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jewelleria · 1 year ago

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I don’t usually talk about politics on here, if ever. But it’s been almost six months since the conflict in the Middle East flared up again, and I’m finally ready to start. Here are some of my thoughts.

I say ‘flared up’ because this has happened before and it’ll happen again. Because, even though what's currently going on is absolutely unprecedented, those of us who live in this part of the world are used to it. Let that sink in: we are used to this. And we shouldn’t have to be.

But I use that term for another reason: I don't want to accidentally call it the wrong thing lest I come under fire for being a genocidal maniac or a terrorist or a propaganda machine, etc., etc.—so let’s just call it ‘the war’ or ‘the conflict.’ Because that’s what it is. Doesn’t matter which side you’re on, who you love, or who you hate.

This post will, in all likelihood, sit in my drafts forever. If it does get posted, it certainly won’t be on my main, because I'm scared of being harassed (spoiler: she posted it on her main). I hate admitting that, but honestly? I’m fucking terrified.

I also feel like in order for anything I say on here (i.e. the hellscape of the internet) to be taken seriously, I have to somehow prove that a) I’m “educated” enough to talk about the conflict, and b) that my opinion lines up with what has been deemed the correct one. So, tedious and unnecessary though it is, I will tell you about my experience, because I have a feeling most of the people reading this post are not nearly as close to what’s happening as I am.

How do I explain where I live without actually explaining where I live? How do I say “I live in the Red Zone of international conflicts” without saying what I actually think? How do I convey the fear that grips me when I try to decide between saying “I live in Palestine” and “I live in Israel”? I don't really know. But I do know that names are important. I also know that, due to the various clickbaity monikers ascribed to the conflict, it would probably just be easier to point to a map.

I haven't always lived in the Middle East. I've lived in various places along America’s east coast, and traveled all over the world. But in short, I now live somewhere inside the crudely-drawn purple circle.

If you know anything about these borders you probably blanched a bit in sympathy, or maybe condolence. But in truth, it’s a shockingly normal existence. I don't feel like I've lived through the shifting of international relations or a war or anything. I just kind of feel like I did when COVID hit, that dull sameness as I wondered if this would be the only world-altering event to shape my life, or if there would be more.

I've been told that, in order for my brain to process all the horrific details of the past six months, there needs to be some element of cognitive dissonance—that falling into a sort of dissociative mindset is the only way to not go insane under the weight of it all. I think in some ways that’s true. I have been terrifyingly close to bus stop shootings when my commute wasn’t over; I have felt my apartment building shake with the reverberations of a missile strike; I have spent hours in underground shelters waiting for air raid sirens to stop.

But. I have also gone grocery shopping, and skipped class, and stayed up too late watching TV, and fed the cats on the street corner, and cried over a boy, and got myself AirPods just because, and taken out the trash, and done laundry on a delicate cycle, and bought overpriced lattes one too many days a week. I have looked at pretty things and taken out my phone because, despite it all, I still think that life is too short not to freeze the small moments.

So I'd say, all things considered, I live an incredibly privileged life—compared, of course, to those suffering in Gaza—one filled with sunsets and over-sweetened knafeh and every different color of sand. One that allows me to throw myself into a fandom-induced hyperfixation (or, alternatively, escape method) as I sit on the couch and crack open my laptop to write the next chapter of the fic I'm working on.

But there are bits of not-normalness that wheedle their way through the cracks. I pretend these moments are avoidable, even if they’re not.

They look like this: reading the news and seeing another idiotic, careless choice on Netanyahu’s part and groaning into my morning coffee. Watching Palestinian and Jewish children’s needless suffering posted on Instagram reels and feeling helpless. Opening my Tumblr DMs to find a message telling me to exterminate myself for reblogging a post that only seems like it’s about the war if you squint and tilt your head sideways.

These moments look like all the tiny ways I am reminded that I'm living in a post-October seventh world, where hearing a car backfire makes me jump out of my skin and the sound of a suitcase on pavement makes me look up at the sky and search for the war planes. They look like the heavy grief that is, and also isn’t, mine.

Here's the thing, though. I know you’re wondering when the ball will drop and my true opinion will be revealed. I know you’re waiting for me to reveal what demographic I'm a part of so that you, dear reader, can neatly slap a label on my head and sort me into some oversimplified category that lets you continue to think you understand this war.

No one wants to sit and ruminate on the difficult questions, the ones that make you wonder if maybe you’ve been tinkered with by the propaganda machine, if you might need to go back on what you’ve said or change your mind. We all strive for our perception of complicated issues to be a comfortable one.

But I know that no matter what I do, there will always be assumptions. So, while I shudder to reveal this information online, I think that maybe my most significant contribution to this meta-discussion spanning every facet of the internet is this:

I am a Jew.

