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This election day, I'm thinking of my Nana.
I'm thinking of how as a young woman, she fled political violence in her native Colombia to build a new home in a more stable country. I'm thinking about how she lived a long life, but not long enough to see her home country elect its first ever progressive president (just a few months ago!).
Coincidentally, I was living in Colombia at that time (in the very city she grew up in), and I was able to witness what felt like a miracle. A very conservative country, suffering from the violent inheritance of colonization and catholic invasion and the war on drugs, against a backdrop of the dangerous global rise of the far right--this unlikely country managed to elect one of the most progressive heads of state in the world, in 2022. That's a pretty big deal.
And I'm thinking about this, this election day, because that election was won by a very thin margin. I'm thinking about how it almost didn't happen. I'm thinking about how it was only possible thanks to the highest voter turnout in 20 year. And I am thinking about the countless number of voters who chose to vote for the first time. I am thinking of the poorest and most disenfranchised citizens who showed up at the polls. I am thinking of the indigenous women who rode 12 hours on public buses to vote at the 'nearest' polling stations. I am thinking of all the money and corruption that went into preventing minority citizens from voting, and I'm thinking about how they showed up in the millions and voted anyway.
I am thinking that I would like to see a miracle like that in my own home country.
So if you're on the fence about waiting in line today to cast your vote, I hope that you will think--about the country you want to live in, the future you hope will unfold, and about all of the people it takes to make a miracle.
Because history may deem us nameless and faceless, but when we show up en masse, we are the ones who make history happen.
And yes, maybe also spare a thought for my Nana. Who was in fact a very angry and judgemental woman who supported the republican party for 50+ years, and who would be turning in her grave right now (if the family hadn't had her cremated). Think about the mean angry ghost of my Colombian grandmother, who very much wants you to not show up at the polls to support abortion and other sinful progressive values. Think about her. Do it for her. Do it for Nana.
#Do it! for her#not a shitpost#serious post#politics#ask to tag#I love you Nana but i disagree SO vehemently with almost all of your personal political and religious values#also you should have treated my mom SO MUCH BETTER when she was a kid. all of your kids really#i see you very much as a victim of religious trauma & childhood poverty#followed by the cultural isolation of being a first generation immigrant with no local hispanic community to provide support#plus the failure of late 20th century mental health care almost certainly compounded by medical sexism#recognize sympathize and am indignant on your behalf for all of those reasons and more#but that truth can also coexist alongside the truth that#hot DAMN Nana you and Papa very much failed to provide your children with an emotionally safe and stable environment in which to grow#and me and my sibs are still dealing with the generational trauma#and who knows how many of my cousins. I HAVE TWENTY-ONE COUSINS AND I DON'T TALK TO ANY OF THEM#that is too many cousins to not be in contact with any of them#(and fyi that's on *one* side of the family. on the other side are a dozen half-aunts-and-cousins I've never met#because Other Grandpa was a Certified Piece of Shit)#Anyway. ANYWAY...#apparently i really needed to overshare today. know what? no judgement. judgement free zone#i have no judgement thoughts or opinions i am finally FREE#........gosh that sounds so relaxing#ANYway#yeah. break the cycle of abuse or your descendants will grow up and critique your parenting choices on third-tier social media platforms#when people say 'they will always be remembered' at a funeral--that is a THREAT#what they actually mean is 'OH HONEYBUN YOU DONE FUCKED UP'#.........i want that in my eulogy actually
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WHO WAS GOING TO TELL ME THAT MY HERO ACADEMIA IS FUCKING FANTASTIC. WHO WAS GOING TO TELL ME.
