THE CONTRAST 😭

Rough Notes

Just was thinking of a Valkyrie AU (Attached Universe) for JJK, of course I need to do more research but

If Hana Kurusu can exist, there's like a possibility that Valkyries can be a good attachment to the jjk universe, especially considering cursed abilities are mostly in Japan and rarely elsewhere??

Basically, I think that Valkyric abilities manifest from a sense of victory and also pride/ego, and it's pretty hard to keep consistent, so I highly doubt there'll be special insitutions for it like JJH, but uh 🤩 yeah??

There's always only 13 by the end of the training programs, I think it's mainly in the UK? You can bet one of them is bringing their bronzer with them into battle ADJDJ

That's the only ideas I have right now!! Might update later!

So, India is dying.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.

There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.

There is no plan.

Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.

We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.

This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.

We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.

People are dying.

People are dying.

People are dying and there is no plan.

More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.

My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.

Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.

But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.

She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.

So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.

If you can, donate.

Or spread the word.

Help. Please.

>> TRUSTED DONATION LINKS FOR TURKEY EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS !!!!

• AKUT

https://www.akut.org.tr/en/donation

• KIZILAY https://www.kizilay.org.tr/Bagis/BagisYap/43/general-donation

• AFAD

https://en.afad.gov.tr/earthquake-humanitarian-aid-campaign

There is the donation link of AHBAP too, but sadly the site didn't let me in. And if you cannot donate to the links above, then try;

• Events?? This is my first time seeing the site :(

https://events.softgiving.com/donate/HasanAbiForTurkeySyriaEarthquakesFund

• "Turkey Earthquake Relief Fund" Donation opened by Barış Özcan, It's under the description of the video.

https://youtu.be/-BvS6PZbCws

• Carrd made by @.simmerbroke on twt, I should've putted this one above but 🤷‍♂️yeah.

https://turkeysyriaearthquake.carrd.co/

And to the Turks that lives in Istanbul; Materials are being collected so that the earthquake victims in Kahramanmaraş can be fed, and stay warm. Along with food, blankets, baby diapers and handkerchiefs are being collected too, In the news couple AFAD workers also said that their in need of garbage bag and medicane too. The stuff are being collected at "Avcılar Mesleki Teknik Anadolu Lisesi" on the European side and "Üsküdar Türkan Sabancı Görme Engellileri Okulu" on the Anatolian side. (I live extremely close to Avcılar Mesleki Teknik Anadolu Lisesi It's like a 1-4 minute walk so, my mom went there to give diapers n' handkerchiefs for the earthquake victims.)

a friendly reminder that microaggressions against asians can also look like this:

pretending to gag at asian food

pretending to be weirded out by asian customs and cultures

excusing cultural appropriation (often through ignoring the stories of asians who have been mocked for wearing their ethnic dress while praising a white person for doing so)

not trying to learn how to pronounce an asian person's ethnic name correctly, or asking, "can i call you by something else?"

adopting an asian name for the ~aesthetic~

using the words "oriental" and "exotic" to describe asian people, particular asian women

ignoring the experiences and stories of south, southeast, and central asians

making sweeping assumptions about asian countries (including their political, historical and cultural landscape)

treating the entire asian community as a monolith and ignoring the fact that the experiences of asian nationals are remarkably different from the asian diaspora/migrant community

co-opting asian aesthetics into creative media without acknowledging their history

I should really play the game more 😭

I'm no longer asking I am begging you to read Asagiri's additional prologue to the Dragon's Head Conflict from the Dead Apple event in the mobile game it has Oda it has Fyodor it has Dazai it has SKK it has more Shibusawa it has lore about the Dragon's Head Conflict and the Port Mafia PLEASE

you can read it on the wiki

Sorry to be an ugly fun-killer but in light of the recent Invasion I urge you all to be mindful of the things you reblog and the memes that you repost. Please remember that behind every "world war 3 lmao" post there is a reality where real people are going to be displaced from their homes and are going to lose their lives.

Before you laugh at that tweet that talks about the draft or whatever ask yourself: are you laughing because it's funny? or are you laughing because you're safe and comfortable in the West and it's not a direct problem for you?

if your asian activism doesnt include ALL asians then it is useless. if your asian activism thinks asia is japan, korea, and china and MAYBE a few s/se asian countries, it is not asian activism. asia is a massive continent that includes north asia and the middle east (surprise, the middle east is w asia).

yes weeaboos and koreaboos are asian issues and so is anti chinese racism and general anti e asian racism spiking bc of covid, but those are not the ONLY asian issues. 

what’s happening to palestine is an asian issue. what’s happening in armenia is an asian issue. what’s happening in india is an asian issue. there are asian issues i am nowhere near informed enough about to bring up on this post. include these communities and countries in your asian activism. they are a part of the larger asian community. do not forget them.

we are the armed detective agency.

Dead Apple for @strwcherri!!

Literary Stray Letters

Hello! I always thought the sea was Romantic in Winter and Summer, but I wonder about Autumn?

This is the second short story of Lotte's collection, however I also feel this is my weakest, but I hope you enjoy it.^^

in need of voluntary translators for urgent aid to earthquake survivors in turkey and syria

translators without borders has made a call for volunteers that speak the languages of the affected regions to help aid in humanitarian relief.

if you speak at least two of these languages:

Arabic

Aramaic

Armenian

Chechen

Circassian (Cherkess)

Georgian

Greek

English

French

Kurdish Kurmanji

Turkish

Zazaki (Zaza)

please sign up to volunteer. we really need all the help we can get.