#but with the boycott and the awful things happening in the world

[bandzboy]

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[florisnemis]

A hope of brighter days ahead🍉🫒

Please don't turn a blind eye to cruelty and lose sight of humanity. Boycott, donate, spread the word, keep an open mind and heart, whatever is in your capacity to help, we shouldn't allow such awful things to happen in the world and have no reaction.

[notyourgoodjew]

hi, may I ask what BDS means?

Hi! Of course you may :D

BDS stands for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. It's a movement that promotes boycotting Israeli goods, universities, cultural institutions etc., divesting from companies that provide military supplies to Israel and calling for sanctions in hopes of pressuring the country to meet their demands. Which are to withdraw from the West Bank and remove the barrier, equality for the Arab-Palestinian citizens, right of return for Palestinian refugees etc.

Obligatory warning! I do NOT support the far right Israeli government and its policies (fuck Bibi and his cronies)! I do not see any joy in deaths (both Palestinian and Israeli), I want this war to end as soon as possible, I want peace in the region for everyone!

While their support from Palestinians is high, their tactics had little to no positive effect... in fact it has been quite the opposite, considering the movement has been active for almost two decades...

They have failed to pressure Israel economically, their effect on the economy being negligible, although they have been successful in convincing quite a few unions, and organizations to endorse their cause and pull support of Israel, but due to their boycott of Soda Stream, the company closed their factory in the West Bank, costing a lot of Palestinians their jobs...

So far they've only really been a useful tool for the Israeli right. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Some people see the movement as being very wishy washy I would say. Their definitions are broad to the point that everything Israeli can potentially fall under a boycott. Like hummus, which they allege "provides support for the Israeli military" (I assure you, hummus export is not a significant part of the Israeli economy).

And while they claim to be pro peace and advocating for a two state solution, they unconditionally support anything Palestinians do and rarely if ever condemn terrorism on their part. Which just endorses more violence instead of a dialogue towards peace. Also due to their focus on Israel they single it out as a uniquely oppressive regime (while ignoring other, often worse, atrocities around the world), which while I agree that Israel has done a lot of awful things, it is far from the worst human rights abuses and certainly not unique in its cruelty. Of course it is right to condemn Israel for its wrongdoings, but the movement has been very ineffective so far in the "let's put economic pressure" sense, only demonizing Israel and everything related to it.

They refuse to engage with anything Israeli, including art (and causing several artists to cancel their shows in Israel) and more importantly a part of the movement (specifically the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, or PACBI) has condemned an Israeli-Palestinial grassroots peace organization(!!!) Standing Together (which I highly encourage you check out) which has been doing actual work towards conversation between Israelis and Palestinians with the goal of a Palestinian state and peace, which has condemned the occupation of the territories, which has been protesting despite the police refusing to allow them to (facing arrests and police brutality because of that) and so much more. BDS sees this as "normalization", a "distraction", and "whitewashing" (somehow?), which just reveals that a lot of people in the movement just want Israel gone, not caring about what would happen to its population.

From what I see and where I stand (barely, I'm a cane user, badum tss), BDS is ineffective in achieving its actual goals, however it has successfully divided college campuses and politics both in the US and Europe, inviting even more antisemitism, they are extreme and very narrow minded, accusing American Jews of dual loyalty. Their support of the Boston map being the prime example (which they later distanced themselves from, kinda).

But of course, look into this yourself to make your own opinions. I'm far from an expert and if I've been factually incorrect, please let me know.

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Is it bad for me that I am still excited to make the friendship bracelets and go see Taylor when she comes to my city?

Because I do feel like I am betraying everyone by going but it’s also something I have been looking for for a year and it’s so unimportant that it shouldn’t matter

But at the same time, I genuinely have nothing else to look forward to and her music has been with me my whole life and every era is a part of me.

I feel so lost and I have no one to talk to about this.

I am an awful person I know, and shallow and probably the worst human being and small.

I am just tired of living int is world where I feel like I live two parallel lives and don’t know how to navigate that

You are NOT an awful person. The very fact that you are saying these things is a testament to your good conscience.

This is a challenging thing to navigate. I was literally introduced to English music via Taylor Swift when I was 6 years old. Speak Now was the first ever cd that I owned. 1989 was the first cd I ever bought with my own money by saving up. The 1989 tour was the first concert I ever went to by saving up. Folklore and Evermore got me through an earth shattering period of grief in my life. I cannot overstate how much meaning her music holds for me. I know exactly how you feel. I’ve been there. It’s not easy to boycott music that holds so much significance for you personally.