Or, alternatively, I am: Jewish, יהודית, يَهُودِيٌّ, etc. Point is, I come from Jews. And, like any given person, I am a product of generation after generation of love.

I'm not going to take time to explain my heritage to you, or to prove that before all the expulsions and pogroms, there was an origin point. If you don’t believe that, perhaps it’s less of a factual problem and more of an ‘I don’t give weight to the beliefs of indigenous people’ problem. But, in case you want to spend time uselessly refuting this tiny point in a larger argument, you can inspect the photos below (it’s just a small chunk of my DNA test results). Alternatively, you can remember that interrogating someone in an attempt to make their indigeneity match your arbitrary criteria is generally not seen as good manners.

Now, let’s go back to thathateful message (read: poorly disguised death threat) I received in my Tumblr DMs. I think it was like two or three weeks ago. I had recently gained a new follower whose blog’s primary focus was the fandom I contribute to, so I followed them back. I saw in my notes that they were going through my posts and liking them—as one does when gaining a new mutual. Yippee!

Then they sent me this:

I tried to explain that hate speech is not a way to go about participating in political discourse, but the person had already blocked me immediately after sending that message. Then, assured by the fact that I surely would never see them complaining about me on their blog (because, as I said, they blocked me), they posted a shouting rant accusing me of sympathizing with colonizing settlers and declaring me a “racist Zionist fuck.” Oh, the wonders of incognito tabs.

Where this person drew these conclusions after reading my (reblogged) post about antisemitism…. I'm not actually sure. But I greatly sympathize with them, and hope that they weren’t too personally offended by my desire to not die.

For a while I contemplated this experience in my righteous anger, and tried to figure out a way to message this person. I wanted to explain that a) seeing a post about being Jewish and choosing to harass the creator about Israel is literally the definition of antisemitism and b) that sending a hateful DM and refusing to be held accountable is just childish and immature. But I gave up soon after—because, honestly, I knew it wasn’t worth my effort or energy. And I knew that I wouldn't be able to change their mind.

But I still remember staring at that rather unfortunate meme, accompanied by an all-caps message demanding for me to Free Palestine, and thinking: the post didn’t even have any buzzwords. I remember the swoop of dread and guilt and fear. I remember wondering why this kind of antisemitism felt worse, in that moment, than the kind that leaves bodies in its wake.

I remember thinking, I don’t have the power to free anyone.

I remember thinking, I’m so fucking tired.

And before you tell me that this conflict isn’t about religion—let me ask you some questions. Why is it that Israel is even called Israel? (Here’s why.) Why do Jews even want it? (Here’s why.) But also, if you actually read the charters of Islamist terrorist organizations like ISIS, Hamas, and Hezbollah (among others), they equate the modern state of Israel with the Jewish people, and they use the two entities interchangeably. So of course this conflict is religious. It’s never been anything but that.

But I do wonder, when faced with those who deny this fact: how do I prove, through an endless slew of what-about-isms and victim blaming, that I too am hurting? How do I show that empathy is dialectical, that I can care deeply for Palestinians and Gazans while also grieving my own people?

There's this thing that humans do, when we’re frustrated about politics and need to howl our opinions about it into the void until we feel better. We find like-minded souls, usually our friends and neighbors, and fret about the state of the world to each other until we’ve gone around in a satisfactory amount of circles. But these conversations never truly accomplish anything. They’re just a substitute, a stand-in catharsis, for what we really wish we could do: find someone who embodies the spirit of every Jew-hating internet troll, every ignorant justifier of terrorism, and scream ourselves hoarse at them until we change their mind.

But, of course, minds cannot be changed when they are determined to live in a state of irrational dislike. In Judaism, this way of thinking has a name: שנאת חינם (sinat hinam), or baseless hatred. It's a parasite with no definite cure, and it makes people bend over backwards to justify things like the massacre on October seventh, simply because the blame always needs to be placed on the Jews.

So when a Jew is faced with this unsolvable problem, there is only one response to be had, only one feeling to be felt: anger. And we are angry. Carrying around rage with nowhere to put it is exhausting. It's like a weight at the base of our neck that pushes down on our spine, bending it until we will inevitably snap under the pressure. I’m still waiting to break, even now.

I wish I could explain to someone who needs to hear it that terrorism against Israelis happens every single day here, and that we are never more than one degree of separation away from the brutal slaughter of a friend, lover, parent, sibling. I wish it would be enough to say that the majority of Israelis (which includes Arab-Israeli citizens who have the exact same rights as Jewish-Israelis) wish for peace every day without ever having seen what it looks like.

