reblog this if you’re jewish or your blog is a safe space for jewish people
in light of recent events as well as a new rise in creating nazi ocs I think this post is an important one to have on your blog if you stand behind your jewish followers or are jewish yourself.
i think the world doesn’t know what it really means to live in a theocratic dictatorship. Let me tell you about our experiences living in the islamic regime of iran.
1. Your parents were born to muslim parents so they’re automatically muslim. You’re automatically a muslim too. You didn’t choose your religion and you can’t opt out of it or you will be executed.
2. The compulsory hijab law makes you a criminal if you choose not to wear hijab even tho you didn’t choose to be a muslim and you don’t consider yourself a muslim but the regime has forced you into that role whether you like it or not. And when you ‘break that law’, they can do with you as they please.
3. little girls as young as 7 yrs old are forced to wear hijab at school even tho the islam itself says the age is 9. and all the schools are gender segregated so imagine how they force you to get used to hijab even when you’re just surrounded by other girls. And all day long at school they tell you horrible stories about what will happen to you in hell if someone sees even a strand of your hair.
4. the regime modifies all the textbooks, story books, cartoons and movies to represent the ideal woman with full on hijab. The iranian media is ordered to photoshop every photo of a woman that may be showing a little skin. And if they’re iranian, no hair is supposed to be seen or that will be photoshopped away. Women are mostly excluded from billboards and tv commercials.
5. imagine going to work or meeting up with a friend when suddenly the morality police kidnap you in broad daylight and force you into a van to take you to a station where they will treat you like a criminal and if you don’t agree to get humiliated and do as they say, they will put you in prison. And in case of Mahsa Amini and so many more before her, they will beat you to death. My sister was barely 18 when she got kidnapped and they didn’t let her call home and she’d been so fucking scared and we had no idea where she was. Imagine all the psychological trauma.
6. If you’re in a car and not wearing hijab they will fine you and seize your car. So when u get into a taxi the driver will ask you to keep your hijab on otherwise they’ll get fined. And if you refuse they’ll ask you to get off the car.
7. And its not just about hijab. In Ramadan, they get even more vicious. If they catch you eating or even drinking water on the street they will give you lashes as punishment and even imprison you for breaking the law. If you work in a state-owned company it’s even worse. They will close the cafeteria and take away the water dispensers. All restaurants are banned from delivering food before iftar. It’s a fucking mess. Everyone has to pretend they’re fasting or they’ll be severely punished.
8. And how could I forget about this! iranian women are banned from singing! the islamic regime prohibits women’s singing voices to be heard by men so imagine the horror of having 50% of the population banned from ever becoming a singer. If they identify a female singer in iran, they will take her to jail and force her to repent her sins in the most humiliating way so that she will never dare sing again.
9. And every time the regime gets wind of a private gathering of men and women trying to have fun and live their fucking private lives, the police crash the party and take everyone to jail bc the Islamic regime bans iranian men and women from having fun.
So if you see Islam has become for many iranians a symbol of oppression and torture and discrimination, that’s why. The regime uses islam as a weapon to silence and punish anyone who opposes them. You can love islam all you want from the safety of your home in a free country and talk about how kind and benevolent the religion is, but in iran, it’s a whole different story.
Our economy is fucked. All govt officials are corrupt as fuck. Most websites are banned in iran. Even tumblr is banned. The world has cut the iranian ppl from many services. We don’t have intl credit cards like visa card. Amazon doesn’t do delivery to iran. We cant get netflix, spotify or even a gamepass subscription. we don’t get any Apple services here. iran isn’t listed as a country you could choose when signing up for a lot of services. and when we decide to leave iran and escape this hellhole, every country out there will make it sooo much harder for us to get a visa just bc we had the misfortune to be born in iran at the wrong time.
This is the story of iran for the past 44 years. Held hostage by a corrupt regime that uses religion to suppress and torture the people and being abandoned by the rest of the world bc our lives don’t matter.
Please be our voice. Once they shut down the internet completely and silence our voice, they will start slaughtering us to stifle the protests just like they did in 2019. Please help us. We want this fucking regime gone.
