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Israel's genocidal war on the besieged Palestinians of Gaza has entered its 400th day.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 43,500 Palestinians, 70 percent of them women and children, and wounded over 102,700 others, according to local health authorities.

According to a report published by the UN Human Rights Office on November 8, about 80 percent of the victims were killed in residential buildings or similar housing. The most represented of verified fatalities were children aged 5 to 9, between ages 10 to 14, and babies and children from 0 to 4 years old.

Analysts say the estimate is conservative and the actual death toll could be around or beyond 200,000, as thousands of Palestinians remain missing or buried under debris of bombed homes and shops. Another 10,000 have been abducted and jailed at Israeli torture sites.

Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its military campaign in Gaza, where its has uprooted almost all 2.4 million people and continues to starve tens of thousands by blocking crucial aid.

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PAUL & ALIA ATREIDES

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sauron is the perfect embodiment of militarization and industrialization because he represent the system that constantly eat itself from the inside. a system of hierarchy that built itself from a dysfunctional form of respect. a hypocritical governance that constantly proclaim their cause is for the Greater Good of humanity, yet destroy the foundation of that essence. he rewards those who remove their humanity from themselves. he sees value in violence and treat people as posession.

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pity those who only watched the trilogy and based their impression of Galadriel and Celeborn solely on it. In the wider legendarium they have several versions of their meeting and story and all of them are extremely romantic and beautiful.

I love them falling in love in Doriath, and Galadriel leaving everything and everyone behind and staying there and even in Middle-earth first and foremost to be with him, and him later leaving everyone and everything he knows behind to travel with her.

I adore the version where they met in Valinor too, i think this one would make for an amazing on-screen adaptation. Elvendom in Valinor is in a crisis and falling apart, Galadriel of the Noldor is ready to push back against Feanorians, and suddenly she comes across a Telerin prince Celeborn who shares her convictions wholeheartedly. They fall in love and become a team, fighting together, then deciding to leave for Middle-earth together. Celeborn builds her a boat and they both sail to Middle-earth not caring for anything they left behind, or if the Valar would disapprove of their departure. And again, since then they are a team, a united front, and a constant for each other amidst the ever-changing world around them, “fighting the long defeat” together.

Can’t wait for Rings of Power to bring this beautiful dynamic to life on screen once Celeborn makes his debut at last!

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The cover for the Japanese collection of the first three Penric & Desdemona novellas, by Lois McMaster Bujold. Art by アリストレーター (Aristrator).

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I'm obsessed with characters we only hear about second or third hand, especially when those accounts are conflicting. No, you don't get to see them, but here's a warped mirror of what other people thought they were. Enjoy your contemplation of how being known is an act of translation and communicates only aspects of the self.

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Been thinking some about how SJM portrays male anger - specifically hiw she romanticizes the worst and patriarchal aspects of it - and it’s clear to me that she really doesn’t have a good grasp on how men actually interact with each other and perceive intra-community violence. Guys like Rhys and Cassian who get so angry at the thought of someone Hurting Their Woman(tm) or Looking At Their Woman(tm) are viewed by most guys as someone to tread carefully around and keep away from because they’re clearly violent. Saying this as a former 18 year old male shithead, at my angriest I never thought it was okay to actually attack another person for hurting my girlfriend.

That SJM romanticizes that stuff is just. For fuck’s sake, even among guys we know it’s bad. At best it’s understandable, but rarely is it actually encouraged unless you’re among pretty misogynistic or violent men which. I mean hey

That is so true! SJM (and a lot of popular romantasy authors like her) are really bad at keeping their own internalised misogyny out of their stories and characters.

This is especially clear when you look at what character traits and behaviours they romantasise in their male love interests. These men are just filled to the brim with toxic masculinity and bad misogynistic stereotypes without any self-reflection (either by the characters or the author).

