#also I hate posting stuff at this time but I want to keep up the streak whoops

[kxsagi]

OUGHHHH MAY FIRST CAME 😈 at least here in Poland. You can ignore this if it’s something you don’t wanna write btw!!!

Can I request BL men that are already pro players, and they’re dating a reader that has chronic pain and uses mobility aids because of it? And the media is super weird ab it cause how dare a pro athlete date a disabled person. Maybe he comforts her because she stumbled upon a weird ass article or a hate comment idk.

Uhhh ness shidou bachira and whoever u want 🙇‍♀️ I love you and your writing I hope you have a good day!

SORRY if this is too specific. Shout out to my fellow disabled girlies 😔✊

“𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐝”

a/n: NOOO I LOVE THIS, I LOVE YOU AND YOUR COMMENTS AND I AM SO HAPPY I GET TO WRITE THIS FOR YOU

ft. ness alexis, shidou ryusei, bachira meguru, kaiser michael, itoshi sae, itoshi rin, isagi yoichi

ness alexis

ness is literally the definition of a gentle boyfriend, so the moment he sees that one trashy gossip headline – “Pro Athlete Seen With Disabled Girlfriend: Fans Concerned?” – his jaw drops like someone just slapped him. 

“concerned for what?” he whispers like he’s in a horror movie. 

you find it first, though. you're just scrolling while curled up on the couch, using your heating pad, when you freeze mid-scroll and go, “hey, do you wanna see something funny, but soul-destroying?” 

ness peers at your phone and immediately climbs onto the couch to wrap himself around you like a human blanket. “do not let stupid people ruin your mood. you are my favorite person. also, what is this site even called? ‘goalz4gossip’? this looks like it was made by a 12-year-old with an ipad and rage issues.” 

he goes on a small rant in german under his breath and then kisses your forehead 400 times. 

“you’re literally the strongest person i know. the media can go date each other if they’re so pressed about us.” 

shidou ryusei

shidou finds a comment that says, “how is she even keeping up with a guy like him? she uses a cane 💀” and immediately screenshots it. 

not because he agrees, but because he wants to roast it on his private story. 

his post is just a screenshot with the caption: “buddy she keeps up with me just fine, she made me cry last week for stealing her fries. sit down.” 

shidou doesn’t sugarcoat stuff, but he’s aggressively supportive. like, if someone tries to come at you sideways in public, he’ll bark at them. 

literally bark. 

“you okay, babe?” he says when you look a little too quiet after seeing one of those backhanded articles. 

you shrug and say, “i’m fine,” but he doesn’t let it go. he walks over, squats in front of you, rests his chin on your lap and goes, “wanna egg their office building? or better yet, light it on fire and commit arson together?” 

instead of actually committing a felony, he picks you up bridal-style and plops you into bed. “you’re hot, you’re smarter than me, and you walk cooler than 99% of the population. who cares what some sweaty journalist thinks?” 

he also gets you custom accessories for your mobility aids with little flames or skulls ‘cause you’re metal like that. 

bachira meguru

bachira is completely unbothered by the hate. but super bothered when it makes you upset. 

like you’re sitting in the park one day and overhear someone whisper “is that her? the one with the crutches?” and he notices how you instinctively stiffen. 

he grabs your hand instantly, leans into your ear and whispers, “they’re just jealous you’ve got me wrapped around your finger.” 

always trying to turn the moment silly so you smile again. 

later, when you’re spiraling a bit in your room reading too many mean reddit comments, he flops beside you dramatically. 

“stop. too much screen. i’m gonna fart on your phone.” 

you shove him away laughing, but he tugs you close with a pout. 

“you know… they don’t get to have you. i do. and i think your pain doesn’t make you less, it just makes you stronger and cooler. like a character in an anime who gets up anyway, no matter what.” 

then he insists on decorating your mobility aids with googly eyes and doodle stickers cause “it’s armor now. i’m your sidekick. beep beep.” 

michael kaiser

he acts unbothered in public, but he absolutely loses it behind the scenes when he sees an article titled, “Can a Pro Like Kaiser Settle for Someone Like Her?” 

