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michelle monaghan gif pack
CLICK THE SOURCE LINK BELOW and you will find #505 145x150px gifs of Michelle Monaghan as Leni & Gina McCleary in Echoes Season One (2022). These were created from scratch by Sveja. Do what you want with these, just don't repost/claim as your own, don't use them to play Michelle as herself or in any smut/smut-based blogs, and like/reblog if using. Michelle was about 45 during filming and is white (English, Irish, German, Swiss German).
tw: baby, children, choking, cops, death, flashing lights, fire, flickering lights, guns, horses, hospital, hugging, injury, kissing, police, shaky camera, violence, weapons
#**Sveja#fc: michelle monaghan#age group: 40s#age: 1976#gender: cis woman#ethnicity: white#ethnicity: english#ethnicity: irish#ethnicity: german#ethnicity: swiss german#type: gif pack#made by sveja#*#baby tw#children tw#choking tw#cops tw#death tw#flashing lights tw#fire tw#flickering lights tw#guns tw#horses tw#hospital tw#hugging tw#injury tw#kissing tw#police tw#shaky camera tw#violence tw
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Characters reconnecting with their ancestral cultures in an interplanetary setting
@pixiedustandpetrichor asked:
Hi! I am writing a novel with three main female characters in an interplanetary setting. They grow up as orphans in an Irish-coded country and as children are mostly exposed to solely that culture, but they leave after becoming adults. Character A is Tuareg-coded, B Mongolian-coded, and C is Germanic-coded. It isnât central to the story, but I would like them to get in touch with/learn more about their ancestral cultures, especially in terms of religion. A does this by actually visiting the planet her parents came from, but B and C do not. What can I do to depict their relationships with said cultures and their journey to reconnect with them? Would it be realistic for each of them to have different mixed feelings about participating in these cultures and for them to retain some sense of belonging to the culture they grew up in as well? Thank you for your time.
Hello, asker! WWC doesnât have Tuareg or Mongol mods at the moment, so we're not able to speak to the specifics of cultural and religious reconnection for these particular groups. Still, I want to take this opportunity to provide some general context and elements to consider when writing Tuareg-coded characters, or other characters from groups that have experienced colonization in the real world. My fellow mods will then share thoughts about cultural reconnection in general and with respect to Germanic heritage in particular.
Drawing inspiration from groups that have experienced colonization
As youâre probably aware, the Tuareg are an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa. As with many indigenous groups, they have experienced colonization multiple times over the course of their history. Colonization often leads to the loss or erasure of certain aspects of culture as the colonized people are pressured to conform to the culture of the dominant group. In many cases, itâs near impossible to say what the ancestral culture of a colonized group was prior to colonization.
When coding a fictional culture based on a group that was colonized in the real world, it's important to ask questions about:
Which aspects of culture you're portraying
Where these aspects come from
Whether you're ready to tackle their implications for the world you're building
Itâs not necessarily wrong to use elements of coding that draw from cultural aspects influenced by colonization. As I said, it can be very difficult, even impossible, to portray a âpureâ culture as it would have been had colonization not occurredâbecause we simply canât know what that alternate history would look like, and because so much has been lost or intentionally suppressed that the gaps in our knowledge are too wide to breach. But itâs important to be aware of where these cultural elements are coming from.
Where is your coding coming from and what are the implications?
For example, while the Tuareg today are majoritarily Muslim, this was not the case prior to the Arab conquest of North Africa. Some elements of Tuareg culture today, such as tea ceremonies, are derived from the influence of Arab and Muslim culture and likely did not exist prior to the 20th century. As youâre developing the culture of the Tuareg-coded group in your fictional setting, you have to decide whether to include these elements. There is no right answerâit will depend on what youâre trying to do and why.
Is your setting in our far future, in which case we can assume your Tuareg-coded group is distantly related to todayâs Tuareg?
In that case, they will probably have kept many cultural aspects their ancestors acquired through their interactions with other cultures around themâincluding cultural groups that colonized them. They mayâletâs build hopeful worlds!âhave reclaimed aspects of their ancestral culture theyâd been forced to abandon due to colonization. They may also have acquired new aspects of culture over time. This can be very fun to explore if you have the time and space to do so.
