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But the truth is far more painful than any of these. Sami and his family are living outside this entire cycle. For over two years, they've been under constant bombing, displacement, and death. And the most heartbreaking part? His 7-year-old daughter, Leen, was seriously injured just days ago. Her back is wounded, there's no medicine, no food, and no relief from the pain. Do you think Leen deserves this? Shouldn't she have a chance to heal, to smile again?

Don't leave them alone. Donate now. Your support could open a door to hope.

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"We need more complex female characters!!" You motherfuckers can't even handle Ragatha.

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Urgent Emergency!! 🚨🚨🚨

Eileen and her family have come under attack by Israeli occupation forces (the Israeli army)❗

The occupation forces are currently bombing the area with gas canisters, and it is likely that they will begin shooting or shelling at any moment! 😞💔

The family is trying to escape, but three of its members suffer from physical disabilities. Adam, her 13-year-old son, has a head condition that limits his mobility.

Ala'a, her 20-year-old daughter, is unable to use her leg due to a previous injury caused by an earlier attack by the occupation forces. 💔

As for Eileen herself, she suffers from severe back pain, which makes it very difficult for her to move. 💔

Shaimaa, her 18-year-old daughter, is doing everything she can to help the family escape. 🥹💔

Eileen’s father, , lives with them in the tent.

He is 70 years old and sustained serious injuries during the war ، He has diabetes and was injured in a nearby bombing, which resulted in damage to his chest, shoulder, and right eye. He is in dire need of urgent surgery to regain his sight in it again.

Her mother She lost her life due to lack of treatment and hunger, as she was a cancer patient. May God protect us and you.

The family urgently needs transportation to escape, but it costs around $904 USD.

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[sonofrose]

Nice view.

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"what's Precure about?" you ask. well.

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I doubt that one time was Fate right?

My #1 complaint about depictions of Medusa is that so many of them don't make her look nearly gorgony enough. That is a normal lady who happens to have snake hair; at most she might have green skin. The first time I read a description of Medusa, it said she had wings, talons, tusks, it described her as having scaly skin and a vaguely metallic appearance, and I think I've only seen her actually depicted that way once

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My first language is Spanish, and I'm certified in English and French. Currently learning Swedish, and I know a little German.

✷ i'm curious, what languages do my mutuals know?

tagged by @taintandviolent !!! (love you & your url..)

my native language is mandarin chinese, but i can read, write & speak english, japanese, german (on a mediocre level) and a teensy bit of french.

🔖npt: @american-horror-whore @lisboncy & anyone else who wants to share their bilingual status!!!

[sonofrose]

It's time.

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Was Pomni in the wrong to tell Ragatha to calm down? Yes but I don’t think that was intentional. She does want Ragatha to express herself but I think she was also worried that Ragatha would say something hurtful that she would regret later.

Pomni does want to help people, but she isn’t a therapist. She can listen to the struggles that her friends are going through but all that can’t be placed on her alone. It’s why she let Gummi Goo come to his own conclusion, let’s Gangle go home early so she can close. She does help, but she lets the rest be up to them.

And that’s what Ragatha needed, not to explode but figure out a way to express herself negative emotions in a healthy way. (Dear god don’t let me get jumped for this.)

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gentle parenting americans into googling the capital of mongolia

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Looking good.

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This is an urgent call from Gaza 💔🙏🙏‼️‼️

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By the way, my #1 tip when it comes to worldbuilding is - all the worldbuilding guides out there are useful but you (generally, there's exceptions) shouldn't use them as a step-by-step guide for building a fictional world. instead, if you've got a starting idea for your story's setting - anything from "tidally locked planet" to "a small outpost in a post-apocalypse world" to "cosmopolitan thalassocratic city-state" to "outpost that's just discovered deposits of a precious mineral nearby" - find the bits of those worldbuilding guide most directly relevant to that, see what advice they have, then look at the other sections that those bits reference or relate to

Oh, you want your hero's home town to be sitting on top of a deposit of Rare Mineral X? Well according to this guide's section on minerals, those deposits, at a depth accessible with the tech in your setting, tend to be the result of Geological Process A, so let's have a look through the sections on tectonics and erosion to figure out what the local geography might look like. Okay, now that we've got that figured out, let's jump over to the section on climates and see what the weather patterns and biota in this area might be like - you'll probably end up with a few options, depending on latitude and wind patterns, so pick the one that works best for what you've got planned (maybe have a quick look at the human - or sapient - geography section to see how each climate type might affect things like trade or population density and distribution, if that'd have an impact on which climate type you go with) and hey, now you've got some ideas about the surrounding areas of this world too! Maybe your character could go there at some point? Well, why - by choice, or due to outside forces, and in either case, what's the reason? Maybe it's something about those other places? Take another look at the resources and human geography sections of the worldbuilding guide and see if you can come up with anything

