Okay I was simply scrolling because Sri Lanka is fucking trending but as usual international media is exoticizing  our struggles and focusing on the “people swimming in the president’s pool” instead of informing the world about why an entire fucking country (amidst an economic collapse) stormed to Colombo and asked the president to step down. 

First things first. Know the context. 

There is an economic crisis going on in Sri Lanka. We have declared bankruptcy. 

I’ve already made a post about what this means for the country. This means high inflation. No electricity. Princes are sky rocketing. 

No fuel. I repeat. No fuel. People are fucking dying in queues. 

But even without fuel, people came to Colombo. People fucking walked to Colombo for miles and miles to join the protest. 

There were attempts to stop the protest. We have the right for assembly. We have the right to freedom of expression. But no. The government stopped fuel dispense (as if we had fuel lol) to stop people. They imposed an unconstitutional “police curfew” to stop the protest. Why is no one talking about this shit??

But people still came. I don’t see the international media reporting about the effort and energy and passion that went into this. 

We built a city. Do you fucking know that? We built a city called “GotaGoGama (loosely translates to: Gota-Go-Home-Ville). We built a city months ago since the country collapsed. 

Recap of May 09th when GotaGoGama was attacked by Mahinda Rajapaksha (then PM) and his goons. 

I repeat. The protest on 09th July is not the first. 

We’ve been asked the president to step down so more competent people can take over and do something to help us. This protest yesterday was not new. It’s not random. It’s an act of people giving up. The storming of the presidential palace is not anger. It’s taking back of power. 

As for the swimming pools? And People making fun of the protestors for working out in the president’s gym, eating the food in his kitchen and swimming in his pool? 

What about this? 

For people making fun of the youth who are taking a dip at the swimming pool or playing the piano at the president’s house…For those are the condemning the protestors who set the PM’s house on fire (we still have no visual proof this happened) - all I have to say is this:

THIS - 

These leaders we asked to step down today (who still haven’t btw. No. Not yet. Nothing official yet), they are corrupt beyond compare. The president had “said” he “will” step down not he 13th. But we don’t know anything yet. 

These are people who not only brought the country to economic collapse. But the Rajapaskhas are responsible for millions of lives that were lost during the civil war. These are people who have taken from my country until there is nothing more for us to give. 

I’m really grateful that you are all finally “talking about us”. I’m glad the international media and the whole world is finally watching. But your view is narrow. Your sight is short sighted. 

International media. People of the world. 

Do better. 

Do fucking better. 

Because we, Sri Lankans, are doing our fucking best right now. 

I am begging people on AO3 to stop tagging characters and relationships unless they are a major, featured, significant part of their stories. If you want people to know the worldstate of your fic that badly, put your pairings of choice for this fic in the author’s note. Character tags aren’t warnings; I’m not going to throw a fit if I come across an untagged minor character if I’m reading fic for that fandom, especially if they have one (1) snarky line and then vanish. 

Clogging up the tags like this makes finding actual fic that focuses on side characters and supporting relationships a slog. I truly dislike FF.net for a variety of reasons, but sometimes I think they had something going when they were like, “PICK FOUR. YOU GET FOUR.” 

i’m begging people to stop putting “oneshot collections” into a single multichapter fic

there’s a thing called “collection” please make your oneshots indivdual fics and put them into a collection particularly if they’re for multiple fandoms

i have no idea how many oneshots i might’ve loved but i’m skipping them because they’re buried inside your multichapter not actually a crossover but AO3’s search reads it as such fic that i’ve already filtered out or my eyes just passed over because i’m not going to manually sort through your chapters for what i want when AO3 could’ve done it for me if you’d just left a oneshot as it’s own fic

and on the writer side this gives you an easier opportunity to expand on that oneshot if you want

Ahri being a queen in More

i’m a paypig

mistress told me to send money to people because i don’t deserve it

ill pick a few people who reblog this post to send 1000€, i’ll post proof later today

this is the money cuck, reblog and money will find you

a baby snow owl. 030

we need a mom dating simulator too where you can be a mom looking for other moms to date

america please import this concept

rare pink pharah just for fun

who else can’t wait until they have a cute gf???

all of those who reblogged will be blessed w a cute gf

This isn’t a joke guys I reblogged And got a cute gf

confirmation from one of the happy customers of this post y'all

I wish something like this happened at the party

ok so like I read a lot of fics where something QuestionableTM happens to either Nozomi or Eli and the other one is super jealous and “No! Nozomi/Eli it was all just a big misunderstanding ilysm!” and while that is fun and hilarious, give me a Nozoeli who isn’t even phased bc “Hmm? Some girl is flirting w/ Nozomi? I mean, if you’re worried, remind Nozomi to let her down gently, but she’s usually good with stuff like that.” or 

“Hey babe, my coworker is flirting with me.” 

“Oh? Who?” 

“You know, the one that sits by the window?”

“Oh yeah! The cute one! That’s kind of awkward.” *goes back to eating breakfast* 

“…You’re not jealous?” 

*blinks, like this isn’t something she’s considered* “Should I be jealous?”

“No, it’s just, this woman’s flirting with me.”

“And?”

“And you’re not…”

“Elicchi, if you want me to fight this woman, I can, but  wouldn’t it be easier to just tell her no? Show off the engagement ring?”

Give me that Nozoeli! The we’ve-been-’married’-for-so-long-that-jealousy-is-a-distant-memory Nozoeli.

i’m sick of all this “popular jock has crush on nerd he beats up” do you know what i want. i want a stereotypically popular cheerleader who has a crush on the weird girl who’s always studying and who her friends make fun of and who she always catches glancing at her in the hallway and who’s at the top of their class and who’s always picked last in gym and whose glasses are broken during dodgeball and who comes to one of the football games just to see her cheer and who asks her if she wants to go to mcdonalds after the game and who kisses her after sharing a large soda and medium fries

i did it

OH MY GOD……..OH YM GOD…………

@warmbun

I LOVE THIS VIDEO SO MUCH