#share OUR voices. not yours.

[apollos-olives]

white people stop talking.

and i don't mean stop talking about palestine or stop sharing news or information, i'm saying stop TALKING. you are not our white saviors. you should not talk over us. every single thing you guys are saying, palestinians have said it tenfold. stop feeling as though you are the spokesperson for all of palestine. you do not get to talk over palestinian voices. you must BOOST our voices. you must share OUR voices. you must speak OUT about SHARING our voices. we are and have been saying everything you're saying only now for 75 years. you don't get to prounce around all up here and claim you're suddenly a voice for palestinians. we have our own voices. we have said everything. stop taking the light away from us sharing our experiences and pretending as though you have a part or a role in talking about our grief.

we need people to share OUR voices. we need people to share OUR dreams. OUR lives. OUR strength. we do not need you to speak for us, we need you to help find a place for US to speak.

i'm so tired of the idea that "no one listens to the poc so we as white people must speak for them because everyone only listens to white people". i'm tired. MAKE THEM LISTEN TO US. do not speak for us, but share OUR voices. FORCE the world to LISTEN to US.

BOOST OUR VOICES. SHARE OUR STRUGGLES. OUR DREAMS. OUR STRENGTH. MAKE THEM LISTEN. MAKE THE WORLD LISTEN.

[dinosaurwithablog]

Speak up and VOTE!!!! 💙💙💙

[souenkun]

Did yorishima getting his arm possessed by a youkai came with a bonus of eternal youth or something 😭

[icewindandboringhorror]

I occasionally wish to reach out to old friends/acquaintances I haven't spoken to since high school/some other even earlier time in my life, but I have SOOO little social energy even for required tasks (like making dr phone calls or etc), I never have any leftover for extra ones, and it would be very odd to message someone I haven't spoken to in like 5 years out of the blue but then take 4 entire months to respond back lol.. My natural curiosity with nostalgia/collecting details of the past/etc. (literally if I were born a little earlier I would definitely do scrapbooking or something lol) is very strong, but, alas, not strong enough to beat out the Social Issues Demons apparently

[biblicalhorror]

The most frustrating part of engaging in any of this discourse with pro-Israel people is that they claim there's just something ineffable about "seeing and understanding" how supporting Palestinian liberation is directly calling for the eradication of Jewish people (as if that type of rhetoric isn't exactly how actual antisemitism often manifests in online spaces but that's a topic for another day)

They get through people debunking the "the land belongs to the people of Israel anyway" argument and the "LGBTQ Palestinians are safe in Israel" argument and the "Genocide isn't what's happening here so you should educate yourself" argument and when all of those points are meticulously disproven over and over they still stand with "Well, myself and your Jewish friends see the hate you have in your heart for us" and it truly doesn't matter what you say at that point because even if you yourself are Jewish they will claim that refusing to support the state, government and military of Israel is inherently hateful and bigoted, as if a religious ethnostate is some inherent human right that is being taken away from them. I know many of them are blinded by the relentless propaganda that's been around their whole lives and how hard it is to break free from a belief system that is so tied to your core identity as a human being but it is so frustrating watching people being led straight to the point over and over again and just turning around and refusing to see it.

It's also so frustrating to see people using the momentum of this movement to casually tack on actual antisemitism to these discussions, as if having Jewish people in positions of power is why the US bends over backwards to excuse the actions of Israel and not, yknow, the fact that our government directly benefits from having a military stronghold in the middle east. I've talked to some well-meaning pro-Palestine friends irl who casually use antisemetic talking points because they've ALSO bought into the narrative that Israeli = Jewish and so they blame the actions of Israel and the IDF on Jewish people's "religious values" and ignore the fact that this conflict really has almost nothing to do with religion itself and everything to do with capitalism, imperialism and maintaining the US's status as a so-called "global power".

[kaurwreck]

you can do things you're bad at for fun. people who throw fits about it might, themselves, benefit from some unqualified enrichment.

