gofundme.com/LMFwater 

Flint, Michigan w/o tap drinkable water for 1,806 days is a “true” emergency. The contamination of Flint’s water was authorized by Flint’s Governor, Rick Snyder & his lackeys.

This GoFundMe is little less than 20k from being fully funded!! If everyone gave just a little something it’d be funded in no time!

Spiny Lobster Dragon

If you ever wondered what does fuel shortage look like in the end of the world just look at portugal right now. Shit’s crazy

Truck drivers are on strike, specifically the ones who carry dangerous stuff—like gasoline. The strike was announced months ago, but nobody gave a shit, and since yesterday there has been no gas coming into the country. This has nothing to do with the government either, it’s a matter of private companies paying their employers less than 600€ a month to drive for hours carrying dangerous materials. As a result, people freaked out and flocked to gas stations everywhere to fill in their tanks. Where I live, the entire area, only two gas stations have gas left. In left than 12h, people sucked the country dry of gas out of fear. You’d stay in line for 30 minutes trying to get some gas, literally anywhere, and you’d risk the chance of there being nothing left for you. Buses and taxis have shortened their services because they can’t refill. Uber has sent out notes saying they can’t provide any more services. Our local ferries have announced they can’t cross the river after Friday because that’s how long their gas lasts. Airplanes aren’t flying, a lot of flights are being cancelled because they’re also short on fuel. The government had to call in the fucking military, though I’m not sure what for. Whatever gas is there left, government agencies are rationing it towards emergency vehicles. Literally the entire country is slowly freezing. My boyfriend only has enough gas til the weekend, if this situation hasn’t been solved until then, he can’t go to work. A lot of people are in the same situation. I cant be sure if I am able to get on a bus, but chances are, in a few days I won’t even be able to leave my fucking house lmao this is absolute chaos, I have never seen anything like this and it’s looking like this shit won’t be settled anytime soon because the employers absolute refuse to negotiate with the Union that set up the strike. Literally employers do not care that an entire country is frozen, with nothing, not even ambulances, and all because apparently they refuse to pay a little more than 600€

The entirety of Algarve is on the verge of touristic collapse. An entire region hasn’t got a single drop of gas, thousands of tourists stranded because they can’t fly home and cancellation after cancellation from others who refuse to come to this mess right now. I admit I never imagined the monumental impact gas has on our lives but it’s been a eye-opening experience

This is all true! And let me add another perspective.

My mom works in a retirement home. Half of her staff isn’t coming to work because they live halfway across the district, food isn’t coming because their cars have no gas.They still have enough for a week but yeah… And they were already understaffed.

My stepdad’s family owns a drinks distribution company (water, soda, milk) and their trucks also have barely any gas left so a lot of restaurants and cafés have started to suffer from them not being able to meet their needs.

Shattered Heritage (2014) // A documentary about the destruction of Iraq’s heritage and culture by American forces during the 1991 and 2003 invasions, through the looting of Iraqi art and the indiscriminate bombing of museums, universities, theaters and libraries. 

so i walked into the lab today and i did a double take because i saw

a friend

a tiny friend

a tiny origiami dragon friend

TINY GOOD GREEN BOI!!

Encounter: an extremely small Green Dragon

Soft Duck

Soft Duck’s family had gone on vacation only to come home to discover that their dog had missed them so much, he’d taken to chewing on stuffed animals for comfort including Soft Duck, the daughter’s spirit animal.  Here is the diagnosis photo they sent:

As you can see, she still had her head, feet, and bottom, albeit with wounds, most of one wing, a bit of another, and some strips.  Her torso was basically gone.  The initial plan was no spa (due to time) and just to put her back together.  We were to preserve as much as possible of her original self, including her ribbon.  Scars were a given, but she did earn them.

First step when she arrived at the hospital was choosing transplant fabric:

As you can see, there were several options.  As her people thought about it, I worked on her foot holes:

They decided on the soft velvet, but also agreed that a spa was now in order.  It was a great decision, because the velvet was a near perfect match once she was clean.

Here are Soft Duck’s wings, the first part I worked on….

Of course she needed a heart with some of her surviving stuffing:

Then her first chubbiness and shaping photos were sent:

Now everything was still a bit rough, and with someone like duck, where there are only a few photos of her original self, this stage takes some adjusting.  I thought she was a bit chubby here, but didn’t know how chubby she was originally.  Her people agreed and we removed quite a bit of stuffing.  In these photos, we were trying to decide whether to take in her spine seam as well (they decided not to):

Next chubbiness photos… 

but something was still off… Oh!  the wings should attach differently!  A bit more adjusting, and she was ready to fly home!

Ready for more hugs, she flew back cross country.  Her people wrote:

Soft Duck is home, safe and sound.  She looks terrific.  We have been both grinning and shedding tears.  You’re a miracle worker!  We are incredibly relieved, and we are very, very grateful.

I’m so tired of trans people having to be experts at fucking everything from a VERY young age (medicine, feminism, sociology, history…) In order to justify our existence to cis people.

Like it is so unfair because I feel that I have to know every fucking argument used against the trans community and be able to disprove it because every single cis person that has known I’m trans, most of them adults way older than me, in or outside of lgtb “safe spaces”, feels the need to use me as if I were the Google Search engine. They literally will ask you a hundred questions, make you validate their bullshit opinions and then judge the whole community based on what you answer and if you coddle them enough or not. Everytime, it feels like taking an exam but 100% worse because you know if you are ‘mean’ or ignorant, they will blame all trans people… Lol

Putting this one behind a link due to length and because it discusses individual and systemic abuses against children; that is, the ableist ways they are pushed past their limits and put into a state of fight or flight on a regular basis.

