#Thank you for listening regardless

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy Valentine's Day! (and this blog's first post anniversary!)

[vaggieslefteye]

HUSK, Hotel Bartender & Concierge | 1x04 - Masquerade

"Oh, I FORGOT — you're the wise-old bartender who's seen it all! Get the fuck over yourself and pour me a real drink."

[aroaceleovaldez]

emo Nico x scene Will Solace...

[takami-takami]

This page is not politics free, but what I am about to talk about is not political. It is humanitarian.

I think everyone NEEDS to be educated on what is going in in Palestine now, as an active genocide of our time. Right here is a good link for information on the Palestinian plight, please feel free to peruse it.

Please, please consider donating to Palestine Red Crescent Society (a part of the Red Cross, which I'm sure you've all heard of), The Palestine Children's Relief Fund (to aid suffering children), and/or ANERA (the American Near East Refugee Aid, for humanitarian relief to refugees).

Given the blackout and subsequent indiscriminate bombings in Gaza today, everyone needs to spread information like this. There's a media blackout right now in the area (a deliberate cut off), and Palestinians are completely unable to communicate with the outside world.

If you're from the United States (or EU, I'm not entirely sure how representatives work over there) call your representatives as these two places are among the largest conglomerates of pro-Israel, pro-settler state allies. Voice your support for ceasefire. Boycott until the Israeli occupation is no longer profitable.

The only way out is an end to the Apartheid state and occupation of Palestinian people. But in the meantime, do what you can to help the civilians currently suffering and spread awareness (that being said, awareness is not enough. Awareness alone will not help material conditions. Do what you can to protest, boycott, donate, and combat propaganda, to the best of your ability).

[faceglitchsworld]

Ehi, don't feel bad, have a birthday hug from Seonghwa!

[br1ghtestlight]

i can never take nickel and balloon's conflict fully seriously even if they make up and apologize to each other etc because the whole time im just imagining that comic of baseball and suitcase going back to hotel oj after season 2 and seeing that nickel and balloon are #besties now meanwhile suitcase had a psychotic break over their bullshit 😭😭

[pyrriax]

Haiiii pyrr pyrriax how’s your day ^_^ and can you recommend a song that you are listening recently

hello hello!!! yes of course!!!!!! i am happy to do that anon ^_^

as a treat, you get three!

(bloodhail by have a nice life ; one of my current main writing inspirations for a project i'm working on in the background, this is my favorite song from the deathconsciousness album and i only appreciated it more after reading the booklet for the album... it's a weird detail but i loved knowing that the final segment is a reference to that booklet)

(dove - doll ver. by antihoney ; i don't know why this one enchants me as much as it does but i always come back to it! it inspired some fanart i posted recently-ish)

(racehorse: get married! by jordaan mason & the horse museum ; if i had to tell people to listen to one song from this album, it'd be this one. somehow learning that the whole album is about queerness in some regard made it all make sense)

[zedif-y]

I'm sure there's already a hundred different posts about this, but I truly do hate the"if you can bear the pain, you can keep going" mentality when it comes to... Well, everything.

More of my thoughts under the cut. It gets long.

I mean this specifically when it comes to exercise, like, the "no pain no gain" stuff I hear all the time. Obviously exercise isn't really comfortable, and I know it's necessary, but the issue arises when you feel like you can't keep going anymore, but everyone else can. It's humiliating and everyone says the pain is normal and that's it's fine, the undercurrent of stop being a baby in their voices when they tell you to just get up.

I dunno. Maybe it really is that simple. Maybe most other people can push themselves past their limits.

But I can't.

I have a back that starts to hurt when I walk on uneven terrain or twist my body a little weird. Heck, it hurts when I do the dishes for too long. My feet are Slightly fucked up in the sense that if I walk for too long or move them weird, they'll start to hurt.

(Apparently, I have bone structure issues in my feet that are common in people who are around 60 years old. I am not even half that age.)

Most of the time when I'm outside for a while, I'm walking with only half of my foot supporting most of my weight, almost limping.