[zoramones]

[ ID: A screenshot of a post from Times of Gaza on Twitter/X that features a picture of two hands holding a sign reading #StrikeforGaza. Above is the following quotation: ]

“Activists and grassroots groups are calling for a global strike on Monday, December 18, 2023, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

#StrikeForGaza”

via Times of Gaza on Twitter/X

REMINDER!! the second strike for palestine is happening TOMORROW: monday, december 18th 2023. please, PLEASE! I strongly urge you to PARTICIPATE IN THIS STRIKE in at least some way! do you part, wether that be not getting gas or going to work for the for the day. spread the word about it: get your local unions and syndicates to strike as well. do not GIVE or TAKE anything out of the bank and DON’T use your credit card(s)on this day. cash-only transactions are strongly encouraged. CALL your provincial or state representatives and DEMAND for a ceasefire.

we cannot let our voices go silent. no one is free until we all are. isr*el is a racist, terrorist and apartheid state. free palestine and free the people from oppression!! 🇵🇸

[dan-whoell]

I just read all of your fanfictions- you’re such a wonderful writer!

Just wanted to say that people can tell you put genuine emotion and care into your writing- I can only hope that one day I could write as well!

genuinely thank you so much this is so sweet 😭😭 i do put a lot of love into everything i write, and im really glad that comes across.

i also want to say that (for the most part) you only see the final product. there's so many revisions that happen between the initial draft and the one i end up posting, even on stuff that has same day turn around. sometimes people will call attention to a specific sentence and it's always one i've rewritten a dozen times to get it exactly the way i want it, it's almost never the first version of it.

im sure whatever you're writing is great- you're thinking of its first draft or you're comparing to what you think it should be or maybe you're just too close to it to see it for what it is. please feel free to share- anon or not, or dm me, im always around even if i take a minute to respond.

again, thank you so much im gonna be thinking about this for forever 🧡🧡

[nvrcmplt]

𝕐𝕠𝕦'𝕧𝕖 𝕘𝕠𝕥 𝕞𝕪 𝕓𝕠𝕕𝕪, 𝕗𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕙 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕓𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕜𝕪 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕧𝕖, 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔼𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕙 𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕠𝕨 ℕ𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕒𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕟𝕠𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕘𝕠 𝔸 𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕕𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕟𝕖

[in-my-cocooon]

A wise man once wrote:

“The beauty of daily things can be opening your eyes in the morning to check if you were checked upon, can be a date with serendipity, musingly unattended routine, a dance leading slowly and gently into that euphoric contentment. The beauty of daily things is when you close the day on a voice “shall we repeat?””

Yes …

Love is deepened …

and intimacy is strengthened …

by the beauty of the daily little things !!

[oswaldddavis]

(They think the other is a idiot)

[emulation-0]

i feel so sick rn WHERE DO EVERYONES PRIORITIES LIE?

[dreamer-329]

I miss you!

[randomnameless]

FantasyInvader reply on the Edelstans going full circle on “translation=making Edelgard look bad” is the first time I heard of Treehouse hating Rhea, but it honestly makes sense now that I think about it.

Oh,

TBH I ranted a few years ago about the localisation and the direction Cherami Leigh received to dub Rhea, and, uh, well...

I don't think she hates the character or anything, she just goes with the direction given, but man what a load of crap Pat told her lol - she made an interview where she says Pat told her Rhea has a hair-trigger temper (tfw she only loses her shit when you try to reenact the genocide she escaped when she was younger - but nah it's just a hair trigger temper) and how Rhea "just is", something we know is bullcrap because she's the same person who's insecure about "bothering" people if she eats with them, Rhea isn't the assured person she tries to pretend to be, but Pat dgaf.

Regardless of the meaning of the quotes, if you have time to spare of the feh wiki, just compare the delivery of lolcalised!Rhea and Inoue!Rhea (her Halloween alt is telling), they're like night and day - but in the game proper, we have the fe datamine website !

Short story : Lolcalised!Rhea isn't supposed to emote bar being AnGrY, monotone (that line where she worries about Aelfie's plans in the DLC could be swapped with her reading the notice of aspirin) or have 2 lines where she's relaxed (billy supports) - Jp!Rhea is allowed to be upset, to mourn, to be worried, cheerful etc etc.