If you ever need someone to talk to about these conflicting emotions, please come to me. Do not denigrate yourself. You are a good person who is is struggling with an internal conflict like so many of us.

Personally, I only successfully detached from celebrity worship culture 2 years ago. I refused to buy celebrity related merch (small artists don’t count). And I unfollowed every celebrity on social media. I also stopped talking about celebrities like they were gods. However, in Jan this year, I did attend the Eras Tour. I guess I had it easier because her silence on genocide didn’t seem as loud back then. But even then, as a minority fan, I still felt conflicted.

I just want you to know that as long as you’re showing solidarity with the victims of genocide, it’s ok. You can show solidarity by spreading awareness, donating, volunteering or protesting. If you’re doing these things, then you’re using your voice and your privilege for good.

Additionally, it seems like you’re thinking critically about celebrity culture too. Detaching doesn’t happen overnight; it’s a process.

I hope you feel ok soon. I’m here if you need me <3

[missnobodymadness]

I have no idea if this is a thing with SzPD but if guilt is empathy, then why can't I feel empathy towards anything that happens around the world? Then I feel guilty for not being able to feel a thing because I know I should and I feel like the most awful person alive. I want to feel something, I want to feel bad for people dying, for the victims of genocide and flooding, I want to be able to cry, but I can't manage to. I boycott when I think it is the right thing to do, I donate when I can, but I am tired of doing these just because it is the morally correct thing to do, I want to bloody feel it, I want to feel empathy towards the people I am helping.

Could this also be a consequence of being exposed to all sort of stuff when I was just a kid? I have no idea, but I can't seem to understand how my mind works, maybe that's the actual problem...I think too much and feel too little. I always act on what I think is correct, never on my feelings, because the day I start acting on them, things will get very very dark as it feels like I am just holding a beast inside of me and it is growing, slowly, but steadily and I wonder for how much longer these bars will be able to contain it.

I am just so tired of fighting against it but I know I can't unmask, society wouldnt' accept my true self even if I haven't hurt anybody, even if I have the perfect control of the nothing I feel. I feel stuck inside myself. What am I? Who am I? I have no identity, thus I am nobody.

Is not it funny that I just had a therapy session a few hours ago and I am already needing my therapist again? Ahah...

[prosaicpedagogy]

//OOC Post - real world stuff + Fictional

Censored so it doesn't show up in tags

Normalized Behavior:

So with the current stuff happening in Pales/tine, and how closely I relate to it as a black American. With how Isra/eli people are treating Pales/tinian people across social media, if you have Twitter, TikTok,

or even go through the tags on tumblr. You have SEEN the horrible things happening right now. You have SEEN the boycotts, you are SEEING how HORRIBLE things are and how people are. It's been going around that Isra/eli content creators are posting tone-deaf, horrible, racist content. Making fun of Pales/tinian people who are being murdered and killed. In Isr/ael, it has been normalized. This behavior has been normalized. Back when Jim Crow laws were a thing, and lynching black people was normal, it was NORMALIZED, and the behavior of it was NORMALIZED.

What does this have to do with Fiction:

How does this tie into fiction? I need to speak on how people RP fantasy racism in Homestuck, and just general fantasy racism.

Please keep in mind the hurtful things you say to fictional marginalized groups, are things REAL PEOPLE say and do to REAL MARGINALIZED groups.

The lusting after other species or other blood colors, it's fetishizing. You see that happen to real minorities, Asians, Black people, Hispanics, etc. It's fucking weird! It's creepy, even when it's fictional. It's uncomfortable!

"I think this blood color sucks for xyz" Is just RACISM. "Purplebloods are violent, aggressive and they do a bunch of drugs" Do you literally not hear yourselves???

These are things said about REAL PEOPLE and REAL MINORITIES. It's uncomfortable!

I get some characters are just racist and awful and horrible people, but a lot of RPers have normalized this behavior and we see characters improve or grow but they're still racist! Or in this case Hemoist.

Comments like: "Trolls are all like this" and "humans are a disease" is deeply troubling to me. It's so normalized, these deeply eco-fascist, and racist ideologies.

I KNOW that not everyones muse is black-coded or POC-coded like my own are. However, there ARE POC-coded characters, and sometimes you guys are just being racist.

When POC talk about being uncomfortable and go to you, it's not drama it's dangerous.

