So, India Is Dying.

So, India is dying.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.

There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.

There is no plan.

Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.

We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.

This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.

We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.

People are dying.

People are dying and there is no plan.

More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.

My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.

Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.

But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.

She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.

So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.

If you can, donate.

Or spread the word.

Help. Please.

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tabletdemedium

6 years ago

Tablet: Woah, easy! I was planning on waiting till you were back to your old self! ... Was my message not clear, or was I a bit too theatrical with the request?

Tablet: Well, bear in mind: I usually play my games with humans, but they tend to be too “fragile,” shall we say. However, you, I’ve heard, are quite the swordsman in a proper form. And do consider my offer: you’re used to possessing bodies by now, and the body I’d draw would be devoid of a soul; you wouldn’t be fighting for control or anything, like with your other possessions. So think of this: I draw you a new - and, if requested, improved - swordsman body. In return, you take me up on a challenge…

… to test my improved A Form’s blade against your own? ((Sorry for the submission instead of an ask. You’d been drawing Dark Matter in my responses, I felt bad that you were going that far for lil’ old me, and I can’t use pictures and Ask at the same time ;w; Thank you for answering so often~!))

“I understand the offer, but there’s really no need for a new body. I like how my default form is, and it lets me not worry about small physical wounds.”

The matterling tried to cross what he could of his ‘arms’.

“I also don’t posses much more, only if I have to. It takes energy, so your idea would hinder me.”

There was a pause, as he looked at the other, transformed?

And then, Swordsman grabbed his Rainbow Sword. Better safe than sorry.

“I’m not in a fighting mood, in this form, such a challenge now is cowardly. I’d like if you would be willing to wait before fighting me. I’ll be willing to spar another day, even if I don’t take up the other offer.”

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tabletdemedium

5 years ago

Here’s a video from one of the people who protected her from bar security guards

https://www.facebook.com/leadastraydrag/videos/1345326342284013?s=100007161972534&sfns=mo video transcription and facebook post

I. Am. Disgusted. SIGNAL BOOST this!! This is unacceptable! We need to remember what pride is and what we stand for.

**** If you’d like to help the trans activist from this set of tweets out, she’s staying anonymous, but her paypal is Timelessvision00@gmail.com ****

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tabletdemedium

5 years ago

Reblog if you support Hong Kong, like if you hate Blizzard.

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tabletdemedium

6 years ago

((Not sure if you'd even be able to work with this, since we've only ever RPed like . . . once? Maybe twice if you count that barely ask-response-ask convo XD Oh well, if you can think of anything, please : 3)) Tablet ➡ ☎ ➡ Swordy?

NAME: Table?RINGTONE: N/A since he uses his visor also as a phonePICTURE: No pictureLAST TEXT RECEIVED: HeyLAST TEXT SENT: No.

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tabletdemedium

2 years ago

Medium’s Sigil, From The VS Mode Background, And From The Boss Arena.

Medium’s Sigil, from the VS mode background, and from the boss arena.

The version in the boss arena is split into quarters, and its colors are instead achieved with lights and animated texture effects to get the “moving gradient” look it has in game.

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tabletdemedium

3 years ago

gameplay felt like

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tabletdemedium

4 years ago

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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tabletdemedium

5 years ago

Almost 700 workers (most with families) were just detained by ICE in MS. The raid was a direct result of their women speaking out against sexual abuse. Their children will be trafficked and traumatized. Their sick will go untreated in America’s brutal concentration camps.

Please donate to the National Freedom for Immigrants bail fund here.

Please please fight and pray for their safety. If you have nothing to give, at least reblog and spread this.

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tabletdemedium

4 years ago

My friend from Lebanon wrote up a really good thread on Twitter I thought I should share here, just to clear up some of the inaccuracies floating around: