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pls give me 1(one) reason aces have ever been oppressed, and 1(one) example of aces being a part of lgbt history(before 2004 at least) and then maybe i’ll consider the idea that aces belong in the lgbt community lol

Do you remember anything fun that you’ve made as a kid? I was really proud of this “camera” I made out of a tea box. I filled it with hand-drawn “photographs” and was very disappointed when people and objects wouldn’t reenact them accurately enough at my request.

To everyone who sees this:

My home country, Myanmar (Burma) is in a serious situation.

On the first of February 2021. the military seized power. They had detained government officials, including our State Counsellor, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and our president, U Win Myint.

Every form of connection, both wifi and mobile data, all was cut off this morning. We did not know what was happening for the whole of the morning, until 5 in my house when the internet was back on.

They had cut all news channel, we do not know what really is happening inside our country other than their power seizure, and we do not know what is happening in the world right now. Every news channel except the military owned are now cut.

There are now curfews to stay at home after 8pm in Yangon, whether the same law apply to other cities are unknown.

There is not much we can do as citizens other than hope that our little voices reach the world. The best we can hope for is.

I am in the dark and cannot shed much light on the situation. You might have heard and know better by now. The 8888 uprising is one that had happened in the past, we hope this is not another one. Some think that the worst may result in our country disappearing off the face of the Earth, but I can only hope for the best.

The internet and electricity may be cut off again at 12 in the night, Myanmar Time, but some said this is a rumour. I do not know yet.

Spreading awareness on this situation is extremely important to us, we are no strangers to being left in the dark corner for a long time.

Speaking from my heart, I hope that we can stand as a union of humanity, rather than divided by any borders or nationalities. The military oppression will not only affect our country, our children, our lives to the biggest extent, it can tear the centuries our country had survived into nothingness. In the 88 uprising, countless bodies had been buried alive, the streets had been covered with blood, and tears drown the country. We can only hope this is not 88 again. 

To every bystander, to help us, spreading awareness is important. It’s extremely important to research as well and get to the bottom ( and avoid circular reporting), and I will try to explain as much as possible if there is time. 

There was another announcement that all travel to outside the country will be shut down till April 30.

This is a petition you can sign:

https://www.change.org/p/boris-johnson-we-would-like-to-report-about-the-military-coup-in-myanmar-burma

sometimes you need to do the hard thing. study for your test even if it’s boring and you want to avoid it. get up an hour early to exercise even if you feel like death. go out of your way to help someone else even if it’s inconvenient. do something alone even though you’re afraid of being judged. go somewhere new even if it’s scary and disorientating at first. confess to the person who makes u blush even if it means risking rejection. let go of your old habits even though it feels like you can’t live without them. it’s supposed to be hard. life isn’t going to have amazing rewards if you’re always feeling comfortable.

Stay safe guys♥️

hey so protip if you have abusive parents and need to get around the house as quietly as possible, stay close to furniture and other heavy stuff because the floor is settled there and it’s less likely to creak

source

tell me something nice

some things i’ve learned while studying in quarantine

drink more water instead of more coffee.

weekly goals are bullshit. set yourself 3-day goals. you’ll be less laid-back.

don’t just mindlessly stare at words. before you start studying, know your approach to it. have a plan.

summarizing the concept in your own words is the key part of taking notes. don’t just copy things down, convert them into your own way of talking, your own vocabulary, no matter how dumb and unprofessional it sounds.

don’t let the “studyblr aesthetic” fool you. studying doesn’t have to be pretty. summaries and notes can be messy as long as they’re comprehensible. you can always rewrite and reorganize them later. (honestly, you better do. and you better keep them.)

don’t throw away the papers you’ve solved your problems in. staple them to the fucking textbook. you need to see them constantly. cause you’ll need reminders of how far you’ve came, when you’re feeling discouraged.

don’t be an armchair analyst for your issues. if you have an idea then act on it.

remember: the exact point where it becomes difficult, is where your growth begins. take a deep breath, and try to focus on the paragraph in front of you.

