#Concerted Effort

[stuckinapril]

what they didn’t tell you as a child is that you will spend your whole life trying to replicate the same unconditional happiness you so effortlessly experienced back then and that it will never quite feel the same no matter how hard you try

#whenever I think of unadulterated happiness I just think of when I was a little girl who was surrounded by so much love #every day is a concerted effort to tap into that again #text

[stil-lindigo]

Bisan is calling for another global strike!

I saw some posts just outlining Jan 21st, and wanted to clarify that Bisan has called for a full seven days of action.

What a global strike would look like is:

calling in sick to work

purchasing bare essentials ahead of the week so you can observe the general boycott of goods / buying as little as you genuinely can

putting in a concerted effort to elevate Palestinian voices and make it clear that this strike is in support of a permanent ceasefire!

For those who will have to purchase necessary goods during this time, please observe the brands that the BDS movement is asking us to boycott!

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Right now is also a good time to mention some better uses for your money during this week.

Available e-sims in Gaza are running low!!

Mirna El Helbawi and her team are working round the clock to continue to connect Palestinians as Israel does its best to cut them off from the rest of the world.

You can learn how to purchase and send e-sims here, and below you’ll find a list of what is currently needed (the areas in brackets indicate what region you should select to buy e-sims in).

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CareforGaza is an organisation that does verifiably good work, distributing supplies directly to Palestinian families.

They have a Gofundme set up at the moment, but because of Gofundme’s poor track record regarding refusing to transfer funds to Palestinians, I’d recommend continuing to donate directly to their PayPal here.

Good luck to all of you. Don't turn away from Palestine!

#i know that for some people their first instinct will be to scoff. how can anyone just not buy things for a full week? #what about groceries? rent? #and personally. i wanna say yes. there are some things that we have to spend money on to survive. #but it is possible still to make a concerted effort in your life #to carve out seven days where you can minimise that amount of money #i know its a lot. #for some people who are living on a tight budget. i know its not possible and i dont fault you for that #but i know for a fact that so many of us would be able to take out a few daily purchases in observance of this strike #do your best #dont turn away from palestine #free palestine #palestine #from the river to the sea #call to action

[beatsandskies]

The Top 10 cards that share their name with a Precon based on how well they’d work in that Precon. Intro Pack edition.

After the success of my Theme Deck post – I posted it to /r/MagicTCG and got some real good feedback and heaps of page views – it was clear I’d have to do a follow up. I found it real fun to write up, too, so that’s probably part of it as well. Clearly the obvious sequel was to move onto the Intro Pack era of the game: Shards of Alara through to Eldritch Moon. That is 2008 to 2016 for anyone who…

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#Battle Cries #Breath of Fire #Brute Force #Call of Blood #Concerted Effort #Dark Ascension #Dead Ahead #Desperate Stand #Doom Inevitable #Feast of Flesh #Hold The Line #Hunting Pack #Intro Pack #Life For Death #M11 #M13 #M15 #Magic: the Gathering #Mob Rule #MTG #New Phyrexia #Oath of the Gatewatch #Origins #Precon #Preconstructed #Preconstructed Deck #Price of Glory #Rapid Fire #Repeal the Dark #Swift Justice

[gravitysoda]

refusing an impossible wish and settling for one last game of chess.

#p5 #persona 5 #shuake #akeshu #p5r #persona 5 royal #goro akechi #akechi goro #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #joker #joker persona 5 #soda art #the artbook gave me brainrot and the strength to make a COMIC. extreme rarity for me #akechi in 3rd sem having a wish to play chess with joker in a world where theyre both happy and are able to lead normal lives is just...aug #but the fact of the matter is that he can't have that without sacrificing his free will and everything he stands for #so in this scenario i thought he could ask for a small microcosm of that wish #at least he gets another game with joker - even if he wants to play many more he'll settle for just one #they still can't play together without the baggage and without akechi feeling that he's burdening ren #but at least it's something. at least akechi gets to spend a little more time with him #and akechi makes a concerted effort to push ren away in the 3rd sem to avoid attachment #so this would be a “selfish”/vulnerable request on his part since it's something he wants but is sentimental #and will only make it harder for ren to lose him in the end #ANYWAY !!! they make me crazy <3

