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The kids are all right
Yesterday, my community service club was doing outside litter pickup, when I overheard one of my students talking about Israel killing kids.
“Yeah, Israel is killing Palestinian kids. Israel is killing children like us.”
“What!?”
*pulls out phone to show a video of babies in distress after the Israeli air strikes.”
“Huhh! Omg look at her!”
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I keep thinking what he meant by “us.” Children their age, racially minoritized people, or was it something else?
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The children are listening.
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#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#free palestine#palestine#fuck israel#don’t stop talking about palestine#the children are watching us
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How barbaric can they be? How can anyone defend them after MOST of their public speakers/politicians/common people say that women and children are targets???
“You ask me what I would do, and the answer is simply leveling the ground and to kill the largest number possible. Because the woman there is an enemy, the baby there is an enemy, and the first grader is an enemy, and the Hamas militant is an enemy, and the pregnant woman is an enemy,” says Eliyahu Yossian, Israeli analyst and veteran of Unit 8200, a high-tech spy branch of the Israeli military.
Via The Electronic Intifada
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French-Israeli considers nuclear option for Gaza.The mother of a French-Israeli soldier who died in combat in Gaza says ‘No one should live in this land except the Jewish people.’
In an interview on the Israeli i24NEWS, the woman said Israel is a country with nuclear weapons, and the war on Gaza is about Israel’s survival.
Israel has killed over 20,000 civilians in Gaza since 7 October, predominantly women and children. Nearly two million people are displaced and face starvation, water contamination and lack of shelter or medical supplies.
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Israeli journalist calls for the total destruction and demolition of Gaza
Israeli journalist Boaz Golan says Israel should have killed 150,000 people in Gaza on the first day of the war.
In an interview on the Israeli Channel 14, he dismissed talks between US President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu as futile. Golan says Israel must ‘finish off’ and destroy Gaza and demolish all the houses there.
Israel has killed over 20,000 Palestinians in Gaza since the start of its assault on 7 October. Nearly half of those are children. Nearly two million people have been displaced.
Via Middle East Monitor
#palestine#free palestine#gaza#israel#israel terrorism#human rights#social justice#signal boost#interview#media#israel palestine conflict#boycott israel#fuck israel#isreal#free palestine 🇵🇸#free west bank#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#france#french#jerusalem#jesus#tel aviv#israel is a terrorist state#this is not a war#the children are watching us
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THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING US:
A boy bears witness
Passed around by relatives
But can find no love
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#the children are watching us#random richards#poem#haiku#poetry#haiku poem#poets on tumblr#haiku poetry#haiku form#poetic#I bambini ci guardano#criterion collection#criterion channel#italian neorealism#vittorio de sica#Emilio Cigoli#Luciano De Ambrosis#Isa Pola#Adriano Rimoldi#Cesare Giulio Viola#Margherita Maglione#cesare zavattini#Adolfo Franci#Gherardo Gherardi#mario monicelli#Maria Doxelofer#Giovanna Cigoli#Jone Frigerio#Maria Gardena#Dina Perbellini
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When you call "influencers" what they are, freelance marketers, it makes the phrase "mommy/family influencer" sound just as dark as it is in reality.
They are using their children to sell you things. Some of these people intentionally have children solely in order to use them as marketing devices.
