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lovely friends and gorgeous people of tumblr.com, i invite you to please reblog this post and put in the tags something that has brought you happiness lately! anything at all, any joy, slight or miraculous, wholly at your discretion!

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i hate when rich people condescend with the whole 'money can't buy happiness' argument like listen. just because buying your fourth car didn't fill the void in your deluded disconnected-from-reality life doesn't mean not having to worry about food/ bills/medicine wouldn't greatly improve the mental health of literally everyone else on the planet

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ChatGTP rotting away your brain

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hey if ur reading this and ur in a bad spot mentally or anything i hope u feel better soon and have a good day

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Astartes

“What was that, trooper?” “Astartes! On this ship!”

“Is that so? They usually take their own conveyance.”

“It's a small contingent, or so the rumor mill holds, Sergeant Major.”

“I put no stock in rumors, Trooper Felth; trust in the Emperor and your eyes,” admonished Sergeant Major Tomlin.

“How about your ears?” a familiar voice called from across the room.

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Raucous merriment echoed from down the hall as the victory celebrations escalated. The Emperor's men had prevailed, and the xeno threat had been driven off. For now, at least, the Imperium's loyal citizens could breathe a bit easier in the Nordibus sector.

Still, a solitary trooper avoided the merriment. Alone, he sat in an unlit storage room. He was hunched over, hands holding his face as though the very fate of mankind rested upon it. Small sobs, barely above a whisper, dribbled from him.

“Trooper, why are you not with your regiment? They celebrate our victory over the xenos down the corridor. Surely you can hear their victory songs.” Startled by the sudden voice, Trooper Tomlin turned and saw a hulking frame in the doorway—an Angel of the Emperor, one of the Adeptus Astartes.

“Lord, I just wanted to be away from the noise for a moment,” came the reply as Tomlin straightened himself.

“Please, trooper, no such formalities with me now. And that is not all of why you are not with your regiment.”

“You...you heard me?”

The giant stepped into the room, toggling the light as he did so. “I am brother-sergeant Diocletus; pray tell me your name, trooper.”

“Trooper Tomlin, sir. Of the 452nd Iridine Dragoons.”

“Just Diocletus for now, Tomlin. There is no command here, just two soldiers. May I sit with you?”

Tomlin, still processing the presence of one of the Emperor's finest, merely nodded. Diocletus sat next to Tomlin on a crate. “Tell me, brother Tomlin, for whom do you weep?”

“My...my squad. I'm...I'm....” Grief overtook the trooper, and he began to cry further, words dying in his mouth as he tried to form them.

Diocletus patiently sat, waiting for Tomlin's composure to return. “You were close with them, as befits all soldiers of the Emperor.” A mute nod, accompanied with sniffles, was the reply. “Tell me of them.”

“Perkins, our plasma gunner, was my closest friend. He smoked lho, like the rest of us, but he'd always bum one off of us at the smoke pit. Never had his pack on him, he said. And he's smoke them fast, and then bum another off us. He'd always tell us a joke while he was smoking, or a tall tale about some camp follower from some previous campaign he had been on. He'd swear they were true as he told them, but they were so outrageous as to be beyond belief. But he was always the first out of the trench when the whistle blew, and he never faltered in the face of fire. Good shot too, save me several times with a good shot from his gun.

“Sergeant Jensen had been promoted into the squad last month. We hadn't been into combat with him before today, just drills. I was worried he wouldn't know how we worked together, that he wouldn't fit in, but he was solid. He reacted quickly to fire, got us to a good position, and got us firing on a weapons emplacement. Took out some real nasty hardware.

Tomlin continued onward, giving each member their due. He paused and softly said, “It should have been me. They should be here, not me. They were so much better than me, if I had died there instead of Colb, maybe they'd be here now, singing with the rest. I..”

Tomlin's voice cracked, and he began to sob again, harder. A long moment passed, until he began to compose himself.

