#campaign: the vigilant

[aceofwonders]

D&D Aesthetics | Verity Laurentum

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#d&d aesthetic #da one-shot girly! #she's going Through It (tm) #excited to play her <3 #ch: verity laurentum #campaign: the vigilant #nancy's d&d adventure #oc aesthetic #aes: verity laurentum

[msommers]

tfw you're forced to travel by foot for a week thru the deep roads w a bunch of flops :///

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#campaign: the vigilant #ch: valeriya de clairmont #graphic #graphic: valeriya #ok so technically this has been finished in my pictures folder for like. over 2 weeks. but we're ignoring that!!! #alana i chose cian's song and i feel in my heart it's a correct choice #he'd want to have something soft and reassuring to listen to amongst Everything Going Down #the clairmonts all texting in lowercase wasn't an intended thread but it's really funny. priscilla's dying inside #anyway this is clearly a riya pov going on i thought it'd be cute #and also it makes sense she'd be the one out of them all to be going wild on a fantasy phone down there

[cityandking]

— oh darling don't you know? the show must go on

MINAH VO; performer thief warden ↳ the vigilant campaign

#mine; minah #mine; graphic #dadnd #the vigilant campaign #minah #I couldn't think up a good caption but I really like the board so here we are

[thislifewasneverours]

“It doesn’t seem real.”

so laura bailey’s lean in was probably just her adjusting her chair but I like to imagine a world where it was a WILD acting choice, either way this episode killed me and I missed laudna so much, so I animated for the first time in a hot second. sorry it’s so short and not great looking but my god marisha and laura kill it every time with these characters and by it I mean me, help.

#animation #imodna #imogen temult #laudna #critical role spoilers #imogen/laudna #laura bailey #marisha ray #critical role #dnd #original animation #artists on tumblr #frame by frame #I had some horrifying setbacks with this one while making it #animation has taught me so much patience though I remained vigilant #campaign 3 #c3e38 #Southern Gothic

[in-maidjan]

finishing my prep for session 10 tomorrow like-

#its going good! im sure there will be no long lasting consequences or geopolitical fall out from this activity! :D #kite yaps #dnd campaign; the vigilant #anyway small milestone for session 10 WOO!! <3 <3

[impossibletruths]

DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS!!!!!!

#I have to go to bed right now immediately but fyi I am spinning like a bethesda character clipping through the map. if u were wondering. #dadnd #the vigilant campaign

[kralmajales]

Feeling so much better.

#tumblr as my diary again hiiii #so I went to a community vigil for my friend like a week ago and it was good but felt weird #and I realized it felt weird because a lot of the people there (friends included) weren’t grieving the way I was #I was just closer with her than my friend group was #but now I’m coming back from a private memoria service and I feel so much better #I actually felt on the same page with the people there and the people I saw there made sense #idk rambling . #all this to say I feel better #like . okay so at our school we went through multiple history teachers #and the fan favorite was one teacher but the one Starllie and I liked the most was another one #like we were on his congressional campaign together and everything #and at the vigil everyone was like where’s [insert fan favorite teacher] #and I was kinda like um who cares . #but now at the memorial there were pictures of me Starllie and our fave history teacher #and he was there and came up to me to make sure I had his email still and was asking her college friends about her schoolwork #and idk it just made so much more sense and made me feel so much better #and the speeches weren’t just yeah she was a beautiful Angel it was more yeah she used to make us go to abandoned buildings #which rings so much more true #I’m rambling so much idk. sorry. #love you Starllie <3333 #fuck off feliks

[severalowls]

Its absolutely no coincidence that the people being sent baseless sexual assault accusations against predstrogen have, from what I've seen, been young transmascs.

The terfs behind the harassment campaign are so brazenly trying to prey on anybody they reckon might have any transmisogynist tendencies and are trying to use that to sow discord in the trans community. They see transmasculine people as potential avenues for recruitment (and eventual detransition) and it's extremely fucking important that the people being sent these anons do not fall headfirst for the bait. They want you to go 'uh oh, guess trans women are sex pests after all' and that to stick with you and fester, and turn that seed of prejudice into the continued harm of transfem people.

If you want to be a meaningful ally to transfem people right now you have to be vigilant for this shit, and correct it where you see it. If you think being used as an angle of recruitment by bigoted harassment is gross, imagine how it would feel to be the damn focus of the harassment.

#like my own experience in transmasc-heavy spaces has been positive! #but for every ten cool friends theres one guy who gets all weird the moment i speak in voice chat #that one guy is who is being 'stay safe :)' annoned right now.

[dejectedlozer524]

There are still smear campaigns going around about @predesterone / @predstrogen and it's only gotten worse ever since she got nuked by the ceo, so stay vigilant and keep combating any and all misinformation you see, WE CAN'T LET THEM FUCKING WIN THIS EASILY!!!!!!!