#starting season 7 later today will let you know how it goes#so so sad it’s not all the way out yet can’t wait to suffer when I realize that I need to wait for more eps#this is my entrance into the fandom hi hello#mha#my hero academia#if anyone could kindly point me to fandom spaces for mha on here that aren’t x reader that would be kindly appreciated#no hate but it’s not my cup of tea and I’m struggling to find anything else#anyways big three polycule and aizawa/present mic and kiribaku for life#though I am a multishipper for life and bakudeku also owns my heart#kirishima is my fav character though I have to have SOMETHING okay#anyways no spoilers ty for ur consideration#shitpost
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I got blocked by someone because my longlegs is not freaky enough 😞💔
#i need to make him more perverted and not post anything goofy about him ig#even though his character is goofy af#i love him being a little creep and i think ive proved that#but that being said. i am also a little creep and i want to do things to that man#you cannot look me in the eye and tell me Dale wouldnt go buck wild from someone giving him attention.#you can have that and still make him a weirdo#why block me we could have a discussion pookie 😔💔#no really its my fault for shitposting about him. it was the angels food cake post. you can be honest
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Mani voice Collect My Pages
ELABORATE. ELABORATE FUCKING SHITPOST. That I simultaneously put WAY too much effort/thought into, while just. Giving up and half-assing it near the end LMFAOO
This was. An extremely funny characterization realization moment for me though, writing something else w Mani. The thought of, "Wait why the fuck does it have the same exact cadence of the Green M&M post???"
Anyways I absolutely cheated by editing this LMFAOO I'll put the typically edited version under cut! (For lighting/color correcting ect ect) Also a link to the post I'm reffing!
#okay. so minimal maintags. bc i am in some deep shit and mani is here. BUT. BUT. EXCITED ABOUT THIS#if i wasn't sticking to warm pallets for this thematically. i really wish the chaise was green... a deep green....#BUT. do you see what i was attempting here.... how much alfonse sticks out. ect ect.#i was split between coloring in the skin or making it extra monochrome. and tbh i do think maybe i overworked it....#esp for what i was aiming to do here.... some sort of sepia shit.... but that is also SO. SO OUTSIDE OF WHAT I USUALLY DO. IN GENERAL.#i FEEL like... maybe i'm onto something esp bc i think it would be cool to have that visual distinction#but i also don't know how strictly i'll follow that. i would need to refine it a lot too i think.#also if you wanna. get extra extra lore about it. beyond just the Theming and what that says about mani as a character#i was thinking of my mom's house too. she loves antiques. not dolls but like. she's very into the style/furniture.#the dolls are more my thing. the mannequin as well. i'm not a collector per se but it's about the Lore here#esp w moe's sewing hobby.#like... do you SEE. how everything is lining up. how it's all coming together. in. a fucking green m&m shitpost.#anways last bit of daylight i'm forcing myself to go outside. for at least an hour.#THE ABSOLUTE STATE. OF SHUT IN I AM.#mani tag#fe alfonse#summoner oc#kind of.#my art#my comics#suicidal imagery
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#i’m bored i just wanna see how many words i can put in the tags like will it just keep going on forever or will they stop me like i know th#the tag limit is 30 ok so the iindividual tag limit is 140 characters that’s actually so rude i wanted to keep going forever and see how lo#g this could be but i guess we can do this 30 times ok what the flip should i talk about hm i was playing the guitar today but i rage quit#ause the song was hard and hurting my fingers! ermmmmm it was sunny ok this is boring let’s think of more exciting things to type hmmm acco#ding to all known laws of aviation- jk i’m not doing the bee movie script but can you imagine i think that would be funny hmmmmm words i lo#e podcasts so bad that’s a fact no one has ever know before my blog definitely isn’t all about audio dramas the people are definitely not a#ready aware of this jesus christ this is only the seventh one of these this is actually quite a lot of space i underestimated how much i ha#e to type btw there’s probably spelling mistakes in here somewhere or autocorrect has been annoying but i cba to retype anything so i don’t#care lolllllllllllll how do you feel about oscar malevolent i feel a normal amount actually (lie) yk what i really miss sam and colin alrea#y like i’m actually not okay i really hope we hear from sam again in s2 and also colin ngl i hope ur in the computers soz or not dead miss#im like a bastard my paranoid it king ok erm im running out of things to say um heartstopper