were told the world was a wonderful place then shown, at every step, how the world was a place of destruction and pain. And we are angry. We are angry because no one but us seems to be trying to fix anything. And we are scared. We are scared because our children, our nieces and nephews, our cousins and our friends children are growing up in a world that won’t protect them.

[akindplace]

The former president's supporters invaded our National Congress and causing chaos and depredation after the former extreme right president lost the elections and left Brazil to hide in the U.S. the act is clearly inspired in the capitol's invasion after Biden won. Many of them came to the capital of Brazil, Brasilia, in November, set fire to buses, cars, have been camping outside army headquarters asking for the army to take over power in a military coup.

Those supporters also planned to blow a bomb at the international airport, going so a far as to set it but the police intervened. They came over in caravans last night planning on attacking the city today, the national congress being public patrimony that is representative of the democratic power in Brazil, and those people are trying to incite o violent coup. The local government of Brasilia is already being accused of not taking enough measures to keep those violent anti democratic protesters out of the area. So far, it seems there is no police there yet, the cavalry seems to be on their way.

Please don't support these people claiming the elections were fraudulent. We have one of the best electoral systems in the world to avoid fraud. The ex president was from the extreme right, defended torture during our past military dictatorship and was in favor of said dictatorship. He is already being accused of one of the biggest corruption scandals in the history of the country. He lost the elections fairly because of his extremism, corruption and incompetence as president.

Also remember the former president has left the country and all his supporters to hide in the US. As said, he is already being accused of several corruption crimes, including regarding the pocketing the money that should go towards buying of covid vaccines and letting 700k people die while the health system collapsed.

Translation of the cnn headlines: "just now: protesters invade the national congress".

For now I can't find sources in English because this just happened now at the beginning of the afternoon of this Sunday, January 8th, but as soon as there are, I'll post them.

[lust-for-ultraviolence]

I decided to be evil and make it to where you can only pick one.

[larvabyte]

my bf and i sometimes talk about a crack au where cyrus has court mandated therapy and spends his days playing truck simulator

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Okay so y’all know how I talk about the Main Universe just adopting random evil family members from other universes and helping them redeem themselves?

What if the evil dimensions all just decided mutually to become a family and meanwhile all their Evil Plans™️ don’t work together and then they just have that one sweet one in the family they adopted from another dimension and are sheltering from their crimes.

Like one day, Feral Moon is trying to bite a kid’s head off, Evil Sun is trying to kidnap someone from another dimension again, Evil Lunar is trying to blow up an orphanage, Evil KC is working on a way to bomb the daycare for the tenth time. And then, meanwhile, they just have sweet little bean Blood Moon in the corner asking Lord Eclipse for uppies (and of course he caves).

[zerothisnero]

Back to this Fanbase for a bit hi guys 👋

Anyways Random Bridgekids oc Redo because I felt like she needed one

Tw: Mentions/depiction of bombs ig 🤷

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in my house carrying a watermelon and it had plastic and wire stuck in it and I knew there was a bomb inside so I woke myself up before it exploded.

[earthry]

Hi, I saw requests were open and I wanted to know if you could do a comfort Drabble. Today at my Uni there was a bomb threat, and I know it’s a very sensitive topic but if it’s ok could I have some Copia comfort? Im just not having a good day

I'm so sorry you had to experience that-- and I'm very glad you're okay! My college has had bomb / shooter threats before too, so I definitely know how terrifying it is. Sending love and hugs and good vibes. It's not very long but I hope this still helps.

fluff, hurt/comfort, sfw

Copia hugs you as soon as you open the door, your feet barely even making it past the threshold before you're bundled up in his arms. You can feel his chest pressed up against yours, rising and falling in tandem with soft breathes as he takes you in. Safe and unharmed, secure in his arms and at home.

You feel him begin to pull back, an apology forming on his painted lips, but your squeeze back stops him. You tighten your arms around him and cling, and your tremors make themselves known.

"Tesoro, you're okay... everything's okay." His voice is a low murmur, a warm thing as he guides the two of you over to the couch in the living room. He sits and before you can whine, pulls you with him.

You wordlessly curl in his lap around him as he continues to reassure you. A soft sob breaks loose from your chest, the relief and fear overwhelming.

You can cry it out as much as you need, or if you can't cry that's okay-- regardless, Copia will hold you for as long as you want, as long as you need. When you're ready to face the world again, he'll take you by the hand and give it a gentle squeeze and lead you to the kitchen.

He'll make your favorite comfort food and make sure you're hydrated especially if you've cried. When you're fed and well, he'll lead you to the bedroom for more cuddles. He's already called out for tomorrow, so you can take as much time as you need in his arms. He's here for you, he loves you dearly. He'll be sure to remind you of this, over and over until you feel okay again. And then he'll continue reminding you after that as well, never too tired to do so.

