i am a baby dragon

“The big social networks, which don’t seem very keen to do anything about the conspiracy theories and rightwing hate groups hijacking their platforms, have been very active in battling breasts.”

Art By IG: @vskafandre

Here’s the ones I came up with so far

“You ever just eat a well balanced diet and exercise daily to flex on heart disease?”

“You ever just boil chilies to flex on your eyes?”

“You ever just be cool to flex on your kids?”

“You ever just use sanitizer to flex on 99.9% of all bacteria and viruses?”

“You ever just turn all the lights and up the heater to flex on Dad?”

Catholic edition:

“You ever just like receive the sacraments frequently to flex on Satan?”

like… ok… sure, of course mainland chinese people would care less about who wears cheongsam. but you’re kind of missing the whole point. most of the poc i’ve seen who are upset about cultural appropriation aren’t mainlanders. they’re fckn diaspora. 

nobody in mainland china is going to judge you if you wear a cheongsam to a formal event. but let’s pretend you’re the asian chick in your mostly-white school in the US, and your mom pushes you to wear a cheongsam to prom. you’re probably going to get the “oh of course the asian girl wears her asian dress to prom” reaction from the people around you. so you fight your mom about the cheongsam, because you want to fit in with Everyone Else. you don’t want to be the Chinky Girl in the Chinky Dress. 

your beautiful cheongsam sits in your closet, until one day, a stray clothes hanger snags on the lace overlay and shreds your dress and you throw it out.

and then a few years later, you see some white girl wearing the dress your mom wanted you to wear, but you were too ashamed to wear because you didn’t want to be a stereotype.

We haven’t guarded against her return. 

Now, they are called to do battle for one of the ugliest necklaces I have ever seen–but my eyes are mortal; who knows what powers are hidden inside the rainbow Swarovski crystals? They stab at each other with swords, then must cook a meat stew to please their aunt’s hound. They chop at vegetables, but where is the meat? What is the meat? In one bowl is charred bones, in the other, a gelatinous primordial mud. Then, they must play a song on the piano, a song that should require only two hands, though they have four. As they play, their past twin selves orbit one another, reading, burning fireworks, standing on opposite ends of a bridge and passing a star to one another. A piano wire snaps, a discordant shattering of the moment. They laugh! How they laugh. What is funny? Why am I so afraid?

Then we come to it, their secret, final test:

Never forget each other.

Never forget each

Never forget

Never

Their brittle tinkling laughs ring forth again.

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Lol have you met me? I’m a huge coward, and as such, I often have quite a lot of trouble talking about bravery!

For me, that scene is about protectiveness first and foremost – about family and loyalty. Bellamy spent his entire life protecting Octavia with all he had. His sister, his responsibility. And in his head, Raven is Finn’s Octavia. If Octavia was shot, Bellamy wouldn’t just stick to the plan. He’d stop and review the plan to make sure Octavia survives. So the fact that Finn isn’t stopping to reevaluate everything is so completely removed from Bellamy’s life experience he can’t help his knee-jerk reaction to Finn’s behavior. Cowardice is an easy accusation in this case, because it doesn’t require going into persona stuff – doesn’t require talking about family, and how Raven should be Finn’s fucking sister. Having a sibling is so foreign to their culture that I doubt Bellamy even has the language to talk about it, despite having the experience of it. I think it’s much more about love than about courage. For Bellamy, it’s easy to understand what Raven does: building a capsule, coming down to the ground, those are things people do for family. Finn, on the other hand, seems like a freaking alien, and I often have an impression that Bellamy reacts to him so aggressively because he just can’t fucking wrap his head around how this guy functions.

Oh wow, raven having the shitty mother that she had would have had to grow up being very resourceful and independent. Some people in her section’s would take pity on Rosa’s kid (Raven’s mother) and give her food and/or old clothes. Raven would never ask though. Raven and Bellamy had always been neighbors but never really paid attention to one another; Bellamy was too busy growing up doing his best to keep his sister safe and hidden and that meant being quiet/low key. Raven was a genious and started selling her services ( fixing and/or building things and stuff) in exchange of whatever she needed that day, it was mostly food though. Raven and Bellamy officialy meet when raven is 12 and bell is 16. He came to her so she could repair an old hologram machine that showcased landscapes from the ground before everything turned to shit. He wanted to give it to O for her birthday ( she was turning 9 and kept asking questions about life outside the room……). Raven agreed but in return he’d have to pay her a favor that she’d collect when the time comes (she’d heard about him enrolling in the ark security guard and was sure that could come in handy in the future).

So he starts coming over to make sure she studies, because holy shit, getting into Zero G training at 13 could turn her life upside down. He tries to bring her food and clothes so she can study instead of working, and when he has nothing to spare, he reads her textbooks out loud to her so she can multitask and actually get some sleep at night. 

At some point, she figures out he’s hiding something, and that it has to do with his home, but no matter how she tries, she can’t get any solid info out of him. Eventually, she lets it go.

Just pointing it out, because wow RUDE. Language as the thing inferior to the mental state and experiance, because even though they do have a word - SIBLINGS - and even though they do have a literature - AUGUSTUS AND OCATVIA - it’s do hard for Bellamy to describe what he feels because no one else on the Ark could ever relate to it.

And then he meets Raven and Finn and thinks that Finn should get it, the protectiveness and the love but it turns out he’s got it completely wrong - it’s Raven all along. It’s Raven who’s got the capacity for the love he feels too, even though she doesn’t understand the word SIBLING in the most sincere way either. It’s close enough, though.

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

(…) looking at each other like they’re not sure what the waiting limit is on these things.

fake novel prompt: the log: the daily lives of the crew of the discovery

sister-grimmer said: Star Trek meets Parks and Rec! and greenkneehighs said: Star Trek TOS meets “Pride and Prejudice”

the discovery is a spaceship designed to explore the galaxy, make contact, and experience daring and exciting missions- for some of the crew. the rest of the crew is run by mo, the ship’s extremely dedicated (some would say overly so…) personnel manager who oversees day-to-day basics of the ship. she constantly butts heads with the ship’s captain, a dashing man named tip. (she once overheard him call her position “useless” and she’s never forgiven him.) mo’s crew consists of the less flashy members of the discovery, such as: malek, the ship’s cook who can make any meal and is terrified of guns, and rain, the ship’s historian who knows more about alien civilizations than she’s letting on. it’s filled with mishaps and adventure and friendship!