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Black Queer person seeking financial help...
Long story short I’ve been struggling since May, my landlord illegally kicked me out of room that I was renting because of my service dog.
Since then I have been renting a room at this motel week by week which is $450 which is almost impossible
I’ve been trying to keep working but my hours of course has been cut and I spend most of my money on food for me and my dog and transportation to work.
I’ve been seeing a lot of people donating to blm and LGBTQ+ stuff so I thought I could give this a shot and you guys and donate directly?
I have until next Friday to pay these people again or else I’m going to pushed out onto the street.
I really do not want to be on the fucking street especially since covid PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING!
Paypal: Jeffersonasia21@gmail.com
Cash app: $asiapls
Venmo: @asia-Jefferson-1
Reblog if you think it’s okay to platonically say “I Love You” to your friends
Leelah Alcorn’s blog was deleted and posts about her are being removed. Don’t stop spreading this. Reblog everything you can, post everything you can.
These are her pictures
here are some of her drawings
this is her note
Don’t let this die.
Not this.
i feel like everyone’s forgotten some Covid basics so please let me remind you:
Your mask protects others more than it protects you
You can still spread covid even if you’re vaccinated or not showing any symptoms
The more this spreads around, the more mutated variants of the virus will appear and they WILL be stronger than the original
so like maybe stop being a little bitch and endangering others because you really, really needed to go out to dinner or get fucked up at a bar instead of in your home like a respectable person
Reblog for Good luck🙏🏼
Comic on having long-COVID as a young person. Sending love to others who may be similarly suffering.
Ko-Fi
(ID under the cut)
Keep reading
“there are a lot of children in afghanistan, but little childhood.”
please consider donating/sharing this list of trusted organizations to help those in need. please add to the list as well.
women for afghan women
afghan aid
sanitary products for displaced afghan women
Hey guys, just a heads up. There's a serial killer in the greater Atlanta area (as of August 1st, 2021 there have been at least 3 murders attributed to the same killer and they've all been killed and mutilated horrifically in the same way). More details under the cut cause they're potential trigger warnings for some people:
Stay safe y'all!!
News article about it: x
The fires in Siberia have burned down over 2 million acres of the forest and we need your help
I live in Yakutia, Russia, where most of the fires are taking place and I'm trying to raise awareness about the situation worldwide so we can get some external help.
Neither our federal nor local government is doing anything to put these fires out. They lie and say the situation is under control, when it certainly isn't.
Take a look at the current AQI of the city! We have been the most air polluted place in the WORLD for a few days now and the AQI used to be closer to 1300. It's still extremely dangerous to even open the windows or go outside.
This is a map of all the fire hotspots. Our nature, our life is burning alive.
Yakutia is the homeland of many Indigenous peoples and we are all suffering right now. The Russian government doesn't care about us, they only care about the money they can earn from mining our diamonds and precious metals but can't take care of our generous land. The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) has always prided itself on its nature and wildlife, since we were kids we've all been taught to preserve it and take care of it. Who are we without it?
Here's a thread from one of the people to volunteered to put out the fires. There's many pictures attached, and you should be able to read it through Twitter's built in translator. It gives a closer more intimate look at how things really are here: https://twitter.com/mienekiene/status/1415859223292899332
The situation is so bad news programs and newsletters in other countries are covering it. The Siberian fires were recently the main topic in New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/world/europe/siberia-fires.html
So I urge you, PLEASE help us spread awareness about it so we can get some external help since out government doesn't give two shits about us.
Use the hashtag #SaveYakutia on social media to boost it up.
Read about it, talk about it, reblog, boost, anything is deeply appreciated by me personally and everyone here. I'm tired of Indigenous peoples being ignored and left to suffer alone.
Hello, to whoever you are. I hope a friend sent this to you, or you found this scrolling, or someone reposted the text elsewhere online. Long story short, if you like anime and manga, we need your help. HERE’S WHY WE’RE MOBILIZING.
As many of you may not know, Kadokawa Publishing, one of the oldest and largest publishers of manga in Japan, and owner of a catalog of IP’s that almost certainly includes your favorite publication or show, has recently named a new CEO, Takeshi Natsuno, who has former experience in the early Japanese internet industry and who currently sits on the board of the World Economic Forum. As one of his first acts since being appointed in March, he went on an online livestream and claimed that manga was too risqué for global appeal and that he was open to exploring imposing “new standards” that would bring, in one swoop, roughly 45% of Japan’s manga industry in line with Apple and Google’s capricious content standards that currently control YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Apple’s online platforms, such as Music and Podcasts.
This livestream has Japanese fans hopping mad. They’re organizing to try and stop this policy. But they know they can’t push back alone. In order to push back against Kadokawa, they need help from abroad. That’s where you, dear reader, come in.
