#I'd say nice try

[variouslengthsofwire]

extremely funny that you have a post about the human desperation to confirm internal biases calling for empathy for people who refuse to change and then immediately a post about how its okay to be a zionist. downright comical

I knew this was coming. My post was more calling for self-reflection for when it's you who won't change in the face of evidence contrary to it. I deleted an entire two paragraphs about how I've had conversations and arguments with people who believe that I'm that person, while I believe they're that person, regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict.

I have changed my opinion on some things here and there in light of new evidence over the decades, but no one has yet convinced me that the morally correct thing is for 7 million people, including my family still in Israel, to die violent deaths because they had the audacity to be born in the wrong location. Or because the only place they could go as a refugees was Israel. This is something no one can convince me of, regardless of the evidence.

My moral framework does not allow for 7 million Jews, 140k Druze, 2 million Palestinian Israelis, 5 million Palestinians, or any other ethnic, cultural and/or religious group just needing to die for being in the wrong place. I am simply not okay with genocide, nor will I ever be. This may confuse you because many people think zionism is pro-genocide, but it's actually anti-genocide of Israeli Jews. Zionism in and of itself says literally nothing about Palestinians the way evolution says literally nothing about the creation of the universe. Allowing Jews to have self-determination in their home-land does not run contrary to allowing Palestinians self-determination in their homeland. Unless you believe that Palestinian self-determination necessitates genocide of other groups, but that seems terribly racist to me and makes no sense. Of course, I've seen many people pretending to be pro-Palestinian essentially making this argument, when what they really are is anti-Israel.

As far as I can tell, anti-zionists fall into three main categories:

People who have no idea what the word zionism means and have decided to believe antisemites about the definition of a Jewish word. Most of these people think it means Kahanism, Jewish supremacy, pro-genocide, or something along those lines. It does not. Yes, I have met several Jewish people in this category, most of them under 25.

People who are pro-genocide as long it is happening to an acceptable group. These people like to tell others, and often themselves that they are against genocide, but then they literally call for the deaths of 7 million Jewish Israelis, nearly 10 million Israelis (including Muslims, Christians, Druze, etc.), or 15 million Jews. They say things like "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free" and "globalize the intifada." Not a single one has ever suggested any sort of solution that doesn't involve mass death that would far outweigh the current war. There is a 2.5 who only want mass ethnic cleansing of Jews and/or Israelis from the levant. But this would also necessitate mass death, so they're just asking for genocide with extra steps.

People who are just like the commenter in that screenshot. They are not working from the reality that Israel exists, but from some fantasy world where they go back in time and change history or simply ignore the existence of 7-10 million people who are there right now. Or sometimes, they just conveniently ignore the words and actions of the various terrorist groups surrounding Israel, so they can make the country go *poof* without causing the genocide that multiple groups are actively attempting. It's deliberately choosing the false information over the real world. These people tend to call it "Isnotreal" and think they're so clever.

There is a lot of overlap, of course. Most anti-zionists I have come across engage in all three, though some will just engage in one or two.

That post I reblogged was specifically about wanting peace and prosperity for Palestinians. What is wrong with that?

Also, if you wanted me to change my mind, why did you not try to convince me of anything? Make an argument, back it up with evidence? When you point and laugh at someone, it just makes them dig in their heels, that's human nature. I'm pretty sure you want more zionists in the world, not fewer. This way, you can feel superior about wishing death on people. You can have your genocidal fantasies and feel A-okay.

Zionism is wanting Jews to be allowed to live where the highest concentration of us already exist. If that is morally wrong to you, then you are a genocidal antisemite, and you are not "okay."

[heartorbit]

find another role, carry on the show

[ladeldee]

!!! I just think they'd be great company to each other and would love to see them hang out sometime, ah maybe one day.

[sysig]

For Requestober, Req.1

Scri dressed as an angel, Edgar dressed as a demon. It would be fun to see the roles swaped regarding costumes!

