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[ID from ALT: A fullbody digital drawing of my OC, Millenium, standing in front of a mirror that is reflecting her form after her death, Mimi. Millenium's hands are clutched in front of her, insecure, her back turned to the camera. Mimi is posing with confidence, smirking with her arms up and hands pressed against the mirror's surface. Millenium has her blonde hair down, wearing a simple sweater and pleated skirt. Mimi is wearing a flashy outfit, with a dress that fades into a transparent skirt, a seethrough bodysuit underneath, and unattached sleeves. Her hair is pink and pulled into high twintails, with her short bangs dyed black. She's wearing cat ear headphones, with a cat tail peeking out from her skirt. The room reflected in the mirror behind Mimi is glitchy, while the room outside the mirror is dark and dreary. End ID]

#mara art #millenium (mimi) #there she is!!! #this came out super good #beware the pipeline --> girl to catgirl #the glow effect is still driving me crazy it's so fucking good

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[ID from ALT: Digital fullbody art of @norstrum's OCs, Iris and Wesley. Wesley is sitting on a wide stone railing with his hands resting on one leg which is propped up on the stone, with his other leg dangling down. He's leaning against a stone pillar, a mild smile on his face as he looks down towards Iris, who is standing behind the railing. Iris is smiling cheerfully back at Wesley. Tucked in his arm is a purple book, with several small bookmarks sticking out of the pages. Rays of light shine gently on the two. End ID]

Fanart!! Of the guys!!! I think they're both really cool 💜💜💜

#mara's art #oc fanart #wesley #iris #this came out so good #your lighting in this really pops #and the colors look great #look at my partner's art #LOOK AT IT

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Genocide experts warn that India is about to genocide the Shompen people

Who are the Shompen?

The Shompen are an indigenous culture that lives in the Great Nicobar Island, which is nowadays owned by India. The Shompen and their ancestors are believed to have been living in this island for around 10,000 years. Like other tribes in the nearby islands, the Shompen are isolated from the rest of the world, as they chose to be left alone, with the exception of a few members who occasionally take part in exchanges with foreigners and go on quarantine before returning to their tribe. There are between 100 and 400 Shompen people, who are hunter-gatherers and nomadic agricultors and rely on their island's rainforest for survival.

Why is there risk of genocide?

India has announced a huge construction mega-project that will completely change the Great Nicobar Island to turn it into "the Hong Kong of India".

Nowadays, the island has 8,500 inhabitants, and over 95% of its surface is made up of national parks, protected forests and tribal reserve areas. Much of the island is covered by the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, described by UNESCO as covering “unique and threatened tropical evergreen forest ecosystems. It is home to very rich ecosystems, including 650 species of angiosperms, ferns, gymnosperms, and bryophytes, among others. In terms of fauna, there are over 1800 species, some of which are endemic to this area. It has one of the best-preserved tropical rain forests in the world.”

The Indian project aims to destroy this natural environment to create an international shipping terminal with the capacity to handle 14.2 million TEUs (unit of cargo capacity), an international airport that will handle a peak hour traffic of 4,000 passengers and that will be used as a joint civilian-military airport under the control of the Indian Navy, a gas and solar power plant, a military base, an industrial park, and townships aimed at bringing in tourism, including commercial, industrial and residential zones as well as other tourism-related activities.

This project means the destruction of the island's pristine rainforests, as it involves cutting down over 852,000 trees and endangers the local fauna such as leatherback turtles, saltwater crocodiles, Nicobar crab-eating macaque and migratory birds. The erosion resulting from deforestation will be huge in this highly-seismic area. Experts also warn about the effects that this project will have on local flora and fauna as a result of pollution from the terminal project, coastal surface runoff, ballasts from ships, physical collisions with ships, coastal construction, oil spills, etc.

The indigenous people are not only affected because their environment and food source will be destroyed. On top of this, the demographic change will be a catastrophe for them. After the creation of this project, the Great Nicobar Island -which now has 8,500 inhabitants- will receive a population of 650,000 settlers. Remember that the Shompen and Nicobarese people who live on this island are isolated, which means they do not have an immune system that can resist outsider illnesses. Academics believe they could die of disease if they come in contact with outsiders (think of the arrival of Europeans to the Americas after Christopher Columbus and the way that common European illnesses were lethal for indigenous Americans with no immunization against them).

And on top of all of this, the project might destroy the environment and the indigenous people just to turn out to be useless and sooner or later be abandoned. The naturalist Uday Mondal explains that “after all the destruction, the financial viability of the project remains questionable as all the construction material will have to be shipped to this remote island and it will have to compete with already well-established ports.” However, this project is important to India because they want to use the island as a military and commercial post to stop China's expansion in the region, since the Nicobar islands are located on one of the world's busiest sea routes.

Last year, 70 former government officials and ambassadors wrote to the Indian president saying the project would “virtually destroy the unique ecology of this island and the habitat of vulnerable tribal groups”. India's response has been to say that the indigenous tribes will be relocated "if needed", but that doesn't solve the problem. As a spokesperson for human rights group Survival International said: “The Shompen are nomadic and have clearly defined territories. Four of their semi-permanent settlements are set to be directly devastated by the project, along with their southern hunting and foraging territories. The Shompen will undoubtedly try to move away from the area destroyed, but there will be little space for them to go. To avoid a genocide, this deadly mega-project must be scrapped.”

