My adaptation of the God of Arepo short story, which was originally up at ShortBox Comics Fair for charity. You can get a copy of the DRM-free ebook here for free - and I'd encourage you to donate to Mighty Writers or The Ministry of Stories in exchange.

Again it's an honour to be drawing one of my favourite short stories ever. Thank you so much for the original authors for creating this story; and for everyone who bought a copy and donated to the above non-profits.

It never gets old and it always makes me cry.

@ilgalantuomo ❤️

when i say i’m from ukraine, people assume i live somewhere else now. when i say i live in ukraine, they assume i’m somehow immune to war, and there’s a logical division between a ukrainian they chat with on discord and a ukrainian on the news. bitches my yaoi is written from the bomb shelter

Just an ordinary day in Ukraine. You live on the very edge of being killed at any moment.

In case foreign people wonder how is it possible to keep living under attacks. Well, I remind you air defence systems work. But that doesn’t normalise the existence of course.

The tag is awesome, I apply it to everything I draw.

one of the formative memories from war for me was when i was having a work meeting and someone asked "hey Coffee, what's that odd noise in your background? can you tune it off?" and my sleep deprived self cheery replied "sorry, this is shooting and detonation from an air raid, I can mute myself if it's too noticeable, I'm almost done with this report".

for me, it was so common it was... well. just there. only when the meeting fell into shocked silenceand then i received a couple of questions i realized that people just assumed "i'm from Ukraine" doesn't actually mean "i'm in Ukraine still"

also yeah, creating something to keep oneself sane is very, very, very crucial nowadays...

also keeping on living is the best fuck you to ruzzians considering they want us all dead

am i wrong??

Yeah ikea is a small blip of ocean full of fluffy sharks but due to climate change and other environmental problems they are out seeking adoption. Preferably by trans people.

Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.

oh no my pornography is turning into an angst-filled character study

Oh no my angst-filled character study is turning into pornography

Apparently boomer Democrats are having meltdowns over a gen-z progressive who is primarying an 80 year old Democrat because she "went on trans podcasts" and wore a Charizard kigurumi

ok but what is she running on

You can check her out here, but quick run down:

Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book.  It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.

there’s a timeskip

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!

IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH

AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because

THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING

AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA

BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM

HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -

IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK

#tbf the dude wrote it to be a dick

yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.

i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.

> sees nihilistic depiction of human nature

> looks inside

> hope :)

It was also written in reaction to the book The Coral Island, which was about three British boys getting stranded on an island but being fine because “We’re English and the English are best at everything.” (direct quote)

They are also menaced by the godless baby-sacrificing cannibal natives, in direct contrast to other, more civilized natives who have been/are being converted to Christianity by missionaries

Lord of the Flies isn’t about how all humans are secretly savages barely held in check by society. It about deconstructing the cultural arrogance that was (and often still is) so prevalent in imperialist societies

OK, so I know that statistcially speaking, people in general don't like change, right? I know that's a pretty universal thing.

but, setting aside things like "I woke up with more rights than I fell asleep with" (remember those times?) and focusing on, idk, neutral to mildly positive changes, are there people out there who see a Thing being Different and go "oh, nice!" and move on? does that actually happen? are there people out there who do not have to roll their eyes over their knee-jerk toddler-tantrum reaction because The Thing Looks Different And We Hate It? because I feel like that's made up but prior observation leads me to believe that not a whole lot of my experiences are universal

Apparently when you are young common people still look forward to change with excitement and curiosity. And somewhere along the way lots of people loose that.

I also think there are lots of people who like change. But it always depends on whether they like THE change.

Can now register my new flat online? Nice, don't have to fight for an appointment!

My usual grocery store now selling this thing I had to go to a special other one? Nice!

Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost

This is the sacred texts, this is the holy grail.

The links! they are Broken As Fuck!

so I went through and replaced them with OP’s new blog name, because these really are extremely helpful.

Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost

This is the sacred texts, this is the holy grail.

🐈‍⬛😅

This is where we're at folks. Do you want to stand by while our democracy crumbles or do you want to help stop it?