s3 was crazy good i cried lmao i love gay peop#e so much it’s crazy i hope it gets renewed for s4 i need to reread the comics lowkey and the books they’re all so talented for being so yo#ng it scares me ngl !!!!!! the tmagp hiatus is getting to me slightly like february in reality is soon and not that far away for how podcas#ts go but seriously how am i supposed to live until then without knowing what happened. please colin be alive. ive only just realised i can#use fills stops. sorry that’s made everything a bit messy. i should’ve been doing this before. whoops. anyways. hi mutuals i love you all s#much i hope you enjoy my rambles and shitposts cause i enjoy yours very much! never think you’re being annoying i literally don’t care be a#annoying as you want posts as much as you want i am ur biggest fan <3 im getting a bit fatigued from typing like my mind is blank basically#now it’s just turned into a. stream of consciousness but i don’t really have any thoughts to put here idk if we’re halfway ermmmm omg it’s#lmost halloween how crazy is that time is flying by i kinda forgot it was october lmao. it’s wild how it’s basically almost christmas. like#what. that’s illegal. how is it wintertime again. what the flip. i miss summer already take me backkkkkkk. i hope my phone doesn’t crash or#smth cause i’ve not saved this as a draft and i cba to do any of this again. maybe i should save it. ok i will when i reach the next tag bc#ok it stopped me but i’ve saved it and holy jesus it’s a lot of text im just sat here giggling there’s really no point to any of this other#than me being bored sooooooooooooooooo (imagine if i just did the letter o for every character wouldn’t that be crazy) so wait there’s 140#haracters and 30 tags so what’s 30 x 140. someone hurry. i haven’t done maths lessons in two and a half years i’ve forgotten everything wai#let me get the calculator app ok im back it said 4100 characters so. i dont know how many words that roughly is but its. a decent amount. o#what the flip why am i wasting tag space with maths. i hate maths. my screen time has been actually soooooooooo bad recently like damn some#one put my phone in a block of ice please joshua gillespie style. my mind is running out of things to say. do i talk about myself. im james#im 18 which is weird cause wdym im an adult go away. ive run out of facts. i love podcasts and procedural dramas that stupid firefighter sh#w is my life unfortunately. i think chappell roan should be the queen of england instead of king charles. i dont like having a king cause#ho needs men in power not me. ok um this is the last tag equal rights for all. yolo. the time will pass anyways! thank u boredom ok bye gn:
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how i feel about TBYS causing a shockwave effect of everyone dogpiling on and harassing Illymation and spreading extremely easily disprovable and malicious misinformation about her and putting her in a lot of danger for literally no legitimate reason
#big rant in the tags incoming hold on to your hats:#i swear drama commentary youtubers are actually some of the most dense people on the fucking planet#like holy SHIT i have never seen a bigger display of collective stupidity than every drama commentary grifter harping on illy based on shit#-she didn't even say that they heard from a guy who sounds like budget ben shapiro. how are you that dense. like how. actually how.#it's just a big stupid game of idiot telephone with how much basic shit people are getting wrong because they heard it whispered from-#-another person. istg if i have to see ONE more person say that ''oh but she's encouraging obesity'' ''oh but she said [thing she literally#-didn't say]!!!'' im going to SCREAM. i am going to throw my phone against the wall if i see one more malicious misinterpretation of a-#-basic statement that even a fucking doorknob could understand with more grace and nuance than these idiots#i swear to god this is all so STUPID#drama commentary youtube is where basic reading comprehension and common sense go to die. it is the 10th circle of internet hell-#-just below 4chan.#anyway rant over glad i got that out of my system.#i hope illy is doing well and that she and her partner and her cats are safe <3#sorry for being so angry. this whole situation literally makes my blood boil and i'm so upset that an innocent person got put in danger-#-because of some nerd emoji sounding wackass blatantly lying about her and being a dickhead#this is the first and last post i'll ever make about internet drama (unless something really REALLY funny happens) i just needed an outlet-#-to scream into for a few minutes#drama commentary youtubers delete their entire channels and leave the internet right now challenge#shitpost#youtube drama
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When the cute little waitress disappears from Pauli's Diner, don't be surprised if you hear odd sounds coming from the sewers...
