Dea/Sea , Dot, she/her pronouns, even tho i wouldn't correct you ///
I'm apologize to anyone who put up with my old theme i was edgy and 14. Never will i ever be 14 and edgy again.
Hello everyone, although I wouldn’t have expected to post stuff like this, this is a time of dire need.
At around 4 AM GMT+3, an earthquake hit the southern provinces of Türkiye: Kahramanmaraş and Hatay with the power of 7.8
The largest earthquake ever recorded in the region since 1939.
People were’t able to escape as they were sleeping, there is over 5k injured right now and the estimated death count surpasses 16k.
The entire army and the special forces have been directed to the area to aid the rescue effort with many nations directing aid to Türkiye.
There is literal people, sharing their and their family’s locations on Twitter, under the tons of rubble for the authorities to find them. over 140 THOUSAND building are reduced to dust and foreign report that the damage costs are estimated around 3 billion USD.
As a Turkish citizen myself, although thankfully not affected by it due to living far more west, I am devastated and exhausted by this. That my nation who is already struggling from many angles, stuck by such a natural disaster that affects so many people. It’s just so exasperating.
For the ones who are eligible, I really really urge that you donate to the Turkish Red Cresent and AFAD (The Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Office) to help the thousands and thousands of people struggling for their lives. I will be personally donating also and they accept donations in USD and Euros. For the ones not available to donate, plase share this post around more communities so we can spread the awareness of the situation to more people. I am linking the necessary websites below. (THE WEBISTES HAVE AN ENGLISH OPTION IN THE TOP RIGHT)
these are all official websites of organisations that we know will be part of the rescue, and if you have more please share for all the areas and countries that’s affected by the earthquake.
i don’t know if i can do this blue sky app anymore
Dril, on twitter a couple of months ago, said that he would block every single user with a blue checkmark. people on bluesky, a website that is not twitter, have said that this is bad because content creators and sex workers sometimes buy blue checks on twitter to advertise their content. that’s literally the entire thing leading up to these posts
If a flaming old queen in a cape wants to kill off racists in power I say have at it
That wasn’t even his plan!! His plan was to make the senator a mutant, so he’d have to advocate for mutants or be destroyed by his own policy, and tbh. It’s the best villain plan I’ve ever seen. The goo was the plan unexpectedly failing. 9/10 only bc he was going to kill Rogue. Next time use someone willing to sacrifice herself for the cause, pls. No further notes
I like how his plan in like real world terms, was to turn desantis gay but instead he exploded
Hi artists if you’re reading this I need you to know that it’s EXTREMELY necessary to have a folder on your phone called “bragging” where you save the screenshots of your favorite comments and sweet messages and shares and artist follow backs. So when you feel like your art sucks and you’ve only ever received praise out of pity, you can look back and realize that that feeling is wrong. The best way to combat imposter syndrome is to record your accomplishments. Keep reminders of your hard work and its reward. Actively try to be self-obsessed. Ok that’s all, go eat some fruit while you’re at it!
i’ve been thinking about hobie spiderverse since i came out of the movie theater, about how on a superficial level he acts like every other stereotypically alt character, stealing and instigating and bantering and being chaotic and rebellious and looking Cool™ but on a second look it’s so so clear that every single thing he does is motivated by kindness and compassion towards his friends in general and miles in particular, and that’s so viscerally truly punk of him
the already famous palm suggestion that makes miles break out of miguel’s containment thing. miles initially reads this as condescending but hobie’s genuinely trying to help
already he’s looking out for miles by trying to keep him away from hq, a place where he knows miles isn’t welcome and might be in danger
now, they get to hq and he immediately starts lifting stuff to homebrew a watch for miles, a guy he’s known for five minutes (bc you can’t convince me he didn’t already have a bunch prepped for gwen and the other spider-people he trusts). he even lampshades it with the line above.