I wish I could show the world that Israel was founded as a socialist state, that it was built on communal values and born from a cluster of kibbutzim (small farming communities based on collective responsibility), and that what it is now isn’t what its people stand for.

I wish the world could open their eyes to what we Israelis have seen since the beginning: that Hamas is the enemy, Hamas is the one starving Palestinians and denying them aid, Hamas is the one who keeps rejecting ceasefire terms and denying their citizens basic human rights. Hamas is the governing body of Gaza, not Israel. Hamas is responsible for the wellbeing of the Palestinian people. And Hamas are the ones who are more determined to murder Jews—over and over and over again, in the most animalistic ways possible—than to look inwards and see the suffering they’ve inflicted on their own people. I wish it was easier to see that.

But the wishing, the asking how can people be so blind, is never enough. I can never just say, I promise I don't want war.

When I bear witness to this baseless hatred, I think of the victims of October seventh. I think of the women and girls who were raped and then murdered, forever unable to tell their stories. I think of the hostages, trapped underneath Gaza in dark tunnels, wondering if anyone will come for them. I think of Ori Ansbacher, of Ezra Schwartz, of Eyal, Gilad, and Naftali, of Lucy, Rina, and Maia Dee, of the Paley boys, of Ari Fuld and of Nachshon Wachsman. I think of all the innocent blood spilled because of terror-fueled hatred and the virus of antisemitism. I think of all the thousands of people who were brutally murdered in Israel, Jews and Muslims and Christians and humans, who will never see peace.

My ties to this land are knotted a thousand times over. Even when I leave, a part of me is left behind, waiting for me to claim it when I return. But when I see the grit it takes to live through this pain, when I see the suffering that paints the world the color of blood, I look to the heavens and I wonder why.

I ask God: is it worth all this? He doesn't answer. So I am the one, in the end, to answer my own question. I say, it has to be.

Feel free to send any genuine, respectful, and clarifying questions you may have to my inbox!

EDIT: just coming on here to say that I'm really touched & grateful for the love on this post. When I wrote it, I felt hopeless; I logged off of Tumblr for Shabbat, dreading the moment I would turn off my phone to find more hate in my inbox. Granted, I did find some, and responding to it was exhausting, but it wasn’t all hate. I read every kind reblog and comment, and the love was so much louder. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 🤍

Source Reading

The Whispered in Gaza Project by The Center for Peace Communications

Why Jews Cannot Stop Shaking Right Now by Dara Horn

Hamas Kidnapped My Father for Refusing to Be Their Puppet by Ala Mohammed Mushtaha

I Hope Someone Somewhere Is Being Kind to My Boy by Rachel Goldberg

The Struggle for Black Freedom Has Nothing to Do with Israel by Coleman Hughes

Israel Can Defend Itself and Uphold Its Values by The New York Times Editorial Board

There Is a Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation. It Must Survive by Peter Beinart

The Long Wait of the Hostages’ Families by Ruth Margalit

“By Any Means Necessary”: Hamas, Iran, and the Left by Armin Navabi

When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them by Bari Weiss

Hunger in Gaza: Blame Hamas, Not Israel by Yvette Miller

Benjamin Netanyahu Is Israel’s Worst Prime Minister Ever by Anshel Pfeffer

What Palestinians Really Think of Hamas by Amaney A. Jamal and Michael Robbins

The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Understanding Hamas’s Genocidal Ideology by Bruce Hoffman

The Wisdom of Hamas by Matti Friedman

How the UN Discriminates Against Israel by Dina Rovner

This Muslim Israeli Woman Is the Future of the Middle East by The Free Press

Why Are Feminists Silent on Rape and Murder? by Bari Weiss

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oleafia-art · 10 months ago

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love game intuition, play the cards with spades to start, and after he’s been hooked i’ll play the one that’s on his heart!

arrested development hyperfixation has hit me like a fucking bus and so i finally took some time to draw some fanart of gob and tony. gob is my absolute favorite character and i have so many thoughts and feelings about him, and all the characters really, but blunder is such a crazy and fun pairing i had to draw them first. sucks tho that i waited until now to watch this incredible show bc im pretty sure the fandom is dead :(

also i apologize if the height difference is too exaggerated. i didnt notice it at first bc of the poses and once i realized it looked kind of weird it was too late to change it lmao. oh well. it’s still a fun piece and i had a lot of fun making it too!

as always click on the image for higher quality and reblogs are greatly appreciated!

#arrested development #arrested development fanart #gob bluth #gob bluth fanart #tony wonder #tony wonder fanart #blunder #arrested development blunder #ad blunder #digital art #digital illustration #oleafia art

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quetzal-animations · 2 months ago

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Sebastian from Stardew Valley, because the hyperfixation has hit me like a bus.

