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sparticus2000art · 4 months

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I’ve just recentlyish gotten back from a trip to Japan, and these were some ‘guys’ I ran into in Hakodate.

Specifically they’re an idol group based on historical figures from Hokkaido (yes they were turned into modern anime boys).

My friends and I specifically found the blue one, enomoto as a cardboard cut out standee in the British consulate museum after having breakfast there- and were kinda taken aback.

We ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole on the group so I had to make some fanart for them.

Here’s there website if anyone wants to have a look lol.

https://www.hakobura.jp/hakomen_official/?utm_source=QR&utm_medium=panel&utm_campaign=202208

#hakomen #hakodate #Japan #Japan travel #but yeah #we ran into the first guy #and were like #WHO ARE YOU???#and he had a convenient QR code on him #so we found the website #and I just #they’re so funny #like why do they exist #why was this the tourism solution for Hakodate #but also #they provided a lot of entertainment #so I’m glad they’re around

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kazz-brekker · 2 years

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hotd episode 5 thoughts

rip rhea royce, you seemed cool so even though i knew your death was coming i’m a bit sad about it. at least you got to bully daemon before the end.

loved that we got to see larys strong do a bit of scheming and i am quite excited to see where his character will go.

house velaryon and driftmark seem extremely cool, hope we do end up getting a spin-off about them someday.

corlys i am TRYING to stan you but trying to marry off your daughter at 12 and saying your gay son “will grow out of it” is not great behavior.

i do love that rhaenys and corlys are a total power couple who clearly respect and love each other a lot.

i liked the the scene of rhaenyra and laenor walking on the beach and forming their alliance/friendship very much since i’ve always interpreted them as being friends.

i’m glad we got to see some of the relationship between laenor and joffrey before things went south, they seemed really good together and i do wish they had gotten their life of a king consort and his sworn bodyguard.

of the different rumors surrounding rhaenyra and criston cole’s falling-out i have always thought the one where he suggested they run away together and she turned him down made the most sense so i’m glad they went with that one.

i also appreciated that his bitterness towards her is not just “criston’s crush doesn’t like him as much as he likes her” but also his sense of ruined honor.

i Do Not Trust grand maester mellos, something is up with that man. please stop with the leeches i swear to god.

the velaryons entering the wedding was ICONIC, they are legends, they are the moment, i love them.

it was nice seeing seasmoke and meleys but where! is! vhagar!

lyonel strong remains the only person on this show with common sense.

daemon showing up to rhaenyra’s wedding feast despite being in exile was legendary, i expected no less.

also rhaenyra being mean to him when they were dancing and throwing his words back at him was excellent.

alicent entering the feast in her green dress and calling rhaenyra “stepdaughter” was such a power move i literally cannot wait for her villain era.

that wedding was So Fucking Stressful even though i knew going in roughly what was going to happen i was on the edge of my seat.

oh joffrey, if only you were not so good at sussing out who is sleeping together and criston could be normal about his break-up things might have had a much happier ending :(

was hoping we would get more than the few harwin strong crumbs that we did buuuut it seems like he’ll be important in episode 6.

i’m going to miss milly alcock and emily carey but i cannot WAIT to see emma d’arcy and olivia cooke, they are going to absolutely kill it

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ride-a-dromedary · 6 months

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Thinking about Thaniel and Halsin reuniting again when he wakes.

Thinking about how Halsin describes Thaniel as having been ripped away from him (just as he was from Oliver). How he was the only one able to see and interact with him; how Halsin is very insistent that Thaniel made him who he became. How Halsin's "very first friend" being an encapsulation of nature itself affected the entire trajectory of his life. How that implies, to me, that Halsin and Thaniel were connected on a level far stronger and more significant than just being unlikely playmates as children - even moreso than just Halsin deciding to become his protector as he aged, or the implication of the relationship becoming more along the lines of a parent and child - to the point of being so interconnected and intertwined, Thaniel evidently uprooted and followed Halsin from the High Forest to its own unpredicted detriment.

Thaniel's being cursed and trapped quite literally *did* rip the two of them away from one another, just as tearing Thaniel's being in two twisted and created Oliver. Halsin feels a hole in his absence - a loneliness and disconnect that eats away at him. He describes losing contact with Thaniel all that time ago as being "worst of all", which is saying a lot considering what else was happening to and around Halsin at the time. And all Thaniel talked about whilst trapped was Halsin, insisting to find him because he was the only one who an entire force of nature itself believed could help it.