[room4creation]

me when i revert back to being 17 but like way kinder and forgiving

#when i stop caring again... good fawking vibes #concerted effort

[felsicveins]

Fleo drawing #4792262684

#rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise leo #rise leonardo #leo tmnt #leonardo tmnt #rottmnt leo #leonardo #future leo #future leonardo #rottmnt movie #if i made a concerted effort i dont think i draw fleo not a little sexy #my cross to bear i guess 🙄 #call me four the way im loko

[playerkingsley]

"you should have killed me the first time," to ratanish, but also otohan, jiana hexum, the hishari and their ritual—to every moment they dragged themself over the precipice through sheer force of will

#critical role #cr spoilers #also y'know. maybe a little luxon meddling #(i'm aware these weren't all concerted efforts on their life but. this rock's been through it) #ashton greymoore

[jennyfromthebes]

hey. if you're a live tapes enjoyer, do yourself a favor and go listen to the 03-01-2024 Grace Cathedral solo show tape. i listen to a lot of live tapes and this has hands down the most breathtakingly gorgeous acoustics I've ever heard. the way the church echoes is absolutely ethereal and the performance is haunting and beautiful. this tape is one for the books, for sure.

#txt #transmissions from lyric #the mountain goats #tmg #like guys i cannot tell you enough how much this elijah and riches and wonders have changed my brain chemistry. #when i get to carmen cicero.....oooh boy. #concerts #tapes #also HUGE shout to the community bc this one was a massive collaborative effort #one person recorded aud and an anon taper recorded sbd and passed it off to one notable taper #who then passed it off to another who combined it w the aud recording to get what youre hearing #at LEAST four ppl had hands on this its kind of a beautiful beautiful community effort to me #and that makes this even better. theres just something so lovely about community efforts to me.

[chubbychiquita]

its been kind of odd maturing in front of the internet. i started publicly posting feedist stuff the second i turned 18 and ive changed a lot since then, and ppl will refer to things i've said/done that are totally incongruous with the person i am today.

like, dw guys if you vote gop you can masturbate to me. in fact send me all your money. every cent. id love that 🥰💕

#i have made a rlly concerted effort to take feedback from u guys #no more flag burning!! no more american revolutionary war debate! no more horniness for animated meme characters! #i am only being 40% as annoying as i'm capable of being and i should get more praise for that

[batsplat]

following on from this. not to always bring marc into everything (sorry marc) but if assen 2015 had happened against jorge, valentino would have very likely pulled something similar again imo. rather than what he actually did, which is approach marc almost immediately for a nice normal friendly handshake and backing off during the podium celebrations. should be noted that during laguna seca '08, valentino was very much committed to yapping at casey on the podium with the world's biggest smuggest grin on his face

partly that disparity is because jorge not marc was the direct title rival, partly it's because valentino was treating marc with kid gloves right until the second that he wasn't, which marc was seemingly entirely oblivious to. if anyone other than marc had said what he said in that presser, had then continued on with similar rhetoric during sachsenring, valentino would quite likely have gone nuclear. he's done it over less than that. his fondness for marc made him continue to exhibit uncharacteristic restraint... except that fondness unfortunately is what left valentino feeling so very betrayed when (to his eyes) marc could not leave well enough alone

#it's so delightfully tragic isn't it. a lot of 2015 played out the way it did because valentino genuinely wasn't looking for beef #but then felt backed into a corner and decided he had no other option than to blow this shit up #if casey says 'what I think is that we won the race' valentino would've torn him a new one then and there like... #if sete had called assen his best race of the season valentino would've reached for the chalk and incense even sooner #though fwiw I do think the relationship was basically doomed from that point. something would have happened sooner or later #2015 is so funny conceptually because there was already something *off* about it most of the way through. you have the familiar beats #but they shouldn't be HAPPENING with marc. they should be happening with the actual title rival - who vale never properly fought all season #assen 2015 should've been laguna should've been catalunya hell it should've been assen 2004 but it couldn't be #valentino kept accidentally inflicting the psychological blows on the wrong guy because jorge just refused to end up in a straight fight #assen SHOULD have been a pivotal race. but of course it couldn't be because what psychological blow was jorge lorenzo being dealt? #btw the unwillingness to beef doesn't just extend to marc. valentino makes a concerted effort to be uncharacteristically friendly to jorge #still think he would've rubbed assen in his face but. overall! he was trying! which again. very ironic #funhouse mirror ass season i love it dearly #// #brr brr #slowly dipping my toes into dropping 2015 hot takes on tumblr dot com... for so long these have been between me god and my google doc #i love jorge i think he's been involved in a lot of iconic battles i think it's funny not a single one of them happened in 2015 #minus kinda phillip island but even there it did feel like the other three were Doing More than him #also just a different vibe to a proper one-on-one. a WEIRD title run where the third man that whole year walks away with the trophy

