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Hey! If you could stop scrolling for a bit and watch this video that'd be awesome! This is a very important issue for me bc I'm Filipino, so if you could watch, share, and maybe donate it would really mean a lot :]

It makes me sick to think that as a female brown Asian I am potentially more at risk of hate crimes like these. Please help to spread awareness and let's all educate ourselves, because even I wasn't aware of this stuff.

Thanks so much for your time

So someone pointed out to me recently that in a few years, maybe a few decades, the history of the us during covid is probably going to get twisted. The fact that we all had to make and wear cloth masks is going to be hailed as a symbol of how we “"came together as a nation”“” or whatever the fuck propaganda spin they try to put on it.

So I just want to say, for the record, the time of the corona virus pandemic was not a time when america came together.

This was a time when people hoarded toilet paper and sanitizing supplies either for themselves or to sell at absurd prices to the desperate people who didn’t get to the store soon enough during the shortages

This was a time when scared parents were sending their kids to finish school in the spring in plastic trash bags because they couldn’t think of any other way to possibly keep their families safe

This was a time when grocery store and retail and service workers were forced to keep working whether they wanted to risk their health or not because they couldn’t make rent otherwise and the people with enough privilege to have remote jobs tried to repay them with applause instead of fair wages

This was a time when nurses had the hold the hands of multiple dying people every day as their families watched their loved ones die over a video call because the hospital couldn’t risk having visitors

This was a time when city governments had to handle so many eviction hearings that they rented out convention centers and called in the national guard instead of doing a rent freeze to stop predatory landlords

This was a time when racism and police brutality were so unbearably horrible that people protested in the streets for months even though there was a god damn pandemic that our federal government wasn’t doing shit to stop and the cops were so mad that they were being asked to stop beating up black people that they were beating up everyone

This was a time when schools being forced to reopen in the fall or lose their federal funding had to draft templates for letters if a teacher or a staff person or a fucking child died from exposure to corona at school

This was a time when the president of the United states demanded that the cdc stop releasing data about all the people who were dying because of the warnings he ignored for months were making him look bad

This was a time when some state governments didn’t mandate masks and forced businesses to reopen because they didn’t want to pay unemployment to people trying to stay safe at home anymore

This was a time when Jeff Bezos was on track to be a fucking trillionare because everyone was ordering things on amazon instead of going to the store and the people he worked to death to get it didn’t see a single cent of it

This was a time when instead of providing homeless people with housing, we painted boxes on the ground to show homeless people how far away the had to be on the street to maintain social distancing

We did not come together to make cloth masks. Cloth masks represent nothing less than the absolute and utter failure of a nation’s government to inform and protect its citizens

This was not a time when we came together. This was a time when we survived, and not all of us made it.

This was a time when people casually talked about how many human lives the economy was worth without considering the evil that had just come out of their mouths.

This was a time when thousands of us died for profit and the ego of a cheating narcissists con man who scammed his way into the white house

This was a time that we survived. Most of us tried to do the right thing, stay home, limit trips to the store and socializing, wear a mask. And still, so many of us were lost. Thousands every day.

But that wasn’t a good enough reason for some people, for those among us who were too selfish to recognize the responsibilities we have toward one another as human beings.

This was not a time that we came together

This was a time that we survived

Not all of us made it

And those of us who did survive will never forget the evil we saw daily in our politicians and those around us

Coraline AU

Characters:

Coraline: Tommy

Wilbur and Techno are the brothers

(they're by themselves until philza can come back from working so techno and wilbur are settling in from moving)

Dream and Sapnap are the other brothers

Wybie: Ranboo

Bad and Skeppy are the old sisters but they are just an old gay bickering couple

Bobinski: Quackity

Tubbo and Fundy are the two friends that Tommy misses

The Cat: George

Scenes:

Tommy: “oh... Ranboo.”

Other Ranboo: “:)”

Tommy: “why... why isn't he talking?"

Other Brother- Dream: "oh, i thought you didn't like it. so i fixed him up for you."

Tommy: "hm...i like it...”

—

George: "it's a little game we play. he hates cats. and i like coming here."

—

Tommy: "Sapnap!! i love your garden!!"

Other Brother- Sapnap: "Toms, our garden."

—

*Wilbur buying Tommy school outfits and tommy finds a bandana that he wants. Wilbur says no*

Tommy: "my other brother would get them for me."

Wilbur: "then he should buy all your clothes."

—

Note: "i hope you like the new outfit i made you. love, dream."

*it’s a red and white hoodie.

—

Tommy: "cats don't talk at home."

George: "well, you seem to be the expert on these things. after all, i'm just a big fat pussy!!"

Tommy: "... come back? please?"

—

*Tommy entering the theatre to see Ranboo* *Ranboo tosses him the allium when he's on stage* *Bad and Skeppy as the old ladies but Bad turns into a 7 ft demon and they throw Tommy around and other red stone mechanics*

—

Tommy: "you bitch!!! i'm not sewing buttons into my eyes!!!"

*Dream with his button eyed smile asking Tommy to put buttons in his eyes*

—

*instead of other mother shifting, it's just Dream shifting into Dreamon. *

—

George: "you're walking right into his trap."

