#but it acts like aids

[badly-drawn-doflamingo]

Yorki and ‘His Illness’;

Oda really knew how to drive the knife in when it comes to the story of Yorki and his crew, man…

From the choice of scenes before we get to see the bed-ridden body to the actual real world equivalents, its really rough on the heart.

What we knew about Yorki, from the scenes right before the announcement of his illness getting worse, is both his confidence and his strength.

The scene we get to see is his crew surrounding his brand new bounty, Yorki cheering and proudly proclaiming his joy for it. We see the great swaft of muscles on him, his chest fully exposed and his hair bright and fluffy along his shoulders. His face is clear, his arms fill out his coat, which is important later on, and he holds such a pride that he reminds me quite a lot of Luffy. We see him break up fights, offering advice to his men and we see him joking and drinking alongside his caring crew… and Brook. Brook is always by his side, during the mornings when he brushes his teeth, to the night when they drink side by side. They’re always together.

[ buff pirate cowboy! ] Until they’re not. Now comes the topic that may be a bit rough, the real life equivalent of what we see Yorki suffering from. I'll list the symptoms and y’all can make what assumptions you wish, and again, I’m not truthfully claiming its any REAL ILLNESS, but I mean simply it is inspired by, acting the same and such. We see a cold compress, so it’s bothering his body temperature. We see sunlit windows, open to the fresh air as if that could help. We see spotting across his face, and hands; small wounds, growing in number. We see his hair, like a mock halo loosely scattered across the pillow he lays in, and it’s stringy now, not glossy or kept. His mouth his covered by a mask, so they believe its airborne/touch. These sound to me, a lot like a certain sickness, one passed by blood which is interesting given the scenes we see before this are Yorki and the members who now are sick, sword fighting with a rival crew. The doctor states he's unsure what it is, but is treating it best he can, as what he believes it to be is unknown. But knowing what we do on old methods of that certain sickness, it would make sense. The mask helps, the spit and body fluids being a factor, but the idea of sunlight and fresh air helping is an olden falsehood. The men come into the room, and Yorki speaks to them through horse coughs, offering words of encouragement and laughing through the mask as they shuffle out. They know the truth of this serious matter, and Yorki does too. They leave, each crying their hearts out for perhaps they did not realize the truthful change until that moment. Brook certainly looks perturbed, staring blankly ahead at the bed. Note, most do not get too close to the bed, standing feet away, and not touching Yorki.

What a physical change from the man we saw before. But not too much mentally… or has it. He has a mask, mentally and physically still up; he gives them hope, tries, but… they see through it after months of his brushing off of the sickness perhaps.

After everyone leaves, Brook remains to stand, away from the bed until called. Called. Yorki calls to him, stating his name as he always did. “Brook.” “Yes.” And Brook comes closer, but not quite to the bedside, staring ahead with a blank expression. Than Yorki leans over, and grabs his hand, and in a flash of a moment Oda CHOSE for us to see, Brook looks disgusted. He grimences, brow furrowing at the wounded hand that touches him, but than we see what he sees lying in the bed; a weeping, broken husk. Yorki has begun to weep, sobbing as his confident facade is broken and melted away in front of his Vice-Captian. And Brook melts too, dropping to his knees and forgetting all of these ideas of illness, tossing any safety away for his crew and himself just to make Yorki feel seen, or perhaps because of his own need to love his dying partner. He clutches Yorki’s hand, and now we see the true damage the illness has done; Yorki’s wrist is thinner than Brooks. His arm is gaunt, and we see the bone. He is withering away, has been for months it seems, but Yorki always was good at excusing it with a confident smile. But now, in the bed, unable to stand and wracked and eaten away by something we can only claim perhaps as some blood related illness, he weeps before his partner. “Brook-” “YES? My Captain?” “Give them HOPE.”

I’ll just include the rest of the scene here for your own enjoyment.

I could dive into the fact that Brook believes he failed those words, or the fact the crew did not just die of poison, and their deaths were so gruesome the anime had to censor it. The fact Brook continues to “give the crew hope…” or the way he mentions he may not have made it out of the triangle alive.

However! That is for another day.

