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Chapters: 30/30 Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Underage Relationships: Edward Elric/Roy Mustang, Gracia Hughes/Maes Hughes, Mei Chan | May Chang/Alphonse Elric, past Edward Elric/Winry Rockbell Characters: Edward Elric, Alphonse Elric, Winry Rockbell, Mei Chan | May Chang, Roy Mustang, Maes Hughes, Gracia Hughes, Nina Tucker, Elicia Hughes, Basque Grand, Alex Louis Armstrong, Original Characters, Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist) Additional Tags: Series Spoilers, Explicit Language, Canon-Typical Violence, Mute Edward Elric, Original Character Death(s), Fluff and Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Adultery, Implied/Referenced Dubious Consent, Guilty Edward Elric, Edward Elric Swears, Time Travel Fix-It Summary:

Unwillingly forced to serve as a human trial for a crazy alchemist experimenting with time travel, Edward Elric finds himself standing across from Truth in the moment it takes his leg from him. Armed with the knowledge of what's to come and burdened with guilt for the choices he'd made as an adult, Ed sets out to fix every mistake he ever made and save every life they ever lost, no matter what it takes.

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This such an awesome story of family love and acceptance

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One of my favorite movies (and most quotable). 

RIP WILLIAM GOLDMAN.  THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES.

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Pay attention, 2014 Mad Men: This little girl is holding a LEGO set. The LEGOs are not pink or “made for girls.” She isn’t even wearing pink. The copy is about “younger children” who “build for fun.” Not just “girls” who build. ALL KIDS.

In an age when little girls and boys are treated as though they are two entirely different species by toy marketers, this 1981 ad for LEGO — one of our favorite images ever — issues an important reminder.

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Love them!!

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Constantly be reminded of how completely awful PETA is

PETA

you guys remember when PETA stole people pets off their porches and euthanized them?

you guys remember how it came out that PETA kills about 90% of the animals it takes in, including healthy and adoptable puppies and kittens, stating “ We could become a no-kill shelter immediately. It means we wouldn’t do as much work”?

you guys remember when PETA advocated killing all pit bulls for the crime of being pit bulls?

you guys remember when PETA handed out these comics to children when there were no adults looking?

you guys remember when they made a porn site and then filled it with videos of animal abuse, and (also in that link) claimed cats should be vegetarian?

you guys remember when PETA lied about sheep shearing, got caught, and defended the lie as true even after they admitted the sheep in their picture wasn’t even real?

you guys remember when they tried to excuse their horrifying ways by claiming that the person who exposed them was manipulating the facts by taking them and putting them in the wrong context?

Because I remember. I remember everything. 

And I’m gonna make sure everyone else remembers too. 

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PETA

you guys remember when PETA stole people pets off their porches and euthanized them?

you guys remember how it came out that PETA kills about 90% of the animals it takes in, including healthy and adoptable puppies and kittens, stating “ We could become a no-kill shelter immediately. It means we wouldn’t do as much work”?

you guys remember when PETA advocated killing all pit bulls for the crime of being pit bulls?

you guys remember when PETA handed out these comics to children when there were no adults looking?

you guys remember when they made a porn site and then filled it with videos of animal abuse, and (also in that link) claimed cats should be vegetarian?

you guys remember when PETA lied about sheep shearing, got caught, and defended the lie as true even after they admitted the sheep in their picture wasn’t even real?

you guys remember when they tried to excuse their horrifying ways by claiming that the person who exposed them was manipulating the facts by taking them and putting them in the wrong context?

Because I remember. I remember everything. 

And I’m gonna make sure everyone else remembers too. 

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So You’re A Gentile Who’s Realized We Have A Problem: Now What?

Tumblr likes to spin its wheels and spend time yelling at each other, so here’s a nice comprehensive guide. Five Things You Can Do Now That You Know We Were Serious About The Antisemitism:

1) Accept that if you’re in this to be an ally, you’re going to have a tough road ahead of you. We’re traditionally very wary of outsiders in our spaces because when we welcome them, well … this happens. In fact, if you want to convert to Judaism, you traditionally get rejected three times, just to make sure you’re serious and not shitting with us. Expect wariness. Expect to get your feelings hurt, because a lot of us are very raw right now. Stick with us anyway–once we know you’re not just bandwagoning us, you’re going to end up with a lot of friends who are relying on you. Nobody said allyship was easy.

2) Learn about Judaism. Note that I DO NOT MEAN LEARNING WITH INTENTION TO CONVERT. We don’t proselytize and it would be against Torah for me to even suggest it. What I mean here is, you can’t call bullshit if you don’t know what we’re about. Some good basic resources are The Jewish Book of Why by Alfred Kolatch; My Jewish Learning; and for a strict Orthodox standpoint, Chabad. You’ll find that some things in these sources contradict each other. That’s pretty par for the course in Judaism; we don’t have a single dogma or point of view.

3) Consider calling a local synagogue and asking if they have volunteer work for a gentile ally. Introduce yourself, explain (briefly) what got your attention, and offer your services–to stand outside during services, to walk folks to and from shul (this is particularly important in Orthodox communities, where driving on Shabbat is forbidden), hell, to help stuff envelopes for whatever vigil or service they may be holding in memoriam. Anything will help.

