So this is a petition I created and has actually gone live, so I will be sharing this as widely as possible in the coming weeks and months.

The UK government's attitude to refugees is beyond appalling and we need to show that to the British public their treatment is unacceptable. People who have fled their homes due to war, climate change, persecution, or restrictions of their human rights (to list just a few reasons why people become refugees) should not be compelled to get into tiny boats, or huddle in the back of lorries to get to the UK in the hope of a better life. And when they get here, they should not be corralled in accommodation not fit to house them, which is overcrowded and unsanitary. Manston airport is currently being filled beyond capacity and nothing practical is being done to help. People are being abandoned at London train stations instead.

I have created the petition to demand all refugees are housed in hotels from the minute they land on our shores.

If you are a British citizen (which includes people living overseas) or are a UK resident (which includes anyone living here who isn't british), please sign and share this petition as widely as you can. If you fall outside of these categories but you follow me, or this crosses your dashboard from someone else, please reblog this so as many people see it as possible.

I volunteered at the Calais Warehouse run by Help Refugees a few years ago, so I have experienced first hand the hardships people contend with in trying to get to this country. The least we can do is treat them humanely and provide them with the basic shelter we ourselves would expect if we were in this situation.

10/10 effort here from Reuben Dangoor

Having a little cry about the blockades at Colnbrook House - they've bought enough time to get nearly everyone off the charter flight! Direct action gets the goods

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Watching the difference between the Twitter migration mentality vs. the Reddit migration mentality is fucking hilarious.

Like, when Twitter users started moving over here everyone was pulling out all the stops and bringing back old fandoms that they were into and basically firing rent lowering shots by being super cringey.

And then all of the sudden when the Reddit refugees start showing up we're like, "ah yes, pull up a log and gather around the dumpster fire. We'll teach you how to not get killed by people hunting down bots and carve out a little area for you guys to relax and get used to the site before we throw you into the deep end of this hellsite that we call home. Tomorrow is Let Papyrus say Fuck day so you can prepare for that if you want. You want some hot coco and a blanket?"

I keep seeing ppl watch the other shadowflagomens shows to recover from the first of the 3 they watched knowing full well it will only make it worse but I can't interfere bc its a canon event

trans for trans

The Reddit migration is rly funny to me. So many people used to a more serious community to interact with fandom stuff and then there’s us being looked at under a microscope by other platforms to figure out why the fuck we make every character ever gay

Welcome, redditors

"From here I can see a borderless world" (EN: English)

i like to think of tumblr as a garden or a forest. lots of cool bugs, wildlife, plants, and great knowledgeable stuff to a social ecosystem are plentiful here

then there's also the birds that came after the wildfires from where they came from, which feast on the bugs and shit around

they contribute to the ecosystem, to be fair, by providing the soil with nutrients for strong sturdy plants and trees to grow, shade, and obscure the cool bugs from their surface-level pecking, short-sighted vision, and to get them lost in the plants' foliage so that all the creatures - from down-to-earth to outright crazy - can crawl about their day without getting ravaged by their gluttonous beaks searching to feed their ever-growing and unending appetite to fuel their flock built on murderous intent

the same flocks that have so desperately fled during our own wildfires, abandoning the forest without another thought for a false haven promising safety and career growth. and from the charred remains of our abandoned, the ashes had finally allowed nature to heal and thrive...

now only to have them back as they once again cowardly flee their burning homes. not greeted with warm welcomes, but contempt and disdain for their treachery

anywho twitter culture sucks, long live long form social media posts and isopods on timeline \o/

IS and KT managing to make Edelgard the biggest Mary Sue in a verse where Byleth exists is still morbidly impressive to me lol

I wouldn't say Supreme Leader is a Mary Sue - depending on what you mean by being a Mary Sue, anon.

If you're talking about the 2000s usual critic thrown at fanfiction characters... well, you have Supreme Leader's depiction in the Aeneid that could fit this trope!

But in general...

Yep, that's what makes the Fodlan series so... weird ? Empty? As consistent as a cloud?

FE16 wise, characters (bar a few ones who are generally loved !) can piss on their background/convictions/ties/preexisting character to join Billy's side because Billy is awesome. No matter how hard people try to headcanon about it, Felix will join the GD and later Claude's army in VW because Billy had a kickass rank in swordfighting : Felix will ditch his childhood friends and leave his people to fend for themselves because Billy knows how to swordfight.