“settle for– oh okay. okay. no one tell my manager i’m about to commit slander with a side of defamation.” 

you find him aggressively typing in a notes app. “dear anonymous hater from 'SoccerDailyBuzz': how does it feel knowing you could never even get a date with her, much less someone who calls you ‘baby’ while making espresso at 6 AM?” 

turns his anger into sarcasm but also kisses your shoulder after every sentence to calm himself down. 

“i didn’t fall in love with your pain, but i fell in love with the way you live through it. your stubbornness, your fire, the way you still make fun of me even when you’re hurting. that’s what makes you beautiful, you know? wait, that sounds so cheesy.” 

he makes a point to show you off even more. red carpet? he’s holding your hand the whole way, mobility aid and all. interview? he’s saying “my girlfriend is the strongest person i know” before anyone even asks. 

he sees your worth so clearly. and he makes damn sure everyone else does, too. 

itoshi sae

sae’s already got a reputation for being cold and unbothered, so people are shocked when he’s openly soft around you. 

he doesn’t do PDA or gush about you on TV, but the way he always slows his pace to walk beside you, carries your bag without a word, and makes sure you’re seated comfortably before interviews, it’s noticed. and, of course, dissected. 

you show him a headline that says, “What’s Sae Itoshi Doing With Someone Who Can’t Even Keep Up?” 

and he reads it with a completely neutral expression, then tosses your phone face-down on the table and goes, “well, that’s funny. you seem to keep up just fine when you’re lecturing me at 2 AM about leaving the stove on.” 

you burst out laughing, but he looks at you with the tiniest furrow in his brow. “does it bother you?” he asks quietly. 

you admit it hurts a little. and he just nods, slides over, and presses his forehead to yours. 

“they don’t get to know you. they don’t see how hard you fight. how much you endure. they don’t see you the way i do. and that’s their loss.” 

next time you two are seen in public, he’s the one walking with your cane slung over his shoulder like a sword. the caption on the paparazzi pic reads: “new accessory or relationship statement?” yes. yes to both.

itoshi rin

rin already hates the media, so this gives him another reason to despise them. 

when someone tweets, “idk i just think it’s weird for a high-performing athlete to date someone who can’t even do sports,” he literally glares at your phone like it personally insulted him. 

“what the hell does that even mean. i can’t do ballet, but i’m not out here judging people who can.” 

he’s blunt, but he’s furious on your behalf. he’s also the type to go down the rabbit hole of comments and get angrier by the second. 

when you try to downplay it – “it’s fine, i’m used to it” – he looks at you like you just said gravity isn’t real. 

“don’t do that. don’t act like you have to take it just because people are cruel. they’re wrong.” 

then, more softly: “you’re… more than what your body lets you do. and i fell in love with you, not your physical stats.” 

rin shows his love by doing things for you. adjusting your seat. finding the best accessible routes. learning how to help without hovering. 

someone once asked him in an interview, “how does your girlfriend feel about not being able to travel as easily to your matches?” 

rin deadpans: “she’s the reason i win. so unless you’d like to speak directly to my motivation, maybe pick a better question next time.” 

isagi yoichi

isagi is the type who genuinely doesn’t understand how people can be so heartless. 

like he reads one awful comment and goes, “... do they think you’re not allowed to be loved?” with genuine confusion in his voice. 

he’s devastated that you saw it. “you shouldn’t have to read stuff like that. i promise i’ll protect you from it all.” 

you shrug and tell him you’re used to it, and he immediately goes into ‘motivational team captain’ mode. 

“you being used to it doesn’t mean you have to accept it. people suck. you’re brilliant, and funny, and beautiful, and strong in a way most people will never understand. and you don’t have to prove your worth to anyone.” 

he holds your hand tighter when you’re out in public. makes a habit of stopping to adjust your pace so you’re never rushed. 

also, he subtly drags anyone who says anything ableist during interviews. 

“a lot of people think strength is just about running or scoring goals, but i’ve learned from my partner that real strength is showing up every day, even when your body fights you. that’s the kind of strength i look up to.” 

cue the internet sobbing. cue you sobbing. cue him also sobbing because he made you cry and didn’t mean to. 