They aren't harmless or wholesome. They are expanding and normalizing new and different forms of familial abuse to a worldwide audience
#did we learn nothing from jon and kate plus eight??#like watching someone use a tv show to turn her children against their other parent#and then institutionalized and completely abandonded a child for being inconvenient#but no. we had to bring it back en masse
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act 4 :(
@chipper-smol and i came to a realization
#THID FUCKING GAAAAAAAMMMMEEEEE#i have more i wanna draw but my hands not working orz.. maybe ill get around to it later idk#i finally FINALLY managed to get inside that star room.. my own clone!! now neither of us will be virgins!!!!#i dont have anything to go off of but when the journal mentions making another 'me' it reminds me of loop saying theyre like a mirror#theyre always able to read siffrins mind without actually reading their mind (or so they say) but maybe it could just be tone matching???#or smth like that.. idk if these two things are connected though so maybe its more like subtext#i hope im not the only one who made the childrens hospital joke when it came around to color lore part 2#im also getting the sinking feeling of watching siffrin toe his way near the deep end like bro is so so close to losing it#i feel like if i knew nothing abt the game beforehand and why siffrin is looping in the first place my feelings abt this would be different#cuz id be pretty angry too if ive been stuck in a loop long enough to feel like everyone around me is pretending nothings wrong#than the fact that i have decided not to disclose im in a time loop and that everyone is living this day for the first time#although i also get hes doing this for a reason and when u believe in the universe i guess it also comes with sunk cost fallacy#'this is the path the universe led me down before i even knew what i wanted so all i can do is double down' THATS THE FATALISM TALKING#puppy plays isat#in stars and time#isat#isat spoilers#isat act 3 spoilers#isat act 4 spoilers#in stars and time spoilers#sona#puppysona#friends#chipper#doodles
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what do you mean youre technically a detransitioner cause of terf bullshit?
it's a v long story but i detransitioned for a couple of years when i was 16/17, for multiple reasons but mostly because i fell into the blaire white/kalvin garrah chamber of "you have to be This way to be trans otherwise you're not real".
i was already Deeply insecure about myself and my 'passing' and i was led to believe that i couldn't want to wear makeup or skirts, and i couldn't choose not to have bottom surgery, and i couldn't do anything but bind for 12+ hours a day to the point that my ribcage is still misshapen. basically i thought that if i wasn't suffering enough doing 'feminine' things, i couldn't really be trans, so i should just go back to being a girl and suck it up.
the terf bullshit is because i'd seen a lot of terfs/detransitioners talking about the 'dangers' of testosterone and how it would turn me into a horrible ugly evil monster and how there was nothing worse than wanting to be a man. which combined with 'you need to fully medically transition to be valid at all' creates some very dangerous and upsetting feelings to cope with.
it also came from trying really hard to put myself in a little box before i realised that my sexuality/gender are very fluid and it's FINE for me not to have a label and just do whatever i want. when i was 19 or so i went back to using they/them (and eventually he/him) and changed my name again because even though i like doing 'feminine' things, i don't want to be seen as a woman.
tldr: i was conditioned by transphobic/terf rhetorics to think that i was being trans the 'wrong' way so i couldn't be trans at all, so i believed i must actually be a girl if i still wanted to do 'feminine' things. nowadays i am a transmasc who does feminine things because i don't give two shits about what any transmed prick thinks of me anymore.
#ramble#ok to reblog btw i'm fine with this being shared#this was meant to be a short version but this is just the whole story whoops#sorry i realised the way i phrased it sounded like i'm the detrans you see in the news#i'm Technically a detransitioner because a lot of detrans stats are people who go on to RETRANSITION#because detransition is often because of social stigma and not because you realised you weren't trans#so anyway. terfs are cancer and if you don't think their bs is harming children you're wrong#i know it's easy to say 'you should've used your brain and realised those people were wrong'#but like. when you're 16 you're SO impressionable. even if you think you aren't#especially when you're watching people who have been transitioning longer than you and you assume they know everything#i was in my mid-late teens when 'transtrender' videos were MASSIVE and i believed it!!! and i was Not nice about those people#all they made me believe was that being trans couldn't be colourful and comfy and fun. it just had to be Pain#i hope everyone who contributed to the 'you need to be this way to be trans' mindset knows how much hurt they've caused#nowadays i don't care. go and be stargender. we have actual problems to deal with not debates about neopronouns#anyway this was long. that's the story
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just saw someone say Rick Riordan making a TV show is just as bad as anything JKR has done. BFFR you're comparing Rick Riordan trying to make his world more inclusive, changing some parts because of money/time constraints, or just making changes cus he thinks they're needed, to JKR being a terrible person!