get off your high horse and understand that if you’re a zero, you won’t go to 100 in a couple of days. first, you’ll need to reach 30, then from 30 to 60, and then from 60 to 90. nobody is 100 everyday. that happens very rarely.

you need to have fun everyday. you need to have peaceful time every single day. even on exam night. especially on exam night, actually. so make sure you’ve studied enough so you can have some time to yourself.

once you’re on a roll and in need of some challenge to stay on track, start writing down your studying hours. tell yourself you’re not allowed to do less than 80% of what you did yesterday. whatever the hell it was, even just one hour. so if yesterday you really studied for like, say 8 hours, today your goal is to study for at least 6 and a half hours. if you can’t keep up with that, make it 70%, or 60%. 

be forgiving of yourself. be kind to yourself. even if you bounced back and lost your streak. start again. as slowly as you did before. take your time. it’s okay, you were there once you can get there again.

BYE KSKDLAMDKDSM

perhaps those who seek whump/angst fics and those who seek soft/sweet fics are not so different….maybe we all long for what we think will heal us….revenge for some….love for others…..there is a fine line between tenderness and pain that we all must explore and when real life falls short we turn to the characters we project on for the catharsis we cannot give ourselves…..

Folklore Reactions

going to do this in sections, so this is just tracks 1-5. I still know nothing! (well, and also everything.) But I wanted to capture some of my initial feelings. :) 

the 1: after several listens I understand so much more clearly what this song is doing and it ISN’T deeply sad, like I first thought. there’s a lightness to it. it’s a song about looking back at something nostalgically and being a little apologetic for doing that. “in my defense I have none for never leaving well enough alone/for digging up the grave another time.” she’s shaking her head at herself, acknowledging that she can’t help being this way, being so retrospective. the details are so fun and vivid. sunday matinees, bus stops, rosé flowing, but what i love about it so much is the main hook of the song. “it would’ve been fun, if you would’ve been the 1.” because it doesn’t matter how long it’s been, it doesn’t matter that this song isn’t a deeply personal one for taylor in that it’s not about her (and i don’t think it is, i think it’s a perspective one), taylor will always muse on whether something that didn’t last could have lasted and will always quietly, gently, in a third person way wish that it could have lasted. the ache in her voice when she sings “if my wishes came true, it would’ve been you.” this non-breakup song has more pathos in it than most artists’ actual breakup tracks. AND IT’S ALSO A BOP????? I CAN’T. 

cardigan: oh man, i can’t say anything coherent about it yet. this song is so big and so layered. i will say that the way that this, august, and betty have these HUGE intertwining bridges—- is everything to me. the whole heart of the song is about what betty kNEW and the way the bridge is just images stacked on images, moments stacked on moments, all the things she knew. and there really was so so so so much that she kNEW. and that knowledge couldn’t save her from heartbreak. because she wANTED to be someone’s favorite. a lot of knowledge when you’re young isn’t the same thing as wisdom and it can be its own heavy gift because you can’t make all the rest of you grow up to match that knowledge. you’re still just a kid, too. she saw how it would all unfold and fell anyway BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO BE CHOSEN AND LOVED. THIS SONG. 

the last great american dynasty: this was my breakthrough song!!!!! the one on first listen that makes me feel like I can breathe and that I can sort of process. :) I grinned SO WIDE the second I heard her sing “Rebekah rode up on the afternoon train.” It’s perfect, utterly perfect, every word hits a beat and every word tells a story. bitch-pack friends!!!! filled the pool with champagne !!!!! boys and the ballet!!!! the bridge is beyond delightful. THE CHILLS I FELT WHEN SHE SANG “and then it was bought by me.” a song about taylor’s rhode island mansion is not what I expected or thought I wanted but it is exactly what this album and I needed. It’s both a processing song for Taylor personally and the parts of her reputation that her RI mansion helped create but it’s also about STORYTELLING, about making a legend out of the woman who lived there before, sharing her story with the world and tying her past to Rebekah’s and in doing so immortalizing both. i’m obsessed. 

