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artists drawing Stormbringer with muscles is my favorite thing ever

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as much as I love stormbringer being the mother (as the creator) of the deities, I do personally think that they were created as the ages they appear in the present (rather than growing up under her into adults)

mainly because stormbringer as a mother would likely be more like this

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Childish mother of three

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Any donation, no matter how small, can be a lifeline to save our children from death. Don’t let their innocence be crushed under the weight of war.

Help my family to get out and sea for what is left of life. The war is devastating. Death is approachin every person and destruction is everywhere. We hope that there is hope before it is too late.

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We don't talk about Dyna Might enough y'all ✋️🤚

My favorite tomboy Lala! Her debut in the nick series really won me over, she's amazing.

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Imagine being a parent and watching your baby’s formula run out, knowing the next can is so expensive it may as well not exist. You search desperately for alternatives��but all you have is a bit of rice and some cow’s milk, not meant for infants. You have no choice but to feed it to her , praying it keeps her alive, even as you watch it make her sick.

Images: Hossam Al-Qazzaz sent us update photos of his daughter, Habiba, who is currently in hospital due to her parents having to feed her ground rice and milk, in addition to pollution in the food.

@diana-family

Written by @rumiandroses

This is the reality for Hossam Al-Qazzaz in Gaza. His ten

-month old daughter, Habiba, is now in the hospital—weak, undernourished, her tiny hand wrapped in gauze and tape, an IV doing the job that formula should have done.

Hossam, his wife Hanan, and their four children—Bashar (9), Hani (8), Diana (4), and baby Habiba—are displaced once again, forced to flee after their area was designated an active combat zone. The little shelter they had left among the ruins of their home is now unsafe. They now sleep in a tent, with no walls to protect them and no roof to shield them from the bombs or the elements.

Despite it all, they cling to hope—hope that they’ll survive long enough to escape. Hope for a day when their children can live in peace.

But survival alone has become a full-time battle. Over the past few weeks, Hossam has faced death multiple times just trying to access aid. He’s seen his brother-in-law and nephew severely injured in front of him. He’s made dangerous trips to aid centers, only to return empty-handed or narrowly escape shelling. He does all of this while also caring for his family and elderly parents, both in poor health.

Gaza’s infrastructure has collapsed. Jobs have vanished. There is no electricity, no clean water, and no stable access to food or medicine. Even basic items like rice, cooking gas, clothing, and diapers are becoming luxuries, as prices skyrocket due to the Israeli blockade and severe shortages. Baby formula, when it can be found at all, costs over $60 a can—an impossible amount for a family with no income.

Since this war began, the Al-Qazzaz family has endured the unthinkable: being bombed out of their home, attacked by wild animals in the night while displaced, suffering from malnutrition, and living in fear of each new dawn.

And still, they keep going.

Please, for the sake of little Habiba—who was born into a war she never chose—and for her family, we ask you to share their story. Help us connect them with those who can donate, no matter how small. Every act of kindness counts. Every share, every dollar, every prayer helps bring this family one step closer to safety, stability, and dignity.

You can donate to the Al-Qazzaz family's GoFundMe campaign here:

This campaign has been vetted by @gazavetters and is #287 on their list of verified campaigns.

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Same character btw ermmm..

Yummy yummy this took me 3 hours and it looks mediocre at best yummy yummy

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I have the one and only 24 karat gold lalaloopsy

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I had to lol

In the Criss Cross episode from the Nick jr series, Jewel tries to figure out how to fish, and she proceeds to HOLD THE LINE AND THROW THE POLE with the most unphased expression ever.

Head empty, no thoughts, only sparkles and gems rattling in there

(Just a joke though, Jewel is outstandingly smart and her natural leadership and organisation abilities are really handy, just yk SOMETIMES she's the silliest creature in Lalaland, more than Peanut and I will die o this hill)

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imo we moved on WAY TOO FAST from this

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longtime cookie run fans complaining about newgens from shadow milk’s debut is so personally funny to me because I’m a newgen that started playing by the time the beasts were revealed, but it wasn’t because of them at all.

… it was because I needed something to fill the lalaloopsy void

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Please take a few minutes to watch the video and read this post.

I am writing these words after losing hope in everyone… except for you, my friends. Tumblr has a very large number of users, estimated in the millions . That’s an enormous number! But imagine, with all those of people, how would you feel if people saw you and ignored you? You’d feel deeply disappointed, right? Or maybe you’d even wish for death.

Have you ever wished for death? For me, I feel like I’d rather die than be ignored by everyone. If I wasn’t in desperate need of help, I wouldn’t ask anyone for it. I really need help.

Imagine for a moment that you have a small child you love dearly, and you’re forced to watch her suffer in front of your eyes. This isn’t just an imagination for me; it’s my reality. My family and I live this pain every day.