That’s autism for ya-

@likablemuffin Hehe, it’s him. >:3

#digital art #stardew valley #stardew sebastian #stardew fanart #yippeee #artists on tumblr

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formerfollowerofthatman · 2 months ago

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So...

I just saw a video of what Smash Bros characters would (canonically) pay taxes (linked in text), and it made me think HARD about taxes in games.

But

It also made me think about what GG characters WOULD pay taxes?

So, I've compiled a list of what playable characters would pay their taxes, because hyperfixation on a topic hits like a bus.

Here it is.

Missing Link:

Sol: Most likely would. At the end of Strive, he makes an auto shop, and would probably have to pay a tax to run it. However, he's also royalty due to being related to Dizzy, who is queen. Probably wouldn't have to pay up.

Ky: Would be taxing his people, wouldn't have to pay taxes due to being a king, but still pays them anyway to keep being humble.

May: She's a pirate and an outlaw on the run, she definitely wouldn't.

Axl: As translated from Answer's announcer pack in Xrd, Axl doesn't have records due to being an anomaly. He wouldn't have to.

Zato: Legally considered dead. However, now that he has a government job, he does have to pay up now.

Millia: Same as Zato. Runs the PWAB, probably has to pay a tax to keep the place running.

Chipp: Is president of a nation in South Africa. If anything, he's taxing his people. Would probably make it cheap, though, as he knows what it's like to be on hard times from personal experience.

Potemkin: In ML, most definitely not, since he was considered property. Now though, since he's a member of the Zeppian military and a citizen, he probably does.

Faust: He's a nomad, from what we see in Xrd. Probably not.

Baiken: In Strive, it's shown she has settled down in a little place of her own to help raise Delilah. So... possibly, though, most likely not, due to her being an outlaw.

Justice: Fucking dead.

Kliff: Also fucking dead.

Testament: They're legally considered dead (probably) as a result of ML's story mode. Probably did pay taxes, as they were a part of the Holy Order.

GGX:

Dizzy: Before Strive, probably not, due to being considered dead after Jam claimed her bounty. As of Strive, though, since she is queen, quite possibly does pay taxes for the same reason as Ky.

Johnny: Same as May. Doesn't pay taxes due to being a pirate.

Jam: Has to pay up for her restaurant business.

Anji: Quite possibly a nomad, so probably not.

Venom: Wouldn't have to, due to being considered dead. Now has to pay taxes due to running a bakery.

XX:

Bridget: We see her bathing in a lake in Dual Rulers, so for this reason, I believe she's a nomad too.

Slayer: Definitely. No questions asked. He has a LOT of money from his years as an immortal, and since he has no reason to spend most of it, would choose to pay taxes to make room.

Zappa: Has a government job, and is a good chap. Would definitely pay taxes.

I-No: Same as Axl. Is an anomaly, and wouldn't have to pay taxes.

Robo-Ky: Probably considered property of the PWAB, and the last Robo-Ky is also probably property of Venom.

Accent Core:

Order-Sol: is also an anomaly due to i-No's timey-wimey wumbo jumbo.

A.B.A.: Due to being a Homunculus, is probably considered property of P.W.A.B. Paracelsus probably is, too.

Overture:

Sin: Has no damn clue how to pay taxes. Doesn't have to, for the same reasons as Dizzy and Ky.

Valentine: Fucking dead.

Paradigm: Is hidden in Illyria castle as of Xrd. Probably not.

Izuna: We don't know what happened to him at the end of Overture. Quite possibly doesn't pay taxes. He doesn't have a clue how to do so anyhow.

Raven: Legally considered dead, is a nomad. Doesn't pay taxes.

Xrd:

Elphelt: She wouldn't know how to pay taxes even if Ky taught her. Her husband probably had to pay the marriage tax, though.

Ramlethal: Same reason as Elphelt. Does have a government job, though. Ky probably does her taxes for her.

Bedman: Do I even need to say it?

Leo: With all the paperwork on his desk, taxes must be as easy as breathing for him.

Jack-O: Has no records, and as such, doesn't have to pay taxes.

Haehyun: Considering she's the head of her family now, definitely does have to pay a tax.

Answer: Works a government job. Would have to pay taxes.

Strive:

Nagoriyuki: Is a nomad, but did have to pay a tax to rent out a large basement under a high rise. Probably also had to pay Elphelt's marriage tax, due to becoming her husband in Elphelt's arcade mode ending.

Giovanna: Works a government job and has to pay up.

Goldlewis: Just like Gio, also has to pay taxes.

Happy Chaos: Somehow manipulated the tax income flow of Illyria so that HE gets the money.

