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phoenixyfriend · 2 months

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Calls for Action, Call Your Reps: 3/12/24

This is USA-specific, as that is the place I live and know.

Find your elected officials.

As usual, most of my information on what bills are on the floor comes from GovTrack. I am including some suggested listening/reading (you can find text versions if you google the title and 'transcript') at the bottom of the post. I am also including a current event that is likely to be a very powerful argument, with the right politicians. The event is prefaced with a red warning tag, and followed by event-specific verbiage.

Suggested verbiage and strategies for calling your elected officials. We've recently seen politicians, including Biden, start to pivot towards the "Israel is increasing danger to itself" argument in public statements.

The most immediate and pressing issue at this moment is the famine in Gaza. The air drops are inefficient and dangerous (several people died due to a parachute malfunction), and the floating pier will not be ready any time soon. Trucks across land borders MUST be allowed in.

At this time, the three greatest factors in that famine are:

Israeli bombardment (destruction of existing food stores and farming land).

Israeli blockades of the Egyptian border into Gaza, preventing aid trucks from places like the US from reaching people, and turning away trucks on their own side of the northern and eastern border that contain items like medical scissors, solar panels, and anesthetic.

The cessation of funding to UNRWA, which has been the lifeline to Palestinian civilians for decades, and is currently the best and possibly only chance to save the one and a half million dying civilians

This information is being reported by the WHO, UNRWA itself, UNICEF, and more, along with journalists that are in Gaza at this time.

Both House and Senate:

Reinstate funding for UNRWA. While the claims made by Israel that employees of the relief agency were involved in Oct. 7th are troubling, THEY are not well supported, and western officials did not do their duty in investigating the claims before cutting funding. This arm of the UN is currently providing food, water, shelter, and medical care to the 2.3 million displaced peoples of Gaza. It is especially disturbing and concerning that the many children of Gaza, who are already suffering due to this conflict, are now having this support revoked. Many sources are also claiming that the evidence is flimsy at best.

Urge both Senate and House to refrain from funding Israel, or to at least put some strings on it. The IDF cannot be given funding without some regulations on what they can do with it. They have proven that they are unwilling to take steps to protect civilians.

Sanctions must also be placed on Israel for its continued impediment of aid intended for Gazans, including aid from the US.

Urge for the US to stop vetoing ceasefire demands in the UN. No, the suggested replacement written by the US is not an excuse.

Not directly related to Gaza: It looks like they’re gearing up for another push at KOSA. The canned email responses I’m getting are really proud of being in support of KOSA, which is… bad. It is also bad for people outside the US, including Palestine, apparently. VOTE NAY.

Not related to Gaza:

The US, France, and Canada are meddling in the Haitian government and pressing for "peace" under US terms. The international community cannot continue to seed problems in this country for their own purposes. Also, feel free to drop a note about how France and the US need to pay reparations for the double debt.

Domestic affairs: Press for a less harsh immigration policy than the one currently in Congress. Press for investigation into the Boeing whistle-blower death, and for stricter oversight and safety regulations on large corporations.

#israel #united states #gaza #palestine #call your reps #death mention #politics #death tw #current events #unrwa #Haiti #kosa #pro palestine #Boeing #Phoenix Politics #daily recommendations

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puppyeared · 3 months

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happy valentines day <3 i wanted to do more, but sadly i only had enough time to complete these two

please also don't forget Rafah is under attack and urgently needs help. you can buy esims, check the BDS boycott list, click the daily donation button and email your representatives (USA).

there will also be a global strike february 18 - 24.

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batty-pham · 6 months

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Daily fic rec master post!

BatPham/DPxDC

October

Oct 1 - But I Want to Be Let In, Not Out

Oct 2 - Robin's Egg

Oct 3 - Shadow of a Bat

Oct 4 - Life, Death, and In Between

Oct 5 - One Fall, Two Rise

Oct 6 - Barely Surviving in a World Antithetical to My Existence

Oct 7 - Stalking Astronauts: Gotham's Latest Social Media Craze!

Oct 8 - There! That's the Ghost Who's Been Stealing My Shit

Oct 9 - I'm King Boo

Oct 10 - A Second Life

Oct 11 - Phantom Children: Redux

Oct 12 - Have you heard of Danny Wayne

Oct 13 - Hollow

Oct 14 - Danny's New Batty Family

Oct 15 - The Curious Case of D. Grayson

Oct 16 - Breaking news!

