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"Dio... Like you said, our fates might truly be one and the same. I feel an odd warmth toward you."

If Jojo's mother had survived, perhaps things might have been different.

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imagine playing a plot-irrelevant gay little freak so fucking good that they keep you in the franchise and elevate your role to core character whose relationship with the franchise's main antagonist carries the entire emotional climax of the third movie. and your character doesn't even have a first name.

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•my message to the world

•At the end of the month, you will be celebrating Christmas.

•How will you celebrate without us for the second year in a row?

•We share in your celebrations.

°Why don't you share with us during these difficult times?

•am hilda 28y girl

•am pregnant like any woman at this world

•the difference between us i live in gaza

🚨 I am pregnant and suffering from a lack of food and medicine. I don’t know what the fate of my baby inside me will be due to the shortage of food and medicine caused by the war and high prices

😓😥🍉🇵🇸

•A small donation can make abig difference 🤲🤲

•The war has entered its second year and everything is getting worse 💔

•Please help me 🤲😥🍉🇵🇸

✅vetted ( u can see that in my posts)

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This is me Aya.. ‏🇵🇸

Imagine you wake up with nothing left.That's exactly what happened with us .we moved from having everything to having nothing.In a blink of an eye ,we lost everything, our house ,dreams, memories belongings and our works. We are starting from zero and need your help to climb the leader step by step from scratch.

All the positive words cannot express how generous you are, especially in sharing my posts to inform other donors about the people of Gaza who are still suffering from the terrible conditions caused by the unjust war on Gaza!

Please continue to support us by donating directly or by sharing the link to let others know. Don't hesitate to help people in difficult and miserable times until the dark days are over. 🙏🏻🍉

https://gofund.me/c4c2cf82

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Hello everyone ❤️,

My name is Majed, and my family and I are trying to rebuild our lives after the war destroyed everything we had, including our home.😔 My children are studying at university, trying to build a better future, but how can they succeed without a safe place to call home?🏠😥

Unfortunately, the campaign is moving slowly, and we still need your help. All we need is a secure home to protect my children and restore the safety we've lost.🙏🏻🇵🇸

As Christmas 🎄 approaches, a time of hope and love, we dream of a safe home to celebrate together. Your support, no matter how small, makes all the difference.

https://gofund.me/abbc2759

Wishing you a Merry Christmas filled with peace and love.✨❤️

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To all Palestine supporters 🌧🇵🇸

We need less than 110€ to reach our short term goal of 30.5k€‼️🇵🇸🌲🇵🇸🌲🇵🇸🌲🇵🇸🌲🇵🇸🌲🇵🇸

Your donations are important to us and we appreciate them no matter what🙏🇵🇸

We need you more than ever😭🇵🇸🌲🇵🇸🌲🇵🇸🌲🇵🇸

Please help me reach our goal as soon as possible 🙏🇵🇸🌲🇵🇸

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Hello 👋,

I hope this message finds you well. My name is Aziz, and I’m reaching out with a heartfelt plea to help my family find safety and reunite with our mother. 😞

The ongoing war in Gaza has torn my family apart. My mother and newborn sister are stranded in Egypt, while I, along with the rest of my sex family members, am trapped in the midst of the genocide in Gaza. We have not only been separated but have also lost our home and are enduring unimaginable hardships. 💔

Your support can make a difference. Whether by reading our story, donating, or sharing our campaign with others, you can help us reunite, find safety, and start anew. 🙏🕊

Thank you, from the depths of my heart, for your kindness, compassion, and solidarity during this difficult time. ❤🍉

https://gofund.me/58268669 🔗

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My Little Pony: Taking Responsibility is Magic

I like drawing horse versions of my hyperfixations okay. Standalones and cutie mark thoughts below break.

Curly's cutie mark is of a ladder within a spotlight--once you reach the top and are out of the limelight, the ladder drops far below where you started with no rungs down. Curly's never understood what his cutie mark means, but now that he's peaked in his career he's starting to guess.

Jimmy doesn't have a cutie mark--where one would be is instead heavy, self-inflicted scarring. If asked about it, he'll claim he didn't care much for his original cutie mark and "fixed" it to his liking. In reality, he never earned one at all. Yet some think it looks like a burst of flame…

Daisuke's cutie mark reflects easygoingness. Two palm trees curl around a sun in a heart shape: he always lends a caring hand as a "ray of goddamn sunshine", although his "leaves" sometimes get in the way. Delicate hibiscuses grow from the trees instead of fruit, existing despite the unlikely odds.

