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[violexides]

speaking personally as a Muslim it is EXTREMELY common for people to equate Islam and Christianity as both inherently oppressive. and I am not an idiot, there ARE theocratic governments that base their structures on Sharia law and those are undeniably corrupt (the way that any theocratic authoritarian government would be regardless of religion, but I digress because clearly y’all are not ready for that kind of conversation), but it has become more and more apparent to me that the only people who actually seem to understand what Islam is and what it values - are Muslims. and none of you will fucking listen to us.

having religious trauma, being part of a religious minority, whatever it may be - it does not automatically give you the stand to talk shit about Islam like you know anything. did you know that Islam supports abortion? that Islam, at its origins, is not homophobic or transphobic? do you know how Islam got twisted through theocracies and politicians to become something it is not? or do you just know the end result - do you only recognize a Muslim person if you see hijab, or if you see a war torn country? 

I’m so fucking tired of how Muslims are treated in this goddamn country. i have had to argue and fight with friends (WHO ARE OF COLOR AND OF MINORITY RELIGIOUS BACKGROUNDS AND OR ARE ATHEIST BTW.) to get them to stop praising men who caused my country to get genocided over in front of me. To stop telling me that I was basically white as if my grandfather did not get sent to an Iraqi prison for being on the wrong side of the political spectrum only for my fucking father to come to this country and have nobody bother to learn his name. Muslims are being killed & my country is fucking DYING my country has BEEN DYING. 

I feel like I’m screaming into a fucking echo chamber and everyone just walks past. I am WATCHING people walk past. There’s no place in leftism for religious people and that’s becoming more and more evident with the way that some of these ex Christian atheists act - I don’t have religious trauma, I have trauma from daring to be fucking Muslim in a country where my entire homeland is siphoned into the ISIS box and left to fucking die. 

this is messily worded but you can reblog. but I am too tired to argue so if you have shit like. I don’t care. I don’t. Learn more about Islam educate yourself fucking listen. I want to go to Iraq some day. I really, really want to.

[butchlinkle]

really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:

[telebeast]

unoriginal joke

[chiisana-lion]

[itsdappleagain]

jesus no

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[pyroinfusedtiger]

Posting this everywhere til im not obsessed with it anymore

[toothwormfactory]

[planefood]

The final stage of every OC's creation is having to go through websites like this to name it:

[graegrape]

i am once again reminded of the fact that toby fox is a genius at comedic pacing

[tophats-tea]

sliding scale of posts about Jesus being a carpenter who was nailed to a cross

[violexides]

starting to think you guys don't care about the lesser of two evils or whatever vote blue always people have been trying to say. starting to think you guys genuinely will believe whatever the Democratic party says if you think it's going to buy you another day on this earth. are you even watching what is happening in America right now. are you even watching what is happening across the world. i am genuinely so fucking sick and tired of you at least pretend like you care. just PRETEND. like you care about people outside of yourself. pretend like you care more about what is materially happening to people overseas than what you think might possibly happen in the future if you get a republican in. white boy 20000 is going to be fine. the people of Palestine won't and if you really think Kamala Harris' words are the best it's going to get in terms of foreign policy you lack every drop of political imagination that will lead to liberation. you cannot envision a better world than this. you can't even muster up the energy to act like you want to demand for something better, you're saying shut up don't complain this is enough otherwise you're giving the vote to Trump. any revolutionary voting blue in november are not going to sleep at night for weeks after, it will be the most miserable decision of their life and they will spend every breath acting after. so i'm glad to see you guys hopping and cheering and excited for Kamala Harris even as she calls protestors for Palestine "pro Hamas". are half the people on this site only pretending to care about political dissent. you can vote for Kamala, go ahead, but actually make your vote have leverage. actually put power behind your words. or is that too scary. are you too scared. do you think you're more scared than a Palestinian right now? as Kamala labels the people fighting for their freedom in the belly of the beast terrorists? i hope God gives you the mercy you refuse to give to others. i hope, genuinely, that you act in some way.

actually taking out the disclaimer .

[malwarechips]

yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad

[saszor]

Tutorial for drawing characters with cleft lip! Sorry that it's mostly unilateral-centric but it makes up the vast majority of resources and photos. Still tried to get tips for drawing bilateral clefts in though.

Keep in mind that this is an introductory drawing tutorial and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People 👍

If you draw any characters using this feel free to tag me!

[opencommunion]

how to donate an eSIM

[skipppppy]

“You shouldn’t self-ID as ADHD/autistic, you’re turning a very real mental condition into a trend” Ok then stop saying delulu. Stop speculating on which cluster C personality disorder the criminals you hear about on the news have. Stop saying “schizoposting” and “acoustic” and “is it restarted?” Stop using “psycopath” and “sociopath” as catch-all ways of calling someone a bad person. Stop saying “the intrusive thoughts won” when you bleach your hair and then turn your nose up at people who suffer from very real, very scary urges of physical/sexual violence. Stop saying “I’m so OCD” as a way of calling yourself neat. Stop treating BPD/ASPD/Bipolar as inherently abusive. Stop saying “OP I am living in your walls” without tagging for unreality. Stop diagnosing complete strangers you’ve never met on r/AITA with NPD.

You first. If you don’t want our disabilities to be treated like trends then stop belittling and minimising them. I’ll NEVER judge a person for trying find labels for their symptoms when an apathetic, racist, sexist, ableist healthcare system refuses to. But I will absolutely judge a hypocrite. Which a lot of you are