#nahelle

[radiantmists]

i've been listening to the way of kings and just got to the honor chasm scene, and it strikes me that when syl tells kaladin that if the bridgemen are all dead already, one more try can't hurt, there's a good chance that's her own experience speaking, though she doesn't remember it.

all spren who form a nahel bond are doing so in the knowledge that their knight is eventually going to die on them; being radiant doesn't make you immortal. and specifically for syl, she's still recovering from the grief of losing her first radiant; she knows well that radiants die. moreover, with honor dead, the heralds abdicated, and the radiant orders having abandoned their oaths, the chances of humanity fighting off the desolation were absurdly low.

so in that context, her attention is drawn to kaladin, who, by many measures, is already doomed. and she decided to try again. just one more time.

[thraxusrelaxus]

kind of getting emotional about Pattern right now. he knew Shallan would probably end up killing him. he knew. he was there when Testament died, and yet he still bonded her. he was so invested in learning about humans and finding a way to save his people that he chose to go on what he believed was a suicide mission because he thought the knowledge he’d gain would protect them. i know he’s a Cryptic, but he is Honorspren to me

[radicalgraff]

Graffiti in memory of 17-year-old Nahel M, who was murdered by police on June 27, 2023 in the western Parisian suburb of Nanterre, sparking a weeks-long rebellion in cities across France.

[johncory9mm]

My Advice for France

If any of the rioters arrested during the protests are in France illegally, they should be immediately deported.

Those individuals can go back and burn and loot their own country.

[hartsnkises]

My problem: I don't ACTUALLY want spoilers for all of Onyx Storm (I already Know too Much), but I do want to bury myself in Empyrean stuff on account of Not Being Okay post Fourth Wing and Iron Flame

This could be solved by just listening to Onyx Storm except! I need to take a break so I don't burn out, I will be Less Okay after Onyx Storm especially with a planned hiatus in the works, and I really need to catch up on Cosmere.

Please, send no spoilers fix-it fics my way. I need everyone to be okay

[the-bibrarian]

Violent protests are happening again in France, this time after police shot 17 year-old Nahel point blank inside of his car and killed him, on June 27. Every night since then there’s been fires and violence and looting across cities.

Nahel was french from an Algerian-Moroccan family, the last in a long list of police violence directed against minorities in France.

The government answer has been maddeningly insufficient and the police is stoking the flames by treating the protests like a violent insurrection instead of the legitimate expression of anger they are.

[to-shards-you-say]

honestly nobody is doing the nahel bond like whatever hoid and design have got going on

[lheautontimoroumenos]

gonna try to keep this quick (sorry i did my best but it's still pretty long), but i feel like people are not aware enough, even in France.

so last week, a 17y old boy was killed in Nanterre (what we call the "banlieue", so in periphery of Paris) by a cop. they made him stop on the side of the road and threatened him violently asking him to open the door. on the video, we can see the cop duo at the driver side window. one of them has his gun drawn to the boy's head. the other one says "shoote le" (shoot him) and the cop with his gun drawn says "jvais te mettre une balle dans la tête" (im gonna put a bullet in your head). the boy whose name is Nahel is logically scared so he speeds away. the cop shoots him in the car, bullet in the thorax and the car hits a wall. Nahel is dead and the video is quickly relayed on twitter to mass outrage.

most left leaning people condemn this and ask for justice, but the media keeps asking them to ask for calm and order (which some do, looking at Roussel) but some don't, which alienates them in the political landscape (the favorite word of the right rn is islamogauchiste aka islamiclefty).

but the right, god the right. first they said Nahel deserved it because he was driving without a license. then it was saying he was a criminal that had already been convicted (the cops leaked a fake criminal record). so not a criminal, but he was an Arab so he would've become one, right? and he should've just obeyed the cops and he would have been ok, that's the behavior of a criminal. I think you get the gist, fascist and fascist adjacent justifications for a cop murdering a boy.

since then, there have been riots in Nanterre and all around France, and the State, Macron (President) and Darmanin (Interior Minister) have sent cops galore. Now, the last time something like this happened was in 2005, when we had less social media and the only pictures and videos we had were from the media (opposed to the riots). Today with Snapchat and Twitter, we can see the pov of the rioters and people are realizing that amidst the anger people feel, they find joy in community, and the vibes in the riots are good and joyful at times (a guy asking another guy to go take a yop for him in the market they're breaking and stealing from comes to mind). They can't say just as easily that they're angry and irrational animal because they see the humanity in the riots (they shouldn't need it but well).