Remove Billy's player avatar powers, and suddenly, some characters cannot switch sides - in return they gain a much stronger characterisation and development (the BL peeps in Nopes!).

What makes the Fodlan verse so unique isn't Billy being at the forefront of player pandering, no, Fodlan verse will hammer instead the "waifu pandering". Sure, waifu is supposed to be your avatar's luf interest and the character you will spend thousands of dollars/euros/pick your currency for - but instead of pushing player pandering to 11, Fodlan verse instead pushes waifu pandering.

Supreme Leader cannot ever be challenged, whatever she does, people will praise her later on - or if we really have to fight her, it will not be willingly but the cast will be forced by circumstances (don't ask who created them!) and lament how they couldn't "walk with her uwu".

It culminates, imo, with SS S Support Rhea wondering if the War was her fault, and no one putting the blame on the character who declared said war on premises we learn, through the game, to be wrong. It's as if Rhea wonders if being tortured for 5 years I mean, having to dance Zumba for 5 years in Enbarr's dungeons, thousands of dead people, the monastery and its people being destroyed, Faerghus falling to anarchy, Adrestian made Demonic Beasts and Supreme Leader's beliefs that nonhumans should never have powers over humans because their ears aren't round is, well, her fault.

"See, Supreme Leader did nothing wrong, Rhea herself says she was responsible for her own torture zumba session!"

And FE16 being FE16... There is no "of course not".

To preserve Supreme Leader's selling points, those games amp up to unseen before in this franchise levels of victim blaming that seriously - regardless of real life world events - made a lot of people, myself included, uncomfortable.

So while I wouldn't say Supreme Leader is a 2000s Mary Sue, the writing around her feels somehow more gratting than what a fanfiction writer could have wrote in the 2000s for fun.

I mean, people were paid to write "if people don't want to die maybe they should just let me roll over them"!

That's way worse.

With Twitter going down, a lot of people I know from there will be joining here. So, I just wanted to say hello. I mainly use this blog to post about stuff I'm up to and reblog GF fanart and other stuff I enjoy finding on Tumblr.

I'm not as active on here as on other socials, so if you wanna get in touch, here's a link to my Linktree where you can find my other non Twitter socials: https://linktr.ee/ThatGFFAN

After Twitter, I'm mainly active on my jointly run fan Discord server and my YouTube channel. So, feel free to get in touch there via the link above. You can also get in touch via Instagram but I'm not as active on there as I used to be given Insta sorta seems to be on the decline too and not all that great in terms of being down a lot, lol.

But yeah. Welcome to Tumblr if you're here from Twitter. Feel free to also ask me stuff if you got questions on my ask page here. Hope to see you on those other places too if you do choose to join them. Kinda hope Twitter survives but it's not looking good rn, lol.

That's all from me for now. Stay Safe and Stay Weird, everyone.

Hello friends,

If you aren't aware, I have been volunteering with a local refugee group for almost two years now. We have welcomed a total of ten families so far (with another one on the way) which is frickin amazing but they are all here on something called humanitarian parole. While humanitarian parole is great for getting refugees to safety quickly from areas with war, natural disasters, and political disruption, it isn't great at helping keep them here. It only allows parolees to stay in the US for two years, which is coming up as soon as this December for our first few families. Since they are all from either Haiti or Ukraine, where things have gotten way worse since they arrived rather than better, it really isn't an option for any of them to go home. Our most recent family made it out of Haiti only two days before the airport was closed and the one before that was directly in the middle of attacks from Russia before getting to NY.

That being said, we made this petition to hopefully get lawmakers to at least extend the parole option, if not also give a path to citizenship. These families have become more than our responsibility - they are our friends, and in my case several of them are now well loved neighbors. Extending humanitarian parole has been suggested for Ukrainians, but there is currently no legislation for Haitians. I know compassion fatigue is real, but this is something anyone can do to hopefully make things better for my friends. If you are willing, please consider signing and/or sharing. We all would be so grateful

Welcome Twitter Refugees

Don't bring your drama here. Don't bring your cruelty here. Enjoy the ride. don't censor tags, they're there for a reason, this isn't twitter. You don't have to hide from the bird anymore

Suddenly curious if the Reddit blackout took some mysme communities with them or if these were already extinct 🤔