Day 3 - Angel and Devil('s Advocate)

[nulllray]

rid15 star practice ft. a glimpse into my twisted mind

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

a smile would be nice

[bookwyrminspiration]

chat should I do the 50k words in a month this november, as per usual, or since we're ditching the site due to shitty management should I break free of the ill-timing and do the challenge in like. june.

[camels-pen]

sobbing and smiling and so fucking happy about one piece fan letter; bro i was NOT expecting the return of Usopp's melanin but :sob: im so happy about it

[massiveladycat]

me watching another aroace character gets erased and forced into dating

[sadrockandwaltzes]

Just some crappy Mikage drawings based on images from the show cause I need practice... I feel like I'm really getting the devianart experience tryna draw him😅😭

He looks much better in the show I assure you...

[writing on top left says 'Mikage Death Pose' since it looks very simpson death esque; writing for glasses (he looks so cool in his prof outfit) says 'stylish professor turned stylish librarian after pick-up attempt' (cause I accidentally gave him lipstick😅); middle left writing says 'shading fail' and 'dude being shady- not blushy; and bottom writing says 'Gah... She kept me waiting again!']

Favorite's definitely the bottom one

[cak31ssuperi04]

Am I crazy to say that Sapphire and Amethyst look like a married couple and Sapphire is pregnant?(i know she's chubby(a baby:])

I was going for chubby(though that's on me if didn't convey it better). It did cross my mind with how people ship the apprentices what the guardians' love lives would look like. It's kind of fun to imagine them as like adults with lives and families and stuff alongside of ruling fairytopia. +Kid design, she would've already been around by MoTR but didn't come with them to the crystal palace for obvious reasons

[capricioussun]

If you've ever replied to a post and I haven't replied to you just know if I saw it I nodded sagely and then either meant to reply and completely forgot or just had nothing interesting to add. We can all hold hands and be friends on this beautiful earth

[enbysiriusblack]

i don't think james is an exceptionally nice person. if i was describing him, the words nice or kind wouldn't even come up.

i think he's very nice to his friends. asks them how they are and genuinely wanting to know. gives them money all the time- not because he pities them but because he's got all this money, what's the point of it if not to share it with his friends? he stays up with them if they can't sleep or had a nightmare. etc.

but he's not so nice to strangers/people he doesn't actually love. like yes he would help someone who fell over in the street. but he'd laugh first. and tell it like a funny story to his friends later, even if the person got injured. he'd leave a huge mess on public transport or cinemas or whatever without a second thought about it.

i suppose he is nice, but only when he's older (late teens/adulthood). james was a bit of a mean child/teenager. i love him so much, but i do think we tend to brush off his character development and faults. james was a very overly confident, self-centered, ignorant boy. and he then grew up to be still an overly confident, less self-centered, not ignorant man.

james isn't really a 'sunshine', always happy, super nice and kind person. he cares about people. he is an activist that actively fights for people's freedom and rights. he tries to be understanding to people's situations. but he worked hard to get there. he had to unlearn a lot of prejudice and ignorance, just like sirius.

[disposal-blueeee]

no bg ver because i once AGAIN added too many details and thet got lost with everything else

[mars-ipan]

I wish I could become friends with you but I have severe social anxiety and am also 17

there's nothing technically stopping you from being my friend! we've already got something in common-- anxiety buddies yay!!

[hephaestuscrew]

A book asks the reader to imagine any sensory input of the story, whereas a film or TV show provides both sound and visuals. Audio fiction lives in the space between these two approaches. I think there's a unique power to that middle ground. I love how audio drama asks the listener to co-construct their sensory experience of the story.

Audio drama allows me to simultaneously experience 'This character feels real to me because I've heard their voice' and 'This character feels real to me because I've pictured them myself'.

What the characters are experiencing is both directly presented to me and left to my imagination. There's no page or screen between me and the story. It's there in my ears. It's there in my mind's eye.

There's a strange sense of intimacy to that, the intimacy of feeling like a fly on the wall during a conversation or of hearing a character speaking as if directly to me. Perhaps it sounds contradictory to say that experiencing a story only through sound allows me to feel uniquely connected to that story, but that's one of the reasons why I love audio fiction so much.