Tales from a Phoenix

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[phoenixyfriend]

I'm still job hunting, and would appreciate donations (or requests!) on ko-fi.

I also have tips open on tumblr, and while my Patreon is open to new members, I've had a bit of a lapse there recently, and am trying to catch back up.

[phoenixyfriend]

My bank account is overdrawn 🙃🙃🙃

Accepting prompts (for over $15 if you can spare it, these actually take me hours)

If you want me to do a theoretical "how does this make money/how does this lose money" thing, like explaining where concerts or something put all the ticket money, that's also a possibility

[phoenixyfriend]

Account is no longer overdrawn but still no job, no chance at STARTING a job for a few weeks (family obligations), and upcoming Payments means I'm still on the brink, any support is greatly appreciated

(Just keep your email open for if I need to clarify a legal issue)

[phoenixyfriend]

Credit card payment is due today and I’m 🙃🙃🙃 outta luck again

[Tales from a Phoenix]

[phoenixyfriend]

I'm still job hunting, and would appreciate donations (or requests!) on ko-fi.

I also have tips open on tumblr, and while my Patreon is open to new members, I've had a bit of a lapse there recently, and am trying to catch back up.

[phoenixyfriend]

My bank account is overdrawn 🙃🙃🙃

Accepting prompts (for over $15 if you can spare it, these actually take me hours)

If you want me to do a theoretical "how does this make money/how does this lose money" thing, like explaining where concerts or something put all the ticket money, that's also a possibility

[phoenixyfriend]

Account is no longer overdrawn but still no job, no chance at STARTING a job for a few weeks (family obligations), and upcoming Payments means I'm still on the brink, any support is greatly appreciated

(Just keep your email open for if I need to clarify a legal issue)

[phoenixyfriend]

Credit card payment is due today and I'm 🙃🙃🙃 outta luck again

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[themakeupbrush]

Fan Bingbing at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival

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[thegoatsongs]

With the "Monster!" scene I'm having thoughts about Jonathan and children and other characters interacting with them.

When he notices Dracula's bag he angrily knows what it means and doggedly waits by the window in a place he knows isn't safe at night, until he's forced to hide in his room. When he hears the cry, Jonathan for the first time tries to leave his room and head to the vampires. He never fought back when HE was the one getting harassed. But he tries now, to open the door and interfere. Which is not normal for him who regularly thinks his next move through, but he instinctively goes to open his door even if he has no chance against them. (But the door is locked because Dracula still wants to play the game and he won't let him ruin it.)

For the first time, Jonathan admits that he wept. "I sat down and simply cried". He realizes he can't save a child of strangers and it breaks him.

He and the mother both rage, both want to open a door, then they both weep and then they are both numb at the end, as the wolves arrive.

The first time Jonathan fainted from horror was more than a month ago when he realized the vampires were going to kill a child.

Van Helsing's reaction to Arthur is fatherly, and what prevails when it comes to the attacked children is Van Helsing calmly forming a strategy, contrasting Jonathan's emotional, impulsive reactions. The climactic fight is described by Mina, while the domestic ending about their son is described by Jonathan.

It's another case of Jonathan having powerful emotions, and he feels very strongly about children.

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[aeterna-auroral-avenger]

Don’t mind me…I’m just thinking about how spiders are naturally talented and skilled weavers and they know how to weave their webs and even make functional, stylish homes and nests and whatnot.

So maybe that’s why Spider-Man knows how to sew his suits. He inherited that trait from the spider and just instinctively know how to weave his suits. Maybe. That’s my explanation for it.

[tachvintlogic]

Aunt May: You're buying an awful lot of yarn lately. Are you making something?

Peter, who after getting bit by a spider has felt an inescapable need to knit and now his room is covered head to toe in yarn: Nope. It's just new hobby.

[cure-icy-writes]

yknow what. i complained a lot about how it was unrealistic to suddenly know how to put together stretch knits and a perfectly fitting, absolute banger of a suit, but this is an explanation i’ll gladly accept

[a-commas-a-pause]

Tags conjure a wonderful image

[tachvintlogic]

[Image: tags from @whetstonefires

#contemplating peter with superfine yarn and tiny double-point needles #speed-knitting up the length of a spider-suit leg so fast his hands blur #this makes so much sense actually #it's on-theme and the suit is NOT usually drawn with seam lines

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[pavlovadiplomacy]

[plaguedctr]

some meanings cuz i saw someone ask for them

algiz rune - this was used in postwar germany as a symbol of the neo-nazi movement in place of the actual nazi symbols that were banned