#not saying it’s aids #but it acts like aids #they loved each other #so much #it’s heartbreaking #brook failed him too.. #you ever loved someone so much #you get their laugh #tattooed on your face??? #and then you get their smile #tattooed on your heart?? #one piece #character analysis #brook #soul king brook #calico Yorki #Rumbar pirates #character death #tw illness #op brook #thriller bark #lgbtq characters #sickness #the Rumbar pirates

[hack-saw2004]

platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine

edit: @saffronlesbian made a video description for this post!!

[vd: a screen recording of a tweet from the 20th of April 2024 with 2.5 million views, from Ruhi @/ruhi_hi. the caption reads, "This video of this little Palestinian angel celebrating his bday in a refugee camp" followed by three emoji of a smiling face with teary eyes. the video clip is 11 seconds long and shows a one-year-old baby seated on the sandy ground, smiling hugely and clapping his hands while people sing to him from offscreen and a large cake is placed in front of him. stuck into the top of the cake is a decoration that reads "happy birthday" in english. the video has the tiktok handle @/ibrahim.jamal99 visible in it. /end vd.]

#free palestine #end aid to israel #current events #palestine genocide #let gaza live #save palestine #end the genocide #end the occupation #joy as an act of resistance #boycott divest sanction #from the river to the sea #free palestine in our lifetime #mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living #no one is free until we are all free #palestine will be free #dont stop talking about palestine

[thefatfemme]

Shout out to fat people with chronic pain. Use that mobility aid, get yourself a tasty treat, and don't give a fuck what anyone else thinks. Your body deserves love and care no matter what!

#thefatfemme #Chronic pain #fat positive #fat liberation #Disabled #body positivity #Self love #fat acceptance #fatphobia #mobility aid #No this has nothing to do with my hips and back screaming today why do you ask #Also if anyone who sees this uses a cane while also having wrist pain #Do you have any good ways of mitigating the wrist pain while using the cane? #Cause I have tendonitis and will likely develop carpal tunnel from grooming dogs and some days my wrists are just terrible #Can't grip for shit #And while rn I can manage without a cane for the most part #there are also days where my back and hips act up and a cane would be a major help

[thegoldenhigh]

Posting a new link with an update!! Share/donate if you can pls!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼

I'm Tyler, I'm 29, and I recently had several strokes and now I need heart surgery to close the hole in my heart that is causing it! I don't have much family I can go to (I escaped a cult and was excommunicated, and I'm disowned by the majority of my family) so I'm trying to reach out to ppl and friends I have online! Please consider sharing and donating if you can, I really need help. I know I keep spamming my link and sob story and I feel shitty bc it obviously annoys ppl but I'm trying my best to get help.

Anything at all helps! Even if you want to just dm me and say a kind message that helps me stay positive. :')

(Also if you don't want to go through GFM I have CashApp and Venmo at @tblank20)

Thanks for reading, I really appreciate your time! ❤️

#gofundme #mutual aid #crowdfunding #viral #i literally have 50 cents in my bank account rn #my sweet bro cooked me a few meals to last for a few days but idk about the future man #i hate to keep acting like a beggar but it's the only way i can think of to get help #personal #help

[wispforever]

catching up

#naruto #itachi uchiha #kisame hoshigaki #itakisa #kisaita #this is in the good timeline #they're meeting in the leaf after everything #complain about the mobility aid and get an automatic block <3 #not enough people make itachi chronically ill #let people have disabilities god dammit #they act like there's nothing between him dying and being completely 100% able bodied #draw him with mobility aids god dammit draw him taking medicine having good pain days and bad pain days #please I need it

[icarusbetide]

i know washingdad jokes are more of a fanon, musical thing but really. i genuinely believe in my soul that historical washington was the type of guy to hear his aides chant "we want mcdonalds we want mcdonalds" and silently enter the drive-through just to order one black coffee, no cream no sugar and leave.

#this is true and i am the ultimate authority actually #except maybe a ten pack chicken nugget set for lafayette #also i know most of the aides were actually not children #and like. in their 30s. #but they probably acted like children so who cares #george washington #historical hamilton #amrev #meme #the aides de camp #george washingdad

[raybotonline]

what say you of my everyday life?

