western cat twitters are like “HoOman” and japanese cat twitters are like “Today I will consider the state of things.”
you forgot russian cat tumblr
Russian cats are right in the middle of the two
actually japanese cat twitters sound verbose to us because the translation loses a detail: it’s all written in katakana, which is considered childish or illiterate!
so japanese cats are really saying “today i wiww conshidah the state of fings ^owo^”
Also the only reason the Russian sounds semi childish is because of the lack of definite or indefinite articles (the, a/an), which Russian just doesn’t have in its language anyway
The corrected translation with English grammar would be “I am a wave” which is neither childish or verbose its just factual and simple
Love the language specific additions
Philosophy in this thread:
Silly little potatoes can be found in every language and culture
Artists and poets can be found in every language and culture
Artists and poets
can be found in every
language and culture
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I just got described as an “ad hating commie” by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff
if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do… research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?
If I were writing about firefighters I’d also, in addition to just reading about them, take advantage of Our Blessed Internet to ask actual firefighters about how shit works. I’d do the same for a minority I’m not a part of.
I remember when there was this LiveJournal community where you could just ask about anything you needed for your novel - medicine, professions, vehicles, how things function in country X - and people who knew something about that would answer.
We need to bring this back.
And apparently just this summer they DID bring it back - it’s called Little Details and it’s on Dreamwidth!!!!
Remember, a world where everyone stays in their own boxes and only writes about their own narrow demographic is straight up a goal for racists. If you ever find yourself attempting anti-racism so hard you’ve looped back to “functionally the same thing racists want”, stop, take stock, and ask yourself where things went wrong.
if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do… research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?
If I were writing about firefighters I’d also, in addition to just reading about them, take advantage of Our Blessed Internet to ask actual firefighters about how shit works. I’d do the same for a minority I’m not a part of.
I remember when there was this LiveJournal community where you could just ask about anything you needed for your novel - medicine, professions, vehicles, how things function in country X - and people who knew something about that would answer.
We need to bring this back.
And apparently just this summer they DID bring it back - it’s called Little Details and it’s on Dreamwidth!!!!
Remember, a world where everyone stays in their own boxes and only writes about their own narrow demographic is straight up a goal for racists. If you ever find yourself attempting anti-racism so hard you’ve looped back to “functionally the same thing racists want”, stop, take stock, and ask yourself where things went wrong.
Haven’t figured out a politic way to word this but before saying someone/thing “makes you uncomfortable” please ask yourself this important question: is it any of your fucking business
At least say “I am uncomfortable with” instead. Own your own shit
“This person is making me uncomfortable” suggests they’re actively doing something to or at you. And sometimes people are! But sometimes. You are just uncomfortable with people when they aren’t doing anything. And that’s on you not them.
“The homeless man on the bus is making me uncomfortable” verses “I am uncomfortable with the homeless man on the bus.” You see the difference
Narilamb dancing doodles I made on art streams this last week, mainly trying to get the motion in mind for the Anchordeep Ballroom scene (its a lot easier writing motion and movement when you have a visual reference)
Also ngl I keep listening to ’Forbidden Friendship’ from HTTYD for this scene because the build up from ’ mock dance invitation’ to ‘timidly testing the waters’ to 'actually having tons of fun dancing’ to 'climatic pause after the dip + tension’ fits REALLY well
Photomatt following an open Zionist because he said Predstrogen sexually harassed minors (when everyone knows that’s a lie spread by TERFs without evidence) sure does explain a bit about the state of this hellsite.
for the record, matt has been very openly supporting israel on twitter & spreading conspiracies that china is using tiktok to trick american kids into supporting hamas. him being a zionist should not be a surprise
How do people associate HATING A LITERAL GENOCIDE with HATING ALL JEWS NEW HITLER
like
wtf??
It’s interesting how Israel constantly works to conflate Israel the state and Israel the people (all jews). They so hard want to be the be all end all representative of all jews in the public eye (without actually representing them). I’ve literally seen people calling Israel’s attempts to turn Israel into a geographic concept antisemitic because they are in effect trying to make it so that you are only truly Israeli (A jew) if you are a citizen of Israel the state, which isn’t very nice towards the Jews that don’t like genocides and ethnic cleansing, like the one they literally suffered.
Haven’t seen this yet so I’m gonna talk about it. The majority of people Elisabeth/Sue talk to throughout the movie are men. Elisabeth talks to women 1) on the set of her job before she gets fired and 2) when a waitress asks for her order. Every influencing voice and relationship she has is men.
Her boss telling her she’s too old to be in the business anymore, the other substance user who turns her on to it, her old classmate from high school who she turns to for a last ditch grab at validating her self worth. Her dealer on the phone is also a male voice.
Underlying her deep rooted self hatred is a desperate grab for male validation. When she’s Sue, her boss will do anything to keep her on the show. Society even reinforces his decision to fire Elisabeth by rewarding him with higher ratings. The men around her are obsessed with her to a comical degree (the line read on “youre even more beautiful than before” is practically goofy) while in Elisabeth, they either ignore her or treat her with disdain, even going so far as to get unnecessarily violet (what even was that reaction from the motorcycle guy?)
But despite all of this, in BOTH bodies, she hardly speaks. Men talk at her, not to her. The majority of her lines are when she’s alone, to herself or to the voice on the phone. When decisions are made, it’s without her input. The biggest source of control she has is choosing to take the substance and how she uses it.