Needless to say, exercising sucks.

I don't like it, but... I also don't fully hate it. I know it helps.

What I do hate is being pushed to keep going even when I well and truly can't. And then being made to feel weak because everyone else can do it, why can't you?

I could go on and on about how that sentiment has haunted me over the course of my life, in several different ways, not just physically. But I won't, because this post is long enough as is and I'm not even sure why I'm writing all this besides the fact that my previous reblog made me emotional.

Because man, what a concept.

The idea that not being able to do things like everyone else doesn't make you weak or other or boring or dull. The idea that there are people who will love you for how you are, where your immobility isn't seen as a hindrance to your "full potential" but instead just another part of you, plain and simple. That pain isn't something you have to push through to be worthy.

A tower turned into a lighthouse.

Just... I don't know. It's nice, thinking about it that way.

Really, really nice.

[kenzan-kiwami]

Can I get uhhh Wagi + 1, 2, 25

ABSOLUTELY

(this got quite long so i'm gonna shove it under a read more)

1. Why do you like or dislike this character?

it's so hard for me to quantify what i like about him in broad and general terms, but it had to happen someday i guess so thank you for that LOL

at the most basic and superficial level i just find him pleasing to look at and listen to. absolutely helps that my first exposure this year was ishin kiwami and not yakuza kiwami because he slays the haori look and the little extra sideburn scruff he gets looks great on him. i can't remember what my reaction was to him when i played 0 (we'll expand on that later) but i was clinging hard to inoue well before things happened, and every game i played after the fact only solidified kashiwagi as a fave.

but every little extra thing the games say about him just makes him all the more interesting to me. i still haven't done my Y0 replay but i've gone back and watched most of the scenes he's in, and the way he 1) already tends kamuro castle in '88 2) brings up the way yakuza (don't) cope with expulsion to kiryu and nishiki is interesting to think about after Y3 tells us he's been operating the HLA for some time. how long? was it already on the books during the bubble?

also from 0, the conversation between kiryu and nishiki at the apartment where they mention how tense he was while kiryu was at dojima's office. the last time you see him do anything before this point is when he flips his lid at kiryu and knocks him into the shelf. he has this big intimidating front on as current acting patriarch of the kazama family - rightly so, considering the respect he commands even from awano - but everything about his situation, and kiryu's situation, and kazama's situation, on top of the empty lot fiasco, is stressing him to the bone. he cares so much about kiryu not dying to the point he doesn't eat until he comes back alive, which just makes me worry about how little he ate over the game's runtime. he gets relatively little screentime and development compared to certain other characters in this series (especially playable protags), but in spite of it they manage to make him feel like a person. which i guess is one of the strengths of RGG's writing

there's a lot i've left unsaid, but i don't know if i can put much of it into words without somehow being asked the right question to prompt it lmao. i guess to conclude this segment, i see a bit of myself in him as well. he's the type of man i would like to be, if a bit less temperamental

2. Favourite canon thing about this character?

i cannot for the life of me think of a better way to put this, but i guess how gap moe he is? characters like tsuruno are out here calling him scary, and there's that one story from RGGO where they call him oni kashiwa, and y'know just his whole usual demeanour and presentation. and that gnarly scar across his face. but in spite of appearances, he's... kind of a nerd. dare i say he's just a little bit goofy (especially in 7 when he allows his filter to drop a little).

we've got a man who runs an empty karaoke bar as a hobby, and hires younger women to talk to what few patrons he has for him. he taught himself ikebana and how to make chinese herbal remedies. he's got it down bad enough for his own boss that he allows himself to get beaten to a pulp for as long as it takes for the emergency services to show up after kazama gets shot at sera's funeral (RGGO). i'm not even gonna uncork the fuckin "legend malt" bottle, and i've posted about his posture and ill-fitting suits on ps2/ps3 here before.