This approach - jumping around instead of following a worldbuilding guide linearly - means that your worldbuilding is focused on your idea for the setting. If you're building a world to set a story in, that's useful because it centers the story in your creative process. If you're doing worldbuilding for its own sake, this approach is still useful because you're starting with your idea and building a world that supports it instead of the other way around

If your goal is "build a world from scratch, see where it ends up" with maybe a caveat like "I want it to be habitable", that's when the step-by-step approach is best

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How would you say the anime compares with the manga? Not counting Super, just the original and Z (...maybe GT).

weird question. how do you feel about toriyama's art, and the use of his art style?

Artistically, if people take anything away from Toriyama's work, I want it to be his talent for conveying action through still panels.

I've read plenty of comics and manga where the action is honestly pretty hard to make sense of. Like taking still images of one of those jumpy thousand-cuts-per-minute modern Hollywood action scenes where the images are taken like fifteen seconds apart and there's no real sense of how anyone got to anywhere or where that punch is supposed to land.

By contrast, reading Dragon Ball is like watching an actual martial arts film. Toriyama's panel work was a big part of what made him such a great mangaka. It's very easy to follow Toriyama's action from panel to panel; To read the visual language of the fight.

Look how smooth that is. People don't think of Dragon Ball fights as clear, concise affairs where every punch has weight and every move counts. But that's exactly what the manga is. This was Toriyama's greatest asset as an artist.

Look at how the panels follow Frieza's right leg. He's stepping forward with his right leg. His right leg is in front of Goku's face. His right leg kicks Goku into the air. Then he sweeps with his right leg. And then the right leg connects.

That whole sequence follows Frieza's leg. It's what is going to be used to hit Goku and so the action tracks it from panel to panel. You always know where Frieza's right leg is.

And it's why the whole "Characters designed by Toriyama" thing never really meant as much as it was hyped to be. It doesn't matter if he drew a guy's hair Goku-style. What matters is this. When the fists start flying, is it going to be his action?

Or is it going to be something like this?

Did Goku push Vegeta? Did he shoot him? Because he was like ten feet away from the fighting when that maneuver was completed. And then he definitely took that hit to the back of the neck but I guess he was just playing pretend?

Did Son Goku just fake a knockout so he could land a cheap-shot sucker-punch on an adversary?

(This same fight also had Goku defeat Granolah's knack for targeting someone's vitals by suddenly being able to reposition all of his organs somehow, incidentally.)

11 pages of pure action just to convey that Goku and Moro are equally matched. By the end of this, the fight hasn't actually moved in any way.

Goku and Moro chitchat with each other across a beam struggle?

Just so Goku can brag that Toyotaro knows what the Zanzoken/Afterimage is.

By contrast, Toriyama's Beam Struggles look like this.

Intense, strenuous affairs which are clearly and visibly taking a toll on both participants, in which one party ultimately and significantly prevails over the other.

In Goku and Moro's struggle, neither of them really seems to be trying very hard. Goku and Moro are able to water-cooler chat across the beam somehow and then they both just stop caring and leave. It was a Continuity Moment so Goku could call out the Zanzoken but ultimately Goku's Kamehameha achieves nothing and the fight just carries on like it never happened.

Also there's a point where Moro telekinetically yanks Goku down out of the air and then, on the next page, Moro telekinetically yanks Goku down out of the air again. What's that about?

The double-punch panel to show that they're evenly matched is... I have no idea where Moro got the strength to suddenly do that when last we saw was him recoiling from being hit over and over? Moro suddenly gains Super Armor between pages so he can be back in control of a situation where they were not evenly matched and he was clearly on the back foot.

The art is really good and, visually, Toyotaro has a good bead on what these characters should look like. But not what they should move like. It's not Toriyama's action, and you can feel that difference.

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Unfortunately for Nader and his family, these futures have been taken from Gaza. Bullets fly all around them, and the occupation uses aid as a weapon while children starve. My friend Nader @abdalsalam2000 needs our support now to save his family and survive. His campaign is #4 on the gazavetters list, and the need is urgent! If you cannot donate, PLEASE share! https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-nader-alanqar-and-his-family-overcome-this-war-in-gaza

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I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like