#she looks like my cousin lol

[7amaspayrollmanager]

Alright let's imagine a scene that is all too normal in palestine. A palestinian business owner finds his building covered in graffiti stars of Davids and Hebrew that says "gas the arabs" and "death to arabs"

Now imagine there's a reporter there and asks the palestinian business owner what happens and they say "the jews attacked my business"

Pause. Now your response might be "uncle no. Say israelis not jews" and then this is when he would look at you like youre stupid because the israelis doing this are jewish. They are not the Christians or the druze or the palestinian ones with Israeli citizenship. They are Jewish israelis who believe in their religious supremacy. When you graffiti stars of david all over a palestinian business, car, or the street you seek that conflation. it sends a message, this is jewish land and you're next.

The problem is that these videos circulate in zionist circles. "Watch this video of children in gaza calling for the death of jews" "watch how they say they want to fight and kill jews" those children are referring to Israeli soldiers that come in night and do their raids with the star of David attached to their uniform or the ones that bomb them. It's easy to watch those videos and assume that palestinians are indoctrinating their children on anti semitism or you can realize that those children's only interaction with jewish ppl is through violence and parents cannot protect their children from this. Doesn't matter context is lost

Abby Martin went to Jerusalem and interviewed israelis for 2 hours and she says every israeli was extremely confident to say that this land is for them and that they should push the Arabs out and when she interviewed palestinians they spoke of freedom from occupation and their dreams. That's reality. Not the soundbites.

And yet we have invasive youtubers and interviewers constantly in the street of ramallah or wherever in palestine asking palestinians "do you hate jews?" And in those videos you hear those palestinians say "no we have no problem with jews we have a problem with occupation and we have a problem with zionism." Bc this is how we are trained to respond to this trope. Palestinians are very aware what the world thinks of us and the reality is that many palestinians have internalized it and we grow up reading books on the Holocaust and train ourselves to recognize anti semitic dog whistles so zionists don't get the soundbites they want.

So we say "anti zionism is not anti semitism" and we say "israeli zionists" and we do not say "jewish supremacy" even thought it exists in palestine but "zionist supremacy" and in these carefully worded speech we water down what is happening to us in an effort to not deter people away from solidarity. But it means nothing. The world categorically blames palestinians for rising anti semitism they blame us for jewish insecurity globally.

[wingl3ssthing]

okok so i was having a Conversation and now i’m curious:

#bc i did once when i was like 13 and got my first razors and then my mom told me not to do i just never did again #and i kinda just assumed this is how all people lived bc it sucks and it grows back weird a prickly #but i was talking to my cousin and she was like “no everyone does do you ever really see arm hair on women #and like now that i think about it not really (or maybe i’m just not looking at peoples arms) #ANYWSYS #tumblr polls #my polls #rb for sample size #if you wish lol #finch hall of fame #poll

[bucephaly]

It's kinda shocking to me how few people seem to know how prevalent the 'my great grandmother was cherokee' myth is and how it's almost never actually true, especially when it comes with things like 'never signed up' or 'fell off the trail' or 'courthouse burned down destorying the documentation' etc etc.

People just don't even seem to know the history like.. when the Trail happened. My great great great grandfather was 2 years old during Removal in 1838, so peoples 'my great grandmother hid in the mountains!' is so clearly wrong. And we have rolls. From before and after removal, rolls done by cherokee nation and others by the government, rolls that were not stored in one random flammable courthouse. It's not difficult to find the actual evidence of ancestry.

And just.. there are lots of ways those family stories get started. It was a practice during the confederacy to claim cherokee ancestry to show one's family had 'deep roots in the south' that they were there before the cherokee were removed. Many people pretended to be cherokee and applied for the Guion-Miller payout just to try to steal money meant for cherokees - 2/3rds of the applicants were denied for having 0 proof of actual cherokee ancestry. [We even see lawyers advertising signing up for the Miller roll just to try to get free money.] And the myth even started in some families in the cherokee land lotteries, where the land stolen from us was raffled off, including the house and everything that was left behind when the cherokees were removed. We have seen people whose families just take these things stolen from the cherokee family and adopt them into their own family story, saying that they were cherokee themselves.

If you had some family story about being cherokee and you wanna have proof one way or the other, check out this Facebook group run by expert cherokee genealogists that do research for free. Just please read the rules fully and respect the researchers. They run thousands of people's ancestries a year and their average is only around 0.7% of lines they run actually end up having true cherokee ancestry.