“Brother Tomlin, I too have seen many brothers die in battle. Three here, on this day. Two last week. When we made planetfall, the last brother from my Initiation was granted the Emperor's Mercy after he threw himself between a rocket and myself. In every campaign, a brother I had served with for years fell. Their names are engraved in our sacred halls, upon a wall that only the members of my chapter will ever see. I say their names in every battle I fight. We honor their sacrifice by living, Trooper Tomlin. Do not cheapen their deaths by aching to join them. Would they tell you that they wish you were dead and they still walked? Surely not, if they held you in half the esteem you hold them. It is not easy to forgive oneself for living when his brothers have died. But you must, if you are to honor their memory. Can you promise me that you will honor their memory, brother Tomlin? That you will not hasten to join them?”

“Y...yes, Brother Diocletus. I shall.”

“I shall carry their names with me, as well as of my own brothers. Go, join your regiment in celebration of their lives, and remember them always. You can have no greater gift from them than to see another victory, and they can have no greater gift than your remembrance.”

Tomlin stood up, as did Diocletus. The Astartes proffered his hand, and Tomlin accepted it. When he withdrew, there was a seal within. “Carry it with you always, Trooper. The Emperor protects.”

“The Emperor Protects.”

Tomlin moved off to join the celebration, his spirit buoyed.

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Sergeant Major Tomlin turned to the voice, and saw a familiar face, clad now in black power armor. “Sergeant Diocletus!”

“Chaplain, now.” He strode over, and handed a long package to Tomlin. “The lho that Perkins owed you.”

Tomlin took the carton from the astartes, smiling. “You really remembered them, these decades since?”

“I never forget a loyal servant of the Emperor, Sergeant Major Tomlin. May the Emperor continue to protect as we fight in His name.”

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I hate, hate, HATE the term “affordable housing.” I hate that we’ve normalized it. I hate that we just accept that the majority of housing, a basic human right, is unaffordable to much of the population. Housing should be affordable as a baseline. If rich people want to add arcades and gold-plated hot tubs on top so be it, but everyone, everyone, regardless of income level, should have access to a clean, comfortable home with enough light and space to make life worth living.

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No, they absolutely can understand it. They even *do* understand it. But the fundamental reality is that they hate everyone from anywhere but Proper White People Origins. They want to keep a corpse functioning long enough to gestate a baby, not because they care about the sanctity of life, but because they need to reinforce for absolutely everyone that women belong to the state, and their purpose is to make babies. That's their entire ideology--power, control, and hatred.

The MAGA misogyny is manifest.

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Ursula K Le Guin already wrote it, it's called A Wizard of Earthsea.

To sum up: they still think that trans peoples human rights are an online conversation, and expect the series to run for 10 consecutive years.

So let's get ahead of this right now.

I propose a media-wide blackout of everything Harry Potter related when the first season is released. No tweeting about it, not even to trash it. No posting online about it at all - No Instagram stories or posts, no TikToks, no snaps, no memes on FB, not a word on here, nothing. They will not commit themselves to 10 consecutive years of something if the first season flops. They might attempt a second season, but we can shoot that down, too.

I cannot still be dealing with the hate this woman has for us in 10 years. I cannot still be having this conversation when I'm in my mid-30s. I need her to be dead & forgotten by then, or used as a cautionary tale after her death. We can revive the fandom after she has died, depending what her will stipulates will be done with her bloodmoney. Okay? Is that a good enough compromise for you? You just have to wait for her to die, and not leave her estate & bank account to anti-trans stuff, and then you can get back to loving Potter. Deal?

But in the meantime, we need Warner Bros. to see that they cannot make money from this show. We need them to lose money. We need them to lose enough money that even JKR funding the entire project won't be enough for them to take the risk. Right now, they're saying that JKR's reputation & blatant transphobia have not impacted their ability to find more than enough people to audition for the series. We need them to rethink that. We need them to see that this is not the next Marvel-length franchise to get rich on.

