#so OBVIOUSLY

[scrollonso]

ive never seen this before but look at my skinny king

[kriskukko]

15th century men II

[girlatrocity]

mha saying that 80% of the world population has quirks while 20% r quirkless feels so wrong to me. bc we know of like 4 BORN quirkless ppl in a huge cast of characters, like r we sure it's a grand whopping 20%. r u sure.

[cloverlyartist]

Venom and roboky i did during comic arts club …..

[infiniteglitterfall]

Palestinians to platform, part 1

مؤمن الناطور / Moumen Al-Natour

@MoumALnatour

رئيس الشباب الفلسطيني للتنمية / President of Palestinian Youth for Development

Moumen Al-Natour is amazing. Not only does he run a Palestinian youth organization that is doing great work in Gaza, but he's also one of the organizers of the 2019 anti-Hamas protests.

Even to criticize Hamas, in Gaza, means to be interrogated, and potentially jailed, tortured, and/or killed. To actively protest Hamas is many times more dangerous.

To have survived that work and continued doing it? I cannot imagine the emotional strength this dude has.

Here's what Center for Peace Communications (another great organization) has said about him:

So many Palestinians, in or from Palestine, are out there talking about what everyday life in Gaza is like. About Hamas, about Israel, about what they want and what they need, about their struggles and their interests and their families.

My goal, in finding people for you to follow and platform, is to help more voices get out of Gaza after years of suppression, and to help more outsiders (like me) connect with them.

People care SO MUCH about Palestine. But frequently, all there is to share is outrage, semi-accurate news, and more outrage. Frequently, we're not calling for the same things they are. We call for a ceasefire; they demand Hamas return the hostages and surrender. We call for Israel to let aid in; they say Israel is letting the aid in, but it's being stolen, and call for air drops rather than trucks. We call for Israel to stop fighting; they say they hope Israel takes Hamas out first.

We aren't centering their voices and experiences. We aren't lending our reach and our strength to their demands.

I want to make that possible.

Ala Mushtaha, the son of this imam, evidently said, “On Saturday December 30, our front door was busted down and twenty masked men barged in and took my father, a widely respected and deeply learned imam here in Gaza."

“One dragged him by his head and another grabbed him by his beard. My younger brother tried to intervene and reason with the kidnappers, but they beat him. I have a medical condition that makes it hard for me to breathe, so all I could do was watch as the horror unfolded.

“He wouldn’t preach what Hamas told him to. He refused to tell Gazans that violent resistance and obedience to Hamas, is the best way out of our current hell.”

ok this dude needs his own post honestly, he goes on to say so much intense stuff about their lives.

OMG his dad was actually released!

This is what I'm talking about. This is effective activism. Imagine what all these people could do if they had the entire global pro-Palestinian movement behind them.

Al-Natour posts a fair amount of political commentary.

The "we want to live" hashtag is a callback to the amazing "We Want To Live" protests he co-organized against Hamas, in Gaza in 2019, and again in the summer of 2023. Activist Hamida Howidzy (who will also be getting a separate post) wrote about them in Newsweek recently.

Some things he posts in Arabic and then in English. Some of his posts are in Arabic only. In the thread above, he actually posted a couple more that were just in Arabic, presumably aimed at Arabic-language comments.

What I like about Twitter is that you can whack the "translate post" button and get a pretty decent translation most of the time.

Translation:

"I saw all the responses... What is wrong and forbidden in reuniting the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem through elections in which the people choose who will represent them??!?? Why are all the responses offensive...a collaborator, a traitor, and contain insults that indicate that whoever wrote them needs restructuring?! What prevents us, after ending the war, from returning our choice and choice to the Palestinian people?!+

"Everyone wrote that I opened??!! how did you know???!! Stopping the war is the most important thing now... Whoever sees the condition of the people and feels all this is easy for him does not have humanity, and is not a human being... Whoever, after the destruction of more than 80% of Gaza and the North, and still writing in a way that wants the war to continue while he lives abroad, should reconsider. He accepted to live the same suffering!++"

Note: I copied the "I opened" bit and threw it into Google Translate separately, because that cannot be right. It still insisted that it meant "I opened".... but it gave me the transliterated words, "ani fatah."