#!shitposting#🌈 || musings#Hello I am alive but at what cost#Actually not feeling too bad and started getting vibes back for Khare again#I showed this to Holly once and she mentioned the bass is unreal#So if you have sound up do be careful because I can't gauge how it would be#But yeah when Khare mutates the sounds she makes are... unnerving#Because if she knows people are around she'll fucking talk to encourage them to come closer#Because what Gotham needs are more monsters and nightmare fuel honestly#Ugh sorry for youtube ads
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the absolute peak of game writing was as follows:
"The president has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?"
#i had a longer post about various trends in video game and tabletop writing#but then i deleted it bc i realized this is the core point lol#you may not need elaborate cutscenes or wordy exposition maybe you just need: ninjas. bad dude#in other news i am starting to get OBSESSED in my star fox 64 replay journey so uhhh expect shitposts on that front#i STILL cannot beat the area 6 boss but god i am having the BEST time#this level design is such absolute 🔥#so much tension and variety with such simple controls. GOD#(also i should try more rail shooters in general. always heard panzer dragoon was great maybe i'll emulate it)
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Hot take: the Ben 10 fandom and the NSR fandom are pretty much complete inverses of each other when it comes to what kinds of characters they simp for.
Ben 10 has tons of sexy aliens to the point of literally featuring an entire species of buff leotard-wearing cephalopod people that you think would attract alienfuckers by the dozen, but like 80% of the fandom simps for the basic white boy and white girl.
NSR has an entire boy band of conventionally attractive anime boy robots who outright flirt with the female playable character, but like 80% of the fandom simps for the DILF cyborg war veteran with a screen for a head and the space-themed forty-something DJ with a bowling ball for a head.
The NSR fandom said 'those old men can GET IT' and fucking ran with it so hard that it's the most written about romantic relationship (going by ao3 stats) by almost 50 give or take if you're reading with an account or not- honestly? 'Round of applause, y'all really meant it, those old men CAN get it!
But I suppose it might be helped due to the more 'boss rush' style presentation of NSR, being a game centered mostly around who you fight rather than who you fight as. More time is proportionally spent in the media (game in this case) actually focusing on characters like DJ Subatomic Supernova - representation of the self-centered DJ - and Neon J - representation of boybands and specifically as the manager - and getting a comparably significant amount of focus; space themed object head has an ego so dense it LITERALLY causes a singularity (and causes spaghettification) and war veteran cyborg ordering around troops with protocols.
With Ben 10 god I fucking wished more people simped for Tetrax, bestie is just such a cool fucking character let alone how he was introduced and thus executed, but as a show with MANY iterations we kinda need to have a central cast (that gets narrowed down eventually into a central character). Whoever wears the Omnitrix - the one main driving force of the series - is essentially forever a main character, and that character just so happens to be Ben Tennyson after one alien device did what it did.
Despite it's main focus BEING the aliens that Ben turns into - in addition to being a universe with an active alien presence - it never particularly set out to be more than anything other than a sci-fi alien flavoured action story, centered around a human boy (who probably gets his egg completely shattered only to crack an entire coop of eggs in the aftershock) walking only a few steps in other species' shoes. It was only rather late that the actual extraterrestrial exploration of the series really came around, at least in full force (SoTO my beloved 😫). Kinda hard for EVERYONE to simp for your favourite side character when you've got like... seasons worth of a mostly human main cast, lmao-
#ask#anonymous#no straight roads#nsr#ben 10#i like babygirling old men because it seems like i'm investing (even if it's less my own relationships and more my own reflection)#(not that i can aspire to have the reflections of djss or neon j but like goals am i right?)#i am most certainly an example of the 20% of ben 10 fans to rotate like a microwave side characters#i mean for crying out loud i ship the andromeda 5 and that's 5 whole different alien species lmao#probably also a difference in audiences too lmao ben 10's been here for a WHILE and nsr's only been like 3 years?#i don't hear many kids talk about nsr (like kid kids- which on tumblr may also just be a narrow perspective)#not sure how a kid might access nsr without a parent going 'oh this game looks nice' and getting it for them#while ben 10 was throughout it's runs very much a kid's show#ya it had things an adult could enjoy but predominantly it ran on tv back in the day- easy access media for a kid#you can grow up with ben 10- nsr is nsr and came out in 2020 and isn't the type to need or warrant a sequel#idk why this answer became a study on media and audiences lmao this was probably meant to be a shitpost#and by probably i mean pretty much guaranteed i'm just not committing to absolutes in the off-chance i'm wrong lmao#have a ramble: on the house
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I just want you to know that I so deeply cherish all your untamed and murderbot (and raksura) thoughts that I started reading ORV just so I can get MORE of your fandom thoughts. I wanna be able to understand your new posts!!