Since I know some of you haven't participated in a media blackout protest before, here's how it'll work:

Don't hype the series / fandom / author / cast up in the lead-up to the series being released. Don't trash it, either. Ignore it. Forget about it. || This means that they won't get good word-of-mouth rates online, which means they will need to really push advertising to get enough people interested.

Don't watch the adverts online. Don't like or comment on the videos, not even with hate or pro-trans stuff. || Engaging with online ads or videos in any way gives them positive data, because it feeds the algorithm & let's them make money from the adverts. We don't want that.

When the series is released, don't watch it. Don't talk about it. Don't tweet about it. Don't post about it. Don't tiktok about it. Don't complain about it. Don't trash it. Pretend it doesn't exist. Ignore it. Forget about it. || They need their launch to earn them money, and even if you're posting about how bad it is, or posting anti-JKR content using the show's hashtags, even if you're watching it in order to know exactly what to complain about & critique, you are still giving them money. They still earn royalties from you watching it, regardless of your intentions. They still get word-of-mouth and clout from you posting about it, even if what you're saying is negative. You know the expression "There's no such thing as bad press"? This is what that refers to. It doesn't matter if you're sharing love or hate for the franchise, because you're still promoting it by saying its name. Also, an overwhelming amount of negative press online can and does lead to other people deciding to watch it to see why everyone is complaining, and arguing about it online, all of which feeds the creators more royalties. We don't want them to earn money from this.

Spread news about other shows & films & franchises & books. Get a fandom which has been dead for 10+ years trending again. Get anime shows & Futurama & ATLA & Adventure Time & Owl House & Over the garden Wall & some really obscure franchises trending across all social media platforms. Get something from the 80s trending in the Top 3 on Twitter. Engage with fandoms you're not even part of. Get BL shows trending in Netflix's Top 5. || This will completely skew analytics online, and it will flood people's dashboards with cmenough content that they won't see promotional content for the series we are blacking out. It will also show spikee data for which genres & shows are more popular & getting more attention & more royalties.

Share media with transgender actors / directors / crew. Share media with LGBTQIA+ storylines. Share pro-trans & pro-LGBTQIA+ content. Share & donate to fundraisers which help Trans & LGBTQIA+ people. Share Trans & LGBTQIA+ history. Show & Share Trans & LGBTQIA+ positivity & love & pride. Do all of this without acknowledging the series or creator we are blacking out. || This will show overwhelmingly positive & inclusive analytics, which will prioritise showing more of the same content. This is what we want the data to show.

Do not give in to temptation to look the show up. Do not look up the cast. Do not look up the directors or producers or executives. Do not look up the soundtrack. Do not put anything remotely related to the series into a search bar of any kind. || Search algorithms still store data, and if enough people look the same stuff up, it will show positive online engagement. We do not want this.

Do not give the actors hate. Do not tag them in hateful content online. Do not abuse them & do not bully them. || This is just unnecessary.

Give the blackout a cool-down period. Continue to ignore it for at least 10 days after the launch. || This forces the show's analytics to fall into negatives. If you suddenly start engaging with something immediately after blacking out the launch, the analytics show a delayed uptake - but it still shows them that people will engage with it, and that they will make money from it. We do not want this.

After the cool down period, mock it. Remember the mocmery that the Velma show got? And you've seen the mockery of the Rachel Zeigler version of Snow White is getting? And how that is impacting the ratings for Songbirds & Snakes because people don't want to watch her, at all, in anything? That is what we need to create on purpose. || If a show gets hate, the creators can use it to feed controversial interest in the show - 'Come watch this to see why people are hating!'. It's as beneficial as positive reviews. They can recover from it. But mockery? Mockery & dismissal is far more difficult to recover from, as it does more damage to their names and reputation. People do not want to be associated with a project which was mocked after it lost them a lot of money. Audiences are also much less likely to engage with a series which has been publicly mocked, compared to hated.

Only mock it for the same amount of time as the cool-down period. || This prevents the series from getting a large spike in analytics.

After this, ignore it. Move on. Talk & post about other stuff. Watch other stuff. || This will result in the show's analytics returning to negatives, and remaining there.

