#I'm just scared

[doppelnatur]

i love this city so much I don't wanna leave i don't wanna leave I'm so scared i just. Aaaaaghhh.

[agentark]

I was tagged by @writer-ish to create my detective/oc with this meiker and then give her a poisonous flower by taking this quiz!

This was so fun, thank you for tagging me! Tagging: viewers like you 🫵

Here's an off duty, farmers' market visiting Rose, side eyeing Nate (affectionately) because he keeps asking if she needs water, or needs to reapply sunscreen, or if she needs help carrying her bags. She sends him on a mission to go get lemonade.

Rose Beckham - Lily of the Valley

This is the poison of giving too much. You feel yourself emptying out, dizzying, discoloring-- until you fear you will fade entirely and wither away. You have always had to give. You never had a choice before. They pluck your flowers for their beauty, they trample your leaves carelessly, they pull out your roots by the fistful and berate you for daring to grow. And now that you have a grove to spread out in, your rhizomes tangle and curl in on themselves. When cruelty is all you've ever known, thriving seems impossible. But the answer is not to make yourself small and offer every lovely thing you are to the world in the hopes it will have mercy on you. The answer is to let yourself dare to thrive for thriving's sake, to grow in the wild ways you wish to-- and to do that for yourself for once.

[hyperfixation-tangentopia]

HALF BROTHER'S COMING HALF BROTHER'S COMING HALF BROTHER'S COMING HELP

[hxzxrdous]

You poor thing, sweet bluebell. Do you need some Mama cuddles?

-xxx🧶

Yes, please 😭😭😭😭

Gotta clean the dishes and hang the clothes first and then I'll come running to you.

Grrr, I am obsessed with Dumbo gifs, I'm so Dumbo coded. He's so baby. 😭

[friendly-jester]

Oliver has a really bad sore and I have no idea where it came from and it's worrying me so bad. I've barely left his side. He seems fine but it looks so bad. Gonna take him to the vet later this afternoon but until then I'm not letting him leave my sight.

[sschmendrick]

Just going to express a thought, it might be wrong and flawed.

Sometimes it feels like growing up as a queer online person, because that is literally the only place where I saw anything queer on, kinda fucked up my queer "skills". The internet is where I learned about the queer terms and labels and stuff, so it's where I get all my information from. To me, growing up there was no place to go to learn about that, especially not my family. The problem is, the internet is very...policing ? Like there is not much leniency for people who don't know much or make mistakes. Maybe it's aggrevated by other factors in myself but it ends up creating this weird feeling of : I don't know much about my community because asking questions and having opinions and being wrong calls for punishment on the internet, but the internet is also like the only place I feel like I can find people like me.

I don't know how to say it well but;

I wish I could have a "real life" queer community around me, but I'm scared to talk to them (clubs and stuff) because being on the internet has made me question myself, first by demonizing having an expressive queer identity, and second by being passive aggressive about not knowing queer stuff.

By having my queer community on the internet I feel really isolated and alienated from the general queer community and like I'm missing so many core queer experiences, so much so, for exemlpe, that all the queer subtext in art is lost on me. I feel lost and scared to reach out.

I've been thinking about going to pride parade in my city for years now but I'm so scared and I don't know what to say because what if I say something wrong, and in the end I just don't go because they feel foreign to me even though we are all queer.

Honestly it's scary. People far more isolated than me have a better sense of community than me meanwhile I have the best inter continental mean of communication.

[pigidin]

can u hear me sobbing rn ?

[louisdelac]

these bells are fucking jumpscaring me, my touchpad game is too eratic to have what's essentially an alarm system at the top of my screen. it's like playing operation all over again.

[ravenwitch45]

Have any of you guys ever just had an interaction end off on a worrisome note with an online friend and then they just don't log on for several days and you work yourself to the point of just being terrified that somethings wrong to the point of crying multiple times?

[cunked]

i really want to journal but i am afraid

[yournameoverandover]

ig live is so annoying because i literally need my computer to talk about surprise song o clock

[gayboyadvance]

why's it gotta be so scary sometimes to be a lesbian. why can't my girlfriend & i just be

[rubydubydoo122]

I saw someone say a while ago that Jason attacking Tim at Titans Tower was just Tim hallucinating bc he was feeling guilty about being Robin even though Jason's not dead. Which is great, amazing, I think the whole Titans Tower thing is Bonkers, but I think it would be so much funnier if Jason tried to Gaslight Tim into believing the Titans Tower incident never happened, not because he's like evil, he's just super embarassed about it. like Or Tim did actually hallucinate Jason at TT but thinks it was real, so when he tells Jason about it, Jason's so fucking confused, and Tim thinks Jason's Gaslighting him

Tim: Remember that time when you broke into Titans Tower and beat me half to death while wearing a Robin costume from party city

Jason: What? Tim, I know i'm crazy, but I'm not...Insane.

Tim, pulling down his collar: I literally have the scar to prove it

Jason: Bruce told me that was from Clayface pretending to be me, which, might I just say rude. Tim... are you ok? Did you hallucinate me attacking you? like, I know I've done that before, but...

Tim, frowning: I don't think I hallucinating. I was benched for a while after because I had to recover-

Jason: well, you were benched around the time I was dropping hints that I knew who Bruce was outside of Batman, he probably just benched you to keep you safe. You probably were working too many cases with too little sleep and your imagination started to run wild.