#and not to say Ricks work is perfect. ill be the firat to tell you his mistakes. his aspec rep is shit. his minorities rep has problems#he has general time line problems. im not says hes perfect but he tried from a good place#jkr named a character ChoChang. her Scottish character blow stuff up and tried to make alcohol. named a black character Shackelbolt#like damn get over yourself.#percy jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson and the olympians#percy series#pjo series#pjo#pjo tv show#pjo tv series#pjo tv adaptation#if you wanna say shit about Rick ok. but be correct about it#how is he just as bad as jkr for not using the book he made in the early 2000s an exact script for the TV show being released in 2024?#and they yall had the audacity to be pissed when he didn't put a song about sex thats literally says `fuck her face° in the background of#LITERAL 12 YEAR OLDS in a place with memory altering properties..... thats whats you wanted. children getting high to a song about sex.#°oH bUt iN tHe mOvIe tHaT i WaTcHeD wHeN i waS tWeLvE' where the actors where like what 18? and weren't 12? that one? 🙄#some of you are getting on my nerves. yes the show's pacing is eh really thats a reason to curisfy Rick Riordan? thats what you're deciding#this is the line? a tv show thats on its first season and is more accurate then the movies that came out?#good to know
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Dead Boy Detectives but if they were actually 16yo boys…
#i found a picture of Jayden as a teen and oh my gosh. you forget how young teens actually are#you get so used to mid 20-somethings playing teens on tv and like…#it would have been SO much more heartbreaking to watch that all go down with literal actual children#anyway#dead boy detectives#dbda#payneland#edwin payne#charles rowland#jayden revri#george rexstrew#dbda fanart#dead boy detective fanart#renew dead boy detectives#my new hobby is harrasing netflix to renew this show like come ON y’all#jess’s art#artists on tumblr#digital painting#procreate
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Rayla??🤨
#christ calm down I know you want to eat him but#there are children watching#rayllum#tdp#the dragon prince#continue the saga#give us the saga#Rayla#dtf Rayla
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Complex feelings about copyright and Disney's appalling ethics aside, it does unsettle me how quickly people jump to make and monetize the most unnerving, depraved content imaginable about characters created for children the second it hits the public domain
#lilac rambles#lilac goes to the movies#look you don't have to defend yourselves to me i don't really care what you do#so please don't flood my inbox with all this stuff about why disney sucks and why gross stuff is good actually#im not here to fight#i get it. they suck and this feels vindicating#i just get unnerved watching people do terrible things to things created for children the second they can#maybe it's bc i don't see anyone making anything...idk...nice? and like...not freaky?#like it really feels like 'haha we're going to defile this creation bc it makes us feel good to destroy something created for families'#bc if it had just been the case with mickey id get it yknow#but people did this with sweet old pooh bear too#but maybe that's bc he's now a disney property idk#like maybe as other famous characters come into the public domain people won't do the same things#and honestly that will make me feel a lot better
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Man I cant stop thinking about if Kpp’ar gets freed from the coin the intense whiplash he is going to get from the last time he saw Soren and Claudia to now.
One, a small sick dying child would could hardly jog without his breath failing him and the other so full of life and with a spark of charming curiosity for magic.
And now they are the youngest Captain of The Crownguard in history and the strongest Dark Mage of all time.