I am not calling anyone racist btw. This is literally just a vent/rant.

[dojae-huh]

I'm going to write a sad and serious post, so if you are still in the mood to celebrate NY, please skip it and read later.

Doyoung looked happy during the end of year concert, so, touch wood, he wasn't too affected by the MC scandal. I hope he learnt how to withstand and wait out personal attacks by now. He has been an idol for a long time, and had many a trouble.

I was a bit surprised that only 3 people unsubscribed from me in the past days. Either few subscribers read me regularly, or I successfully weed out the weak ones (I have a high subscribe/unsubscribe rate).

I'm not very eloquent with my words. I often come off too harsh and don't deliver my point of view well. I'm coming back to the topic of online virtue-signalling, "do good" pressure, witch-hunting of idols as I need to clarify a few points.

On the first glance it might seem like I'm behaving like a fan who protects one's bias. Actually, I would defend any idol who is accused of things he/she didn't do/that weren't proven. My opposition is to the mob, to the cancelling culture, to the people who use nice pretext to be awful humans. Their power is strong, they crush not only celebreties, but grind in the mix other fans as well. And I want more people to learn how to withstand this type of bullying into complience with the mob's POV.

The masses are often wrong. And a minority often looks like it represents the opinion of the majority, when in reality media and socmed algorythms just favour loud confrontational people and people who earn being "spokepersons". You don't have to pick a side if you don't want to. You don't need and you actually can't have an opinion on every subject. You can and should hear out people you disagree with or who has bad sides to them (like being a homophobe). A person possessing a bad character or view still stays a source of information you can learn from.

You will be pressured by "well-meaning" people into action "for the cause". Not just pressured - bullied. You won't be given a chance to question the cause, its revelance to you, whether there is a point to it, will the associated campaign bring any positive change really. Swear words, accusations of lacking morale, empathy, threats of being cancelled would be thrown at you if you won't comply. So the task is to learn to see through the wall of trigger words and mass histeria, to be able to ask questions and think and decide for oneself.

I didn't follow the Korean fans vs Indonesian fans fanwar. I don't know the specifics. Still, I can comment on absurdity of (some) Indonesians cancelling a Korean idol over a fastfood brand boycott that has little to do with their country. Indoneasia has an ongoing conflict of their own. Papua wants to become independent and is not allowed to. Killing or rebels - check. Denial of self-identification - check. Indonesians from other islands, other ethnicities, coming to the land and using its resources, starting to live there - check (Indonesia populates Papua with other peoples deliberetely, selling of mining and logging rights to foreign companies is rampant). When I went to YT to look for a video on the conflict, I came across the fact that Indonesia has a migrant issue as well. Rohingya refugees, a muslim minority fleeing Myanmar.

It is the truth that athrocities and injustice happen all over the world at the same time. And not only man-made conflicts. Poverty, ilnesses, nature destruction. People suffer and die constantly. People following online mobs that get into a frenzie after media shines light on a particular issue and bully everyone to do the same are hypocritical. The world is big, people in one part of the world deserve peace and to be preoccupied with their mandane lives, celebrate, even if something bad happens in another part of the world.

When Russia-Ukrainian war started I followed it closely. I listened to commentators from both sides and I was watching the videos from the battleground with burnt corpses in tanks, Ukranian drones releasing explosives on the heads of Russian soldiers, child graves dug on playgrounds, leveled to the ground cities (before and after airial photos), as well as humanitarian and volunteer campaigns, etc. I also read comments and observed the wave of hate Russians were getting online from "well-meaning" people. I was stripped off of the ability to use credit cards abroad, ability to enter several European countries, and other issues. It was a very unstable time when everyting changed every day, I was afraid to be locked in Russia like Soviet people were locked in USSR (it's a real concern among Russians, a new iron wall). Back then I constantly switched between reading about the war and writing silly stuff here on this blog. I didn't write about the war not only because I wanted a space to escape to, but also because it was a local problem. Yes, huge, and affecting the whole world (oil, gas, vegetable oil, wheat, more refugees, the disraption of the "peace" in Europe, etc), but still a conflict people in Indonesia, Thailand, India, South America and so on had the right to avert their eyes from.

Right before New Year Russia (nothing sacred for Putin) sent rockets to several large Ukranian cities. You can see Ukranian k-pop cover groups filming dance covers for YT and think that everyrhing has calmed down, that it's only soldiers who fight on the perifery. Well, no. And Ukraine also sent rockets into a Russian town. On both sides civillians died in the buildings during explosions.