Bedman?: is considered property.

Delilah: Too young to even think of paying them. But is smart enough to do so.

Asuka: Would probably have to pay a small tax to keep his podcast afloat.

Asuka R♯: Is a clone, and thus doesn't have documents.

Unika: Is an outlaw. Wouldn't have to pay taxes due to being on the run.

#rp blog #guilty gear rp #Guilty Gear tax day must be wild for these people #raven guilty gear #Raven's Unkindness Blog #R.U.B.

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donutwatches · 1 year ago

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MHA 2.24 - Katsuki Bakugo: Origin -part 3

Let's see where we left off on this episode of My Hero, oh yeah, our protag is getting pretzeled after being thrown bodily into a bus by Japanese Superman.

All Mights hand is bigger than Bakugo's whole head, I'm crying. I would also like All Might to break me, but not the way Bakugo is talking about.

It is dawning on Big Buff how bananas this kid's drive is. I can't help but admire it a bit. But Bakugo, please don't twist yourself, we already have Deku laying on the ground looking like a twizzler.

He's gone feral. Never have the Pomeranian comparisons of Bakugo been more accurate than now. Hope he got his rabies shot.

Careful Deku, being this polite is going to make people think you're Canadian. Maybe THAT's the secret reveal about his Dad. New theory: Deku's Dad is Canadian.

He respects All Might so much, he has to keep his manners even when he hits him, what a sweetie.

Jeez, these two are as bad as each other, haha. All Might is all, "I am so proud of my son for hitting me with the power of a speeding train."

They did it! They won! Whoooooo, it's a miracle! The question is, will they take the teamwork from this exam and keep it up in the future?

I have figured out why All Might gets so much death flag foreshadowing. It's because Recovery Girl is going to kill him.

And as poor Deku is laying booty up in the nurse's office, faraway in a random rundown bar, a lotion-less villain is...gazing at a wallet sized picture of him. Is he keeping that in his back pocket? Purple Haze is managing to look judgy even though he doesn't have a face.

Finally, I get to meet some of the new villains that were teased before, and what an introduction it is. The guy with the Frankenstein face is here saying "Hey Uggo, can I join your club?" GOLD.

What a cutie! I am curious what has motivated a teen girl to become a villain. But I remember more villains being teased, and I want to meet all of them, gimmie!

Episode 25 is here

Click here for the masterlist

TAGLIST

@blackaquokat, @champion-prism, @hyperfixations-and-cringe, @jessiedead, @granny-griffin

#my hero academia #mha #boku no hero academia #bnha #izuku midoriya #deku #all might #katsuki bakugo #bakugo #midoryia #recovery girl #shigaraki #kurogiri #league of villains

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sourw0lfs · 1 year ago

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dance with the devil - part fourteen

Words: 565 | Rating: E | CW: mentions of blood

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While they wait for Robin, Eddie does what he can to get Steve back to his apartment. It’s a struggle, between Steve being dead weight in Eddie’s arms and the constant zaps of pain shooting through Eddie’s arms, growing more intense the longer he stays in contact, but eventually they make it up the stairs. For a moment, Eddie’s worried he’ll have to break into the apartment, but his worry is unfounded when they finally reach the door and he sees that it’s broken at the latch.

The door being broken definitely makes it easier to drag Steve inside, it does little else to ease Eddie’s anxieties. Hauling Steve onto the couch, and grimacing as blood smears over the fabric, Eddie finally lets go. The absence of burning leaves his arms tingling as he collapses back onto the floor, staring at the ceiling.

For being a dead guy, he feels like he just ran a marathon from the strain of hauling Steve around. Or maybe it was just the contact pain that drained all of his energy. Eddie isn’t completely sure and the more he ponders it, the more questions he has if he ever gets another visit in to Joyce.

He hasn’t even gotten a chance to fully recover when the already broken door bangs heavily into the wall as Robin flings it open, her own chest heaving as if she’d run the whole way. Her eyes trail from Eddie on the floor up to Steve on the couch, still out cold and covered in blood. “What the fuck happened?” she demands as she — much more carefully than before — closes the door behind herself.

Eddie pushes himself up on his elbows, just so he isn’t laying in the floor like a total loser before answering, “He told me to get lost for a little while or he was gonna lose it, so I left him alone for an hour and came back to, uh, this.” He waves a lazy hand toward the couch.

“And you couldn’t do your weird magic shit to help him?” Robin demands as she crosses the room and crouches next to the couch, reaching up to touch Steve’s forehead with the back of her head.

Eddie snorts, even though he doesn’t mean to. “I don’t think I can right now, actually,” he admits. “Getting him back inside… fucked it all up or something. I feel like I got hit by a bus.”