© 𝐤𝐱𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐢

[zvahlne]

hello everyone welcome to uh. welcome to my mixtape.

i posted about sharing/analyzing songs i associate with aphmau characters, and i'm starting off with one of my absolute all-time favorite songs for laurance:)

foreigner's god by hozier!! here is links if you wanna listen while you read: youtube / spotify

and now... i will tell you why... walk with me.... (this is going to be a long walk) (i have a lot to say about this one) (also i haven't gotten to season 2 in my rewatch yet but this is heavily based on how i feel about season 2. so i could be remembering some things wrong and i apologize for that...)

garroth sorry for borrowing you for my laurmau posting but i had to use this gif we're going on a walk please have mercy it's a really good gif

first just to get it out of the way

Screaming the name of a foreigner's god The purest expression of grief

she is irene [surprise pikachu]... i don't know what else to say about this. it is about the horror of falling in love with the divine (especially when you end up on the opposite end of divine through circumstance, for the divine) in our analysis today.

She moved with shameless wonder The perfect creature rarely seen Since some liar broke the thunder When the land was godless and free

"she moved with shameless wonder; the perfect creature rarely seen" he's thinking about aphmauuu... aphmau.... i love this for her. the "shameless wonder" reminds me a lot of early aphmau being absolutely goofy sometimes because jess was still playing it as minecraft ykwim? running around to attack random scorpions and having conversations with her dogs, getting excited over props in the villages she visited... yknow... shameless wonder. the shameless wonder of a gamer......

the second part just very much reminds me of the vibe of early minecraft diaries to me, it's a little hard for me to describe that. "when the land was godless" to me is like. you know aphmau/irene shenanigans. this song in my laurance playlist is a lot about the aphmau/irene shenanigans. i really wish i could explain this one better because it makes me FEEL THINGS but it's like. a vibe thing

Her eyes look sharp and steady Into the empty parts of me But still my heart is heavy With the hate of some other man's beliefs

her eyes.......

sorry what were we talking about

no but seriously i love this part for the specificity of "her eyes", because this is one of my favorite moments (this is from s2 ep 19 "her eyes" for those who aren't as laurmau-rotted as i am). "her eyes look sharp and steady into the empty parts of me" is so. it makes me so. when he comes back from the nether he's changed and he continues to change but she never looks away and that keeps him here. she doesn't turn away from him. she still sees him. but he's still empty. "but still my heart is heavy with the hate of some other man's beliefs" he's still a shadow knight, and he is still losing himself... "some other man" is the shadow lord/shad in this reading

Wondering who I copy Mustering some tender charm

^^^ laurance trying to be Normal all the while he is slowly losing himself... the experience of dying and coming back Wrong..... "wondering who i copy" being him thinking about who he was before he died in the nether. you don't come back from that the same guy unfortunately. you come back Wrong. no matter how hard you try to ignore it

my favorite part now !!!!

She feels no control of her body She feels no safety in my arms I've no language left to say it But all I do is quake to her Breaking if I try convey it The broken love I make to her

she feels no control of her body - both about the circumstances of the werewolf wedding specifically (because i am always there), but also about aphmau/irene stuff again to me

she feels no safety in my arms - laurance wants nothing more than to be aphmau's protector, to keep her safe, to make her feel safe, but how can he like this? how could she feel safe with a monster? is she safe around him? he wants that, he promises that, but is it true? laurance can't imagine she felt very safe around him at the wedding... or when he lost control of himself in scaleswind..... she feels no safety in his arms :(

i've no language left to say it, but all i do is quake to her - he used to bombard her with over-the-top flirtations, but now that he's really fallen for her, he stammers over his words. the weight of it is heavier. he loves her but suddenly that's too much to say. and --

breaking if i try convey it; the broken love i make to her - in his current state, his expression of this love is often twisted and aggressive (see: the werewolf wedding). but it's all he can give her, it's all he has left. their first kiss shouldn't have been what it was. she deserves better than that.

aand.. umm... yeah!! thanks for coming on this walk with me:) not all my lyricposting will be this long, this is just one i had a LOT to say about it and i wanted to put a little extra effort into the first lyricpost... hope you enjoyed !!

[kawacake]

OFFSIDE CRUSH | “Fuck it, THIS IS our happy ending.”

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Dailysoccer

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Dailysoccer Sooo… Nagi Seishiro and Blue Lock’s PR Manager Y/n L/n are allegedly OFFICIALLY a thing now? Sources claim the soft launch is over and the situation-ship has evolved. Love won or professionalism lost?