Instead of a NY conglaturation, a political oppositioner on YT I watch released a video with information about a couple of people that died. Turned statistics into stories about individual human beings. You can watch it here, it has English subs. The author asked to forgive him for not being in a celebratory mood, so many commented how they too couldn't celebrate the holiday.

The attack angered me, but I didn't dwell on it. I personally did congratulate all my friends with positive words. And I celebrated. War or not war. I want to live. I want my friends to be successful next year despite actually not knowing their onlook on the conflict (I was hesitant to discuss with some). I don't want Putin and his desire to stay in power to ruin more lives than he already has and will continue to do. Certainly not mine. I have my lane, nature conservation. It is as important as other "fields to do good". And to have any positive impact on the world, firstly I need to stay sane and happy myself. And my friends need to stay sane because they will outlive the dictator and be the part of people who will push for democracy.

To sum it up. Don't fall to the mob's pressure on the internet and don't be quick to judge people, cancel them. Don't delegate thinking and decision making to others. Form your own informed opinions. And don't waste your time on trivial things. Fanwars online don't help anything and anyone. It's action in real life that matters. Even if all you do is being kind to your family and people around you, you still do more good than justice-warriers.

Be kind in 2024.

[elendsessor]

so uh me and my family went to go see ghost busters world iceborne today and it was fine kinda??

i do want to talk about it since i have a lot of feelings about it despite only seeing this and the original

but first actual thing that genuinely is awful that i do want to make known: if you’ve seen trailers you might know that the movie got sponsored by booking.com and yes they do shoehorn it in the movie. booking.com has very positive ties to israel because y’know travel agency and is one of several companies the bds suggests pressure boycotting so please please please do not ignore that fact about the movie please please please please do not support booking.com. do boycott booking.com.

uh spoilers below the cut i guess?

ok actual positives because i fucjing loved the ghost designs. cgi wasn’t great at points (main bad guy ghost dude i forget the name of looked best when obscured in shadows and not actually shown in detail) but the designs were at least done well. and phoebe and melody’s relationship was cute yet was done so fucking dirty. the movie did have good jokes and the acting was really solid, the world building is cool, and yeah if you turn your brain off for most of the film it’s fun. only when there’s action and ghosts is it actually compelling i noticed and it’s really sad since a good chunk of the movie is not that.

there’s too much plot ok. it’s your run of the mill family drama with ghosts sometimes there. i’m tired of the family is forever shit when it isn’t found family or paints the parents as “flawed but well meaning” and having the dad be lovingly stupid (gary’s technically not the biological dad but he does do dumb dad—pretty much flanderized homer simpson you know the trope), the mom strict to a fault but is right in the end, and incompetent brother who’s trying his best but needs a little help. most families are not like this. most families are dysfunctional in their own ways. you don’t have to have physically abusive parents or unsupportive parents to have shitty parents. painting families in this very generic way sets a really really unhealthy expectation that if your parents aren’t openly pieces of shit you aren’t allowed to hate them or if you defy them you’re automatically in the wrong.

but then there’s phoebe. oh is there phoebe.

i hate how in movies now to get across female empowerment is just make the girl super smart and be shoved in the spotlight too often. she is not interesting at all i’m sorry. you can tell she’s the smart one because she wears glasses and likes science isn’t that quirky? seriously when are we going to just get a strong female lead who has interests that aren’t tomboyish or *insert school subject here*? filmmakers do know that girls and women are also human beings with a wide range of individual likes and dislikes that can’t be reduced to tropes right??? again creating the unrealistic expectation that women cannot be treated like normal people unless they’re uber smart or uber strong. this is a problem for all minoritized group representation and i really cannot hate anyone who doesn’t like how the film industry is trying to bend over backwards for groups to force in representations that only hurt them.

biggest sin is she is not interesting on her own. she is so tropey it’s a fucking travesty. melody the ghost girl was the only compelling person—the only one who made phoebe somewhat interesting to watch—and of course she’s not safe from being a trope. i don’t like how melody has to have direct ties to bad guy mcbad and the sudden turnaround that, while it paid off for her, was rushed to hell and back for the drama.

and worst of all, there was homoerotic tension between phoebe and melody and nothing ever happens.

please just let them hold hands.

i know this is a mainstream movie so two people of the same sex even brushing up against one another is a crime but.

they were cute together and fueled several ghost au fanfic ideas.

damn you film industry.

