#Providence River

[davidbrussat]

This weekend's PVDFest mess

A happier PVDFest in downtown Providence, June 3, 2019. (Photo by author) I’d like to put in a bid for downtown as the site for the next PVDFest. Mayor Smiley moved this year’s event out of downtown to the waterfront along the Providence River. Downtown is where festivals such as PVDFest should be held. He should put it back where it belongs. To be sure, much has been done over the past 30 years…

[northgazaupdates]

The UN has made the claim that they distribute food in Gaza twice a week. They have made similar claims several times, explaining that hunger is still an issue because they are only able to distribute food two times a week.

However, some on the ground in north Gaza say this statement is dishonest. When the UN makes these statements, it implies that it is servicing the entire Gaza Strip. They are not. Due to Israeli blockade, absolutely no aid of any kind has reached northern Gaza in about two months.

People in northern Gaza are starving to death because there is no food, none. Some report having to make bread out of animal feed, eat cardboard, and drink seawater and dirty puddles. What little food can be scrounged up is not enough to support anyone’s nutritional needs, let alone those of 800,000 people.

If people in the central and southern regions are still starving, even with the UN and partners brining in food twice a week, imagine the state of people in the north. If even adults in the north are reporting severe hunger pains, imagine what children are experiencing.

The point of this post is not *necessarily* to lambast the UN, although there is plenty of reason to do so. Rather, it is to address one source of misunderstanding which is impeding some people’s ability to grasp the full breadth of the catastrophe in the north.

[teaboot]

I really do believe that God put me on this earth to find hiding spots in airports

[neon-zoologist]

Palestinian Fundraisers - Less than Halfway to their Goals

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Fundraisers that I have donated to and/or who have reached out to me. All have been verified by another blogger (usually Palestinian) or were listed on Operation Olive Branch/another initiative, unless where specified.

Please donate if you can, or reblog/share elsewhere. I would love to see this list get smaller from campaigns reaching their goals! Last Update: 30 Sep

Alaa Sabry Abu Marahil - €180 / €80,000 Last donation two months ago

Marah Atallah - $7,670 / $27,000 USD Last donation two days ago

Hasan Ali Ayyad - kr218,085 SEK / kr500,000 Last donation two months ago

Reham AL Jarrah - €5,214 / €49,000 Last donation three days ago

Samira Akkila - €2,744 / €30,000 Last donation five days ago

Mohammed Hussein Ismaeel - €10,198 / €25,000

Malak Dader - €6,868 / €25,000 Last donation two days ago

Raneen Ibrahim - €9,294 / €80,000 Last donation a day ago

Sarah Zidan (unvetted but likely legitimate) - €3,423 / €35,000 Few recent donations

Mahmoud Halas - €12,299 / €50,000 Last donation two days ago

Waseem Abusafi - €3,335 / €15,000 Few recent donations

Ahmed Helles - €18,819 / €80,000 Few recent donations

Ahmed Jehad - $5,612 / $40,000 CAD Few recent donations

Mahmoud Alkhaldi (shared by 90-ghost) - $15,615 / $50,000

Mahmoud Baalou - $15,445 / $50,000 USD

Mohammed Naser Ayyad (unvetted but likely legitimate) - €5,902 / €38,000 Few recent donations

Mohammed Atallah - €19,325 / €82,000

Eman Zaqout - $31,549 / $40,000 CAD

Nasser Abu Aker - €3,071 / €12,000

Hassan - $8,787 / $60,000 Few recent donations

Fundraisers More than Halfway to their Goals

[the-golden-vanity]

The sloop Providence, seen from the deck of the schooner Pride of Baltimore II, 10/22/2023.

Shipmates, I've just been accepted to join the crew of the Providence!

[remindertoclick]

Here's your daily reminder to Click for Palestine!!!

Thank you!!! 💕

[dammjamboy]

forgot to ever post this here but i had the most fucked dream the other night and i had to draw it

[sforzesco]

listen. listen, there's a kind of intimacy in having a dedicated rivalry, okay. who else is going to know you like this!!! also it's funny

Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini

Julius II: The Warrior Pope, Christine Shaw

and on della rovere’s soldier comment:

Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, D.S. Chambers

and finally! regarding the delightful Mess of political-family relationships, including the marriage comment (altho the montefeltro family that giovanni married into did have sforza family ties, since giovanna's mother was battista sforza, but this is about the more immediate alliance based relationship and della rovere's hand in the rejection of a milanese match for his brother. and. this is not even remotely a serious comic, but now I am once again thinking about insular all these families are. the fucking medicis are here too, if you go half a step to the left on della rovere's family tree)

Julius II: The Warrior Pope, Christine Shaw

Giulio II, Il papa del Rinascimento, Giulio Busi (Bianca Maria Visconti is Ascanio's mom. btw)

panel inserts of the cards they're playing with are all from the Visconti-Sforza tarot deck! (I used public domain scans/photos for the comic itself)

ko-fi!⭐ bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost ⭐ cara.app

[mordredsheart]

i will never complain about classics retellings that are OC-focused, though, firstly because i would *much* rather that than people twisting canon characters’ personalities to fit the story they want to tell, secondly because sometimes you just want to play in the sandbox, and thirdly because i, too, suffer from I Can Fix Him Disease for a truly staggering number of godawful literary dudes

[oldshowbiz]

Joan Rivers' Wardrobe Furnished By

[serpentface]

Hibrides and Brakul having the world’s saddest booze-fueled girl’s night, probably a few months before the start of the story.