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reoofficial This account will never not pmo

user707 SHE’S LITERALLY MY QUEEN I LOVE THEM IM SO HAPPY FOR THEM

teaforyukimiya one couple and the whole internet collapses…

reoofficial cause they’re really like that

user221 “Love won or professionalism lost” WHY NOT BOTH??

user593 This is the first game Nagi’s ever cared about winning

sleepyseishiro I always care about winning 🌚

ChigiriH "Love won" yeah, and professionalism got benched

clutchyoichi soft launch? bro never even locked the door

megumonster LITERALLY

user233 If my PR manager looked like Y/n I’d be in love too, let’s be honest.

yourinstagram STAWP GOT ME GIGGLING AND STUFF 🤭

“It’s kinda weird that it’s just us out here this time,” you say as Nagi held onto your hand as if he were to let go you’d disappear. “Bachira’s not spouting nonsense, Isagi isn’t entertaining Bachiras shenanigans, and Reo isn’t yelling at all of us.” You finished your sentence as Nagi let out an amused ‘hm’

You both walked in silence for a bit, the glow of the arcade lights the ones that blinking softly in the background when you and him shared your first kiss, casting your shadows over the cracked pavement.

“I don’t hate it,” Nagi mumbled, swinging your intertwined hands slightly. “I mean… it’s nice. Just you.” You turned to look at him, eyebrow raised. “Just me?” He nodded. “I used to hate extra stuff… all the noise, the emotions, everything. It felt like effort.”

His voice dipped as he looked at you, completely serious now. “Then you happened now I want everything.” You blinked, heart pounding. “Even me calling you ‘my sleepy boyfriend’ in public?” A smile cracked on his face, real and soft. “A tad bit corny but…especially that.”

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yourinstagram not fired, ego approved, still hot, still employed, we up!

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sleepyseishiro 🤍

yourinstagram yawl he’s literally obsessed with me 😛

reoofficial Literally.

rinwrecks prayed for days like this

yourinstagram HELP IDK IF I SHOULD BE HAPPY OR IN PURE SHOCK YOU SAID THIS

rinwrecks just smile and nod, smile and nod

megumonster nah bc why he smile like you told him you got snacks in the bag

yourinstagram i did and he smiled harder

clutchyoichi so we just surviving scandals and being fine now?? ok😛🙌

reoofficial it’s giving “media trained and moisturized”

ChigiriH y’all look illegally cute…i’m calling Ego back

yourinstagram tell him i’m booked

user707 wait. WAIT that’s the same hoodie from the fair???

sleepyseishiro maybe

yourinstagram he’s sentimental yawl…

clutchyoichi we need a docuseries “Surviving Ego: The Love Story”

rinwrecks executive produced by me

megumonster this why i never trusted HR she too powerful

yourinstagram HR is me now fear me

yourinstagram how could someone not love a face like his I truly love him 🤍

Fun Facts 🤍:

Rin typing “prayed for days like this” was the first time he openly admitted he supported them EVERYONE was SHOCKED

The first picture on the rooftop was taken by Reo, who kept yelling “serve face or I’m deleting this app!”

Isagi is currently keeping a running Google Doc titled “Things Y/n Shouldn’t Get Fired For But Almost Did.”

Reo’s “literally” comment had over 500K likes within an hour. He said, “I should be verified just for this.”

SINCE THIS FIC IS TECHNICALLY FINISHED (making little side post for it because I literally love this smau) I’LL BE MAKING ANOTHER BLLK ONE SOON (Kaiser) BUT TILL THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT MY OTHER WORKS AND ALSO MY “MORE ABOUT ME” I’m pretty cool or wtv anyways I hope you enjoyed I literally love everyone for the support and more 🥹🩷

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[hbheavensent]

Lucifer/Lilith

I HATE that TWINK WITH THE TOPHAT, but Lilith is My Girl who I Cry About,,,

HUGE Content Warning for Grooming and general abusive relationships, like,,, I cannot stress this enough. And depression. That too.