Characters: Ayato, Kaeya, Diluc, Xiao x gn!reader (separate)
Genre: Fluff
Summary: The Nicknames they call you
Warnings: None
Word Count: 380+
Masterlist
AYATO
Ayato calls you darling
it’s simple and effective
you know who he means and he can see the smile on your face when he calls you by this nickname
at the start of your relationship, he thought it wasn’t special enough
so he looked for other names and ‘Darling’ was just something he called you until he found the perfect nickname
but it grew on him and he started comparing everything he thought of with the reaction you had when he calls you darling
none of the other options satisfied him and he stayed with the simple nickname
KAEYA
Kaeya likes calling you snowflake or little snowflake
he knows he isn’t the most gentle person while you are, at least to him, calmness and gentleness in person
so compared to the storm he is himself, you are just a little snowflake, still cold and able to harm others and defend yourself, but not doing much unless you want to
he also thinks you’re incredibly beautiful, like the first snow of the year
you help calm him down no matter what
of course, he also does it to tease you, knowing it’ll fluster you when he calls you his snowflake while he has a hand under your chin to make you look at him
DILUC
Diluc calls you my love
he makes sure to include the ‘my’ every time
it’s not only because he’s a little bit possessive
he just likes reassuring himself that you’re really with him
he has a little smile on his face everytime you look up when he calls out the nickname
especially if it happens when you’re out and you only look up when he says it
XIAO
He calls you his crystalfly
he thinks they're beautiful and magnificent creatures and he thinks the same of you
so it’s only fitting in his mind
he dislikes all of the cliché names people use for their partners simply to have a nickname
So he just called you by your name until he came up with the crystalfly
it holds a special meaning to both of you because he gifted you some crystalflies for your birthday and compared you to the little creatures
after tha, he started calling you his crystalfly more often and now, although he still likes calling you by your name sometimes, he mostly calls you crystalfly
Anyone who thinks that doing something the hard way with "willpower" instead of the most effective and efficient way with whatever tools you have at your disposable is a fucking dipshit, and likely an ableist too.
I'm so so so tired of the "meds as a last resort" mentality.
If I get a migraine, could I rub peppermint oil on my temples and lay in a dark room and suffer along until the pain abates and I can take pride in surviving on my will power alone? Sure, I fucking guess. Or I could take my fucking meds and have a functional day.
And the same goes for my damn Adderall. Clearly, I can *survive* without Adderall for my ADHD. I did it for my entire life up until I FINALLY got diagnosed earlier this year. But guess what? I dont NEED my meds. I COULD go without them. I don't fucking want to. I am so much more functional with them, and there is no honor in unnecessary suffering.
Medicine isn't a moral failing and there isn't a specially little corner of heaven reserved for folks who took the fewest number of pills in their life.
new tumblr people if you have a blank blog and you only like stuff but never reblog anything people are going to assume you're not a real person and block you
Just reblogged a post about this, but this is something about the people who rail against digital art that REALLY annoys me.
Digital art is, in a lot of ways, more accessible than traditional art. And I will explain.
There’s the matter of materials, sure. Yes, tablets are fucking EXPENSIVE, but as someone who has done both digital and traditional art, so are quality traditional art materials. Once you have that tablet and that program, you can just… Create. You don’t run out of paint or pencils, you don’t need to purchase new canvases. You just… Can make. Over and over and over. At least, that’s been my experience with Procreate.
However, there’s the more important aspect of accessibility, at least to me. In digital art, you can rotate the canvas. You can fucking zoom in to do details. You can alter colors and brightness to suit the time of day or environment or your own sight needs. As a disabled artist, who always found a lot of the standing, moving canvases, making the time to do traditional art, the hardest? Digital art has opened up the world of art to me like never before. My eyesight is HORRIBLE. It’s getting worse as I get older, and will continue to do so. I cannot draw, traditionally, like I used to. I cannot see the little details on paper.