On 7 February 2024, 39 scholars from 13 countries published an open letter to the Indian president warning that “If the project goes ahead, even in a limited form, we believe it will be a death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide.”

How to help

The NGO Survival International has launched this campaign:

From this site, you just need to add your name and email and you will send an email to India's Tribal Affairs Minister and to the companies currently vying to build the first stage of the project.

Share it with your friends and acquittances and on social media.

Sources:

India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe, 7 Feb 2024. The Guardian.

‘It will destroy them’: Indian mega-development could cause ‘genocide’ and ‘ecocide’, says charity, 8 Feb 2024. Geographical.

Genocide experts call on India's government to scrap the Great Nicobar mega-project, Feb 2024. Survival International.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island, 20 July 2022. Mongabay.

[Maps] Environmental path cleared for Great Nicobar mega project, 10 Oct 2022. Mongabay.

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Just a general reminder that the week of 18-24 February is another strike. Please don't ignore this, no one has the excuse of it being too spontaneous this time as it has been planned since the strike in January ended. Don't talk about anything other than the injustices in the world. Talk about Palestine. Talk about Sudan. Talk about the republic of Congo. Talk about West Papua. Do not let anyone forget about any of the genocides going on rn.

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@arytha’s oc, xena!! ^_^

#xena #ooooh this came out really nice #i like the way her hair looks

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[ID from ALT: A digital fullbody art of my OCs, one of which is Epoch's Maker in a hooded cloak, and the other is Era as he appears in his first life. Era is positioned mostly with his back to the viewer, prevented from turning fully towards the viewer by the Maker, who is gripping his arm. Era's eye, with his face in profile, glances forward. The Maker is completely turned away from the viewer, his cloak a blend that starts with white and cream colors on the top, and ends with blended streaky red and blue panels with defined, rounded black edges at the bottom. Era's complexion is more ashen than normal, and he is dressed in the same cream color as the Founder, with white pants. The background is white save for a simple pale red and yellow aurora. End ID]

Remember. This is for all of us.

#mara art #era #epoch #epoch's maker #--> has been watching mara slowly break their own brain trying to figure this piece out #this came out so amazinggggg #you did great on this

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#the untamed #mdzs #FUCK

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[ID from ALT: A digital halfbody drawing of my OC Xena, and @hunterofthehunters's OC Zero about to kiss. Zero is gently brushing Xena's cheek with his hand as she grips his arm to stabilize herself while leaning upwards. Zero's smile is gentle, while Xena is nervous, yearning. They're surrounded by gold and red lighting. End ID]

A present for Logan!! I love you 💜

#Mara's Art #Zero #Xena #oooooAAAUUUGGGHHHHHHH #THEM!!!!! #THEMMMMMM #holy shit mara this came out so amazingly #i'm still not over it #i adore them so much #eats this art

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#i love 13 sentinels #13 looginels

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#loog's book of friends

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#loog's book of friends

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"i could fix him" "i could make him worse" ya well i could shave him and then immediately regre-

not even bad really

#disco elysium #he looks like an austin powers villain

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[Image description from alt: A colored, half body digital drawing of @arytha 's OC Yuri. He is dressed in his usual green turtleneck and white lab coat. He is holding a clipboard to his chest with one arm and holding a pen to his face in the other hand with a contemplative expression. Behind him is a red circle made up of many numbers, and each zero is differentiated in a pinkish color. The background is a gradient of a deep mauve on the top descending to a dull light blue on the bottom. End image description.]

Good coping mechanisms 101: Begin and devote yourself to an experiment that lasts thousands and thousands of years so you can never address your traumas properly!!!!

#oc art #fan art #yuri hartford #holy sHIIIIIIITTTT #this is so good!!!! #you did an amazing job bringing him to life! #he's not technically my OC #also shhh i didn't reblog this like 3 times by accident trying to add tags

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[Image description from alt: A colored, half body digital drawing of @arytha 's OC Yuri. He is dressed in his usual green turtleneck and white lab coat. He is holding a clipboard to his chest with one arm and holding a pen to his face in the other hand with a contemplative expression. Behind him is a red circle made up of many numbers, and each zero is differentiated in a pinkish color. The background is a gradient of a deep mauve on the top descending to a dull light blue on the bottom. End image description.]

Good coping mechanisms 101: Begin and devote yourself to an experiment that lasts thousands and thousands of years so you can never address your traumas properly!!!!

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[Image description from alt: A colored, half body digital drawing of @arytha 's OC Yuri. He is dressed in his usual green turtleneck and white lab coat. He is holding a clipboard to his chest with one arm and holding a pen to his face in the other hand with a contemplative expression. Behind him is a red circle made up of many numbers, and each zero is differentiated in a pinkish color. The background is a gradient of a deep mauve on the top descending to a dull light blue on the bottom. End image description.]

Good coping mechanisms 101: Begin and devote yourself to an experiment that lasts thousands and thousands of years so you can never address your traumas properly!!!!

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If you had to pick, what's the ONE trait in a fictional character that makes you immediately go "oh this one's mine"

#there's a long list but #the running theme one is 'self-destructive heroism' #constantly putting themself last for the sake of other people #and trying to do good even when they know it's only going to hurt them in the end #but they choose to do so anyway #be it out of kindness #or out of some misguided trauma #maybe even a justified trauma response that makes them interrogate their values and grow to be a better person #poses at emiya shirou & spider-man

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In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.