We cannot control what Kadokawa does directly. But that doesn’t mean we’re out for the count. Individually, Kadokawa has no incentive to listen to any of us, and their CEO certainly seems not to value the input of fans, anyway. In fact, there isn’t even an option on Kadokawa’s contact page to contact Mr. Natsuno unless you’re a shareholder. But there is an institution Kadokawa will respond to, and that institution is the Diet, Japan’s legislative assembly.
The Diet already knows about this threat. Ken Akamatsu, the famous author of Love Hina, has been warning for years about coming regulatory attempts on the anime industry. A panel of female authors has appeared before the United Nations to rebuff calls to ban certain manga from sale. Sony Interactive, after relocating their headquarters to California, announced a draconian censorship code that has seen the market for indies on PlayStation shrink dramatically as Japanese developers panic. This is a real problem, and it is already taken seriously.
There is national momentum behind enshrining anime and manga as key strategic resources for Japanese soft power. The government is currently converting mangaka residences to museums, adding manga properties to historic registers, and establishing national councils to secure the independence of the medium, including government subsidization of a National Manga Center. The iron is hot, and it’s time to strike.
HERE’S WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO RIGHT NOW. BEFORE YOU CLOSE THIS TAB:
In 2012, Japanese voters in Tokyo elected a politician named Taro Yamada, who campaigned on protecting the freedom of expression of Japanese artists from business and governmental regulation. He also wears a bow tie. In 2019, fed up with increasing demands to censor art and media for the upcoming Olympic Games, a coalition of nerds, otaku and their political allies handed Yamada a massive re-election.
You can send a message to Councillor Yamada right here. (please note that bottom checkmark is a newsletter subscription, you might want to turn that off)
I want you to contact him right now. I want you to write a message, in whatever language you speak, explaining that you are a fan of anime from overseas, and that you want this naked subsumption of Japanese media to speech codes dictated from foreign companies stopped this instant. I want you to tell him that you want to join the fight to keep Japanese media, fair, free and independent. I want you to tell him that Japanese media is at risk of being kneecapped by aggressive foreign tech monopolies, and that this is no longer an issue of simple artistic freedom but of naked economic sabotage against competitors.
I want you to put your heart into whatever you write him, and then I want you to send this link to your friends and have them write him. I want so many foreign pleas for help in Councillor Yamada’s office that he thinks foreign spectators were let in for the Olympics. I want him wading through your pleas. I want him to look at his inbox and go “holy sweet pecan pie” and then I want more on top of that.
Councillor Yamada also works with the Association for Freedom of Entertainment Expression, an artists’ lobby that opposes government censorship in Japan. I want you to send them a message, too, and I want you to explain that the United States, through tech companies, is engaging in soft regulatory suffocation of Japan’s domestic media production.
If you really want to pack a punch, I want you to send Councillor Yamada a letter. Snail mail. Copy-paste his address onto your envelope.
〒100-0014 千代田区永田町2-1-1 参議院議員会館623号室
If you’re still pissed off, you can send foreign messages to Prime Minister Suga’s office, but chances are low this will help much. Suga probably doesn’t care, and he’s also busy with a certain sporting event that has his nation on high alert.
HERE’S WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO IN THE COMING DAYS:
Social media platforms are not your friends. But they’re the best hope we have. I want you to disseminate this call to action. I want you to translate it if you can. Ask your Discord friends to help out. Post it on Twitter. Tag anitubers, anitwitter people, anyone you can think of. Come up with some clever hashtag like #KeepMangaFree, I don’t know; I don’t use Twitter or Discord. Use the #NoNewStandards hashtag. You mobilized to keep the Internet free, now manga needs your help, too. Say it loud, and say it with all the fans in Japan who need your help. Don’t let these companies limit free expression.
Make posts in other communities raising awareness. If you don’t want to be associated with this post, don’t even mention it. Disavow us. We’re just passing the signal, grab and transmit. This has nothing to do with GamerGate or any stupid culture war. This is about keeping a medium we all love independent. Whether you’ve only ever read popular shonen or binge multiple series a week, whether you read official translations or fan scanlations or buy the volumes at the bookstore. Whether you’re an angry weeb, a progressive activist, are apolitical, or anywhere in between. Whether you post on animemes, or goodanimemes, or no meme subs at all. This is bigger than that. No matter what, we need your help.
You totally pirated manga at some point. Don’t lie. Now is your chance to give back. Because if we don’t act soon, the fate of manga may not be pretty.
OG POST LINK, with FAQ. Please, I urge everyone and anyone to do their part, even if it seems like just the bare minimum.