I would recommend speaking with Tuareg people to get a better grasp of how they see their culture evolving over the next however many centuries or millennia, what they wish to see and what seems realistic to them.
Alternatively, maybe your setting is a secondary world unrelated to ours and you only want to draw inspiration from the real-world Tuareg, not represent them exactly. In that case, you need to decide which period of history youâre drawing from, as Tuareg culture is different today from what it was 50 years ago, and different still from 200 years ago or 1000 years ago. Youâll need to research the historical period youâre choosing in order to figure out what was happening at that time and what the cultural influences were. If itâs pre-colonial, youâll probably want to avoid including cultural elements influenced by colonization from groups that arrived later on.
Finally, if the time period youâre drawing from is post-colonial:
Are you planning to account for the effects of colonization on Tuareg culture?
Will you have an in-world equivalent for the colonization that occurred in real life?
For example, will the Tuareg-coded characters in your world be from a nomadic culture that was forced to become sedentary over the years and lost much of their traditions due to colonial pressure to conform?
Where did this pressure come from in your worldâis it different from what happened in ours? If so, how different? And what are the consequences?
Writing about colonization can be quite the baggage to bring into a fictional setting. Iâm not saying it canât be done, but it will certainly require sensitivity and care in portraying it.
In summary: think it through
Iâm not saying all this to discourage you, but to point out some of the considerations at play when drawing inspiration from a real-life culture that has experienced colonization. Similar challenges arise for coding based on any other indigenous group in the world.
My advice to you, then, is to first sit down and decide where and when in history your coding is coming from, and what youâre trying to achieve with it. This will help you figure out:
which elements of contemporary Tuareg culture are pertinent to include
How much your coding will be influenced by the Tuaregâs real-life history
To what extent that will inform the rest of the world youâre creating
This, in turn, may help in deciding how to portray your characterâs reconnection journey.
Again, I am not Tuareg and this is by no means meant to be an exhaustive list of considerations for writing Tuareg-coded characters, only a few places to start.
If any Tuareg or Amazigh readers would like to chime in with suggestions of their own, please do. As always, please make sure your comments adhere to the WWC code of conduct.
- Niki
Pulling from diaspora and TRA narratives of cultural reconnection
Marika here: This ask plotline could also pull directly from diaspora and TRA narratives of cultural reconnection. Many diaspora and TRA cultural reconnection stories are, in effect, about navigating the difficult process of resuscitating, or renewing ties to culture using limited resources in environments that often lack necessary cultural infrastructure or scaffolding.
See this question here to the Japanese team for suggestions of how to handle such a storyline in a similar sci-fi setting.
More reading: Japanese-coded girl from future
-Marika
Reconnecting with German heritage
Hi, itâs Shira. Iâm not sure whether German-Jewish counts as Germanic for the purposes of your post but since German Jews were more assimilated than other Ashkies, Germanness does feel real and relevant to my life (especially because my father worked there for approximately the last decade of his life.) NOTE: when I see âGermanicâ vs German I think of cultures from 1500 years ago, not 100-200 years ago, so I canât help you there, but Iâd be surprised as a reader if a character focused on that for reconnection to the exclusion of the 19th century etc.
People in the United States specifically, reconnecting with German heritage, often lean into Bayerischer/Bavarian kitsch, Iâve noticed. Personally, though, what I find most relevant is:
1. The food (although Iâve come to learn that what I grew up eating was closer to veal/chicken scallopini than actual schnitzel because it was drenched in lemon, but I do like the other foods like the potato salad and sweet and sour red cabbage etc.) Your character could try making one of these âancestralâ foods as a way to reconnect?
2. The classical music, because Iâm a second generation professional musician â if character C plays an instrument, leaning into that might be meaningful (Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and her husband Robert, etc.)