Losing Thaniel sent Halsin into a century long spiral; Halsin who blames himself for "dawdling" in his own pain as it suffered. Who could almost place himself in the catalyst of Ketheric Thorm's tragedy of losing his daughter pushing him to the edge. It's the elevated metaphorical adult fear of losing a child and the indescribable sorrow involved in that, mixed with the loss of an important childhood and formative influence, mixed with losing a friend, a piece of oneself, all in one.

I just imagine Halsin twitching in his skin to head immediately back to camp after convincing Oliver to return. Distractedly following behind, but evidently elsewhere, until he is dismissed or the group returns. And he is first to arrive and first to break off to his tent, pulling aside the cloth, lacking any considerable delicacy of action, to see Thaniel sitting up, blinking slowly at his surroundings. Alive; the smell of lavender heavy and sweet. Not dead and rotting, not twisted and empty. Small. Frail. Not quite whole. But alive.

And Halsin...hesitates on the threshold, hands shaking, everything having come to its head at last and he doesn't know what to do with himself. He holds his breath, fearful of any disturbance spooking the life away that they'd worked so hard to revive, until Thaniel turns its eye slowly towards him. Two deer caught in a crosspath of light. A century past and there are hundreds of things to do, hundreds of things he had planned to say to him if they succeeded, but all Halsin can manage is a strained: "It's me."

And he does not need to say who he is; Thaniel knows. All those rehearsed things fizzle away in its face. Halsin is older now, he reasons, much older; perhaps Thaniel will not recognize the century carved upon his brow just as Oliver had not. In a moment of desperation, he needs it to know him. Needs Thaniel to remember - but, fool that he is to underestimate the power of life before him, of course he remembers. Of course Thaniel would recognize him, just as he had recognized him after the long winter had passed - when he had changed so much, and was no longer a little elfling and never would be again. Just as Thaniel had recognized him every springtime after, the thawing of ice bringing another year with it, even as its face did not change at all. It must; his eyes betrayed the centuries beneath his boots, even as the child rubbed fitfully at them.

"It's me," Halsin murmurs again, falling to his knees - as if he could make himself impossibly smaller - bring him back to the beginning, turn back the years before it all went wrong. And Thaniel just nods its head and touches little hands to his face, and when he echos his name, it feels like that first thaw of spring again.

"I heard you calling," it whispers, gentle like summer breezes. "You cried for me to stop hiding. You were frightened and did not wish to play anymore. But when I came out, it had gotten dark. I could not find you."

"I know."

"I called back," he continues, even and intoned, but his lip wobbles. "You could not hear me.

"I know," Halsin repeats, brokenly.

Thaniel blinks a few more times, seemingly working out how to reteach a face long asleep, though there were no muscles to move. A false start later, a twitch of the nose, and he is...smiling. "But I kept trying - I knew you would find me."

A single stick too heavy and the dam breaks. Eyes filled with tears, he hugs Thaniel to him like he hadn't since they were children chasing each other through the underbrush with glitters of gold tangled in his hair. Since Thaniel had guided his hand to make the flowers in his father's garden grow. Since all they'd had was each other under the endless canopy of trees.

"Forgive me," Halsin whispers, a century of pain and loss and loneliness exiting from him in a single rush, the cold empty spaces inside him filling up with warmth. And at last he wakes, dragged violently into the open air after drowning for too long, blinded but alive and whole once again. Interconnected; not alone anymore. The earth sings beneath him and Oliver's spirit hovers just beyond the outskirts of his vision. Halsin chokes on his laugh. "I was never very good at this game."