exile: this is a stunning collab, her best yet I think. his voice is deep enough that it holds up next to Taylor’s–which often ends up being more expressive than her duet partners. They feel like true partners as vocalists and storytellers; the story is equally theirs. Love the big sound, love the crosstalk, love the pain amplified in this big, big sound. “holding all this love out here in the hall” >>>>>> KILL ME. this was also a breakthrough song. it’s fairly straightforward but that doesn’t lessen its power.

my tears ricochet: oKAY so the biggest magic about this song !!!! to me!!!! is the fact that the thing that seems to work LEAST, that feels like it might be the weakest link in an otherwise stunning and layered and metaphor-driven song is actually the thing that ties it together!!!!!! and YES. BY THAT I MEAN THE TITLE. !!!!!!! it wasn’t until she sung the titular phrase that it all snapped into place for me. this is a SHARED grief, a shared bitterness, a union even in the separation in the sense that they both are hurting. (anywhere i want just not home//you would still miss me in your bones) the phrase my tears ricochet captures that perfectly, it IS the thesis, because they are not only her tears but they come from her. they strike him and then return again. the way she sings it too. the truth, the almost-acceptance? the ache, the sadness, but mostly the plain, matter-of-fact TRUTH and the lowness, the lowest of lows in terms of her register, that really drives it home. look at how my tears ricochet. what feels like it could be melodrama becomes reality in those three words. it is a perfect track 5. 

peter parker was created by stan lee and steve ditko to send ONE message and it was about how no matter circumstance anyone can become great. spider-man is supposed to be a story about a poor jewish boy that slowly becomes a better person and learns the value of responsibility. with great power yadda yadda.

the mcu stripped spider-man of everything that made him unique and special (lower class, abrasive personality, ruthlessly bullied in school, self-made) and turned him into a easily digestible middle class tony stark apprentice that 1) didn’t even make that suit himself 2) relied on tony for everything. they LITERALLY took a character that has been canonically poor for DECADES and wiped out all of the story that comes with that just so that rich-ass tony stark could be his ‘mentor’. peter parker never had a mentor. that’s the entire point

mcu peter parker is very obviously a ripoff of miles morales’ story (superhero mentor, ned is LITERALLY miles’ friend ganke, etc) and it pisses me off because not only did they whitewash miles morales, they erased every part of peter’s story that made him significant since nineteen sixty fucking two . good fucking evening

PSA for Switch owners

The latest 11.0 update means that Google Analytics is a thing on the switch and turned on. What that means is that Nintendo has a deal with Google to share with them your data for advertisement purposes.

To turn it off

go to the eShop

go to your profile where your funds and account info is

go down to the bottom of the page

there you will see “Google Analytics Preferences”

select the Change

select “Don’t Share”

Please spread the word. Really shitty of Nintendo to just quietly start allowing Google to spy on users for advertising.

Ok motherfuckers listen up

I was listening to the mother knows best reprise from Tangled because it’s a fucking bop, you know?

Anyway, If you followed up on one of my stories, the card one, (like the only one until I get this new one out tomorrow) they you’ll know some of my characters from the actual book I am writing, and so I was inserting them in.

Don’t leave yet I’m almost to the point.

So I was thinking about that scene where basically after Flynn and Repo have their little song together, Flynn gets blackmailed and forced to go back to prison (to save repo) and those same guys attempt to “kidnap” Repo, then of course Mother Gothel comes in and “saves the day” and manipulates Repo like, ‘this is why you shouldn’t have gone outside and listened to me’.

Yeah, Gothel is a piece of shit. Anyway, skipping past Flynn breaking out, Repo finding out she’s the lost princess, her standing up to Gothel.

Now here’s where the ✨whump✨ part comes in.

-So caretaker (Flynn in this situation) goes back to find whumpee (Repo) and they make it in, only to find whumpee chained and gagged. They go in to free them, and whumpee screams from behind the gag.

This is of course, where Whumper (Gothel) comes and stabs caretaker in the back, leaving whumpee there crying.

(So assuming your whumpee doesn’t have magical healing powers) Whumper is trying to force whumpee into a car, basement, basically take them somewhere else, and whumpee offers to willingly submit to the Whumper, never cause another problem if they get Caretaker medical help.

