#i must do more

[viiioca]

[ day 12 - free day ]

I do so enjoy spending time with Shtola. It seems a ludicrously juvenile thing to pen on a page now that I look at it; these are the words a ten year old might scribble in her journal or speak quietly to some figmental confidant like a doll or imaginary friend. As if it were a precious secret! Ridiculous.

Admittedly, it has been a difficult thing for me to remember that friendship is a true and genuine phenomenon. One might imagine that years spent in the consistent company of others would go far to dispel these spectres of paranoia, but it seems this is not the case; as none of my companions have ever known me as anything but the Warrior of Light, it becomes an enticing form of mortifying the spirit to distill my primary role in these relationships as one of convenient usefulness. Gradually, then, I must collect evidence to the contrary.

An invitation to share in the excitement of a new mystery. Tea or wine taken together for little reason other than the pleasure of amicable company. A walk taken together in a land where we are both something like strangers. The permission to address each other with familiarity, removed of clan signifiers and formal pronouns. Small gifts left in the form of brief moments, inconsequential and intimate in turns, where there is little point in the sharing save to prove a certain security and comfort -- a lonely young girl's nursery rhyme to summon a little friend, or the brief, wavering flicker of some unfulfilled longing for acceptance. "I wonder what my life might have been like had I pursued studies in Old Sharlayan instead," she says, and means to tell me, quietly, what if I had belonged?, and I must recognize the trust for what it is.

It is a curious question, too. What would we have been had our childhoods taken different turns? If Shtola had seized her future by getting on a boat to "the motherland" rather than forcibly burrowing her way into Matoya's tutelage; if my father's inquiries to Sharlayan regarding my "strange affliction" had found a receptive party knowledgeable about the Echo rather than an indifferent School of Medicine. Perhaps she would have gotten that refined, cosmopolitan education she imagines, aloof yet popular by the power of her own charisma, holding tea salons like a queen holds court. Perhaps I might have found myself more rurally bound for the Isle of Val, the then-heart of modern Echo research, scuffing knees and pocketing frogs without a single deportment tutor in sight.

Would we have met? Would we have been friends still? I hope so.

[river-of-wine]

MORE WOMEN!!!

[hi-im-nova]

ZARLA JUST REBLOGGED MY COMIC FOR HANDPLATES HOLY MOTHER OF UNDERTALE

[munthespaceboi]

Chibi Commission for my good McPal @jusybrowsing2

GO CHECK OUT THEIR ART AND OCS THEY'RE ALL ADORABLY AWESOME

[not-rascal-artz]

since October’s like- tomorrow and stuff

I’M GONNA GO BATSHIT INSANE W/ MY AUS 🗣️🗣️🔊🔊🔊🔊

[magentasnail]

it was all too much, and now I have nothing left

[nicktoonsunite]

oh

[malenjoyer]

WE'RE SO BACK

[krispiecake]

Okay, without trying to take away from the joy we are feeling, we must stay vigilant. This ceasefire deal is 3 phases, the first is a 42 day pause for hostage exchange which is set to start on SUNDAY, as long as Netanyahu’s cabinet signs off on it. The IOF is not expected to fully retreat from Gaza, but stay to ‘mandated zones’. Palestinians are meant to be able to return to their homes, but with Israeli soldiers still there, this is not a guarantee. The 600 aid trucks a day into Gaza during this 42 day phase 1 is still not enough.

THIS IS NOT OVER. We do not know the details of phase 2 and 3, and nothing has been agreed for these phases in writing. We must not get complacent in this moment of respite. Please, do not stop fighting. This is not over until every Palestinian can return home, until the occupation is gone, until all of Palestine is free.

Keep protesting and campaigning, keep donating because aid organisations need all the help they can get, especially in the next 6 weeks, and it might be the only window people get to evacuate. This is a step in the right direction, but it is not over.

sources: 1 , 2

[krysmcscience]

I have some questions about karaoke night, Alex Hirsch. Very Important Questions. Which I will happily scream at a poor hapless baby triangle who can have no answers for me, and possibly also does not have object permanence yet.

Follow-up that is I guess suggestive, but let's be real here, Bill's a fucking triangle:

Dude slipped right into his birthday suit, lmao

this is so stupid :D

Anyway, I don't care what anyone says, this brilliant individual knows what's up - Bill is absolutely way more of a monsterfucker than Ford could or ever will be, full stop.

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

I remember discussing Tintin casting choices with a friend from Germany and remarked how it was odd he often has an English accent in adaptations rather than a Belgian one, and my friend just replied "that's because Tintin gives incredibly strong English boy energy (derogatory)"

Here in the UK there's a lot of weird classism tied into accents. Today accent diversity and representation in broadcasting is actively pursued but in Tintin's time there certainly was a preferred accent to have.

imagine this exchange happens between pages 28-29 in The Crab with the Golden Claws

[zorangezest]

switcheroo part 2 electric boogaloo (soundwave edition)

for those of you who were wondering, yes soundwave is still the most loyal hes just a flamboyant conniving megalomaniac, and yes starscream is still traitorous hes just calculating and methodical and very very patient

part 3

[dreamyblanket]

Yearning from the nothing dimension [rambling in tags ^^]

[suntails]

growing up!

[chloesimaginationthings]

How Jax found Gangle’s figure collection in TADC,,

[stellarglowsquiiiid]

Parkour Civilization 1 is about how capitalism incentives the people living within it to keep moving up its ranks (even though it’s functionally impossible to do so), believing they’ll be safe if they just get a bit richer, only to be in a situation that’s even more difficult to maintain. How one bad fall can cost you everything, and how it’s much easier for the rich to avoid making that fall.

Parkour Civilization 2 is about getting betrayed by queercoded bitches (you are parkour Jesus Christ).