[jayflrt]

alice oh my i just saw the craziest debate on my tumblr tl like im very strongly pro-palestinian but for wtv reason my blr showed me some post like 4 rbs deep of continued debate between a fucking "proud zionist" and some hindu supremacist abt whose people had it worse ... the hindu supremacist was saying they were an ally bc of the "mughal conquering" of india but the zionist wouldn't accept them or wtv i honestly didn't understand but i was just staring both in anger and bafflement bc im not sure that they can be compared ... the nakba is such a recent thing but the mughals conquered india in the 1500s and how is that any reason to support fuckass modi's entire anti-muslim propaganda ughh i want so badly to be more educated on the history of both what's going on in palestine and also everything else that's happening in the world but it keeps making me so upset to see how blinded people are by their own hate and wtf are politicians corrupt almost everywhere ?? do they genuinely have no compassion ?? im so sorry for dumping in ur inbox :( i feel like the blr community has kind of adopted u as part of our wise counsel of elders lol bc i always feel like everyone including me goes straight to ur inbox to talk ... maybe its the psych degree but ur so comforting to talk to <3

omg WHAT that's so :(( i'm so sorry you had to see that,, what a weird thing to argue over. i don't think people realize that fighting over who had it worse only benefits the oppressors..... we're ignoring the true problem at hand while we go back and forth. that's just a general statement btw i am not supporting either of who you mentioned and they should not be using such awful historic events to defend the atrocious acts israel is committing against palestine 😭 supporting modi of all people too..... FUCK THAT MAN!

i do wish things were different and i wouldn't have to say this but i'm afraid most if not all big politicians with influence have lost sight of what's important and are mostly driven by greed and power. most people see the career path of a politician and have high hopes that they'll create change and make a difference, but when you enter that world you quickly realize the best way to keep your seat in the government is to align your political views with whoever pays you more to push your campaign forward :( sure there are probably exceptions, but it would take a lot more than exceptions to flip the current political climate. that's why it's so so important for us regular citizens to create change ourselves!! all these protests and boycotts may not seem like they're doing much from our perspective, but we're all exercising our free speech in a way our governments can't suppress. educating ourself, spreading awareness, donating, sharing information—they're all ways for us to reclaim the power of the people

i'm answering this somewhat half asleep so i hope this made sense!! omg pls i always think of that tweet that says psych majors are either chill or the worst people you've met 😭 but you're too sweet, i'm so glad you feel comfortable enough to send an ask in my inbox! feel free to drop a message whenever 💘

[firespirited]

As much as I've tried to take this to heart, it has been excruciating these past few days to watch (mostly USamerican) people learn about white phosphorus, mass punishment, illegal detention, the Geneva convention, hostage exchanges and not even bother to stick those terms in wikipedia.

The excitement at seeing people discover something you've been yelling about for years turns to ash when they have no curiosity about it, the outrage isn't going to turn into long-term struggle it's a flash in the pan emotion that'll be apathy from burnout within a few years.

Something REAL you can do with your anger is join up with groups in your country who are working to eventually get the USA to even be slightly accountable for those crimes (ongoing btw) like the rest of the world, for small gestures like closing Guantanamo: the 20 year torture prison without trial. Just having the talk about moving those men to american prisons, let alone release, or with compensation.

Right now one of the local (to me) issues is people imprisoned for terrorism being given the option of psychological care instead of isolation as we begin to dismantle the idea of the evil mastermind and see that for every charismastic sociopath there are dozens of groomed young men and women from vunerable backgrounds. Folding in what we have learned about gangs and cults instead of good and evil thinking. This is legislation that will totally be crushed under the current government of course but deserves to be formulated anyway so we can bring it back later and at least start the seeds of discussion.

There might be a few people asking for "nuance" who just want to not think but an awful lot of people asking for nuance are asking for curiosity: for you to put in the reading, the dialectical reading of things you may disagree with or may be outdated to have a fuller grasp on a situation that is also playing out in so many other ways close to home that you can actually act on.

Examples for me is that many Syrian refugees are also Palestinian refugees from earlier wars but the rhetoric about them is to not even call them refugees but invaders like they're not doing our care and janitorial work! We also have islamophobia and antisemitism in local schools: in my own half muslim neighbourhood. We also throw taxpayer money at weapons manufacturers and take pride in our civilian killing inventions: that's places we can blockade and boycott, we can expose who took their money and gifts.