#and ive heard even dumber origins of the cherokee family myth #such as an ancestor having a silly sounding name so the descendents just go 'oh she mustve been an indian!!!' #i was one of the few people who had my ancestry done on the facebook and had genuine cherokee ancestry #[though i had found it before it was just really validating to get it double checked and i started finding cousins (:] #like. i was told once when i was a kid by my grandma that my dad had cherokee ancestry and i didnt believe her. its wild that so many peopl #will make it a Fixture of their identity [or even just smth they bring up ever] with Zero proof #at least for cherokees from what ive seen its usually considered really disrespectful to claim to have cherokee ancestry without #actually having the documentation [like ancestors on the rolls] #and no a dna test doesnt count. nor does 'my dad is Clearly not white!' or 'high cheekbones' or old family photos or anything #i had this discussion with someone recently whose dad had been calling himself 3/4 native but didnt know exactly what nation ???? hello? #and its like... sorry but ur dad is like. italian lol. #[and blood quantum is bullshit anyway im tired of the 'im 1/16 cherokee' comments its dumb #cherokee nation does not have a blood quantum requirement. its pointless bringing it up in the discussion of who is or isnt cherokee] #also mandatory disclaimer that im reconnecting. i didnt grow up connected to the culture of even knowing my ancestry #this is all from my looking into this stuff over the past year or so. i cant claim to be an authority over anything regarding this #this is p much all my repeating things ive heard said by people who know a lot more than i do haha #man. and this isnt even starting to get into the fake tribe stuff. the only legit cherokee groups are the 3 federally recognized bands #cherokee nation of oklahoma. united keetoowah band. and the eastern band of cherokee indians. #any others that are state recognized or not at all arent acknowledged as legitimate by any of the legit cherokee groups #anyway. my final message goodb.ye #cherokee #tsalagi

[tblsomedoodles]

I can explain.

So, i've been thinking...i've never done anything with the non-apocalypse futures past a few months.

I'd also been thinking, that out of all the fan kids i've seen around, there wasn't a lot (if any) for Raph.

I ALSO thought, Family Web would be an absolutely horrible au to have Bishop be involved in (mostly b/c Leo would NOT be good with an evil government scientist. at all.)

anyways, here's an in-story explanation for what i got so far

When Raph's 25, he gets word that there's some government program doing some shady things. Now that wouldn't really be his concern, but they're rumored to be using mutagen so they feel obligated to check it out.

SO the three of them check it out (Not leo. He tried but the medical equipment got to him. He portaled to the roof to wait on standby.) They find a lot of failed experiments and the like, most being with at least some turtle dna for some reason.

They also find two very young, very alive baby turtle mutants.

So, of course, they take them home. (after completely destroying the lab, information and all.)

They find out a few days later (b/c of course Donnie copied the info and he and Jenny have been going through it for anything good) that ever since the failed invasion, Bishop's group had been taking their DNA samples left over from various fight locations, (and probably paying a few people to get blood samples too) and using it it to do genetic experiments. B/c the four have such a hodge-podge of dna to start with, the experiments were never stable. The two they stole being the best they've accomplished over the years. The two that just happen to have used Raph's dna.

I'm going to have to do more with this. Like give the boys adult looks and the like. but these two were being rotated in my brain on high for list the last 9 hours now and if i didn't share them tonight i was going to go insane. (i couldn't even focus at work i was so fixated on these two bitties.)

#tmnt #rottmnt #family web au #my doodles #good future stuff #this might be my friday update #we will see how much i draw of this later #THey aren't as small as Clara was when she was newly hatched #they're probably twice as big at least #they just look small b/c Raph's holding them lol #I think Raph usually defaults to his human form when he's handling them at that age #b/c he feels like he's going to break them if he's his big turtle self #Clara's 4 at that point btw #and she doesn't get that cousins come that tiny #she keeps trying to play with them in her dollhouse as the dolls #and Raph keeps having to rescue them lol

[jellyjamheadobb]

#But like fr #you know when you have your regular family #And then there’s the distant “wealthy” side of the family #and they’re literally all weirdos and assholes #one of my older cousins had a baby shower #and they’re from that side of the family (she’s ok though) so of course they invited them #And after being stared down by one of my second(?) aunts bc recently word got out that I have a girlfriend (wow holy shit I’m a butch!) #I was talking to one of my normal cousins about my car and how I plan on getting new seats for it #It has really old leather-y seats and I wanna get the cushy fabric kind #and she just pops into the conversation and says “why don’t you just get a new car? The one you have is so ugly <3” #like what #i have a vw beetle and I actually love it so fuck you (also I don’t have that kind of money to get a new car but shh) #my cousin and I exchanged that “uhhmmm😬” look with each other lol #awkward #But I just say “oh yeah I’ll think about it :)” #While I internally try to explode her with my mind #But anyway #rey rambles #meme #dumb shit #memes #funny #relatable memes #funny memes #lol #best memes #lmao #tumblr memes #twitter memes #dank memes

[penofwildfire]

Y'know I'm pretty sure obsessively thinking about a lego cartoon all day every day for over a decade to the point that it's a key part of your entire personality and one of the first things people know about you is just. Not a very allistic thing to do. Y'know? You understand me?