#aka i wanted to draw saki with mobility aids and i found this cool pose reference on pinterest and thought itd fit with her NSNF fit #ignore the fact that NSNF event ended like a week ago on EN and just act like this is a timely post LOLL #art #my art #artists on tumblr #illustration #project sekai #prsk fa #saki tenma #leo/need

[girlgerard]

thinking about red and blue being an explicit and pretty unavoidable AIDS metaphor within killjoys really hits home how grounded and truthful all of gerard’s fantastical storylines are tbh.

within this universe of classic superhero neons, robots, and laser guns, not only is there commentary about commodification, chosen family, anti-capitalism (debatably imo), and even doctorow-esque data privacy, there’s also a deeply grounded illustration about the experiences of many queer people during the AIDS crisis. here you have red and blue, who are not only a lesbian couple but also sex workers who are discriminated against because of those intersections, navigating what is obviously meant to be read as the heathcare system. you have a storyline focusing on their dedication and love for one another, on the reality of being on the poverty line, of not being considered fully autonomous or deserving of rights based on the fact that they’re androids. you have a tragic decline of red slowly losing her hair, her blush, her skin cracking and her body shutting down as her battery dies. you have the incredibly pointed arc where blue, attempting to save red, gets denied a new battery, and has to attempt drastic and back-alley measures that ultimately fail. through this sci-fi overlay, gerard managed to write a deeply tragic and beautiful love story about two queer people and their relationships with each other, with sex work, with the healthcare system, with their economic status, and with AIDS in a comic that most people only know about because they heard nanana on the radio in 2013. and it’s only highlighted by how heavily 80s-inspired all of the killjoys visuals are.

obviously it can be read in many different ways, but thinking about gerard growing up near a major american city in the 1980s during the reagan administration and thinking about the depth that these two characters have even as side plots. idk. there isn’t exactly a point to this. i just really, really appreciate gerard as an artist. in every capacity

#when people talk about how tbp-as-an-AIDS-metaphor is ridiculous its like #1. there is no ‘truth’ to a reading. that’s how art works #and 2. acting like gerard Would Never is like…..bruh he already did!!!!!

[b4kuch1n]

IT ARRIVED IT ARRIVED IT ARRIVED

DESPITE EVERYTHING DESPITE MY CHRONICALLY CURSED INTERNATIONAL MAIL PROBLEM I AM STILL THE ZONE RPG

#bakuspeech #and I guess this counts as #bakuspecial #ouuuuuu #my art! on cards! characters I kinda got to build with my visuals!! #also upon getting this which I had mailed to the senpai's place instead of mine in an effort to break the curse we immediately #ran a game. that was supposed to be short. but ended up extending past midnigt #AND had to stop for the night before act 2 even begins #but. its SO fun. the game pieces do just the right amount of heavy lifting for u that it frees u up to make up Real out there stuff #like. we ran a game on the browser version. and while it was also Really fun it got stressful to make stuff up #now if we're stuck we just pick up cards #and like. idk for kinda the first time really? I get the appeal of roleplaying with someone else #I'm usually such a control freak about the stories I tell lmao #with the visual aids in this set I get to imagine the character dynamics so much more easily #like this time around the senpai picked the scientist archetype #and he made that guy a white guy with some means who has been sending people to death to serve his science #and my character's an asian guy who was with a pest control service (yes I picked the trevor henderson character lmao) #who got drafted into the bureau and works as like cleanup/fodder #so immediately I got to go like oh so I hate your guts. and you condescend at me #which turned out to be a Very fun dynamic to roleplay lmao #throughout act 1 we've made this dynamic steadily Worse. one of them envies the other into oblivion #while the other can now communicate with No one except his mission partner #and we're gonna craft the second act as chase. a predator and a prey. gods. it was SO fun #its so funny both of them were touting to be smart or good at their job. and then they went into the zone and Immediately got fucked up #this game really gives u that satisfaction and fascination with like. when things go wrong in way too thematically fitting and messy ways #lmao my contract's fulfilled I do not have to talk this game up. its just really fun. man I enjoy that so much #sadly my pool of english speakers who can play this game with me is not big #I'll try and find time to run a few small games in the near future... maybe during lunar new year #I was over at the senpai's today to toast out birthdays lol. to get that out of the way we've been planning something like that for weeks #weve been both way too busy. with different sliding scales of uh. how pleasant that busy's been

[uncanny-tranny]

I think more people ought to accept the idea that mobility aids do not always look like they're specifically "for disabled people." An aid is, at the core, something that helps to empower disabled people to live more comfortably, more easily, more pain-less/pain-free, maintain quality of life, or anything else.