“Helpful,” Robin scoffs back at him as she shakes Steve’s shoulder. Touching him doesn’t seem to be hurting her any, so it’s not whatever was going on with Steve that made his touch hurt Eddie. Interesting. It also doesn’t really seem to be doing a whole lot to wake Steve up.

Some part of Eddie knows that Robin doesn’t mean to snap at him, not after they worked things out to be mostly amicable. He knows that she’s probably just stressed about Steve being unconscious. But he’s tired and his whole body still hurts and a thank you for getting Steve inside wouldn’t kill her probably. He doesn’t say that, though, because he’s supposed to be working on being a good person or whatever.

Instead he just closes his eyes for a moment, trying to will his body to stop aching long enough for him to either sit back up or his weird angel magic to come back.

Tag list below the cut, if you want added (or removed since it's been two months) just let me know!

@chaosgremlinmunson @soaringornithopter @hbyrde36 @shares-a-vest @dreamwatch @quevadilla @puppy-steve @penny00dreadful @momotonescreaming @stevesbipanic @dawners @little-birch-boy @steddiejudas @just-my-latest-hyperfixation @estrellami-1 @vthx @lolawonsstuff @gleek4twd @littlebluejane @swimmingbirdrunningrock @lawrencebshaggoth @sadisticaltarts @queenie-ofthe-void @r0binscript @anaibis @hairdressersdoitwithstyle @goodolefashionedloverboi @spookednsaucy @anne-bennett-cosplayer @flustratedcas @mugloversonly @ellietheasexylibrarian @damnpotatoe @awkwardgravity1

#fox writes things #steddie #steddie fic #steve harrington x eddie munson #steve x eddie #steddie brainrot

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giddlygoat · 2 years ago

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i rewatched curse of the were-rabbit the other day, and having grown up watching wallace and gromit so often, i can’t believe i overlooked wallace’s very clear autism for so long. i’ve compiled my main reasoning behind this headcanon below.

his inventing hyperfixation. he’s always going out of his way to incorporation his inventions into every aspect of his life, and seems to think about little else

while he’s friendly, he prefers the company of gromit and doesn’t have very good social skills. it seems like most of his conversations with townsfolk are dominated by the other speakers, whilst he listens and nods. i don’t think he’s scared of people necessarily but he doesn’t seem to make an effort to get involved in anyone’s lives

he’s mostly oblivious to danger [and in general] and has no sense of self-preservation lawl i bet gromit is the only reason he hasn’t died in a terrible inventing accident yet

same-fooder. man needs his cheese and crackers. i’m pretty sure i’ve never seen him even glance at anything else

the iconic hand thing?? i can’t believe i just glossed over this in the past

he’s straight up stimming.

so yeah in conclusion my wallace and gromit hyperfix has hit me like a bus and thanks for coming to my ted talk

#wallace and gromit #no id #gifs

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kingxgarm · 2 months ago

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Garmadon hyperfixation hitting me again like a damn bus

#king's nonsense #garmadon #ninjago #ninjago garmadon #garmadon ninjago

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hermannsprecursors · 7 months ago

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Hello Dreamtalia fandom

I bring an offering because Im in the middle of my yearly playthrough, and hyperfixation and art block both hit me like a bus so I drew World to get over it????

Man this is so weird usually I have a clever title or song lyrics or whateva,,, this feels so vanilla

The guy :)

I still can't draw canon compliant Alfred I tried so hard guys. But the voices,,,

#dreamtalia #world dreamtalia #hetagame #hetalia #hetalia fanart #hws america #hes so #rrrhkfhffkjhd #i am him but i want him too #he just like me fr #guys i swear world has never done anything wrong #guys guys i swear #hi mooties sorry im posting heta again #btw hi kyo #bc you see everything tagged dt #somehow

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tortoisetales · 5 months ago

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Identity Crisis

More early Tim. Please look at these panels that they arranged so it looks like there's a gargoyle on the back of the bus stop:

I wasn't taking this very seriously but the reveal that the random masked shooter is a little old lady, paired with the opening quote about masks taking you outside of normal behavior, has me intrigued.

Vicki Vale is doing a piece on homelessness. This is not how I see her characterized in fic.

LOL the little old lady is proud of herself. Two dead from her first crime, "that's not bad"!

Aw, Tim's nightmare. The parts about Tim's grief feel real. He wants there to be meaning where there is none, and he's angry.

Because this is comics, Vicki Vale develops photos topless. As you do. And she finds a clue! The police are useless, naturally. If only she could hand it to Batman directly, she'd have a far easier time here.