Everyone wrote that he's Fatah -- the party that runs the West Bank, the one Hamas violently kicked out of Gaza in 2007-08.

"The end of my speech... I know... whoever is not with you is a traitor and an agent... shameful... by God, by God, by God... there will be an account[ing] for all of this talk... so that you understand the word agent... and the account will be through a government of law... It is clear that there are many who benefit from the poverty and destruction of Gaza, and they must be held accountable according to the law.

"Have mercy on people with your tongues"

The comment on that one is noteworthy:

"Yes, whoever is not with the resistance is indeed a traitor, and those who must be held accountable are the traitors, agents, hypocrites, liars, and racists who slander the resistance and who want to hold it accountable only because it fights the enemy of humanity and defends truth and the oppressed. If you want to apply the law, apply it to yourselves first."

It highlights how much of what we hear in the West is Hamas propaganda. That's a whole other post too. But Hamas claims to be "the resistance," to "defend truth and the oppressed," while arresting people who refuse to preach its propaganda. While jailing and torturing someone 20 times for organizing a protest.

Which are the exact tactics that make it so easy for their propaganda to reach us . And so hard for us to even know that there has been an entire protest movement against Hamas in Gaza, much less to support its activists.

I'll just cut and paste the translations from his most recent thread, above. All emphasis is mine:

"When demonstrations took place in Israel demanding that Netanyahu stop the war and free the hostages, Al Jazeera and Hamas considered it a victory and an achievement, and that the Israeli government was under pressure. But what is striking is that these demonstrations were not suppressed. They were secured. The hostage issue and public pressure were dealt with professionally.

"The demonstrations that took place in Gaza demanding an end to the war and the return of the displaced...they were classified as suspicious [by Al Jazeera etc] ...even though the displaced Israeli lives in a 5-star hotel and has the privileges of the displaced, and when the Palestinian displaced in Gaza receives help, he needs a mediator, and if he wants a tent, he needs leadership intervention, and if he does not have the mediator And the intervention wants to scratch his pocket..+++

"Why did Israel allow demonstrations and look pressured, always trying to contain everything... while we have a displaced person lost, homeless, and no one is trying to contain him, and when he talks, they call him a fifth column???"

Last month, he posted about pregnancy in wartime. Note the cost of the tent later in this thread! Numerous Palestinians have posted about humanitarian aid getting stolen -- by Hamas, by NGOs, by others -- and sold on the black market. Food and tents especially get mentioned a lot. Everyone mentions the tents are being sold for more than (the equivalent of) $700, even though they were supposed to be free.

I'll leave you with this one for now:

You can read all the posts in this series in my "platform palestine" tag.

[ratislatis]

what a cute family! god I hope nothing fucking terrible happens to them in another timeline! haha! ha!

[muuurder]

WIP Ask Game!

HEHEHEHE I got tagged by one of my favorite authors @shukakumoodboard and also my beloved gf @karkatvantasasslesschaps This will be a fun one to do.

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I will say I have more WIP that are art pieces of varying fandoms because my hyperfixations shift so intensley lol.

Art WIP:

Dtk.clip (Soul Eater)

Weeeee.clip (i don't even remember tbh)

Teapartyyy.clip (personal art piece)

Cyberpunknart.clip (naruto obv)

Commissiontime.clip (commission piece lol)

Dnd2.clip (dnd)

Soda.clip (personal piece)

I also have a ton of Gaalee ideas I just simply haven't had time to even begin em.