he’s questioned miles’ motives to join the spider society and he knows they’re the same as his own: it’s literally just to get a watch, to have a means to travel dimentions, to see his friends, to build community. he’s already made the decision to grant that ability to miles without subjugating him to the oppressive restrictions and requirements of the spider society. at this point we know he’s strongly ideologically opposed to the society and he later in this scene admits he’s only there to look out for gwen, just like miles
this one makes me insane. it’s a “are you safe at home in your dimension? do you have one? do you need a place to stay?” bc we know he’s given one to gwen, who’s not safe and does not have nice parents and has been crashing in hobie’s dimension for the previous months
and then he tries again to warn miles off the spider society
and when push comes to shove and all the other spider-people are set on stopping miles from going home and changing his timeline he’s the only one in miles’ corner
btw notice how the palms thing is the first and last thing he says to miles in this film?
anyway. he was in this movie for like 15 minutes tops, showed up exclusively to hype up his friends and protect them by whatever means necessary, adoption papers and illegal interdimensional tech included, and he looked that cool the whole time while doing it. most character ever.
I also want to note that the exact moment that Hobie went from “Oh sure I’ll help this guy” to “This is someone that I will finally blow this place up for” is when Miles saves the police commissioner and disrupts a canon event. Miles doesn’t know what will happen, but he DOES know that someone he trusts (Gwen) tried to stop him from saving someone, and rather than listening, his immediate reaction was “No, someone needs saving, I’m going to save them, I don’t care what it costs me.”
After that, Hobie goes from just friendly banter and helpfulness to being on Miles like glue and hyping him up at every possible moment.
He saw Miles in action for a whole five minutes, and immediately goes “This is what it’s about. THIS kid understands what it means to be a hero fighting an oppressive system. He IS willing to make sacrifices, but refuses to sit back and be told he HAS to make sacrifices. THIS is what Spider-man should be.”
Hobie has a line about the Quantum Mold, saying “It’s a metaphor for capitalism” that is clearly meant to be a joke. But, as you pointed out, all his stuff that is ‘meant to be a joke’ is still actually genuinely sincere. And he is RIGHT, actually. It kinda IS a metaphor for capitalism. The Spider Society has basically gone “These are people that have to die for the greater good. In order to keep the system working. If we don’t stand back and just let them die, the whole system falls apart.” and when that happens, it takes the form of the Quantum Mold. That uh…. that very much IS (or at least can be read quite easily as) a metaphor for Capitalism.
I have no doubt that Hobie is sitting there thinking “If we can contain this stuff, why are we still just letting people die?”, and he sees in Miles someone asking the same question, and willing to fuck around and find out because saving the life of even a single person is far more important than maintaining a system that allows them to die.
If you’re a writer of any sort, I think your story needs to pass the Unhinged Powerpoint test.
If neither you nor a reader can make an Unhinged Powerpoint about it - the characters, the lore, the whole thing, whatever - you must re-evaluate it in some way.
The Unhinged Powerpoint is the sign of a story that is affecting people. Because they stayed up until 4 AM writing half-baked thoughts in comic sans about something. And that’s worth everything.
I don’t get it, man. why. why do we have to homogenize everything. why does every product have to look and behave and feel the exact same way. why can’t tumblr maintain its individuality? why can’t it lean into the things that make it a unique and refreshing offering instead of scrambling to make it a carbon copy of twitter? sucks, man. sucks.
it’s just like. this broadcasts loud and clear that the people behind the curtain have no pride or faith in this site at all. that tumblr, as a whole, has no worth or merit unless it’s somehow tricking the larger internet community into thinking it’s actually another site. and the users are supposed to celebrate this? where’s the dignity? where’s the self-respect? where’s the joy? it’s disheartening and embarrassing to be forced to conform. smh.
i know we’ve all been warned that art is the biggest snitch but no one tells you that reading your own writing will make you realize things about yourself that you wouldn’t confess to while being waterboarded