#jelly tarts#the dragon prince#tdp magefam#Kpp’ar get in here im including you in magefam now idc#tdp soren#tdp claudia#tdp kpp'ar#like it was already sad seeing Runaan slowly process how much Rayla had grown in two years#for Kpp’ar to come back and see how much has changed how these children he used to watch and care for are now on opposite sides of a war#they are adults one brandishing a sword with determination and the other wielding a corrupted stolen staff with pride#he never got to finish their carousel :((#giveusthesaga
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My dad is a trekkie, always has been, he has gone to conventions, knows some klingon, taught his children the vulcan salute, would try introducing star trek to us through all of ours childhoods and has been constantly rewatching all the star trek series
All that to say that I recently decided that I would get into star trek for real, I've always enjoyed what i saw with my dad, so yeah it makes sense, but i am a fandom person, i am a very online person, things my dad is not and so it can be kinda funny to talk star trek with him because i am seeing a great amount of gay jokes and interpretations about amok time and then i have my dad asking if i have watched it yet because it's one of his favorites episodes and one of the greatest and this is just the kind of thing i dont talk about with my parents so i feel giggly
#star trek#star trek tos#amok time#i am currently going through the tos movies#i always thought it was fun that my dad is a trekkie#as a kid id tell my friends proudly that my dad went to cons that had dressed up adults doing the vulcan salute and talking klingon#i thought it sounded fun and made my dad more fun#he would call us to the living room and force us to watch the pilot episode again#it also was a blast when other children couldn't do the vulcan salute#id be like 'oh 🖖 you cant do that 🖖 with your hands 🖖🖖 its so easy! 🖖'#its been fun!
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found a baby yaku amidst the Sketchbook-glitch-corruption wreckage..... wondering if he flipped skin tones between black and red and everything in between until he saw his to-be-grandparents (and started mimicking THEIR skin tone....... )
#thinking about yakumo having weird lil homunculus proportions or other such variations#what if he just always had massive hands compared to body size. yaoi hands from birth-transformation#he was so anti-snake that he looked at hands and said YES. THIS IS THE LEAST SNAKEY I CAN BE. I WILL GO 600% ON THIS FEATURE SPECIFICALLY#changing forms from entirely obsidian... or red in patches.... or striped... or other combinations...#because he only had murals to base his human form off of? at least at first?#were the murals in colour? shaded with gradients and lighting oh so conveniently?#then how was he to know what skin tone humans are supposed to have???#imagining the first few times he encountered his grandparents in his cave#maybe they only saw a shadow with eyes darting back into the darkness#just a really long black noodle with semisnake semihuman eyes (just a hint of sclera)#and every time they visited#yakumo observed more of their features#and took on something similar to their proportions...? or hair colour? or skin colour?#and maybe even when he's first adopted into the family and leaves the cave#he's still a vibrant pink and everyone thinks he somehow got sunburnt inside a cave or smth#but then he starts seeing all the other people in the village#including diff age groups and kids who are supposedly around his age#so he starts to slowly morph his body toward those characteristics#his skin gets beige-r. reshapes his eyes a bit.... grows a bit of nose.....lengthens his limbs a bit...#(the big humans seem to treat me the same as that speCIFIC group of smaller humans... so maybe i should use them as a Model)#like... how do you even age in a human body when you have no reference for how humans age?!??!#did yakumo stare at several children in the village and watch their growth year by year#and match his body to their changes just to fit in?#did nature just know what to do?? and he just naturally grew like a human without manual manipulation?#I DEMAND ANSWERS#nu carnival yakumo
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M.Flow just posted the pilot trailer for their new office BL My Stubborn with Yoon Phusanu (Unforgotten Night), Boat Yongyut (My Secret Love), Punn Chirathanaphat, and Oat Pasakorn... and it's off to a very spicy start.
#my stubborn#my stubborn the series#yoon phusanu#boat yongyut#pinn chirathanaphat#oat passakorn#upcoming bl#thai bl#jane watches stuff#what shenanigans has m.flow planned for us this time#i hit rewind on THAT scene so fast lmao#i thought they'd left it uncensored 💀#but also m.flow and their strange fixation on 25427534 random children
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DBD Quotes that are my Roman Empire (and my reactions to them)
No version of this where I don't come get you - Charles S1 E7 (SIR???? IM SORRY??? If someone said that to me, i'd faint. Edwin is a strong one) .
Do you think it must be torture? Being the way we are? - Simon S1 E7 (I swear you could audibly hear my heart break when he said that) .
Teethface, what the fuck? - Esther S1 E6 (I love her. She's an awful person and is literally irredeemable but dammit she does her shit with style and sass and i love her) .