[stil-lindigo]

The problem is the main things what they’re asking for is impossible for 99% of people, if we take off for a week from our job we lose that job. If we walk out for a week from university (since emailing and asking for notes to catch up undermines the whole point) we miss critical info fail the module and fuck up our degree. sure the side stuff is more acessable but when the main strike idea can’t be put into action your going to have all the momentum and impact of a dead slug, that’s why people are having difficulties.

hi anon. I understand that, and I empathise with the people who want to be doing more but can't, because capitalist society is built to punish us whenever we attempt to fight for a better life. But, again, you're approaching this in an unnecessarily defeatist way. The strike period hasn't even started for the northern hemisphere, and you're comparing the impact of the more 'accessible' strike actions to a dead slug.

I think if you approach resistant action with the idea that only massive gestures are worth anything, you're not going to get anywhere. You can make a difference by volunteering more this week, donating more to Palestinian escape funds and aid organisations, you can buy e-sims and connect human beings during the worst period of their life. It might not mean much to you, but donating the money that gets a Palestinian family food for the day, that helps them be able to text their families overseas - small actions can and do mean the world. One day I went fuck it, and kicked up a huge fuss on twitter because Gofundme refused to transfer a Palestinian man his funds. And, because of that small action on my part, he's going to get his money, even if it's weeks late.

And, just. One more time for good measure. This strike is being called by Bisan, a Palestinian journalist in Gaza who could quite literally be killed at any second. I know you mean well, but genuinely - what alternative does she have at this moment? It's nearing the end of the fourth month of genocide in Gaza. Palestinians have spent almost one third of a year being ruthlessly murdered with practically zero effective international pushback. If they're holding onto hope that action like this can make a difference, I'm not going to be pedantic and miserly about it.

#do what you can. #seriously. do what you can. #make a concerted effort this week to do more. #even if you cant sacrifice your work or education compensate in other areas #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #free westbank

[lizardlicks]

I've been having this thought that I haven't been able to really articulate? And I still don't think I'm going to do it right, but here goes my attempt anyway:

BROADLY SPEAKING, yes, the trope of everyone gets hetero married and has lots of kids at the end of the story is over done, and YES we absolutely badly need other versions of happily ever after because there is no one path to life fulfillment, and no one true way to find or build a family, or even one definition of family!

HOWEVER: it rings a bit hollow to me when I see other people taking this bit of generallized story crafting advise and applying that to katara and sokka specifically. Because they're not the ethnically dominant race or culture in the AtLA setting, not even close. They're based off circumpolar native populations. Their people have survived a century of genocide. Their story repeatedly echos themes of family, community, tradition, being forcefully stripped of it by imperialist colonizers, and the trauma there in. There's pieces of themselves they lost before they were even born, and both siblings are acutely aware of that, though they choose to deal with it in different ways.

I'm not saying that they DEFINITELY ABSOLUTELY must get hetero married and have a million babies to have a fulfilling ending, I hope no one reads this that way. I'm only saying that I think there has been a gap in the critical analysis responses of the broader fandom when they start reflectively sneering at stories that do have them content to stay home and raise the next generation, or whenever anyone laments about post show canon/LoK seems to neglect mentioning sokka having any family at some point it gets push back on with that exact argument.

Consider that it might be better applied to people for whom getting to raise the next generation in some way isn't itself an entire victory fanfare.