#mom it's been a DECADE #a DECADE of me doing this #but noooo I can't be autistic because I'm not exactly like my cousins or whatever she thinks autism has to look like 🙄 #and I HAVE other traits!! I do!! but those are written off as just annoying habits or personal failures on my part!! #she KNOWS how much I like this show. she's been THERE for my incessant ramblings and half-baked theories #she's been THERE for my piles and piles of fanart that all started with a silly doodle of Lloyd #she's SEEN me turn everything intonan excuse to talk about Ninjago!! it's a running joke with people who know me!! it's a whole thing!! #it's one of my defining traits!!!!! #fuckin hell man!! #sorry for the rant on main lol #autism #autistic #ninjago

[babylon5]

im gonna be real with you,

#i found out i cant go to the concert ive been looking forward to since December #for a band that has meant everything to me since i was 13 #because the shuttle isnt accessible like it claimed to be and we have a 10 minute walk from its dropoff location #which i can do in a wheelchair but my mom cannot #and my able bodied cousin swore she'd take me she said absolutely she would take me!! and then she said oops nevermind Last Week. #my mom made new plans to take me and this was a FUCKTON of money lost because she bailed on us #and now my mother is crying because my cousin still hasnt paid back any of the money we lent her years ago #and now we've just lost more #and im on disability the only one here with an income btw lol what we spent was half my monthly paycheck!! #im tired of this world not being accessible to the disabled #im tired of people disappointing me on purpose #she didnt even bail to us directly she had her mother (my moms sister who have a deeply uncomfortable relationship) call my mom and inform- #her that her daughter was suddenly bailing because she doesnt like concerts ?!? after promising multiple times?? ok. #sorry this is an insane vent im just. IM TIRED. I am so tired. #it was supposed to be the first good and genuinely fun day for me in months.

[aloharyda]

[Ocs] I made a new pair of ocs. I don’t have much info on them yet, but I love them. What happens when you put a 100x oblivious and friendly person with someone’s who’s never held back or been subtle in their damn life?

this.

#my art #my ocs #Lottie looks like Diana because she's her baby cousin teehee #Also Lottie is the one who corrects the order if it was up to Tati she would just grumble deal with it it lol

[tchaikovskym]

I don't think it's completely false that kids who read a lot tend to be smarter than other kids. I don't believe the technical process of reading is the key, I believe it's the ability to learn about experiences the kid has never had. And I don't think written text should be the only medium through which it's possible, it could be TV shows, spoken stories, plays, dances etc, anything that the kid likes. I really don't think forcing someone to read until they cry is going to make them smarter, I think trying to find a different way how to make the kid connect with a concept, a character, is going to do a lot better.

#thinking about how my cousin cried because their parents made them read a book when they were like 6 years old #while saying 'you should be more like erin. look how much she is reading' #that was messed up #i dont know how we managed to be in a good relationship despite being pitted against one another #were both depressed though lol

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

The time thing is actually something I'm glad you mentioned in your response because I've been puzzling over it myself. I can see this happening one of three ways so far: 1) the RDA have been there for longer than in canon and Grace and them ended up arriving at a later time. 2) the meshing is less organic and more purposeful. After gaining their independence they still want to keep parts of their culture but want to sort of move away from the more traditional stories told by their creators/captors, so they mesh the stories and songs on purpose to make something uniquely theirs.

Or 3) since they are just experimental versions of the recoms, it makes sense that the RDA scientists might have needed time to perfect the memory transfer, especially since around two-thirds of their test subjects are from the people who volunteered their memories way back when the science of memory transfer was just becoming a thing as to not waste more valuable memories. Therefore a lot of their memories are often muddled, and those who can remember fully are few and far between. I imagine that if this was the reason I chose it would also give me a reason as to why Paz went up so high in the rankings: she's one of the last to be made, therefor all of her memories are intact. With the knowledge she knows, it's no wonder she became the Priestess of Songs. Plus, she knows far more about the RDA than the others because of how long she was with them, which could be another part of that.

Hmm, very interesting!! I think any version could be very cool. I think it seems like you have the most fleshed out about the last one. I kind of like the idea of them all being somewhat defective memory-wise.