Tim: Are you gaslighting me?

Jason: Are you gaslighting me?

[kittyprincessofcats]

ICJ Ruling

Okay, let's get into this.

First of all, I get the frustration at the court not ordering a ceasefire. I was disappointed and frustrated at first too, since a ceasefire was the biggest and most important preliminary measure South Africa was requesting - and of course we just all want this horror to finally end for the people in Gaza. So I get the frustration and disappointment, I really do.

However, I do think this ruling is still a major win for South Africa, Palestine, and international law as a whole and here's why:

The court acknowledged that it has jurisdiction over this case and completely dismissed Israel's request to throw out the case as a whole. It will now determine at the merits stage (that will probably take years) whether Israel is actually commiting genocide.

The court acknowledged that Palestinians are a "distinct national or ethnic group and therefore deserving of protection under the genocide convention". Pull this out next time someone tells you "there's no such thing as Palestinians, they're all just Arabs".

The court acknowledged very unambiguously that "at least some" of Israel's actions being genocidal in nature is "plausible". South Africa has a case, officially. Israel is accused of genocide, in a way the ICJ deems "plausible", officially. This is huge. (And seriously, how freaking satisfying was it to hear all of those genocidal statements by Israeli politicians read out loud and used as justification for this rulling?)

The court might not have ordered a "ceasefire" in those words, but they did order Israel to "immediately end all genocidal acts" (which includes killing and injuring Palestinians) and submit proof that they actually did. How are they going to comply with this ruling without at least severly reducing or changing what they're doing in Gaza?

In fact, this wording might actually be more appropriate for a genocide (vs a war), as author and journalist Ali Abunimah notes on Twitter:

He's completely right. Israel lost today, by overwhelming majority (I mean, 15 to 2? I heard people predict the rulings would be very close, like 9 judges vs 8, but instead we got 15 to 2 (and even 16 to 1 on the humanitarian aid). Holy shit.) The court disimissed almost everything Israel's side of lawyers said, while acknowledging that South Africa's accusations are "plausible".

And this is important especially because of Mr Abunimah's second tweet there^. Because the question is, where do we go from here?

This ruling means that Israel is officially /possibly/ commiting genocide and that should have huge international consequences. The rest of the world now HAS to take these accusations seriously and stop arming and supporting Israel - and if they won't do it on their own, we, the people, have to make them. This is THE moment to rise up all around the world, especially in the countries most supportive of Israel (the US, the UK, Germany): Protest, call your representatives and demand a ceasefire and an end of arms deliveries to Israel.

We now have a legal case to back our demands: If Israel is, according to the ICJ, "plausibly" commiting genocide, then all of our governments are, according to the ICJ, "plausibly" guiltly of aiding in genocide. And we need to hold that over their heads and demand better. We need to do that right now and in huge numbers. Most politicians only care about themselves and saving their skin. We have to make them realize that they could be accused of aiding in genocide.

(As a German, I'm thinking of Germany here in particular: After South Africa's hearing, our government dismissed their case as having "no basis" - how are they going to keep saying that now that the ICJ officially thinks otherwise? Over the last months, people here have been arrested at protests for calling what's happening in Gaza a genocide. How are the police supposed to legally keep doing that now that the ICJ has officially deemed this accusation "plausible"? I used to be scared to use the word "genocide" at protests or write it on my protest signs - not anymore, have fun trying to arrest me for that when the ICJ literally has my back on this one 🖕🏻.)

So yeah - don't be defeatist about this, don't let Israel's narrative that they "won" (they didn't) take over. This might not be everything we wanted, but it's still a good result. Don't let what the court didn't say ("ceasefire"), distract you from the very important things that they did say. Let this be your motivation to get loud and active, especially if you live in any country that supports Israel. Put pressure on your governments to not be complicit in genocide, you now officially have the highest international court on your side.

[birdmenmanga]

I think there's no greater indication that disco elysium is sympathetic towards communism when it literally says "communism is failure" and then the literal gameplay itself rewards trying and failing. The most obvious one being the Shivers check at the FELD mural, which is an Impossible 20 check BUT opens itself up again and again the longer you spend in the world doing things, but even just looking at sheer probabilities, for any given white check, rolling first and THEN putting a point into that skill upon failure is more likely to grant you success than putting a point first and then rolling, but that would require failing first.

Other things too: Precarious world saying you'll 100% fail red checks no matter what (not necessarily a bad thing, btw!! throwing the boule into the sea is a success but like. in some other ways one would want a perfect petanque throw instead. but people wouldn't typically assume that failure is desirable sometimes from the start) persuading you to accept that you'll fail some things that is irrevocable, for a world where everything is just a tiny bit easier.

The faux game over screen when you faint after reading Dora's letter— emulating a sense of failure on the scale of the entire game. When it rolls up most people go "What?? Game over?? No way, what did I do wrong!!" and waking up after that, with no huge or lasting impact on Harry's health or morale really tells the player, "Sometimes things will seem so bad that it all seems like it's coming to an end, but it's not the end, it's really not the end, go drink so water, you can still go on despite this failure"

I'm sure there are other things as well that are eluding me but like. The literal gameplay rewards failing and succeeding far more so than simply succeeding every single time, and I think you get a fuller experience of Elysium that way too

[nipuni]

The heart of the universe 💫

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on december 1st!