Nuance is kind of like when the Black Lives Matter movement asked people to do some basic reading before turning up to protest and saying something wack. It doesn't mean "hey this is too complicated for anyone except scholars to parse so let's all shut up"

Nuance means let's learn what led us here, what we can do right now with our anger, how we could turn current impotence into future accountability, how to stop this from happening again, how do I protect and build in my own community where land and blood feuds are lurking under the surface.

[mysticcrownwolf]

I know with the state of the world right now everybody wants action for people to see, to hear, to act. But let me tell you all something it’s okay not engage with everything bad happening in the world it might even be better for you if you don’t. It the internet’s job to bring forward the worst that is happening in the world because putting it out there means their is a higher chance people will actually know about it and actual steps will be taken to change that but if all day everyday I open my social media a place of escapism for me because of how stressful my actual life is and then keep getting bombarded by how bad everything else is going on in this world it’s creates this nasty sense of existential dread for me that keeps me up at night. Now it’s ok if you want to help other people but this borderline threat about how anyone who ignore this issue is a horribly insensitive person isn’t the type of social justice I can get behind.

Taking the example of the Palestine genocide I can’t bring myself to even read all the atrocities done to them because I know the guilt of not being able to help these innocent people will eat me alive especially since the most I can do for them is repost news and information about Palestine on my blog and boycott most brands that support the genocide. I can’t even help them financially. Most I can do is live my normal life while always knowing in the back of my mind there is nothing I can do to help those less fortunate than me and that makes me feel awful. But what’s even worse is seeing those post about how if you aren’t watching and taking in all the suffering happening in gaza you are desensitising yourself to the genocide happening around you and what if I am what if I physically can’t function knowing innocent children are dying everyday what if I am just a teenager who have already seen the worst this world has to offer and can’t mentally or emotionally take anymore of it.

Another thing is the Tumblr war against transfem and as a She/They lesbian I should be at the forefront of the movement right. But I can’t my heart hurt so much for the atrocities committed against the transfem creator whose name I can’t even put in this post or it will just get removed but every fourth post on my feed was about how much transfems are mistreated in tumblr and I can’t bear seeing that anymore because I know I will just end up deleting my tumblr and the community I am starting build for myself if I start looking more into it because I already know that most of our world is controlled by selfish narcissistic who are the physical embodiment of evil but if I let that fact dictate my life I will doom myself to a hopeless existence.

There is a reason ignorance is considered bliss and sometimes it’s ok to look at all the evil going on in the world and just say no I don’t want to fight against every single bad thing going on in this world matter of fact I don’t even want to know about it because at the end of the day there will always be something bad happening around the world, always someone facing injustice and if you wish to help them fight against that it’s great but so is curating your feed to show the more positive and hopeful side of the world trust me you shouldn’t feel like our planet is doomed every time you check your socials, that is not you turning a blind eye to other peoples suffering its you acknowledging and accepting that you are human and you deserve to have a place of relaxation and happiness.

[slidewhistlebj]

I think there is an issue for some people with the speed of the ICJ. It takes time to rule on something, it’s not effective at immediate critical interventions, and it is hobbled by its lack of enforcement capabilities. These are all absolutely true. That is where pressure on governments to step in and aid group are crucial to achieving ceasefires for Palestine.

But some people are talking about this ruling like it isn’t crucial and I think it’s important to look at this from a wider lens. This case will move forward, now evaluating evidence of genocide and eventually ruling on Israels guilt. It will take a long time but we will see the leveling of consequences on the war crimes zionists have committed. This matters. The protests, boycotts, and pressure we have built up is important now but in the long term view it disappears. Documents are lost, social media platforms disappear, the sense of informed public opinion fades.

This court case acts as a crucial bookmarking step in history so that no one can claim that they were unaware of what was happening. We can see what Israel is doing. We weren’t silent and continued to not be silent until an international body stepped in to rule Israel as already in a violation of many of these terms of genocide. We will continue to document and preserve these awful things so that Israel and the world can never run from it. This might feel small but this is one of the crucial steps in preventing this from being brushed aside, it’s real and it shouldn’t happen to anyone, ever

[cloudy-squid]

Jesus fucking Christ I showed my sister a jigsaw/saw movie meme that wasn't even grotesque or bad or bloody or anything and it was no more "out there" than a lot of our humor we have with each other and she sent me such a mean look and went on about how "we already live in world where people do awful things to each other" and like you won't even speak about a genocide that been happening for months, boycott anything, or do anything but you're going to be snotty about a movie series????? Granted I'm not really interested in them but I know we've sent each other memes about them so. I'm reaching a point where I don't even want to be around her you know?