#like!!! #idk man it means something different #I still don't think I'm wording this good #but a people that survived as a group actual concerted efforts to make them and their way of life disappear #might just have a different view on generational continuity #than someone whose never had to experience their cultural identity being erased #Fuck it's late this possibly didn't even make sense idk anymore #lizard is starting to ramble #sokka #katara #watertribe siblings

[biillys]

BILLY WEEK → DAY ONE

i'm flesh and bone i'm a rolling fucking stone and the experts say i'm delirious

give me therapy i'm a walking travesty

all time low; therapy

#i dont understand COLOUR or PALETTES or PROMPTS so please. i am sorry #i am so fucking sorry #idk what this is but like. i guess if u squint its Palette Inspired.....maybe #again. i am SORRY #anyway. efforts were made! emotions were had! i'm emo! #i know this songs been done before a few times but ive always wanted to take a crack at it so. here we ARE #billy and max would be atl girlies u know this we know this #billy and max in the crowd of an atl concert listening to the nightly therapy speech....... #also the glitter and crimson speech........ gonna stop myself before i fucking lose it #anyway i hope this is okay and i hope at least one person doesn't think it's Rough jkahdbjkwa #ALSO the way mr horsegirl gaskarth himself talks about this song and how his feelings have changed over the years re: therapy #like........... Billy......................... #god....... #billyhargroveedit #harringroveweek #billyweek23 #m #gifs

[jungwookjins]

HAPPY 4 YEARS WITH ONLYONEOF!! title track music videos + most replayed moments

[id: 7 gifs of kpop group onlyoneof's music videos for savanna, sage, angel, a song of ice & ice, libido, skinz, and seoul drift. 1. love holding a boxing glove up to the camera before it cuts to the group performing choreography 2. the group performing choreography and then a shot of junji freestyling solo choreography 3. shots of mill rapping at the camera with background dancers behind him 4. the members performing choreography, the focus on junji 5. love and nine performing choreography as love pulls a tape measure away from nine's neck as nine kneels and grabs loves crotch, hand trailing down his thigh 6. a shot of junji and rie and then of kb and yoojung in the practice room 7. shots of yoojung approaching kb's car as he leans into the window and kb smiles faintly. the colored caption reads: happy 4 years with onlyoneof!! /end id]

#a kinda low effort anniversary set but ive been Very busy plus ive always wanted to do a set w this concept #the most replayed moments on yt #anways #HAPPY 4 YEARS ONLYONEOF <333333 #my most most most beloved boys <33 i hope they have such a good concert tn and the best anniversary day in general <33 #onlyoneof #ooo #ennuigif #lyonet #malegroupsnet #kflops #kpopco #forvy #rosieblr #useroro #heetual #also these are not cohesive at all lmaooo but individually i think the gifs turned out better than i was expecting so theres at least that👍

[zombolouge]

420 MAX BLAZE IT FUCK YEAH

#boop #thanks fam we did it #it took concerted effort to make this joke work #I hope you're all as proud and pleased as I am

[sabakos]

Also I know it's dumb to get mad at people on the internet, but I hate the persistent myth that the medieval Byzantines somehow intentionally destroyed the canonical works of the classical poets and philosophers who came before them, because it was obscene or non-Christian or whatever. This sends me into a near-blind rage not only because it is not remotely true, but because all evidence implies that the Byzantines tried so hard to preserve as much of it as the possibly could; everything that survives, all of the anthologies and epitomes and collections of extracts imply a deep and concerted attempt to do so, even as they were running out of the resources for it. They saved what they could, even as it became more expensive to do so and the pressures to spend that diminishing wealth elsewhere mounted as the empire declined.

And they barely got any recognition for it! They got the thanks for preserving the common intellectual heritage of both the West and medieval Islam by having their city ransacked and burned by the both of them, destroying an unknown amount of works whose titles can only be approximated by reading the likes of Photius (9th century) or Michael Psellos (11th century), an exercise in madness as you slowly realize what almost survived. And to top it all off, after the fall of Constantinople, the Renaissance philosophers and historians in the West immediately started inventing baseless tales of how the lost works of Sappho or Aeschylus must have been burned on purpose by overzealous Byzantines obsessed with purging heresy, in order to deny their own countries' shared responsibility for the bulk of the loss.

#the only plausible book that was destroyed by any concerted effort was porphyry's against the christians