3. The nature, especially specifics that I enjoyed during my time there â personally, I loved the bright pink flowers all over the chestnut trees, but there are a lot of choices especially because of the Alps. If C is an artist maybe they can sketch something Germany-related from old photographs they found on the Space Internet?
I think it is VERY realistic for the characters to remain connected to the culture in which they were raised, by the way, whether or not they have positive feelings about it. Culture isnât an inherited trait. Sure, if they want to completely walk away, they can, but I bet there are still ways it will creep back in without them realizing it simply because itâs really hard to have universal knowledge of the origins of all our quirks. Plus, not everyone feels alienated from their raised-culture just because theyâre genetically something else.
P.S. There is also Oktoberfest, which I donât really get into but is a thing, and beer, which is another point of German cultural pride.
German gentiles, weigh in â yâall have your own stuff, I know! OH YEAH so for German Christians, Christmas âmarketsâ are a whole thing. Thatâs worth looking up.Â
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What do you mean by Germanic?
Hello itâs Sci! I had to study German history for my historical fantasy novel set in the late 18th century Holy Roman Empire. I am not sure what is meant by Germanic as that can encompass a variety of things.
Germanic people: from the Classical Period of Roman Empire and early Middle Ages. Similar to Mod Shira, I unfortunately canât help very much here.
The Germanosphere: regions that spoke German, which includes modern day Germany, Austria/Hungary, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Belgium, and Luxembourg. I generally define this as the regions captured in the Hapsburg Empire along with Switzerland usually encompassing âCentral Europe.â
Modern German national identity (i.e. German): post Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna (> 1815) only including the territory of modern day Germany.*
I ask this because modern German national identity is surprisingly recent since Germany only popped up in 1871 under Otto von Bismarck. Previously, Germany was divided into smaller states and city states as a very decentralized region under the German Confederation and before that, the Holy Roman Empire. Depending on the era, you can see different conflicts and divides. During the early days of the Protestant Reformation started by Martin Luther, the northern and southern German territories generally split along Protestant-Catholic lines. The 18th century saw Austria and Prussia as the foci of global power who warred against each other even though both were part of the Holy Roman Empire.
Other states and city-states like Baden-Wurttemberg or Saxony sometimes had power but it was typically more localized compared to Austria. Post-WW2, you saw the split of Germany into West Germany run under capitalism and East Germany run under communism as a satellite Soviet state leading to more modern cultural divides. Due to heavy decentralization historically, each region had its own character with religious and cultural divides.Â
Assuming that the Germanic character is not from the classical period or early Middle Ages but not from the 19th century either, you can include your character reconnecting to classical folklore like that of Krampus (if theyâre Christian), German literature and music like the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Mozart, or German philosophy like Immanuel Kant.
*A major wrinkle: German royals and nobility married into other states and nations frequently with Britain and Russia being notable examples. In Britain, the House of Hanover took over after the Stuart House died without clear direct heirs. When Queen Victoria married the German prince Albert, they celebrated Christmas with a tree and brought the German tradition of a Christmas tree to Britain and the British Empire. Only during World War I did the royal familyâs house of Hanover name change from House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the more âEnglish-soundingâ Windsor. As a result, the German cultural influence may be even more widespread than we think.
However, without more specific descriptors of what Germanic means in the context of your story, it can be difficult to determine which aspects of German culture your character could reconnect to.
-Mod Sci
#culture#cultural disconnect#cultural reconnect#race coding#ethnic coding#German#Mongol#Tuareg#setting#science fiction#Jewish#Colonialism#History#North Africa#Arab#Muslim#history
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June 1941: Photograph of Ukrainians being deported to Germany for slave labour during Operation Barbarossa.
Millions of people - up to three-quarters of them Ukrainian - were kidnapped during the war. By 1943 the Nazis took children as young as ten.