[sweatyluminaryqueen]

16.05.24

Eurovision ended few days ago and I still cannot stop thinking about it. Fuck Israel btw. I'll just pretend they were never there. But fuck Israel. Yeah. I would never boycott it tho, I love this silly little show too much and I have too much stress in life to not watch one of the very few things that give me so much joy. Congratulations Nemo!! Congratulations Baby Lasagna! Congratulations to everyone! Except Israel ofc, fuck them. But!! My heart will always belong to Ukraine. Teresa & Maria was the best song period. Jerry Heil had the best vocals. I actually got extremely addicted to her songs.

Speaking of Jerry Heil... She literally noticed me 😭 I commented on her post on Twitter with my art of her. And first, she liked it and I was already like OMGOMGOMG QUEEN I LOVE YOU. Two hours later she commented "insanely talented 😳😍" and then I literally started screaming. Like..... Jerry my beloved... And that's not all!! She screenshoted my art and posted it on her group on telegram 🥹. My soul evaporated from my body y'all... It was the happiest moment of my fucking life. I still can't believe it happened. I love Jerry Heil so so so so very much 🤍.

But let's not be so overly optimistic. Let's just say that Jerry Heil made me the most happy in years. Well, excluding my dog, but he's the only reason I'm still alive so he's kinda above it all. But literally everything else is awful. My eating disorder is getting worse and worse. I ate basically nothing for last two weeks but for the last few days, I ate way more than I should. I hate myself for that.

And everything hurts. As always. And smallest inconveniences make me so stressed I feel sick in my stomach. There's no way I'll make it in the "adult world". I'm an fucking adult already, I'm 23. It's pathetic. Everything is pathetic lmao.

If my back weren't hurting like crazy, I would probably try to write something. But nooo, the pain is all I can think about.

Gosh I'm really tired of all this.

[rozinaaa]

Research Is My Passion

I know that I'm probably stating the obvious here, but I think that research is my passion, possibly more so than actually creating designs and other tangible objects, because once an object is made, it's made, although I think that it might be something so much more than that.

Perhaps it's due to the fact that the transcript for my degree reflects this, where I first started out by being good at the practical things, only for that to fall to the wayside a bit (especially with how my Final Major Project was perceived as a dumpster fire (a grade C) amongst a sea of A's and one B that was only a couple of marks away from an A), and for the research itself to shine through.

As I get older (and somewhat wiser), I become less interested in how things look on the surface (although it's still nice to view pretty things), and I become more interested in how the thing itself works and what was used to create the thing, since it can uncover a lot of different things that might have otherwise been unnoticed.

I'm still a bit iffy about finding some hidden meanings in art and all that, but with all of the disasters unfolding in the world right now, I can't help but look deeper into everyday objects to see how it's all connected, especially now that there's a List Of Things To Boycott (since the companies behind them are usually the cause for most of these disasters, with the items of this List essentially being large corporations, which will make me seek out better alternatives and make me become less of a consumer, which I guess is a little bit of a blessing in disguise, although the context that surrounds this is obviously awful), because taking things at face value not only seems boring, but it's also ignorant, and to me, it feels like a very mindless way to live, which probably explains why I struggle to fit in with my peers most of the time.

Apart from that heavy hitting reason, this might explain my gradual transition from illustration to creative coding and amateur web development to UI Design (although I'd still want to operate within the creative coding space, but I haven't done it for so long that I doubt I'm even a part of it anymore), but still, I'd to move beyond just creating a set of static visuals that all of the developers are going to magically make live and dynamic, and perhaps point my focus towards UX Design and Research, since I'd get to focus on why things work the way that they work, and how this can influence the overall user experience, as well as all of the thinking that goes into it.

Following on from my plan to pivot into UX Design and Research, I'd want to pick up coding again to use in conjunction with being a UX Designer and/or Researcher, since this will keep things pretty interesting for me, instead of being wedged within my comfort zone and not moving an inch.

