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the reef guardian 🦈

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happy pride to clare devlin, the wee lesbian 🫶

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Drawing of Farcille monster Yuri

Inspired by this tweet

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the 50$ sword i got from a shady flea market was diagnosed to be a wall-hanger rather than a prop so i spent today making it the prettiest wall-hanger in the land

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you want what

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Perfect forecast 📻💭

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saying "I can separate the art from the artist" in regards to jk rowling is like saying "I can separate the shit from the anus" like it's not even a good story worth defending. her trash politics infects everything she makes. it's a bad, poorly written story and I don't get people bending over backwards to support a bigot over a bad story they liked as a child

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her name is Rock Angel d-15 ✨

(she/her/it)

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this song is very farcille coded actually

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when i was a tiny baby queer (aka a 24-year-old), i went to my first pride festival probably three months after i kicked ex-gay therapy to the curb and came out to my parents. being the people they are, my parents came with me. they weren’t really sure about this whole gay thing, but they loved me and wanted me to be safe and happy and wanted to be involved in what was important to me, so they came along. (i also think my mother still might have thought i might get drugged or murdered or beaten by a protester of which there were plenty.)

anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.

i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”

and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.

“What?” i say.

“…it’s a cock and a pussy, Jules,” she says flatly, and that is the story of how i died at the age of 24 while attending my first pride festival.

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Scott Pilgrim is, I think, the best example I can think of for establishing a setting's Nonsense Limit. The setting's Nonsense Limit isn't quite "How high-fantasy is this". It's mostly a question of presentation, to what degree does the audience feel that they know the rules the world operates by, such that they are primed to accept a random new element being introduced. A setting with a Nonsense Limit of 0 is, like, an everyday story. Something larger than life, but theoretically taking place in our world, like your standard spy thriller action movie has a limit of 1. Some sort of hidden world urban fantasy with wizards and stuff operating in secret has a nonsense limit around 3 or 4. A Superhero setting, presenting an alternate version of our world, is a 5 or 6. High fantasy comes in around a 7 or so, "Oh yeah, Wizards exist and they can do crazy stuff" is pretty commonly accepted. Scott Pilgrim comes in at a 10. If you read the Scott Pilgrim book, it starts off looking like a purely mundane slice of life. The first hint at the fantastical is Ramona appearing repeatedly in Scott's Dreams, and then later showing up in real life. When we finally get an explanation, it's this:

Apparently Subspace Highways are a thing? And they go through people's heads? And Ramona treats this like it's obscure, but not secret knowledge. Ramona doesn't think she's doing anything weird here. At this point, it's not clear if Scott is accepting Ramona's explanation or not, things kind of move on as mundane as ever until their Date, when Ramona takes Scott through subspace, and he doesn't act like his world was just blown open or anything, although I guess that could have been a metaphor. there's a couple other moments, but everything with Ramona could be a metaphor, or Scott not recognizing what's going on. Maybe Ramona is uniquely fantastical in this otherwise normal world. And then, this happens

Suddenly, a fantastical element (A shitty local indie band finishing their set with a song that knocks out most of the audience) is introduced unrelated to Ramona, and undeniably literal. We see the crowd knocked out by Crash and The Boys. but the story doesn't linger on the implications of that, the whole point of that sequence is to raise the Nonsense Level, such that you accept it when This happens

Matthew Patel comes flying down onto the stage, Scott, who until this point is presented as a terrible person and a loser, but otherwise is extremely ordinary, proceeds to flawlessly block and counter him before doing a 64-hit air juggle combo. Scott's friends treat this like Scott is showing off a mildly interesting party trick, like being really good at darts. The establish that Scott is the "Best Fighter in the Province", not only are street-fighter battles a thing, Scott is Very Good at it, but they're so unimportant that being the best fighter in the province doesn't make Scott NOT a loser. So when Matthew Patel shows off his magic powers and then explodes into a pile of coins, we've established "Oh, this is how silly the setting gets". It's not about establishing the RULES of the setting so much as it is about establishing a lack of rules. Scott's skill at street-fighter battles doesn't translate to any sort of social prestige. Ramona can access Subspace Highways and she uses it to do a basic delivery job. It doesn't make sense and it's clear that it's not supposed to. So later on, when Todd Ingram starts throwing around telekinesis, and the explanation we're given is "He's a Vegan" , you're already so primed by the mixture of weirdness and mundanity that rather than trying to incorporate this new knowledge into any sort of coherent setting ruleset, you just go "Ah, yeah, Vegans".

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leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

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List of fundraisers for direct contacts from Ghazzah & Sudan

This is a list dedicated to compiling people I have direct contact with in Ghazzah & Sudan. All of these fundraisers have been personally verified from start to finish by me. You are free to share these with anyone you know. This is part of the following masterpost series. Feel free to consult all other links in the main navigation masterpost.