Fun bit with Tim and Batman about why he can't put on the suit. Tim thinks Batman is forbidding him, but he's making Tim say why he hasn't yet put on the suit, and he's echoing Tim's stuff about symbols back to him. And also saying, I think, that Tim wants to be Robin to get strength from it and move past his fear, but it won't really change how he feels. (Which ... Batman would know, but also putting on a suit to deal with grief is literally your thing, Bats.)

Still, part of being Robin is disobeying orders ... but only if you can pull it off!

WHAT IS THIS FACE?

This should be the era of "Batman's just an urban legend" but not only does Tim have newspaper photos, Batman saving people is being announced on the radio. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Also this is early enough that Batman doesn't have a grapple gun, he's throwing the damn thing!

This is the second issue where Batman made a quip while grappling away. I find this silly but delightful.

Batman ragging on Vicki Vale for "sticking her nose in" is not delightful. She's the one doing actual detective work!

Alfred bullies Tim for working Christmas Eve. He just buried his mom, let him grieve how he wants. (Even if that is looking longingly at a "magic" suit.)

I love the pink boxes. Just going whole hog.

Why do I not see more about Tim having visions? (Though technically this one is just another dream.)

We are already establishing Jason as being a hot-head who got himself killed, and Tim being the guy who figures stuff out and has a plan.

Tim says that Batman will be all right, he's always all right ... but him not being all right is why he's here. And Tim's off!

This cover is badass, that is all.

"The pleasure of slowly ... unwrapping you!" ????? Do you mean finding out his secret identity? Removing his skin? I would be less distracted by the sexual overtones of this threat if I knew what you were talking about.

So the victims really were random. Once they got that rich guy involved, I thought he was clearing people out of homes he wanted or something. But no, these guys are just doing it for money. I also expected the masks themselves to have the mind control, but they were just for fun, boo. You said the victims showed no signs of toxins, so shouldn't the mind control be in the masks? (That would make this a Mad Hatter crime instead, I guess.)

I can hear these lines in my head. BTAS voices, of course.

Oh, when the Scarecrow said "unwrapping", he meant Batman's mind. That makes more sense.

Tim, why did you fucking ANNOUNCE YOURSELF, just hit him! Hit him while his back is turned! Vicki Vale had to save herself! ...and they both get fear gassed. Honestly, the encouraging Robin hallucinations are kind of cute. Saved by the hyperfixation.

Other people have already compared Tim disobeying Batman here to Steph doing it later ... I feel like Batman's order comes off pretty strongly as "I don't believe in you because you don't believe in yourself"--but also that Tim did try every other option to warn Batman, and he didn't even go out as Robin because he takes it very seriously. And he still expected to be fired. Whereas they seemed to go out of their way to make Steph look as hotheaded and wrong in the situation as possible (even numbered Robins hated by editorial represent!) so they aren't that comparable.

Though it would've been extremely funny if Tim had saved Batman's life only for him to be immediately fired, because you know this would just keep happening. Tim would still be like "Whoops, Batman needs me!!" and Batman would have even less control over him, lol.

(Though it would also be extremely sad and awkward. Tim's mom's funeral was this morning. His dad's still in a coma. He's living with the Waynes ... unofficially??)

Also ... Bruce already went to all the trouble of making a new costume with fancy gadgets. And pants!

I like that they include a diagram of all its nifty features. The little rolls on his sleeves are storage spaces?! The cape has more kevlar layers than the armor? Why do the boots need motion sensors? Whatever, tech is cool, put some everywhere. He's Robin!

#tim drake #dc comics #live read

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zonedelicious · 10 months ago

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You know there's a lot of similarities between Tomura Shigaraki and Kevin Ford.

(spoilers for both)

-obviously the decay powers

-but also accidentally killing their family

-being groomed into becoming a villain

-meant to parallel the protagonist

-died while never escaping their abuser

The tragedy of both characters hits hard and they're the emotional climax for both stories

Honestly it's amazing how much My Hero Academia and New X-Men overlap, considering this has never been confirmed as a direct inspiration and no one has mentioned it besides me (probably). Horikoshi definitely took a lot of inspiration from this. He's a big marvel fan after all so he has to have the same brainworms as the rest of us and hyperfixated on one obscure comic.

Anyway I think Shigaraki does a better job of being a villain. The League of Villains is a fun group, Shigaraki forms bonds with them, and he gets to establish himself as an actual threat.

Wither never gets this. Mostly because New X-Men ended, and the comic's conclusion got moved to an event comic later. So while Shigaraki got to shine as the main villain, Wither stayed a minion.

Of course Wither does have one advantage. He has a bigger connection with the protagonists. He was actually at the school and was one of the main characters. So we actually get to see him bond with everyone, and eventually we watch as he is abandoned and groomed by Selene.