#BG3 Musing #Halsin Posting #Halsin #anyway...yeah - again half purple prose half nonsense #halsin's most valuable relationship in his life is pseudo-spiritually platonic and that means a *lot*#of course he wants to go back to his realm in the end - of course he wants to see him happy and thriving #because i feel like platonic relationships are just so wholly undervalued as being important and healing to people #i am also thinking about halsin telling oliver that he need not invent friends - halsin was likely told as a child #that thaniel was made up i feel it - treated perhaps at best as an entertainment of their son's imagination in his parents' case #because no one else had heard of him or seen him before #even in a land of magic and monsters #halsin providing oliver with the validation he wishes he had as a child #using the 'you needn't invent friends' as a reverse - thaniel is back and real and waiting for your return #see my previous post regarding this for musing about thaniel and oliver being kara-turan-esque nature spirits because tbh #they more align with that - how'd you get here thaniel #using it/he for thaniel feels right in my mind

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the-mjolnir-owner · 6 months

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Loki is watching you

"When isn't he, that's the question."

#anonymous #loki #addressing skurge to announce thor's arrival?#thor provides a lot of entertaining #that panel XD

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bastardbvby · 3 days

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i miss my old supervisor so god damn much :(

#this new lady is . something .#today she told me i need to make sessions more entertaining by providing more things for the kid to play with .#when the company has actively told me multiple times NOT to spend money and buy things because thats not my job like #and then just brushed past every behavioral issues i brought up so now i have nothing to tell the parents when they ask for advice #UGHHHHHs she was like youre focusing a lot on the negative like . IT HAS BEEN NEGATIVE !!!!! U CANT JUST IGNORE THE BAD THINGS !!!!!

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alwaysbethewest · 2 years

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In all the posts I regularly see begging or coaxing or (frankly) sometimes bullying readers into giving fic writers more active engagement by way of comments and reblogs, there’s an element I think is too often overlooked—and I am bringing it up because I imagine a lot of readers don’t realize this unless they’re also writers themselves—which is that posting fic publicly is, at its heart, a practice of real vulnerability.

I mean. Maybe I am projecting here. I’m not great with being vulnerable so maybe I feel this more than some. But I find it frustrating when people describe fic writers and readers as having a transactional relationship, and acting as though readers “owe” authors comments. I don’t believe that’s what fandom is about. What I do think, though, is that every time writers post a fic, they are sharing a part of themselves—a reflection of their minds and hearts and desires and creativity—and they need to feel safe to do that. And the interpersonal connection and affirmation that comes from a reader showing they actually read and enjoyed the product of that work, that they see what we are putting forward—that they see that part of us and embrace it—is what builds that safe space for writers to feel comfortable in.

#idk #food for thought i guess #sometimes in this modern era of fandom i see fic writers treated like ‘content creators’#but i think there is a real difference between providing entertainment for profit and what we do #and comments and reblogs are not the stand-in for ad revenue that actual content creators get #they are a whole different thing entirely #and fic is about expression and connection and storytelling #not content for the sake of content #(in my opinion!!)#(i know i kind of generalized a lot in this post)#fandom #okay goodnight #love you

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aeide-thea · 11 months

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thinking abt like. there's so much fiction out there that makes me feel bad! sometimes really deeply bad! and like, in many many cases i could present a whole argument abt how it makes me feel bad bc it's pressing on bruises inflicted by some systemic prejudice that has deeply wounded my psyche—and that argument would be true!—and still i don't want that fiction erased from existence, or modified to suit my taste, or anything else that enacts my will on it, rather than the artist's and the artist's alone; i don't even want the artist erasing it because my argument ultimately convinces them it's Bad! produce a revised edition of it, fine; stick an asterisk or other warning on it, fine; but i still want the original to be available somewhere, because i don't want to be responsible for blotting creation out of existence. even when it's a creation i hate, i don't think that should be my place (or indeed anyone's).

mind you, i absolutely do want to feel that i've got somewhere i can analyze/vent about fiction like that, and people who will take my analysis/venting both seriously and sympathetically;

and i want fiction to exist that doesn't make me feel bad;

and i definitely shouldn't have to put up with discussions around fiction in which fellow discussants further express a prejudice towards me, or justify it, or whatever;

but it just seems so obvious to me that a world where framing yr discomfort with a work of fiction in sufficiently sympathetic (victimized) terms leads to its deletion [not that i think this is what all leftists who complain abt offensive fiction are looking to have happen! but i do get the impression that at least some of them might be?] is a frightening world—

a world where, to choose a sufficiently sympathetic (victimized) example, authors who have themselves been harmed by prejudice become unable to explore the workings of that prejudice in their fiction, unless they're doing it in a way that's unambiguously, didactically condemnatory—isabel fall is the obvious example here, but i'm thinking also of all the women and transmasc authors who write fic that, quite frankly, eroticizes misogyny and abuse of power, and how sometimes i think stories like that are hot and sometimes i don't feel particularly strongly about them one way or the other and sometimes they leave me furious or fucked up or both! but like. even when i hate it, even when it offends me not as a matter of abstract principle or allyship but right in my own personal gut—i still do feel that people have to be allowed to write, and to publish, fiction that strikes me personally as being in bad taste!