#slavery#world war ii#ukrainian history#human rights#ostarbeiter#operation barbarossa#20th century#eastern europe#nazis#1940s#black and white#vintage photo#ethnic cleansing#1941#german history#june
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anyway it's funny in an interesting way how the internet turned Kafka into the sad boy with an existentialist + romantic flavour instead of the author of seminal works about alienation & the confusing, painful contrast between what society deems normal and what Isn't. how the rules that establish that divide aren't made clear, how to the marginalized they seem ever-changing, impossible to grasp, surreal to the point of despair.
if you've ever felt overwhelmed by the absurdity of a system that seems legitimately against you instead of for you, if you've had days or months or years where language or cultural barriers have made you feel wrong to your core, if you've dealt with so much stress or mental illness or abuse that you've struggled to recognize yourself in the mirror his work talks about your struggles and would probably speak to you
#this is a very resonant theme for queer and/or young people#and for good reason -- the latter group he was downright referring to in the metamorphosis (a work ostensibly about the clash between older#generations and the younger#wounded and lost#one he was part of). Kafka wasn't merely sad per se#he was a marginalized person - both ethnically/religiously and linguistically#as a German-speaking jewish man in Czechoslovakia#he was doubly alienated;#stuck in the ghetto and forbidden from interacting with the German minority in Prague while also not part of the cultural Czech majority#and that alienation followed him in his domestic life in the form of a wounding distance from his own parents and their generation#literature#franz kafka
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the glassy eyed 1000 yard western euro stare you get when you tell the people sitting in you and your visibly ill girlfriend's seats that they're in your reserved seats and they go "ach... ja but your reservation is not written here there is no r-"
excuse me you germano-frankish beady eyed cocksucker, we're on a Äd train and my Äd ticket shows us as having these seats, and your rootless ugly white and black deutschebahn fart app doesn't even have seat reservations because despite your national stereotype you have the same organization and respect for order a gypsy does.
don't give me your "mon dieu et iz not written here" - the train is chronically overcrowded because your third world national rail company can't book properly, you've been sitting for 3 hours from shitggart and have only been looking at your insta stories while pretending to study pierre von shittenlips. i have a visibly ill and weak passenger with me but beyond the former iron curtain, despite your supposed cosmopolitan love for all, you're like the rats in the paradise experiment who actually just viciously serve themselves first above all.
and the nerve to snicker and chat amongst yourselves once we get off... after very clearly sitting in our seats...: TOTAL WEST EURO CONTINENTAL DEATH.....
i believe now in celto-slavic racial superiority
#i fully understand edvard beneĹĄ now#i know why we killed 3000 of them with trucks in postoloprty#and it's a mindset not an ethnicity#the complete arrogant rootless cosmopolitan faggotry and proclaimed internationalism but being so rude and immediately self serving#i fully believe in a race war against everyone beyond the former iron curtain#ossies are fine because they have the eastern mentality and were protected#but seriously behead all le international cosmopolitan franco-germanic-spaniard expats going on tourism or living as le expats#complete shitbags#btw people always complain about anglos#but the anglosphere is so concerned with behaving polite i've never ever ever had a problem with them#they would have given up the seats#txt
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Sadly no. Doom is gonna be played by RDJ, despite Doom being explicitly Romani in the comics (yes I have a lot of thoughts about that)
There are SO many things to be said about the most prominent mutants in Marvel having their Jewish and/or Rromani heritage stripped away as if there isnât a reason four of the most recognizable mutants in Marvel history (Magneto, the Maximoff twins, Nightcrawler) are all either Jewish or Romani and each have explicit ties to ethnic discrimination and religious oppression in their backstories, but bringing back RDJ to do the whitewashing this time seems especially heinous because you just know itâs going to be Tony Stark Again.
Hilariously though I am just now remembering someone kind of predicting this why they made a Hunchback of Notre Dame AU where Tony was Esmeralda.
#obvious note that while Nightcrawler was raised Rromani he is canonically ethnically German#or weâll half German and half whatever Mystique is
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#free palestine#end zionism#palestinian genocide#ethnic cleansing#settler colonialism#save Gaza#Feed North Gaza#German Holocaust#Israeli Holocaust
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Hey I don't usually post serious stuff but I want to use my platform to speak up about the scandal happening in Germany right now.