And let's not forget the love triangle that sets up the toxic yaoi rivalry Wither has with Elixir. Shigaraki has Spinner but it's not as spicy.

Which has me thinking. What would happen if Shigaraki was at the school before turning evil? Maybe he accidentally hurt someone badly during the sports festival, and then ran away? Meeting the other villains and starting the League of Villains.

What if Wither also had his own villain group? Who would be on it? None of the other students would turn evil just like that. Well the Cuckoos would, but only to annoy Emma.

In the end I think both stories ultimately fail at writing the villain as a victim. Neither got a moment where they escape their abuser. Their abuse is only there as a tragic backstory but never to humanize them fully. Kevin gets more by being a protagonist at the start, and in the future a writer could redeem him. So maybe there's still hope. (Marvel if you're reading this let me write a sequel to New X-Men)

Anyway I'm gonna have to draw a swap au eventually since someone has to do it.

(Yes, Mineta dies in the bus explosion.)

#zone analysis #my hero academia #New X-Men #academy x #kevin ford #shigaraki tomura #rambling

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crazylittlejester · 7 months ago

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jes the phighting hyperfixation is hitting HARD one time during girl scouts i said “im goin beast mode!” (one of the characters says that) NEXT TO SOMEONES MOM. I SWEAR IT WAS MY POOKIE. then today when walking to the bus i was lowkey singing “medkit and subspace wont stop phighting!” THE VOICES

ALJHSLHJ, its okay man the brainrot has me so bad i one time said to a professor "i gotta go piss gurl" and she just looked at me and was like "go piss gurl!!!"

#jes ask

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clare-with-no-i · 1 year ago

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20 q's for fic writers

thank you sooo so much for tagging me @kay-elle-cee I unfortunately could not approach this in a completely earnest fashion due to who I am as a person, so everyone please take this slightly ersatz set of answers with all of the love I intend…which is a lot I swear…

AO3 Username: clarewithnoi (pronounced 'clare with no eye')

1. How many works do you have on A03? lol I keep orphaning stories when they annoy me but for now 37 (I think?)

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? 403,419…what is this word city

3. What fandoms do you write for? Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, others which I have not published lol

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

not the statistics page!!!!!!! john mulaney voice that's the thing I'm sensitive about!!!!!!

one long day (all my love will make you shake) at 1,151 WOW my god I did not realize it had surpassed 1k!!! did I know that? holy shit!

I will carry you, always at 873 ok this is also shocking but I do know that my they-lived AUs tend to be more popular and they're older so they've had time to accumulate hits

foreigner's god at 701 still can't believe this <3

theogony at 682 (!!)

growing pains at 675 another they-lived AU! I really carved out a niche early on

5. Do you respond to comments? don't look at me…I always want to…I swear I just get overwhelmed…put the gun down please…

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? uhhhh jesus idk, probably the derelict art of letting go? I don't write a lot of angst but I guess that one is on the sadder side

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? foreigner's god! or I will carry you always! in one of them I contend with reincarnation and shared grief and second chances at life. in the other one they hook up in the DADA classroom. so it's a toss-up

8. Do you get hate on fics? not really, and given the number of public fights I've had on this account you'd think that people would take their dislike of me to ao3 more often, but everyone's been remarkably charitable in that regard. thanks guys <3

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? only if I can exorcise personal trauma through it. or if it's 2020 and I'm dissociating in my studio apartment.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? no and no one say theogony or I'm turning this bus around

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? yessiree and it was not pleasant!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? yes! a few! the ones with my permission were lovely. the ones without my permission not as much.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? naur…

14. What’s your all time favorite ship? it's like a three-way tie between jily, percabeth, and zelink tbh! but I've mainly read jily fic in the past few years I think. but this answer can change dependent on me developing a new hyperfixation lmao

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? the last time I answered this question I did it as a joke and then I wrote theogony about it so I'm going to choose peace and just plead the fifth here lest I commit to another wip that'll take three years

16. What are your writing strengths? I do a lot of (an excess of) research, I'm good at description, I am funny when I want to be, I've had some really good prose moments if I do say so myself (I do)

17. What are your writing weaknesses? I am structurally a very weak writer, I can't be succinct, I don't have a great literature background so I never really know what I'm in conversation with and have limited points of reference for writing, I am very bad at writing characters who are subtle about their emotions/romantic feelings, I submit to time pressure and rush myself, the list goes on

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I've always wanted to write a fic in Spanish omgggg

19. First fandom you wrote for? either Zelink or Percabeth when I was like 12 lol.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written? theogony!

tagging @thequibblah yes I know you've been tagged already. cope <3 and @mipwrites go get 'em champ

#yeehaw!#clare is tagged

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