because the minute you let anyone's taste dictate what's allowable to express, even if it's leftist taste, you're going down a bad road; it's like saying monarchy can be a good system as long as the monarch is a good person. no! because (a) no system that relies on good actors to be good is a good system; and also because (b) no one who's happy to have power over others is actually a good person! [that's an awfully strong statement and i'm open to the idea that it may have some asterisks, but like. as a general rule: cincinnatus or bust.]

and similarly i feel like. if you personally want not just to critique other people's fiction—valid and good and i do it all the time—but to crush it out of existence because it expresses an ideology you may not (i may not!) like? i don't trust you. i think you're trying to substitute pain for principles, and like. i have huge sympathy for pain! i live with a lot of my own! but pain doesn't actually, in itself, necessarily constitute good moral guidance—it can lead you towards valuable sensitivity that helps people we should care about, but it can also lead you towards impatient reactivity that harms people we should care about; and ultimately it's thinking abt our pain, imo, not the pain itself, that steers us towards the former outcome and away from the latter.

#this is SO fucking long and still not really a coherent position statement lmao #if only i'd written essays in the tumblr post editor‚ back when i had them to write #i never would've struggled to meet the required word count #but like. lotta issues tangled up here and i just think it's like. SO easy to be steered one way by yr gut on this stuff #and then think abt it for a bit and realize yr gut has left zero room for a lot of positionalities you actually find sympathetic #while providing potential fodder for stances you fucking hate #(like—frankly i'm astonished no fundie students have started arguing universities should provide content warnings for queer content)#(i obviously am not opposed to content warnings and use them on this blog all the time but. tools can be picked up by anyone)#and like. it's really easy‚ i think‚ to say that and have it come across as not caring abt other ppl's genuine pain #but like. i care a lot abt ppl's pain! i just think pain is not‚ in itself‚ necessarily a great basis for policy #anyway. Just Some Nightblogging; happy 2 entertain non-ad-hominem discussion but also this isn't‚ like‚ a polished position paper

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fall-and-shadows · 1 year

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The pity I get after revealing I had a hysterectomy is something. I find it extremely ridiculous people I don't even know are so invested in whether or not I have a uterus. I get so many of the same responses that it's almost comedic at this point. Probably terrible of me, but I do sometimes enjoy messing with people, especially when they inevitably ask "what about children?" Not everyone wants kids lol

#got to stay entertained and keep life interesting somehow i guess lmao #ive had to tell a lot of medical providers over the last few weeks

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march-harrigan · 1 year

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Whats it like being an average jervis tech enjoyer?

You know that thing in video games where you enter a heavily booby-trapped dungeon, but you keep going because it's also full of insane loot and the risk is worth the reward? It's kind of like that.

A few bad portrayals and even the ones you like might have some unnecessary ick tacked on. A lot of character hate in certain fandom spaces(reddit). But then you kind of just learn how to navigate it, what to take/leave, and you find Your People and Your Content and maybe even gain a few levels in the process(too sappy?).

People who love this guy tend to love him with all they've got too, so conversations with fellow Tetch stans are always a delight(and Tumblr is a great place to meet them).

#questions answered #point being you may have to 'trim the fat' so to speak #but not as much as you might think #and he provides a lot of entertainment for different moods whether he's sympathetic or A Bastard or just a silly little guy #or all of the above #tries to give a goofy answer #overexplains and makes it kinda serious

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dont-offend-the-bees · 1 year

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#yknow sometimes life is just you have a really good week and feel up in your confidence and general optimism #and then you find out you're gonna be looking after your mum alone a lot this week bc well your dad deserves some nice times too #and so you soften that blow by getting hyperfocused on writing fluffy poly fic for two hours and feel better #and then you find your mum wandering around lost in her own house at 1am and feel worse again #and thats just kinda life yknow #epic highs and lows etc #anyway #lord or whoever grant me the serenity etc to provide food entertainment and minimal floods of tears for myself and her this weekend amen

