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My father has worked for the DoD since the mid 90s, and most animes that get network time slots in the US have funding from them. It's why most animes that get that kind of release in the US are fighting/militaristic animes. (The first one he told me he helped with was the Gundam Wing dub.) I'm messaging you this information because Yashahime ticks all the boxes for a series they would've funded. The main one is Sesshomaru and Rin's relationship. They push age gap relationships in media when women's and children's right activism starts to get more attention. When they have more rights, women are less likely to get married and have children, while the children who are born have more stable homes and family finances, which makes them less likely to join the military. There was more than just the SessRin relationship. The entire series was nothing but propaganda poorly glued together. (Especially the end when they discussed children being on a battlefield, that scene was so obvious.) I've been wanting to reach out and share this for a while, but I honestly wasn't sure anyone would believe me. With the public becoming more knowledgeable about government and military propaganda in the last few months, I think people are ready for it.

Thank you very much for sending this to me, anon. I want you to know that I believe you.

Many people - not just antis - have said over and over again that fiction does affect reality. Of course fiction is used to promote certain agendas, of course fiction is used to promote certain values, certain relationships , certain situations, - both for good and for bad. Whoever knows about marketing won't let me lie, fiction is used both to generate rejection and acceptance and desire for particular things. Perhaps we would do well to ask ourselves why certain shows, certain books, certain music, certain movies or fiction-in any format, not just anime-receive budget and others do not. Come on, there are even studies and articles about this. It's 2024, people who insist that fiction does not affect reality aren't in reality themselves to begin with.

So Anon, thanks again for your ask, and if you like to send more information about this, it's welcome here :)

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Okay, so, looks like Google Docs might actually start implementing their rule about not sharing explicit content. (This includes writing.) How in the ever loving fuck am I supposed to back up 1,000+ stories that equate to 3 million+ words into fucking Microsoft Word????? And efficiently, for that matter?! HELP.

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Boycott Eurovision

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It's getting to be con season, and we all know what that means? Yup, time to get the names of the people who run, and work, cons off their websites and check for their names on the national sex offender registry. As someone who used to volunteer as security for anime and comic conventions, I can tell you that you will probably get at least two hits.

#anime convention #anime cons #comic con #comic convention #cosplay

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🍉 Queer Palestinian Books 🍉

🇵🇸 The algorithm is going to keep silencing my posts, but they're not going to silence me. I grew up with little to no books that made me feel seen as a queer/bisexual Palestinian Arab American. Today, it's still not easy enough to find those books online, even though we have thousands of lists, posts, and directories to guide us. To make your search a little easier, here are a few queer Palestinian books to add to your TBR. Please help me spread this by reblogging. Consider adding these to your least for Read Palestine Week (click for resources)! 💜

🍉 The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher 🇵🇸 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar 🍉 Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam 🇵🇸 To All the Yellow Flowers by Raya Tuffaha 🍉 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat 🇵🇸 The Specimen's Apology by George Abraham 🍉 Birthright by George Abraham 🇵🇸 Nayra and the Djinn by Iasmin Omar Ata 🍉 Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger 🇵🇸 The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan 🍉 Guapa by Saleem Haddad 🇵🇸 From Whole Cloth: An Asexual Romance by Sonia Sulaiman

🍉 The Philistine by Leila Marshy 🇵🇸 Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar 🍉 Shell Houses by Rasha Abdulhadi 🇵🇸 Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan 🍉 Belladonna by Anbara Salam 🇵🇸 Confetti Realms by Nadia Shammas, Karnessa, Hackto Oshiro 🍉 Blood Orange by Yaffa As 🇵🇸 The ordeal of being known by Malia Rose 🍉 Decolonial Queering in Palestine by Walaa Alqaisiya 🇵🇸 Are You This? Or Are You This?: A Story of Identity and Worth by Madian Al Jazerah, Ellen Georgiou 🍉 This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers 🇵🇸 My Mama's Magic by Amina Awad

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Jeff Bezos's Amazon and Elon Musk's SpaceX are both fighting in court to have the National Labor Relations Board declared unconstitutional. Starbuck's and Trader Joe's joined them in separate lawsuits. All of these companies have a disgraceful history of worker abuse and union busting. All of them have been charged by the NLRB with hundreds of violations of workers’ organizing rights The NLRB is standing up to their union busting. That’s why they’re trying to destroy the NLRB. I'm going to do my best to keep you all informed about this case as it snakes its way through the courts. The future of unions may depend on the final verdict. http://dlvr.it/T49LM1

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it is crazy how “if this childrens show doesn’t kill their villain at the end it’s irredeemable media” became such a popular opinion here. like people were calling steven universe fascist apologia. and to be clear I don’t even think that would be the case for non childrens media, either. perhaps holding every single story up to the same standard of “does it follow the acceptable narrative path or is it evil propaganda” isn’t the most anti-fascist thing, either. maybe.

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“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND

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As a riotgrrrl/punk who once punched the tooth out of a Nazis mouth and then wore it as a good luck charm for years, (the logic in that was the channeling of the Nazis pain enhanced my luck) I approve of this post.

And for anyone who wants to know, I eventually lost the tooth necklace. I only hope that it has found its way to someone who will use it to also fight Nazis.

#riot grrrl #riot girl #punk #millennial punk

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vegans make peace with honey

no shut up do it

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Those people who constantly reblog your stuff but you never really talk:

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You have clearly appeased a deity and they are rewarding you by removing you from this capitalist hellscape, please tell us all how you did it.

stuck in the time loop but i just use it as a free day off. im not even trying to get out. i am teaching myself to knit. i am crocheting. i am cooking. not even doing anything crazy. just escaping capitalism for a week. day 375 and im not sure what lesson it's trying to teach but i've taught myself to handmake lace so all is well

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today im thinking about the huge buff bread guy from kikis delivery service. highly underrated guy

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dealing with the worst case scenario

your condom breaks

you feel a lump on your breast

your friends are ignoring you

you’re stranded on an island 

you got rejected by a crush

you get into a car accident

you got stung by a bee/wasp

you got fired from your job

you’re in an earthquake

your tattoo gets infected

your house is on fire

you’re lost in the woods

you get arrested abroad

you get robbed

your partner cheated on you

you’re on a ship that’s sinking

you fall into ice

you’re stuck in an elevator

you hit a deer with your car

you have food poisoning

your pet passed away

you fall off of a horse

you or your friend has alcohol poisoning

you have toxic shock syndrome

your house has a gas leak

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STEM majors go through a lot of ethics classes, they are required to. It's not that they're not taught what's right and wrong, it's that the type of people who care are weeded out. Just like in every other specialty. The same way that, historically, some of the most famous artists, writers, actors and musicians have been terrible abusers, in most situations, people who are the most morally unshakable are weeded out. This isn't just in work or school settings, in my experience, the worst thing I can do in any social situation is point out when someone is being morally reprehensible. When someone is being hypocritical and pretending to be woke while doing the opposite. In reality it's not that we aren't taught what's right or wrong, it's that we're not taught how to objectively view what we do personally as right or wrong. Our society teaches ethics in theory, rarely do we teach it in practice regardless of what the person goes to school for or is interested in.

#its a much wider sphere than you think #stem #also #and technology #and art