The ground invasions of Rafah and El Fashir worsen everyday. Please understand the urgency of this campaign.

Version date: June 8th 2024.

Fadi & Shahed: 5,885 USD out of 62.5k

Sana'a & Sujood: 15,049 £ out of 50k

Mahmoud Qassas: 12,466$ out of 200k

Ezzideen Shehab: 11,075€ out of 32.5k.

Hussam Aburamadan: 17,657€ out of 148k.

Hamdi Hijazi: COMPLETE.

Suheir Hojok: 17,557 AUD out of 70k.

Madleen Abu Jayyab: 33,808$ out of 70k.

Hani Al-Hajjar: 2,536€ out of 50k.

Little Yusuf: 664€ out of 85k.

Nael Helles: 255$ out of 50k.

Alia's family: 516€ out of 30k.

Hala's family: 350 CAD out of 50k.

Mohammed Al Shaer: 150£ out of 50k

Mona Abu Hamda: COMPLETE. All further donations will help them in their new life in Egypt.

Sahar El Tibi: 15€ out of 30k.

Youssef Munir: 596£ out of 50k.

Muhammad Munir: 1,528£ out of 45k.

Amal & Ruba A.S.: 0€ out of 50k.

Awad's family: 10€ out of 25k.

Mahmoud Al Tibi: 1,512€ out of 60k.

Abdullah Haniyah: 175 USD out of 47k.

Alaa Jawad: 47$ out of 15k.

Ghada Banaat: 360€ out of 50k.

Fadia's family: 30 CAD out of 100k.

Eman Abdulrahman: 16,125$ out of 43k.

Mohammed's family: 0€ out of 30k.

Fatma Abughali: 85€ out of 27k.

Fahed Shehab: 0€ out of 50k.

Alaa Al Khateeb: 807£ out of 6k.

Mohammed Bardaweel: 50€ out of 37k.

Ahmad Shaaban: 0£ out of 40k.

Mohammad's family: 3.2k$ out of 14k.

Rana Abu Ghaben: 505$ out of 100k.

Ahmed Al Ostaz: 70€ out of 70k.

Tahani Shorbaje: 1,269$ out of 50k.

Omar's family: 45€ out of 20k.

Renad Majed Salim: 595£ out of 25k.

Ahmed Al Zaeem: 272$ out of 50k.

Hamza Hilles: 161€ out of 30k.

Bilaal Salah: 4,068€ out of 70k.

Mohamed Rafiq Abdo: 4,085$ out of 100k (22.5k needed for evacuation)

Amjad Almoghrabi: 225€ out of 25k.

Nadaa's family: 0$ out of 15k.

Mahmoud Balousha: 1,758€ out of 50k.

Amjad Sido: 80€ out of 30k.

Marah Salim: 735€ out of 55k.

Fatin Abu Hamda: 95$ out of 18k.

Sulaiman Thaher: 15$ out of 27.5k.

Anonymous individual (CW: photo of a child with blood on face if you scroll all the way down): 25$ out of 50k.

Sharif family: 4k$ out of 150k.

Shymaa's family: 1.6k$ out of 50k.

Mahmoud Mousa: 121€ out of 10k.

Nedal's family: 10€ out of 33k.

Fadi Ayyad: 360$ out of 35k.

Mohamed Hamad: 1,985£ out of 50k.

Tahseen Tawfiq: 3,056€ out of 60k.

Ahmed Shaaban: 2,419€ out of 20k.

Basel Abu Ghaben: 0$ out of 105k.

Mahmoud Hamam: 2,742$ out of 10k.

Iman Eyad: 376£ out of 60k.

Maysara Shaqura: 28,491€ out of 45k. (Evacuated but needs treatment NOW)

Mahmoud Khalaf: 260€ out of 30k.

Bassam Shaqqoura: 80€ out of 35k.

Nasser Shoshaa: 0€ out of 30k.

Rania 'Ibra': 0£ out of 35k.

Sujoud's children: 0 out of 45k $.

Asmaa Bahloul (CW: photo of a shaheed, killed by the occupation): 0 out of 20k €.

Abeer Ibrahim (CW: photo of a shaheed): 350$ out of 70k.

Ahmed Abu Ghaly: 1,495€ out of 40k.

Dina Maliha: 6,247€ out of 32k.

Ahmed Abu Shammala: 0€ out of 100k.

Islam Dahleez: 3,209$ out of 20k.

Maha Ibrahim: 78$ out of 100.7k.

Tawfik Waleef: 11,835$ out of 40k.

Elaf Babiker: 15,112$ out of 17k.

Mohammed Alhabeel: 772€ out of 50k.

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happily ever after by @sarakipin put to motion. from our honeymoon

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my three puzzle solving boyfriends

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lets be awesome. together✌️😁

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asexual pride VFlower!!

#shes just like me!!!