Writing WIP:

Cyberpunk AU (Naruto)

Modern AU (Gaalee)

Scifi AU (Gaalee)

I didn't include any ideas I wanted to work on because I hardly write em down. I usually just mention em to my gf and hope I remember down the line (I usually don't).

Going balls to the wall on this one, so Get tagged idiots (affectionate): @bakapandy, @aura-uzumak1, @innobun, @fuerrow @ludwigplayingthetrombone, @sodii, @m-jeevas, and literally anyone who is reading this and has WIPs I stg show me your wips.

literally tagging some of my favorite creators at this point. I am shy and I am acutely aware we aren't moots and have never spoken so if you don't wanna obv you don't gotta I am simply curious and enjoy seeing peoples wips and yall were the first to come to mind.

[apocalyptichearts]

i may be your weird friend, but would your normal friends make you a 20 slide canva presentation on ao3 tags and terms, featuring info graphics, diagrams, memes and gifs??

no? that’s what i thought.

[4kmangopng]

[acewithobsessions]

gotta love how the majority of us are typing on our phones and deliberately make the tags lowercase

[naturally-dazed]

:)))) im going to be so fucking sad when i finish this game :))))

[glittergelpensherlock]

Started another Downton rewatch. I'm not ok.

[bunni-art]

HAPPY NARFDAY @wimsiecal !!!

here's a dinky in your costume design!! its so glowy and cool :0

for me, dark pinky will always have some that original pinky energy deep down xD

[dudeshusband]

i relate to stumpy.

"well, i'm going to have a drink. you two's enough to drive a man to it!"

(possibly misquoted but that's the idea)

[cass-honest-opinion]

Day 1 of watching movies / series Charles Dance played in : Dracula Untold (2014)

Before we start : I am no expert in movies or cinematography. This is purely for fun :]

Also ⚠️ Spoiler Warning ⚠️ (ig)

About Charles Dance :

I'm going to be 100 % honest... The moment he started talking, I (s)creamed because OH MY GOD I love this man's voice 😭

But truth needs to be told... Why does he look so goofy pls I am literally on the floor

Well after this clear jumpscare I had to get another one with this tongue scene 💀 Listen I believe myself to be kinky but.... That was something 😭

But jokes aside, he plays a really badass character and I didn't expect him to have that much dialogue which was a pleasant surprise :]

And I got to see him in a suit which may happen often but I will still cherish every occasions I see it happen 😤

About the movie :

One thing that I clearly enjoyed are the clothes. I have no clue if they're historically accurate to the time of Vlad the Impaler but they didn't feel out of place and many gave me gender envy 👌

Some scenes were, imo, breathtaking in the sense that they were interesting to watch. The first major battle with how the sword reflected a part of the fight made me smile since it isn't something I've seen often, especially that well done.

Tho the final dual was more flashy than realistic, it was still fun to watch :D But I must say that there was no suspense on who was going to win.

Also Vlad's love for his child makes me so emotional T-T and the ending OMG

In the ending Charles Dance looks so sexy I can't believe it 😭😭😭 I'M SORRY BUT LOOK AT HIM 👁️👁️ HE IS BEAUTIFUL 😩

And the last line being a line said before during a dramatic moment is a classic way of ending a movie but still one that makes my brain go feral when well done.

Overall thoughts :

I mean the movie was apparently badly rated which surpised me because I genuinely enjoyed it and the visual effects / CGI were well done imo

I've seen people complain about the repetitive action and I can see why. I agree that the first major battle lasted a bit too long but it doesn't get boring for the viewer since the camera doesn't constantly follow Vlad and there are interesting ideas such as the sword mentionned before.

Will I forget about this movie 3 days later ? Yes. I mean I do that with all movies unless they really do something to my brain, which barely happens, even with great movies :]

Disclaimer :

I do no rate movies as as long there is one thing I enjoyed, it's directly a 10/10 for me so you guessed it, I would rate almost everything 10/10, therefore making the rating lose its value :(

[slumpcd]

📸 sky and max ! pls

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