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oaxleaf · 1 year

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i know my a mag a day stuff has floated away a bit from actual in depth analyses and more into, idk, personal philosophy sessions? and although it's always still rooted in the actual episode, i'd like some feedback on whether i should tone it back a bit? because on one hand, i still want to keep it tma related, but on the other, what i really do love about tma (especially these later parts) are the philosophical and ideological questions presented. and as subplots wrap up and i don't want to reiterate the same thing over and over again, it's getting a bit harder to pure focus on the episode contents, but i'm wondering if i'm straying a bit too far away?

#genuine question!#i'd really like some feedback on this honestly #because i also want to bring some unique flavour to things and not jsut say things everyone else has said a hundred times?#and this is genuinely how i interact with a lot of media #or at least the parts of it that i can imagine being even somewhat interesting?#because i don't think me just yelling 'ohmygodohmygodohmygod' into space over and over again is super interesting #i think there's other people that can provide much more entertaining interactions of that sort #but i still want to stay on topic #so yeah #feedback please?#oax's screaming void

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eggs-can-draw · 1 year

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komaeda anon: KANDMAMFLAF,,, question have u ever talked abt how exactly the killing game starts in this sdr2?

I haven't actually! It's generally the same tho, with Izuto choosing to plug Alter Ego Junko into the NWP n stuff (although this time he was a lot more involved in her creation, purely because he was actually there in the school with Junko during the killing game)

As for actually inside the program, it's generally the same but with Naegi as the protag instead lol. Lucky Student Shows Lucky Student around. It's a weird kind of mentorship lmao. He cant help but feel a little extra sad when Twogami dies tho :(

#eggs can answer #During udg I wanna say he hangs around Komaeda/Servant the whole time #He does that a lot. Just kinda picks the most interesting person in the room and hangs around them #and I feel Komaeda's luck would at least provide him a little entertainment #also dr1 is so crazy cause like #Junko via Monokuma pulls some bs lke #The only people in the school is class 77 AND ONE IMPOSTOR just to fuck with them

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kelprot-old · 2 years

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sometimes my utter disdain for social media bleeds into other sites and Well its just annoying because now I open up youtube and see open mouth shocked thumbnails arrows pointing etc. andpeople putting hundreds of hours into videos of their own and how they often gain little reward for it other than just. comments. or whatever. and its just. the whole site is kinda scary.

#sometimes i think about youtube too much and my brain hurts #seeing the transformation of it over the past 10 years to what it is now is. its a lot #this site with. an unfathomable amount of content on it. thousands of things uploaded a minute #but 95% of it will never see any success nor pay back the efforts of their creators #not to say passion projects are bad or anything. you don't Need to make a profit for something to have value #im thinking moreso of how many people provide this site with content out of this need for a response #response being like. idk. attention feedback The Need To Be Famous or whatever #youtube markets itself as a site that can make Anyone Famous !! Be yourself give us your time and energy and we will pay you back #i dont want to say it's free labour because it isn't really. like that #but sometimes i will scroll through youtube and see these streamlined thumbnails and profiles and accounts and I feel sick #this site's become a replacement for mainstream entertainment for many and it's. scary to think about #arguably i think there's something predatory about how it can coerce you into feeding it so much of yourself in exchange for empty promises #yes not everyone is like this but it's still bizarre how common the whole ''i did youtube because I wanted to be famous'' thing is #not that it doesnt make sense. but. i dunno #i cant explain exactly what about it makes me feel so sick sometimes but. still #im aware a lot of this is me Reading into things too much and having a very adverse reaction to any social media-esque thing btw

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elitehoe · 1 year

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Babes when I told y'all I was about to get worse that didn't mean flock to follow me, but thank you for supporting my brainrot nonetheless!! 💕

#don't encourage me i absolutely do not need it #i can get so much worse in fact i am going to get so much worse #I'm happy i can provide entertainment to you all #love you lots #soph talks

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fixforthesoul · 6 months

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OPEN LETTER TO FANFICTION WRITERS ON ACCESSIBILITY; PLEASE READ.