He did not feel the same way. But I think we are better friends because of it - Edwin S1 E8 (THEM. JUST THEM. I CANT WITH THEM.) .
You, Charles Rowland, are the best person I know - Edwin S1 E5 (It's like they want me to go throw myself off a cliff their friendship is everything to me) .
And we've got literally forever to figure out what the rest means - Charles S1 E7 (Charles is raising the bar too high i fear. the standards are through the roof) .
When you punish yourself, everywhere becomes hell - Edwin S1 E7 (*starts sobbing in the corner*) .
Imagine thinking there was only one way to do any one thing. How difficult would life be? - Kashi S1 E6 (I swear Kashi walked into this show to spit straight facts and then was never seen again. Icon.) .
We didn’t matter, he and I - Edwin S1 E1 (No because the way I swore to myself that I would protect these boys with my life the minute he said this) .
I will always hit a demon with a cricket bat for you - Charles S1 E6 (Fellas, never settle for anything less than Charles Rowland) .
I wasn't talking about you - Edwin S1 E5 (I'm not even kidding I paused the show, got up and had to take a minute because OOF Monty darling) .
As more than a friend, I’m afraid. Charles, I'm in love with you - Edwin S1 E7 (No joke this is one of the best scenes in a show I have ever watched. The acting, the dialogue, the pacing, the emotion??? UGH!!! Perfection) .
I certainly hope not, that story ends tragically - Edwin S1 E7 (There are already a million and one posts about the implications of Charles referencing Orpheus' story so go check those out but holy hell the way it made my heart twist) .
I could- we could lose Charles - Edwin S1 E3 (This was such a tiny detail but GOD I replayed it ten times before moving on) .
Honestly I just find her so charming - Edwin S1 E2 (I knew from this moment that Edwin and Niko were going to be a pair to watch. And boy was I right) .
That was my third life you bitch—i only get nine; would you fuck off - The Cat King S1 E8 (now THIS is how you creatively use a cat's nine lives in media I love it I freaking love it) .
You sacrificed me to a demon who traded me to another demon who traded me to a thing that is worse than a demon and this is your punishment! An eternity of papercuts! - Edwin S1 E7 (Honey I have an eternity of questions cause what the FUCK is this human trafficking system down in hell??? but also go off king??? 😭)
I'll update this whenever I remember anymore. Tell me more quotes in reblogs/replies i'll add them into this!
#dead boy detectives#edwin payne#charles rowland#but GOD i love them#they are my roman empire fr#save us dbd#but we must save dbd first#SO GO WATCH#TELL YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDPARENTS AND FISH TO WATCH THIS SHOW#GOGOGO
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Yesterday I watched a video of a toddler in Gaza playing with a little red bicycle startle and cry at the sound of a bomb. Today I found the IOF had invaded their house, shot and killed the little boy in front of his mother and thrown them all into the street.
And it wasn't even the only child on my TL that had been killed the same way because the IOF are taking over all the houses still standing in Northern Gaza. They took over the school shelters, made the men hiding in them strip to their underwear in the freezing winter, lining them up and shooting them like dogs. They're ripping up hundreds of years old trees in groves. THEY'RE FLOODING GAZA WITH SEA WATER.
Meanwhile:
I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANY FUCKING MORE. HE'S SENT ANOTHER TWO HUNDRED CARGO PLANES OF WEAPONS TO ISRAEL. WHY IS THIS MOTHERFUCKER STILL BREATHING??????
#screaming screaming screaming#I'M TIRED I CAN'T WATCH THIS ANYMORE I NEED TO BE THROWING MOLOTOV COCKTAILS ON THESE ANIMALS#I CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE DEAD CHILDREN AND WHITE CUNTS ON HERE TELLING US TO NOT CALL ZIONISTS NAMES#tw child murder#tw child death#tw execution#tw mass murder#gaza genocide#free gaza#free palestine#death to israel
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