Let's start with The Twinks design. Honestly I don't mind Cannon Lucifer all that much- I mostly just wanted more contrast with his outfit but it's not far off from what I would interpret. I like that he's short in comparison to Hell's VERY tall residents and the first humans (who are all between 8ft-11ft tall). I really wanted to lean into a more uncanny/weird look for him, so I got rid of his eyebrow privileges and his pupils. I also let him keep his cheeks and the hair since both are fitting for his look. Lucifer, in Heaven looked much the same but now is a shell of what he was. A Self Made man, a Coin Operated Boy if you will. Lucifer is obsessed with how he is perceived, both wanting to be intimidating and lovable. Wanting no one to dare approach him but to also seem wildly approachable. Lucifer's whole bit is wanting to have his cake and eat it too, not realizing he just cannot have that. His body is.. not organic in the traditional sense, he has skin and blood but his body is hollow except for the shell of it- which does have a thin layer of veins and all that good stuff.

For his Demonic Fuckoff Form, I did keep him the same height and stuff because honestly it IS just funny. His wings are mechanical, he made them himself, which is a bit of an illusion to Daedalus of Icarus fame and leaning into the heavy denial of his own holiness- which is also why his fake snake familiar curls around his horns like a halo! (Something I enjoyed in the cannon look, but it was inconsistently used.) I also made his outfit tear off, as I imagine his wings 'deploy' out. It also happened to end up looking a bit like those pictures of Jesus coming out of his Rock Hole which was accidental but I'm gonna say it was on purpose.

My Lucifer is much... more obviously evil. He's LUCIFER, ya know? He's the guy who kept pressing, interacting with humans despite everyone in his circle telling him not to- then grooming them, getting with Lilith before the apple. Before humans had free will. He fully knew what he was doing, he just didn't care to look at the consequences. If every other sin who fell from Heaven was compelled, driven by fate.. Lucifer was the only one of those seven who you could say was aware of himself, in control of himself. We can talk more about Adam/Eve and Cain/Able later, but since free will only existed post The Apple Incident, that means Lilith had no real life outside of Hell. There was no time for her to have committed sin, besides the marriage to a man when she had no idea what that could mean. Let's talk about Lilith. I designed her to look meek, downturned. I considered using owls in her design but I wanted to lean into the moon aspect of her character more subtly. I found that rabbits were often associated with the moon and they fit into being a common prey for snakes- so I worked with that for her shape language. I also sort of took inspiration from both nuns and wedding outfits for her dress. The crown/veil on her head cannot be removed, it's apart of her body and forever stuck to her.

The flowers I used are Butterfly Weeds, which in a bouquet are a sort of warning to leave the sender alone. That they do not want to be associated with you. They also have the double meaning of vitality, health, and resilience! Which is a sort of cruel irony. I also put horse-skull gloves on her hands to represent her connection to death in general.

As for her role, I decided that Charlie will actually be Eve/Roo's child but Lilith would treat her as her own. Naturally, I'm making it so that Lucifer made Charlie magically and boasts about how GOOD he was to his wives to do so, though it's mainly so he could control Charlie easier. Lilith saw this and took Charlie away from her father as often as she could, and with Lucifer being such a sore loser and not wanting to even TOUCH Sinners- Lilith thrived as the Queen of Hell, showing Charlie what it's like to love purely and care. However as years went on, Lilith became depressed. She was already inclined to this behavior/feeling and only fell into it more so when Adam started executing Sinners by the handful. Heaven was scared of Lilith's power, and so Sera sent Adam with a fleet of his own Angels to keep the numbers down in Hell. Adam sort of does whatever Sera asks, even if he's not a fan but we will GET THERE laterer. (His personality is more or less the same with some added depth.)

There came a time when Lilith was tired. Too tired to continue being a mother to a child of a man she hated, too tired to try living a life that was never in her own control. Being hated. Being idolized. Around when Charlie is 13 (because she is JUST 20 in my version of the series), she found Adam during an extermination. Being that Lilith is not a Hellborn and IS just a Sinner, she begged Adam to kill her. It was a tough sort of back and forth (THAT WE WILL GET INTO LATER) but eventually Adam does so, which will later be dramatized by Lucifer to Charlie as a battle when it really wasn't. I really wanted Lilith to haunt the narrative, it shocked me that this Queen of Hell had.. little to no weight or appearances in the show. I'm thinking large imposing statues, posters, photos by Charlie's bedside... Looming and looking, never with a smile on her face. The First Woman.

There's still a lot more I want to explore here with Lilith/Eve/Adam/Lucifer, but I really wanted to drive home that Lucifer is a HUGE fuckwad and that he's hurt people, particularly his wife.