Takeaways:

Enjoy the discussion.

acting like polyamory will solve cheating is ….. cracked . lol. infidelity is rooted in lack of respect for your partner and a general absence of integrity and decency. cheating doesn’t happen bc u are Constrained By Oppressive Monogamy. it is a choice. and you are an asshole

the whole “fiction doesn’t affect reality” argument is actually kinda racist…

people talk about like how finding nemo and jaws are great examples but nobody ever talks about how fiction has shaped our perceptions of different racial and ethnic groups like do you think the media has no hand in why alot of ignorant white people think africa is a desertland and not a continent of different countries, full of rich and diverse cultures, beautiful buildings and riches? or why they think asia is only japan, korea and china? when asia is also india, bhutan, the Philippines, nepal, etc? do you think that media and fiction hasnt allowed whites to view black people as ignorant and lazy thru cartoons and minstrel shows? like if you really think what youre seeing on tv doesnt affect reality and how people think then like. you must be fuckin stupid.

there are several studies which prove this by the way. like how black children (and white girls) self esteem is negatively impacted by media.  

studies show our perception about asian americans, and their perceptions of themselves are impacted by media.

there are harmful psychological effects on native americans thanks to sports mascots. 

stereotypes of latino/latina/latines in media have - you guessed it - harmful effects - including political ones 

how about how inaccurate race and poverty images in the news effect our views on welfare?

positive images of disability effect disabled people positively, where as negative images effect them negatively 

the availability of GLB roles on TV positively impacts the gay community

and i honestly i could go on and on and on and on 

i know i know water is wet, all these studies to tell you what common sense could. but like … there is very real research out there that shows fiction has a very real harmful impact on minority communities. and that positive representation has a positive effect on these communities. 

so no. fiction is never just fiction. and frankly people who think fiction is just fiction can fuck off.  

And as creators of fiction we owe it to ourselves and our audience to be aware of these things and to do our very best not to feed that particular beast.

Whoever is using Jaws or Finding Nemo as examples of fiction not influencing people is wrong. Both of those had a huge ecological effect and negatively impacted conservation efforts.

If a fictional shark can put a species on the endangered list just think of what centuries of racist portrayals of people of color has on society. 

Fiction is where people learn their first lessons on interacting with other people, other cultures, and new ideas. Fiction can change minds and save lives, but it can also destroy lives. 

Never, ever underestimate the power of fiction

Yup. We are the stories we tell ourselves. The good news for writers is that fiction DOES matter. But that good news comes with the responsibility to be thoughtful, ethical, and progressive with the characters and narratives we put forth into the world. Let’s not reinforce the same old shit!

Sidenote: I think the whole “It’s just a story” argument is a weak excuse made by people that want a blank check to write whatever-the-fuck-they-want. Then, when confronted about how they’re perpetuating racist/sexist/etc. bullshit, they come back with “It doesn’t matter.” Ironically, those are usually the same people who freak out when they do an all-female Ghostbusters reboot or something, but whatever…

it fucks me up so much that every day for like 7 years i’d travel an hour on the bus to school, study for 6 hours with only a 45-minute break at lunch, attend 2 extra-curriculars afterwards, travel home again, do my homework, meet up with or text my friends, then spend like 5 hours online doing jackshit before finally falling asleep at like 3am and waking up 3 hours later and do the same thing all over again all while battling anxiety, depression and hormones and somehow manage not to die prematurely of exhaustion or suffer a permanent nervous breakdown. nowadays i cry from the sheer effort of getting out of bed every morning.

actually wait i’m not done bc i just realised that the fact that i had no choice but to force my body beyond its limits pretty much every single day for a period of several years during a crucial stage of my development in order to maintain a balanced work/social life is literally the reason why i’m now so ill and depressed that getting out of bed every morning is a herculean task all on its own. the expectations placed on me and millions of others during our teenage years is literally making us sick.

Reblog if you think asexuals and pansexuals deserve to be part of the LGBTQ+ community

Im trying to prove a point

Since I’m a panromantic asexual…

*deep breath*

REBLOG YOU COWARDS

giant salamanders look so sloppy. so moist. so jiggly.

Plormp

man, I have very little sympathy for people who’re like “I gotta let them play in traffic, my cat WAILS and acts MISERABLE unless I let them outside!” 

because like……….so does mine? at a certain point each day Grim decides she wants out, and until that happens she a) follows me about SCREAMING, and b) sits atop whatever I’m doing and bites my hands. this is not an exageration

wanna know what I do? I take her out. either supervised in my backyard or on leash in the front

she naps in the sunlight, eats copious amounts of grass, rolls in dirt, and murders butterflies. after 15-30 minutes (equivalent to the time you’d spend on a neighbourhood dog walk) I take Grim back in, and she happily sleeps/plays/cuddles indoors for the remainder of the day

it’s legitimately low-effort

This party’s gettin CRAZY

FOOLISHNESS, DANTE, FOOLISHNESS.

There’s a third secret one, that one says edward.

At first I planned to do a two-days-drawing and then it took me two weeks.

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I’m also making a time-lapse video of the drawing process and it will be publicly posted on my youtube channel soon :)