#Prisoner at Sea

[glamourstories]

There are many things that elves aren’t. They aren’t like the other races, who live short frantic lives. Elves have time due to their long lifespans and you would think this would mean they would have time to relax, appreciate the world, enjoy life, but you would be wrong. Because what elves truly covet is stability. They don’t have time to think about the now, they must think about the future; their future and that of their people. Imagine if you had to work for 850 years before you could retire, 60 years seems like a long enough time for lesser races, but elves need to work for centuries before finally having the ability to relax. Imagine if your entire life was spent thinking centuries ahead, you wouldn’t have time to think about the now. That’s not to say they never relax, sure they take leave, have families and find moments of peace in between. But it is always secondary to stability.

Despite how they hold themselves (and what they might tell you), elves are not perfect. Elves still are emotional, but what they aren’t is petty. Why waste a moment on revenge when you have centuries to enact it. An elf’s revenge is usually drawn out and it is rarely just one thing, a century of minor slights or a constructed series of manipulations. That is when they are dealing with themselves. They rarely waste time on short lived races, why bother yourself with them now when you can always get the last laugh in 80 or so years. They aren’t usually vindictive, but they do have long memories.

Another thing elves aren’t, is ambitious. As with all things elvish, it is about time, and while they don’t like to waste it, they do like to take it. ‘You will always have time, so long as you spend it wisely’ as the old elvish adage goes. When you have centuries, maybe a millennia, you need not hurry. To be ambitious is to hurry to a goal, to hurry is to plan poorly. So elves will work slowly and carefully in all things, from small tasks to their careers. The last elves that were ambitious they called the dark elves; the drow. We need not say what happened to them, there are so few left.

Elves mostly pride themselves on what they aren’t and if elves are one thing; it is proud.

[newsfrom-theworld]

Who killed him? How did he die?

He was tortured to death. I want everybody to imagine the strength it takes to endure weeks of painful torture (that include electric shocks) and not make the false confession the zionists tried to get to justify their hospital massacres.

He endured the pain to protect his people

A more detailed post abt Palestinian Prisoners

[fiercynn]

okay, if you have ever made or reblogged a “hold your nose and vote for biden” post, this is for you.

here’s the fucking thing about these kinds of posts. i've been seeing them since i first returned to tumblr in, I think, late 2022? they've certainly increased in frequency since october 7, but they were there before too, ready to counter any kind of opposition to biden that has cropped up. many of them are not just trying to educate people about what positive things biden has done, which, like, at least I can understand the motivation behind those ones? but so many of them are directly in response to people criticizing biden, and their only real point is “sure you’re upset at this thing biden did, but have you considered the election?” starting YEARS before the next presidential election, mind you.

and october 7 only made that clearer. i don’t think it had been a week before i saw these posts cropping up. can you not see how fucking ghoulish that is? to look at the rightful pain and anger of those whose relatives and communities are being slaughtered with active american support, to respond to one of the few pieces of agency most americans have in influencing what their governments do – their vote – by saying “yes but trump would be worse.” as if the primary people you’re lecturing – palestinians, muslims, arabs, black people, indigenous people, disabled people, other marginalized people – don’t remember exactly how bad it was under trump!

and even if you think not voting is an empty gesture – something i, who studied political science at a mainstream american lib college, who has worked as a field organizer on a previous democratic presidential campaign and for several policy campaigns, who currently works in public policy in america, used to believe, but have absolutely changed my mind on – what is in no way an empty gesture is saying publicly that you will not vote for someone. the arguments people usually have about why simply not voting is bad are that you can’t tell why someone is not voting, so it is as likely to be apathy or disenfranchisement as it is a political statement. but saying publicly that you will not vote for someone, and why you will not vote for them, absolutely is a political statement, and potentially a powerful one! but you choose to negate and/or ignore that by trotting out the “lesser of two evils” bullshit.

and then there’s the whole “yes but people will DIE under trump”. PEOPLE ARE DYING NOW. even if you’re fucking racist and have decided that palestinian lives don’t count, have you forgotten biden’s ongoing covid minimalism and dismantling of the CDC’s covid research and prevention infrastructure? have you forgotten his increase in spending for law enforcement scant years after the murder of george floyd and his administration's surveillance of protesters, including cop city protesters? have you forgotten his recent ramp-up in deportations of undocumented immigrants, including the active continuation of many trump-era policies?