On my iPad? I can zoom. I can brighten. I can adjust so that I can continue to draw, even as my eyesight worsens. Digital art allows people with mobility impairments to draw, allows people like myself with chronic fatigue and pain to just… Set up with a tablet in the most comfortable place and work. I can just set it down, turn it off, and come back to it exactly as it was when I’m ready to draw again.
IMO, people who rail against digital art because it isn’t “real art” are misunderstanding two things. One- they think that there is no talent or practice or effort required for digital art. That we just tap a screen and boom. There’s a masterpiece. But digital artists need to actually MAKE art. It’s not magic. And two- I think these people have a very narrow view of what an artists looks like. And that narrow view doesn’t include disabled and neurodivergent people who benefit from the accessibility that can come with digital art.
Characters: Lisa, Keqing, Beidou, Raiden Shogun x gn!reader (separate)
Genre: Fluff
Warnings: None
Word Count: 690
A/N: Electro girls go brrr. Also, I enjoyed writing for Lisa a lot more than I thought I would. Let's see where that gets me.
Masterlist
Lisa
She’s very teasing with you. Lisa calls you darling whenever she sees you. Kisses your lips, but only for a second (after making sure you’re fine with it, you know you can stop her if you don’t want to). She then walks away with a teasing smile unless you pull her back. She actually wants you to pull her back, so if you want to tease her, don’t pull her towards you for a day or so. If she sees your smile while doing this, she knows you’re just teasing her and will walk back herself to pull you in and give you a proper kiss. If you keep it up for too long though, she might get insecure, so please don’t. Whether you pull her back or she comes back herself, you always share a slightly longer kiss. It might end up with a longer while of kissing if you are somewhere more private, like her or your office, or a random corridor. She loves kissing you very much, and it is her most preferred way of procrastination, even though she knows both of you have a lot of tasks to do.
Keqing
Keqing’s very soft with you, especially with her kisses. She doesn’t really care which part of your face she kisses, as long as it’s you. If she had to choose her favourite type of kiss, though, she would probably say early morning kisses. Whoever of you wakes up first wakes the other with light kisses on the cheeks and forehead. Once you’re both awake, you have breakfast together. You share a proper kiss when both of you head off to work.
While she’s working, she dislikes being distracted, so cheek kisses are all you’re getting if you two ever meet during work.
When you’re home in the evening (after you’ve dragged her back home from her duties) and sit on the couch or prepare dinner, you’re always touching each other in some way. There’s a lot of kisses shared before you head to bed to repeat your little routine the following day.
Beidou
She’s a little rough around the edges, but she’s the best at taking care of you. Her favourite kisses are kisses on the lips while you’re holding each other. Your hands on her waist and her hands on your hips while your lips meet in the middle is the perfect thing to her. No matter where you are and how busy she is, whenever she meets you, she takes a few moments to do this with you. She’s also not afraid to do this in public (unless you’re uncomfortable, she will always respect any boundaries you’ve set).
If you don’t join her on her journeys often for whatever reason, she’s gonna miss you terribly. Once she’s back, she is stuck to you for at least three days and if you’re fine with it, she’ll join you everywhere, kissing you every couple of minutes.
In conclusion, she’s a very touchy person who loves to kiss you. Although she doesn’t exactly care where she kisses you, your lips are her favourite place to kiss.
Raiden Shogun
It depends. If you’re with the puppet, there will be no affection, simply because she’s not programmed for it. If you’re with Ei outside or in her Plane of Euthymia, there are a lot more loving ways her affection for you is shown. She’s very fond of nose kisses. The God thinks they’re cute and, because she finds you incredibly cute, it fits in her mind. She keeps you close and, almost as if it’s an instinct, presses a kiss to your cheek every other minute. You do the same for her.
“Proper” kisses are reserved for a more quiet time between the two of you. Ei wants to make them as special as she can and she believes they will lose a bit of that magical feeling if they happen too often. When they do happen, however, it’s a very soft moment. She cups your cheek and you cup hers before she leans in and slowly kisses you. This can go on for minutes and neither of you wants to break it.