#Don't let the ceo shitting his pants distract you from the fact that transmisogenists are now using this to their advantage!!! #KEEP FIGHTING AGAINST THE HARASSMENT CAMPAIGN EVEN THOUGH RITA'S NOT ON THE SITE ANYMORE!!!! #SHE NEEDS OUR HELP MORE THAN EVER NOW!!!! #lozer post's #important

[aceofwonders]

D&D Aesthetics

↳ “why are you so full of rage? because you are full of grief.”

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#d&d aesthetic #ch: rhydian #*weak thumbs up* it is finished #completed this in a sick haze so no idea if it looks ok but eh #i love my boyo #truly rest in peace to papa i am forever sadden by my decision to kill you off #also just fully threw together a birthday but it feels right #campaign: the vigilant #nancy's d&d adventure #oc aesthetic #aes: rhydian

[msommers]

can't sleep. plagued with the thought of riya being capable of summoning a storm cloud to zap darkspawn for a full hour each day and how sickening that is for the 10 day long battle at val foret

#technically i can't sleep in general and these are the thoughts i'm keeping myself entertained with #if she uses every 3rd/4th level spell slot + her arcane recovery it's an hour of frying darkspawn #and i think that's kinda sexy as hell and v fun of her #i fucking love mages it's just so cool to picture i'm going more insane about it w each passing moment #sure she does other stuff but i imagine at least a few days of this would have been put to use bc it's so effective #can only imagine the absolute drain of energy that would be on a mage. oof #someone make sure she doesn't fall off the battlement once the final cast is over lmfao #this is also?? a good spot for the training of not relying on a staff for casting to start kicking in #anyway.....riya hot. magic sexy. darkspawn die. profit #campaign: the vigilant #ch: valeriya de clairmont

[cityandking]

— I'm worried there will be unfixable things — there's always unfixable things

MINAH VO ↳ human rogue; grey warden

#minah #mine; minah #mine; graphic #dragon age #warden #the vigilant campaign #dadnd #dragon age oc #if anyone has the original credit for this psd please let me know! I've lost the original post rip

[in-maidjan]

two sessions of the vigilant game ending in back to back murders of unarmed people (who have revealed themselves to be fucked up and cruel) like

#but in the Best way #i love everything my players do honestly blows my mind every time <3 #dnd campaign; the vigilant #rhydian and minah said Direct Action

[reasonsforhope]

"Lead is a neurotoxin; it causes premature deaths and lifelong negative effects. It’s said “there is no safe level of lead exposure” — as far as we know, any lead causes damage, and it just gets worse the more exposure there is.

After a 20-year, worldwide campaign, in 2021 Algeria became the final country to end leaded gasoline in cars — something the US phased out in 1996. That should make a huge difference to environmental lead levels. But lots of sources remain, from car batteries to ceramics...

Bangladesh phased out leaded gasoline in the 1990s. But high blood lead levels have remained. Why? When researchers Stephen Luby and Jenny Forsyth, doing work in rural Bangladesh, tried to isolate the source, it turned out to be a surprising one: lead-adulterated turmeric.

Turmeric, a spice in common use for cooking in South Asia and beyond, is yellow, and adding a pigment made of lead chromate makes for bright, vibrant colors — and better sales. Buyers of the adulterated turmeric were slowly being poisoned...

But there’s also good news: A recent paper studying lead in turmeric in Bangladesh found that researchers and the Bangladeshi government appear to have driven lead out of the turmeric business in Bangladesh.

How Bangladesh got serious about lead poisoning

The researchers who’d isolated turmeric as the primary cause of high blood lead levels —working for the nonprofit International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh — went to meet with government officials. They collected samples nationwide and published a 2019 follow-up paper on the extent of the problem. Bangladesh’s Food Safety Authority got involved.

They settled on a two-part approach, starting with an education campaign to warn people about the dangers of lead. Once people had been warned that lead adulteration was illegal, they followed up with raids to analyze turmeric and fine sellers who were selling adulterated products.

They posted tens of thousands of fliers informing people about the risks of lead. They got coverage in the news. And then they swept through the markets with X-ray fluorescence analyzers, which detect lead. They seized contaminated products and fined sellers.

According to the study released earlier this month, this worked spectacularly well. “The proportion of market turmeric samples containing detectable lead decreased from 47 percent pre-intervention in 2019 to 0 percent in 2021,” the study found. And the vanishing of lead from turmeric had an immediate and dramatic effect on blood lead levels in the affected populations, too: “Blood lead levels dropped a median of 30 percent.”

The researchers who helped make that result happen are gearing up for similar campaigns in other areas where spices are adulterated.

The power of problem-solving

...When the Food Safety Authority showed up at the market and started issuing fines for lead adulteration, it stopped being a savvy business move to add lead. Purchasers who were accustomed to unnatural lead-colored turmeric learned how to recognize non-adulterated turmeric. And so lead went from ubiquitous to nearly nonexistent in the space of just a few years.

That’s a better world for everyone, from turmeric wholesalers to vulnerable kids — all purchased at a shockingly low price. The paper published this month concludes, “with credible information, appropriate technology, and good enough governance, the adulteration of spices can be stopped.”