[fairytalefm]

❀ you’re not from around here, are you? i figured because you totally just missed PARK JIEUN walking by. don’t tell me you don’t know who SHE is? she kind of looks like GO MIN-SI and i could be wrong but i think that she might be TWENTY FIVE years old right now. she's been living in palmview for the last SIX MONTHS. and i don’t know if anyone has ever told her this before but she kind of reminds me of HANA SONG from OVERWATCH. if you stick around the town long enough you might catch her in action working as a VIDEO GAME STREAMER. you see this town isn’t really that big of a place, some folks like to call her THE GAMER of palmview! she took a liking to the name too after a while, go figure. oh crap, she must have heard me yapping. she's coming this way. i got to warn you though, rumor has it she can pretty SARCASTIC at times. i wouldn’t take it too seriously though, from the times i’ve spoken to her she seemed pretty CONFIDENT to me. we see each other all the time since she lives in that NUMBER 1A apartment beside me over in CORAL COVE. i better leave you to it. it was nice meeting you!

basics

name: park jieun.

alias(es): known online as jellycreature, it's not uncommon for jieun to answer to jelly, whether in her twitch chat or in person. then, it's commonly known by her fans that she has an english name, lucy, that she used for her time in the military, but it is extremely unlikely that jieun will answer to it.

age: twenty five.

career: former bomb squad officer for the us military, currently a video game variety streamer.

birthday: january 4th, 1999.

gender / pronouns: cis female, she / her.

sexuality: bisexual.

biography ( tw: death, war, bombs, trauma / ptsd )

jieun was born and raised in seattle, the only child of a military officer and his wife. it would be kind to say she was simply spoiled, when in reality all she had to do was imply she wanted something and it was hers. a daddy's girl through and through, her dad was her hero, and almost all the things she would come to love started out as hobbies of her dad's.

from an early age, jieun loved playing video games with her dad. it started out as a hobby he picked up after work, where jieun would sit beside him and watch, but by the time she was six years old, she was either joining him or playing on her own while he watched. it became their thing, each night they'd spend a few hours playing video games before dinner.

it was when jieun was twelve that her dad was sent overseas, and the first year after his deployment was fairly normal for jieun and her mom. the two grew closer than they had been before, with the missing piece of their family bringing them together. but around eighteen months after his deployment, they received the news that her father had been killed in action. the loss hit them both extremely hard, but between having her mom and her grandmother, as well as therapy, jieun was able to heal enough that the loss didn't affect her as bad as it originally had.

when she was fifteen, jieun began streaming minecraft, but as she continued, she started playing different games and started growing as a streamer. her mom's only rule for it was that she continue to do good in school, and she managed to keep her grades up enough for her mom to be happy with them.

by the time jieun was eighteen, she knew that she wanted to follow in her dad's footsteps and join the army. due to what happened to her dad, her mom was very much against the idea, but she was stubborn and set on it. so when she graduated from high school, she enlisted in the army just as her dad had.

despite being the standard gamer girl, jieun found that she was surprisingly capable when it came to the physicality of being in the army, and she made it through her basic training with ease. she was more competitive than anyone she'd ever met, and didn't take not being the best easily. so she aspired to become the best, in whatever area the army put her in. after she finished basic training, she was interested in learning how to defuse bombs, and it was something she felt was a good fit for her. despite the ego, the cockiness, she had genuinely just wanted to help people, to save people, and this was a way for her to do that.

her unit's deployment came three years into her military career. as much as she was nervous about going, she had a duty, and she wasn't going to let her unit down. things went fairly normal for a while, it was exactly how those in her unit who had been deployed before had told her it would be. until one day, about six months into their deployment, there was a threat of a bomb targeted at civilians. jieun was a member of the squad that was sent to defuse it, and she ended up being the one to begin working on it as the others stood guard. it wasn't the first time she had been the one taking apart a bomb, as they'd been on bomb squad missions fairly regularly during her time overseas, so it was going just as she had expected it to. except, whoever had built this one, they had done it differently, and when jieun cut the wire she had been accustomed to being the right wire, the bomb went off instead.

there wasn't much that jieun remembered about the initial moments after gaining her consciousness back. there was a lot of pain, and a lot of muffled shouting, but she couldn't really hear anything over the ringing in her ears. but when she saw the body of one of her squadmates, when she saw that he was gone, she couldn't begin to describe the guilt that began festering inside her. and when she found out another squadmate hadn't made it either, that guilt only increased tenfold.

the protective gear she had on had been jieun's saving grace, but it hadn't saved her completely. the ringing in her ears had only been the beginning, and eventually she discovered she'd lost most of her hearing in her left ear. a hearing aid would help her tremendously once she got back home, but there was nothing they could do about her broken leg except cast it up and keep her on bedrest until she was able to be sent home. by the time she was on a plane home, she was given an honorary discharge, instead of going to her apartment, she ended up staying with her mom once again until she was able to walk without crutches again, and even after then, she still needed her mom, so she stayed with her, and she began therapy to try and help her with the feeling of guilt that ate away at her still.

therapy only helped her so much, so it was no surprise to anyone who was close to her when she started streaming once again, now more popular than ever. between having something to once again put her time and energy into, and then the regular therapy sessions, she began go improve a little bit at a time.

it wasn't until jieun was twenty five that she felt ready to leave home once again, and that was how she ended up moving to palmview. some online friends had recommended the area to her, and with the money she made by streaming, it wasn't out of her budget, so she decided to make the move to florida. she still doesn't talk about what happened while she was overseas often, and it's kept her from getting close to people ever since. you wouldn't know that though, with how outgoing and friendly she can be.

[cringelordofchaos]

What the actual living fuck is this. (Not my image)

The psychology of some of these people deeply horrifies me I don't know if I'd rather study them in a lab or run away as fast as possible because they would literally probably want me to die

I know there are much more serious stuff in the world right now I'm just so fucking pissed about this for some reason maybe I'm just an oversensitive prick idk