Swansea's cutie mark is of a palette knife with glue that has newly repaired a glass pitcher, now filled with red punsch. Although punsch is an alcoholic drink, it is often enjoyed in the celebratory company of friends and family. But a mended glass is fragile; pressure is liable to shatter it.

Anya's cutie mark, in shades of blue like her coat, is often overlooked. A waning crescent, a lunar phase of reflection and surrender to emotions, embraces a lotus flower. Lotuses are a sacred flower of life and death, and its ten pistils recall the standard promises of the Hippocratic Oath.

Polle Says: Quit Horsin' Around!

Taking your job seriously allows your team to work together and face any challenges!

(Failure to work on the clock will be docked out of your credits)

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leaving sticky nites with fake passwords scattered around my office to worsen the day of that immersive sim fucker who creeps around the office sometimes

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Help a transman get top surgery!

Hey! I know I don't post personal stuff here too often, but I figured it can't hurt. I'm looking to get top surgery in July or August and I could use help with funding it. Please, if you have the means, consider throwing $20 my way, and if you don't, please consider boosting it. Anything helps, and it would mean a lot.

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Once upon a time...

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Playtime :]

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It's almost time for Zack and Cody's reservation at the Italian restaurant

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long exposure picture of a plane taking off

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dr. eggman should be a sex symbol on here. but you all want to watch succession. pathetic.

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wotw round 1

propaganda under the cut!

shen qingqiu:

Okay first a quick intro: Shen Qingqiu / Shen Yuan is the main character of SVSSS, and his deal is that he's a guy from the modern world who wakes up in the novel he read, in the body of one of the characters. Shen Yuan is his name in his original world, while Shen Qingqiu is the name of the character he became - that he uses for himself for most of the novel.

Now, what happened to him… The thing is, at the core of his woobification are his actual canon traits, but some fans really crank them up to the point where it becomes a disservice to the character. So you never know when someone saying "oh Shen Qingqiu is so oblivious" means "due to several intersecting factors Shen Qingqiu has some extremely specific blindspots regarding certain topics" (which is just true) or "haha Shen Qingqiu could get kissed by a man and still not realize that man has romantic feelings for him" (just one variation of the sentiment, but one i find particularly bewildering considering. in canon. a man kissing him was exactly what made Shen Qingqiu realize that man was actually in love with him. like my dudes the bar is low but its there!).

Stumbling into this second version in fic was funny a first few times, but now it's like… I genuinely can't tell whether any particular author is overplaying it for comedy, or genuinely believes the character is That dumb.

Also ppl often severely underestimate his power level. Like idk if that's because they compare him to the characters he often hangs out with, who are those genius top-of-the-world experts (despite him outpacing literally everyone else he ever fought against), or because of how he bungled his first-ever case (like, you know, two weeks after waking up in a whole NEW BODY, in a different world), or because he tends to downplay his own strength and also tries to avoid killing people… but like, this man took a technique that in the original was just "aesthetic and interesting" and developed it into something that could be super deadly within weeks, he's just not using it that way. And he also fixed og Shen Qingqiu's broken cultivation within the first few months of being in that body. So he's actually extremely talented and pretty strong, he just spends most of the book either nerfed by external factors (such as poison that disables his spiritual energy at random times) or surrounded by veritable powerhouses.

And this is for Shen Yuan-as-Shen Qingqiu. But the version that drives me completely up the wall is actually the portrayal of just Shen Yuan - in fanworks where he either never gets transported to the world of the novel, or wakes up as a different character. Because suddenly the traits that already get unduly amplified with Shen Qingqiu version become straight up caricature-like. He's not only oblivious to the extreme, he also gets painted as this completely naive soft babyboi (this is about a guy whose most well-known pre-transmigration canon trait is that he writes famously vitriolic rants about novels on the internet); plus, like, on the physical level, super frail and waifish which uh. wow. nice walking right back into the BL tropes the novel itself avoided?…… So yeah I'm super not keen on this portrayal. I know he doesn't appear as not-Shen Qingqiu version of himself in the novel, if we don't count the rant in the beginning, but like. please extrapolate from the character we actually have instead of writing this mega-woobie who shares nothing with the base version?

