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i dont know what to do ........ all day yesterday i was thinking that if trump wins i will fr ask for donations so i can leave safely . i dont live in a safe part of ukraine and if there will be big movement on the frontline the place where i am will be next . i cant imagine wanting anything more than for it to not go the way it will probably go now . i dont care , even the smallest amount will get me and my cat closer to leave this place

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ok so. what are we doing about MY loneliness epidemic. when are we going to crack down on the whole touch-starved thing i've got going on because at this rate... standing shoulder to shoulder with someone is enough to make me weak in the knees. to be honest

i dont know what to do ........ all day yesterday i was thinking that if trump wins i will fr ask for donations so i can leave safely . i dont live in a safe part of ukraine and if there will be big movement on the frontline the place where i am will be next . i cant imagine wanting anything more than for it to not go the way it will probably go now . i dont care , even the smallest amount will get me and my cat closer to leave this place

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HARRY AND KIM VISUAL HARMONY. COLORS AND SHAPE LANGUAGE. Spoke on this much more at length on reddit but here I'll just paste my thesis: Harry and Kim look so good next to eachother because they have generally different shape languages (lines vs curves), their silhouettes compensate for the other (ex pants tucked into boots vs bellbottoms, mullet vs bald, etc), and their color motifs are opposed While each party has accents nonetheless reminiscent of the other. Enjoy the wonky graphics. Peace

Diary of an 8-year-old boy during the siege of Mariupol, Ukraine.

"WAR

Sunday: I slept well, woke up, smiled, got up and read to page 25. Also my grandfather died. I have a wound on my back, the skin is torn. My sister has a head injury. My mother has torn flesh on her arm and a hole in her head"

"FRIEND

I'm 8 years old. My sister is 15 years old. Mom is 38 years old and needs a bandage. Mom is first, I'm second, sister is third. By the way I have a friend Vika and she's our neighbor. She has nice parents.

Monday: i woke up like yesterday, smiled, etc. Grandma went looking for water and she came back. By the way, it’s almost my birthday"

"Two of my dogs died, so did my Grandma Halya and my favourite city Mariupol since Thursday 24th [of February]"

BUCK-TICK PATI-PATI ROCK 'N' ROLL January 1993 Vol.67

"the inherent divinity of" bro what inherent divinity 😭😭😭 everythings freaking normal

i feel like i just got so used to ciri and how natural ciri and geralt’s relationship left, via being introduced to the witcher via witcher 3, and then reading the middle of the saga before i finished the short stories…

that i never really innately picked up on the fact that ciri turning out to be geralt’s daughter and not his son was… uhm, part of the entire surprise, let’s put it that way :’)

geralt and ciri are just soooo natural as a father and daughter duo that i can’t imagine it any other way, if ciri had been a boy this would have been way less remarkable as a series, there would be no witcher series as we know it. so to me ciri being a girl was the normal and default, expected way things were supposed to go.

even when i read a question of price-sword of destiny-something more for the first times, i was like “ok” when ciri being a girl was a switch of expectations: geralt (and, supposedly, the reader) having expected pavetta to have a son. like… “alright, it’s a girl, so what.”

i had to be informed about how this was an intentional shock… not only because i’m not a parent, but i mean, well, ultrasounds get mixed up all the time, right… it’s not so uncommon to have a kid and be surprised by the gender…

and because of this, i was more inclined to eyeroll at blood of elves being preachy with going over ciri’s biological sex what seemed like ten million times in chapters two and three… what with the whole “daughter has her first period” subplot, ciri upset over her lack of potential strongmanship, and the witchers mostly relying on triss for guidance in raising a girl. the moral being both “just raise her like any other child” and “be sensitive to her needs that you’re blind to…”

although i still think these segments have visibly aged and date the series (not inherently a bad thing, just a quality of it)… they do make more sense when i try to empathize more with the perspective of a new father… who didn’t know he was receiving a girl… who thought she died… who only got her back through a miracle… and having to raise a girl… that’s not a young child anymore, not yet a teen, but is very shortly going to start going through puberty?! it’s like growing up in the desert, just learning what water is, and then getting thrown into the ocean.

because “having to raise a girl” still doesn’t seem that strange to me, but then i remember geralt didn’t see a woman and only had heard about them as a concept until he was an adult (because “warrior-monk” realness), he grew up with a hole in his heart that his absent mother bore, he lives in a highly gendered society, he experiences hostility from everybody of course but especially from women and girls, who take fright at him for… specific reasons explained by the old women in edge of the world…

no, geralt’s not helpless, but i forget, because he acts normal, but… (i mean, although he has issues, he could have really gone off his rocker with regards to women, a little sacrifice confirms this and vilgefortz embodies this) i forget that geralt’s inexperience with women… mostly manifesting in anxiety and both uncertain and impulsive behavior… like ghosting with a nosegay of flowers, the “dear friend” and all… would affect his view of the gender as a whole, including how he sees ciri. and it does.

in his situation, yes, having to raise a girl does intensify the element of “what the fuck am i doing”. especially as a single dad.

and although i do like it when the pov shifts from geralt in the saga but just to another person in the room, for how he becomes more of a distant and enigmatic figure, seeing him through others’ eyes always makes fills me with this uncertainty. buuuut, i would fucking adore blood of elves chapters two and three through geralt’s eyes just for how much of an emotional wreck he must have been… and trying not to show it to her :(

got my hair dyed in japan and the hairdressers spoke very little english but were super interested in trying to communicate so they managed to ask me if I watched anime and when I told them my favorite was death note one of them gasped and went “death note! misamisa?!” and I went “ah! yes!!! I love misa!” and she smiled and clapped. misa amane transcends language

Look Back (2024) dir. Kiyotaka Oshiyama, story by Tatsuki Fujimoto

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)