#I will not survive this concert

[stil-lindigo]

Bisan is calling for another global strike!

I saw some posts just outlining Jan 21st, and wanted to clarify that Bisan has called for a full seven days of action.

What a global strike would look like is:

calling in sick to work

purchasing bare essentials ahead of the week so you can observe the general boycott of goods / buying as little as you genuinely can

putting in a concerted effort to elevate Palestinian voices and make it clear that this strike is in support of a permanent ceasefire!

For those who will have to purchase necessary goods during this time, please observe the brands that the BDS movement is asking us to boycott!

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Right now is also a good time to mention some better uses for your money during this week.

Available e-sims in Gaza are running low!!

Mirna El Helbawi and her team are working round the clock to continue to connect Palestinians as Israel does its best to cut them off from the rest of the world.

You can learn how to purchase and send e-sims here, and below you’ll find a list of what is currently needed (the areas in brackets indicate what region you should select to buy e-sims in).

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CareforGaza is an organisation that does verifiably good work, distributing supplies directly to Palestinian families.

They have a Gofundme set up at the moment, but because of Gofundme’s poor track record regarding refusing to transfer funds to Palestinians, I’d recommend continuing to donate directly to their PayPal here.

Good luck to all of you. Don't turn away from Palestine!

[gunsatthaphan]

🫠🫠🫠🔫🔫🔫

[hauntingjasper]

Blind as a bat

[channie-binnie]

OMG WHY ARE THEY SO ASDFGHJKL

[musette22]

Just some wintry pics from my recent UK trip now that I'm recovered enough to share them! 🇬🇧🎄🌟

[casrastr0phe]

Made a little sona for Rock and Rule because i watched it yesterday w/ my primary partner and it was so fun.

[lizardlicks]

I've been having this thought that I haven't been able to really articulate? And I still don't think I'm going to do it right, but here goes my attempt anyway:

BROADLY SPEAKING, yes, the trope of everyone gets hetero married and has lots of kids at the end of the story is over done, and YES we absolutely badly need other versions of happily ever after because there is no one path to life fulfillment, and no one true way to find or build a family, or even one definition of family!

HOWEVER: it rings a bit hollow to me when I see other people taking this bit of generallized story crafting advise and applying that to katara and sokka specifically. Because they're not the ethnically dominant race or culture in the AtLA setting, not even close. They're based off circumpolar native populations. Their people have survived a century of genocide. Their story repeatedly echos themes of family, community, tradition, being forcefully stripped of it by imperialist colonizers, and the trauma there in. There's pieces of themselves they lost before they were even born, and both siblings are acutely aware of that, though they choose to deal with it in different ways.

I'm not saying that they DEFINITELY ABSOLUTELY must get hetero married and have a million babies to have a fulfilling ending, I hope no one reads this that way. I'm only saying that I think there has been a gap in the critical analysis responses of the broader fandom when they start reflectively sneering at stories that do have them content to stay home and raise the next generation, or whenever anyone laments about post show canon/LoK seems to neglect mentioning sokka having any family at some point it gets push back on with that exact argument.

Consider that it might be better applied to people for whom getting to raise the next generation in some way isn't itself an entire victory fanfare.

[corpsentry]

at the asian american studies sponsored movie screening i run out of my seat to press a button for the presenter and you look away, not in shame, but in anger

go make your own movie.

One where you’re the star

and everything’s my fault

the way you want it to be. I know, it’s easy

to let someone else hold this grief

and sit in the bathtub,

all dressed up to go to the party.

Maybe in this movie it’s your party

and I the party crasher,

holding cymbals and a baseball bat, et cetera.

But we don’t stop getting older when we’re angry

and you’re only twenty,

can’t listen to lullabies at night,

can’t sleep without a blanket

over your head like you’re scared

of your own shadow. God, go

write your own movie.

You could do it,

you’re still

pretty. Angry? Me too.

The bathtub’s overflowing,

the bathroom’s flooding

with whatever you couldn’t say

to the poet with their palms glued shut

in a cheap simulacrum of prayer.

Didn’t you say you were tired? Angry? Me too.

Upset? Unhappy? Me too. Hungry? Lonely? Me too. Me too.

Standing barefoot in the grass

I remembered the month of bad weather.

How I parted the fog with broken hands each night,

looking for your voice.

Oh, I will not forgive you.

Not like this.

With your fingers splayed

against the brute February sky,

lips cracked open like windows,

waiting, like you always are, for me to say the first word.

[innerxsanctum]

Pet Shop Boys perform ‘It’s A Sin’ from new ‘Dreamworld’ Copenhagen live movie

[puppetmasteronastring]

Look at them. Majestic.

[chososdiscordkitten]

final thought before I go to bed; I miss Choso, nd I luv him, nd I MISS him. specifically THIS Choso.

[wwooyology]

@yeonzzzn & @pockettwinzz I'mma need y'all to come get your man 😮‍💨✋ this live has been on repeat in my brain since last night

[sluttyten]

Yall I get to see Doyoung AND Yuta too 👀

[n3bismel]

I was an atheist until I saw Jesus standing in my living room

[le-velo-pour-dru]

I can't believe there are people out there who have been to iDKHOW concerts... Like... there are people out there who have been in the same room as Dallon Weekes. HOW DID YOU NOT EXPLODE-

[ylangelegy]

would you ever consider writing a part 2 to lost in translation ,it was amazing!

lost in translation is one of my longest fics to date, and it was honestly cut up MUUUCH more than what was published (~30k words with at least four more scenes pre-confession lol). i have some writing that explores what it's like when they start dating but it's not as developed! tl;dr a part two isn't super likely, but drabbles/one-shots set in the same verse might be ´･ᴗ･` thank you for reading and enjoying!