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Art by the amazing @amgeryporcupine! ✨🫶🏼💕

Thank youu for commissioning!!! ❤️ I had a lot of fun making it! 🫶

some dumb thing that was probably already done before, but I just could not stop thinking about it

poor hashirama is still thinking they hate each other 😥

Happy birthday to my little meow meow 

Thinking about the blessed eyes AUs for Mdtb and idk guys but what about cursed eyes? What about lore for eyes left red by Amaterasu's wrath because she found their souls wanting? What about Tbrm, with his albinism, with his shakey vision and red eyes, being seen as cursed by the Uchiha for his poor vision rather than blessed for his red eyes?

!!! Exactly my train of thought! My first thought when I considered Uchiha opinion on naturally red eyes was that they'd find it insulting--a literal poor facsimile of the Sharingan that doesn't even work right. Like an incompetent imitation, or a stolen item damaged in its theft. It's obviously not real eye theft, so it wouldn't draw that kind of hostility/condemnation, but it's the sort of thing an Uchiha would see and sneer at, or do the Shinto equivalent of crossing themselves afterwards. Like warding off the evil eye (...which is a hilarious bit of phrasing there).

I can't see the Uchiha being all that accepting of a clanmate born with terrible vision. They wouldn't burn albino kids at the stake, but I feel like the kid would end up with a strong social expectation to develop the Sharingan and "make up" for the deficit. If you take the headcanon that blind veterans are highly respected among the Uchiha, then natural blindness/poor vision must be like...stolen valor.

I'm ecstatic to see people chiming in! It's kind of a surprise, too. I'm very reclusive and in my corner so I typically avoid continuing discussions but.

Specifically in this instance, I think it's also a bit of like... Amaterasu's blessing is for the Uchiha, and therefore even the naturally blind would be respected to some degree (They're still Amaterasu's children, souls of fire and eyes of coal!) if they're Uchiha bred.

But to expand upon the idea of cursed eyes: Amaterasu inflicting blindness upon "demons" (If we are to nod to the "White Demon" title given to Tobirama) or the unworthy, and therefore marking them as imposters so her children know who to avoid/oppose would make for an interesting dynamic within the Founders.

This was all just musings for one of my comics though ;; so yeehaw.

Yatagarasu Itachi for @naruto-mythology-zine's Naruto Mythology Zine! This was done for the month of June for the calendar 🥰

I had tons of fun with this and learned a lot!! Can't wait to do another Itachi for a zine hehe 💕💕💕

end of year WIP meme!

send me a 👀 and i’ll post a snippet of art/writing that i never got around to finishing this year (r.i.p)

Ok I want to say something controversial

But you are responsible for your own safe spaces. You can block tags, block words, block people.

“But i thought fandom was supposed to be a safe space” —yeah you have to curate it.

Unfortunately one persons’s safe space may be another persons’ trigger. That’s ok. Simply block them, block the tag, block the word etc. They can do the same for you.

Maybe I’m just out of touch, but I’ve been around since the days of “don’t like, don’t read” and that’s a good philosophy. If it squicks you, scroll past. If it causes you anxiety or upset, block! Plenty of people are responsive if you ask them to tag an upsetting trigger. And if they’re dicks about it, block em.

Since different people have different needs, one person’s safe space will be another’s Trauma Central.

I don’t know who said it first, but “I need to be able to express my anger without shame” and “I need to be away from yelling and loud noises” are both valid needs people can have for a safe space that really aren’t compatible with each other.

So are “I need to process my trauma” and “I need to not meet any trauma.”

Or “I want a safe space to tell/read the stories that speak to me” and “those stories are distressing to me.”

Insisting that your needs are the only needs anyone should have is not a safe space, it’s its own act of violence.

You don’t get to make others homeless to make the universe your personal safe space.