All of this really made the movie feel like, to me, a depiction of the gruesome things women do to themselves in an attempt to chase male approval, whether or not they realize that male validation is the thing they are chasing. Elisabeth was chasing an impossible beauty standard that she herself spent her life perpetuating, and it was men at the top deciding what that beauty standard was.
It felt like a reflection of the countless arguments I’ve seen across many a social platform- “I wear makeup every day because /I/ want to” “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with my nose shape, I just don’t like how it looks on /my/ face” - but who taught you these things? what put those ideas in your mind in the first place? Who was influencing the person who was influencing you?
Because yes, it was Elisabeth’s decision to take the substance. But would she have taken it at all if she wasn’t a part of the hollywood beauty industry- one that specifically focuses on what women’s bodies are “supposed” to look like?
Hello, my name is Hanan Al-Salout, and I write to you with a heart full of sorrow.😓
The war in Gaza has destroyed our lives and taken everything from us. We are living a constant nightmare, and our souls are exhausted in an endless tragedy.😢💔
My baby Yaseen has been suffering from severe infections in his ear, lungs, and throat for days. My elderly mother-in-law, after a long coma caused by anemia, is now unable to walk without help. We are living through a war of extermination against innocent people. 💔😓
I urgently ask for your help to save my family. Your support could save our lives.💚
Donation link: https://gofund.me/b905b50e 🕊️
I recorded a video that is less than a minute long, I hope you hear it.. 🙏💚
In the heart of Gaza, we are facing a humanitarian disaster amidst an unrelenting war, where our lives have been completely shattered, and my family is in utter collapse. We are in desperate need of help to secure basic necessities like food and healthcare, and we are in profound despair. 💔😭💔
The situation is worsening with every passing moment, and with each minute, our suffering intensifies and darkness closes in on us. We urgently appeal to you with hopeful hearts to extend a helping hand, whether through donations or by spreading this message as widely as possible. Every donation and every share can save our lives and bring us a glimmer of hope in these harsh times. 🗣📢
Do not let our suffering continue in the shadows. Every moment of your support could be the difference between life and death for us. Thank you from the depths of our hearts for your support and help during these trying times. ❤️🙏💔LINK TO THIS CAMPAIGN HERE (LINK) !!!https://gofund.me/e94f48a3
Why is no one talking to me? No one checks on my family anymore. Are we no longer important, the six of us?! When will I find someone to care about us? Will it be when we are bombed or dead?
The people here helped me, and the Tumblr community is wonderful. I love you all.
But no one wants to check on my family anymore. I have four children who live every day in fear, with bombings and death, in a place without sanitation, filled with epidemics and diseases. Even food is now just canned goods. Is a child supposed to live their life here without any sweets or treats?
Are we dead?! Is that why no one answers or asks about us? Or has the world’s conscience died, so they don’t think about us or inquire about us?
My children, my wife, and I read your comments and your words, and the messages you send. Why have you stopped? No one is standing with us. You know, even internet and electricity here are hard to come by, and we walk a long way to reach a place just to tell you that we are still alive here in Gaza.
We hoped someone would fight with us, try to raise our voice to the world, send our campaign to friends, or even try to adopt our cause and reach out to people, asking them to write and share our story.
If I’m the only one here in Gaza trying to raise my family’s voice and save them, I won’t succeed alone.
I’m writing this because I can’t do it alone, and I hope you will support me and stand with me.
Just read this with your hearts. My family and I need your support with your own selves, minds, and consciences, not just donations, above all else.
I will attach a picture of my family here, hoping it will make someone look with their heart, talk to us, and say, “I will try to help you.”
They were three children living a normal, comfortable life with all their needs provided for. Nasser, 8 years old, Baraa, 4 years old, and Adam, 1 year old.
Our story with Adam: Adam was one year old when the war started and he left his home and the wonderful, dignified life. He was displaced to a tent without the minimum necessities of life. A team came to provide support and assistance and brought some food and fruits.
Adam’s reaction was strange. He attacked the fruits without realizing it. He ate them greedily. Adam began to ask his father for fruits on a daily basis as if he was exploring the world through them.
my followers know of @ibrahim-blogs’ vetted campaign. thanks to everyone’s kindness, he’s now two-thirds of the way to his goal. he still needs our help– but he and his sister hope to rally the same attention to their relatives, who are a lot lower on funds (just 2% of the way to their goal!!) and have more people to evacuate.
the first time i tried to bring attention to this campaign i accidentally posted the wrong link, and it was a few days until i could get around to reposting this, so id deeply appreciate if everyone reading would help me make up for lost time 🙏
Thank you brother for these kind words but but I am really sorry about my accounts being banned constantly brother but But I thank you very much, brother.
me: this is a background character who’s in one scene, has two lines, and is completely irrelevant to the rest of the story. i am going to stop obsessing over what to name him and use the random name generator on behindthename.com. i am going to accept the first thing it gives me and move the fuck on.
If you haven’t put together what all these things have in common yet, here’s the moral of the story: STOP TRYING TO CATEGORIZE PEOPLE. STOP TRYING TO PUT PEOPLE IN A GODDAMN BIOLOGICAL HIERARCHY. EUGENICS IS BAD, AND WILL ALWAYS BE BAD, NO MATTER WHO’S DOING IT.
THIS THIS THIS
I know that we as humans love to categorize and put this and people in boxes. WE DON’T NEED TO. It’ll be okay, I promise.
walked into a burger place to pick up my order and the girl behind the counter looked at my shirt funny so I look down and the shirt is a picture of a girl excited about eating a hamburger and fries. i’m such a fucking cartoon character right now. this is the shirt
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