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If you played Sonic X Shadow Generations, how well (Or not) do you think Shadow was written as a character in his own campaign?
i think that Shadow Gens gave us the best written Shadow we've had since 06
Do you have any Fun Facts today? Maybe something literary?
You know what? I think I can manage that. Everyone knows about the friendship between C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. But there's another guy who gets skipped out on, and was super-influential on Lewis.
Today You Learned about Roger Lancelyn Green!
Our boy Robert here was an undergraduate at Oxford when he met Jack Lewis, who was his teacher. After graduating and becoming an Oxford scholar in his own right, he remained very good friends with Lewis and a member of the Inklings. He actually traveled with Lewis and his wife, Joy, on vacation to Greece, shortly before Joy's death in 1960.
If you read histories of the Inklings, you may notice that Tolkien didn't seem to like drafts of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe that much. Well, Lewis's friend Lancelyn Green did, and encouraged him to keep working and eventually publish it.
[Wikipedia also says he came up with the title 'Chronicles of Narnia', but there's no citation on that sentence, so take it with a grain of salt.]
Roger has his own literary career, too. He wrote several books for children, retelling myths and folklore, from Greek myths, to Norse myths, to Arthurian stories. And these books are all still widely available! He's also the author of several literary biographies of people like Andrew Lang (compiler of fairy tale books), Lewis Carroll (author of Alice in Wonderland), J.M. Barrie (author of Peter Pan), and of course, C.S. Lewis himself.
It's actually pretty cool that we have a biography of C.S. Lewis by a guy who was close friends with him, I think!
Also, he was the father of literature scholar Richard Lancelyn Green, but that guy, I think, deserves his own Fun Fact for another time.
ibrahim is very nearly at €40,000/€50,000 raised!
unfortunately my dear friend has gotten the news that his father has bladder cancer :(. this is unimaginably tragic on its own, but that tragedy is compounded by the fact that treatment is impossible to seek in gaza, and management is prohibitively expensive. on top of that, conditions only worsen — weather is bad, people are starving, everyone is sick and wounded, and israeli aggression does not stop or slow.
ibrahim needs our help now more than ever to raise funds to eat, to stay warm, to evacuate, and now to help his father pay for treatment when they reach safety. this is EXTREMELY URGENT — it CANNOT WAIT!!! please treat this as a personal plea for the life of my family members — ibrahim is like a little brother to me, and i cannot describe how heartbroken i am for him day after day and how terribly i want him to survive.
just learned about golden bat, and my dad and i watched the 1966 movie recently. super excited to find your blog and see it’s active!!
glad you enjoyed the movie! it's a fun goofy time. I try to be as active as I can but with the series being more well known in Japan all I can do is keep an eye out for fanart to reblog, keep an eye on the fan sub being worked on for a new episode, see if there's any new news that's made it to the US, or come up with my own ideas. there's a lot I'd like to do in the future but it's things I don't think would happen for a long while. but perhaps some day.
Greetings! Dunno if this has been asked before, but do you think Shadow listens to music, and if so, what genre?
I coulda sworn I answered this for the Sonic AU Collision but I can't find the original answer for the life of me so I'm gonna make up a new one:
Yeah I think Shadow listens to music, and I think it would be a whole lot of 50s rock, jazz, and blues. Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles all would be artists he would listen to (in my opinion). Stuff from his era.
hi, not only have my hours been cut, but i missed some work due to having the flu and management did not put in my pto like i had requested them to. now i am EXTREMELY strapped for cash. my commissions are open but if anyone has anything to spare, any donations are super appreciated ;-;
the spring semester starts this week and i have four (4) required books to buy and they're not cheap. so here's a reminder that i have a kofi. all the money i get from there goes towards textbooks and tuition and, like, food. thanks and love u forever
6-year-old Joan Al-Habil is has been repeatedly hospitalized due to severe gastrointestinal problems and overwhelming fatigue. This poor girl has been to multiple facilities and seen multiple doctors, undergone extensive testing (as extensive as is possible in Gaza's collapsed medical system), even having to endure an unsedated endoscopy.
She has now been diagnosed with severe gastritis due to starvation and hazardous living conditions. Remember, she and her family are living on the streets, which are cold and wet due to winter rain. Homelessness, stress, exposure to the elements, her previous injury when the lOF firebombed her tent, and malnutrition all conspire to sap little Joan of her strength.