4) You may wish to make a donation to a local synagogue or Jewish charity. I strongly recommend the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), which is a Jewish charity focused on combating antisemitism. Jews traditionally give monetary gifts in sums of $18, which corresponds to the numeric value of the word “chai,” or “life.” The last time this happened I made a post about this tradition and got accused of being a Nazi because of the whole 1-8 A-H thing, so let’s just nip that right in the bud: yes, we know. It’s a horrible coincidence. We’re not giving up a few-thousand-year-old tradition because of some dipshit with a bad moustache. If you can’t afford $18, consider moving the decimal over and donating in multiples of 18, like $3.60. Your meaning will still be perfectly clear, and anything helps. If you wish to make a donation in memory/in honor (which many synagogues appreciate), I suggest either choosing the name of one of the shooting victims–giving tzedakah, or charity, in their names is considered a great mitzvah and a blessing to their families–or using the phrase “am Yisrael chai.” It means “Israel lives.” Although the country in the MENA region is called Israel, this is not what the phrase refers to–the traditional patriarch of Judaism was named Jacob, and renamed as Israel following a wrestling match with a messenger of G-d. To say “am Yisrael chai” is to say his people, that is, the Jewish people, live.

And on that note …

5) In the coming days and weeks, you’re going to see a lot of people making this about Israel or Zionism. Please tell them to shut the fuck up. Israel, Zionism, and Jews are three completely different, albeit related, things. To wit: Israel is a geopolitical country situated on the site of our ancestral homeland and currently headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Zionism is the belief that Jews deserve a safe homeland; and Jews are a group of people spread across six continents and most countries who are united by a common group of ancestors from the Levant (the part of the world now occupied by the geopolitical entity known as Israel). Saying the victims of this shooting had anything to do with the political situation in Israel would be like saying I, personally, am responsible for Vladimir Putin because I have a Russian ancestor. I speak exactly two words of Russian, have never been to Russia, have no family left living there (and haven’t for four generations), but I’m totally responsible for Russia. You see how ridiculous that sounds? The same applies to Jews and Israel. Please, please, PLEASE do not conflate this event with Israeli politics. I’m not saying Israeli politics aren’t a topic worth discussing–I’m saying this is not a discussion they belong in. Don’t let the powers that be (or the alt-right sleaze that sucks the dicks of the powers that be) distract from the topic at hand, which is “out of control guns meet out of control xenophobia and antisemitism,” by throwing OMG ISRAEL AND ZIONISM AND GLOBALISM into the mix.

And finally: yes, gentiles, this is okay for you to reblog. In fact I encourage it. And I will answer any questions you have to the best of my ability, if they’re asked in good faith. Please just follow the most basic tenet of Judaism, which is: don’t be a dick.

If you’re ready to stand and help, now is the time.

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Japanese Photographer Documents The Many Faces of Tokyo’s Stray Cats.

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Do you have any tips for dealing with harassers on tumblr? I won’t go into detail but my friends are just getting so much abhorrent, morally repugnant garbage right now and I feel kinda powerless atm

Turn off anon. There’s no reason to have anon on, IMO, and if you’re getting harassed – or your friends are – this should be your first step.

Turn off messaging except from mutuals. This will prevent people from creating random accounts to IM you with. 

Turn off submissions. Most people have them turned off anyway. 

Block. Block without any sort of compunction whatsoever. If you are being harassed, block them. Don’t make excuses for the behavior. Fucking block ‘em.

Report. Tumblr won’t do anything – seriously, @staff won’t do anything – but report. If nothing else, if it comes to a criminal harassment situation in the future, which I have unfortunately dealt with as a victim, it creates a paper trail showing that you did everything in your power to make the harasser go away through every channel possible. 

Connect meaningfully with your support system. Reach out and talk to people. Schedule therapy. Tell your friends that you need extra support. Say in so many words: “Do you have time to talk about something that is emotionally heavy?” If your support system says yes, say something like: “I am being harassed and I need support. I would like it if you would [check in with me/send me pictures of your dog/etc]? Can you help me?”

Disconnect from negative sources. Resist the urge to go look and see if anything else has surfaced and if your harassers are talking about you elsewhere. It took me being told this in so many words to understand this, but that’s a form of self-harm. It took someone telling me “stop looking at the lies people are saying about you, you might as well cut your arms,” before I understood it was self-harm.

Resist the urge to respond. Harassers and abusers love to drag you back in for the fight. Don’t do it. The ex against whom I had a restraining order (and who abused both MK and me) created an entire social media account to tell the world “his side of the story,” in an attempt to drag me back in. It was really hard to NOT respond to him, but I just had to trust that the people who knew what was really going on would stay with me. And they did. 

Take several deep breaths. This, too, shall pass. It really will. 

I’m so sorry your friends are getting harassed, and I hope they can put a stop to it really soon. It sucks.

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For all my absolutely stellar queer folx and LGBTQIPA+ beauties who are out of this world!

All of these designs are available in asexual, aromantic, bisexual, gay pride/rainbow, genderqueer, lesbian (multi-pink), non-binary, pansexual, and transgender pride! (I’m still working on putting up all of the journals because this was literally 160+ items being added in one fell swoop.)

As pictured:

Transgender Pride Dufflebag (small and large sizes)

Rainbow Gay Pride Galaxy Leggings (available up to 4x!)

Lesbian Pride Ruled Galaxy Journal

Lesbian Pride Galaxy Mug

Non-Binary Pride Galaxy Boots (all boots available in sizes from women’s US 6 to Men’s US 10.5)

Aromantic Pride Galaxy Sneakers (sneakers available from women’s US 6 to men’s US 14!)

Transgender Pride Galaxy Skirt (2x fits up to a US 24/26 by user reports)

Genderqueer Galaxy Accessory or Makeup Bag

Non-Binary Pride Galaxy Sports Bra 

Bisexual Pride Galaxy Boots

All of these items were designed with public-domain NASA photographs. NASA is amazing! 

Get them at www.nerdykeppie.com & support a queer-owned family business. Your purchases literally pay our mortgage and put food in the mouths of 3 trans queers. <3 

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“My autistic son hates his photo taken, so I let him wear a t-rex suit for family photos.”

by RoamingMagnolias

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