And as per usual, the Height Chart- of which I've tweaked quite a bit

[andorerso]

wait, I thought I was done but I forgot to post my usual live thoughts so here we go, these are my last thoughts about this arc. disclaimer: VERY salty (not you episode 8, we love you)

episode 7

glad to see Yavin but how is it already this operational? would have liked to see that

literally what the fuck is this hut and how is it realistic that they'd get this in any shape or form 😭

EADU MENTION

idk I don't like the force healer thing. Cassian's not chosen. he's just a guy who wants to do the right thing. that's the whole point of R1

DRAVEN MY MANNNNN

"the day I need permission to come and go, I'm gone" LMAO SHUT THE FUCK UP. YOU FUCKING IMPOSTOR

going on an unsanctioned mission a year pre r1. brilliant. spectacular. makes so much sense, I love it

"we're building a real army" well I wish I could have seen that!!

"Cassian's a leader now" wish I could have seen that too

brain does go brrrrr when Cassian is competent. this is the moments I like, when he's on a mission

episode 8

I'm sorry but "rebellions are built on hope" felt like such a random thing to say in response to that? I… don't like it. it's not my biggest gripe but I wanted those to be his own words

I don't know why they're using their real names with each other out here… use your code names ffs!

is the one that keeps staring Kay 👀👀 my beloved droid

oof Syril choking Dedra. yikes…

the Syril and Cassian fight my god!!

he really did that one meme 💀 rip Syril

Cassian will never understand what just happened here lmao

Cassian helping a stranger get up as they escape 🥺 a small detail but THAT'S my man

don't have much else to say. I did really enjoy this episode, definitely my favorite of the season by FAR, and probably up there with The Eye

episode 9

my casskleya crumbs

yeah. so he witnesses Ghorman and he thinks that's it, I'm done? THIS late into the timeline? fuck this honestly, I'm enraged

at least Kleya read him for filth

"I need to start making my own decisions" the way I fully burst out laughing. bitch you've been doing that THIS WHOLE TIME. like you CANNOT be serious

Mon speech cleared!!

"your cousin Vel is a friend" I'd like to see it

competent Cassian still has me kicking my feet and giggling. him rescuing Mon is solid stuff. too bad this won't last

I really thought Mon's speech at least affected him and he changed his mind but no, he still wants to leave. lmao the clownery

"I've done what I can, and I've done a lot" and are we supposed to just believe it? how about you fucking show us? because all I've seen this season (except arc 1 but he was barely in that) is him playing house, resisting going on missions and wanting, in general, to be done with it

he can just stop talking? this is so insanely OOC I fucking hate it. fucking hell I'm furious this is the direction they thought to take him in

I can't believe she drugs him 💀 was that the entire point of her drug addiction or....? because we hadn't seen anything of that in this arc

so... I'm meant to believe that he stays because his gf leaves him? that he literally has to be FORCED into committing? wow. what a brilliantly brave and selfless choice from our hero. so impressed 👏 genius writing

"I'm choosing for the both of us. I'm choosing the rebellion." IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING HE CHOOSES ON HIS OWN BECAUSE IT'S THE RIGHT THING, BECAUSE HE BELIEVES IN IT, BECAUSE HE WANTS TO. GOD FUCK OFF

he doesn't even get to reprogram Kay. they just take everything from us

and also... Kay was literally not even in this arc

fucking hate it here goodbye

[infiniteglitterfall]

Seriously, what is the purpose of this rally?? Who has a rally in a library??!?

It's an EMERGENCY rally, but they didn't want to tell people what the emergency was?? What is the call to action here?? Get Columbia University to magically stop the war??

Also, why the entire fuck do they keep using "actionists" instead of "activists??" What is with this moment needing to redefine or recreate every word it uses??

They chose to go to Columbia, ffs. If they wanted a NON-elite "site of knowledge production," they could have gone to a state school.

Instead, they're racking up student loans to demand that the university stop "producing knowledge," because g-d motherfucking forbid it do THAT.

And that it instead become "a base for struggle and resistance." Which they've consistently defined as "supporting Hamas fascists brutally burning, torturing, and mutilating their way across Israel."

Also a base for "collective education," which "we teach each other." Which in this context can only mean "Hamas propaganda."