Oct 17 - The Kings Coffin

Oct 18 - Ah, Sunflower

Oct 19 - Contractual Obligations

Oct 20 - Close enough to be whole again

Oct 21 - Raise Hell

Oct 22 - Three Vigilantes and a Pile of Parenting Books

Oct 23 - Adoption Runs in the Family

Oct 24 - thirty-odd days of chasing an enigma

Oct 25 - Ghost Kings and Gotham Bats

Oct 26 - A King in Arkham

Oct 27 - TWINcognito mode

Oct 28 - A Little overshadowing never hurt anyone

Oct 29 - Vertical Limit

Oct 30 - Deja Vu

Oct 31 - Rigor Mortis

#dpxdc #dp x dc #dc x dp #dp x dc crossover #batpham #daily dpxdc fic rec #daily batpham fic rec #fan fic rec #fan fic recommendation #fic recommendation #fic rec

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folkandbooks · 6 months

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A quick reminder that it is perfectly okay to still go to your tarot guide in the middle of a reading, no matter how advanced you are in divination. It’s okay, even, to go to more than one guide if you’re not sure that the first one’s description was accurate to the context. Tarot is all about following your intuition and doing what you feel it’s right.

#my recommendation is the ultimate guide of tarot #divination #oracle #tarot cards #tarot #tarot reading #tarotblr #tarot deck #daily tarot #tarot witch #tarotcommunity #witch tips #witchblr #witchcraft #divination witch

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almondcroissantsandink · 7 months

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Lucy Westenra (The Bloofer Lady) variant Dracula cover

#lucy westenra #Dracula #re: dracula #dracula daily #dracula fanart #bram stoker #art #illustration #digital art #csp #clip studio paint #artists on tumblr #the bloofer lady #book #I so so recommend listening to RE: Dracula they are killing it and I’ve cried listening to it

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bleekay · 5 months

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i can accept that teenaged zuko had defined abs only because you know that boy was not hydrating. fighting everything and everyone at all hours of the day and just absolutely did not drink enough water

#uncle's over here sipping tea all day #while zuko got his daily recommended water consumption in the middle of the night #waking up up parched and chugalugging a liter and immediately going back to bed

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accessibleaesthetics · 1 year

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I'm sure I'm not the first person to talk about this, but I really want to give a big shout out to the @re-dracula team for making the Re: Dracula experience so accessible. And I'm not just talking about offering the whole thing for free, though that's still defintely an aspect of it.

For one thing, every podcast has a full and proper transcript. By "full and proper," I mean it not only covers the actual text being read, but who says what, what parts are said by which people, and crucially, describes all of the extra sound effects and musical cues they put in. Some transcripts are just a text dump, but this is a properly formatted script with all the bells and whistles.

Another thing is that each episode is prefaced by content warnings, where applicable. That is not something you can get from the original text, nor even Matt Kirkland's extra notes that come with each entry from previous years. Someone (or in all likelihood, multiple people) had to review the full manuscript for each podcast and figure out which themes required warnings. They then had to figure out how to make them specific enough to be useful but vague enough not to just be a flat out spoiler. That took extra effort and care, but it's going to make the whole thing so much more accessible to those who need them.

#re: dracula #they really didn't need to go that hard but they did #and I'm forever grateful for it #because I can comfortably recommend it to all of my followers who are interested in the story #which is not necessarily something I could do with the normal Dracula Daily #I mean can you imagine reading Swales' dialog with a screen reader

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marymekpop · 6 months

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a daily dose of sunshine & wisdom

#daily dose of sunshine #korean drama #park bo young #mmkfav #mygif #stayed up until 4am to finish this drama so i'm running on no sleep and i have no regrets #i cried so many times watching this drama #truly a healing drama #def one of my favs of the year #my pby is finally in another kdrama masterpiece #(i used to pray for times like this)#also this drama messed me up (in a good way)#also i will never shut up about our childhood besties from the drama #(they should have been endgame)#(im so hurt)#(we got absolutely robbed)#to make up for it i NEED pby and jdy in another project together again im so srs #n e ways i highly recommend this drama!! pls watch if you haven't already <3

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vickyvicarious · 1 year

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I handed to him the sealed letter which Mr. Hawkins had entrusted to me. He opened it and read it gravely; then, with a charming smile, he handed it to me to read. One passage of it, at least, gave me a thrill of pleasure.

