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@mariyekos / mariyekos.tumblr.com

She/her. 20s. Here you'll find a mix of video games, writing stuff, and whatever else comes up. Main fandoms are Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy, and Fire Emblem.

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Hello all! Welcome to my twisted mind blog!

I'm Mari, and I've been here on tumblr for over a decade now. Nowadays I mostly post about various Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, and Devil May Cry games, but you'll find a good dose of whatever other games, quotes, etc. pique my interest too.

If you're wondering if I can be found anywhere else or think my name sounds familiar, that's because I go by Mariyekos just about everywhere. This includes my AO3 (and now largely abandoned ffnet account), my Bluesky, my Twitter, and technically Discord, though I'll probably respond better to new messages here. Thanks for stopping by, and feel free to message me/shoot over an ask if you ever want to chat. I can't promise I'll respond right away, but I'll do my best to get to it when I can.

If you're interested in some of my longform posts (meta, lore notes, fave fics, etc), here's a link to to a post compiling some of my favorites. If you want to see my about me, you can click here, or select the ii in my sidebar if on desktop. For mobile users interested in my original posts, my main tags are #erurandomness (everything) and #eruwrites (fic, meta, lore, etc).

"Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I'm sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor: Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:

  • ICE agents are cruising areas with immigrant-owned businesses, and kidnapping patrons and employees alike. Yesterday they abducted two US citizen employees at a suburban Target, one who was begging them to allow him to go get his passport to show them.
  • ICE is going door to door in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, asking residents where their immigrant neighbors live. Read that again. If it sounds like something out of your high school history textbook, that’s because it is.
  • ICE is targeting schools and school buses. They pepper sprayed teenagers and abducted two school staff members at the high school up the street from me on Wednesday. Police are literally escorting school buses to ensure children can get to school and home safely. The Minneapolis Public Schools have moved to virtual learning for the next 4 weeks because it’s unsafe for children or teachers to physically come to school.
  • They are targeting hospitals and clinics. Patients are scared and are cancelling their appointments or just not showing up. Kids are missing their checkups and vaccines, folks aren’t getting their cancer care, etc.
  • They are smashing windows in cars and homes.
  • ICE is increasingly picking up Native Americans—again, targeting folks based on skin color alone.
  • They are arresting and beating legal observers. A friend of a friend had her arm broken yesterday. Folks are showing up at local hospitals, brought in in ICE custody, with severe injuries that are absolutely inconsistent with mechanism of injury reported by ICE. (Think: patient appears to have been beaten unconscious, while ICE agent says he slipped and fell.) I can’t emphasize enough that these ICE agents do not have warrants. There are 2,000+ agents here and they are simply hunting for anyone that’s not white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or a green card holder, they will kidnap you first and ask questions later. But the community is fighting back.
  • Protests are happening every day.
  • Community groups have been leading know-your-rights sessions for months, often to packed venues.
  • Whistles are being distributed by the thousands, carried on keychains and worn on coat zippers, always at the ready to be blown in warning if ICE is spotted.
  • Drivers are following ICE vehicles, blaring their horns in warning.
  • Businesses are locking their doors even while open to keep employees and customers safe. As I type this, I’m standing guard at the locked door of our neighborhood burrito joint while I wait for my takeout order, so the employees can focus on their jobs. The place is packed with neighbors supporting this small business.
  • Anti-ICE signs are posted everywhere. The community is making it crystal clear that ICE is not welcome here.
  • Parents and neighbors are standing guard outside schools, organizing carpools, and escorting kids to and from school on foot.
  • Parents of kids in Spanish-immersion daycare (there are a LOT of these daycares here!) are keeping their kids home so the teachers don’t have to take the risk of coming to work.
  • Churches and community groups are holding fundraisers to buy and deliver groceries to families who don’t feel safe leaving home.
  • Mutual aid money is going out to folks who can’t make rent because they can’t work or because a breadwinner was abducted, or who need a warm place to stay after their home’s windows were smashed. THAT is what is happening here. This fight is ongoing and it’s horrifying to watch. But we are not backing down. To my friends in other cities and states, don’t think for a minute that this won’t happen in your town. It will. Be ready. Learn from us, as we have learned from Portland and Chicago and New York. Fight back. Don’t let us get to the last line of Martin Niemoller’s poem.” -Grant Boulanger

Here's an AP news brief with a little more info. It's limited in the way major news outlets are right now but provides context that supports the personal account shared.

If you want to help Minnesota, here is a list of places to donate to including rent relief, food aid, and legal organizations

How Does That Armor Go, Anyway? featuring sylvain this time. seriously, why don't the named characters have a small army of squires

seriously, the upkeep alone is way more than any one guy can do alone if he wants ANY free time away from the polishing. how are you riveting on your own back plates.

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