And of course, the last scene with them two together before this part. (Bare with me cause I haven’t seen the movie since 2016)

-Whumper blackmails Caretaker with threats to hurt Whumpee, so Caretaker leaves them (like when Flynn turned himself in to help repo)

Then Whumper goes to whumpee and is like, “see? They abandoned you, just like I said they would.” And of course Whumpee is betrayed and hurt so they go with Whumper, knowing that Whumper will “love them”.

-Or of course, you could do the reactions of the king and queen when they watch their baby get taken.

-When Flynn finds out what Gothel did to Repo

-Repo’s thought process when finding out she was kidnapped and realizing who she was

- the ✨reunion✨cause fuck I’m soft

I’m just saying that Tangled has so much whump in it that you could get a hell of a lot of inspiration from it.

so apparently my city has a superhero. and a supervillain. who like, do activism. and. my mom. is dating the supervillain.

Reblog if you're gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, transgender or a supporter.

This should be reblogged by everyone. Even if you’re straight, you should be a supporter.

“hi welcome do mcdonalds, what can i get for you?”

“yeah can i get a deluxe quarter pounder with cheese?”

“absolutely, do you want the meal or just the sandwich?”

“uhhh hold on”

*fishes something out of my pocket*

“jake what do i do?”

“get the fries. You’ll need the energy in the coming days.”

*stuffs it back in my pocket* “uhh yes please the meal would be great’

Running progression workout:

Here we are going to be looking at a workout that will enhance your running capabilities, this will help with your speed and endurance it will also include 1-2 days in the gym to help bring that power into your legs.

Stage one:

To begin with you will start with running twice a week for 20 minutes at a medium pace and at the weekend you will do 40 minutes low consistent pace jog.

Keep this up until it becomes easy once that happens switch to this.

Stage two:

2 days a week 20-30 minutes

You will sprint for 1-2minutes then light jog for up to 5 minutes then sprint again 1-2 minutes and repeat.

At the weekend go for a 1 hour jog at a medium pace.

Continue this for up to four weeks.

Stage three:

Run for miles. So one day a week see how far you can run and set that as the goal to beat each week.

Run and sprint. Day two Run at a medium pace at 8 minute intervals sprint for 2 minutes then drop back down to running at a medium pace and repeat. Record how long you did it for and aim for longer next session.

At the weekend go for a light jog for an hour.

Gym session:

Leg power!

Deadlifts 4x8

Deadlifts pretty much work everything but the focus it put on the hamstring, lower back etc have a big crossover for sprinting.

Bulgarian split squats 2x15 each leg

The Bulgarian split squat is good because your training on one foot which help builds balance and stability in the lower leg.

Hang and clean 3x5

The hang and clean is a big power move you have no choice but to be explosive to shift the weight which again has a big crossover for running and sprinting.

Sled push 4-6 laps

Sled push is great as you can add a small amount of weight and do laps for endurance or really load it down to make it power workout and really put your legs and core through hell.

Broad jumps 2 lengths

With the broad jump, jump as far as you can as soon as you land jump again, this is another explosive movement.

Just so you don't become unbalanced I recommend also doing these exercises.

Bar bench press 5x5

Lat pulldown 4x8

Dumbbell shoulder press 3x15

Dumbbell curls 3x10

Tri pushdowns 3x15

Hanging leg raises 3x10

So there you have it a workout to get you running like an anime god.

Whump Prompt #67

Whumpee sobbed, straining against their restraints in a desperate attempt to escape or do something other than stay stuck there.

“You monster! You killed them! How could you? I’ll- I’ll.”

Whumpee pulled harder and harder at their restraints until there was an audible popping sound. But before Whumpee could discern what it came from, Whumper’s open palm exploded pain across their face.

“Oh shut up, Whumpee. I’m not that cruel… yet.”

Whumpee froze as Caretaker was forced to the ground in front of them, trembling and coughing up very concerning amounts of blood. 

Sobbing with relief this time, Whumpee strained just as hard as before towards Caretaker. However, Whumper grabbed their chin roughly

“From now on, every time you disobey, little Caretaker here will get one step closer to their death. So I suggest you start obeying. Resistance wouldn’t be a good look on Caretaker after all.