first of all, thank you for spending your time, seldom acknowledged and definitely deserving of a compensation you are not receiving, to entertain us. i’m speaking on behalf of more than just blind readers, but everyone. you’re sick as hell.

i’ve summoned you to provide some information you may not already know. i know a lot of you like fonts. especially those who cross post their work on wattpad. i admire any and all acts of aestheticism to a degree, and can understand the desire to use them. (blind folk, sorry y’all. momma’s making a point.) 𝔰𝔱𝔲𝔣𝔣 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰, it’s cute. 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐟𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 is a little cuter to me, if i had to choose. or maybe 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈?

now, sighted folk: if you’re on mobile, i implore you to participate in a little exercise for me. select this text and scroll through all the copy/paste/define/‘search the web’ options until you get to the speak portion. if you need to change a setting for your phone to do so, would you mind? i’d really appreciate it.

please make your phone read aloud part of my post, and be sure to include any bits with those super cute fonts. 𝕚’𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕖𝕟𝕕 𝕠𝕗 𝕞𝕪 𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕒, 𝕣𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖. 𝕚 𝕙𝕠𝕡𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕔𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕝𝕪, 𝕚 𝕕𝕠𝕟’𝕥 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖 𝕤𝕢𝕦𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕪 𝕥𝕪𝕡𝕠𝕤 𝕚 𝕔𝕒𝕟’𝕥 𝕤𝕖𝕖.

whether you participated and discovered it for yourself or you thought this was a crock of shit you’d rather not sniff, i’ll tell you! screen readers cannot dictate words using those fonts. at least, on a majority of devices. not mine, or any of my mutuals elsewhere.

you do not have to change your behavior on my behalf, but please be aware that fonts limit access to your work.

blind readers do exist, i exist, and i am bound by the same feelings of dogged longing that make other sad horny bitches read angsty, smutty, father-wounded nonsense.

thanks for making it this far. i really hope my sincerity is being conveyed, reading makes me so happy and i’m not the only person on this app who relies on accessibility settings more often than not. do with this information what you will, and have the day you deserve!

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queen-breha-organa · 1 year

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I want to talk a little bit about Hawai‘i, because I have been thinking a lot about my people, and our lives.

The year 2023 marks 130 years since the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

On January 17th 1893, American businessman used their connections and military influence to dethrone Queen Liliuokalani by threat of force.

This annexation still impacts my people 130 years later. It still hurts us, it still haunts us,

For the last 130 years my people have suffered under America’s cruelty and indifference.

Unsustainable Tourism haunts us, causing a cost of living crisis, which turns into a rise in poverty, which turns into a rise in individuals experiencing homelessness. This cost crisis disproportionately effects my people, Kānaka Maoli. We cannot even afford to live on our on land. Our ancestral home.

And in turn, tourism then provides the most jobs. This industry pushes us off our land and into poverty, and then it turns around and sells us back our culture as a walking joke.

Our very identity is turned into entertainment. Our very culture is turned into entertainment.

And many of my people have no choice but to sell their culture so they can eat, so they can survive.

We have been put in a never ending cycle of misery and cultural destruction.

In addition, Military Involvement on our islands causes repeated incidents of ecological violence, and land disputes. The military take claim to land that belongs to my people, and they spill chemicals over and over, and poison the water we drink.

My people are suffering. Our culture is suffering.

And everyday more tourists come. Everyday more land is taken to build hotels. Everyday more culture is stripped and bastardized. Everyday more land is taken for military use.

I’m so tired of living this way. I’m so tired of waking up and watching the slow and agonizing death of my people.

I want us to live. I want us to thrive.

I want my people to survive.

I want to survive.

So please read up on the current issues that face Kānaka Maoli. Please educate yourself on my people’s history and current affairs.

Speak up and speak out. Talk about unsustainable tourism, and speak up about how harmful a “vacation” to Hawai‘i can be. Talk about the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and it’s injustice.

Hawai‘i is Hawaiians. Hawai‘i is our history. Hawai‘i is our home. Hawai‘i is the very blood that runs through our veins.

So please do not forget us, and please speak up with us.

Support Hawaiian Sovereignty. Restore Hawai‘i to Hawaiians.

Resources & Education:

#I’ve just got a lot on my mind #and I’m so tired #I’m so sick and tired #okay to reblog

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