88/HH - code for Heil Hitler a phrase used in the nazi salute. also used as a reference to the 88 precept, a manifesto written by white supremacist david lane

the black sun - this symbol originates in nazi germany and later utilized by neo-nazis and other far right movements.

celtic cross - it was used by nazis in norway in the 30s and 40s, and more recently it has been used by neo-nazis, klansmen, and other white supremacist groups. white nationalists use a version of the symbol with a square cross as opposed to the elongated cross

Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging - an afrikaner nationalist, neo-nazi, and white supremacist political party in south africa

i believe this one stands for völkisch equality (if im wrong correct me) - a concept within nazism which ascribed racial equality and full legal rights to people of german or related blood but deliberately excluded people outside this definition

odal rune - was the badge of the SS race and settlement main office, which was responsible for maintaining the racial purity. it was also the emblem of ethnic Germans and neo-nazis in nazi germany occupied territories and other neo-fascist groups

14 - from the fourteen words coined by david lane: "we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children"

Wolfsangel - a heraldic charge from germany and eastern france, which was inspired by medieval european wolf traps. widely adopted in nazi symbolism

Atomwaffen - Atomwaffen Division is a neo-Nazi group that emerged in 2016

92 - not too sure about this but it could refer to the 92nd Infantry Division, correct me if im wrong

Totenkopf/SS death head - julius schreck, the leader of the stabswache (hitler's bodyguard unit), resurrected the use of the totenkopf as the unit's insignia. this unit grew into the schutzstaffel (SS) which continued to use the totenkopf as insignia throughout its history

iron cross - a military decoration in the kingdom of prussia, and later in the german empire and nazi germany

Identity Evropa - an american neo-nazi and white supremacist organization established in March 2016. It was rebranded as the American Identity Movement in March 2019. In November 2020, the group disbanded.

18 - code for Adolf Hitler. The number comes from the position of the letters in the alphabet: A = 1 H = 8

iron guard - a romanian militant revolutionary fascist movement and political party founded in 1927

arrow cross - the symbol of a far-right hungarist fascist political party the arrow cross party, led by ferenc szálasi,

unable to find any information regarding the rest of symbols, if anyone knows them please feel free to add

[queeranarchism]

small addition: the Algiz rune was not a post war alternative to nazi symbols, it was very much a popular nazi symbol during the war also, associated with health and life. See, for example, the nazi Health ministry’s logo:

the sanitation services of the Hitler Youth:

the badge of the nazi association ‘German Women’s Work’:

As with all these symbols: this symbol also has non-nazi uses and context is key. If you see this thing on a random person, maybe do a double take and look for other signs that they’re a nazi. If you see this thing on a person at a white lives matter demo? you don’t need to wonder what it means.

[hazelnutgirl]

This one is Patriot Front, a neo-nazi hate group that split from another group, Vanguard America, in 2017.

This is the symbol of the Iron Guard which combined fascism, nationalism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity and antisemitism. The hate movement was wiped out during WWII but it was resurrected as a neo-nazi symbol and spread to the US in the 2010s

I couldn't find the upward arrows one but it's similar to the anarchist chaos symbol, I think that's unrelated tho. I did find a couple other labeled references:

Stay safe out there!

[xxenbypunkxx]

always look out for these tattoos or patches!

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[bearpapi]

You really have to give the architect a 5 star thumbs up for his vision in building this place …

[sexyandthethief]

the town’s name is dixon

[my-angel-castiel]

the longer you look at it the funnier it gets

[ilarual]

Dude, this is the city I was born in. I know exactly which building that is, I HAVE BEEN TO THIS BUILDING, I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE FROM ABOVE

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[roadwrecks]

i finished a drawing for the first time in 800 years

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[youwouldneverbreakthechain]

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[phoenixyfriend]

I'm still job hunting, and would appreciate donations (or requests!) on ko-fi.

I also have tips open on tumblr, and while my Patreon is open to new members, I've had a bit of a lapse there recently, and am trying to catch back up.

[phoenixyfriend]

My bank account is overdrawn 🙃🙃🙃

Accepting prompts (for over $15 if you can spare it, these actually take me hours)

If you want me to do a theoretical "how does this make money/how does this lose money" thing, like explaining where concerts or something put all the ticket money, that's also a possibility

[phoenixyfriend]

Account is no longer overdrawn but still no job, no chance at STARTING a job for a few weeks (family obligations), and upcoming Payments means I'm still on the brink, any support is greatly appreciated

(Just keep your email open for if I need to clarify a legal issue)

[phoenixyfriend]

Credit card payment is due today and I'm 🙃🙃🙃 outta luck again

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[deliciousnecks]

Blending in since 1892