Anyway here's an extensive rundown of their shared history.

Hibrides Uryashta was the eldest daughter of a chancellor of the imperial city-state of Erubinnos (his lordship Erub Uryashta). She was brought up with great privilege and security, but (like most daughters of noblemen) was destined to be used as a bargaining chip in a political marriage arrangement. She was taken from her friends and family and moved to the city of Wardin at the age of 16 to complete her pledged marriage with Janeys Haidamane, the failson of the trade magnate Haidamane family. Janeys spent about a week poorly attempting to behave like a husband, and then took the first excuse to flee and engage in a petty military campaign against raiders on the Yellowtail trade route. She found herself left alone in his villa for three years with only hired servants for company. She made a few attempts to break into the city's elite social scene, but was quite shy and failed to make any headway.

Brakul had just spent a year and a half in a bit of a whirlwind. He was brought into a skirmish at the behest of an allied clan, who had been raiding the Yellowtail route and now was under attack by combined forces of an enemy clan and Imperial Wardi mercenaries. He killed one of the mercenary commanders and was captured as a prisoner of war, but was spared at Janeys' behest (who fucking hated that guy thought it was awesome that he got killed with a rock) and was ultimately recruited into the group. He had a chance to go back home, but actively chose to deadbeat dad out on his wife and child to be with his newfound lovequest, Janeys. He spent a year and a half as a mercenary, bonded closely with Janeys and swore brotherhood with him, and was eventually brought home to the city of Wardin with him. He found himself in the odd position of being simultaneously scorned as a foreigner and 'heathen', and the legal kin of one of the richest families in the city (and effectively the secret male concubine of their only male heir).

It was in this context that the two of them met, with Hibrides now being 19 and Brakul turning 27.

The two were initially wary of each other (Hibrides was particularly put off by his 'heathen' status) but bonded very quickly, partly due to their mutual states of being unmoored from their old lives, but in large part being just a natural chemistry. They had a lot of common interests and enjoyed learning from each other. Hibrides introduced him to traditional verse poetry (of which she was very fond). Brakul taught her how to ride khait, and even gave her a gelding from his own collection as a gift. They became very close friends over the next couple of years and spent much of their free time together.

A big part of the dynamic was that both of them are gay in a cultural context where there is no concept of Being gay, marriages are usually arranged and always between a man and a woman, and having children is a societal expectation. Each of them began to see the other as an ideal husband/wife, ie "if I had to marry why couldn't it have been him/her?". For Hibrides' part, Brakul had all the traits she would want in a husband: he was a pretty good friend and easy to get along with, he seemed like he'd do an excellent job of fulfilling expected roles as a husband and father (she didn't know about the wife and kid for a while), he treated her as an equal, and, most of all, had no interest whatsoever in fucking her. They were both in a sort of platonic emotional affair, and grew to love each other deeply.

Hibrides was pretty quick to catch on that something was going on between Brakul and Janeys, and found it strange and offputting but ultimately none of her concern. Her husband only being interested in his sworn brother and leaving her to her own devices suited Hibrides just fine, and Brakul always just kinda being There meant she was living with what had become her closest friend.

The stable state of this Feelings Triangle began to change in the wake of the brilliant plan to get Janeys (gay) (probably infertile) children he could pass off as legitimate via a Brakul/Hibrides pregnancy. It was something all three agreed to as a necessity; it was already drawing scrutiny that Janeys and Hibrides had been married for several years without a pregnancy, and producing heirs is a societal expectation and a central point of an arranged marriage between wealthy elites.

It was especially critical in this case, given Janeys was his family's only male child and only hope of continuing the family line, given both his golden-child sister Faiza and black sheep half sister Couya were Odonii, and thus sworn virgins and would never marry. (There's also a level to this that Janeys was regarded as a complete disappointment by his parents, and his mother made damn sure he knew that his only value at this point was to produce a better male heir to inherit the business. So this was a big fucking deal to him, and to Brakul by extension).

This was also not a route any of them wanted to take on any personal level, least of all Hibrides. She consented to the pregnancy and everything it entailed, but it was inevitably a painful and distressing experience all around. She had never wanted to be a mother to begin with (though had long accepted it as an inevitability), and now found herself with an infant daughter, which only meant it would have to happen again (they needed a male heir after all). And it would be utter social suicide and a profound shame upon her if the child's illegitimacy was discovered, which only added to the stress.