Her condition is so serious that she even had to undergo surgery. Gastritis very rarely requires surgery to treat, so this is an indication of how dire her condition is. The surgery was successful to a degree, but she is going to need ongoing treatment to manage her symptoms.
The treatments are administered weekly and cost $500 USD (just under €500 EUR). Her family has no income and cannot afford this. If Joan goes more than a few days without treatment, her symptoms worsen rapidly, and she sometimes has to be hospitalized. It is vital that we help her family procure her treatments so that her condition does not worsen!
You can help Joan get her surgery and treatment by
reblogging this post
copy-pasting this link (https:// gofund.me/85a1b400) in your own Tumblr posts and all across your social media accounts to share her family’s story
boosting posts from her parents @mahafamily1 and @ahmed-family-1
donating to her family’s GFM campaign below
Current: €22,271 EUR
New temporary goal: €22,771 EUR
Need to raise: about €500 EUR ($500 USD)
Heads up everyone, there's a new scam in town!
(Or perhaps an old one and I am late to the party)
Reasons it is a scam:
1) long, but doesn't reference the fic or characters at all
2) wants money - and will only communicate through dms, they don't have a public profile with proof of their work
And finally!
3) I googled this copy paste text and... suprise! It is a copy paste text. Loads of other people have the same ask
Stay safe and don't fall for this all!
I am on the verge of losing my mind, but I will not lose hope. This is my final plea 🚨‼️🇵🇸
I share my story with you again today, filled with hope that you will continue to support us as you did before. Unfortunately, my previous campaign and my Tumblr accounts were shut down, which hindered our efforts to gather support for our families.
For four months, I have tirelessly appealed for help. Despite the challenges, some individuals provided small but valuable donations. Thank you to everyone who shared my campaign or story and to those whose messages of support showed their humanity.
Today, I ask for your support once more. You were our backbone over the past year and a half, and I trust you will continue to be so.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart
What My Brother Mohammad and I Need After the Ceasefire:
1. Reuniting with My Family:
I want to travel to reunite with my 10-month-old daughter, whom I haven’t seen since the day she was born, and to be with my wife. This will cost me a lot, and I currently have nothing to cover these expenses.
2.Helping My Brother Mohammad Rebuild His Project:
My brother Mohammad wants to rebuild his small project to start a new life. He is injured and unable to work, so this project is his only way to earn a living.
3.Supporting My Brother’s Pregnant Wife:
Mohammad’s wife is in her last month of pregnancy and could give birth at any moment. She needs some financial support to cover the costs of childbirth and care for the baby.
4.Rebuilding Our Shelter:
We are displaced in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. After the ceasefire, we will need to return to our homes, but the Israeli occupation prevents us from taking our tents from the south to the north. This means we will need to build new tents to provide shelter for our families.
I hope this message reaches compassionate people who can support us in these difficult times.
A lot of fiction these days reads as if—as I saw Peter Raleigh put it the other day, and as I’ve discussed it before—the author is trying to describe a video playing in their mind. Often there is little or no interiority. Scenes play out in “real time” without summary. First-person POV stories describe things the character can’t see, but a distant camera could. There’s an overemphasis on characters’ outfits and facial expressions, including my personal pet peeve: the “reaction shot round-up” in which we get a description of every character’s reaction to something as if a camera was cutting between sitcom actors.
When I talk with other creative writing professors, we all seem to agree that interiority is disappearing. Even in first-person POV stories, younger writers often skip describing their character’s hopes, dreams, fears, thoughts, memories, or reactions. This trend is hardly limited to young writers though. I was speaking to an editor yesterday who agreed interiority has largely vanished from commercial fiction, and I think you increasingly notice its absence even in works shelved as “literary fiction.” When interiority does appear on the page, it is often brief and redundant with the dialogue and action. All of this is a great shame. Interiority is perhaps the prime example of an advantage prose as a medium holds over other artforms.
fascinated by this article, "Turning Off the TV in Your Mind," about the influences of visual narratives on writing prose narratives. i def notice the two things i excerpted above in fanfic, which i guess makes even more sense as most of the fic i read is for tv and film. i will also be thinking about its discussion of time in prose - i think that's something i often struggle with and i will try to be more conscious of the differences between screen and page next time i'm writing.