If you're able to take your time to read this article then please do. Here's a short summary of what's going on however;
Correktiv a group of independent researchers and journalists went undercover into the right wing scene in Germany and they discovered something big. If you're German I'd definitely recommend reading this article. If you're able to translate it I'd also recommend reading it because this is insane.
On November 25th people from Correktiv went into a secret meeting from right wing people in Germany. Some of the people who were at the meeting, were people who are from the right wing party. One of them was even the right hand man of the leader of the party Alice Weidel. They had people who work finance, had lawyers, had doctors, had all types of people.
All of them were making sinister plans on how to get rid of non ethnically German people in Germany, no matter if you have German citizenship, no matter if you were born in Germany, if you are not ethnically German they want you out. That is their plan.
They talked about possible methods as well on how to get rid of us so that this goal could be accomplished. A lot of these people are millionaires, seriously influential people, that are coming together in a secret meeting to discuss how to get rid of every single immigrant and send them to Africa.
They Firstly want to start with everybody that lives in Germany but doesn't have a German citizenship yet, as they're quote on quote the easiest to get rid of. Then they want to get rid of those immigrants that were born and raised in Germany and also have a German citizenship, but happen to not be ethnically German. This is one of the secret meeting and it just leaves me wondering how many there are.
The right wing extremism has been on a rise in Germany once again. They're one of the most powerful parties right now. History repeats itself again.
The only thing I ask of you to do is spread the news and sign this petition.
#The german constitution is most likely not going to let this slide as you cant just deport people that have a german citizenship.#there used to be another political group called NPD and that got banned as well.#however i still want to make others aware of this and make sure we can do something to stop this.#please note that i live in germany and im not ethnically german whatsoever so id really appreciate some help#theres way too many people that are voting for the AFD and its scary.
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who is the scoundrel? I see you posting about them(it? Idk) all the time but I havenât figured out who they are
my fallen london OC! i made them by accident a few months ago and as you can tell ive very quickly developed scoundrel brainrot. it's a terminal illness for which there is no cure and the symptoms are instead of brain there is scoundrel.
in terms of actual character rundowns, their full moniker is The Bandaged Scoundrel, though i tend to call them "the scoundrel" for short. their real name is Dâââââ, but they'd sooner die permanently than respond to or even acknowledge its existence.
they are! a bastard! a rat! a son of a b___! a motherf______! they are vain beyond your wildest imagination and they think they're the most infallible perfect being in all of existence and they have the exact attitude of a saturday morning power-hungry cartoon supervillain on cocaine.
and also, perhaps most importantly, they're Really Fucking Stupid. because of course they are.
they are resplendently awful. they are inevitably going to cause their own demise in an act of pure karmic retribution. they are a speck of dust in history that desperately keeps trying to insist they're actually a tornado. i love them dearly.
in loose conclusion while also acknowledging ive explained literally nothing; my goofy silly victorian london browser game player character that deserves to get timetraveled against their will to the 21st century specifically so they can get hit by a truck
#also their pronouns and gender are whatever you feel like that day#i usually use they/them or it/its for simplicites sake#ask#fallen london#im not gonna do the rundown on what FL is again bc ive answered asks abt it like twice already so you can look in the tag on my blog#all you need to know for the purposes of The Scoundrel is that it's an oc creation simulator with a few extra steps#i used to have an oc directionary post.. i should probably make a new one at some point. i post a ton about the fuckers anyway#other scoundrel trivia facts im not including in this post so it doesnt clog dashboards forever:#-their ethnicity is unknown but likely german or french#-they get comical levels of seasick on boats and absolutely despise zailing despite loving the profits of being a pirate#-they probably pay absurd amounts of money just to get the flowers in their hair from the surface#-the bandages cover every single part of their body except their face. they hate covering their face. they want everyone to admire them#they wear bandages all the time in such vast quantities for Other Reasons.#probably ranging from 'got sent to the tomb colonies so much they dont bother taking it all off' to 'wrote correspondence on their arm'#-their eyes are violant because they dipped them. In It. so they wouldn't forget a certain... Event involving cricket#they're really really normal.#also yes i doodled this chibi just for this ask bc im insane#if you ever wanna know more/get a proper answer just ask. im always foaming at the mouth to discuss my ocs#scoundrelventures
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Anyone else in Germany currently uuuuh. Kinda alarmed.