So. That should go great.

I've never heard of Basel Al-Araj. But every other time I've googled someone they mentioned like this, it's turned out they killed a whole bunch of people. Let's see.

Oo. WOL wrote a short but fawning blog post about him... emphasizing that he fought the Palestinian government.

The government. Of Palestine.

The one, like, I don't know how to explain this, but it's made up of Palestinians, and it runs a country that's called Palestine?

(I'm setting aside the fact that it's a mess and hasn't held elections in 18 years. Before anyone points out that the PA is shit. Because that's not why this dude was fighting it.)

He... was a big shining beacon in WOL's eyes... because they hate the Palestinian government for opposing Hamas.

They support Hamas's dictatorship in Gaza. Where Hamas is currently executing Palestinian "dissidents" YET AGAIN.

And they especially support its drive to destroy Israel and take over the land. Which will definitely involve also crushing the PA and taking the West Bank.

This is what's so interesting about WOL. When it gets involved, the politics shift from standard "fuck Israel" stuff to "Also, fuck the Palestinian government specifically."

Like when they had that unhinged protest against the Nova Festival exhibit... which somehow ended with people not just attacking the homes of people associated with the museum the exhibit was visiting, but also attacking what's basically the Palestinian embassy in the US.

It's SO fringe. There's only one group in the world that hates both Israel AND Palestine this much.

It's the one that staged an armed coup against the Palestinian government in 2007, and has ruled Gaza as a brutal dictatorship ever since. It's Hamas.

It's so damn blatant and so damn unhinged to have an entire "emergency" action to... take over your campus library and rename it after a condescending-looking guy in a Jordanian keffiyeh.

Who worked as a pharmacist for a year before dedicating his life to studying Hamas/PIJ/PFLP/etc propaganda, "researching and publishing the detailed experiences of revolutionaries to be practically benefited from." So basically, giving people the how-to guide for the would-be terrorist.

He literally gave guided tours telling people shit like "because of 'armed resistance,' there have never been 'Zionist settlements' in Jenin, which I call the TRIANGLE OF FIRE!"

there are a whole lot of places in the West Bank where there aren't any Israeli settlements. Notably, there's an entire chunk of it where Israelis aren't allowed to go at all. Because the Palestinian government runs Area A completely, but negotiated an agreement with Israel to have it run Area C and do security/policing for Area B.

Remember that part. That Palestine actually has an agreement with Israel about all of this. And that negotiating to keep Israelis out of Area A has kept it free of settlements without anybody killing anybody else.

Because that's going to come back into play, later on here.

Jenin is not popularly known as the Triangle of Fire. It's popularly known as the City of Martyrs/the City of Suicide Bombers. Because that's where most of Hamas's suicide bombings in the Second Intifada came from.

It's a place where the Palestinian Authority basically cannot rule. As in, when it tries, Has shoots at government officials and sets government vehicles on fire.

It's a place where it's repeatedly asked Israel to help end terrorist control.

Which just gives Hamas an opportunity to go, "see? See? Now Bad Jews are trying to ethnically cleanse the West Bank too!! They hate all Palestinians and want everyone dead so they can gobble up the land in their expansionist frenzy!!"

All these pro-Hamas sources about Basel Al-Araj do the same thing: sing his praises as a writer and an initially peaceful activist, then frame all violence against him as wantonly done by Bad Authorities for no reason. It's the basic script for everyone they market as a "celebrated martyr."

Supposedly, Al-Araj was imprisoned and tortured by Palestine (no reason given for his arrest, no mention of a trial or charges, nothing). Got released because he staged a hunger strike. And then was assassinated by Israel a few months later. Because the mean bad traitors of the Palestinian government told Israel to kill him.

When I look that up, though, it turns out that he wasn't "assassinated" at all.

On the contrary:

Video footage released by the IDF shows security forces entering an apartment and finding the suspect hiding in a small hallway storage space above a doorway.

Police spokesmen charged that when Araj saw them, he opened fire with a Carlo submachine gun. Security forces fired back, killing Araj, a pharmacist from the village of al-Walaja near Bethlehem.

A fucking submachine gun?!?

Also, "pharmacist" is overly generous. He was 33, and apparently hadn't worked as a pharmacist since the year after he'd graduated.