Doing an experiment: I have made a new nonfandomspecific blog for reblogs and conversations and etc. because I've come to be dissatisfied with my general internet persona being tied to the gimmick of 'LOTR character I didn't realize was quite that unpopular until it was too late'.* This blog will be reserved for its original gimmick from now on (such as: reblogging Grond), unless I give up. if you want the url to my new blog send an ask!
LOTR stuff will all stay here.
*there are things I saw when the game came out that I have never quite forgotten. Don't read YouTube comments
Doing an experiment: I have made a new nonfandomspecific blog for reblogs and conversations and etc. because I've come to be dissatisfied with my general internet persona being tied to the gimmick of 'LOTR character I didn't realize was quite that unpopular until it was too late'.* This blog will be reserved for its original gimmick from now on (such as: reblogging Grond), unless I give up. if you want the url to my new blog send an ask!
LOTR stuff will all stay here.
*there are things I saw when the game came out that I have never quite forgotten. Don't read YouTube comments
Update on the situation today
Thu, 16 Jan
After the ceasefire was announced here in Gaza as we saw in all the news agencies, joy and hope filled our souls again 🫂🙏
But unfortunately it was a tough night for us due to the intensification of the raids on our area.
We had started sleeping at 10:30 pm, but we woke up to the sound of the violent fire belt that shook the area, the house and the walls.
When I heard the sound, I don't know how I controlled myself and my nerves to protect my son Tim from the severity of the blow, as the huge windows of the house collapsed on us, and I don't know how I was able to pull Tim from under the large windows, but unfortunately his eye was injured and he started crying and screaming 😭😭
Imagine with me how a five-year-old child wakes up to this panic while he was sleeping and he was sharing the atmosphere of joy with us at the completion of the deal and he was saying to me: Mom, I want you to dress me in Eid clothes, it's over because the war is over 🥲🧸
This is the treacherous Tatar army that surprised us.
I've had enough of this nonsense and my heart no longer has the patience to see me and my family's tragedy, panic and fear of who I will lose!!
I will not get tired and I will not get bored of asking you for help. It's true that I was shy, but it's my right and the right of my child and my family to live in peace.
I don't want all of this to accompany me for life and I don't want these memories to be the only ones in my son's mind!! I won't put myself in anyone's shoes, but if I could help someone or a family, I would do what I can 🙏
Here we are on the verge of opening the crossing in the coming days and I haven't even reached the minimum donations that would allow me to travel to survive Each one of us needs about $5000 to get us to safety, we are now staying at a friends house and when the war is over they will go back to their house and we will go back to the street again, unless you help us with donations to get out of here
Remember well, I have no housing or anything left!!
My only chance for me, my child, and my family consisting of my son, husband, mother, father, and brothers is to travel because all our belongings were completely destroyed.
And your prayers for my child's recovery 🙏🧸 And please support my campaign and share it with your friends.
Hello there! A long time ago on Twitter, I saw a post from you involving potential stories you'd like to do in the future, one of them involving Davy Jones as a bounty hunter. Out of curiosity, does your Davy look anything like the one from the Pirates of the Caribbean films?
Dave Jones! He wasn't a bounty hunter, but he was a ghost (and demons maybe) hunter! I'm honestly not sure if I wanna go forward with making his story into a comic. He MIGHT do better in the form of a video game tbh!
Which is EXTREMELY ambitious to make, yeah, but I gotta go with my gut feeling on this one.
I don't think he looks too much like Davy Jones from POTC? Like, he's got the face tentacles but I'd say that's the only real similarity.
For reference, here's a sketch I very very quickly did for you for him so you can see for yourself (VERY ROUGH, I DID THIS IN LIKE 5 MINUTES)
Idea for a Ratchet and Clank Spinoff game about Dr. Nefarious- Part 1/2
Imagine this: Takes place after Rift Apart and involves our beloved doctor trying to learn how to be a good babysitter for Lawrence's baby (Seeing as how he clearly cares about the child), as well as getting into various absurd shenanigans in the process.
Along the way, he re-encounters his dimensional counterpart, Emperor Nefarious, who bafflingly appears to have survived his final fate in the last game (And been spat back out into Doc's dimension), although now as a severely pitiful and broken shell of anything resembling who and what he once was, unsure if he wishes to live or die, but always remembering (Consciously or not) what our doctor told him about success.. Perhaps.. he could...try.. a different way to live? What else does he have left? Physically, imagine C-3PO in ESB after he was blasted apart on Cloud City (This will be important, later), except worse, and Emp. Nef's body, as damaged as it is, being generally held together by wiring, however loosely. Not much he can do, if anything, to defend himself.
By all the laws of the universe, he should be dead, and yet... Fate, however merciful or cruel, has brought and left him at the doctor's mercy. Not to mention, ALL of Doc's instincts should be screaming at him to finish this 'emperor' once and for all (For GOOD this time), as proper supervillain etiquette would dictate.. But, for whatever aggravating reason or inclination, he doesn't, ugh.. "Whatever", he tells himself, I can always kill or torture him later for catharsis or stress release, and, um... Maybe he could pacify the baby too while I'm gone, keephimfromwailinghisheadoff-" BAH, there's no time for this! He's on a tight schedule, and infant food as well as other supplies aren't going to simply appear out of thin air for necessity's sake (If only), so he drags the broken emperor back to his not-so-secret lair, still unsure what to do with him...
TO BE CONTINUED...
Hello there! A long time ago on Twitter, I saw a post from you involving potential stories you'd like to do in the future, one of them involving Davy Jones as a bounty hunter. Out of curiosity, does your Davy look anything like the one from the Pirates of the Caribbean films?
Dave Jones! He wasn't a bounty hunter, but he was a ghost (and demons maybe) hunter! I'm honestly not sure if I wanna go forward with making his story into a comic. He MIGHT do better in the form of a video game tbh!
Which is EXTREMELY ambitious to make, yeah, but I gotta go with my gut feeling on this one.
I don't think he looks too much like Davy Jones from POTC? Like, he's got the face tentacles but I'd say that's the only real similarity.
For reference, here's a sketch I very very quickly did for you for him so you can see for yourself (VERY ROUGH, I DID THIS IN LIKE 5 MINUTES)
This isn't a question, but I just wanted to say that I'm loving the way you're writing Shadow in your webcomic! I appreciate how you've shown his humanity and vulnerability so far. Even though this story from the premise alone would basically demand that (Our boy is NOT having a fun time), I will always be glad to see this sort of characterization versus him being an ice cold, self-centered edgelord. Can't wait to see how the rest of your tale unfolds!
Hey Anon! Thanks for reading Infested!
Believe it or not, this more vulnerable sorta writing for Shadow is actually because this is Archie's version of Shadow! Ian Flynn was doing it first!
If you like this specific sorta characterization for the little dude, DEFINITELY check out Archie Sonic (#160+) and Sonic Universe, both of which were mostly written by Ian Flynn when he had the most freedom over how he could write the characters. His take on Shadow in Archie remains my favorite version of the character.
Update on Nour and her family
I am close friends with the Al-Habil family, whose situation I have discussed under our “#ibtisam al habil” tag. There is still a lot of concern for the youngest child Nour, who is a disabled teen about whose situation you can learn more under our “#Nour Al habil” tag.
Torrential rains have flooded the streets of Gaza and all but destroyed the family’s tent. They are inundated with freezing, extremely contaminated water, which is extremely dangerous for 15 y/o Nour.
Nour is immunocompromised due to her heart condition. These flood waters carry gangrene, cholera, and polio bacteria among numerous others, as well as many viruses and pollutants.
We were about halfway through raising the funds for the tent when Nour’s mother, Ibtisam, suffered a herniated disc after sustaining an injury while moving a barrel of water. She is in severe pain, and can barely move. This is not only miserable and unhealthy for her, it also prevents her from caring for Nour.
In addition to the ongoing $2,000 USD needed for shelter, the family now needs $300 USD (about $433 CAD) to help Ibtisam manage her pain and be able to move.
New temporary goal: $52,971 CAD
Currently: $50,804 CAD
Need to raise: $2,167 CAD (about $1,500 USD)
“Bad days can pass with your donations.
**“My name is Rania Youssef. I express the painful reality I live through my art and drawings. Art is my voice, my way of sharing my inner struggles with the world. At this stage, I am seeking the support of artists or donors who can help me spread my campaign and my art to reach as many people as possible.
