appalachia is devastated. towns i loved, towns i visited all the time, are gone. not damaged, GONE. they are leveled to the ground. there is nothing left but rubble and ruin. people are dead. appalachia is poor to begin with and relies on tourism for a lot of its income, and multiple of those tourist locations are just...gone.

my town is okay, but it's flooded and wrecked. trees are blocking all but one way out of our neighborhood. power lines are hanging limp in the roads. we've been without power for over 24 hours and will continue to be without power for likely another 24+. disabled people and poor people are GOING to die from this. gods save appalachia.

it's always a hit or miss with appalachian charities. a lot are just evangelism with no action behind what they do. i suggest looking into them before donating.

operation airdrop

nc community foundation

mountain projects

homeward bound

manna food bank

adding some additional photos from the other side of the mountains here in northeast tennessee. there has been genuinely catastrophic flooding in many areas and billions of dollars of damage across NETN and WNC. we are not built to withstand this. 33 people are currently missing in unicoi county alone

to those of you reblogging this, thank you. i have not seen one negative comment about appalachia and i cannot put into words what that means as someone who has lived here for their entire life. we are used to being mocked, scorned, and dismissed, to being the butt of classist jokes, and y'all aren't doing that. thank you. so much.

I don't think people realize yet that Helene is going to be a landmark hurricane, like Katrina and Andrew before. It devastated so much more than just the coast. It will take weeks to know the full extent of the damage and loss of life.

The BBC has done some good reporting on this that isn't behind a paywall, for anyone looking for more info. You can read the article here.

My heart goes out to my neighbors in North Carolina and Tennesee. It is insane to me that in North Georgia we only had heavy rain and winds, while just a little further up the mountains there's total devastation. Thankfully, my loved ones in NC are all accounted for, which is such a blessing.

Donate if you can, pray if that's your thing. I know I'll be doing both.

spending all that time on a drawing only to decide its very ugly

look a lot of people are saying you should sleep on stuff and come back to it and 9/10 thats great advice but sometimes it truly is a turd and you did put a lot of effort into Polishing that Turd bc the undersketch was actually weaksauce but you couldnt see that while you were straight up applying chrome to that turd but then you peel off the chrome and youre like look maybe the chrome was the turd and you try to apply a simpler more straightforward approach to let the looseness and energy of the original shine and you discover the original drawing and construction and composition is actually the root cause. the rot started from the moment the pencil touched paper. and thats okay

ignoring my own wisdom from last july maybe i can polish that turd! the very turd that inspired this post !!

i cant. wisdom holds

i love reading sad books bc when your own grief is stopped up inside you like a clogged drain you can grieve for a character on a page and understand that you're also grieving for yourself a little bit

‘There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you—may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn’t that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life. Within it you watch [yourself] act out the present or possible organization of your nature. You can be aware of your own awareness of this nature as you never are at the moment of experience. The actor, by reiterating you, sacrifices a moment of his own life in order to give you a story of yours.’

-Anne Carson, ‘Grief Lessons: Four Plays By Euripides’

Crazy how many people want characters in fiction to speak and act like they’ve had 20 hours of intensive therapy. Could NOT be me I want these bitches fucked up insane

my friend briar and i lovingly call this one ‘therapy speak joker’ and it almost caused her to drop biological samples one time

i think the joker should start talking like this for real. no other character should do this only the joker. i want batman to have to deal with this

I was about to say it would make sense for Harley Quinn as well, but then I realised it’s much funnier for her to hate it hate it HATE IT when he does that

honestly i think the marching band sequence was one of the most horrifying sequences in the whole episode.

this whole season has been milchick silently contemplating his place at lumon, particularly in regards to his race, and yet he is still pushing through even after abuse from kier "himself". he is still performing.

and frankly i don't think it's being taken as seriously as it should be by the audience!!!!!!

i get that that is partially because it is absurd and out there that lumon would have a whole marching band and partially because tramell tillman brought so much oomf to it (i still cannot believe that this is one of his first screen acting gigs - he is such a good actor). and also, it's meant to evoke the first season's dance sequence (but i also don't think that's taken as seriously as it should be by the audience soooo--- ‪¯\_(ツ)_/¯‬)

but like — i felt a similar kind of horror watching the marching band sequence that i did watching get out and us. like. watch this black man in white gloves and a cane who has been consistently put down and othered for his race throughout this entire show, perform at the request of an automaton of the white man who very likely built his company on the backs of former slaves at the end of the civil war, whose company who still effectively employs slave labor and indentured servitude two hundred years in the future.

for milchick, this season began with lumon black face and ended with, effectively, a lumon minstrel show as someone else put it.

that is horrifying.

spring is coming. Spring IS COMING. You will stand on soft grass again, and feel the sun kiss your cheeks and shoulders. you will eat of the same berries as the animals returned from their hibernation. you will hear the air alive with your collective breathing.

IT'S HERE. IT'S SPRING.

WE HAVE ONCE AGAIN DEFEATED AUSTRALIA. THE SUN IS OURS NOW, CUNTS.

my billford abortion fanart

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Btw if I say things like “by god” or “good lord” in posts please be aware I don’t mean it in a catholic way I mean it in a 1950s scientist reacting in horror after they create an evil creature in the lab set in the distant future year of 2005

filmmakers and audiences and critics alike all need to start suspending their disbelief again

‘this doesn’t make sense’ so?????

important edition

I feel like this one is relevant too

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subscribing to a fic isn’t enough I need the author to blast a bat signal into the night sky whenever they update

people writing/drawing Mullet-era Stan as stick-thin/skin and bones when he literally looks like this in the show… I’m just gonna go ahead and write you off as fatphobic tbh. Fat people can be malnourished and struggle with food security just as much as any other body type.