I'm helping organzing the LA protest for April 5th with 50501, which is looking to have protests in all 50 states simultaneously. The only way to stop what is happening is the mass mobilization of people. Be present, show you object to the erasure of our democracy. If you want to volunteer or just join the march, find your local chapter: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

If you're in California, message me and I'll connect you.

wollte gerade nach diesen baumwollstoffen googlen die man gut fürs sticken nutzen kann

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ah ja… da war ja was

obsessed with how fixable society is, on a structural level.

obsessed with how all you need to do is throw money at public education and eliminate most standardized testing and you will start getting smarter, more engaged, kinder adults. obsessed with how giving people safe housing, reliable access to good food, and decent wages dramatically reduces drug overdoses and gun violence. obsessed with how much people actually want to get together and fix infrastructure, invent new ways of helping each other, and create global ways of living sustainably once you give them livable pay to do so. obsessed with how tracking diseases, developing medicines, and improving public health becomes so much easier when you just make healthcare free at point of use.

obsessed with how easy it all becomes, if we can just figure out how to wrench the wealth out of the hands of the hoarders.

i've lived in four different cities in my adult life and talked to literally tens of thousands of people about politics and the change they want to see in the world and the overwhelming majority of them wanted life to be better, happier, easier for everyone, and dreamed of that world. the only people who didn't think that way were A) really obviously in need of mental/medical care, or B) rich.

wanting universal free healthcare, well-funded public education, and social support for all people is the most unbelievably normie opinion that exists, even among people who have lots of bad or misguided opinions about other things. when you feel alone, know that the reason you feel that way is billions of dollars are being spent to obscure the fact that you are in the majority.

Okay I’m currently furious that migraines are often so blindly easy to treat and I had to find this out myself at the age of 26 when I’ve been to a neurologist since I was 11 lol so I’m about to teach you two neat and fast little tricks to deal with pain!

The first is the sternocleidomastoid muscle, or the SCM muscle.

This big red section is responsible for pain around the eye, cheekbone, and jaw, as well as some temple pain. Literally all you have to do is angle your head down a little, angle it away from the side that hurts, and then you can gently pinch and rub that muscle. I find it best to start at the bottom and travel upwards. The relief is so immediate! You can increase pressure as you feel comfortable doing so.

Here is a short and easy video showing this in action

The second is a fast and easy stretch that soothes your vagus nerve, which is the nerve responsible for calming you down. The vagus nerve, for those unfamiliar, is stimulated by deep breathing such as yawning, sighing, singing, or taking a deep breath to calm your anger in a tense situation.

You can stretch this out by sitting up as straight as possible (this does not have to be perfect to work) and interlacing your fingers. Put your hands on the back of your head with your thumbs going down the sides of your neck and, while keeping your face forward, look all the way to one side with just your eyes. Hold that until you feel the urge to breathe deeply or yawn, or until you can tell there’s a change. Then do the same thing on the other side. When you put your arms down, you should clearly be able to turn your head farther in both directions. If the first session doesn’t get rid of your migraine, rest and repeat as many times as necessary. I even get a little fancy with it and roll my eyes up and down along the outer edge sometimes to stretch as much as I can.

If you need a visual here’s a good video on it. I know some of the language they use seems questionable but this is real and simple science and should not be discarded because it’s been adopted by the trendy wellness crowd!

I seriously cannot believe I didn’t hear a word of this from any doctor in my life. Additionally, if you get frequent recurring migraines, you may want to see a dietician. Migraines can be caused by foods containing histamines, lectin, etc. and can also be caused by high blood pressure in specific situations such as exercise, stress, and even sex.

If any of this information helps you I’d love to hear it btw! It’s so so fast and easy to do. Good luck!

OHHH I FOUND IT

Oh. My. God.

@elodieunderglass

Something about this one very much gives me the heebs

AND the jeebs!

but its important

IM SORRY BUT IM DYING THEY LOOK LIKE A BOY BAND

Why am I suddenly attracted to a cactus I hate this website

I FOUND IT

I thought this was a chuck tingle cover for a second

i approve

@elodieunderglass One presumes there are legs inside the pants?

They’re lovely!