Tommy: “i know. i cant do anything else though."

George: "... challenge him then. he has a thing for games..."

—

After the whole thing is over- Outside of plot:

Tommy is hanging out at the pink palace with Tubbo, Ranboo, and Fundy. Puffy, Ranboo's foster parent, opens up the other apartment after knowing the Belldam is gone.

after a few months, someone moves in. it's a tall, blonde dude who wears a green hoodie and his best friend. they say they moved there to find space that their other friend can move in with them too.

Tommy is a little hesitant at first about them, as they remind him of two certain people, but he knows it's fine.

however, he is a bit worried because he hasn't seen Gogy around recently.

after some time, the cat doesn't reappear, but another person moves into the apartment with ‘Clay’ and ‘Nick’.

Tommy feels incredibly comfortable with this new person.

Also:

Tommy telling everyone about the shit he went through and then:

Tubbo: "that's a lot you had to go through by yourself..."

Tommy: "nah, Ranboo was there with me!"

Ranboo: "i really wasn't?? i was barely there?? i didn't even get to see it?? i just saw a creepy hand and that's it???"

Tommy: “Shut up, Ranboob.”

More:

Dream Team attends tommy's garden parties

Phil wasn't gone for work, like the brothers though, he was picking up Tubbo and Fundy so Tommy could have his friends over. that's when they all get back for the first garden party.

Tommy talking to puffy about his trauma from Other Brother/Dreamon

y’all (white ppl) should be supporting and advocating for bipoc all the time not just when we’re being violently targeted and it manages to make it to mainstream media. u can always be learning more i promise lmao and it should be a constant effort. updating google doc | thread of resources | ways to help/mental health resources | how you can act carrd

why closed captioning should always be provided on every video:

Deaf People Exist

auditory processing disorder is a Bitch

people with ADHD can find it hard to concentrate on what is being said without the words in front of them

^autistic people for the same reason

autistic people may also find it hard to interpret verbal messages within the context of the video, so it's useful to have written alternatives to fall back on

do you know how painful it is to be excluded from every joke, every video, every conversation because others just Can't Be Bothered?

some people live in a conservative household or with family who don't share the same ideals, and they may not have privacy to view things on their own, so they may need to watch things with the volume extremely low or muted

We Want To Watch Videos In Public, Dammit

feel free to add on!

as always, ableism will get you blocked (:

Here’s one good thing to come out of 2020:

Paleontologists completed a life-sized replica of Sue, the most complete T. Rex ever found.

And she is freaking GORGEOUS!

As I read more about this beauty, I found out some new details regarding things I thought I previously knew about the beast that was Tyrannosaurus Rex, and I’m going to share them with you.

First, and most obvious, her size:

This is nothing new, we all figured T. Rex was big, but I for one never stopped to consider exactly how big it was. Nobody ever really knows what to imagine when they read about something the size of a whale that walked around and ate everything it could kill. 

Speaking of eating things, I just want to remind you all that T. Rex had–by miles–the strongest bite of any terrestrial animal living or dead, somewhere around six and a half tons of force. That’s over six times greater than the current estimate of what Allosaurus was capable of, and three times what was delivered by the highest measured reading of the living title holder–the estuarine crocodile. It didn’t have to waste time swinging its head open-mouthed like Saurophaganax for a little extra oomph, or grow fancy serrated teeth like Carcharodontosaurus to cut pieces out of its prey. It opted for the simplest approach: get its mouth around something and crush it to death; imagine the full weight of an elephant on whatever was between this thing’s jaws.

“How did it find something to eat?” I hear you asking. “It can’t see something if it doesn’t move, right?”

Listen, I love Jurassic Park too, but that’s a big crock of shit.

Notice how both her eyes face forward. That gives her binocular vision (the ability to focus both eyes on one target, like you and I). More importantly it means she has impeccable depth perception due to overlapping fields of vision from each, large, eyeball. Researchers agree that T. Rex not only had incredible vision, but that it was probably better than most modern animals–including eagles, hawks, and owls–and that she could likely spot something three and a half miles away. If something that big can see that well, it doesn’t matter if you move or not, she’d be able to tell if it was an animal trying to hide or a piece of vegetation. So pray she isn’t hungry if she lays eyes on you. And even if by some miracle she didn’t see you, she’d still smell you. 

If she decided you looked tasty, you probably wouldn’t hear her coming as much as you’d feel her. Modern science indicates that T. Rex didn’t roar like in Jurassic Park, but rather bellowed or maybe even hissed like crocodilians. If she were on to you, you’d most likely feel this sense of unease creep up your spine as a low-pitched rumble in the air permeated through you. You wouldn’t know what it was or where it was coming from until you hear her footfalls. By then it’s too late–you could try to run but she’d probably catch you. There’s plenty on YouTube that reconstructs what T. Rex may have sounded like, and it’s legitimately haunting.  

To wrap all of this up, the one bit of good that came out of the cursed year that is 2020 is that this wonderful child of science and art came into the world, and reaffirmed my respect and admiration for the eight ton slab of muscle and teeth that is this magnificent creature.

…and it is nothing if not magnificent.