Gilded Eeveelution Drawings made by Jennifer Hiew  

How to protect yourself during stampede

this isn’t the usual thing I’d share on my stupid nerd blog, but this is SO important. I was nearly crushed in a crowd like this once. It was terrifying because you have NO control over the panicking mass of humans around you. you are just at the mercy of all this chaotic force. this is a real thing that can happen very suddenly! it did happen in the news recently! My situation was, the olympics was happening in my city, I was on my way home from school, and a crowd of people suddenly flooded into the street around me. in seconds it went from, busy-city-street-crowded, to, wtf I can’t even move crowded. I was so pressed against the backpack of the man in front of me, my feet lifted off the ground a moment. People were climbing lamp posts, signs, bus shelters, trees, everything to get up out of it. it was like the street became an ocean of people, and all the people’s survival instincts were making them dumber. everyone was yelling. no one knew how to solve it. police, fire fighters and medics saved us by breaking the locks on the inside of the mall we were trapped next to. a huge group flooded into the building, releasing a bit of the pressure on the people outside. I was in that group that got in.

We were trapped in the mall awhile. Because the olympics was on, they had big screens in a few sitting areas of the mall that would normally be showing the games. but now the coverage was focused on this crowd surge. They showed a helicopter shot of the building we were now in, totally surrounded by colorful dots. a solid mass of humans with no space between.  I know someone was partially trampled and needed medics, because I saw that, but i don’t know the statistics on who else was hurt, hopefully no one killed! I don’t know if these methods can definitely save you, but they might give you a better chance. so watch and share!

Sharing to my own stupid nerd blog for the same reason, this is SO IMPORTANT. Human crushes are one of the most unexpected ways to die. People go out to a show or a sports game, and make it there, but they never come back. Other strategies include staying away from large obstacles (like fences) that you could get crushed against, and doing your best to stay above the crowd. Try to climb onto something if you can.

And also — not to get nitpicky with deadly tragedies, but they’re called “human crushes,” not “stampedes.” It’s an important difference in description and also in respect. The deaths usually happen because the victims are pinned together in a tight space, they can’t breathe (as in the video) and they suffocate. “Stampede” doesn’t convey what actually happened to those people. The crush that happened in Seoul recently wasn’t because people “stampeded,” it was because they couldn’t move at all and they suffocated. But calling it a “stampede,” you’d think it was the people themselves that ran over each other, like wild animals. It’s disrespectful and untrue.

Horrifyingly, the victims of many human crushes have been blamed for their own deaths, which are usually purely accidental or due to criminal mismanagement from authorities. If you’re in a mental place to read about tragedies and police corruption, check out the Hillsborough Disaster, in which 97 people died due to the incompetence of the police, who then blamed everything on the victims: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster

If you can’t play the video:

1. Stand like a boxer. Nice wide stance, arms up like you’re preparing to either throw a punch or shield against one, i.e. elbows bent by your waist and fists by your shoulders. That will keep some space around your chest

2. If you fall and can’t get up, roll onto your side and curl up in the foetal position

if twitter existed in the pokemon universe, there would absolutely be eevee twitter accounts that post stuff like this

i made some more and you can follow my second account @poketwt for more content like this

@mx-kit

they should invent a day that does not exhaust me and suck the life out of me

Healthy people who say stuff like “they’re still doing things so they can’t be in THAT much pain” need to understand that after a certain point pain becomes boring. No, you never get used to the pain, but you do gradually become bored. After months or years of mindless suffering in bed eventually you learn how to watch TV, do a light hobby, etc., even while in extreme pain, simply because chronic pain is incredibly dull and humans need entertainment.

At a certain point you reach the “it’s going to hurt anyway, might as well do whatever the fuck I want”.

people who’ve never experienced chronic pain assume it’s like acute pain, which most of them have experienced, and they “know what that looks like” - so if you have chronic pain (which your body adapts to in the same way that you don’t notice smells after the first minute, but it’s still bloody well there), or if you’re neurodivergent and just don’t perform pain in the way they’re expecting, they’ll just assume you’re in no pain - and this is dangerous bullshit, especially when they’re people who are paid to look after your health and wellbeing

Louder for the people in the back!

THIS IS SO OVER THE TOP HELLO??? WHO ARE YOU???

supremely impressed by the fact that the pumpkins are actually lipsynced to the music

This is a good example of what my brain looks like inside.

IT GOES ON FOR TWO MINUTES??????

Eskom would commit suicide. Actually they'd kill everyone and then themselves and hold the funeral by candle light.

Eskom is the electricity provider for most of South Africa, by the way, and we've been having power cuts for something like ten years.

Loaf won't have a fear of humans as long as Ash has anything to say about it