This is a strategy which is proven to work. It has worked for multiple franchises. It is behavioural analytics. It will work for this, but only if we commit to it & get enough people taking part.

All we have to do is:

Do not watch the HBO HP series

Do not post about it online

Ignore it

Do not play, stream or buy any games related to HP

Do not rematch the movies on a streaming service - JKR will still earn royalties from that

Do not post about JKR during the media blackout

Share pro-trans & pro-LGBTQIA+ content & history instead

Support trans creators & actors

Mock the series after the cool down time & then move on

Stick to this method. It WILL work.

And to dispute any attempted justifications for engaging with it:

"But she won't be involved!" || She is listed as an executive producer for the show

"But it's not the actors' fault!" || Actually, it is. The adult actors should know better than to involve themselves with this franchise, and the child actors' parents should know better than to exploit their children's desire to be famous &/ or their love of the series, because the adults should be socially aware enough to know that this franchise will harm their children in the long run.

"But what about my childhood nostalgia!" || What about trans people's human rights & dignity? What about trans children who don't think they'll make it to 18? What about the fact our Prime Minister is selling out transgender rights of his people for Trump? Wht about all of the trans people in the UK who are now facing the possibility of losing more of our rights? What about all of the little trans girls & boys & envies who saw those TERFs celebrating stealing their legal right to identify as their gender, with champagne on national TV? What about trans children who won't be able to go on 100% reversible hormone blockers because JKR funded the vitriol which made them illegal? What about all of the trans women & girls who just lost their legal rights this week? What about our right to legally exist? What about privacy rights and medical & legal autonomy for women & afab people in the UK? What about all the trans people who just watched 21 years of work & progress go down the drain in one afternoon? Are we not worth as much as one of the many memories of your childhood?

Nobody is saying you're not allowed to watch the DVDs or pirate it or read the books or listen to CDs or records of it. Just do not use streaming services for any of it, do not use YouTube, do not talk about it on Twitch & don't post about it online.

We need this franchise to die. We need the producers to see they can't make enough money from this to justify continuing it after the first season. We cannot still be having this argument in the mid 2030s.

We need to get ahead of this right now and stamp the fire out before it kills more trans people.

You understand that buying a Tesla = supporting the Elongated Muskrat & Trump. You understand that buying McDonald's or Starbucks funds Isreal & harms Palestinians. You understand that watching Sandman supports Neil Gaimen. You understand that watching Aquaman funds Amber Herd.

So why is it so hard for you to apply that exact same logic to JKR, when you can see the harm she is causing in real time to real people?

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Their priorities couldn't be clearer.

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So... I got robbed.

Yesterday someone stole my tattooing equipment. My entire livelihood, my ability to earn money, thousands of euros gone in the span of a single night. Not having burglary insurance, I will not be getting any compensation and I am just. Desperate.

I HATE asking for help. But now I am at a point where I really have to beg.

If you want a commission, please, PLEASE give me a chance to earn money so I can buy new equipment. I'll even draw the things from my don't-s list.

Visit my Patreon or ko-fi.

Under the cut are some of the examples of my personal work and commissions I did.

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reblog if you have skilled writer friends and you're damn proud of them

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You've been turned into an animal

Spin the wheel to find out which

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What are actually fun things I should put on a wedding registry we have all the gd plates we need and we’ve run out of ideas

if you can think of anything inexpensive, throw it on there. i'm 31 so all of my friends are getting married and i am so so broke so i'm always thrilled to see something on their registry i can afford. obviously i'm not obligated to get them a gift, but i like to! i think people avoid things that seem too "basic" but a few months ago i got my friends a $12 spatula set off their registry. it was just 2 regular spatulas. i guess they needed spatulas. made me happy and now they have spatulas.

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I am a former artilleryman. There is an annual ball, that artillery regiments hold, called the St Barbara's Day Ball. She is the patron of all artillerymen. Boom.

Christians keep stealing shit from other esoteric traditions when St Barbara is right there.