I’m just super fucking bitter that once the flint water crisis got it’s 15 minutes of fame people stopped giving a shit. The water is still poisoned, people! Donations have plummeted and people have been forced back into drinking and bathing with the water! The medical effects of this are astounding, cases of legionnaires disease have skyrocketed, people are having seizures, people are having weird rashes break out over their body, people (including me!) are having their blood poisoned, and it’s not just lead! it’s coliform bacteria! it’s THMs! it’s all in the water and it gets into the bloodstream and breaks down blood vessels, causing bruising and petechiae and internal bleeding and no one gives a shit anymore and it’s only gotten worse like how many people are going to have to die until people realize this is still a problem
some very important info re: paid accounts~
I am not a lawyer, but I can decently interpret legalese and, being as I also suffer from tl;dr syndrome and assume others may as well, I took one for the team and went through the updated TOS for the post+ accounts and highlighted (what I understand to be) the most pertinent information, which ultimately comes down to this:
You cannot monetize copyrighted works (aka charge and earn money from fanfic, fanworks, etc) and if you do decide to put your fanworks behind a paywall via Tumblr, when you are inevitably sued, Tumblr will not protect you and will not defend you and you alone, personally, will be responsible for whatever monetary damages said lawsuit results in.
If anyone is a lawyer and knows I've gotten any of this wrong, please do not hesitate to correct me/this post.
Screenshots taken from Tumblr's TOS (updated 7-21-21), Stripe's Account Agreement, and the post+ FAQs.
1. Your paid account will not be hosted by tumblr; it is routed through a 3rd party.
2. By signing up for a paid account, you're entering into an agreement with Stripe, so in addition to Tumblr's TOS, you are also bound to Stripe's TOS.
3. Stripe, like Tumblr, will not defend you or protect you against any lawsuits.
4. Furthermore, you may end up owing Stripe money (indemnify = compensate)
5. Tumblr's TOS specifically states that you can't put any content on your post+ account that violates any laws, including laws that protect intellectual property rights of others. This is super important, because Tumblr's post+ FAQ also states that you can post anything that you would regularly post on tumblr, which I'm sure many will take to mean that gifsets, fanworks, etc are fair game, since all of that stuff can be posted on tumblr now. However, the difference is, you're not making money from the fanworks you're posting or reblogging now. Once money enters the equation, the game changes.
Tumblr is making it seem like any and all content goes for post+ accounts, knowing 90% of this site is fanworks. This is not true and you'll be opening yourself up for lawsuits if you charge for fanworks.
6. Tumblr further disclaims any and all liability in any legal issues.
tl;dr: Please do not make a post+ account, bc you will be opening yourself to lawsuits and if that happens, Tumblr's response will be not our problem, you agreed to all the terms which said you couldn't do that, sorry not sorry. Please protect yourself.
My Kung Fu Panda character humanizations!!! This took forever but was honestly really fun!!! Hopefully you can tell who’s who! EDIT: eughgh i forgot monkeys wrist bands theyre there now!!!!
listen i do not mean this in a furry way at all and i know the actual tread of this would be ass but let me say. i would very much like it if there were boots that made animal tracks instead of boot tracks. i just think thatd be neat
not to get political but im begging you guys to stop coming to hawaii. in maui theyre asking to put a 'pause' on flights bc we literally do not have enough room or staff to service you. the roads are so full that its causing a major backup when ppl need to get to work.
on top of this, i heard that by September? theyre expecting to get rid of the mask rule (if 70% of ppl are vaccinated/all goes well) but ill be honest w/ you, i know many locals arent getting the vaccine and i know plenty of tourist arent gonna take the necessary precautions.
If you’re an artist, describe your current art style as best you can in the tags (don’t say “bad :(” or “ugly :(” or anything similar)
If you’re an artist, describe your current art style as best you can in the tags (don’t say “bad :(” or “ugly :(” or anything similar)
can y’all just… like or reblog if y’all are polyam-safe blogs
my middle school h2o: just add water self is ✨arising✨
there’s something about the sight of steps leading down into the water. it feels like the ocean telling me to come home
We have the opportunity to partner up with Rubik’s Cube and customize our own cube. I was thinking of naming it the Cube of Pride. Do we take on this project, fellow Pride Knights? Yes or no?
no offense but it's so exhausting that my posts get numbers like this
all the time but my donation posts barely get touched
im a trans, asian, disabled butch trying to escape a toxic/borderline abusive house
i really dont want to go into details but i really can't take it anymore. i have a roommate and apartment all lined up and owe my deposit of $1,300 by july 24th. i can't work until i move so i have no income.
if you want to help me escape heres where you can do so:
so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what
Meet Liu Kismet! Another cyborg character, more robot than human!
I love her a lot, so please treat her nicely
Duckie made a new creature friend!
They besties now 😤
And groovy Duckie for the heck of it
If y'all wanna know how Canada is doing with the apocalyptic heatwave, an entire town spontaneously combusted the other day and is now Gone