#support mechanisms

[tourismday]

Tourism and Rural Development: A Policy Perspective.

Tourism has high potential to stimulate economic growth and social change in rural areas because it contributes to local economies, support other products value chains, distributes benefits across both seasonal and geographic grounds, and promotes the conservation of cultural and natural heritage. Through the UNWTO Tourism for Rural Development Programme, the Organization seeks to enhance these and other opportunities that tourism can bring to rural areas. To devise adequate actions and develop impactful initiatives, it is essential to have solid knowledge and data to help support and monitor the evolution of this important agenda.

[kiindr]

friendly reminders:

you don't have to be productive every day

you are worthy even if all you did today was get out of bed

there are people out there who care about you

your existence makes a difference

if something bothers you, then it bothers you. no one has the right to tell you otherwise

you are allowed to take up space

there is no 'right way' to grieve

you cannot put a time limit on emotions

your likes and interests are valid and they matter

it's okay to take your time in doing things. not everyone can do everything at the same pace

[erebus0dora]

a quick sequel to this one: basically a 4:19/4:20 meme, come to think of it...

oh, and i remembered to switch on the recording of the process; i sketched this straight over the prev one, so it looks a tad weird, but still... adding it for those who asked

all that said: if you want to chew it, you have my enthusiastic permission 💜

[jq37]

Siobhan plotting with Ify to take ducks and box Trapp out and then Trapp later just giving her a duck because she's too short to get one herself even with three boxes. Her little cry face. Truly a gentleman and a scholar.

[silverthelovebug]

Yasammy Week ~ Day 1: Hurt/Comfort

No matter how bad the nightmare, Sammy would always be there to work her through it. Yaz didn’t like talking about them. Sammy knew they had only gotten worse after Brooklyn’s death. As long as she held her through the night, and whispered sweet nothings into her ear, maybe things would be okay.

@yasammyweek

I hate doing perspective pieces, if you see anything off no you don’t.

Also tiny little details !!! There’s the group photo of the Nublar Six, Sammy’s phone stickers, and a bottle of Klonopin. Yaz’s shirt also reads “Forget glass slippers, this princess wears track and field spikes” :3

[fantastic-nonsense]

"Maybe I needed it once. But I trained here, with The Flying Graysons, before I trained with you, Bruce. You know what the key is to a good trapeze act? Letting go...trusting that there's someone on the other side to catch you. You taught me a lot. But I learned from them to leap into the light. We're not the same, don't you see, Bruce? I had you." -Detective Comics #1074

hang on a minute y'all, I need to go scream into the abyss

[cryptile]

Here's Tim in my clothes and a with my cane because personally i think she's the type of girl to have back pain. Its from carrying the entirety of ttbt on her back

(Don't think about the anatomy for too long...)

[whetstonefires]

Hey you said something about the my hero academia creator being unhinged about sexism, do you mind explaining?

I tried to write like, a thorough explanation of this and it just got longer and longer and longer and I have not touched this series in actual years and yet I've still got all these receipts a;lkjk;lfasd.

So rather than trying to build the whole massive case, here's a pared-down version. It's normal to have sexism in media, and shounen manga especially. Everyone does it. The level and mode and intentionality and so forth all vary, but of course it's there.

What's not normal is to have lots of varied and interesting female characters with discernible inner lives, and on-page discussion of how sexism is systemic and unjust and holds them back in specific ways, and then also deliberately make consistent sexist writing decisions even where they don't arise naturally from the flow of the narrative.

Horikoshi is actively interested in gender and sexism, he's aware of them in a way you rarely see outside of the context of, you know, fighting sexism. He is hung up on the thorny issue of what women are worth and deserve and how power and respect ties into it. He genuinely wants, I think, to have Good Female Characters, and not be (seen as) A Sexist Guy!

But. He doesn't actually want to fight sexism. He displays a lot of woman-oriented anxieties, and one of the many churning paddlewheels in his head seems to be that he knows intellectually that morally sexism is bad, but emotionally he really feels like it ought to probably be at least partly correct.

There are so many things I could cite, and maybe I'll get into some of them later, but the crowning item that highlights how the pattern is 1) at least partly conscious and deliberate and 2) about Horikoshi's own weird hangups rather than simply cynical market play, is Mineta Minoru.

The writer has stated Mineta is his favorite character. Mineta is also designed to be hated--that is, he is a particularly elaborate instantiation of a character archetype normally deployed to soak up audience contempt and (by being gross and shameless and unattractive and 'unthreatening') make it possible to include a range of sexual gratification elements into the narrative that would compromise the main characters' reputations as heroic and deserving, if they were the actors.

Good Guys don't grope girls' tits and run away snickering in triumph, after all. Non-losers don't focus intense effort around successfully stealing someone's panties. Nice Girls don't let themselves be seen half-dressed. And so forth. You need an underwear gremlin for that. So, in anime and manga, longstanding though declining tradition of including such a gremlin, for authorial deniability.

Horikoshi definitely uses him straight for this purpose, looping in Kaminari as needed to make a bit work. And yet he has Feelings about the archetype itself.

The passages dedicated to the vindication of Mineta, then, and the author's statements about him, let us understand that Horikoshi identifies with the figure of the underwear gremlin. He understands the underwear gremlin as a defining exemplar of male sexuality, at least if you are not hot, and finds the attached contempt and hostility to be a dehumanizing attack on all uh.

Incels, basically.