A disability aid might not be obvious to you. It might even seem silly to call some things "disability aids," but that doesn't change the fact that they are helping that person live more comfortably and freely. Not every disabled person will have aids that are "not standard," but for the disabled people who do have non-standard aids, we ought to treat them well and include them in spaces. We can accommodate a vast array of disabled people, and the effort to include them is worth the time it takes.

#disability #i was thinking about this because i'm getting gloves to help my hand pain and joint problems in my hands #and i don't think people would conceptualize that as an 'aid' because... they're fucking /gloves/ #but (hopefully) they will minimize the amount of pain/anxiety/fear that i get when my hands start acting up #so in my mind they will aid in my quality of life and my overall physical and mental health #because it is so scary to me when my hands act up because... if you have hands that function like 90% of the time you RELY on them #and the times that they fail you are deeply unsettling and almost horrifying #anyway rant over: if somebody says something is an aid believe them <3

[discordiansamba]

I guess I should discuss the AU that's been rattling around in my brain in a little more detail, rather than just making shitposts about it. So here's the basic gist of it:

We all know there was one surviving universe at the end of Honerva's rampage in VLD's (pretty bad) finale before everything was restored to normal- but could it really survive everything that happened around it unscathed?

The answer is no. Of course it's no.

In a twist of irony, given Honerva's goals, Lotor is deleted from a universe that would have otherwise been very close to the canon universe as we know it- which is... kind of a problem, actually. As in 'the universe could fall apart if this event doesn't happen' problem. But don't worry. The cosmic forces of the universe has a stopgap measure of its own in place to protect itself.

After all, what could go wrong with the universe using one half-Galra to replace another?

Keith is born to Zarkon and Honerva in Lotor's place. He's always felt out of place in a way that simply only being half-Galra can't quite explain. He has a strong sensitivity to quintessence, and knows from a young age that his father and the witch that stands by his side are corrupted.

He knows he's corrupted too. he can hear things that are not him whispering in his head sometimes, telling him things. he ignores them.

(this is sometimes harder than he would like)

(on very rare occasions he hears a different voice from the rabble- one that calmly tells him not to do things. he listens to this one a little more.)

He grows up loathing his father- it's a mutual feeling. He knows that even before he was born, his mother loathed him as well. He grows up with no strong connection to their either side of his heritage.

(perhaps honerva subconsciously realized the child she was carrying was not her own)

He breaks away from the Empire on his own at an early age- he knows in his bones this is wrong, and wants no part in it. He ends up safeguarding a pocket of space from the Empire, but his motives remain erratic and he stays aloof from the other forces against the Empire, so he's not exactly trusted by them.

After all, he's not exactly not still a part of the Empire himself. Zarkon's not going to let his only heir walk away that easily.

He still ends up meeting Acxa, Narti, Ezor and Zethrid.

He's born with the Altean talent of shapeshifting- though he's better at it than most. He wears three faces- the Galran prince, the Altean wanderer, and then a third face, one of a race he has never seen before, yet feels oddly familiar to him.

(Sometimes it feels more natural than the one he was born with.)

He later learns of a planet called Earth, and its people known as humans, who so resemble his third face- and the blue lion with them. He decides to keep an eye on the planet with the excuse of trying to protect the lion... which is surely the only reason he feels such a strong draw to this otherwise backwater planet.

Which is great, because it turns out replacing Lotor with Keith created another problem the universe has to deal with- there isn't a Keith anymore to pilot the red lion.

He just kind of gets swept up in everything when the blue lion awakens, and before he knows it, he's on the Castle of Lions, and Princess Allura of all people is telling him he's a paladin. They all seem to think he's human.