I've already complained a lot about FE16's lolcalisation, cultural bias at play and wanting to soften a certain character, but to exaggerate only a little bit, I have the feeling Rhea was portrayed in the lolcalisation (and not localisation, the lol is very important) as the ultimate bogeyman of the "dictatorial evil leader of an organised religion who is also a zealot and does not tolerate dissent because she's religious" which has...

idk, but serious issues because again, if you are supposed to localise a product you cannot edit something red to be something violet and sparkly and if the shitstorm (that ultimately came from a misunderstanding!) about "creative localisation" is any indication, more and more people are fed up with lolcalisations altering the meaning, not of a word, but of a game to suit their own agendas.

Oh, and not specifically tied to Rhea but in a way it is because it adopts Supreme Leader's prop a ganda words :

A friend earlier noticed that the NoA official website - where you can buy the game (digital version) - adverstises Fodlan as a land controlled by the Church of Seiros. Oddly (lel) enough, this "controlled by the Church of Seiros" crap of a tidbit doesn't appear in the japanese website, and even in the european ones!

I don't believe we got another version compared to the Treehouse version - even if at times, the french script is closer to the japanese one and at times they come up with their own bullshit - but there is a point to be said that in a certain part of the world, the game was advertised in a way that kind of fit a certain's characters POV, something that doesn't exist in the rest of the world. And it's in that same "part of the world" that the person who directed the VA for the eng dub, well, worked and directed said VA.

So what, is it some great conspiracy or something else? lol no.

Did Treehouse told NoA "don't worry, I've got this game, I'll localise it just close your eyes and market it that's all" and they went bonkers? And for some reason whoever was in charge at the NoE branch didn't close their eyes (maybe half-closed) so we have a weird mix between the two? idk.

[mantisgodsdomain]

Considering their IRL counterparts, we think there's a very good chance that since Heart was Rad God's previous host, while she got transmitted to Mad Rat via bits of her in the heart tissue. There's not a whole lot else going on in that operation besides the heart transplant, after all, and we doubt that the doctor had any extra contamination around to potentially transmit her. We know that she says she lives in rats, specifically, but there's One Specific Protozoan she's based off of, and cats are the definitive host o f Toxoplasmosis Gondii.

Given the givens, it's entirely possible she simply doesn't present the same symptoms cross-species, and a symbiotic host that offers more benefits to her just... won't experience the same trip, especially since trying to feed your cat host to a cat doesn't really offer any benefit to either of you. With Heart, he's probably either asymptomatic or just only experiencing symptoms that don't particularly affect his day-to-day life, possibly in a way where he wouldn't have even known he was playing host to a parasite if it wasn't for the situation with Mad Rat.

Would it be weird for him to be... aware of that, postgame? To know that he's carrying a parasite with the potential to majorly fuck up any rats that might contract it? Is there a proper way to react to the knowledge that you're carrying a hallucinogenic parasite in you that'll cause major issues for any rat you might infect? Would he even, like... figure out the whole "asymptomic/mostly asymptomic carrier" thing before later? These are the questions we really need to ask.

[zoramones]

RESOURCE LINKS FOR CANADIANS TO GET INVOLVED WITH HELPING PALESTINE: credit to @/crierayla on wattpad for these resources. <333

please sign the house of commons petition E-4731 to demand direct pathways for emergency travel of palestinians to canada, and establish a policy for permanent residence for both immediate and extended palestinian relatives in canada.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4731&fbclid=PAAaa9nXQACm2RsvdEHSk_LYlw_UmNriUm6ItLU9lA1lHWEd50puR0kKf7ras_aem_AbOhdrMEDHTpbUCc-xCxj9WWz6kcw0Fmdvz1gfd58eElRcLHFKnNrUIGa1mVPZejN1I

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is a list of canadian representatives and their contact information. feel free to refer to the phone/email script a few posts down my message board and keep reaching out to demand an immediate ceasefire.

here’s another link with extended resources (primarily canadian i believe):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gdkHzrvkdKDo0DLNR10H0kHsqeTBA0EDX17V2eWOrDs/mobilebasic