Whumpee gulped, ignoring the pleading eye contact of Caretaker telling Whumpee not to.

Whumpee nodded.

“Okay… I’ll obey. For Caretaker’s sake.”

Whumper’s smile grew to a too-wide grin.

“Perfect, my new pet.”

On this final day of pride, I wanted to do a masterpost of all the reclists I’ve posted this month. This includes over 250 queer fiction titles, broken down by sexuality or gender identity; along with two POC specific lists. Check them all out and give them a reblog so more people can find these books!

Asexual and/or Aromantic Identities (including

Bisexual

Gay

Lesbian

Pansexual

Transgender

Genderqueer (including non-binary, genderfluid, agender, bigender, androgyne)

Intersex

Queer Ensemble (casts that feature multiple queer leads)

POC: African and Latinx focused

POC: Other nationalities/ethnicity 

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

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ikea released introductions on how to build different furniture forts

I made a video about everything culturally right and wrong with Mulan 1998!

What you can expect from this video:

PS when I first liveblogged this movie on Twitter, two actual artists who worked on Mulan showed up and added their commentary!

(all included on screen in the video!)

Here are the links to HHKC’s chapters Dropbox.

If anything gets claimed, it has a backup here. Might start posting and trashing a few days later so here y’all go. Updated in descending order chronologically.

169

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r4ezvflyc0uoety/AACvkcwzc0yhKJoSQl4K64Cma?dl=0

168

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l4cv9o4veev303z/AABA5hsoDC74bm0rU58Z3clma?dl=0

167

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mz384g5ivrz06jl/AAB_7rGKo56gccUzi_TtdwJ1a?dl=0

166

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8rdmgqz2ya6n971/AAAr4Ke5nb027rHlu6CrVc13a?dl=0

165

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ag3301fez9mxk4r/AADV37nK2_PlQJzI2tVgLvrwa?dl=0

EVERYTHING CULTURALLY RIGHT AND WRONG WITH MULAN 1998 by Xiran Jay Zhao

So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.

please keep all chat on i beg you

A Plea for Help

Hello there you beautiful, shining stars,

For those of you who are new, our names are C and N and we are the admins of this blog!

We are a disabled queer couple and have been together ten years as of the end of October. We’ve got three cats, a stubborn doggo, and two crested geckos!

C and I have been hit hard by the pandemic, like most people have been in the USA (where we come from). We’ve been doing everything we can to make the stimulus money we were given last, but as we get into winter, it’s run out. We’re not sure if there will be another one, and when it could be, and we’re concerned we won’t be able to make it much longer. On top of that, our apartment building is increasing it’s rent in December by another $50, when we can’t afford the current price.

C had been trying to find a local job, but C’s immune system is compromised and both of us were scared that he would catch it. And… he did. Now we’re both dealing with covid on top of other struggles and it’s just… it’s a lot.

Asking y’all for help is something we usually avoid doing, because the idea of monetizing this blog hurts our hearts. But we also know we need to be able to admit when we’re in need.

And… we’re in need of help, loves.

If you’d like to directly donate to us, our paypal is: teamcibby@gmail.com

If you’d prefer to get something for your donation, I sell art commissions on my art tumblr, https://tiny-pastel-unicorn.tumblr.com/ You can see my examples for said art here: https://sta.sh/21f0h7yv2y9b

We also have an amazon wishlist if you’d prefer that: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/16FH3EUB5XMPN?ref_=wl_share

Any amount of help is greatly appreciated. 

If y’all could just… see the energy C puts into this blog… he spends night after night, when he could be playing Minecraft or watching Bailey Sarian, filling up the queue and making sure it lasts. Because he doesn’t want y’all to come on tumblr, hoping to see a reason, only for the queue to be empty. He puts that above himself on a daily basis.

We sincerely appreciate what y’all have done for our blog and us in the past, in the present, and we know we will appreciate anything in the future. Without all of you and your support, we would have been lost a long, long time ago.

We love you all so much and we hope your October goes well~

- N