There’s still a lot more to be done. India, like Bangladesh, has widespread adulteration of turmeric. And safety testing will have to remain vigilant to prevent lead in Bangladesh from creeping back into the spice supply.

But for all those caveats, it’s rare to see such fast, decisive action on a major health problem — and impressive to see it immediately rewarded with such a dramatic improvement in blood lead levels and health outcomes. It’s a reminder that things can change, and can change very quickly, as long as people care, and as long as they act."

-via Vox, September 20, 2023

#lead #lead poisoning #turmeric #bangladesh #south asian food #south asia #public health #public safety #government #good news #hope

[fuckyeah-bears]

not that i truly care what rando losers on tumblr dot com think about me but i did just get an obnoxious as fuck message telling me about how internet activism and sharing things online isn't actually activism, trying to shame me into not posting as much or "torturing myself" by watching and sharing pictures and videos of what's going on in gaza. and it pissed me off enough to say this:

One, Palestinians have asked people to share and boost their content. That is a direct fucking ask from people in Gaza and Palestinians around the world. I will keep watching and sharing these photos and videos because it is what we have been asked to do by the people who are themselves experiencing genocide. Yes, it is depressing, yes it emotionally and mentally fucks me up. 100%. But i will keep doing it.

Two, literally none of you have ANY fucking idea what i am doing in real life to fight for Palestinian liberation. I don't need anyone on tumblr dot com's validation or approval and i'm certainly not stupid enough to dox myself online when every zionist shitbag, the police, and every employer out there is already trying to do that. but believe me when i say i have dropped pretty much everything else in my life to fight as hard as i fucking can to stop this genocide and work towards the Palestinian liberation.

Three, everyone needs to be doing shit in real life to fight to end the genocides going on right now. Only posting online does not count as activism, true. So take your conversations offline as well. Talk to people you know about Palestine, Sudan, and Congo. Read books and learn the histories. Write to and/or call your elected officials and government leaders and even the fucking bureaucrats. Join local solidarity and action groups working towards Palestinian liberation: Dissenters; DSA; JVP; SJP; AMP; IfNotNow are all US based groups that have local state chapters (idk too many groups outside of the US, sorry international friends). Participate in BDS, personally boycotting brands yourself, demanding your schools, workplaces, organizations, institutions, and governments divest from Israel. Attend rallies and protests and disruptions and vigils. Write to your local, state, and larger newspapers and demand they cover this genocide without bias, call them out for their shitty zionist reporting; write op-eds and letters to the editors. Sign up for webinars. If you can't leave the house or attend in-person events, you can make signs and banners for people and groups who can go. Start or join a campaign to pass a ceasefire resolution in your town/city; testify at town/city council or public comment about it & write to your local elected leaders. Donate to Palestinian and and relief orgs and charities if you can. And yeah, keep fucking sharing and uplifting and boosting Palestinian posts and voices online. The media is trying to repress the fuck out of them, so you we need to do our part to make sure their voices are seen and heard as widely and as loudly as possible.

And four, don't be a pretentious dick to strangers on the internet. You don't know shit about what people are doing in their real lives. This is just common fucking courtesy

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

#free palestine 🇵🇸 #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #gaza #gaza genocide #eyes on sudan #congo genocide #free congo #free sudan #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #🇵🇸

[yourtongzhihazel]

How would one prevent a communist government from being taken over by the bourgeoisie? For example, rich people won't be happy about suddenly not being allowed to exploit people anymore, so how would we prevent them from posing as a working class person/communist and then taking over the government from the inside (such as how they do now but with capitalism)? Especially if they decide to use the reeducation camps against us. Sorry if this is a weird question but I've been pondering it lately

The question for how to prevent infiltration and opportunism is a question which plagues every ideology and movement under the sun so no I don't think it's a silly question nor can it be truly summarized easily either.

I'm of the opinion that a failure to properly prolerarianize the communist party of the Soviet Union which lead to its stagnation and eventual turn towards opportunism and revisionism. How did this happen? Depoliticization of the military, full repudiation of Stalin, including the good aspects, and strict top-down governmental structure, among many other reasons combined to lead to 1991. To compare, we can look at some differences (admittedly fairly aurface level in this discussion) between the Soviet Union and the PRC.

Some things the PRC does differently, for example, is maintaining proletarian control over the military and having political education being one of its major tenets. Top-down and bottom-up government, e.g. local electorates elect representatives to higher levels who rlect representatives to even higher levels, all the way up to the national level thus to have a deep infiltration into the party, there must be significant rot at the bottom levels already. During the Mao era, political participation by the masses was encouraged using the mass line which can keep officials more inline with the people. Of course, proper anti-corruption campaigns and reforms which have deep involvement from the people are also crucial.

Theres many different methods and ways to stay vigilant on opportunism; thisbhas just been a sample. The key is that not all methods work for everyone and vigilancy must be maintained.

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