Please, be our hope. Be our voice. Be the ones who save us from despair. Don’t ignore us. Donate, even if it’s just $5 .

There are so many people reading this post right now. I beg anyone who sees these words to donate if they can, and if not, to share this post. Please, don’t leave us behind.

Be our family, or think of us as members of your own family, and save us from this suffering. No matter how small the amount, your help means the world to us. And if you can’t donate, share this post and add a few kind words to inspire others to help.

Thank you so much, everyone. I wish you all the best.

✅vetted by The ButterflyEffect Projects #764 on verified campaigns list) previously shared by 90-ghost ✅

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Today my little girl Naya asked me that she is craving fried potatoes and bread and she is wondering why we cannot provide her with bread and food and why there is no fruit. I did not know what to answer her except that it is expensive and we cannot buy it. Her twin sister Nora asked her why don't we get aid, Mama, and she said to me while crying, Mama, I am very hungry and I crave a lot of food. Imagine two girls who are not even 6 years old living such deprivation. I could not imagine that my little girls Nora and Naya, whom God has blessed me with after long years of treatment following IVF operations, would live this deprivation and I am unable to provide them with their simplest needs. Therefore, I appeal to your humanity and your merciful hearts to donate even a little to save my children from this starvation

Please donate and don't let us alone

Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #120 )

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Many celebrities from America and Europe are speaking out about Gaza and its suffering, but sadly, most people are ignoring them.

Sami is one of the many people in Gaza who has gone through extremely difficult conditions and is still suffering to this moment. Tonight, Sami and his family were hit by the most violent and hysterical bombing since the start of the war, in an attempt to force them to evacuate.

Sadly, Sami's little daughter, Lynn, was injured - small rocket shrapnel is stuck in a sensitive area in her back. He cannot move her from place to place under the bombing, and she urgently needs surgery abroad because the hospitals have been destroyed by airstrikes.

There are verified medical reports confirming her injury, and pictures are available for those willing to help. Sami could be killed at any moment... and you may never see another post from him again. Please, forget politics for a moment - leave Gaza aside, and help Lynn. She is now between life and death. Donate to save his injured daughter and his starving family.

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I Dared My Best Friend to Ruin My Life is a Queer Masterpiece

Trigger warning: Human trafficking (I hate that the sequel went there as it was NOT equipped to handle it, but it's important to the analysis of one of the characters)

First of all, I’d like to apologize for the fact that you need to live knowing that a real human being spent this much time thinking critically about the subtext of the IDMBFTRML franchise. That’s just what autism, nostalgia, and too many nagging thoughts can lead to. Unfortunately, this is only partly ironic, you are not ready, I’m not ready, and no one ever will be.

(Also want to preface this with the fact that I am queer and have spent my life with many members of the queer community including my closest friends and current partner. The satire comes from the level of effort I’m putting into seriously over-analyzing this ridiculous Reddit story, not the identities discussed. You are loved and you are valid.)

My thesis today: “I Dared My Best Friend to Ruin My Life” contains an underlying queer subtext through the character of David King, Zander, and in the sequel series “I Dared My Best Friend to End My Life”, Sophie Atrickson.

At the beginning of the story David and Zander sit together on a couch in Zander’s home bored out of their mind. Engaging in a semi-nihilistic conversation on how they lack motivation in their lives, David brings up the structure that high school gave due to its rules and tasks. However, one of these sticks out from the rest, among expectations like getting good grades and not staying up past curfew is the act of getting a girlfriend. This subtly implies that David does not see fulfilling hetero-normative roles as something that is a natural part of himself, but instead another convention to follow. This, in tandem with the lack of evidence that David has dated anyone up to this point, indicates that while he listed it, he did not go through with it. This mention of obtaining a female partner, for someone who is supposed to be a master manipulator, is likely just to help the more romantically inclined Zander understand. Long story short, David sees dating a woman as an expectation rather than a desire and only brings it up because he believes that’s what Zander wants.

Once the dare is set into motion, they both agree to ruin each other's lives and David punches Zander in the thigh. The placement of this hit and its presence after those lines is important. Due to homophobia and transphobia, being outed can be life-ruining. This word choice coupled with the story’s focus on identity theft is a genius, subtle parallel to how trans people who are forced to remain closeted, de-transition due to circumstance, or deny their true selves. They know who they are, but that self is lost in the crossfire of whatever is preventing them from openly living. The thigh, an area that those taking injectable HRT will often pick due to its high-fat content, is hit. Symbolically this is the start of Zander’s transition/gender exploration spurred by David, a character who began this story breaking conventional gender norms. Yes, David has “masculine” interests but he’s also emotionally open with a male friend, is there for him during his mildly depressive thoughts, and shows a physical closeness that men are often shamed for. These are all healthy traits and may indicate that he’s just not toxically masculine, but more direct evidence comes later.