Damn. The article goes on to cite "Palestinian reports" as saying he was in a 2-hour-long gunfight, and only died when he ran out of ammo.

What the entire fuck?

And yep, here we are:

Hamas praised Araj as an example for other Palestinians to follow.

“The martyr Basil al-Araj, who rose up after an armed clash with the occupation in Ramallah, is an example of the conscious resistor, who called for resistance in his words and implemented it with his deeds,” Hamas wrote on its official Twitter page.

NGL, anything that ends with "and then you die after a two-hour-long gunfight that you had no reason to be getting into in the first place" seems like a really, really shitty "example to follow."

And here we are again: it says the reason he was arrested was....

Last year [2016], Araj was one of a number of Palestinians detained by PA security forces for allegedly planing attacks against Israelis.

Before their detention, Araj, along with Haytham Siaj and Muhammad Harb, ditched their identity cards and cellphones in Ramallah and fled to the surrounding hills.

Ten days later, PA Intelligence forces located the fugitives and arrested them.

According to PA security sources, they were found armed with a makeshift gun and hand grenades.

PA authorities subsequently placed Araj, Siaj and Harb under administrative detention, in addition to three others, for their suspected involvement in planning terrorist attacks.

On September 3, the families of the six administrative detainees protested the incarceration of their family members, who they said were “kidnapped by the PA,” in front of the Mukata, the PA presidential headquarters.

Aha. And then in 2017, he was again suspected (as opposed to "found," since there was no trial) to be planning terrorist attacks on Ramallah. The counterterrorism unit raided his apartment, he got into a storage space above the stairs and a lengthy gunfight, and died.

This is so fucking....

So, in conclusion, CUAD and WOL and all these other NYC groups are taking over a university library to stop the University "producing knowledge."

And to, instead, spread the message that the governments of both Palestine and Israel need to be crushed.

Because Palestinians who negotiate and work for peace with Israel are filthy "collaborators."

May 7, 2025:

Watch this video CUAD shared of themselves shouting over and ignoring campus security and admin in the library:

[xxplastic-cubexx]

tablet died right when i finished that wanda doodle but i still wanna doodle what if i ended it all

[ganondoodle]

been sitting at my desk for 3 hours just trying to decide if it would be better to draw or to write on the totk rant document, not doing either

[ceramicbeetle]

half baked thought but 1) it’s funny when people act like hawkeye has a deep respect for marriage as an institution and that it’s something he cares about in any way and 2) funnier when people act like hawkeye settling down with one person in sudden post-canon monogamy is viewed like the only good and healthy way to address his issues around abandonment and like, self-worth

[fancylala4]

“Blah blah blah I want marvelous to change things up little! Blah blah I don’t want them to go back to what it used to be. Blah blah sdv was made by one person and I put in more hours into that game than I did with rune factory 4 and story of seasons ever did!”

Good, go play that game instead of whining about sos/rf games not being like it on the fucking sos/hm/rf forum for the 100th time. Not everyone likes that game (I hated every single thing about sdv) and wants sos/rf to be exactly like that game.

I know I say this many times before but I will say it again. Sos: poot did change everything up and guess what? Everyone in the community hated that game. So much that they are worried that the next game is just like it. The last thing this company needs is to further alienate their audience by taking out and changing things that made them love the franchise.

[thecherrygod]

/

[thethingything]

had to lay down. woke up at nearly 7am. got overwhelmed by our sleep schedule once again being fucked because yesterday we actually went to bed at roughly the right time and thought "oh this is great we've fixed it". decided that we're just gonna deal with it and it'll be fine. and then our brain decided that no actually we're gonna have a combination of emotions that's maybe gonna give me another breakdown if I can't figure out how to deal with them but I have no fucking clue what to do with them

[autism-corner]

thinkings

[supahstarrr]

today has been the first day in like days i havent gone to sleep in the afternoon then continuously force myself to sleep throughout the night

[floral-hex]

So this is my thing now, I’m afraid to go to sleep. This is kinda bullshit, brain.

[thethingything]

accidentally napped again and woke up feeling really shit as usual, but also we had a dream where a new alter showed up within the system and now I'm just kind of sat here like... was that just a dream? is there actually a new guy? it wouldn't be the first time someone's shown up in a dream before introducing themself...