My best friend suffered a brain injury while we were growing up, we were about sixteen, and sometimes talking to her is just having the same few conversations over and over with slight variations. She is the same person with the same personality, she just doesn't remember that she told me this story last week, you know? It really isn't that big a deal, because she lived and she is much better than she used to be. Often with fictional memory issues or brain injuries, I feel like a repeated story or a forgotten detail is treated as a sign of the character still being broken, not quite healed. Sometimes it's every day life. I like the idea of a whole clan of characters who are... I don't know, damaged mentally, for lack of a better word, but it's just their way of life. I've read a few stories where Spider has mental trauma from the RDA mind reading machine, and the memory thing being such a major deal always makes me vaguely sad. I'd love one where he'd adjust to his new normal.

When my best friend is tired she CANNOT balance, she will fall trying to walk over something even if it's the only thing on the floor. It's just her now so it's the funniest shit in the world, we just make fun of her. Idk. That idea makes me feel warm and happy. My apologies for going off topic, you made me think about something that's really only been a half formed thought.

#my best friend is also my cousin #her mom started dating my uncle when we were like 10 #so we go on family vacations and one of my cousins is diabetic and another is on the autism spectrum #so when i tell stories of my cousins i'm trying to be like “look how normal all my cousins are we treat them as we would treat anyone else” #“we love them” #and sometimes people are like “wow you make fun of your cousin with a brain injury” #so please no one take offense lol #she fucking falls the fuck down over air #its funny #i have so many stories that i think are adorable and other people are like “why would you guys do that” #like i think i said on another post when someone asked me about diabetic lo'ak #that my diabetic cousin would refuse to tell us his blood sugar so we'd all be like alright die then #some people have not enjoyed that story either #shit like that lol #miles spider socorro #spider socorro #avatar #avatar the way of water #james cameron avatar #melissa's asks #melissa on avatar (cameron)

[peapod20001]

I like to think that if my tumblr pals came to my house, they’d have a good time

#random post #I don’t mean that as in ‘yea woo let’s party and get fucked up’ like no lol #I just mean. our house is a place where people get along #there’s no expectations here. wanna sit and talk? we can hang out and talk about whatever #wanna play a game? chances are a few other people do to #need to get away for a bit and maybe take a nap? we’ve got plenty of beds take your pick. we’ll make sure no one bothers you #hungry or thirsty? help yourself don’t be shy. we can always get more #like we had ppl over on Saturday and it was so FUN like ppl would talk all together and then different conversations would split off of that #we would go outside then back in. we had food and some ppl had alcohol #we were laughing SO hard about funny shit (like discovering that my sisters bf worked on the gas meter at grandpas but didn’t SAY ANYTHING #ABOUT IT LMFAO) my cousin brought his gf to meet everyone and she just fit in perfectly and so obviously had an obsession for animals #her and my sister were like sudden bffs it was hilarious. my brother and younger cousin ate at 2:40 and slept upstairs till 6:00 #and all we did was turn of the light and put on a fan for em lol. crack up at how comfortable they were #me and my lil sister were walking up and down the driveway talking and looking at the stars. the nap duo were pointing out constellations #when most everyone left it was my household and my sister and her bf. she played uno flip and incoherent with me (usually no one does lol) #and we laughed very hard at all of the adult cards. one of the hints she gave for sidechicks was ‘sad used to have a lot of these’ and #I immediately got it. it was fun. we blasted music from the 2000’s and ate bread #I slept for 11 hours that night lmao and I was tired the next day but I wouldn’t have changed it. I like them lots #it’s days like that that make me think I’m more extroverted than introverted. just because I don’t always know what to say doesn’t mean #I don’t like to talk yn? anyways I’m writing a novel in the tags but I don’t care <3 I just love us and I wish #other people were able to have love and fun times often #I hope this doesn’t sound like me bragging about my home life. trust me I know it’s not some shining light in the darkness or whatever #but it’s something. and I don’t mind sharing my love with other people

[widevibratobitch]