When the harassment begins David floods Zander with pornographic imagery in his mail and on his account upon hacking. Part of Zander’s writing style is that he is incredibly detailed, even over-explaining the act of using a search engine as well as the specific contents of the other junk like racist statements and pen pal letters. Yet, he fails to provide any details on what the NSFW images contained, along with the contents of the photos of himself that David leaked. Both of these pertain to intimacy. The privacy of what he may find arousing, and images he didn't put online, a specific focus is placed on how awkward it is that his family saw these. Families are often the people that will be the least accepting of someone's queer identity, this may indicate that the contents of both did not align with the interests Zander should have a cishet man. A form of mocking that contributes to the overall subtext that David is trying to push him out of the closet. Which goes hand in hand with Zander’s deeper resentment of them. They make him confront parts of himself he feels he shouldn't have which ultimately leads to him committing violence against them.

After this, David attempts to break up Katie and Zander via text. David is later shown to be able to manipulate audio from Zander to use against him, and with their superior intellect could have easily made a fake voice note. Yet, they don’t, instead taking the more easily disprovable route of a written message. The lack of using their voice to communicate also coincides with their use of a variety of names, including Zander’s. This speaks to the trans experience of dysphoria around one’s birth name and voice as well as the solace of using one that fits you better. David is acutely aware of how it feels to hear a part of yourself in a voice that doesn't earnestly represent you and does not want to do that to Zander. A sentiment that is even kept when they frame him as he just puts his already angry words in another context rather than fabricating emotion. In the surface-level story, this is a practical decision, but more personally it is reflective of David’s discomfort with the voice and name given to them. A discomfort that Zander comes to later understand and weaponize against them in the finale when he gets hundreds of people to speak it.

The decision to break them up rather than instantly kill or take her also speaks to David being motivated by a sense of heartbrokenness instead of hate. David is the one who encouraged Zander to do more with his life, move out of his parents' house, and keep track of his money. They have always pushed him to be better, but he was content with letting their relationship fade away.

At any time he could have shown up at the house they’d spent so much time with each other in but he never made that minimum required effort. Yet, Katie, someone who did not know him nearly as much as they did got to be the one he took into his improved life. All because she was born a girl and David wasn't. They wanted that life with him, they wanted him to accept himself and the attractions that he pushed aside by downplaying their relationship (regarding David as just an old friend when explaining the situation). Which is why they acted the way they did, if Zander was not motivated to come into his own then they’d make him by pulling away the beard growing longer every month.

Now this is where we get into spoilers for the sequel series “I Dared My Best Friend to End My Life” If, for some demented reason you want to read it on your own you’ve been warned.

Some may argue that the later kidnapping of Katie is evidence against this interpretation, but it wasn't David’s decision. It was Sophie’s. Sophie is an individual whom David met at a bar and connected with over their shared beliefs that ruining lives improves people. Though they formed a relationship and were physical Zander remained David’s main focus at all times. Sophie hated this, not liking the lack of attention and kidnapping Katie in response. To adress the obvious, this further adds to the romantic undertones of Zanvid as a dynamic. Even when faced with someone they’re “dating” David makes Zander top priority, distancing from Sophie both emotionally and physically with time. Sophie also tries to make David conform to traditional gender roles though they both end up subverting them. Sophie describes the group of criminals they and David run as a family, directly comparing David to a father and themselves to a mother by proxy. The way they treat the “children” initially aligns with these standards, as David is less emotionally attached and handles practical training in crime. Meanwhile, Sophie has a deeper connection with the “family members” and in a sense “nurtures” them by encouraging them to give into their worst aspects.

However, these binary roles and expectations of cis-het society gradually flip. David, rejecting the system tells Sophie that there “is no us” and effectively runs away with Zander. This leads Sophie to take over both maternal and paternal roles, becoming more effective in the latter and eventually laying claim to the success of the family. Now, you may think that Sophie is just a straight cis-woman who was trying to force a queer person to conform, but I believe there is more to it. Sophie says that they didn't love David in the “I want to marry you way” but as a type of adoration and a thankfulness for the family they helped give them. This implies that the love they experienced towards David is not romantic. In tandem with this is the wording of “gave me a family” which is the kind of language a man would traditionally use towards a woman who bore his children. A key conflict between Sophie and David is that Sophie is more reckless and not as single-minded. These aspects of their career paths are meant to stand in contrast to their paths in gender understanding. Sophie thinks of gender in a very binary way, but is dipping their toes into a multitude of projects. Meanwhile, David thinks of gender, more fluidly, rejecting, hetero-normative society, but is single-minded when it comes to their love (Zander). Sophie’s admiration of David’s power and masculinity along with the pride they take in gaining such traits for themselves indicates that they are a trans male who is clinging to aspects of masculinity perpetrated by the patriarchy to find comfort. An aspect that is alluded to at many points such as how he mostly surrounds himself with men, does a lot of heavy “macho” drinking, and Clark even mistakes him for David when seeing him wear his clothes after David’s death. At the same time, all these actions are just means of coping with their need for masculine validation while they deny the truth.