Somehow, he senses it would be a very, very bad idea to tell them all he's actually Zarkon's son.

Great job Keith. You signed up for the universe's most stressful double life. I'm sure this is going to work out real well.

(I am lying.)

#the universe slapping keith over lotor's role like a band-aid: this will work. i'm sure of it #the funniest part of this AU is when it sinks into everyone that the person they thought was a scrappy 18/19 year old kid #is actually ten thousand years old #other fun things: Romelle and Keith besties still. she gets to be a rebel. as a treat #Keith and Kuron bonding. you're a fraud and I'm a fraud. maybe we can make this work #(as soon as I get Narti to remove Haggar's programming from you) #and of course. narti lives au #you can put keith in a prince role but you CANNOT make him act princely (unless he needs to. he can manage)

[night-triumphantt]

I want to go into the new year with a ceasefire, I want aid to reach Gaza, more than just what is needed, I want excess aid, more than they’d know what to do with, I want them to get help rebuilding, I want Palestinians to be safe and free.

#free Palestine #happy new year #I don’t know how to watch and just #… feel entirely unimpactful as people continue to die and our ‘leaders’ find it #fund it* #aid in it #I feel like I’m going insane walking around and seeing people act normal #watching as the journalists lose hope and grow resentful and bitter and I can’t blame them #how many of us see and yet nothing has changed for them #they continue to have no food and no water and continue to lose people and friends

[empatheticquinoa]

Is it ND culture to be so used to “okay, just because I’m hot doesn’t mean it’s hot” that you regularly risk heat stroke trying to keep up with everyone?

#when I told my mom what happened she said those are the symptoms of heat stroke #while my sister often acted like I never did enough she was the one who saw the symptoms in me and got me to the first aid tent in time #nd culture #neurodivergent #autistic #actually autistic #adhd #actually adhd #AuDHD #actually audhd #actually neurodivergent

[etoilesombre]

What Lies Beneath - Chapter 3 - x_etoile_x - Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

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Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Black Sails Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Captain Flint | James McGraw/John Silver Characters: Captain Flint | James McGraw, John Silver Additional Tags: Demon AU, Monsterfucking, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Episode Related, 2.7, Flint is very tormented, and Silver is always looking for an angle, because someone around here has to have common sense when dealing with the supernatural, Rimming, i would not say the consent is dubious exactly, but its tricky at some points, they're working through some things, Jewish John Silver, very incidentally, what if Silver's canon ideas about Flint were true: the fic 

Summary:

Silver is braced for the transformation, and so he manages to maintain his composure, though when the pressure of fingers against his skull becomes the sharp flex of talons his knees go weak. Huge, bat-like wings erupt from Flint’s back, and horns sprout above his temples; by the time it's over, he has grown to at least half again his normal size. His face is still more or less his own, but his eyes are decidedly reptilian, and they watch Silver warily.

“Oh, hello,” Silver murmurs, soft and soothing, determined not to be ruled by his fear. “Aren’t you magnificent?”

Flint’s lips pull back to reveal sharp, gleaming teeth; he gives a warning growl.

“None of that now,” Silver says, holding his ground as he would with a skittish animal. “You aren’t going to frighten me away. Did you not think I knew what I was asking for?”

____________

Chapter the Third: In which everyone finally gets what they want. 

#monsterfucking monsterfucking monsterfucking! #monsterfucking as character study #IF there are consent issues here #its really the human talking the demon into some things #silver is determined to get that dick #and who can blame him really #man can't resist an opportunity #early season flint angst #incidentally jewish silver #and istg if anybody acts like thats political right now we're gonna have words #a little max and silver siblings moment at the end for a treat #black sails #silverflint #fanfic #john silver #james flint #my writing #i put a demon dick reference at the end #in case you need a visual aid #ok i've been so preoccupied with this i'm going to go have a weekend now #cheers

[vrisbian]

Abbott Elementary hit close to home when your mom works in an Elementary School. Oh, no free periods because now its all serving lunch duties and library shifts?

#abbott elementary #like yeah stuff my mom complained about a million times over #wait until theres an aid character whose subbing a language class acting as teacher just bc theyre bilingual #and bc the school cant pay for an actual teacher #and can underpay the aide