Reblog This And Put In The Tags At Least Two (2) Songs You Are Listening To On Repeat Right Now

i hope shein gets shut down i hope ai projects get shut down i hope billionaires go bankrupt i hope public transportation expands fast i am so tired of the world’s bs

STOP saying the marauders are like the raven boys. you are WRONG. ronan lynch is an eldritch horror and sirius black is what? a twink?

gfms with under $10k in donations! - part 2

all of the people on this list have been seriously struggling to raise funds, despite people posting about them. they need urgent help just as much as anyone else!

remember! because of currency exchanges and the complicity of our governments, americans and europeans have an obligation to donate and to donate more! so pay attention!!!

basel ayyad @basel-1995: one of the main victims of the recent wave of zionist attacks against palestinian fundraising efforts. he copypasted a random english message thinking it would boost his fundraiser, and white westerners took advantage of this to dehumanize him. vetted TWICE by hussein CHF6,207 / CHF60,000 - $7173.19 USD / $69339.72 USD

rajaa @rajaagaza and khaled @khaled-gaza: husband and wife. their baby karam is utterly traumatized and malnourished. they also accept donations via paypal. their goal is extremely attainable!! vetted by 90-ghost $9,000 CAD raised of $20,000 CAD - $6542.36 USD / $14538.58 USD

abdallah mousa @abdallahblog3 or @abdallahblog0: he is a 20 year old college student who has had a lot of trouble fundraising!! he had a gofundme but couldn't access the funds and had to start over, and he has had multiple of his blogs deleted before. he's also on twitter. i have had a few conversations with him and can vouch for him. he also accepts paypal. vetted by 90-ghost $630 / $30,000 USD

hazem khalil @hazempalestine: MY FRIEND HAZEM! we are in contact over whatsapp! he is a dentistry student who has been living in belgium since 2018 and not been able to see his family since. they are stuck in jabalia refugee camp in north gaza vetted by @bilal-salah0 who is himself vetted on line 132 under the name 'salaah bilaal' €3,862 / €50,000 - $4218.76 USD / $54618.8 USD

the khalifa family: they are fundraising on instagram, this post has more information. tl;dr: they are falling sick due to raw sewage leaking from the bombing of the building they were living in. vetted by the fact that the iyad's account clearly shows them living normal lives before october 7th 2023 £5275 / £31,000 - $6716.13 USD / $39469.2 USD

aseel @aseelo680: aseel has been spotlighted by @magnus-rhymes-with-swagness! her blog has been deleted over and over again. she and her family were displaced two days ago. all she has left are herself and her family. she is currently fundraising to buy a new tent. help her cousin and sister too! vetted by 90-ghost $7,444 USD / $20,000 USD

@timetravellingkitty @deathlonging @briarhips @mazzikah @mahoushojoe 

@rhubarbspring @schoolhater @pcktknife@transmutationisms@sawasawako 

@feluka @terroristiraqis @irhabiya @commissions4aid-international @wellwaterhysteria 

@deepspaceboytoy @post-brahminism @junglejim4322 @kibumkim @neechees 

@mangocheesecakes @kyra45-helping-others @marnota @7bitter @tortiefrancis 

@toiletpotato @fromjannah @omegaversereloaded @vague-humanoid @criptochecca 

@aristotels @komsomolka @neptunerings @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @heritageposts 

@ot3 @amygdalae @ankle-beez@communistchilchuck @dykesbat 

@watermotif @stuckinapril @violentrevolution @mavigator @lacecap 

@socalgal @chilewithcarnage @ghelgheli @sayruq @northgazaupdates2

@heritageposts @stopantisemitism @sar-soor

Conveying Worldbuilding Without Exposition!

(As requested by both an anon and @my-words-are-light​)

One of the hardest parts of writing speculative fiction is presenting readers with a world that’s interesting and different from our own in a way that’s both immersive and understandable at the same time. 

Thankfully, there are a few techniques that can help you present worldbuilding information to your readers in a natural way, as well as many tricks to tweaking the presentation until it’s just right.

Four basic techniques:

1. The ignorant character. 

By introducing a character who doesn’t know about the aspects of the world building you’re trying to convey, you can let the ignorant character voice the questions the reader naturally wants to ask. Traditionally, this is seen when the protagonist or (another character) is brought into a new world, society, organization. In cases where that’s the natural outcome of the plot, and the character has a purpose in the story outside of simply asking questions, it can be pulled off just fine. But there’s another aspect to this which writers don’t often consider: 

Every character is your ignorant character. 

In a realistic world, no person knows everything. Someone will be behind on the news. Someone won’t know all the facts. Many, many someones won’t have studied a common part of their society simply because they aren’t large part of that fraction or don’t have the time for it.

Instead of inserting an ignorant character and creating a stiff and annoying piece of expository dialogue, find the character already existing in the story who doesn’t know about the thing being learned.

2. Conflicting opinions.

A fantastic way to convey detailed world building concepts is to have characters with conflicting viewpoints discuss or argue about them. Unless you’re working with a brainwashed society, every character should hold their own set of religious, political, and social beliefs. 

Examples of this kind of dialogue:

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sooo when are you dropping the links. to texts about religion and sexuality and transgression

closet devotions by richard rambuss

the man jesus loved by theodore w. jennings, jr

jonathan loved david by tom horner

the sex lives of saints by virginia burrus

toward a theology of eros

i also recommend the essay "gendering jesus crucified" by richard c. trexler that you can find here & richard rambuss' essay "pleasure and devotion: the body of jesus and seventeenth-century religious lyric" in queering the renaissance

plenty of emotions.

two things: I hate change and having my routines interrupted. I hate things being the same it’s boring

1 2 3 4 5 6 | favourite yellow details in art !

Agyness Dean in “Spooky” by Tim Walker for LOVE Magazine (Spring/Summer 2015)

Video essays that make me go "oh, so you're like smart smart"

Elon Musk and Grimes: A Retrospective

Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos

The Systemic Abuse of Celebrities

Lana Del Rey: the pitfalls of having a persona

we need to talk about Call Me By Your Name

MYTH OF THE AUTEUR: Stanley Kubrick vs David Lynch

In Search Of A Flat Earth

Envy

The Commodification of Black Athletes

The Lies Of The Lighthouse

The Green Knight: The Uncanny Horror of Masculinity

Max Payne, Kane & Lynch, and the Meaning of Ugly Games

Time Loop Nihilism

How Bisexuality Changed Video Games

The Golden Age of Horror Comics - Part 1 (Part 2)

Weighing the Value of Director's Cuts | Scanline

The True Horror Of Midsommar

a few more -

You're Wrong About Cyberpunk 2077 | An Overdue Critique (this is such great critique of both the game and the genre)

Disney's Fast Pass: A Complicated History

It Has Come To My Attention You Don't All Love BIRDS OF PREY

Adaptation.

The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize

Music Theory and White Supremacy

Here's the YouTube playlist! ill be adding more but that's all so far pls like and reblog xoxo 💕

also feel free to share your own recs in the notes!