My family’s daily expenses range between €150-200, a sum we struggle to meet every single day. My father is no longer with us—he was killed by the occupation forces during the siege of Al-Shifa Hospital, right in front of my younger siblings. Now, the responsibility of my family falls entirely on my shoulders.
I live in northern Gaza, where the situation is unbearable. You already know the brutalities committed by the occupation in this region. For political reasons, I cannot share every detail here, but I’m sure you understand.
If you are unable to donate to my campaign, you can still help by sharing it with your friends. Write a few words that capture their attention, and together, we can ensure that my family has a chance to survive.
🔴🚨Urgent Assistance Needed Amid Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
Recently, I found myself in a very difficult situation. I borrowed a sum of $2800 from a distant friend, but due to the ongoing war in Gaza, I have been unable to repay this amount on time. The situation here is dire, and I am struggling to provide food, water, and basic necessities for my family amidst the catastrophic humanitarian crisis that Gaza is experiencing.
My friend has requested that I repay the money, and I informed him that I will do my best to gather the amount as soon as possible, within a week at most. However, at this moment, I simply do not have the means to fulfill this commitment due to the challenging circumstances we are facing.
I have been sharing our story throughout Gaza for the past two months, hoping to find help in this crisis. We are experiencing severe shortages of basic resources, in addition to the health and humanitarian challenges caused by the ongoing conflict. I cannot overlook the suffering of my brother, Mohammed, who is injured and part of the immense hardship we are enduring.
The sooner your help arrives, the better, as time is running out, and we urgently need your assistance.
May God bless you, and I hope that your compassionate stance will help us overcome this trial.
@prisonhannibal ❤️❤️
I thank you, my sister, for your support for Iman by creating this beautiful drawing for her. Iman suffers from severe malnutrition and needs care. Any donation, no matter how small, can help her and us Please donate to Iman.
I can finally share this little project I’ve been working on!! it’s called “the Crown of the Fae” and i really wanted to explore how my two characters, Aiden (the fae) and Aiva (the wee lass) met each other! And what better way to do that than in the form of RHYME!!! But honestly, these two characters mean a lot to me, and I’m so glad my book illustration class finally gave me the opportunity to do a little more with them! .
Update (3)Help Us survive the winter cill 🥶😥
Among the rubble in Gaza, a little boy sat on the muddy ground as wind and rain blasted him in the face from a gaping hole of his family’s tent. The shrapnel from the recent bombing has punctured the tent in multiple places, and the heavy rain pours in, flooding their shelter and destroying their meagre belongings.
The boy does not remember what being dry, or warm, feels like. He shivers as the icy wind tears through the tent once more. Cold has sunk its teeth deep into his bones.
He has no coat, no blanket. When their house was bombed, they had left all their belongings behind, thinking only of escape and surviving the night.
When his mother left before the sun even rose to search for basic necessities, the boy asked her for two things: food, and a coat. Now, after 10 hours, his mother returns. There is not enough money to buy both food and winter clothes. Last night, the boy’s sister could not sleep because her stomach hurt too much from hunger. The mother chose to buy food.
She only managed to buy a few small pieces of bread with the money she has, not enough for one person each. She tells her children to eat the bread slowly, to make it last as long as possible. There is not enough money, so this is all they can eat for the day.
They sleep, rain dripping on their trembling bodies.
When morning comes, the boy does not wake. The cold has rooted inside his bones and has claimed him forever. His father kisses his son for the last time and his mother wails, her grief louder than even the howling wind.
If the little boy asks you to donate some money to save his life, would you do it? You, who are wrapped in warm clothes, who have a blanket to sleep under, a roof to shelter yourself from the rain. You, who have 3 meals a day, who can make or buy hot tea whenever you want to, who can go to bed with a full stomach. Children in Gaza are now freezing to death, deaths that might have been prevented if they had had warm clothes, a shelter, blankets, and food. As you hesitate on whether you should donate to a family in Gaza pleading for help, there are families bidding their farewells to their young children who have died of the cold.
Your support can mean life or death. If we are here asking for help, it means we are still alive. We need your support now. Please do not wait until we are dead.
£39،843 \ £60،000
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I am Muhammad. I am a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip. I am 25 years old. I work as an international chef and work in the International Committee of the International Red Cross. I prepare food for foreign delegations that come to the Gaza Strip to provide aid in all forms.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-my-family-we-are-being-killed-get-us-out-of
