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Atena Farghadani is a 28-year-old Iranian artist. She was recently sentenced to 12 years and 9 months in prison for drawing a cartoon.

This cartoon, that she posted on her Facebook page last year, depicts members of the Iranian parliament as animals. It was drawn in protest of new legislature in Iran that will restrict access to contraception and criminalise voluntary sterilisation. Atena’s charges include ‘spreading propaganda against the system’ and ‘insulting members of parliament through paintings’.

Last August, 12 members of the elite Revolutionary Guard came to Atena’s house, blindfolded her and took her to the infamous Evin Prison in Tehran. According to Amnesty International:

“While in prison last year, Atena flattened paper cups to use them as a surface to paint on. When the prison guards realised what she had been doing, they confiscated her paintings and stopped giving her paper cups. When Atena found some cups in the bathroom, she smuggled them into her cell. Soon after, she was beaten by prison guards, when she refused to strip naked for a full body search. Atena says that they knew about her taking the cups because they had installed cameras in the toilet and bathroom facilities – cameras detainees had been told were not operating.”

She was released in November and gave media interviews and posted a video on YouTube detailing her beatings, constant interrogations and humiliating body searches. She was then rearrested possibly in retaliation for speaking out and has been imprisoned ever since. In January, Atena went on a hunger strike to protest the horrible prison conditions. Her health suffered dramatically, and after losing consciousness and suffering a heart attack in February, she was forced to eat again.

The quote used in the comic is taken from the speech Atena gave at her trial. It has been translated into English by the Free Atena Facebook page. You can read the whole thing here.

Time is now against her, she has just two weeks to lodge an appeal. Michael Cavna, comic journalist for The Washington Post, has launched a campaign appealing to artists to help bring awareness to Atena’s case by creating their own artwork in support of Atena and using the hashtag#Draw4Atena. Can a bunch of artists and a hashtag really make a difference and put pressure on the Iranian Government to release Atena? Probably not. But just remember that Atena is currently in prison enduring horrible conditions, and if her appeal isn’t successful, she will be there for another twelve years. FOR DRAWING A CARTOON AND POSTING IT ON FACEBOOK. Don’t we owe it to her to at least try?

Alot worse actually happens out there.. once Being a soldier (which turned me into an activist) showed me..

Signal boost.

every single negative stereotype about women was dreamt up by men who were projecting. fight me about it.

The only restaurant with a no shirt and no shoes policy

a biblical themed restaurant called the Garden of Eatin’

And that's the tea

The idea of Sansa being Queen in the North was so appalling that even Brienne Noped the fuck out and went south to be in Bran’s Kingsguard because she was just done with Sansa’s shit. 

Everyone on this show, especially Sansa Stark, is a fucking idiot. I said what I said.

#UshiOiWeek2023 #Superheroes #UshiOi

Happy UshiOi week! I’m mixing prompts and days but it is what it is.

This is a snippet based on the Venture Brothers where villains essentially are unionized and are assigned superheroes to be their archnemesis based on skill level/resources. If you haven’t watched Venture Brothers, you should give it a try!

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Oikawa who wanted to be the hero, but ended up as a villain instead, joins the Guild of Calamitous Intent and has every intention to arch his old colleague who took over his position, Kageyama.

He’s deemed too low-level to arch Kageyama, that position ends up going to Atsumu, and instead ends up having to arch a small-scale agricultural scientist Ushijima instead.

Even with his team of henchmen, nothing goes as planned when going against Ushijima. Sometimes Ushiwaka doesn’t even notice or acknowledge the arching happening, or it inadvertently helps him with a break-through, and Ushijima ends up not taking their nemesis status seriously.

Oikawa blames the man’s red-headed best friend who keeps putting romantic notions in Ushiwaka’s head. Clearly Oikawa is not flirting! He takes his job very seriously!

He’s determined to do something big, something to bump his ranking up allowing him to arch his real, and very personal, adversary. He decides on creating a toxin that will target Ushijima’s plants, and he’s successful. He’s long perfected his evil laugh, and he does just that as Ushijima takes in the sigjt of his destroyed greenhouse. His laughter dies down when he notices that there are no threats of revenge, curses or retaliation. Instead he sees the look of utter despair and sadness on the other man’s face.

“They were…my friends,” he mumbles quietly. Oikawa feels terrible, he went too far, did not know the extent of attachment Ushijima had to these plants.

“But it’s what you wanted, right?” His favorite henchman Iwazumi says. “With this you’ll be able to work in the big leagues.”

This isn’t what he wanted, not at the cost of this pain in his nemesis’ eyes.

“The antedote, get me the antedote.”

“But, you’ll loose your cred,” Iwa-chan hesitates before Oikawa rips the antedote himself from his number 4’s hands. He quickly releases it into the greenhouse, and the plants slowly revive.

He slowly approches Ushijima and lays a hand on his shoulder. “I am so sorry, I shouldn’t have done that to you.”

“You saved them,” He states simply. “Even at the cost of your dreams?”

“There’s always next time.”

Oikawa is gentler to his arch after that, and hope builds in Ushijima.

“Are you planning anything for this weekend?” He asks one day.

“Ha! I’ll never tell you, gotta keep you on your toes!”

“If you are free, would you like to go on a date with me?” Oikawa blushingly agrees.

It’s not long after their first date that Oikawa puts in a transfer request, afterall you can’t arch your partner! Oikawa does make sure to continue to stop by the lab though, if only to drop off Ushijima his lunch. He always gets a kiss goodbye as he heads out for his daily arching against Date Tech’s obnoxious Iron Wall.

“Be careful at work, love.” Ushijima says with one final kiss to Oikawa’s cheek.

“Of course, pookie! See you for dinner!”

Ingrid Goes West

Me at some people…

“I love Arya. It would be awesome if she was a Kings/Queens Guard to *insert their favs* for the rest of her life”

“I love Arya but she’s no one, she can’t have emotional connection anymore, she’s just a cold and badass assassin”

“I love Arya, she shouldn’t have any romance because she’s a strong independent woman who needs no man and that’s feminism”

“I love Arya, she should just finish her list and live her days alone being a badass alone or maybe create a group of high profile assassins”

“I love Arya, but i don’t think she should make love to the guy she loves.” “Anyway, she doesn’t even love him, see her face after she fucked Gendry? lolz She just wanted dick, she just wanted to fuck anyone and she didn’t even like after. Bad Sex, weak dick game. lolz Much Funny”

You don’t fool anyone, darlings, you don’t care about her, you don’t bother to understand Arya at all.