i think one of my favourite moments from 7 is still the end of nanba's 4th drink link, where he's like HUH after ichiban says they're organising a birthday party. all of the little breaks in his composure in that game make me feel completely normal ways i promise

also, not sure if i count it as such, but inoue's reimen lines from ishin. the way he starts talking about his favourite dish from his favourite restaurant then cuts himself off because he's gushing too much and ryoma isn't interested like, noooo, keep going please i want to hear it... tell me how you got your hands on reimen 100 years early

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

like i say, it's been so long since i played Y0 that i genuinely don't remember if i had any actual thoughts on him or not beyond this relic i just dug up:

so i'll go from ishin kiwami instead i guess LOL

i'm still not sure what my first first impressions were but i was definitely latching on during chapter 5 at the latest. those cutscenes are soooo juicy, but we all knew that. every time i saw him i was like :) yay inoue is here :) until the start of chapter 10 when i was in straight up denial until they dumped his pale crusty-ass body in the middle of the sparring pit. ishin the only fucking thing delivering both his forbidden tatas and a scar backstory and we stan her for that.. the tibbies less so though because honestly it feels too lewd. seeing fanart of him with his shirt open helps me to understand what sawashiro fans felt when the infinite wealth trailer dropped

and it's all been uphill (or down, depending on how you look at it) from there. seeing him sopping wet, bleeding and pleading in the mud awoke something in me for sure. i understand why tsuruno calls him scary but i legitimately cannot see the dragon engine model that way, especially with those stupid tortoiseshell glasses. he looks like a sad dog & my male high school chemistry teachers at once. he's abashedly goofy and barely speaks above a whisper half the time.

i just know that whatever happens between him and kiryu in 8 is going to very painfully exorcise my own soul from my body.

[zarvasace]

Heyyyy 151 followers, time for a celebration and a sample of my handwriting! XD

Some lesser-known facts about me for the auspicious occasion:

In middle school, my English teacher told me that Lord Alfred Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott was too hard for me to memorize. I chose Eleanor Wilner's Without Regret instead for that assigbment, which is shorter, but it is also a free-form poem without a rhyme scheme. When I did end up memorizing The Lady of Shalott, I realized that Without Regret was harder. Take that, middle school teacher. (I still have them memorized, and a few beyond that as well. I have a soft spot for the 1840s poetry.)

I am very much into board games and ttrpgs. I probably play Gloomhaven the most, since we have a schedule, but I've put the most effort into Tyrants of the Underdark. I will take any chance I can get to play Twilight Imperium. I usually run our sessions of Pathfinder, and have also run Dread, WitchCraft, Lancer, and City of Mist.

My preferred way to write is to type on my phone as I pace in circles, preferably around the kitchen island while instrumental music is playing on the TV. Bonus points if there's pomegranate tea and/or chocolate. I honestly can't remember the last time I sat down at a computer to write anything that wasn't an essay.

[adamshallperish]

i've gained around 15 followers since i started liveblogging supernatural and i just want to say i'm really grateful for all y'all and happy that you find my thoughts to be somewhat engaging

[mellaithwen]

......wait wait wait HANG ON I've been typing sneak peak ....this whole time. and.... it's .... not a mountain pEAK it's a pEEKING peek (ofc).

....nOBODY LOOK AT ME ADSJKDJSKDJ

[cherrylight]

Ive been a follower for a while but we've never talked, but i wanted to say i think i understand how you feel when the excitement isnt requited about f/o stuff. It makes you feel SO horribly empty that it makes you scared to even talk about your f/o's again, at least for me. Ive recently come back from a hiatus due to being hurt related to selfshipping, and im definitely getting the "idgaf" vibe from some of my old friends. Im so sorry its happening to you as well. Id love to hear about your selfships or even just be someone to listen, if you ever need it. You arent alone, i promise, even though it might feel like it

i read this once i got it and almost teared up over how nice this is, thank you anon :(

again im so socially anxious so i dont want to pressure you or anything or immediately be like "reveal yourself anon" because again, a reason why you decided to be on anon haha ^^;

regardless, this is such a sweet ask and id love to talk about my selfships with literally anyone and would love to hear others too (esp yours anon!)

but yeah, what you said and described is definitely how ive been feeling lately :( i like it when others are excited about something or seem just as enthusiastic about it as i am and it seems usually, it doesnt happen and it hurts

in general its hard to talk about *any* interests because of the lack of excitement :( so whether f/o + selfshipping or not, it is so hurtful </3

very sorry on the again vent in this response but this ask is so special to me and made me feel heard <3

[werewolfest]

Anyway I highly doubt anyone who follows me now read and enjoyed aftg but just in case I’m wrong. If you did you should listen to this song to appreciate how well it would fit on an andrew playlist. Obviously

[leonstamatis]

50, right in the middle

50. my fair lady - kaleo

gonna be real with you this one is here because i had it on repeat way back in like march or s/t while writing “tell a sinner from a saint,” which is titled after a lyric from it. i am also pocketing a few other lines from this for use as titles for other things. lots of fun little phrases.

[samerpal]

"First, I would like to thank everyone who supported me.🙏🌹

This is my new platform, friends, after my old platform was deleted for reasons unknown to me.

I ask for your help in sharing my story again to keep hope alive for me and my family, friends.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.♥️

My family and I appreciate your cooperation and hope to reach the desired goal and save us.🙏

Attached are the verification links for the old account from the supporters.

Link vetted by @ibtisams

Link vetted by @el-shab-hussein and @nabulsi

Link vetted by @sar-soor

My approved number by the families in need and endorsed by the supervisors is 196."

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Trapped Family in Gaza Appeals for Help to Survive 🕊️🇵🇸🙏

I Samer Abu Ras, am reaching out to you with a heartfelt humanitarian appeal, after the ongoing war in Gaza has cast its dark shadow over my life and the lives of my family. Our lives were once filled with peace and stability before the onset of this catastrophe, but now, we find ourselves living in a situation described as nothing short of tragic.

Please note that the conversion rate is 1 USD =10 SEK

10$ = 100 SEK

50$= 500 SEK

100$= 1000 SEK

200$= 2000 SEK

My wife, Shurooq, our three children, and I are now homeless, without a source of income, and without hope for the future. My family and I have lost our businesses and our home due to the war, and we now have nothing left but the cold streets and troubled hearts.

My children are suffering greatly as a result of these horrific events. They have lost the security and stability they once enjoyed and are now facing new health and psychological challenges that threaten their lives. As a father and husband, I feel powerless in my ability to provide adequate protection and care for them.

My child, who is a year and a half old, is experiencing hardships far beyond his tender age. Since the war broke out, we had to flee our home and seek refuge in a tent in a displacement camp. My child lives in extremely difficult conditions, deprived of safety and stability. The tent does not provide adequate protection from harsh weather, and food and medicine are scarce. My child suffers from malnutrition and illness, lacking basic healthcare. He cannot play or grow in a healthy and suitable environment. My only dream is to see him grow up in a safe place full of opportunities

In the face of difficult circumstances, Samer Abu Ras and his family find themselves facing serious challenges in their daily lives. They reside in a modest tent lacking comfort and security, suffering from a shortage of clean water and food, and encountering difficulties in accessing necessary healthcare. Despite these challenges, they continue to express hope and resilience in confronting adversity, holding onto hope for a better tomorrow and a return to a more stable and secure life.

I appeal to you today, dear friends, to extend to me a helping hand in escaping this hell. Regardless of the size of the donation, every drop of generosity will contribute to alleviating our suffering and rebuilding our lives anew.

We need your help to secure the funds necessary to travel away from these destructive wars and seek a safe and stable environment where we can build a better future for our children

Let us stand together in these difficult times and let hope triumph over despair by providing support and assistance to those in dire need. Let us be part of the solution and build a better future for ourselves and future generations.

Thank you for listening and for the potential generosity of your giving, and for your generous donations that will change the lives of my family for the better.

With sincere gratitude and appreciation

‏Samer Abu Ras and family.

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