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1st of February, 2021

i was debating on whether or not i should post this on tumblr but seeing as there haven’t been posts about this yet, here it is. i’m exposing my real location and nationality but it doesn’t matter.

if you have been active on twitter, you may already know #savemyanmar is trending. long story short, there has been a military coup. several nations have released statements but i want to share insight on what’s happening in the country.

memes about a coup have been circulating around for a couple days and when i slept at 2 am last night, we were still under the rule of the National League for Democracy (NLD). while they are not technically democratic, they are the closest we’ve got. when my mother woke up at 6 this morning, she was notified that the country was now under the rule of the military.

banks services are no longer available. wifi was cut at around 7-8. some people got wifi again earlier but many got it barely thirty minutes ago. this is bad for businesses especially ones that require international communications. additionally, international students like myself are experiencing anxiety; how do we pay for and attend classes if we’re not sure wifi is a given?

myanmar has a long, complicated history with military governments. the last time the military went into rule was in 1962 and only stopped in 2011, following the 2010 elections. there was a huge protest in 1988 lead by students that resulted in lots of death. during the military junta, resources like rice, water, oil, were scarce. the gist is military rule is bad for us.

all of my followers are not myanmar citizens, i’m sure but as part of the international community, please help us. here is a petition that you can sign (although i’m not sure if that can do much). there may be protests in front of myanmar embassies so look out for those. most of all, please help spread awareness. 

the people here are coping with dark humor, primarily in the form of memes but we don’t know how long this rule will last, even though the official statement said only a year. here’s something that pretty much sums up our coping mechanism:

again, even a reblog helps

update :: all telecommunication means will be cut off at 12 am MMT

BTSs' Fake Love is just another reason why I love BTS.

Reblog this for suicide prevention.

Hey if you’re schizophrenic/psychotic I just want you to know that you’re a wonderful person and that you deserve so much better than the demonization, marginalization and stigmatization you face in this society.

I have some concerns about Zenyatta in Overwatch 2.

Like I was just thinking, “Hmm.. seems a little re-hashy that they’re trying to kill Zenyatta—like, they already killed Mondatta, and Zenyatta isn’t as public a figure as Mondatta so I don’t really see that as the kind of human/omnic conflict powderkeg that killing Mondatta was, so why target him?”

And then I realized, maybe they’re not trying to kill Zenyatta. Because the worst thing Talon can do to you…

…isn’t necessarily “kill you.”

So why is Sombra, a character whose whole shtick is sticking to the shadows and working behind the scenes, centered so prominently here?

Sombra’s role in Talon isn’t 100% assassin. In the Hero of Numbani novel, Sombra’s able to rewrite Omnic codes, triggering a condition called “Fadeout” that can wipe out an Omnic’s memories and personality functions–basically she uses this to make omnics around Numbani go haywire to raise tensions and sow dissent in the city. She’s canonically taken control of Omnics before. 

Why put so much puppetry imagery into her cosmetics?

I’m just saying…