"I must regret that an attack of gout, from which malady I am a constant sufferer, forbids absolutely any travelling on my part for some time to come; but I am happy to say I can send a sufficient substitute, one in whom I have every possible confidence. He is a young man, full of energy and talent in his own way, and of a very faithful disposition. He is discreet and silent, and has grown into manhood in my service. He shall be ready to attend on you when you will during his stay, and shall take your instructions in all matters."

Inspired by this post looking through Dracula's earlier letter to Jonathan, let's see what the Count might take from this section of Mr. Hawkins' letter.

Red = Jonathan is young, has only worked for Mr. Hawkins so far. He's only recently grown into manhood. He's likely to be a little bit naive and inexperienced, easier to toy with.

Orange = Jonathan may not look it at first glance, but he has great drive and he is smart. Not only will he be able to competently answer Dracula's questions and assist him with the work he's officially here for, but this means he's more likely able to endure a good deal of torment before breaking down completely. He'll be entertaining for a while to come.

Green = He will try his best to complete this job, even if just out of loyalty. He won't speak up for himself. How much pushing will it take to break his silence?

Blue = He's going to do what Dracula wants. Whatever he wants. He's obedient. How far can that be pushed? What kinds of unexplained orders will he follow?

Like... Dracula was expecting Mr. Hawkins. He would probably still have fun/use him as a resource as planned, but an old, experienced lawyer who is no longer in the prime of his life wouldn't be nearly as interesting for him, or for nearly as long. We see what his tastes run towards later... and Jonathan fits them all perfectly. No wonder he smiled so charmingly after reading this.

From Dracula's perspective, this description of Jonathan is more and more exciting. It absolutely gives him an idea of the kind of guest he has even beyond what he's already learned/confirming some things he's seen (Jonathan didn't speak up in the ride to the castle even when it was obviously not a straight trip there. He tried to save the driver from the wolves.), and it's all the sort of information that will make Dracula eager to test Jonathan. To see how far he can push him, to draw this out as slow as possible.

I don't think Jonathan was the only one here who felt " a thrill of pleasure" reading Mr. Hawkins' letter.

#dracula daily #count dracula #jonathan harker #sorry mr. hawkins that was a very sweet and glowing recommendation #but dracula is a HUGE CREEP so he would absolutely take the worst things from it #dracula daily spoilers #dracula meta #my meta

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melannen · 1 year

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Dracula cross-stitch sampler pattern

Since I've had time on vacation, I finished up a cross-stitch pattern I started a year ago in the first Dracula Daily round, based on the words Dracula uses to greet Jonathan Harker when he comes to the castle: "Welcome to my house. Come freely, go safely, and leave some of the happiness you bring".

I wanted a sampler for my front hall, but all the patterns I could find were very Hot Topic Goth. Nothing wrong with that, but my goth aesthetic is more "creepy thing found behind the wall in an old attic", and I wanted a pattern that my aunt wouldn't realize was anything out of the ordinary. I was looking around for inspiration and stumbled on an 1871 sampler by 12-year-old Jemima Clements in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It's a little bit early for Dracula but the aesthetic was spot on, so I spent a long time squinting at a zoom of the best download of it they had to copy the wolves and the letters, and then left it for almost a year because I got frustrated trying to figure out how to get a good-formatted pattern out.

When we came up on a year I transcended frustrated and went with the good-old fashioned grandma method and transferred my pixels to a spreadsheet. So on the off chance you want a creepy Dracula sampler for your front hall, I now have it in .pdf and a downloadable Google Sheet. The .pdf is formatted to print on legal paper, but it will be a bit small that way; you are welcome to fiddle with the spreadsheets to get it the size you want.

PDF of the pattern of the Dracula quote ^this will not work if your browser redirects to https because my webhost messed that up, but it should work if you force http

Google Drive link to a shareable/downloadable Sheets file

The pattern uses 7-10 different thread colors; I don't believe in locking in brand-name floss, so the pattern includes color description and it's up to you to find stuff in your stash that looks good together.

I could not come up with a decision on the border, so the options are:

Make all the flowers plain lavender

Use a variegated purple for the flowers

Pick 4-6 different shades of lavender/light purple and alternate them - this is most similar to Jemima's border

Use the "allium flower" pixel art pattern I coded into the pattern (recommended only if you recognized the allium flower pixel art pattern I used.)