I'm still not too sure about the future of my job at the moment (but I should find out in about 2 months' time if I'll finally get made permanent, or if I'll still be hanging on by a thread and having to play silly mind games about how much of an employee I am), but if it does happen to fall to the wayside, I'd like my next role to focus on some aspects of UX Design and Research, perhaps in the form of a degree apprenticeship (although it does seem ironic to keep dipping in and out of academia, where I'd end up going in circles and moving side ways, by essentially being at the same level that I'm at now, but in a different context, although I hope that it will be much more interetsing to me, but I'm not sure if I can do it since I already have a degree and some experience in an adjacent area), since I'd at least have the chance to learn about the basics of coding (along with research and context in general, paired with Psychology, which also happens to be another one of my main interests) in a formal and academic context, since I realise that trying to teach myself everything about everything online is doable, but it isn't going to be as effective as it could be if I actually took out the time to fully focus on a few different subject areas.

Overall, research is definitely my passion (I've even got an are.na board that now has over 38k blocks to prove it, but that's just a very small thing), and I'd want to spend more time focusing on that, especially considering the fact that a lot of my posts happen to revolve around research and context much more than having a creative practice, so I think what I spend most of my time doing (and what I tend to gravitate towards) essentially reveals what I'm actually like as a person, and for me, choosing the more interesting option (instead of focusing on the things that are easy for me) seems like a much better use of my time.

[to-the-moon-angel69]

can i just quickly rant about kpop bcuz if i do in another platform *coughinstagramcough* i feel like i would get murdered??

yes

ok

fuck

kpop is amazing at first for me. it all started in 2018 and i don’t regret it. some of the songs are soulless, but how many songs are, y’know? But the ones which do have depth are just amazing. I recommend Stray Kids, Ateez, Nmixx and Gidle.

the problem is the fandom is horrendous. i fucking hate them and constantly hate on each other. which becomes a problem for me to try to find friends without them judging my opinions. My opinions could be controversial but they are not borderline illegal like bro what??

-Stop bullying the ‘bully’-

Many idols have been falsely accused for bullying. some for not “opening a door for someone”, some got randomly accused and some even got kicked out of a group bcuz of misunderstandings and false accusations. People start crying wolf when it finally happens. When they get kicked out or announced as innocent. But guess what they were doing during all of that? Bully the shit out of all of these idols. like bro. stop being a fucking hypocrite and start acting logically, unless that’s too fucking hard for you. I’m not a Blackpink stan and stopped being a BTS stan. i don’t hate them nor love them. they’re music is good but some artists are better. The fact that some kpop stans are fucking shitting on them day and night as if it won’t hurt them?? like, you don’t like them, good but stfu. They are real people. If you were a public figure, you wouldn’t want death threats being thrown at you and your family, insults on dead relatives and being called a slut?? like come on. this is why so many idols are going on mental health breaks or even unalive themselves. Reason one why i hate stans

-Kpop idols are not fucking babies-

One thing that i’ve seen being told is that “they’re korean, they wouldn’t know about this” NOT UNTIL THIS IDOL IS FUCKING HALF AMERICAN AND 24/7 ON THE INTERNET!! like, Somi who is half korean and half canadian promoted starbucks during a boycott. She can do whatever she wants but people will also think that she’s a Isreal supporter. She didn’t apologize and just took out the video. like fuck, people and so many people were excusing her action and it would be time to “educate” her. Many of these idols aren’t fucking babies. Good exemple could be RM from BTS and his knowledge of the world. Like bro, it’s not that hard to make a google search.

Another scandal that could be in this category is when some idols have done some racist stuff. I don’t excuse it at all but i saw a video of japanese citizens not even know what the n@zi symbol looks like. So korean people who you barely hear about when it comes the WW2, how would they know. Yet still, some idols do some horrible racist shit and some get away with it. Like BTS, Twice, Jessi and more. Some are babied thinking that “aw they wouldn’t know” but guess dafuq what? THEY STILL SAY THAT SHIT ABOUT THE FUCKING ENGLISH SPEAKING MEMBERS. When i say english speaking, 9/10 they are from a western country. I’m saying it, my favourite group Stray Kids have done some shit but have said sorry immediately. without batting an eye. One of them even put it as there messaging app bio so that the company wouldn’t alter their response. This is what they should do. Educate themselves and understand why they are getting the hate. not babied or bullied.

there’s a balance. they should understand what they did was wrong and understand the consequences of their actions. you don’t know how many fans they lost and futures haters they got.

fuck the kpop stans cuz i can’t even have a fucking convo with them.

anygay, have a nice day.