Sarah Z has started to maintain a thread of resources to support Venezuelans. Right now it includes Doctors Without Borders and Venezualan Red Cross.

[Image ID: Tweet from pea poopingirl @/PoopingIRL on 8/14/23 - i think the idea of a shady dwarven salesman selling "cheap" stuff to humans and laughing to himself like "heh it will only last one generation, those stupid idiots, how will they even pass it down to their kids" forgetting that one dwarf generation is like 4 human ones is funny. There's a black bar at the bottom with an iFunny watermark in the corner. End ID.]

Elf ea-nasir selling mithril armor that will last no more than 1,000 years getting death threats from his fellow elves but doing numbers w/humans

Actually, I really like this idea as why elven and dwarven crafts are so good. Something that’s merely acceptable is meant to last most of one of their lifetimes. So even a mediocre dwarven craftsman will make something a human can pass down.

And you can always sell what the apprentice makes while still learning to a human, letting them know it will merely last for the rest of their life.

The elven version of IKEA could be a human family heirloom.

'Good enough for humans' becomes an expression for 'you're getting there' for an apprentice.

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

the alien when it bursts out of someone‘s chest:

yesterday I had the thought "visual novel for normal people" (?) and halfway through making this image (which I thought would be really funny) I realized it was completely meaningless

1,000,000,000 OYSTERS TO FEED COMRADE MAMDANI'S NONBINARY NEW YORK HYPERCOMMUNE

cream soda if i put a friend in it

Harvesting my wheat

Hehehehehe

Can I fucking help you?

my senior english teacher told me that any scene with a woman in a cornfield in every piece of literature ever is about her journey to womanhood/pleasuring herself in the field and i just.... believed her

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The only problem with building a home in the desert is how often Enderman try to aggressively offer you sand. 

He’s nervous

my corner store guy is a 50 year old man who's my best friend in the world and recently he was like "you're too pretty to be single I have some nephews you should meet. very handsome!" and I was like "a niece might be more up my alley" and he just got more excited and said "ah even better! I was overselling my nephews but my nieces are very beautiful"

OP the tags!!

Y’know, Flobots does not get enough credit for not only making a song centered around “pray the pale white devil back to hell” but making it an absolute banger on top of that.

All y’all check out an eco-punk-hip hop band called The Flobots! If you’re old enough you might remember their most popular single from the mid-2000s, “We are seeing the growth of technocratic dictators that will end the world for ego and money” (Handlebars)

The same album includes bangers such as “You have to be the one do the right thing, and inspire others to do the same, or we will all fall” (Stand Up), “I know you’re afraid to do the right thing, but you have to strive for it even if you feel your voice will do nothing” (Never Had It), and “Our collective power far out scales anything they can do to us, if we are willing to risk for something better” (Rise)

Their 2009 album, Survival Story, includes “Climate change is going to massacre us all if we don’t do something” (Cracks In The Surface, Defend Atlantis), and “We do not have to use the tools of the oppressor to create a new world for all of us, we can create a world where our children do not survive on the exploitation of others” (White Flag Warrior)

Their 2012 album, The Circle in the Square, includes “we cannot ignore the struggles of our comrades across the country if we want to be liberated ourselves” (The Circle In The Square, Sides), and “Israel is a genocidal settler-colony” (Wrestling Israel)

And their most recent album, Noenemies, is a LOT but has “fuck white supremacy, fuck crackers, y’all ain’t absolved of the sins that built the USA” (Pray), and Dancing In The Light of a Burning City which explains itself.

Legit please go catch up if you barely know them or only knew Handlebars, they’re amazing.

When you find yourself in emotional pain and mental health issues, remember WWSD: What Would Shadow Do? Following his example, you could:

Once you've remembered this, it's important you do none of these things.