It's not fair to write Mineta off just because he's unattractive and horny (and commits sexual harassment). Doesn't he have a mind? Doesn't he have dreams? Doesn't he have human potential?

So what's going on with Horikoshi and gender, as far as I can figure out, is that he knows damn well that women are people and are treated unjustly by sexist society, but however.

He also understands the institutions of sexism as something protecting him and people like him from life being nebulously yet definitively Worse, and therefore wants to see them upheld.

So you get this really bizarre handling of gender where obviously women's rights good and women cool, women can be Strong, and the compulsory sexualization imposed by the industry isn't them or the author, and so forth.

But also it's very important that in the world he controls, women never win anything important or Count too much, and that jokes at their expense that disrupt the internal logic of their characters are always fair game, that women asked about sexism on TV will promptly get into catfights amongst themselves, and they are understood always in terms of their sexual and romantic interests and value, and sexual assertiveness and failures to perform femininity well enough are used to code them as dangerous and irrational, and that the sexy costumes are requisite and will never be subverted or rebelled against--at most they might be circumnavigated via leaning into cute appeal.

And that Yaoyorozu Momo, who converts her body fat into physical objects, is being frivolous when she wants to use money to buy things instead (rather than as sensibly moderating her Quirk use) and is never encouraged to eat as much as possible at every opportunity to put on weight and even shown being embarrassed by hunger (even though Quirk overuse gives symptoms that suggest she's been stripping the lipids out of her cell walls or nervous system to keep fighting) and always, no matter how many Things she has made, has huge big round boobies.

[bookish-huntress-art]

So there you have it. The train has arrived and it's only a matter of time. The prisoners have disappeared, through twenty inches of solid steel and fifty heavily armed guards. They were right. I've chartered a small ship, and as soon as I've finished this bottle I'm setting off for the Hoddmimis mining colony far from the Yggdrasil system. I'm not stopping there. Just refuel and keep going.

If anyone hears this report in time, I suggest you do the same.​

Available at my INPRNT shop!

[a-bagel-no-two-bagels]

theyre all so silly this picture is so silly

where is jonny's hat from i've never seen him in a hat he looks so happy in the hat he's just a silly little guy

they all look so happy my skrunkly scrimblos are having a good time

[kiindr]

reminder that you’re not behind. everyone has a completely different life. we are all taking it at our own pace. do what you can. and it’s okay if you can’t do anything right now. if it has been like this for sometime, try looking into what might be causing it for you. you’re going to be okay 🩷

[inluvwcaitvi]

okay so one thing abt vi i feel like pretty much everyone glosses over is the fact that vi uses rationalization as one of her defense mechanisms and not just fighting or aggression/violence.

rationalization is when someone uses or tries to use logical explanations and reasonings in order to justify any difficult emotions they don’t want to deal with. some examples of this include minimizing the situation, making excuses, blaming others, making comparisons, and trying to “explain” the problem away.

vi demonstrates this in ep 9 after jayce accidentally kills that kid, and vi’s words to him are “you didn’t have a choice. he… knew what he was signing up for.” which, yes, at first glance just simply seems apathetic and like she doesn’t care.

but i believe the opposite; i believe vi cares, but she just can’t let herself feel or process any of those emotions too much bc it would all be too much considering how long she’s been suppressing her feelings and she would probably just break. vi doesn’t have time to do that AND emotionally recover, at least not now.

i also believe u can see just how much she cares when jayce and the enforcers leave and her expression shifts from this…

(watching jayce leave)

to this.

vi has a habit of showing a more apathetic or nonchalant and aggressive side of herself in order to protect herself from possible or perceived threats. but when she’s alone (or w someone she trusts), u can see how her walls begin to crack. u can see how her tough facade begins to falter and u can see that the death of the child affects her, even if she doesn't want to feel it.

i believe her speech to jayce (“you’ve always been apart of this !! you just never had to look it in the eye. one dead kid? there’s hundreds more where he came from, thanks to silco, and thanks to people like you who stuck their heads in the dirt.”) is more genuine than ppl give her credit for. it’s why she angrily strikes the pillar of shimmer afterwards; in her eyes, everything (it at least a lot) is directly silco’s fault.

HE’S the one who has the kids working in the mines to begin w, HE’S the one who killed vander and permanently destroyed her family, HE’S the one who took powder away and twisted her inside. silco has destroyed so much, so many other people, so many other children. and that HURTS, all of that hurts vi so much. and what does she often do when she’s hurting and wants an outlet bc she doesn’t want to process or feel her feelings? that’s right, she gets angry and she punches.

u have to understand that what keeps vi grounded and sane is her hope of and drive to permanently reunite w her sister and bring down silco’s empire, and she has been ruminating over that decision for the last 6-8 years while constantly trying to survive, so imagine how strong her resolve is, or strong it must be in order to be her guiding light in this life. she has to keep a largely or mostly one-track mind in order to keep herself together.

[paanzermensch]

Made a Hypothetical Endoskeleton for Larry after not drawing mechanical parts for so long. The best I could manage since this was all sketched out very late last night

[spotsupstuff]

day 11

logic won't let her be fully edgy but that doesn't mean she can't be annoyed by a goody two shoes

[edorazzi]

More Thunderbirds Are Go comics! 💖✨

A couple of belated Pride Month pieces plus Gordon giving Kayo a heart attack. Alan's lucky he's the baby of the family! 🌈

[ginnyluna]

i've seen "valgrace with werewolf!Jason", and i've seen the "Leo with mechanical prosthetic arms/legs" headcanons

but what if... what if we did both