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Setting Blurb: MacroCommunity Greater Somalia

The Somali Civil War reignited with the outbreak of the Third World War, with the breakaway East African Federation-backed Mogadishu government reasserting their claims over the breakaway Somaliland. The conflict spilled over into the Somali-speaking Ogaden in Ethiopia and Djibouti, and financial and military aid from the African Union and Arab League diminished as WWIII took its toll globally. The collapse of the United States and China caused a global wave of economic, political, and then societal collapse. The East African Federation withdrew from Somalia to maintain some semblance of stability on the home front, and the Mogadishu and Hargesia governments broke.

The generation of conflict that followed, known as the "Warlords' Wars", would see the emergence of protostates filling the vacuum created by the anti-climactic end of WWIII. Somalia's clans were quick to reassert themselves, and spent the Warlords period fighting for influence and territory. As the wars died down globally, a successor state to the Ethiopian government emerged to challenge the Somali clans of the Ogaden for control of the territory.

It was during this time that a growing alliance of warlords in the former United States, European Union, and China began approaching the remnants of ECOWAS and the East African Community to serve as springboards into incorporating the rest of the African continent. Fearing the new Ogaden War's potential spillover into eastern and central Africa resulted in a series of talks and border skirmishes that made Ethiopia and Somalia EAC protectorates (which was itself annexed into the Imperial League). Somalia retained the Ogaden (and Somali-majority areas in Kenya), and Ethiopia was placated with the annexation of Eritrea and non-Somali Djibouti.

The Eight Gobols: These eight provinces are the territory held by the extant clans and sub-clans that survived the Warlords' Wars period. The clans' territorial holdings were formally recognized by the early League government, and their leadership awarded collective governorship over the new MacroCommunity. Each Gobol is governed by a Xeer court, which oversees vocational councils (professions within the clan are held by one or more sub-clans) and maintains the clan militia.

Gosha Kaunti: The de facto capitol region of Greater Somalia, Gosha Kaunti is named for Somalia's Bantu-speaking minority. The Gosha have risen in prominence due to serving mediators for the clans around them (as their ancestors were not formally incorporated into the Somali clan system) should the Xeer courts be found unsatisfactory. The MacroCommunal governor's personal guards and a small detachment of Support Service Force security troopers help ensure that the clans find Gosha mediation to be more than satisfactory.

Land Force Demesne Djibouti: Carved out of the Somali speaking partition of Djibouti, this Land Force Demesne houses the East African third of Field Army Yellow's naval assets. Piracy still plagues the horn of Africa, with many in the Imperial Armed Forces believing that the pirates are receiving aid from the League's rivals.

@/rickybabyboy is literally just animal abuse. it's not cute or funny that the cat is dangerously overweight. stop putting this blog's posts on my dash, it's legitimately distressing that they're killing their pet.

he appears to be somewhere near the "serious risk" category for weight related issues. maybe the cat has a medical issue the owners haven't disclosed that'd explain this, but i sincerely doubt it.

disclaimer on this next part, i don't think money troubles bar you from pet ownership. if you're low income or on hard times, but are able to keep your and your pet's needs met, i don't see a problem. that being said, ricky's owners seem to be in a perpetually unstable situation. they're constantly using their obese cat to gain attention for fundraising posts. it'd be one thing if this were the case when the cat was healthy, but the cat is being abused and the owners don't even seem capable of meeting their own needs, let alone their cat's.

this blog shouldn't be getting nearly as much positive attention as it has.

ricky's owners found this post, went on a pissy rant, spread this to the animal abuse heckin chonkers fandom then blocked me.

you can call me names and rage in my notes. i'm not apologizing or deleting this. the point of this post is to spread awareness to other people that you're abusing your pet. i could not care less about what you think of me.

your cat is relatively short haired. anyone with eyes can see he's really not that fluffy. no respectable veterinarian would say anything about this is fine. what they might have said is that ricky hasn't had problems from his weight yet, not that his weight isn't presenting risk. i do applaud you for cutting down his food. i hope you can get his weight under control and provide a better living situation for your pet.

This cat is in the Extreme Risk category and is certainly suffering for it. That ain’t fluff, it’s fat.

This is what fluff looks like. Medium haired cat, looks massive but only weighs in at 14 lbs. Perfectly healthy weight based off his body measurements. If you shaved him naked, he would look lean.

The cat above would NOT be lean if you shaved him naked. He would be all rolls. Poor kitty. Poor excuse by the owners.

i feel like no one really wants to hear that sleep/exercise/nutrition/hydration are major factors in treating mental health issues bc we’ve all talked to that person who thinks your depression would be cured by one good session of goat yoga or whatever but unfortunately they do help and i’m chronically annoyed about it

The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

- Umberto Eco on fascism

dear diary,

today a tumblr user called me a fascist for saying they might feel better if they drink water

Anonymous asked:

Cat, what do you suggest for someone who had a really bad day?

worry not for im know somebeody whom is expert in vanquishinge bad days

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he is beinge summoned. remain calmb

cousin bartók is arrivinge imminently !

cousin bartók have arrived bearinge mighty furs & soothinge gift of moss. bad days are now vanquished permanentlé

I’m obsessed with this dude’s videos. The dialogue and cuts feel like they were ripped out of a Wes Anderson movie but it also doesn’t feel like he’s trying to mimic Wes Anderson

I've seen lots of drawings of turian babies were they look like miniature turian adults, and it makes sense, I'm not knocking it, but I think we should take a harder look at nature, specifically birds in nature, and embrace the idea that baby-through-adolescent turians look like naked muppets

Turian birth announcement