now there is a debate amongst both the rioters and the left who stays mostly outside of it. Are they being useful? breaking and burning the right things? should they go to Paris and take the risk of fighting against cops in streets that they don't know as well as their own? factually, they are mostly burning cars, trash and big companies' shops. But people are choosing to only see the rare schools and libraries being burned downed (who were, for a lot of them already falling down because the State doesn't give money to the periphery). Now, it seems logical to say that burning down your middle school is not going to help against police violence. But it feels like the same people who praise the revolution any chance they get refuse to understand that it comes at a price, with violence and at least a bit of destruction. And the right is using this to discredit the whole movement.

back to fascists. First, the cop "unions" Alliance and UNSA Police published a press release calling the rioters (so mostly Arab and Black people, but also poor white people living in the periphery) "nuisibles" (pest, the word used for animals harming the ecosystem). They wrote that the cops will resist, that they are at war, that they will bring order back. In short they want to kill POC. And they have help. Fascists groups have taken advantage of the situation to walk around blocks during the day and beating up people with bats and at night to illegally arrest rioters before tying them down with zip ties and giving them over to cops. and these people arrested who are sometimes barely older than 18 end up with 18 months of jail for burning trashcans and 10 months for stealing a can of Monster (and those are not suspended sentences).

and while these people end up in jail (thus making it more likely that they will end up with shitty jobs and shitty pensions), Jean Messiha (far-right guy) created a gofundme for the cop and his family that has already gathered more than 1.5 million euros. A cop kills a child and wins the million.

so is it violent? yes of course it couldn't be otherwise. but violence is sometimes necessary, especially when you have to fight back against cops, their fascist friends and the State that allows them to keep existing. The rioters deserve full support, even if the criticism of some of their actions should exist. The danger is for this criticism to overcome our support. It shouldn't. Because if they are alone like they were in 2005, the right and the far-right will take advantage of the situation. Last time Sarkozy was elected and the risk is greater this time, with Les Républicains (the republicans) being basically dead and leaving their spot to Marine Le Pen's fascist party Rassemblement National (national gathering).

so if you're french, don't let the people around you talk shit about the situation. and if you're not, be careful still, fascism is rising and they're not as scared as they were 20 years ago.

[nightblood-autoresponder]

I appreciate that the recent revelation that BAM's binding messed up nahel divorce means that Kal's WoR crisis of conscience Wouldn't Have Killed Syl if it happened 2000-7000 years ago. It wasnt supposed to be like that; he could have disagreed with Syl's concept of honor without killing her in the process. Getting it wrong or "wrong" Shouldn't have been so unthinkably disastrous. Objective right and wrong died in the Cosmere when God was split into competing perspectives + thats why I like it here

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Snail

By Nahel Abou Htab

[radicalgraff]

"Revolt for Nahel"

Graffiti in memory of 17-year-old Nahel M, who was murdered by police on June 27 in the western Parisian suburb of Nanterre, sparking an ongoing rebellion in cities across France.

[mey-rin-is-fabulous]

Since no one else was gonna do it. They've also been at it for 5 days already and Macron cancelled his trip to Germany because of it.

[saahble]

[shouldprobablybereading]

Holding my thumbs for maya to save adolin in some cool way next chapter, since deadeyes don’t need to breath

[spacemoineau]

Here are some posts for people who don't know what the fuck's been going on in France the last few weeks - there has been a LOT of stuff, so I encourage you to do your own research too. I'm sick of people celebrating Bastille Day like France is something to be celebrated - especially today. Fascism is rampant here and seeing the army sing Resistance songs is deeply ironic and grotesque. Especially when protests about police violence have been forbidden for tomorrow.

These posters are available for free, to print, distribute in every way you want. Go and make protest signs out of them ! Print stickers ! Glue the posters in the streets ! Distribute them ! Do what you want as long as you don't modify the image and message. Have fun !

[dylsexai]

Apparently violent protests are bad now because migrants are protesting a police officer killing a migrant child after saying “I will lodge a bullet in your chest” but the last year of constant violent protests and rioting over the age of retirement are fine because that was mostly white people.