maybe you have forgotten all those things and do purport to care about palestinians, but you just think that biden is doing his best to influence netanyahu and is getting nowhere! but then you must have forgotten all of the things that biden and his administration themselves have done to further this fucking genocide, including:

continuing to send arms to israel

putting together a military task force within days of yemen’s red sea blockade and attacking yemeni ships

bombing yemen

bombing syria

bombing iraq

vetoing three ceasefire resolutions at the united nations

testifying to defend israel and its genocide and occupation at the international court of justice

refusing to rescue palestinian-americans stuck in gaza

halting funding to the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees (UNRWA) based on israeli claims that 12 of UNRWA’s over 30,000 staff were hamas agents, even though u.s. intelligence has not been able to independently verify this

lying that he’s personally seen photos of babies beheaded by hamas when he hadn’t because they didn’t exist (and even when his own staff cautioned him that reports of beheaded babies may not be credible)

questioning the number of palestinian deaths reported by the gaza ministry of health (when even israel has not questioned them, since they are in fact proud of those numbers)

perpetuating lies about hamas having committed the attack on al-aqsa hospital

questioning united nations reports of adults and children raped by israeli soldiers while claiming to have proof (that no one else has seen) of hamas doing the same

honestly so many more things that i can’t remember them all but others feel free to add

or maybe you haven’t forgotten any of that, and think that you’re still justified in lecturing people about why they should vote for biden, because you genuinely believe trump would still be worse. if that is the case, you have still failed to see that by saying you will vote for biden no matter what, you are part of the problem of biden continuing to act like this. because biden is counting on fear of trump to win him this next election no matter what else he does. despite his appalling polling numbers, despite the knowledge that he is losing the palestinian-american vote, the arab-american vote, the muslim-american vote, the black american vote, the youth vote – despite all of that, he is secure in the idea that he will still win because he is better than trump. can you not see how that allows him to act without impunity? how it becomes increasingly impossible for his base to influence what he’s doing if he thinks that they will be with him no matter what? this is how you make yourself complicit to biden’s actions, by not affording anyone even the slightest power to hold him accountable for anything.

and in most cases, the “hold your nose and vote for biden” thing is the response of people who aren’t even being instructed by others not to vote for biden. it is their response to people saying they themselves are choosing not to vote for biden. fucking ghoulish.

[intersectionalpraxis]

⚠️tw: for torture, abuse, and brutality in the following posts⚠️:

[headedfawns]

you’ve got to throw yourself upon the gears and upon the wheels! Follow the apparatus and make it stop!

[dollya-robinprotector]

slowly regaining the ability to draw-

Part 1 maybe? I wanna draw the LIs as well

[pal1cam]

Today marks the 17th of April, which is Palestinian prisoner day…

on such an occasion we wish for all of our innocent and beloved detainees and prisoners who have been put (without a charge, or because of wrongful and false accusations) inside the occupation’s prisons to very soon be released, to be able to experience life between us as it is and to gain back their freedom that they have been deprived from for months, if not even years or decades.

we wish that in a few years, when it is again the 17th of April, we’ll be looking back at this day and date in a Free Palestine while telling these stories of detainment and imprisonment as something of the past that will never bother us or come upon our lives to ruin them ever again.

on this day, we wish for the mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, daughters, sons, grandchildren and friends of those imprisoned to have endless amounts of patience, faith and hope until their loved ones are released.

الحرّية لأسرى الحرّية 🍉

For Historical Context : The Palestinian National Council chose April 17 as Palestinian Prisoner’s Day in 1974 because it was the date that Mahmoud Bakr Hijazi was released in the first prisoner exchange between Israel and Palestine in 1971.

[hezzsa]

[robeatnic]

holy shit yosaf

[daystud]

runs for my life from them and you seeing this

[glamourstories]

Part 2 of this latest chapter. Wherein I explore some conversation writing.

Alina and Gaelug have some R&R

[newsfrom-theworld]

Female ''Israeli'' soldiers are raping Palestinians to death. This is why they fabricated the "mass rape" hoax, to launder actual mass rape by their female soldiers, who in Western media were turned into Saints violated by evil brown hordes.

Every accusation is a confession

[pirrupitpu]

some sketches of ethiw and kcalb from the gray garden ଘ(੭◌ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚

[dudd-ie]

Devuelta en el infierno pero bien acompañada.

[staticevent]

wife

[fish0009]

What in the Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea

Also some silly sketches w Meikai and Sokka 😭😭😭