To make things worse, her first pregnancy shifted the entire dynamic with her husband and brother-in-law/best friend. Janeys changed from completely indifferent to actively spiteful and hostile towards her, and things had become extremely uncomfortable between Hibrides and Brakul. It only got worse with Brakul (the only one of them who actually WANTS kids) (kind of haunted by skipping out on his first child) finding it unbearable to be so close to HIS daughter and having to keep up an act that she was not his own, having no direct role in the kids life. He desperately wanted to be a father.

Hibrides, who was going through a fucking lot, started to become vindictive towards him for his role in things. She resented him more than Janeys, because Brakul insisted he cared about her and would desperately try to pretend things were normal, while consistently siding with Janeys against her wishes, including in preventing her from getting a divorce. (His excuse is that the children's legitimacy would be interrogated in a legal setting, which Is likely and Would be absolute social suicide with very real consequences. But the real reason on his part is that if she got out of the marriage, he might never see her or the children again). Hibrides began to do everything in her power to prevent him from having any relationship with his bastard children, even in secret or under the guise of a relative. Sort of an “if I have to suffer to keep up this facade so should you” thing.

They had two children in a span of three years, two girls (ruh roh!) named Erubi and Livya. By this point, Hibrides and Brakul were both experiencing what we would now call Clinical Depression and Alcohol Use Disorder (especially in the latter's case). Hibrides started to have affairs with both men and women, which she was sure to be very obvious about to insult Janeys and Brakul, but was mostly out of loneliness. Brakul turned his complete focus to Janeys and started avoiding Hibrides entirely, in hopes that she would become desperate enough to be willing to make amends (shockingly, this did not happen, and the rift only deepened).

In the present, their relationship status is: fucked. Both of them do still love each other on some level, but this is probably beyond repair. What little time they've spent with each other in the past year is sitting around being miserable and getting plastered. And now Hibrides, Janeys, and Brakul are all forced into the public eye on the pilgrimage together, and with a third child on the way. So that's probably going to be everyone's problem.

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

劉暢 - Liú Chàng Mufasa

Journey 漫遊 - April 2024 (2/3)

[moonlayl]

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Mentioning that over 4000 Palestinians have been murdered, including 2000+ children, 1000+ women, and 200+ elderly is a big no no and means you support terrorism

Mentioning that Israel/certain media lied about a variety of things is a big no no and means you support terrorism

Pointing out the power imbalance between Gaza and Israel and the difference in how Palestinians are dealing with war vs Israelis (who have the time to do their nails, idf soldiers doing kpop challenges on TikTok, them being able to shop around, go to school, travel by airplane to a different country, etc…while Palestinian women have to take medication to stop their periods because they’ve ran out of hygienic products. While the smell of hundreds of corpses underneath rubble has become unbearable, where flies are everywhere and they’ve ran out of water to clean themselves, while the bombs’ impact is akin to a quarter of a nuclear bomb in Gaza, and having literal children now responsible for their baby siblings because every adult in their family has been murdered) is a big no no and means you support terrorism.

Pointing out the numerous war crimes breaking international law that Israel has committed, is a big no no and means you support terrorism.

Pointing out the clear genocide taking place and how Israelis are working overtime on propaganda (including creating fake crime scenes with fake blood about nonexistent dead children killed by “Hamas” and tweeting like a 13 year old on Stan twitter by making up lies about Taylor Swift’s backup dancers) is a big no no and beans you support terrorism

Sharing the very real footage of Israeli hostages explaining how they were treated well and in a humane way in Gaza by Hamas, and revealing that Israel initially refused to accept the return of those hostages (despite Hamas having not asked for anything in return for those people specifically) is a big no no and means you support terrorism

Sharing the Israel’s military defence and prime minister’s own discriminatory and dehumanizing words about Gaza and Palestinians, is a big no no and means you support terrorism.

(If you don’t believe any of what I’ve said, I’ll share the proof. I’m just on my phone right now on the bus and and can’t access everything this exact moment. Like Israel is NOT on the side of truth right now. It’s time everyone woke the hell up)

[thret-rhett]

Adam, Eve, and Lilith. they’re my ocs now more lore in tags

[the-mountain-flower]

I just noticed smn.

Remember that moment in Doctor Who when River says this iconic line?:

Well I didn't noticed this for a while since most of the main characters have British accents (since, y'know, it's a British show), but not only did she say this to several N*zi faces during WW2,

She said this, to their faces, during WW2, in an English accent!!

[elfroot-and-laurels]

public apology to @bitchesofostwick for the number of unhinged messages i sent her tonight critiquing the timeline and logistics of DAO endgame army movements. it is simply that my feelings are very strong on the matter and i needed to send a video with a map for pointing so that i could rant properly. bc my opinions are strong.