Latest Posts by sparrow-scribbs - Page 5

I will forever be profoundly unimpressed with people who take pride in their unkindness to others

rb to tell prev they're being so brave right now and pat their head a little please

have you ever loved a character so much that you become them

so here it is! the first of my winners portraits!

( pls click for quality bc tumblr turns quality to shit)

enough about sex positions has anyone discovered a reading position which doesn’t get uncomfortable after 5 minutes

characters going “we were lovers once”: eh, it’s okay i guess. it’s nice enough

characters going “we were friends once”: absolutely devastating. one hit knockout i’m gone

watcher grian

guess who just remembered his login for adobe? me! so here’s a little grian doodle for me to actually remember how to draw

"You Have Succeeded Your Task"

Guess who hasn't moved on from wildlife gempearl!!! Me!!

🌹 a flower for everyone not feeling their best today

Reblog to give prev a fucking break holy shit y’all

cowboy au wedding day!! they're so happy!! gee i sure hope nothing goes wrong and that they don't get wrapped up in crimes and become outlaws...

anyone got scarian fic recommendations i need crumbs right now

i have only known martin blackwood for one episode but if anything ever happens to him im killing everyone in this room and then jonny sims

scar telling grian to kill scott in simple life is so funny to me… like “yeah i know he’s your teammate but let’s be real here the real team is Scar And Grian it has been since Day One you cannot avoid me i’m pack bonded to you”

Honestly Scar this session is making me crazy, he ended both Ren and Martyn’s episodes so casually that he didn’t even realise they were out, he was the last yellow, he was top 3, he would have been top 2 with Grian if he had teamed up to beat Scott like Grian wanted, we could have had desert duo part 2 electric boogaloo if he wasn’t so paranoid, we cou- what was I talking about again… oh yeah, Scar absolutely, Scar was amazing this session, like you can really tell how much he’s improved as a Minecraft player, and particularly a pvp-er, since 3rd life, 3rd life… ah, but yeah it’s really cool to see how far he’s gone with all the effort he’s put in, like it is genuinely very impressive and I can’t wait to see how much better he’ll get in future.

{\__/} ( • . •) / >♥️ I give this to everyone that is feeling bad right now. it’ll be ok.

internet friends are kinda like illegally downloaded friends. you don’t get the physical copy but you still get all the great content

The words they're afraid of.

(Read on our blog.)

The recently appointed Department of Defense head Pete Hegseth (formerly Fox News pundit, perpetually soused creepy uncle, and current group chat leaker of classified intel) banned images of the Enola Gay from the Pentagon’s website for the offense of “DEI” language. In keeping with the far right’s stated war on anything vaguely resembling diversity, equity and inclusion, even historical photos are up for cancellation. When a literal weapon of mass destruction is censored for being a bit fruity under the Trump administration’s war against inconvenient truths, what exactly is left untouched?

This is clown show stuff, but the stakes are far from funny. While some might be hesitant to compare the current administration to the very worst history has to offer, we can at least all agree that they are dyed-in-the-wool grammar Nazis. Policing language has been the objective of the MAGA culture war long before Project 2025’s debut—the wave of book bans orchestrated by astroturf movements like Moms for Liberty, and Florida’s 2022 Don’t Say Gay bill have already had a profound effect in the arena of free speech and freedom of expression (despite the far right’s long tradition of doublespeak performative free-speech martyrdom to the contrary). Don’t Say Gay ostensibly targeted K-3 education, but LGBT+ content at all levels of education (and beyond) was either quietly censored or entirely preempted in practice. The results were not just a war on so-called ideology, or words alone—but on reality and essential freedoms.

Now, words as innocuous and important as racism, climate change, hate speech, prejudice, mental health, and inequality are targeted as subversive. Entire concepts are being vanished from government institutions, scrubbed not only from descriptions but from metadata, search indexes, and archival frameworks.

If you don’t name a thing, does it exist?

These words are as numerous as they are generic: women, race, Black, immigrants, multicultural, gender, injustice. But what is painfully unserious is also particularly dangerous in its real-world consequences. The process of controlling words is a well-worn authoritarian tendency. Fifty-two universities are now under investigation as part of the President's effort to curb “woke” research and thought crimes. Institutions are being coerced to comply with a nebulous set of ideological demands, or face budgetary annihilation. That means cutting funding for entire departments, slashing financial aid, defunding scientific grants, and pressuring faculty to self-censor.

The possibilities for censorship extend far and wide—interfering, by extension, in everything from reproductive healthcare programs, to libraries and museums. The Trump administration’s proposed budget slashing all federal funding for libraries, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services, will effectively gut an infrastructure that supports over 100,000 libraries and museums across the country—community centers, educational lifelines, internet access points, and archives of marginalized histories (starting with the Smithsonian Institution).

When you erase access, you erase participation. And when you erase participation, you erase people, and the means by which future generations might even learn they existed. A culture that cannot remember is a culture that cannot resist.

The erasure is, yet again, unsurprisingly targeted at minorities and LGBT+ people. The National Parks Service quietly revised the Stonewall Monument’s website to remove references to transgender people—a fundamental part of the original protests. Not an oversight, not a mistake, but a deliberate excision—one point in a wider plan of erasure depicted in stark detail in Project 2025, a blueprint to dismantle civil rights, defund LGBT+-related healthcare, and rewrite history from the ground up.

Dehumanization by deletion—welcome to the reactionary resurgence of doubleplusungood governance. In Trumpland, words are weapons—but not in the way they intend. Their fear of language betrays its power; that’s why they’re trying so hard to police it.

Words hurt them.

Hurt them back.

- the Ellipsus Team

I know most people don't care about anything unless it has to do with the U.S. but can we please start talking about the Canadian election.

Please don't vote for Poilievre. He's basically the Canadian Trump and plans to put in place laws that harm trans youth, and lots of other shit.

Please vote istg this is the only way anything will get better. Poilievre has been kissing millionaires and billionaires asses. He'll make life even harder, and he loves Trump.

Reblogs are appreciated, especially if you aren't Canadian.

greedy creature

reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

hte real april foule… was you.

would you put a discarded fruit sticker on my forehead in whimsical jest yes or no

anything with gem ever will make me incomprehensibly happy (:

Esmp 2 gem!