this is so sweet 😭 thank you i'm flattered!! there are some really fabulous posts in this fandom, so i'm excited for you to experience them! my own posts are fairly shallow because i haven't done a reread and the story is so long i already can't remember most of it haha, but the fandom seems pretty active on here so it's gonna be a while before i run out of other people's fanart and meta to reblog. standard disclaimer that you read orv at your own risk and i will not be held responsible for any feelings you may or may not experience in the course thereof. godspeed <3
#wow what an incredibly lovely thing to say thank you 😭😭😭#i do think it's funny how i almost never rec anything‚ i just say unhinged shit & people go okay i need to know what that means.#i don't know that i personally would actually recommend orv to people. my own experience reading it was kind of weird#and i did not have the like. spiritual breakthrough that other people seem to have had#i would recommend that if you are going to read it...take your time with it if possible !#i was so impatient to start reading meta that i sprinted through a book that's more of a marathon than a sprint#which was utterly exhausting as you might imagine#and idk manage your expectations i guess bc i went in with expectations that were basically impossible to fulfill#just based on the way other people talk about it#i am either too mentally ill not mentally ill enough or the wrong kind of mentally ill to be affected by this story in the way that#other people seem to have been#still really liked the story! just don't have a new lease on life or whatever lol. which is fine! my current lease hasn't expired!#anyway i would love for you to have context for my shitpost on lee jihye's theory on the joongdok lovechild. if nothing else.#it's my chef d'œuvre#asks#not anon#NICE SHIT#orv#new affirmation to say to myself in the mirror every morning: YOUR THOUGHTS ARE DEEPLY CHERISHED
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for just £1 a day you can save oliver from his friend group
#my video lol#talkloid#oliver vocaloid#vocaloid oliver#fukase#vocaloid fukase#fukase vocaloid#len kagamine#kagamine len#vocaloid len#utatane piko#piko vocaloid#vocaloid piko#shitpost#im in drawing tablet withdrawl rn SKJDHGK i have to ask for it back#drew + edited this on mobile so that was testing some things out. i realize now i didnt add captions but i think you can understand what#theyre saying... and yeah the art was a little rushed and its a bit inconsistent but this is a 6 second video who's really paying attention.#inspired by a conversation i had with a friend 😂#i do wanna work on things w/ more effort put into em but 1) i need my tablet back and 2) i need time that i dont hAVE AURGH#literally if i cant talk to someone abt vocaloid i will explode i am that bad rn i have so many thoughts in my head
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The weirdest fuckjng thing about this site is that you see a blog that you’ve adored and fangirled over make a post like omg thanks for 800 followers!!! And then you realize that your clown blog having ass has 1.7k
#LIKE WHATTTTTT#WHYDO I HAVE MORE THAN YOU#who decided on that that’s not right#you need to be a billionaire for your blorbo posting not me#I am but a simple shitposter
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hi there!! I just looked throuhg your blog and wanted to let you know I think you're pretty cool, so hi!!