#dracula daily #dracula #cross stitch #cross-stitch #sampler #embroidery #pattern #welcome to my house #come freely #go safely #and leave some of the happiness you bring #don't recommend putting this on the front door since the caveats on the welcome are pretty vague #wolves #the children of the night #not the music the original sampler meant #(probably but never underestimate the creepiness of twelve year old girls)#(I don't know why else you'd do howling wolves for a prayer about music)

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thethirdromana · 9 months

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Here's a rough sense of Mina's route:

From the Royal Crescent:

To St Mary's churchyard:

#dracula daily #obviously these are modern photos #i recommend trying to imagine the same scenes illuminated by moonlight and dim victorian gas streetlights

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phoenixyfriend · 8 days

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Calls for Action, Call Your Reps: 4/23/24

This is USA-specific, as that is the place I live and know.

Find your elected officials. Remember, emails are good, but calls make the most impact. Suggested verbiage and strategies for calling your elected officials. We’ve recently seen politicians, including Biden, start to pivot towards the “Israel is increasing danger to itself” argument in public statements.

There's a LOT on the floor this week, but this is what I'm going to encourage:

Call your senators. Aid to Israel has already passed the house, but has not yet been voted on by the Senate. Call TODAY.

Use this script:

Israel has been engaging in human rights violations, as confirmed by US State investigations, even prior to Oct. 7th. In that regard, it is a violation of the Leahy (lay-hee) law for the US to provide funding to the battalions and units accused credibly of these violations. With commentary from Netanyahu and his government opposing the threat of sanctions against SPECIFIC units and ongoing refusal to cooperate with United States demands to increase aid and reduce civilian casualties in Gaza, it is unlikely that they will be discretionary with the $26 billion in aid that the House passed.

As a constituent, I strongly oppose the passing of aid to Israel until strong, practical conditions are placed on that aid, as the existing process has proven ineffective. It is unreasonable to continue providing aid to Israel while sanctioning Iran when we have seen Israel instigating this third front in what appears to be a bid by Netanyahu to secure US funding through endangering his own people by attacking the Iranian consulate in Syria.

To support my blogging so I can move out of my parents’ house, I do have a ko-fi. Alternately, you can donate to one of the charities I list in this post.

#current events #united states #call your reps #phoenix politics #Israel #Gaza #leahy law #Daily recommendations

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kirby-the-gorb · 2 months

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#kirby #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #finally scheduled with an immunologist after uhhhhhhhh #nearly 9 months of having access to medical care again #the apppointment isn't until may #but this doctor was recommended to my partner when they described my needs #so. maybe they can do something for me.#but that also means I'm just. hanging on until may now.#which sucks.

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batty-pham · 6 months

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Daily DPxDC Fic Rec

Day 37 - Nov 6

Danny the Hungry Hungry Ghost

By Tachvintlogic

Tags: Weird Biology, Ghost Biology, Gore, temporary memory loss, meat grinder, Angst with a Happy Ending, Tumblr Prompt, Trypophobia, Flashbacks, Mature Rating due to meat grinder in chapter 2, Trans Danny Fenton, Systematic Transphobia, Mentions of Ableism, Electrocution

Wordcount: 16,519

Summary: Danny... isn't doing so hot. The GIW shredded his human half to bits, and now he needed to grow all of it back. The main problem is that things like "thinking" and "understanding what's going on around him" is very difficult without a brain. The Justice League found an unknown entity and have no idea what it is or where it's from. One thing they had figured out was that it didn't seem hostile and it had a voracious appetite.

Complete: yes

#dpxdc #dp x dc #dc x dp #dp x dc crossover #batpham #danny phantom #fan fic rec #fan fiction rec #fanfic recommendation #fanfic rec #daily fic rec #daily dpxdc fic rec #fan fic recommendation #danny the hungry hungry ghost

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berrrbitch · 7 months

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Missing legends post…🫠

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daily-tropes-provider · 1 year

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TROPE: "I thought that I could save myself and live a peaceful life upon marrying my husband, however, how can I have a quiet life when my In-Laws seems to like me way too much?!"

MANHWAS:

• Lady Isabella's Path to Happiness

• My In-Laws are Obsessed with Me

• The Siren: Becoming the Villain's Family

• I'm Living with my Mother-in-law

• I Don't Want to be the Duke's Adopted Daughter-in-law

• The Archvillain's Daughter In law

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