#Sf. Valentin

[kindheart525]

Now have all four of them together! Happy Valentine’s Day from the Smiling Friends! 🩷💛❤️💚

[desktopdinosaur]

Some choppy animation for my valentines au! Because it’s February!!

I wanna get like 3 more done- and hopefully one specifically on valentines- but I’m gonna try and not be super pressed about it

[frey-draws]

streets🥋, gears🍔 and kings🏍 also, belated happy birthday Ram! (3/6)

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Drawing Elena from Street Fighter Daily #174

December 2 2024

Collab with my friend MrKaktus81 :D

No timelapse

[buzzterposey]

[petit-papillion]

2 weeks until we race again... I know these tifosi are ready! 💪

Charles with the fans in Fiorano | 14 February 2024

🎥 Scuderia Ferrari

[kejay1]

Valentine's Day...? No, I'll pass.

[aelyosos]

ramona wadell • xenobiologist 👽 extrovert, spaced.

[ninebaalart]

Jill Valentine [Delta STARS]

the resident evil 3 outfit is already kind of ridiculous so what if i made it cammy too

[swan-orpheus]

To all of you booping me ten, twenty times in a row, I almost spit my beer. Cheers. <3

[rotationalsymmetry]

so I’ve been listening to the entirety of Feather Summarizes the Silmarillion, a podcast on Patreon that is somewhat misleadingly titled in that yes it follows the Silmarillion, no it is not in any sense of the term a summary. It’s good though.

A large part of the reason it is not a summary but is quite good, is that Feather will go off on long sidelines about all sorts of semi-related topics, and in the long peace part 4 bonus episode (I do not know what I’m going to do with myself when I finish this thing) one of those semi-related topics is about how people tend to misremember history and specifically how people tend to misremember protest culture as being basically non-existent around 9/11 when it wasn’t, and oof, yeah, I know. I was there.

And it’s not surprising people tend to misremember this. Who wants to tell the story? The neoconservatives don’t want to tell a story of large scale anti-war protests. And the sorts of people who approved of the protests also don’t want to talk about it, because we tend to be kind of invested in the narrative that if you get large numbers of people protesting in the streets you’ll get what you want. That protesting works.

And it kinda didn’t.

And that’s not just a “well, non-violent protests…” we were blocking freeways and shit, ok? It didn’t work.

(I mean, not that blocking a freeway is an act of violence. But you’d think it was the way commuters get pissed off about it.)

this is getting into interpretation of events so I’m not sure how to fact check it as such, but my personal understanding of (left wing) protest culture in the late 90’s and early 2000’s is there was this rising wave of energy and enthusiasm focused against globalization — free trade agreements, the IMF/World Bank, I don’t know if people were talking about “austerity measures” at the time but that sort of thing, and the “race to the bottom” where corporations are free to move to wherever the labor is cheapest and has the fewest regulations and then the actual people aren’t allowed to move into the countries with better labor laws.

(I’m trying to be careful to explain what I mean by globalization because at least at the time, progressives and radicals would start talking about the problems of globalization and liberals/moderates would…intentionally or unintentionally misunderstand what you were objecting to. And at least some conservatives, anecdotally, would go “yeah we think the UN is scary too” and uh, no, not what this is about.)

Anyhow, growing anti-globalization movement in the US (and very much in other places, but I’m talking about the US here) then got massively derailed by 9/11 itself (there was a DC protest I planned on going to with some friends a couple months after 9/11 and they all bailed because they figured any protest that criticized US policy so soon after 9/11 would seem out of touch and insensitive) and by the war on Afghanistan and the war on Iraq because people have finite organizing energy and the wars, mostly the Iraq War, became the main focus.

And then as far as I can tell things stalled out for a bit until Occupy. The peace protests still went on, and I imagine protests around a number of other things that got relatively consistent if not overwhelmingly news-worthy presences. But they didn’t have the same energy.

Except of course for the gay rights movement, especially the marriage equality fight, which was substantial and highly successful.

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Ren and Jeanne Valentines card edits I did for fun in light for today's holiday

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Drawing Elena from Street Fighter Daily #61

August 11 2024

[buzzterposey]

[petit-papillion]

Charles in the SF-24 | Fiorano | 14 February 2024

📸 Andrea Diodato

[kejay1]

Happy Valentine's Day, dear ones ~♡

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"My Living Nightmare with an Online Bully: Episode 10"

On July 19th, I ventured out on one of my solo Disneyland resort outings for a much-needed self-care day, sporting a new Star Wars dress I had recently bought. As usual, I had the best time, but I also found myself reflecting on the past weeks’ events in my life with “The Bully,” and while at Disneyland, I shared the following status on my (now private) social media sites, along with fun photos of me throughout the parks:

I’m grateful for the opportunities I have in my life, and I try not to take the luxuries in my life for granted… But recently, I’ve been accused of hating men, that I’m racist toward white males, and that I’m the “female version of an incel” (despite the very voluntary coitus I’ve experienced as of late). Furthermore, my character and integrity as a professor, as a woman, as a human, have been vilified with lies and attacks of total bullshit built on racist and misogynistic attitudes—including cheap shots about my Disney solo days (plus, a WHOLE bunch of other shit)— as if I’m pathetic. I’ve wanted to shut down, hide, escape, disappear from the world, never to show my face again. But I haven’t. And I won’t. So… to say that I never needed a “self-care day” more than I do right now at my Happy Place is NOT an overstatement! Happy Friday, Y’all! 

When my sister, Mercy, read my post, she immediately texted me, asking if all was okay with me. The only family I shared any of this with before posting on social media was with my mom, so I can’t say I was surprised to get the text from my sister, which I did appreciate. And even though I had a fun solo Disney day adventure, at one point, in the bathroom of the Trader Sam’s Enchanted Tiki Bar at the Disneyland Hotel, I broke down and cried; it was all just too much for me, and I couldn’t escape the emotional turmoil building up. I waited until the next day to write my sister back. I didn’t want “The Bully” to consume my time at my happy place for another minute. 

In the days following my Disney day excursion, my anxiety and fears of what could still come ahead consumed me. I was afraid to write or post anything new on my blog. Fortunately, Vanessa informed me that Story Mill Entertainment was more than okay for me to take my time with blogging and posting anything new. But the fall semester would be starting in less than a month, and I was set to be back on campus, teaching two in-person classes on Mondays and Wednesdays, the other two classes online, and I was, to put it bluntly, freaking out about all of it. 

More concerning questions came up for me:

Would "The Bully" find me on campus?

Would “The Bully” show up at my office?

Would "The Bully" be waiting for me outside my class in the hallways, ready to accost me?

Will I have more students who could start bullying me online?

Will more students get mad at me for a bad grade?

I had too many questions, and not an answer in sight for any.

Read on to Episode 11... coming soon.

 

Source: "My Living Nightmare with an Online Bully: Episode 10"