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This is far from a problem exclusive to the Lotr/Rop fandom, but I really wish people were capable of liking their fave characters and ships without making statements like "my ship/character is super great 😍 and I'm super smart🤓 and ofc fEminIst💪 for liking them 😌 and all the other people that like this other character actually don't like them at all and only pretend to to hate on me specifically 😤😡🤭"

Can people in fandoms be normal for once without shitting on others?! That was a stupid question, forget I asked, ofc they can't

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i desperately need people to realize there's a difference between "women need to coddle (cis) men's feelings even when they're being misogynistic uwu" and "we shouldn't tolerate misogyny but actively keeping men separate from women and treating them like they're inherently dangerous to women is only going to worsen the problem (and also this mindset causes IMMEASURABLE harm to nonbinary, trans, and intersex people, who are already incredibly at risk right now)" and i need people to realize that NOW

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I could be either oldest or third oldest depending on how you slice things, so I know this isn't always cut and dry. But what position are you and do you think it effects how you interact with people in general?

And, while you are here, please share and donate for Mahmoud and his family. He's been trying to raise money since August and still hasn't reached $10,000, dispite being on here night and day trying to get help for his family.

Vet (#190)

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it was absolutely a case of "not sorry for the murder, but sorry it was your brother and that you will hate me once you figure out who I truely am and how that is going to impact my chances of convincing you to join my side"

I do think Halbrand really felt bad for Galadriel when he said he was sorry for her brother and what she has been thought but I also don’t think he regrets his actions .And he feels sorry cause she’s the woman who’s trying to make him a king ,if it was anybody else who wasn’t following his plans you bet he wouldn’t feel bad a inch of compassion.And at the end of the day he’s willing to exploit the memory of her beloved brother continue committing evil acts for his plans .It only matters so much that he felt sorry for her .

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I had to, I'm sorry

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I never shared my Mistborn animatic here so I may as well post it now👍

reproduced/used under license from Dragonsteel, LLC.

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i have so many thoughts about this specific dialogue exchange and its implications throughout both seasons but i fear they may need to stay inside thoughts

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Most of us will never know the agony of being a parent that does everything to provide for their child, only to keep coming up empty. Of the immense suffering and self-loathing that comes with being responsible for this little life, and feeling like you're failing: to keep them safe, warm, sheltered, fed. Of holding your child, your toddler, your newborn, watching them slowly waste away from that relentless, gnawing hunger you can't stop (one that you feel yourself). Watching as they howl in pain, and the hollowness that comes when your child becomes too weak even to do that. All the while being totally helpless to stop it because it's not up to you.

Most of us will only see the aftermath of such a thing: a parent carrying the far-too-light shroud of their child, pictured under a headline that details how starvation has taken hold of some given population. Distant and removed from us.

Except that it isn't. There are so many desperate parents who've run out of options, for whom this isn't some abstraction, who are asking—begging—us for our help. Just so they'll be able to buy some of the shit canned food left from the last aid delivery, and a couple loaves of bread to feed their children with. Extortionately pricey because of scarcity, but it's enough to keep their children in a state of "acute malnutrition" rather than "catastrophic hunger", so they'll pay anything for it.

Attacks on NGOs & prevention of aid into Gaza puts every single person there at risk of a slow death due to starvation. Especially children, like Samah's newborn baby boy, her little 2 year-old girl, and their big sister (who's only 9). But we can help. What's pocket money for us, is an invaluable lifeline to parents like Samah. At a time when so many seem to have decided to live in an alternate universe in which deliberate starvation and mass slaughter of civilians is acceptable, we have to do what we can to oppose it. Not to push it away, to ignore it, to decide it's been going on so long we don't care or that it's hopeless so give up, but to grit our teeth, dig our heels in, and say "no, seriously, what the fuck are we doing here?"

tldr: donate to Samah so she can buy food for her kids so they don't starve to death. please. and thank you. :)

(vetted by association by @/bilal-salah0 (relatives), & Bilal was vetted here, #132)

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