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#vent post vent post lalalala #i wanted to post some pictures from my weekend trip with my friends before its too late but then i saw my fucking face and now i wanna kms #like oh my god. oh my god this is really truly the face im stuck with forever and ever and ever till the day im fuckin rotting in the groun #incredible how unfair life can be lmao (<- girl who is having such incredibly superficial stupid fucking problems but is otherwise #quite privileged but of course that will never be fucking enough for her because she's soooooo fckn stupid and selfish and annoyinggg lol) #i dont know why im so obsessed with it now #like i genuinely remember KNOWING that im kinda ugly (and fat) in high school and being like 'so what lol idc' #so WHY is it such an issue now????? #idk. i just kinda wish i was dead every time i look at my face and realise there's nothing i can do to change it #i can dress in ways that will cover my ugly ass shapeless body. maybe i can even go back to my ed properly this time #and lose some weight. for a time. before i gain back twice as much and the circle begins anew lol #but my face is not gonna change no matter what i do lmao unless i fucking scrape it off with a grater or smash my head into pieces #and like. even if i do get that rhinoplasty (its not gonna change my faceshape anyway. nothing i can do to fix THAT fuckin atrocity) #every time ill look in the mirror i will only be reminded that its fake. and that my natural face was disgusting enough it had to be cut up #to be fixed somewhat. #i just wish i had ONE. just ONE nice thing about my body. literally just one its not even funny lol #and its so fucked up when you look at my mom who was so insanely fucking beautiful when she was my age. like. i cant blame her #cause how could she have known that the genes she'll pass on will not result in anything good lol but also i feel like such a failure #like its not really my fault i got the genes i got. but yknow. #anyway im tired of always being the ugliest person in any group im hanging out with. my cousins? check. my hometown friends? check. #my uni friends? my GOD check (how ARE they all so pretty and skinny??? insane). #god i wish i were dead. like fr fr. im not actively suicidal since i cant bring myself to *do* shit anyway. but i just wish i never existed

[rosesradio]

!

#so my cousin is having a baby #i'm so excited for her ! she's my favorite cousin/friend #she's only a year older than me though so it's wild to imagine myself in her shoes #but she's the kind of person who wants a baby like yesterday so i couldn't imagine a better mom #some of the family is gossiping that the father does have two other kids with two other women & has been dating her less than a year But-- #he seems like an okay guy & if she trusts him then i do too #she's finding out the sex next week & then she invited me to go baby shopping with her & help with baby names #even though she's got a mile-long list already lol #but as a writer i love looking for names & i love her taste for unique names #anyways not to air out family stuff on here i'm just excited & don't really have anyone else to tell-- #rose.txt

[clambuoyance]

so an eight year old boy came to my house today, and we were talking to him about his interests and stuff, because that's what you do with people to make conversation, and. hn. sometimes you're talking to a young child and you realize "oh. my interests are well below my age range." (we were talking about ninjago and wings of fire.) scary how much i have in common with a boy who didn't even know which town he lived in

That’s a mood 😭 I just feel like shows with younger demographics tend to have that wacky fun that I crave more than adult shows or a certain whimsical imagination to it?

Sometimes when a kid tells me they like a show and I’m like same they ask me to draw stuff and I’m always happy to oblige

#I did tell this kid once that I watched frozen and anyways I drew like 50 Elsas for her #everytime I went to meet w her mom she asked me to draw else T-T #Elsa I mean not else #one time I drew dragon ball z for my cousin #he looked at it and said Yours Sucks Mines Better #also I still watch adult shows I just draw em less #like I’m binging walking dead rn and I’m tempted to draw for that tho it’s really gripping lol

[ladychandraofthemoone]

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正しさとは　愚かさとは

それが何か見せつけてやる!! -Ado Usseewa

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ado’s lyrics of Usseewa fit Alfred quite well

he had a constant amount of expectations placed at him when he was young and he excelled at everything, they showered him with praise as long as he did everything right meaning he could get away with anything he could especially after having major realizations that every family member went through this combined with Mary’s death (his cousin he felt connected to and close out of his messy family besides molly and Alice) he threw himself into his work pushing aside his grief, unfortunately showing the exact same behavior that has harmed him in his attempts to prove his family wrong, starting with the fracturing friendship between him and cecil

#ttte #ttte alfred #ttte humanized #humanization #this is basically precontext there is a lot more but this is like the beginning #His family is way too much like the blights they demand so much out of them like they need to be perfect #Also a tiny bit of bruhstations duck just add dashing if manipulation and silver tongues #Like Mary was his emotional support system she was the strong one he looked up to her #So when she passed he felt lost and knowing his family’s reaction bottled up his feelings cause that what he learned #This slowly divides his relationship with his cousins molly and Alice especially as he becomes more ruthless and meaner in achieving his #Goals and determined to stay on top keep having everyone’s good graves #Graces #Same with cecil but why do I think he’s ok with Gordon and was a toxic friend #Yeah the man I love him but he’s got issues #my art #my art style #my art stuff #my art lol #my art owo

[lynchiangf]

feeling exactly like her these days

#my life is going downhill. but like. I'M OKAYYY #also she looks so much like my cousin lol #m