Some trans men and women engage in a mindset of “transmedicalism” which supports the existence of trans people but only under the gender binary with extreme dysphoria, hormones, and surgery being required to fully transition. This mindset is toxic as it is bigoted against non-binary identities and trans people who do not wish to take all of those steps and maintain aspects of their given bodies. Sophie’s enforcement of the gender binary is likely aligned with these views and is why he refuse to be out. He may feel that he does not have enough gender dysphoria to be valid or just outright denies his feelings so he doesn't have to go through the pain of the process he has made him self believe is required. However, this extends beyond internal conflict and bleeds into how he treats others.

In his attempts to feel masculine he puts women and fems down in the process. Starting with David, he is against their distancing from traditional gender roles and messes with they’re Zander plans. In the context of the romantic subtext, he is trying to bring an end to an affair and is treating Katie, a woman, as collateral damage. In a sense, he feels that David’s feelings for Zander are imasculating him. Being with someone like David is a double-edged sword, at times he ignores their masculine aspects to feel like a man for “having a woman” but when that veneer of gender solidity peels, and David’s perceived masculinity shows, he reverts to denial and gives them the pants to wear in the relationship. A healthy person would understand that they don’t need to change their own identity based on that of their partner to remain “straight” but his self-hate runs so deep he complicates everything. David, in all their cosmic genius, knows all of this but does not do anything about it. They are confident in their identity and the subpar bigoted views of someone like Sophie are not a concern to them. However, they do stick with him for a reason. It is that exact internal conflict that makes him similar to the questioning and self-hating Zander. That in addition to his similar appearance to him (they both have light hair and it's indicated in “I was abducted while studying abroad” that David has an attachment to people who resemble Zander) that they stick with him.

All this to say yes, Sophie later encouraging David to kill Zander stems from Sophie not wanting to be cucked. He’s the most incel trans man ever. He needs David to fit in whatever box benefits him most so he doesn't have to contend with the complexity of the self.

(This part will contain mentions of trafficking and SA)

As for Katie, it gets even worse. He canonically tortured Katie during the time she was held by him. The specifics are not known but he did have her beaten and kept her in unhygienic conditions. Due to him equating power to manhood, he harms her along with other women and girls by holding them hostage and selling some. It never got to that point with her, but if he had her under his thumb for longer it could have gone there. His struggle with gender identity is not the problem, but instead the way he attaches himself to the worst of toxic masculinity to validate himself. In the end, she stabs him to death in a burning church, a structure that he also stood in control of in a patriarchal fashion. Dying as the worst version of a man imaginable at the hands of someone he had hurt. Opposed to David who died with self-acceptance at the hands of a lover who realized themselves in the wake of what they experienced.

This leads us back to the pair that led to it all. Zander and David. At the end of the first story, Zander says that he is a changed person and we as an audience know David has won. Subtextually, this means Zander has accepted his queer identity, whatever it might be. This shift as a person is also discussed in the sequel, as Zander has been hardened by his previous journey, but is stronger for it. David won, and their lover has accepted themselves, but only after they sacrificed everything. The sanctity of their body, morality, and years of planning are all dust in the wind. Though they live on once Zander gets into David’s computer and leaks the documents revealing Sophie’s actions. It's never stated, but it can be inferred that David wanted this, they wanted Zander to be with them and free them both of Sophie. Though ultimately, only Zander got to drown his dark reflection.

This essay ended up being way more tragic than I expected since this is the the “David FUCKING King” story but even if this was 100% intentional, I’m glad I wrote this. The world may be full of a lot of hate, but we don’t have to be Sophie’s or David’s. We can choose life and love, even when that feels like a luxury we can’t afford. Happy Pride Month everyone.

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I don’t wanna sound ungrateful but I feel… disappointed about how they’re going to drop Stormbringer’s crystal jam? Not even a follow-up to her story? Like after Silent Salt she’ll inevitably become irrelevant so there really is no chance to develop her character or answer the many questions left hanging.

I was expecting a special episode like Moonlight’s or Frost Queen’s. Unless the Citrus Squad randomly befriend the sky god (which I’d eat up) this is like… Sea Fairy release all over again