Terrible little bastard man who has a sad backstory but is actually genuinely a terrible person. Fans like to act like he is just a soft sad boi deep inside and make him lose all of his edge.

So the thing about Shen Jiu / og!Shen Qingqiu in canon is that we first learn of him as an unquestionably, almost cartoonishly villainous character. As in, he is literally a villain in the book our main character has been reading… before dying and waking up in the world of the book, as that very villain (hence the distinction of Shen Jiu being the "original" Shen Qingqiu, as our main character begins to use the name Shen Qingqiu for himself. Shen Jiu, however, is an old name that only the original has used). The original Shen Qingqiu that our main character knows is a serial child abuser in a teaching position, a murderer (killed his colleague, killed his old fiancee's entire family…), and a lecher (visited brothels and had designs on his female disciple).

Then, over the course of the novel, we learn more about Shen Jiu - in particular, that a number of things our MC "knew" about him were not true. He did not kill his colleague, but rather failed to save him, despite trying to; he killed his "fiancee"'s family because her older brother has abused him for years (and also, Shen Jiu was forced into agreeing to marry her), and also he only actually killed half of them (only men); he visited brothels because he only felt safe in the company of women, and he just went there to get a good night's sleep; and he only ever saw that female disciple he was accused of lusting after as a daughter. And in general, he had a horrible childhood, and was himself a victim of abuse.

However, not everything gets disproved. Shen Jiu still turned from a victim to perpetrator, abusing a child (coincidentally the protagonist of the og book) and trying to set him up to die/be killed several times. Canon is very clear on that point. The situation with Shen Jiu and the og book version of the protagonist is very much an illustration of cycles of abuse.

Also at a certain point, we meet the author of the in-world book, the one our MC was reading - who explains he scrapped Shen Jiu's tragic backstory because it would make him too controversial. Quoting from memory, something like: 'if you said he was a villain, he was also tragic; but if you said he was pitiful, he'd also done terrible things. All in all, a character like this was a hotbed for all kinds of fandom discourse.'

Prophetic fucking words.

Somehow, seeing all that, some 'fans' have decided to jump into a completely opposite direction: making Shen Jiu a poor little misunderstood meow meow who did nothing wrong ever and was a soft princess and totally was never mean to the protagonist ("the protagonist just has inflated sense of ego and misunderstood Shen Jiu's normal teaching as singling him out for abuse" was a take I had to see with my own two eyeballs. Theres btw an extra from Shen Jiu's pov where he laments that the fake manual he gave the kid has failed to horrifically kill him yet).

Which puts the rest of us in an awkward position of having to defend his canon assholery. Like, the whole point of this character is that he's complex! That he's both a villain and a victim! Reducing him to just one is doing him a disservice, and either extreme is equally incorrect! And this is something that happens with many similar characters, I know, but what boggles my mind about Shen Jiu's case in particular is that. it's spelled out. The whole deal with his character is spelled out in canon. And some people still go "oh so Shen Jiu was secretly the most morally pure and good character, got it". Like. how?????????????? ??? ?? ?????

noriaki kakyoin:

Uke-fied to the max so he can be shipped with jotaro lol

Ohmygod where do I even start. Kakyoin's the poster boy for twinkification and woobification of a canonically very capable, interesting (and not twinky at all) character who's so many things at once- a loyal friend, really smart, a bit of a weirdo, infodumping trivia at random times, quick-thinking in dangerous situations, reckless, polite and respectful, vengeful towards enemies but always kind to friends, depressed, determined and motivated in the face of mortal danger despite it all - even when he had the chance to leave the Stradust Crusaders and just come back to his normal life, he decided to stick with them. This decision eventually cost him his life since he got killed by Dio, the main villain. The fandom either calls him a cardboard with no personality (which is not true at ALL, where did that take even come from) or they downplay his canon badassery- Jotaro x Kakyoin shippers are often guilty of this along with twinkifying Kakyoin. The ship is fine, but they're way more interesting if you take into account their canon characterisation as huge weirdos who somehow work pretty well together- they're both different flavors of autistic that sometimes just so happen to align on the same wavelength.

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God is in his Heaven When I'm S-Scared! I'm selling this print at SPX this fall! Come say hi!