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I call this gifset 'would not want to meet Fives on the battlefield'

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Watching Annika and realising that I don't hype up Jamie Sives enough*. Everyone go and watch Jamie Sives in things, he's great

*or Nicola Walker. Go and watch her in everything too

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i think if i was a biillionare i simply wouldnt be a billionare. like id buy myself everything i could ever need and give the rest away. idk why someone would need to sit on so much money like girl. use it. youre not gonna be alive forever.

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Or the "this show is stupid! There's too many questions and no character arcs! 🙄" argument.

Hmmm, yes, you're right. It is lacking those things. Maybe because it's halfway through episode 1 of 10?

Like, yes, those can be valid criticisms but at the end of a show. Critical thinking isn't about just finding problems, it's about understanding how media works and how things don't work in that context.

One of these days (maybe today!) I need to do a write up about how the cinemasins/HISHE/thatguywiththeglasses era of media criticism completely torched an entire generation’s ability to approach any kind of storytelling in good faith. Or at least how it’s a fundamentally bad faith approach that a lot of people use automatically without realizing they’re even doing it.

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🔴 BREAKING: According to The Telegraph (Aug 21, 2025), famine has officially been declared in Gaza for the first time by the UN-backed IPC.

While Israel prepares to destroy what remains of Gaza City, families here are being torn apart by hunger, destruction, and despair.

My own family is among those suffering, with nothing left to survive on.

Please, donate to help keep us alive. 🇵🇸🕊️

Vetted:

(#167 on the verified fundraiser list by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi).

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It's the "I'm going to find everything that's wrong with this, even if it's stupidly nitpicky" approach. It doesn't matter what you liked about things anymore, just what you didn't like.

Idk why it's so hard to say you enjoy things anymore :/

One of these days (maybe today!) I need to do a write up about how the cinemasins/HISHE/thatguywiththeglasses era of media criticism completely torched an entire generation’s ability to approach any kind of storytelling in good faith. Or at least how it’s a fundamentally bad faith approach that a lot of people use automatically without realizing they’re even doing it.

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@saturn-sends-hugs @inkstainedhandswithrings @the-bi-space-ace

i love this character so much bro. now show me how they’d look shaking and sobbing on the floor after their entire worldview and sense of self and worth has been shattered, all alone with no one in the world who cares enough about them to even politely ask if they’re okay

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technically it's only queerbait if it's leveraged for publicity. otherwise it's just sparkling "your ship didn't happen get over it"

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My lord I need you to make up your mind, where the fuck are we going

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man i'm so sick of seeing clone ocs or whatever with tā moko. please stop drawing tā moko on your characters if you aren't māori. i promise your māori character can have a deep connection to their culture without having tā moko done and you are not going to draw it correctly if you don't know what everything MEANS. each individual line has meaning to māori and at best you'll get the individual designs right but won't understand the meaning behind them so you've created a meaningless moko and, much more likely, you'll just butcher an incredibly sacred art.

i'd say to pay for a tohunga tā moko (moko artist) for a design if you literally cannot keep your hands off of it but in reality? please don't. you still have to draw the moko every single time and you are gonna mess it up. ESPECIALLY FACE MOKO. THOSE ARE SO SACRED STOP DRAWING THEM

i have a set design for my character's moko that i essentially take hours setting up to trace every time i draw ia and even my character having tā moko is iffy culturally as a tohunga tā moko didn't create it! it's one thing to simply create kōwhaiwhai, it's another altogether to depict tā moko. i plan to pay a moko artist to design moko for my oc eventually as well.

just, don't please? it's contentious and you are going to mess it up and look stupid at best.

(and DON'T trace an existing moko. that's even worse. tā moko is unique to the individual with the moko and you essentially just copied someone's identity and family line onto your oc for an aesthetic design)

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swimmy

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if you're feeling powerless right now—and god knows I am—here's a reminder you can donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds, the Trans Law Center, Gaza Soup Kitchen, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and hundreds of other charities that will work to mitigate the damage that has been and will continue to be inflicted

life continues. we still have the capacity to do good, important work. that matters

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they're called human rights because you get them by being human. No ifs no buts. Everyone gets them. Yes even those people

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What's this? It's Polymita picta, aka painted snail, from Cuba. (Photo credit: Aliesky del Rio Leal)

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Very important and urgent

The occupation began its plan, which it claimed to be implemented a few days ago (occupying the north of the entire Azza Strip) and deporting its residents to the south of the Strip, as it claims to be safe areas, and preserves the safety of civilians.

He gave evacuation orders in some areas now in the Gaza Strip, such as the Al-Sabra and Al-Zaytoun areas in the eastern northern Gaza Strip. The occupation began to kill and destroy, as if the war had just begun, tonight it targeted the Baptist hospital, and took it out of service in preparation for the army's incursion into these areas.

What is happening is very difficult, in this way the death toll will increase exponentially, and he will be told that he will kill anyone who wants to stay in the north of the Gaza Strip.

If we go back in time a little to the beginning of the war, when the occupation ordered to go south to humanitarian areas, and prevented people from returning to their homes, there was no so-called humanitarian zone, it was media lies, we saw death, humiliation and hunger there in the south of the Strip.

In short

(there is no such thing as a safe humanitarian zone).

This picture has just been, where the occupation introduced shahanat from the tents to the south of the Strip, in order to pave the area, and equip it to receive the fire from the north of the Strip.

How long will the world remain silent like this, is there no one who can stop the aggression?

This time Gaza will bleed more than ever, what is the fault of the people who will die, maybe I will be one of them if I don't go south.

We are completely confused, we don't know what to do, and we have nothing to do at all.

So I urgently need your help, guys, we need some money to be able to get a tent or rent an apartment in the south of the Strip if the military plan starts, and the army begins to penetrate. We need a sum of money that enables us to bring a continuation to the south of the Strip, transfer ourselves and the rest of our belongings, and keep them from theft.

Please don't leave us alone 🙏.

We don't want you to end the war, just do what you can to keep us safe, a few dollars can save an entire family life from killing and displacement. So I came to you quickly, I ask for your help, time is very limited, the process will start in a few days.

9014/10000 .

Don't stop supporting me, my friend.

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they are sitting and pondering

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Soooooo I did try to draw Jamie Sives as Anatoly Sitnikov a few times.