aaaaaAAA crying sobbing screaming shouting THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! i'm very glad you enjoy all of the silliness here, that means a lot whole lot to me 🥹 i really just scream into the void here about alan price in a slightly more informal way than i do on my instagram (which isn't saying much, as i'm very silly there as well), bUT i'm still so so so glad you had a good time!! YOU'RE SUPER COOL TOO AAAAA!!!! 🙏✨️
#this blog is a bastion of migraine ramblings and nearly three years of my eternal hyperfixation on the animals. i love it. 😔🙏#tumblr is still my absolute favorite space to scream it's soooooo well-equipped and formatted for screaming#cameos from other classic rock friends are also present here 🙏 I AM GLAD THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD PICTURES OF CLIVE POWELL ON THIS WEBSITE#i need to post more of my videos/edits/shitposts of the animals here that i've posted elsewhere 🙏 I AM SO PRONE TO FORGETTING#aNYWAY!!! thank you for witnessing so many an animal-rambling here#VERY MUCH APPRECIATED AAAA YOU'RE AWESOME!!!!!!!#the way i could ramble on and on and on about them despite all i've written already......... mental illinois for real and i am proud#HAVE A LOVELY DAY TUMBLR USER COCO-DOLENZ. I LIKE YOUR USERNAME.#one day i will tell the internet about when i met mickey dolenz.... twice 🙏#asks#coco-dolenz#THANK YOU!!!!!!
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Kamen Rider Geats episode 36 poorly summarized via memes with as little context as possible:
#kamen rider geats poorly summarized#kamen rider geats#kamen rider geats ep 36#damn this episode had everything#punkjack hotpot keiwa not being the comic relief jyamato funeral#neon needs to get a better dream#more importantly a therapist but girl#YOU dont even want your wish#thats why you dont care if Sara wins or not#also we ever gonna address what was written on her desire card or is she gonna get killed too fast#was so convinced they were gonna have buffa crush her ID core to save her#that whole fight with buffa and geats in the quarry was them just being extra as all hell#honestly? good for them#also thought for a solid sec Geats was gonna double cross Buffa and or knew that he was gonna die in that attack with the jyamato#they cut the sound and everything guys#i am not immune to paranoia#especially not in a deathgame - i have learned from danganronpa ty very much#anyways that's kekera's ao3 search history#most effort ive put into this shitpost series#the dolls are for tycoon reveal#the death comment for daichi#man's gonna be a jyamato ig#daichi stands stay ... winning?#idk who wants this but good for you#anyways tune in next week to see which bitch gets yeeted off the island
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Realizing. I don't make art to make something Beautiful and Breathtaking or even just kinda cool composition wise, no. I have some sort of affliction. I have to find a way to make this incredibly time-consuming endeavor as speedy as possible for the Sole Purpose of Putting Guys in Situations. That is my true calling. There's Guys in my brain and I just need to Get Them OUT‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ And go go go gogogogogo go GOOOO GO NEXT THING NEXT THING I GOTTA. THE. SITUATIONS ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ It's SO important to me..... One Billion Stories........... Infinite Amount of Situations....... featuring. My guiys.........
#i think. the affliction. i think they call it autism.#but also like it is so important to me actually that i am constantly Doing something.#idk idk it's all relative and i bet if you asked someone who does beautiful illusts all the time they could say the same sentiment i am#but like. obvs i do have to take my time w some things. esp larger projects. esp projects that are more intentional.#but it's sooooo important to me that i feel like i'm constantly moving AND. AND. constantly telling A Story.#I DON'T. WANNA SOUND PRETENTIOUS OR PICK ME I SWEAR I'M JUST SPEAKING FROM YHE HEART#and kind of airing out my frustrations and going ohhhhh. that's why. i'm Like That.#but for real i think i am just some sort of cartoonist at heart...... i'm extremely character-driven#and it's important to me. that even when i'm shitposting. it's important that there's little tidbits of storytelling#and also i just. need to make the process as quick as possible. again. i NEED to KEEP MOVING#THIS WAS. SLIGHTLY MORE ARTICULATE. IN MY HEAD. but i'm just running in circles i think#still. worth saying. i just Gotta. all of yhe time.
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we should all appreciate this icon of damian holding mushrooms
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