#started the new year with floods#one week later farmer protests that get hijacked by the right#same week some secret ethnic cleansing plans get leaked#in 4 days we could be seeing a fascist decline every 8 hours in 7 days were gonna witness a double event#german stuff#me watching historians who specialise on rise and spread of facism analyse this: hm. bad.
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aside from how the "ohh im gonna butcher this" thing from youtubers etc is like This video is probably scripted and has been edited you had time to look it up and learn how to say it. but also theyll straight up say that abt shit thats easy to pronounce now too. like its not even apologizing anymore its just straight pointing out "Uhmmm FOREIGN WORD moment lol!" ......... like thinking abt the govt worker who "couldnt pronounce" nashoba. there is nothing there that point to sounds uncommon/not native to english (like hebrew ch or kh, irish ai or s, etc...). youre not worried abt mispronouncing it you just want to flag that youve 'caught' me as a Foreigner and that it makes you uncomfortable. and in this instance its like woman you are the gov working signing off on my marriage license. the power you hold over me rn marrying a white person. racist cunt
#anompolili#its a small thing but its just burned into my mind idk#also makes me crazy cuz i get WAY more butchering of my german/dutch-origins(?) last name than nashoba ever could#but no one ever apologizes for that! no one ever double checks how to write or say it! i just have loads of bills that completely mispell it#but the Ethnic Name is the problem huh.
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bobby cannavale gif pack
CLICK THE SOURCE LINK BELOW and you will find #48 145x150px gifs of Bobby Cannavale as Sergio De Luca in Spy (2015). These were created from scratch by Sveja. Do what you want with these, just don't repost/claim as your own, don't use them to play Bobby or in any smut/smut-based blogs, and like/reblog if using. Bobby was about 43-44 during filming and is Cuban and white (German).
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#**Sveja#fc: bobby cannavale#age group: 40s#age: 1970#gender: cis man#ethnicity: latinx#ethnicity: cuban#ethnicity: white#ethnicity: german#type: gif pack#made by sveja#blood tw#fighting tw#flashing lights tw#guns tw#injury tw#shaky camera tw#violence tw#*
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Learns more about JD Vance against my will: ...is ...is he ...old school racist?
Like 1920s racist??
Like there's a right type of white racist??
#I dunno... talking about how the âethnic enclavesâ of german italian and irish immigrants resulted in higher crime rates...#This song and dance sounds a *little familiar*#But it's only a 22 second 3 y.o. clip from the podcast of an... equally questionable host...#I just... what year is it????#swing state blues
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Ukrainian slave labourers kidnapped by the Nazis - Ostarbeiter - with their hands behind their backs, being paraded past local German women.
Photograph taken between 1941 and 1945.
Hitler classed Slavic people as "subhuman", and millions were kidnapped for slave work in Germany. Up to three-quarters of the Ostarbeiter were taken from Ukraine, and by 1943 the Nazis were taking children as young as ten.
#ukrainian history#war crimes#slavery#second world war#nazis#nazi germany#german history#20th century#racism#ethnic cleansing#genocide#vintage ukraine#ostarbeiter#world war ii#slavic#1940s
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The german minister of foreign affairs is a true NAZI extremist
Criminals support eachother
She ,s a big liar because No bombing led to a member of HAMAS between civilians . Hamas is fighting zionists man to man in Netsarim , Rafah , north , east , south , west , of GAZA and under ground but zionists forces are losers hiding their failures with lies and claims which no one with mind can believe
liars support eachother .
#free gaza#war criminals#unicef#amnesty international#free palestine#the united nations#save children#german universities#germany#international court of justice#international criminal court#gaza strip#us politics#kamala harris#donald trump#artists on tumblr#gravity falls#halloween#lebanon#wind#star wars#genshin impact#climate crisis#climate change#ethnic cleansing#dropout#space
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