Tl;dr: A Canadian Company Is Planning On A Project In Africa That Will Take Up 1/6 Of The World's Remaining

Here is the finished piece for my Go For It, Edgeworth! cover.

I just love this meme.

(Original: Go For It, Nakamura!)

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.

OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHGGGGGGHHHHH I HAVE BEEN CONSUMED BY SONADOW HOLY SHIT WHAT HAVE I DRAWN might post it later you never know NEVER IN MY LIFE HAVE I DRAWN SOMETHING LIKE THIS HELP

roe v wade got overturned..

i am so fucking angry that roe v wade got overturned. the GOP is winning and i can't fucking stand it anymore. i am turning 18 this year and i will try my best to get those assholes out of legislature. vote blue or this country will fall.

Skephalo Week Day 2: Family/Diamonds

I'm late again...oh well, doesn't stop me lol. Sooo here is my drawing for Skephalo Week Day 2! I just wanted to draw kid Sapnap find his first diamond, and Skeppy seems more excited about it than he is XDD

Anyway, please enjoy the art!

Able bodied parents I'm begging you to teach your kids about disabled people. Not just because they could become disabled themselves one day but also because even if they don't, they have a very real chance of being rude to us if you don't teach them.

Yes, kids just say shit. They have no filter. That doesn't make it any less humiliating when your child sits near me on the bus and incessantly grills me on why I have a stick when I'm not old. Or laughs at us for things our disability causes. It doesn't take away the hurt when they bully a disabled classmate. For a large part these things could be avoided if you just taught your kids to respect us. It's really not that hard.

AK Awareness Masterpost | IMPORTANT

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As many of us are aware some recent things have come to light about the creator of The Mandela Catalouge, Alex Kister, and his behavior towards those he had close connections with. A majority, if not all of them starting out as fans within the tmc community.

I would like this masterpost to serve as a guide toward all the statements that have been made so far so that they can be accessed more easily among all the noise.

Please for the love of god spread this as much as you can. Reblogs are heavily appreciated.

Alex has hurt so many people during his time online and no longer deserves to have a platform. He must be held accountable.

This list was last updated 3/16/24

Support the victims. —————————————————

Ven & DB :

https://twitter.com/STIRRINGJUICE/status/1767596914797670868

https://x.com/stirringjuice/status/1770604474068779263?s=46

Mitcha :

https://twitter.com/archofcorpses/status/1767609789654163814

Jeremy :

https://twitter.com/jayncrawler/status/1767667323346063719

Donut/Quinn :

https://x.com/donutqq_qwq/status/1767619637380841535?s=20

https://x.com/donutqq_qwq/status/1767683591314587648?s=20

Mel :

https://twitter.com/immelithink/status/1767639333454905443

Evan:

https://twitter.com/lunarjournalist/status/ 1767618487352983581

Bella :

https://x.com/spookyfilez/status/1767760756190142561?s=20

Ezekiel :

https://x.com/scaraphim_/status/1767751629523079370?s=20

Ivy :

https://x.com/vhst4p3z/status/1767694118627500167?s=46

Victim W:

https://x.com/n0b0dii2/status/1768430945239986494?s=46

Victim A :

https://x.com/n0b0dii2/status/1768461249950437879?s=46

Anonymous Victim :

https://x.com/smiles_bunny/status/1768669303035904474?s=46

Dei :

(I was informed by a few ppl that the link may not be working for some so I’ve added pictures of the tweet just in case)

https://x.com/elibbro/status/1767751500653011337?s=46

fuck amber heard

i just wanna put my two cents about the depp vs heard case: JD is the VICTIM and Amber is an abusive, narcissistic psychopath who needs to lose all of her money and be locked up for the rest of her miserable fucking existence. i really hope that JD wins this case. it will be MONUMENTAL for male victims of abuse.

if anyone tries to defend amber heard you will be ignored and blocked. fuck amber heard and her narcissistic fans. look at the goddamn evidence.

What happened in Hungary?? Is there any way we could support you guys?

you can donate to budapestpride, háttér society and labrisz lesbian association! ill add more organizations if i can think of any

heres an article situation but if you dont wanna read it ill attempt to sum it up

basically our pseudo fascist government granted themselves emergency powers at the beginning of the pandemic and among other things they have been using it to slowly take away thw lgbt community's rights and freedom. trans people can no longer change their name and gender marker and gay couples can no longer adopt children

and most recently (last night actually) a law that is supposed to protect against child predators was changed so that "sex education in schools cannot promote the changing of one's sex or homosexuality" on top of that sex education programs can only be done by the school or a database of organizations maintained by the government. the breaking of these rules (aka telling kids its okay to be trans) would get both the organizer AND the principal of the school into major trouble (think jail)

additionally children under 18 cannot be shown advertisements or educational content containing homosexuality or transgender "propaganda" these materials MUST be marked 18+

40% of all hungarian lgbt individuals have admitted to suicidal ideation, with 30% percent admitting to attempting it. our government is framing this as the protection of the children but what it will actually do is kill even more lgbt kids.

im incredibly angry so i'm sorry if this is not well phrased but this needs to stop because the path we're heading down is gonna end really fucking bad for the hungarian lgbt+ community

I don't have anyone to tag but I'll do it anyways lol

Relationship Status: lonely asf (gonna try to date in college)

Favorite Colors: pink, black, light blue

Song in my Head: i have a lot of stuff stuck in my head i'm ngl, but I do like Kickback (CSM op)

Favorite Food: i don't think I have one, i like a lot of food but i also don't like a lot of food lmfao-

Last song Played: "I Know" - Kanii (PR1SVX Edit)

Dream Trip: Japan!

Last thing I Googled: origins of Dark Brandon lmfao

if this somehow reaches one of my followers feel free to reblog or not :) /gen

Thanks for the tag @spiced-wine-fic!

Rules: Tag 10 or more people you want to get to know better

Relationship status: the Silmarillion. the rock operas.

Favourite colour: it's a tie between blue, purple and turquoise, and it has been a tie for many years

Song stuck in your head: Now and for Always, from the LotR musical

Favourite food: a homemade traditional pasta-like dish (it's local and very specific, hard to explain)

Last song played: Lothlorien, from the LotR musical

Dream trip: to Beleriand to New Zealand, to see the locations of the LotR movies

Last thing I googled: the weather

Tagging @curiouselleth, @violecov, @solarcola, @general-illyrin, @emeraldskulblaka, @tvoyakrisa, @curufan, @quixoticanarchy, @dreamingthroughthenoise, @totally-not-one-of-the-fae